To anyone interested in our medieval studies programme, we have some scholarships for international students. Various links to follow in a thread. 1/6 www.lincoln.ac.uk/course/medstdma

Latvian philosopher Artis Svece has written a very thought-provoking essay on Chalamet and ballet. Of course, the essay is about something more than this quite bizzare scandal. What to do with Classics today? Is the common knowledge of culture lost? satori.lv/article/timo...

"Esam gatavi runāt par sarežģītām vēstures tēmām". Principā esam gatavi runāt tikai par 20. gadsimtu, jo par visu pārējo trūkst zināšanu. Es vienkārši skatos un neticu savām acīm cik sekla ir vēstures doma Latvijā. (tas nav tikai par šo tēmu) www.lsm.lv/raksts/arpus...

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

It’s not science fiction that makes us nervous about of autonomous weapons platforms breaking free of human command- it’s history. Control of warriors has been an unending struggle. The founding myth of the English is of mercenaries who topple a kingdom.

Something is awry in higher education. Indiana University agrees to pay the football coach more than $100 million, shortly after cutting hundreds of academic programs. www.espn.com/college-foot...

Aicinu visus, kurus interesē vēsture un kuriem šķiet svarīga nozares attīstība, nobalsot par Gada vēsturnieku 2025. Ceru, ka mums izdosies atrast un novērtēt lielisku vēsturnieku. www.vesturesbiedriba.lv/gadavesturni...

University is not a business, students are not customers, education is not a product, researchers are not salespeople.

šī nebija ļoti priecīga saruna, bet manuprāt svarīga lr1.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/br...

Everyone freezing on the East Coast or in the Midwest remember: Kyiv has the same weather, except that hundreds of thousands of people don't have electricity, heating or running water

Gan Mieriņas rīcība, gan šī retorika no @edgarsrinkevics.bsky.social puses Latvijai rada neuzticama partnera reputāciju. Haotiska valsts, kurā līdzās oficiālajai nostājai pastāv arī amatpersonu personīgās pozīcijas. www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas...

NYT will sanewash the Trump administration into authoritarianism. Obviously, this is not a "standoff", it is a shakedown. Also, any European politicians who still thinks the current U.S. is an "ally" is delusional and incompetent. The Trump administration is an adversary at best, an enemy at worst.

“In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting.” Things I did not know. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

Are you writing about #Greenland and looking for expertise on the tense geopolitical situation? (unless you trust US AI chatbots to do the trick, of course 🙃) The University of Southern Denmark @sdu.dk has a team of experts ready to help 🔽

Time to stop writing articles about the "security" or "economic" reasons to capture Greenland, they are irrelevant

The orange man in the White House and his dwarf friend in the Kremlin make me depressed, yet this joyful song always uplifts my spirit youtu.be/XSiaG9MOLUM?...

Whenever Trump does something crazy, people try to rationalize it. Now, they're saying it was Venezuela's "heavy, sour crude" that made him kidnap Maduro. I think the truth is much scarier and less strategic: He simply enjoys the feeling of power and humiliating his opponents.

Medieval ship discovered off Copenhagen may be the world’s largest cog www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medi... #medieval #Denmark #archaeology

Not sure people are getting the real importance of the Russians fooling Trump about the Ukrainians attacking Putin's house. It was to demonstrate just how much they control his thinking--how much he is in their pocket. And it worked.

University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies memorients.com/news/univers...

Trump commissioning the battle ships, although they are apparently outdated as a type of ships, reminds me of the movie Dictator where the supreme leader demanded pointy rockets

skat, kas "Eiropas patriotu" vai drīzāk Kremļa draugu bildes kreisajā augšējā stūrī stāv.

Hermaņa demise, saskaroties ar gaidītā masveida atbalsta trūkumu, droši vien ir socmediju burbuļu rezultāts. Tā iekšienē šķiet, ka atbalsts paša idejām ir milzīgs. Socioloģiskie mērījumi, kas apgalvo pretējo, šķiet uzpirkti un tikai nostiprina pārliecību. Bet tad nāk realitāte...

Atgriežos pie šī...

Atnāca, publiskajā telpā iemeta pilnīgi bezjēdzīgu, vāji argumentētu ideju, saprata, ka de facto Latvijas demokrātijas izčakarēšanai nav atbalsta, un aizgāja. www.delfi.lv/193/politics...

📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are still open 📣 ℹ️ Check the programme's webpage 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc ⏰ and apply by 15 January 2026! 🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians

We don’t talk enough about how the English are a people of the Baltic - the Angeln region from which they originated borders the Baltic Sea

A PhD is a great idea if you want to work your ass off for a few years and then somehow feel like a failure when you finish it successfully

A very good question- why democratic politicians are still on x/ex-twitter?

I have to say that I genuinely love the United States of America. I have been there 3 times, visited 14 states, been to Yellowstone and Rocky Mountains, enjoyed wilderness and cities. I never thought that a day will come when I will say that the USA are not our friends. Not our enemy yet..

In 2024 Americans decided that they wanted cheaper eggs and elected a president who has decided that we in the Baltics and eastern Europe in general belong to the Russian sphere of influence. So I hope that at least the eggs in the US are cheap now…

The Ukrainian is the 10th language for this book, Russia against Modernity —and, for me, extremely important one. Thank you Folio publishing house in Kharkiv — you are doing the work of enlightenment under shells of the barbarians

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

The US National Security Strategy seems to be—at least in part—written/edited by AI. There are hallmark AI em dashes in nearly every other paragraph — shocking but unsurprising.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

Interesants ieskats tajā, kā uz valsts aizsardzības dienestu raugās latviešu diaspora Lielbritānijā. Principā diasporas politika šķiet ir tikai kultūras saites saglabāšanas mehānisms. youtu.be/CX1FiZd4X84?...

Post-Doc Position at Freiburg University within RTG 2571 "Empires" - not only for historians... uni-freiburg.de/empires/jobs...

"Tartu University is analysing other historic artefacts ... including an 800-year-old cross depicting genitalia that makes a sound when worn. The metal cross has a hinged piece in the shape of a vulva that covers and knocks against an engraved penis design when moved around." #MedievalSky

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Alvja Hermaņa atklāsmes par ukraiņiem katastrofālo un mums vienkārši ļoti kaitīgo Trampa "miera plānu" liek man pievienoties sazvērestības teorijai, ka "Bez partijām" ir ietekmes operācija. 1. plāna punkts ir sačakarēt Latvijas demokrātiju. 2. Ir pievienoties Fico/Orbāna blokam.

“Glühwein, Plätzchen, Weihnachtsmarkt? Nach meiner Kenntnis ist das sofort - unverzüglich.”

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

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Fantastisks cilvēks. Lai viegli... youtu.be/40_U6qTW2Ls?...

Now available as podcast: my lecture for the @ghilondon.bsky.social on nuns' letters, Reformation pamphlets and the development of the German language #nuntastic www.ghil.ac.uk/publications...

Vispirms sagrābs medijus, pēc tam – demokrātiju. www.lsm.lv/raksts/arpus...

Atriebība par protestu. ZZS grib sodīt tos, kuri aizstāvēja sieviešu tiesības - kancelēt pilsonisko sabiedrību kopā ar medijiem. Tas ir tiešs uzbrukums Latvijas demokrātijai. IDENTISKI Gruzijai, Ungārijai, Krievijai, Trampam.