I've laughed waaaaaay more at this than I should have.

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Trailer for Dan Goldberg's The Hunt for the Last Nazis, in which I appear saying "yes yes yes" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGax...

Swizzo 😂

Once all universities have been homogenized, you can start closing them down, which is surely the point.

It’s symptomatic that this is the ‘history’ that some people want - simple, bland, unambiguous, safe.

A top job for someone - Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto: looking for an economic historian of the Soviet Union and successor states

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

a lifetime beach parking pass 😇 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

My former colleague Kylie Smith in the NYT: “I really, really resented the idea that you should change the words [in grant applications] so that you could get [federal] funding,” she said, adding, “To me, that is compliance with fascism, and I’m not going to do it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

In 1946 the Dutch minister of reconstruction proposed to deport 20,000 Dutch collaborators to Germany, or to Dutch New Guinea lol

I want Rachel Weisz's whole Vladimir wardrobe

What is going to make university degrees worthless isn’t niche subjects like languages or the entire human past, it’s charging to teach people “content-creator” skills they can learn on the can

Soccer dad yelling at the under 13s to "man up" #holdmeback

‘By 1990 surveys showed that a majority of Russians gave some credence to astrology, telepathy, “supernatural forces” and faith healing via the TV screen.’ Sheila Fitzpatrick on spiritualism during the collapse of the USSR. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Some basic historical googling by the ABC team would have been ace www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

MUM, what were you like in the 90s?

rude

And you can hear more about it here: www.buzzsprout.com/2291653/epis...

This is a really excellent book with some great unhinged moments from the fascist immigrants to Australia.

Taylor and Francis royalty statement out. I get around 40 cents per epub. C'mon guys, let's start next year's coffee fund 😂

Australia's universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New article by Tandee Wang www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jesus fucking christ, the detail in the article will make you sick to your stomach. Nina Funnell is an incredible investigative journalist

Reworked this old favourite, chiefly for amusement of sad people like myself - credit owed to the original author except I don’t remember their name and not even sure I ever knew it.

Children at the migration centre, Uranquinty, New South Wales, 18 January, 1950, by L Bartholomew. Image uploaded to Wikipedia by @StateLibraryNSW en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranqui...

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Happy "new Ryan Wilkins" day for those who celebrate 🥳

The book is finally finished. It comes out 25th April 2026. It’s about historians’ “personal experiences”, how these might relate (critically and analytically) to their histories. It is called _The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes_

I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social

Atina Grossmann speaking @ UNSW on 16 March www.events.unsw.edu.au/event/new-ap...

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

My worry as a historian is not "AI will replace me" but "AI could eventually make it impossible to replace me"...

Who will be the first academic to list this on their vita under impact?

My article with @booklearning.bsky.social on the demographics of membership applications for the National Front of Australia has been included in this new virtual special issue of the Australian Journal of Politics and History on race, rhetoric and rights. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Fascism via excel spreadsheet also wtf is Garden of American Heroes youtu.be/VATymXTpT1s?...

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

Today I learned that one could be become a Professor of Anthropology at USyd in the 1980s without a PhD. Indeed, with a Hons (2:1) and a Masters - from Cambridge tho lol

Rushing to the archives. Left my laptop in the hotel room.

Academics, if you're being interviewed on TV, don't put your books cover out right next to your face. It's distracting and makes you look desperate

He sounds like a 12yo

Just saw Jimmy Carr at baggage arrivals Canberra 💅

Four injured after incident at Dubai International Airport, Dubai media office says reut.rs/4kYv414