Michael Goebel
@mgoebel.bsky.social
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Historian at
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
Klingt sehr vernĂŒnftig. V.a. das mit den ParkhĂ€usern. Wohne seit fĂŒnf Jahren neben einem, das abgerissen werden soll fĂŒr einen Neubau. Seit einem Jahr ruht die Baustelle.
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Wie besiegen wir die Wohnungsnot in Deutschland?
Wohnraum in Deutschland ist rar und teuer. Was statt âBauturboâ wirklich helfen wĂŒrde: EntbĂŒrokratisierung und ein grundsĂ€tzliches Umdenken.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/wohnungsnot-bauturbo-2025-frage-li.3353726
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Now make the communities vaster and more complex than ever before. Make the communities self-selected, so everyone can find the set of social expectations that resonates with them, flatters them, validates them. Things might get pretty weird!
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A very important concern about AI we (in history) rarely hear or talk about
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Glad to see my article about race and censuses in 19th-c Buenos Aires published by
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. I see it as demographic evidence of structural racism, but it contradicts the widespread view of underenumeration
doi.org/10.1017/ssh....
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Very much looking forward to talks in at the EPFL
shorturl.at/1pClX
and
@unibe.ch
:
shorturl.at/3u27f
this week on Wednesday.
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Neighbours: Lectures on History & Theory of Architecture. Vol.6. Lecture 7 / TPOD, THEMA, HITAM - EPFL
https://shorturl.at/1pClX
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I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with
@adambonica.bsky.social
and
@gelliottmorris.com
on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
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"FĂŒr internen Unmut sorgte dabei, dass nach taz-Informationen einige FakultĂ€ten offenbar ohne groĂe Diskussion bereit waren, fĂŒr das Ministerium proaktiv Listen zu erstellen, woraufhin eine kritische Debatte innerhalb der Mitarbeiterschaft entstand."
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Be sure to spread it around
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Incredibly alarmingâafter the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threatsâŠ
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A corrected version of our colloquium program
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, with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History
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Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue
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. New blog post by Christian Jones on
shorturl.at/EKABu
This way to the special issue itself:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue
This article relates to a new special issue published in Urban History titled âBridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turnâ. The issue was editâŠ
https://shorturl.at/EKABu
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Gaza. 04.10.2025
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3 months ago
Die Ausschreibung fĂŒr den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "fĂŒr eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen. Details:
www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...
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Thomas-Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 - German Labour History Association
Die German Labour History Association (GLHA) schreibt zum vierten Mal den Thomas-Welskopp-Preis fĂŒr eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour Histor...
https://www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/thomas-welskopp-dissertationspreis-2026/
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I understand and share the alarm and exasperation, but is there really âan actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe nowâ?
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Urban History
3 months ago
đŁ New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on
#FirstView
đ Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn' đ
doi.org/10.1017/S096...
#UrbanHistory
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I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue
@urbanhistory.bsky.social
: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year
@snsf.ch
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patchworkcities.com
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Patchwork Cities â Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
https://patchworkcities.com/
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"...scheint es angebracht, der DÀmonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russlÀndischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler
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Our next Global History Colloquium includes
@historyned.bsky.social
,
@laetitialenel.bsky.social
,
@doravargha.bsky.social
,
@hamremar.bsky.social
,
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
,
@blenormand.bsky.social
, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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Ahmed Baba
3 months ago
In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it wouldâve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and itâs just another Saturday.
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Yair Wallach
3 months ago
More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies.
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...
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Yair Wallach
4 months ago
A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza. The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started. Thousands fleeing for their lives
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Increasingly convinced that the best way to save democracy is to prohibit social media.
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Yes, Itâs the Guns. Itâs Also the Phones.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-the-guns-its-also-the-phones/
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I know this is a secondary point, but American citizenship is not a dimension that matters or should matter in this context.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/
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Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during Franceâs Great Fear of 1789 - Nature
Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09392-2
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Matt Steinglass
4 months ago
Dutch paper De Volkskrant interviewed 15 international doctors who say they saw minimum 141 children with single shot wounds to head/chest in Gaza. Adds to other doctorsâ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children.
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur
Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/schotwonden-palestijnse-kinderen-israel-oorlog~v1778945/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.bsky.app%2F
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Tim Riswick
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We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History! If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/full-professor-social-and-economic-history
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Jacob Weindling
4 months ago
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
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"Nationalisten" sind immer die Anderen. Interessanter Austauch mit
@efdavies.bsky.social
in der FAZ um den russischen Historiker Alexei Miller, bis vor kurzem Darling der New Imperial History im Westen, jetzt offenbar Putin-Apologet. 1/
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
Auf die unsachlichen Angriffe vor einer Woche in der FAZ antwortet
@efdavies.bsky.social
heute ebendort
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Nicholas Grossman
4 months ago
Itâs so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figuresâan influential presidential advisor, the last campaignâs biggest donor, etc.âcall for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.
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ICYMI: We are hiring an Associate/Full Professor in Digital Humanities at
@camdighum.bsky.social
. App deadline Sep 21. The position is for Deputy Director of CDH, and eventually Director on rotational basis. Please circulate/apply and let me know if you have any Qs!
www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
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Now Hiring: Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities - CDH
Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) is currently recruiting for an Associate Professor/Professor in Digital Humanities from January 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment may be made a...
https://www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/now-hiring-associate-professor-professor-in-digital-humanities/
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4 months ago
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
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We should all be careful with opining from the outside, but unless there is much more than meets the eye, this is another truly awful story. And fidelity to the course catalog is an outrageously flimsy pretext.
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4 months ago
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4 months ago
It's just been a brutal several years for German GDP growthâthey're the only EU member state whose economy is still smaller than before the pandemic
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Is there something off with the definition of urban population in Ireland?
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4 months ago
Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platformsâ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism
www.ft.com/content/9251...
via
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The Wall Street Journal
4 months ago
Jeffrey Epsteinâs estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trumpâs signature that he has said doesnât exist. Read more: đ
on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ
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John Gallagher
4 months ago
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
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Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/melvyn-bragg-decides-to-step-down-from-presenting-in-our-time/
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Jetzt auch online:
www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...
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Ausbeutung mit System: Die Habilitation als Machtinstrument
Dass Privatdozenten zu unbezahlter Arbeit gezwungen werden, um den Anspruch auf eine Professur nicht zu verlieren, ist nur die Vorderseite des Skandals: ĂŒber die Habilitation als Machtinstrument.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/hoersaal/ausbeutung-mit-system-die-habilitation-als-machtinstrument-110654636.html
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4 months ago
Twitter went algorithmic in early 2016. I hadn't appreciated that until researching for this piece. It made Trump the main character on media and political pros' social network, pushing himâand criticism/cheers/mockery of himâinto tons more feeds. 2016 was so close, without that he might've lost.
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The Third Algorithm
ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse
https://www.arcdigital.media/p/the-third-algorithm
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But that isâŠ. an objection?
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5 months ago
Study finds that, after 2,500 years of poets, playwrights, historians, and philosophers warning of the dangers of hubris, just a couple of centuries more is all it should take to convince politicians and leaders to heed them.
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Ned Resnikoff
5 months ago
Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
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Social media has become this complete reality distortion field for so many people, who literally cannot see plain truths in front of their face more clearly than they can the things they know theyâre expected to believe by their online community. So, so many examples
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"Antoni is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a relentless booster of Trumpâs policies on social media. And he has demonstrated time and again that he does not understand economic statistics." With embarrassing examples from trade, employment, LFP, UI.... [Dominic Pino, NRO]
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Trump Wants a Bureau of MAGA Statistics | National Review
President Trump has nominated an unqualified economist to take over one of Americaâs most important statistical agencies.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/trump-wants-a-bureau-of-maga-statistics/
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âIf you identify your own political position with a vulnerable group, you can accuse anybody who disagrees of opposing the group, thus circumventing the need to defend your position on the merits.â
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The Pro-Israel Right Is Shifting the Definition of Anti-Semitism
Building a coalition united by total indifference to Palestinian human rights requires teaming up with people who lack a certain moral refinement when it comes to the Jews.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/anti-israel-anti-semitism/683765/
5 months ago
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Ned Resnikoff
5 months ago
Still thinking about this. As images hit the American media of a literal genocide and intentional famine, there's something incredibly vile about appropriating the "genocide" label to describe someone building affordable apartments in your neighborhood.
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Sung Kim
5 months ago
Terence Tao has written a thread about the damage being caused by the grant freezes at UCLA.
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...
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Ned Richardson-Little
5 months ago
It works better than the Erfurt rebrand. Old logo was forgettable but the serif/sans-serif mixing in the new hurts my brain
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post malone ergo propter malone
5 months ago
density is just the secret sauce for everything
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