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...

"Für internen Unmut sorgte dabei, dass nach taz-Informationen einige Fakultäten offenbar ohne große Diskussion bereit waren, für das Ministerium proaktiv Listen zu erstellen, woraufhin eine kritische Debatte innerhalb der Mitarbeiterschaft entstand."

Be sure to spread it around

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gaza. 04.10.2025

Die Ausschreibung für den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen. Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...

I understand and share the alarm and exasperation, but is there really “an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now”?

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView 🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn' 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

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 project patchworkcities.com 1/3

"...scheint es angebracht, der Dämonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russländischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler

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

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

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...

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

Increasingly convinced that the best way to save democracy is to prohibit social media.

I know this is a secondary point, but American citizenship is not a dimension that matters or should matter in this context.

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/

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 doctors’ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

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...

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

"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/

Auf die unsachlichen Angriffe vor einer Woche in der FAZ antwortet @efdavies.bsky.social heute ebendort

It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call 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.

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...

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.

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.

It's just been a brutal several years for German GDP growth—they're the only EU member state whose economy is still smaller than before the pandemic

Is there something off with the definition of urban population in Ireland?

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ 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 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

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.

Jetzt auch online: www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...

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 him—and criticism/cheers/mockery of him—into tons more feeds. 2016 was so close, without that he might've lost.

But that is…. an objection?

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.

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.

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 they’re expected to believe by their online community. So, so many examples

"Antoni is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a relentless booster of Trump’s 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]

“If 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.”

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.

Terence Tao has written a thread about the damage being caused by the grant freezes at UCLA. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1149568...

It works better than the Erfurt rebrand. Old logo was forgettable but the serif/sans-serif mixing in the new hurts my brain

density is just the secret sauce for everything

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral. This tragedy must end now. Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

Ich rufe ein Moratorium auf das Wort “unfassbar” aus. Tritt übermorgen in Kraft. Endet erst mit Wegfallen des Befristungsgrundes.

Join us today for the book launch of Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi. Hosted by @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social and Global History program at FU Berlin. 4 pm, Fabeckstr. 23, Room 2.2059. Book talk, comment from Prof. Abosede George, catered reception. See many of you there!

One great way to see how the far right is built out of the modern choose-your-own-reality media environment is how MAGA types will argue with Grok for hours about basic facts trying to produce some thin excuse to keep believing what they’re already predisposed to believe

Good to know one of the U.S. President's main influencers on national security policy is calling for actual genocide (65 mil is the total Latino population of the U.S.)