Tongue in cheek? @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social

This is an excellent initiative on book burnings in Nazi Germany.

There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️

What is happening to the humanities at British universities? Here is my report, published in today's FAZ:

A picture of my professorial inaugural lecture at the University of Manchester last night.

Was gerade in UK an den Universitäten passiert (aktuell: Exeter) fasst mein Kollege @jheathershaw.bsky.social hier in einem Thread zusammen. Solidarität aus Deutschland!!

Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity

What, if any, Brexit benefits are there ten years since the referendum?

Italy is on its sixth PM since 2016. Britain will soon be having its seventh PM since 2016.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A classic article by Christopher Hill. Def. worth rereading in the current geopolitical context.

Lieber @spiegel.de Sind Sie sicher, dass Scurati eine Mussolini-Biografie geschrieben hat, wie Ihr Titel andeutet? Scuratis Bücher zum Duce sind eindeutig Romane.

We knew GBNews is obsessed with immigration. We didn’t know that the obsession extends to the Jews who fled the Nazis in the 1930s - and that we should be wary even of their grandchildren app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...

Makerfield result is extraordinary: A swing back to governing party in a by-election is exceptional. Winning absolute majority of the vote in a seat with Reform friendly demographics is exceptional. Doing both on an increased turnout when your party is polling under 20% is truly exceptional

73 years ago: www.bpb.de/themen/deuts...

Schade. Hoffe, wenigstens die FAZ bleibt in Frankfurt. www.spiegel.de/kultur/liter...

Handy.

My department is hiring: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Why do ppl on very busy German trains always block adjacent free seats with bags and then get stroppy when asked to move the bags so that one can sit?

Woop!🎙️ @drgoeschel.bsky.social & Daniel Hedinger über „München 38" @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social – was drei Tage im September 1938 über unsere Gegenwart sagen. Und @arnesemsrott.bsky.social über „Gegenmacht" (Droemer) wie die Zivilgesellschaft zurückschlägt. podcaste97de5.podigee.io/358-m-nchen-...

A truly disgusting speech that disgraces the sacrifice made by the Allied soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy to defeat fascism.

1. How common is LLM use in scientific publishing, and how does it vary across field, publisher, journal prestige, author demographics etc.? @kylesiler.bsky.social has new paper in PNAS that addresses this question on a massive scale: 7.3 million papers from Elsevier, PLOS, MDPI, and Frontiers.

This is an enormously important point. The scope and values of any scholarly field are self-defined by those who practice it. If we grant corporate interests the legitimacy to establish these definitions, it is obvious that they will define a field such that their tools surpass human ingenuity.

Relieved to see more coverage of the grip Nous is getting on #UKHE. Thanks @privateeyenews.bsky.social! A million pound @cardiffucu.bsky.social alone. That’s a lot of money for the very same PowerPoint…

I love you, my students, who write genuinely awkward, human essays. That’s the whole point. We try.

This debate seems very provincial and divorced from what current historians of fascism actually do. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Attended an amazing and outstanding talk by Dr Leslie James on her new book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Als ob es dazu keine Bücher aus der Historikerzunft gäbe: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

What has happened to the Nuova Rivista Storica? Why and how did this august Italian journal get seized by a for-profit publishing outlet in Nevada?

When I was an undergraduate student, I had to buy a terrible and expensive textbook that praised the superiority of the US constitution, especially the checks and balances 'security valve.'

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We are dismayed by news regarding UG History, and other subjects, at Hertfordshire. This follows recent job losses at Essex and elsewhere, and makes clear the crisis in UK HE. The Society is in touch and working with historians at UoH. As ever, we invite contact from others affected #Skystorians

Come to hear @danielhedinger.bsky.social discuss our München 38 (CH Beck) on 5 May at @topographie.de www.tip-berlin.de/event/muench...

The perfect novel for our times?

Where will the international coterie of ultra-conservative and fascist journalists, politicians, and charlatans previously funded by the Orbán regime turn for money now?

Would the Pope consider excommunicating those who dare lecture him on theological matters?

Shops/restaurants that force their customers to order online are typically the ones to be avoided.

Presumably, Iran sent top-level and experienced diplomats to negotiate with the American amateurs led by Mr Vance.

The US President openly threatens genocide. Shame on him and his backers.

This from Trump who has done more than anyone else to appease the wanted war criminal Putin. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Happy Easter. May the months ahead bring peace.

We have been hearing for weeks that the war against Iran will be over within a matter of weeks.

Students: if you really think that generative AI can do things better than you - not just quicker, but better - then why would anyone hire you? It is such a huge gamble to take that these tools will be around in this form in 2, 3, or 4 years and that you will never be in a work situation where you

Apart from attending the book fair, a great discussion of the book and seeing friends, I came across this odd machine in Leipzig.

Tomorrow! www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

Tomorrow, @danielhedinger.bsky.social and I will discuss our book at the Leipzig Book Fair. www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hed...

We are advertising two more positions (economic history focus) in the Trondheim-based team of BLOCKADE - one doctoral and one postdoctoral position; great jobs in a fantastic city - please share!