Someone on a podcast I watched the other day said that the less skilled a person is the more they seem to be excited by AI, and I can’t stop thinking about that. And of course, it makes sense, because there is a point at which you are skilled enough that AI cannot do a better job than you can.

This for me is the big issue in journal editing now. Not just obvious fabricated content and references but empty automated research text overwhelming our knowledge production, review and publication systems. 6/

He had no satisfactory answer, but the answer is this: Academics who play along with automating various parts of our jobs are partaking in our own industry's destruction. When it comes time for these companies to begin charging real money for their devastatingly high compute costs, university (cont)

“Jeg synes ikke, det er for meget at kræve, at bøger skal være skrevet af mennesker, oversat af mennesker og anmeldt af mennesker, hvis de skal læses af mennesker. Det er faktisk det absolutte minimum.” Amen! @atlasmagasin.bsky.social atlasmag.dk/kultur/b%C3%...

In Israel’s descent into fascism there appears to be no bottom. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/w...

The fact that fewer and fewer people are willing and/or able to read say 1000 words at once seems as dangerous to liberal democracy as anything else that might be happening but that is where we are

Også for ikke-italiensrejsende danskere. Fantastisk bog!

Et pro-tip til danske politikere, der forbereder sig på valgkamp: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #dkpol

Mette Sandbye vil have dig til at gemme dine gamle familiealbum og printe de bedste billeder fra skyen. I sin nye bog skriver fotoforskeren om en uddøende praksis.

This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

This Pope guy has some bangers

Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"'We’re seeing a velocity of killing that can only be compared to the Rwandan genocide,' Yale lab executive director Nathaniel Raymond told CNN this week, saying sources had told his lab that thousands of people were dead." www.smh.com.au/world/africa...

With AI, we are f*cked either way. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“In a world on fire, how can we concede so much power to an exploitative technology that produces questionable results, operates in opaque ways, deepens social precarity and fuels the planetary emergency?” On academic publishers and the AI hype drb.ie/move-over-fo...

Academics in the US are increasingly under threat. Mark Bray is a great scholar who has made substantial contributions to the critical study of antifascism and fascism. Threats and intimidation cannot be accepted as the new normal.

Thinking of my former Hungarian language teacher today who was greatly upset when Dylan won the Nobel prize - not because a singer had won the prize but because Krasznahorkai hadn't.

Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.

Det her er en vild og temmelig foruroligende afdækning fra vores gravergruppe. Gennem en unik samkøring af data fra flere forskellige kilder kan de nu kortlægge, hvordan arealerne, hvor danskernes drikkevand bliver dannet, bliver sprøjtet med pesticider.

CfP i TEMP: Litterære interventioner i historiske konfliktsituationer. Deadline for abstracts: 1. november. Del gerne!

On the 80th anniversary of Hiroshima…

There are no words left for what the Israeli government and IDF are doing to Gazans. And yet we must still keep finding the words to say it loudly: they are actively committing genocide and the our governments are letting them. @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hvem kan dog stiltiende se til at flere og flere børn dø af sult i Gaza ? Menneskeskabt grusomhed udfoldes for vores åbne øjne. Grænserne må STRAKS åbnes for uhindret nødhjælp.

My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

Aaand today is officially publishing day, request it at your favorite university library before your neighbor!

My book exists!

📣 Selskabet for Samtidshistorisk Forskning arrangerer #ÅRSMØDE2026 om “Humanistiske forsvarsstudier – nye perspektiver på samtidshistorien” 📅 30. januar 2026, Københavns Universitet 👉 Tilmelding og kontingent: [email protected] 👉 Læs mere: sshf.saxo.ku.dk

Programdelen består bl.a. af: 🔹 Keynote om beredskabshistorie i en ny sikkerhedspolitisk epoke 🔸 Panel om militært og civilt forsvar og beredskab 🔹 Panel om kulturelt beredskab 🔸 Roundtable om nordiske perspektiver på humaniora i krisetider

While the escalating war between Israel and Iran has everyone's attention, starving civilians in Gaza are being massacred and the situation keeps getting more and more unbearable.

Because antisemitism is a real danger, we need a clear understanding of it based on scholarly expertise. The IHRA does not offer such an understanding. We call on university administrators to refuse to adopt it. And we invite colleagues to join us! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This was a really insightful visit with very friendly hosts!

As scholars in Holocaust and genocide studies, we say: stop starving the people of Gaza.

Sultens lidelser er de værste fysiske smerter, Sofie Jama har oplevet. Nu udsætter Israel bevidst Gazas befolkning for dem. Hvordan kan vi med den viden undlade at handle? Sådan spørger hun i en kronik: www.information.dk/debat/2025/0...

@conteurohistory.bsky.social has a blog site "New Voices" for emerging scholars to publish short, public-facing articles. Want to submit a 800-word post in English on any aspect of European history (and its empires) since 1914? Contact [email protected] or see: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/ta...

Yesterday I returned the last comments on the typeset index - soon National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers’ House should be available at most university libraries! www.routledge.com/National-Soc...

Leder i @information.dk: Danmark kan ikke blive ved med at se passivt til, mens Israel smadrer Gaza og fordriver palæstinenserne. www.information.dk/udland/leder...

#HCG2025 Reminder: Application deadline is May 31, 2025! For more information and details, follow the link: eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...

CfA: When the Far-Right and the Far-Left Converge: Alignments, Entanglements, Ambiguities Workshop. CEU Democracy Institute Democracy in History Work Group June 18-19, 2025 Abstracts Submission Closes on  2 May 2025 democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/cfa...

The typeset proofs are here! Feels a bit surreal that National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy: Culture, Politics, and Comradeship at the German-Nordic Writers' House, 1934-39 will be out as a book soon.

Great on the dangers of losing the big picture of human freedom in the scramble to protect tiny academic liberties that will, in the end, have nobody to serve but the autocrats. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

“The obvious drawback to Trump and Putin performing a truth-free, morality-free cosplay of Reagan and Gorbachev is that unless the US president plans to intervene militarily on Russia’s behalf, and perhaps even then, any deal requires the consent of Ukraine.” www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/fe...

“Musk’s hirelings by these lights are less latter-day squadristi than radicalized management consultants. Instead of brickbats and lugers, they wield red pens to mark layoffs and offload inventory.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Please help spread the word about this Call for Papers for the 14th International Nordwel Summer School, which will take place at the University of Copenhagen from 18–22 August 2025:

“At five o’clock, oddly enough, tennis balls I had ordered online were delivered. It seemed to me, in these areas filled with toxic air, that people should be encouraged to stay home. I could have waited for the tennis balls.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The carbon budget of the super-rich for 2025 is going to be exhausted by the end of today

#HCG2024 Olá Rio 🥳 We are happy to announce the 25th International Conference on the History of Concepts “Political Ideologies: Tracing the History of Concepts and Languages in a Global Context” which will take place on December 5–7th 2024 in Rio de Janeiro! (Submission until May 19th)

Very excited to be co-editing a special issue for the Journal of Family History alongside @lauracking.bsky.social and @millieqed.bsky.social. Help us spread the word!

It seems that the themes of Giorgio Agamben’s work will remain with us for the foreseeable future. I tried to work my way through some of the aporias of his thinking on sovereignty and the state of exception a while back. The results can be found here: parrhesiajournal.org/wp-content/u...