Upcoming talk next week by Dr Seçil Yılmaz (University of Pennsylvania): "Love in the Time of Syphilis: Medicine, Sex and the End of Ottoman Empire" Trinity College Dublin, @historytcd.bsky.social Long Room Hub, Neill Lecture Theatre, 27 January 2026 Tuesday, 16.00-18.00 www.tcd.ie/trinitylongr...

Now @roztan.bsky.social is talking about paramilitarism and revolutionary efforts in the late Ottoman period in the Balkans #gunhistory #globarms #euguns #unipd #dissgea

Excellent piece on wars and trade of scrap metal www.newarab.com/investigatio...

Excellent piece on AI and how it is changing academic publishing practices

This week we are joined by Dr Ramazan Hakki Öztan for our History Research Seminar, in collaboration with the BILQIS project, entitled 'Revolutionaries, Counterinsurgency, and Humanitarianism in Late Ottoman Europe'. Please note that for this week only we'll be in Áras Moyola MY127!

Look forward to visiting the University of Galway next Wednesday and talk about my research. For further details, see www.bilqis.ie/bilqis/newse...

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social hosts Dr. Uğur Zekeriya Peçe @ugurpece.bsky.social for a talk titled "Bury the Hatchet: Civil War and Peace in Ottoman Crete" on September 30 (Tuesday), 18.00-20.00. For more information, see www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...

It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Incredible

Excellent piece!

My review of Chris Gratien's The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier (Stanford 2022)

Güzel bir program

This article took me to unexpected places! Ostensibly about a Swiss sociologist in Turkey in the 1930s, it touches on global right-wing ideologies, the nature of Kemalism, and the politics of experts in the early republic. Open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social 32:2. doi.org/10.1017/S096...

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.

We live in dark times. Listen to this podcast that is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.

The Art of No Deal

It's time for some visuals!!! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 has a cover. Out this fall with @cambridgeup.bsky.social #envhist #skystorians #PeatSky #energysky

Sosyal ve kültürel iktidarsızlık işte böyle bir şey

Önemli bir yayın

The Department of History at Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social is seeking a historian specializing in the 19th-century Europe. Come and join us! Please see below for details.

Insider trading in the US? This is where regimes similar to that of Trump had thrived elsewhere around the world. Turkey is one example. Politically motivated shifts in monetary policy of the past few years has led to a massive transfer of wealth to Erdogan's cronies at the expense of everyone else.

Import Chinese battery: 145% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Chinese laptop: 20% tariff Import Chinese battery inside Vietnamese laptop: 0% tariff Fuckin brilliant. A+ work here team. I am so glad there are such smart people working on our trade policy.

Naci İnci şöyle buyurmuş: 'gizli de olsa alkol tüketiyorlar' ve 'kızların dirençleri daha düşük olduğu için kendi iradelerini kaybediyorlar, istismara uğrayan öğrencilerimiz oluyor'. Utanç verici.

An article that I enjoyed writing very much. Learned a lot in the process. Hope it makes an enjoyable reading for those interested. Happy to have contributed to this special issue.

An old article that I have just had a chance to read

I’m a former BBC newsreader – Gaza is the reason I resigned | @karishmapatel.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-g...

"Zionist representatives also argued that land would not be the subject of contestation between Arabs and Jews, were Transjordan open to Zionist settlement, or alternately, that HMG should consider the idea of ‘transfer’, that is, the removal of the Palestinians... to Transjordan or Iraq." (1930)

ilgi ve bilginize sunarım

Enjoyed this one quite a bit!

Excellent piece!

Harika bir bölüm

Just learned David Lodge passed away. His trilogy has been with me on and off this past year.

In the second, "Navigating futures past: colonialism, nationalism, and the making of post-Ottoman order in Kilis, 1919–1926", @roztan.bsky.social charts the experiences of ordinary people on the contested Turkish-Syrian border www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very interesting talk

I very much enjoyed watching this one which tells you quite a lot about the making of what is essentially a global housing crisis and its roots in Washington consensus. Certainly applicable to Ireland and beyond

I retweeted this as my last post on the other platform after double-checking it myself. It is only fitting that I share it here as my first post.