Das hat Spaß gemacht! Vielen herzlichen Dank für die Einladung ☺️

Sending out a random request to the universe — If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.

JOB Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 @ University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

"But the rejections remain hidden, forming a shadow CV of declined manuscripts, unfunded proposals, and invitations that never came. Rejection, however, isn’t the exception in this profession. It’s the norm." 👇👇👇

New on the GHIL #Podcast! Coinciding with tonight's #ThyssenLecture, our latest episode is a recording of the fifth lecture in our series in collaboration with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire', given by Gudrun Krämer (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) 1/2

We are excited to welcome this year's Medieval History Seminar participants tomorrow! 📣 The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and 1/3

Cool job opportunity 🕵🕵️‍♂️ PhD in Modern History, Political Science, or International Relations or related field required.

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

#Joboffer in Innsbruck: The Institute for Diversity in Medicine looks for a postdoc in the field of Sex/Gender and Diversity-sensitive Medicine: www.i-med.ac.at/karriere/job...

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RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Booktok Kanonbildung, da lacht mein kleines LitWiss Herz

Wenn jetzt jede Jahreszeit ihre Romance-Bestseller bekommt, dann freue ich mich irgendwie schon drauf, wenn der deutsche Buchmarkt Karneval entdeckt. Nach einem persönlichen Trauma tritt [x] den Funkenmariechen bei und trifft dort auf den brooding Karnevalsprinz ihrer Träume.

Only 1 week left to apply for our #PhD prize! 👇 #skystorians #historyphd

We are looking forward to this special event tomorrow! There is still time to sign up and join us - either in person or online: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...

Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

I don't think I've laughed as hard since Four Seasons Landscaping :-)

‘Teenage Intimacies’ is now officially out in the world! It’s a history of teenage sexuality in postwar England that speaks to ideas of growing up, adolescence, friendship, family, identity, culture and education. It’s been a long time coming but I’m really proud of the end result! 🗃️ #histsex

Don't judge a book by its cover. Judge it by its index. (From my Inventing the Renaissance)

Join us on 27.2. at 5:30pm for a GHIL Lecture in co-operation with the Modern History Research Seminar (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) given by Maren Röger (Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa - GWZO) on '(Cold) War Games: Scenarios on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain'! 1/5

PSA: VG Wort Meldefrist ist der 31. Januar.

Every 19th century German academic: after Abitur at the age of 16 they defended their thesis (17 pages, 3 footnotes) on Hegel at 23 in Tübingen, followed by a habilitation on Roman History at 25 in Marburg. Then held the chair of medicine at the Karl-Justus-Heinrich-Wilhelm-Universität for 55 years.

Not sure who made this & when but fittingly came across it in my downloads folder today:

Zweiter Advent, kein Wunder in Sicht, aber ihr seid wunderbedürftig? Zeit für Weihnachtsfilme! Hier stecken viele Anregungen drin. #WeihnachtsfilmeLesen

Wenig Überraschend: Die Novellierung des #WissZeitVG hat sich offensichtlich dank der fehlenden Parlamentsmehrheit von rot-grün erledigt. Das Fazit von @jmwiarda.bsky.social: "oft drängte sich der Eindruck auf: Es fehlt an Willen und an Können". #IchbinHanna www.jmwiarda.de/2024/12/05/d...

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

"these were the objections he had to urge at the moment, though no doubt, with more time he should discover more defects, and have more objections to state". Horace Twiss, writer and Tory MP, invokes the spirit of "Reviewer 2" on the reform bill in 1831.

Our celebration of ‘Women in Intellectual History’ with the @isih-blueskye.bsky.social continues next Wed 4th Dec. Do join us for some excellent papers and friendly discussion. Sign-up and programme of the seminar series here: forms.office.com/e/c1vecwHxjS

💥Call for Papers: 💥 "African Voices in Global Intellectual History" - Authors' workshop organized by Martin Rempe, Konstanz. "Applications from the African continent and early career researchers are particularly welcome." Please share widely.

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Did you complete your History PhD in the UK or Ireland? Did you publish your first academic monograph this year in 2024? Please consider submitting it for consideration for the RHS First Book Prize! Nominations open on Mon 1 December and close Fri 31 January 2025. 🗃️ royalhistsoc.org/royal-histor...

Bluesky is great and all but what if there was a social network with a footnote function?

timeless

For anyone interested in how to write global histories: "Rethinking Global History, ed. by Jürgen Osterhammel and our very own Stefanie Gänger is finally out - open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

Join us on 27.11. at 5:30pm (GMT) for Paul Nolte's (FU Berlin) inaugural lecture as our 2024/25 Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor in cooperation with the LSE on 'Contested Spaces, Geo-Interventions, and the Search for Order: Re-Assessing Germany’s Modern History': www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...

#IchBinHanna in der 20-Uhr-Tagesschau: 👎 Beschäftigungsbedingungen: unfair 👎 Wissenschaft & Wissenschaftsstandort D leiden, weil wir reihenweise Leute verlieren Was ich am 30.3.23 gesagt hab, bleibt aktuell. Im #Wahlkampf muss Politik Position beziehen: Wie sollen Missstände behoben werden?

"Sector leaders expected more than 100 of the UK’s 140-odd universities to be making redundancies by the start of 2025, in what has been described as a “cataclysmic” situation where “everything is on the table”." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Bücher kaufen und Bücher lesen sind zwei unterschiedliche Hobbys.

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

"My thesis supervisor Jürgen Habermas has told me recently he would not have succeeded in today's academia. He has never applied for a grant in his life and he writes long books" - Patrizia Nanz, President of the European University Institute, in a speech today

Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.

Herzlichen Dank an Ariane Leendertz @badw.de für die Besprechung meines Buches zum Zeitalter der #Interdependenz! ☺️

Es ist Zeit, alle Deadlines bis Ende des Jahres langsam aufzugeben.

Heute spreche ich im Rahmen der Reihe "fünf vor zwölf" (Ethik der Textkulturen / FAU Erlangen) in einer öffentlichen Zoom-Veranstaltung über "#IchBinHanna. Prekäre Arbeit in de Wissenschaft." ( @amreibahr.bsky.social & @drkeichhorn.bsky.social ) ethik-der-textkulturen.de/etk/fuenf-vo...

Ich bin eine Weihnachtsempfehlung! Freu mich sehr, dass mein Buch über die Queen in der FAZ heute auch den Gegnern der Monarchie ans Herz gelegt wurde.

Zusammen mit Ashes to Ashes absolute Serienempfehlung!

That’s funny. And useful. In this order.