“The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.””

Ett splitternytt Scandia är här och det blir det innehållsrikaste någonsin! Prenumera genom att kontakta [email protected]. Innehållet går redan nu att läsa digitalt på OJS. journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/issu...

Tirsdag, i Lund! www.hist.lu.se/en/about-us/...

På Stockholms universitet og hører på Victor Johansson forsvare sin avhandling om den svenske elevrörelsen som kollektiv aktør mellom 1938 og 2005. Finnes å lese her: su.diva-portal.org/smash/record... #histed

We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books. 👇 drb.ie/move-over-fo...

Avhandling spikad! Victor Johanssons 'De organiserade eleverna: Den svenska elevrörelsens riksförbund och deltagande i utbildningspolitiken 1938–2005.' Finns att ladda ned här: su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

Exciting and fully funded opportunity in Oslo! An interesting project on how history is taught in classrooms in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan, and South Sudan: something for research-minded #historyteachers of Bluesky?

I can heartily recommend Laura's brilliant new article - innovative, creative and hopeful!

Lund University Library growing increasingly autumnal 🧡🍂🍁

Criticism about AI in schools mostly focuses on how it allows students to get away with something (by using OpenAI to write their essays). But shouldn't we be talking more about its detrimental effects on teaching and learning than on how it impedes our ability to evaluate students? is.gd/acOSmQ

Yes! Snart ny sesong av fjorårets absolutte podcast-høydare. Anbefales varmt til alle som innbiller seg at de ikke liker middelalderhistorie.

LUCK’s seminar series for the autumn of 2025 is out! Read more here: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a...

New article on early access in Scandinavian Journal of History: 'Military History in Nineteenth-Century Norwegian Military Education': doi.org/10.1080/03468755.2025.2547697

For Nordic-speaking #skystorians: Spennende postdoktor i historie om jødisk liv i Norge etter andre verdenskrig! www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Fun discourse related fact - curries have been a part of British cuisine for longer than the USA has been a country.

Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

My first piece in the TLS — a review of a fantastic and pioneering new study of the Paris Commune’s afterlives in Britain and Ireland by @lauracforster.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/history/the-...

International historians of education who think they might enjoy a trip to beautiful Bergen, Norway: check out this call for keynotes by the HVL crew!

Twentieth Century Communism journal is looking for reviewers for these books. Send a DM if you're interested reviewing one of these!

Finishing up my summer holiday with Hotel Lux, the most enjoyable piece of historical writing I’ve read in a long time. Thank you @mauricejcasey.com for taking us along on the archival ride!

Are you an early-career historian with a love for radical, public history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

🚀 We’re #hiring a PhD student to join our research project – “Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain (1960-2025)” 🇬🇧 – funded by the Carlsberg Foundation! 👉 fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 📅 4 Sep 2025

Why not take a break and read @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social just published book review of @susannahwright.bsky.social book "Youth and Peace in England, 1919–1969"? And check out our other books reviews: journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/nj...

We are hiring a new PhD student in the history group @unistavanger.bsky.social. There are several possible topics, including «Intersections between history education and education for sustainable development/environmental citizenship», which should be interesting for the #envhist #envhum crowd.

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

See you in Stockholm in May!

New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢

Invasions: fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918 @manchesterup.bsky.social Out now!

The Celts by Ian Stewart is out now and we're so pleased with the reviews! History Today calls it "ambitious" and "erudite", and we couldn't agree more. The Celts takes readers on an amazing journey and reveals everything about this once-forgotten people: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

My department at Lund University is seeking an Associate Senior Lecturer in History with specialisation in Middle Eastern History. Read more about the position and the conditions here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Hvordan har ideen om hva høyere utdanning skal være endret seg siden 1969? Moa Lindqvist er i gang med fint forsvar av avhandling i Uppsala! 📚🎓 uu.diva-portal.org/smash/record...

This article launches a new series on "History & Higher Education in Crisis" We are inviting articles on: 🎓 the history & origins of this crisis 🔮 its impact on research, methodologies, specialisms & teaching ✊ building solidarities & collective action www.historyworkshop.org.uk/contribute/

Lystring! 📣 Idag spikade Moa Lindqvist avhandlingen "Striden om den högre utbildningen: En socioretorisk studie av remissyttranden inför svenska högskolereformer 1969–2007". Den 21 mars sker disputationen i Universitetshuset, Sal X kl. 13.15–15.00. Opponent är @joakimlandahl.bsky.social. Missa ej!

For Scandinavian readers, check out our latest special issue in Historisk tidsskrift! Many great contributions on the potential cross-fertilization of the history of education and other fields of historical research. www.idunn.no/toc/ht/103/4