Well, good luck I guess

I hate that since the advent of the AI I am scared to use dashes

Rewriting my PhD chapter on Simone de Beauvoir and her words from 1945 still ring true: "when a reform is suggested, the first reaction of the political conservative is always to declare it impossible, because he knows that by declaring it impossible, he contributes to making it so."

Friends and colleagues, will be visiting Brussels for a couple of days at the end of the month. Want to meet up around coffee? Let me know!

An incredible new story from @forbidden-stories.bsky.social on Morocco using Pegasus to target French ministers:

So, they say the 4th heatwave in France is possible, from the 20th till the 26th, with temperatures making it till 40 again.. We're not out of the 3rd one yet.

People living in southern suburbs of Paris: volunteers from Saint-Germain-lès-Corbeil and Champagne-sur-Seine who take care of the animals found from the fire need some help. If you live nearby and can help, let me know, I’ll forward you messages

A massive (if perhaps not that surprising) story:

10/10 joke, no notes.

Dear colleagues, a very good friend of mine is about to start her postdoc in Aarhus and is looking for accommodation starting in October. Anyone can suggest where to look for a one-bedroom flat?

Never thought I'd see David Armitage writing about Poland, but here we are. Since we ain't paying for Bezos' newspaper, here's the archival link: archive.ph/3Zukk

Marco Bresciani on the recently passed Carlo Ginzburg in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social:

Working with this view this week.

Happy birthday, Emma Goldman!

Suspicious, given that Fête de la Musique was not called off with higher temperatures and the well-known sympathies of the police towards the far right...

Much recommended!

J'aimerais bien justement que les électeurs ne l'oublient pas l'année prochaine.

For the Polish media outlet, @okopress.bsky.social, I wrote about the current heatwave in France, which largely unveils the systemic lack of acknowledgement of climate change.

For the Polish media outlet, @okopress.bsky.social, I wrote about the current heatwave in France, which largely unveils the systemic lack of acknowledgement of climate change.

Students to pay 5x more to enter a French university? Soon it might be possible.

Something to watch 👀

As I have been jobhunting for the past months (150 CVs, 3 interviews), mostly in Paris, I have noticed an incredibly worrisome trend in the job descriptions that only confirms what I've been hearing through the grapevine - that the companies only hire French, mostly white, people now. 1/2

Brilliant

This post from mid-May might be even more accurate today, especially after seeing footage from Moscow.

Lowkey wish it was done in the Hall of Mirrors 🤡

Greetings from Paris, France

RIP Carlo Ginzburg, one of the very few greatest. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Pour ceux et celles à Paris !

How now to love living in Paris if that's the mural that just appeared 5 mins from my street <3

Because it's Pride Month, let's celebrate today James Baldwin, who should be an inspiration for all of us as a writer of such a rare moral clarity and vigour. If anyone ever knew anything about love, it was him. Here with his lifelong friend, Marlon Brando, at the Civil Rights March on Washington.

This.

But why does he sound like a culpable boyfriend

An incredibly interesting paper was published 3 weeks ago at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. In "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring", the authors analysed millions of job applications screened by algorithms built by the same vendor. What did they discover? The systemic rejection.

Today, to continue with #Pride month art & thought, I am sharing with you an excerpt from a poem "Poem about My Rights" by June Jordan, whose work resonates once again a bit too well with the current situation, locally and globally. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48762/...

I long for the days when I could use dashes and hyphens without being accused of writing with an LLM, with only my supervisor telling me to switch to using commas (I think I got the love of using those, along with the semicolons, from reading Proust too early)

A new ERC funding scheme, ERC Plus Grant, was just introduced by the European Commission. The funding is awarded for 4 to 7 years (!).

What a terrible news.

Happy Pride Month, everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 This whole month, I will be sharing meaningful essays, poems and other media on queer authors/activists/intellectuals. First, Audre Lorde, who remains an incredibly important reminder of the vigilance we must maintain if we don't want our rights taken away.

You might not know about this, but science in Poland is chronically underfunded. Currently the state *and* the private sector spendings on it oscillate around 1,4% of the country's GDP, while the EU median is approx. 3%. Finally academics started to protest. More on @notesfrompoland.bsky.social:

Good luck with that.

How living in Paris feels like rn

Fellow historians #skystorians, if you can’t do archival research in Paris, from mid-June I have open slots to do the research/photos of the archives for you. I know some parts of the BNF like the back of my hand, and will send you a clean and nice invoice. DM me if interested!

Fellow historians #skystorians, if you can’t do archival research in Paris, from mid-June I have open slots to do the research/photos of the archives for you. I know some parts of the BNF like the back of my hand, and will send you a clean and nice invoice. DM me if interested!

Very niche humour, but if you know, you know: before Mariah, there was Winston Churchill:

I was not expecting "Love is Blind Poland" to become an ethnographic journey on what the traumas of Polish millennials are (long story short, mostly absence of fathers and alcohol), and why they struggle to communicate so much. It also proves that editing, not the content, is making the narrative 🤡

Very niche humour, but if you know, you know: before Mariah, there was Winston Churchill:

Sounds brilliant! @leidenup.bsky.social

Not so serious job hunting reflection: I am *this* close to start my job application for any geopolitical analyst/threat detection role with "As an anxious attacher, I am wired to detect issues early"

That Guardian's list of the best books reminded me that I had made a similar one *double checking my mail* 12 years ago, but thankfully, after one's early 20s, those lists are not really important. (I still think it's a bit better, because it includes Calvino's "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler").

How women are perceived by medical system in general: