Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

'In the 2024 call for applications, the commission awarded €417 million to 10,360 researchers, which amounted to a success rate of 16.6 per cent. In the previous year, 15.8 per cent of the 8,039 applicants were selected for funding.' At under 10%, I'd be considering partial randomisation. q/2

now that's the power of a union

incredible headline, I wonder if there are other ways to describe “giving yourself more control” over things you don’t own

Collega's and colleagues! The Dutch public sector pension fund ABP has invested over 800m EUR in Palantir, the surveillance company of tech billionaire Peter Thiel. Please sign this petition to let them know we want them to divest! actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ge...

Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern, die am hartnäckigsten auf dem Hass- und KI-Porno-Portal "X" bleiben; mutmaßlich auch, weil Politik und Medien aus unverständlichen Gründen die Hölle des Hitlergrüßers nur zögerlich verlassen. Sprecht sie darauf an! Holt sie da weg!

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

Brief summary of the next trade negotiations between the US and EU www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2...

are YOU a university professor, professor emeriti or associate professor of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion? Did you know you can nominate people for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Autonome Zentren sind bedroht von politischen Angriffen und finanziellen Diffamierungen. Wir starten eine Spendenkampagne. Ziel: schnelle Hilfe bei Angriffen und langfristige Unterstützung für alternative Orte. Spendet, teilt die Inhalte und erzählt euren Freund:innen von der Aktion!

Und jetzt kann man sie auch endlich bestellen. Also, falls ihr etwas zur Errichtung der NS-Diktatur in der Provinz lesen mögt: www.beck-shop.de/bress-erzieh...

Hey if you have a problem with the White House sharing A.I. generated photos of their political enemies great reminder to not also do that

Lena Kotré (AfD) rechnete gestern bei ihrem “Remigrations-Event” mit Martin Sellner vor, dass wir nicht 82 Mio. Menschen im Land bräuchten, sondern nur 60 Mio. Bei 25 Mio. Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund ist klar, wen und was sie meint: Remigration von Staatsbürger/innnen. (Quelle: Rechercheteam)

the woke mob is giving He-man pronouns

“what Trump, Putin or even Le Pen or Weidel are doing has a side that seems fearless. A new kind of trumpeting superiority. That attracts people. They lie and are completely blunt in their deception….and are sure that this is exactly what their followers want” (interview w Klaus Theweleit, Jul 2025)

Juhu! www.deutschlandfunk.de/mehr-strom-a...

The Canadian newspaper "The Globe and Mail" asked me whether the actions being taken by #ICE in the United States today can be compared to those of Nazi #Brownshirts in the early 1930s. Here is my op-ed piece: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Anna Siemsen war eine wegweisende Bildungspolitikerin in der Weimarer Republik. Die promovierte Lehrerin entwickelte im Verlauf des Ersten Weltkriegs eine pazifistische Grundhaltung und gründete 1918 den „Verband sozialistischer Lehrer und Lehrerinnen“ mit. 1/

BOTD Ernst Busch (1900-1980) - singer, actor, communist, and veteran of the International Brigades. Here performing 'Mamita Mia' and 'Freiheit' (aka 'Die Thälmann-Kolonne'). ✊

And we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.

Bemerkenswert, wer hier alles abgebildet ist: Wehrmachtsoldaten (vorne), 1 mutmaßl. Angehöriger des IKRK (Arbeitsanzug), ein Funktionshäftling (dunkle Kleidung links) und: Kinder. Das zeigt, wie nah die dt. Zivilbevölkerung dem #Todesmarsch kam & dass auch sie sich an den Hilfslieferungen bediente.

ICE hat ein 5jähriges Kind, das vom Kindergarten nach Hause kam, gekidnappt, um den Vater nach draußen zu locken und auch ihn mitzunehmen. Wenn euch sowas nicht radikalisiert, was dann?

What does it mean to do global history in a time of conflict? Aayushi Gupta (@aayushigupta.bsky.social), Hadil Ibrahim Maddah and Ghiwa Naem reflect on their experience of teaching and learning history across borders.

JOBS Associate & Assistant Professorships in Public Policy, University of Cambridge www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/car...

Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills

Work with me! 2-year postdoc (1+1) within COLUMN: Colonial Legacies of Universities: Materialities and New Collaborations (HORIZON_HORIZON-CL2-2024-HERITAGE-01-04). Topic: “Research of university botanical collections in relation to Italian and European colonialism”. Call at: shorturl.at/aurdS

📢 Calling all PhD students in German Studies! It’s still time to submit your proposal for the annual Sylvia Naish Postgraduate Student Lecture. Application deadline: 31 January 2026. The Lecture, to be held at ILCS on 14 May, comes with a prize of £400. Further details 👇 #ShoutOutForGerman

“Nostalgia is not a strategy” A phrase the UK would do well to adopt.

Trude Fleischmann (22. Dezember 1895 - 21. Januar 1990) machte kurz ein Praktikum bei Madame d’Ora, dann eine Ausbildung in Hermann Schieberths Atelier. In Wien eröffnete sie ein eigenes Fotoatelier. 1938 musste die Fotografin nach Paris fliehen. 1940 eröffnete sie ihr Atelier wieder in New York. 🧵

1/X I'm at my field's big annual conference (#AALS), and it occurred to me that I have finally figured out at almost-50 how to do big conferences as an anxious introvert. I thought I would share what I've learned for the other introverts out there! So here it is: Conferencing for Introverts, a 🧵

Lotte Laserstein (28. November 1898 - 21. Januar 1993) zog 1912 mit Mutter und Schwester nach Berlin. Von der Chamisso-Schule in Schöneberg ging sie zum Studium an die Hochschule für die Bildenden Künste. Sie malte naturalistisch und wird häufig zur Neuen Sachlichkeit gezählt. 🧵

On 20 January 1942 fifteen members of the German Civil Service and Nazi Party met at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin. They discussed and agreed the measures needed to implement the ‘Final Solution’ – the complete annihilation of European Jews. 📸 House of the Wannsee Conference. Wikimedia Commons

@eseh.bsky.social #envhum #envhist Job in Freiburg www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

One of my priors is that things are really bad if I am coming across news related to the bond market.

The University of Vienna @univie.ac.at invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions. I am one of the potential supervisors. If you have an exciting, innovative PhD project on modern #JewishHistory, please feel free to apply: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

If European rearmament takes place in a purely national framework (or in flexible intergovernmental "Coalitions of the Willing"), there is a serious risk that this is the future we're heading towards. If there has ever been a time for Europe to go supranational in defence policy, it's now.

If you're in #Utrecht or around, on the 3rd of Feb I'm doing a talk on #Ukraine, #WarCrimes, the #ICC and #accountability efforts domestically. Join if you're interested! #Justice www.uu.nl/en/events/le...

A greeting card for my Bluesky friends

📣 Call for Papers: „I’ve Got the Power?“ - Neue Perspektiven auf Geschlecht und Macht in der DDR Workshop vom 12.-13.03.2026 Ort: @kruppkolleg.bsky.social Einreichfrist für Abstracts: 08.02.2026 veranstaltet von @stefanie-eisenhuth.bsky.social & Dr. Jessica Bock (Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv)

I am the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social and always looking for new review pitches. If you’d like to review a recently published book on imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), please get in touch: evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au. Authors, get in touch too!

It was inevitable.

#ECR save the dates! 🗓️ In der Reihe #PROSPECTS informiert unser Team #Karriereförderung auch 2026 regelmäßig über die Fördermöglichkeiten bei der DFG. Hier haben wir die Infotalks für die erste Jahreshälfte. Teilnahme ohne vorherige Registrierung möglich, Link erscheint hier. 👉 sohub.io/bvv0

The German Ministry of Science and Technology has produced an exhibition making "make female scientists visible" – by feeding their actual photographs into Midjourney and coming up with some truly terrible AI images. I am calling it now: by next year, we'll get yassified Holocaust victims.

📢Job: postdoctoral research officer📢 For 'Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of #EarlyModern England and the Holy Roman Empire', led by Profs Alison Rowlands & Rita Voltmer. 🗃️ - 33 months - 0.8 FTE - Deadline 1 Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

People are asking the really important questions: www.leidenanthropologyblog.nl/articles/why...

The whole thing about the discussion whether fascism is irrational (and also that colonial violence was „rational“ vs the Holocaust being „irrational“) is that it seems to lack a fundamental understanding that capitalist rationality is very much irrational.

Hoe moeten we nu het scriptie-onderwijs fundamenteel gaan aanpassen als we allemaal volop bezig zijn met het "flexibiliseren" van de opleidingen vanwege de bezuinigingen in het hoger onderwijs. Op mijn afdeling gaat 40% met pensioen en kan niet vervangen worden... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...