My institution, the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, is currently advertising five nine-month fellowships to support the writing of a PhD funding proposal. Deadline 1 October. Any questions, do get in touch (my email is on my webpage :) www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/about...

BBC website leads with live coverage of the Kirk murder and 4 articles. Former President of one of the biggest democracies in the world, Brazil, being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup? One piece placed after Kirk. Simply embarrassing prioritisation for a major news organisation.

There are many statements right now where MAGA politicians complain about being compared to the Nazis, but seriously: have these people spent any amount of time studying what the nazis did and how that compares to themselves?

Warto przemyśleć politykę wysyłania tych alertów RCB. Bo na razie to wygląda tak, że jak ma spaść grad, to przychodzi wiadomość o końcu świata, a jak rosja robi nalot na Polskę, to jest mowa bez mała o UFO, "neutralizowanie obiektów", "w związku z naruszeniami" itp. biurokratyczne kocopoły.

I just published this video, and the next night, Russia launches drones at Poland. It really underscores the point. The European NATO countries need Ukraine just as much as Ukraine needs security guarantees from them.

Unfortunately we in Central and Eastern Europe are the ones who will be reaping what the Buffoon of the White House and his bunch of clueless plutocratic attendants sowed for the sake of having a couple pictures with the Despot of Moscow in Alaska

This seems a bit rich coming from a Finnish author ngl

When we create artificial intelligence robots, they will be given three Laws to safeguard humanity: 1. never do anything to decrease shareholder value. 2. always obey the company unless it conflicts with Law 1. 3. fuck the poor.

Hahaha. No. Because we have public transport. It makes most of us immune to cheap techbro tricks that solve nothing.

Russia's defence minister yesterday claimed that Ukraine has suffered 340,000 casualties in 2025 so far. That will be over half a million by the end of the year. To put that in perspective, it would mean that Russia has killed or wounded every Ukrainian soldier on the frontline twice in 2025 alone.

A long travel by train allows me to catch up on a personal reading list, so I finally read @hen-konarski.bsky.social excellent essay on the category of "colonialism" in the historiography of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Highly recommended trafo.hypotheses.org/53314

Another big congrats to the "no new wars" crowd. You were actively lying, or the dumbest suckers imaginable. If he had never held office, maybe. But he was president for a full four years, increasing US use of force and destabilizing situations. You put in real effort to willfully ignore all that.

Solid analysis as always.

The super rich aren't smart. They have no idea how dangerous the situation is

On thing to note is that the long-range strike issue is one area where the Merz government handled matters well. I am not a fan of the decision not to supply Taurus in the end, as the political signal would have been important. 1/3

Najlepsi kumple Trumpa: Putin i Netanjahu. To jakich kolegów sobie dobierasz, świadczy o tym kim jesteś.

Fun Getaway With Murderous Dictator Just What Exhausted Trump Been Needing

Jest taki wiek, w którym człowiek zaczyna rozumieć własnych rodziców. Niekoniecznie ich wybory. Ale ich zmęczenie. Ich milczenie. Ich trudności z powiedzeniem prostych słów. I coś w tobie mięknie. Albo właśnie twardnieje. Różnie bywa.

As someone who's been studying the disintegration of the western Roman empire for nearly two decades, lemme tell you that for a very brief but crucial period (408-410), the Imperial Court totally jumped on the idiot chariot to insanepolis.

Space... The Final Frontier... and coincidentaly the main subject of my essay that just came out in the Studies in Late Antiquity. online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

"Pracownik przewali takie wsparcie na głupoty, a pan przedsiębiorca przeznaczy na ważne inwestycje. W nowy ekspres do kawy przykładowo. Albo konsolę do gier, w celu „wsparcia kreatywności kierownictwa firmy”, ma się rozumieć". wolnelewo.pl/nowa-szlacht...

"Dostatek" Kleina i Thompsona ukazał się też już po polsku, więc tym bardziej warto polecić tekst @matthewstoller.bsky.social odsłaniający co się w rzeczywistości kryje za tą kurtyną "szczęścia i dostatku". Tak, dobrze zgadliście - władza i pieniądz. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abundan...

Take a look at the programme of our workshop on the subject of Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Anitquity organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly, which will take place at the @dependencybonn.de next month.

Zagroda Pokazowa Żubrów w Międzyzdrojach

The 30th Slavs and Vikings Festival at the island of Wolin - one of the biggest Early Medieval reenactment events in Europe and lots of fun 😁. You can find there plenty of amazing craftsmanship, concerts, games, contests, reenactment of battles and rituals, seminars and lectures.

Jak co roku zapaliłem znicze na grobach powstańców warszawskich z PPS na Cmentarzu Bródnowskim. Ponownie jako członek @partiarazem.pl Pamiętajmy nie tylko o ich poświęceniu i walce, ale także o tym o jaką Polskę walczyli. O ideach dla których ryzykowali własnym życiem.

You can find my article "Romano-Barbarian Amicitia Shaping the Discourse and Sustaining Political and Social Networks" in the volume 15 of Palamedes that just came out (do not be confused by the dates of the volume ;)).

Tusk próbuje odreagować przegrane wybory i robi tournée po kraju. Na spotkaniu w Pabianicach dostał konkretne pytanie o ustawę o asystencji osobistej. Premier zaczął opowiadać znowu o „czasach przedwojennych” i że ciężko z kasą, bo dług publiczny... wolnelewo.pl/gdzie-wladza...

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Wpadliśmy wczoraj w odwiedziny do naszych sąsiadek z @slask.partiarazem.pl, a także na spotkanie z @adrianzandberg.partiarazem.pl i @owca.partiarazem.pl i oczywiście na #latozrazem! 💜 Więcej zdjęć wkrótce!

Perhaps you wonder what challenges the digitisation of the PLRE entails? I can indulge your curiosity with an article I wrote with Jessica van 't Westeinde for Prosopografie 2024 volume edited by Elena Gritti: aisberg.unibg.it/handle/10446...

New on the blog: Teaching Slavery in Late Antiquity - a reflection In a guest post, Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln) talks about his new undergraduate module on late antique slavery. We'll be publishing some of his students' work over the next few weeks. www.dosseproject.com/teaching-sla...

I'm back. Here's how we fix the UK's dire economic and political situation www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMor...

If you are at @imc-leeds.bsky.social today and want to hear me talk about the dependents of empress Pulcheria, do come by to this morning session organised by @nrholm.bsky.social ;)

Nacjonalistyczny Kulturkampf na granicy trwa: wolnelewo.pl/nacjonalisty...

If only Sullivan had been in a position where he could have delivered decisive amounts of weapons to Ukraine before Trump was elected…

Potem to już z górki, bo jak padnie Schengen, jeden z tych elementów Unii, który opłaca się pracownikom i stanowi filar poparcia dla UE wśród ludzi w Polsce, przekonanie, że trzeba z niej wyjść to będzie bułka z masłem. Ładnie to sobie wykombinowali.

Czyli podsumujny. Z powodu garstki migrantów i histerii rozkręcanej przez garstkę oszołomów Polska konsliberalna prawica rządowa dołączyła do procesu rozmontowania strefy Schengen.

Exactly a week from now I will give a paper on the dependents of Empress Pulcheria at @imc-leeds.bsky.social If you want to hear how you can resolve (or fuel) a theological controversy by giving out ivory chairs and rugs (as well as ridiculous amounts of gold), come by!

The tragedy of all this European grovelling is that it isn't even working. Trump may be staying in NATO but anyone with eyes and ears can see the protectorate is now a paper tiger because the US president is not committed to defending Europe if attacked. Europe is only losing time and dignity.

World politics of the last decade forced me to challenge a notion, which I have been taught since my undergraduate course. Mainly that Suetonius and other ancient authors surely must have exaggerated their descriptions of ridiculous and grossly incompetent emperors. I am not so sure of that now.

Not that I expected any better from the US government 🙄.

In ancient Rome, the rumors of this would spread far and wide and herald great calamity.

I am giving a paper on this and other curious stories around Julian and his women at the Diversity and Globalization in the Ancient World seminar series of the University of Erlangen on 16 July... I think I am indeed diversifying this run of seminars😉 www.global-antiquity.phil.fau.de

Aleksandra Owca from Poland - party Co-Chair of Razem. The current Polish government is not the hero but the same cynical, self-serving elite that have been keeping our country from progress for decades. @owca.partiarazem.pl @partiarazem.pl

Adrian Zandberg from Poland – Co-chair of Razem: "Putin’s criminal regime wages a cruel, imperialist war against Ukraine. Netanyahu is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. @adrianzandberg.partiarazem.pl @partiarazem.pl

Open access version of Harry Mawdsley‘s & my study on the changing reasons for & conditions of the banishment of women from antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Based on our dataset of 84 cases from 260-641 and 45 early imperial cases collected by Frank Stini. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

📚The latest addition to the #Dependency and #Slavery Studies book series has been released: "Norms of Dependency in Late Antique and Early Medieval Societies: Contextualising Roman Legal Terminology." More info: ow.ly/wgKV50VYL42 @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de @degruyterbrill.bsky.social