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With a hat tip to @ukrarthistory.bsky.social, who posted about it over on Twitter, I'll be very excited to check out this new exhibition on Tatlin as a Ukrainian artist! If you are (or will be) in NYC, check it out at the Ukrainian Museum until April 27! www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/

Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky

Not an earth-shattering point, but it occurs to me that the entire infrastructure of robo-service is optimized to make sure only *my* time is wasted. I have a question. 2 emails and 1 phone call later, I have gotten a robo-reply and a robo-phone message. I have not managed to trouble a single human.

How did I not know that Eastview has a full open-access database of the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (1942-1992)?! Check it out: on-demand.eastview.com/browse/publi...

#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!

Great to see the volume is out in ebook form, and in open access! Full of wonderful contributions! Check out my chapter on Soviet participation in the "wider networks" of WHO malariology if you want to know how Soviet specialists both reinforced and transcended the boundaries of the Cold War!

Has anyone written about the (apparently ill-fated) Soviet role in the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC? NYPL has over 1,000 linear feet of records on the fair, and mentions significant controversy over Soviet plans and eventual withdrawal...

The whole volume looks great!

We are excited to start off the year with a new double-issue, featuring, among other contributions, a cluster of articles on "War against Ukraine: language, culture, and media." www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsp20/c...

In today's think-piece, Paul Kurek explores and situates Reinhart Koselleck's model of conceptual history with the more recent "geological turn" in history and social theory. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

New year, new (post about a) starter pack! I’ve been slowly adding people to the Russian/Soviet/Eurasian history pack as they appear. If you’ve never seen it or it’s been a while, check it out! And if you want to be added, just ask (reply or DM)! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

Love the new style!

I’m teaching Research Methods for the first time this coming semester. #skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways. Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.

Designing a graduate course for students who have no familiarity with working with archival sources. Any readings I should or could include in the syllabus?

Loren Graham (based at MIT) one of the greatest historians of science, who wrote on Russian & Soviet science, passed away on Dec 15. Loren's brilliant insights and publications are many but he was also an incredibly kind & generous scholar. He supported me throughout my career & I owe him immensely.

I'm preparing a presentation for a school developing a medical humanities minor, and I just want to give a shout out to this FREE 2020 publication from @aamctoday.bsky.social (1/4) store.aamc.org/the-fundamen...

How can we interpret signals from extraterrestrials when we struggle to communicate amongst ourselves? My new book (out now in the UK, out in the US on Jan 13) "Mixed Signals" delves into how the Cold War forged SETI and radio astronomy as we know it. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Starting your most incoherent sentence with "put simply" to deflect blame onto the reader

Don't miss my picks for environmental history worth reading from November!! niche-canada.org/2024/12/09/e... #envhist

Rethinking Global History edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel is out now - in open access. www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

I've returned from #ASEEES24 very tired, but very inspired! A new research project beckons, although the final deadlines to submit my dissertation also loom...

The crucial missing starter pack for Slavic lit and culture is here! Definitely not one to be missed!

Another really interesting starter pack!

George’s work provides (among many other things) a truly fascinating example of the reach of transimperial models of expertise. If you don’t think you’re interested in Romanian forestry, all I can say is; you just haven’t realized you are yet!

I really like this new blog post by Yusra Abdullahi - on her experiences in postcolonial archives, the silencing of minority rights, and the roles of the UN and states. changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/hier...

Sounds fairly ominous…

Great workshop by the BASEES Eurasian Regions Study Group. 👇

HPS.CESEE is an online platform created and run by historians of science in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Our aim is to facilitate the exchange of information between HPS and HSTM scholars in the region stretching from Prague to Perm and from Tallinn to Tirana.

Running away in horror from X: hello everyone!

Who are the river people on here? Hydrologists, geomorphologists, historians, anthropologists, poets, writers, people who love them. Looking to make a starter pack! #rivers #envhist #envhum 🏞️

Pleased to share my new article on the history of health insurance in Taiwan through the lens of ethnicity, politics, and global health. (Open Access) 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our humble Russian/Soviet/Eurasian History starter pack has passed 100 members! There is still room for more. I’ve been adding people as I see them, but if you should be included and are not, I assure you: it’s only a result of my own failings! Let me know and I’ll add you! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

Will obnoxiously repost myself here with a response to a great thread by @ebrandom.bsky.social. Read through all the suggestions! But god, I adore the Portelli book endlessly and recommend it to annyone interested in history, literature, memory, politics, &c.

A wonderful short essay by Amrita Rosyada about hidden collaborators and their role in anthropological knowledge. Similar work needs to be done in many fields. If knowledge is a social relationship, we need to ask: who is involved? Who is teaching? Who is learning? www.sapiens.org/culture/nati...

Selfishly reposting, because I’d like to see the recommendations too

Interested in learning more about the future direction of U.S.-Russian relations following the U.S. election? Join us (virtually) today at 12:15 for the latest installment of the join NYU Jordan Center/Columbia Harriman NYC-Russia Public Policy series: jordanrussiacenter.org/events/elect...

Cambridge friends, a reminder that this event is coming up on Weds 20 Nov. All welcome!

Rereading this wonderful book about development in post-Stalinist Sov. Tajikistan. How it was negotiated, lived and given meaning in a time and place when there was much more politics and improvisation than one might think. It sweeps beautifully from the global (decolonization) to individual lives.

My Russia/USSR/Eurasia starter pack has almost tripled in size since its humble beginnings! If you haven’t checked it out, or did so a while ago, have a look again to find even more people! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

Very proud that our new volume on Development, Socialism, and Internationalism is now out on Open Access! Many thanks to my wonderful co-editor Nana Osei-Opare and all our contributors, & @jessicareinisch.bsky.social & David Brydan for welcoming us in their series www.bloomsbury.com/us/socialism...

We’ve reached the critical mass where I’m seeing posts about more amazing books than I could ever possibly read. Need a bookmark feature in order to save them just in case someone decides to pay me to just read, forever!

Cover Reveal! We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya by Fiona Williamson. Imperial Weather joins our Intersections series on 2/18/25. Details and preorders here: upittpress.org/books/978082...

This is a good one!

Does anyone else have other recommendations for books about reading? Next semester in my 1st-year writing class, I want to have my students read an entire book that's somehow relevant to the topic of reading. The reason is that my students often say that no one makes them read entire books anymore.

Looks to be a fascinating event! Perfectly timed to coincide with my revived research interest in how the knowledge and life experiences of Soviet displaced persons was translated into western social-scientific knowledge about the Soviet Union in the 1940s-50s!

I ’m putting together a panel on #Russia-#UK relations for #BISA2025 in Belfast-We need 2 more papers…@polisky

Re-upping this once more for anyone who missed it: a Russian/Soviet/Eurasian history starter pack! If you’ve already seen it, make sure to check for the latest new additions. If you want to be added, just ask! The theme is defined as broadly as you want it to be!

Check out EURUS! A great program and the place where I got my start in Soviet history, among other things!