It's a bit the Homo Academicus moment of Marxism right now...

As a library dweller and former resident of the city, I really enjoyed this article on Berlin's libraries by Laney Lenox. I'd definitely recommend anyone with a connection to the city to dig into the @slowberlin.bsky.social literary archives 👌 www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlins-best...

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Very disappointing to read a well-established literary scholar’s article about François Bon and see that he paid very little attention to the spelling of women’s names. Published in 2005, Akerman was hardly a niche filmmaker...

Important interview free to read here. Congratulations to both Martin and Dave @frenchstudies.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

A wonderful initiative

The Society is delighted to announce the five shortlisted entries for this year's R. Gapper Book Prize:

Most read in French Studies this week: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms by Colin Davis. Read it in the French Studies online archive: bit.ly/FS-Hauntology @frenchstudies.bsky.social #FrenchStudies #SubscribetoOpen

"no a la guerra" 🙏

Stop de verhoging van de AOW-leeftijd. Na de vakbonden zeggen zelfs werkgeversorganisaties dat de AOW-leeftijd niet verder moet stijgen. Afspraak is afspraak. Hoe betrouwbaar zijn D66, CDA en VVD eigenlijk?

NEW: A simple digital treatment involving gameplay has been shown to dramatically reduce intrusive trauma memories within one month. Six months on, some participants were symptom-free. Find out more ⬇️

New article! Far-right fossil fuel ignorance: the nostalgia of national-industrial modernity by Kjell Vowles. @kvowles.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2620920

Ok we all need some silliness right now, so I'll tell you that there is a polish rapper called "Taco Hemingway" who produced a song called "I fell in love next to a pharmacy", in which he raps about a specific painkiller - so now his fans are emptying Polish pharmacies because they see it as merch.

My level of exhaustion can be interpreted from my posts: commenting articles from the Guardian means "exhausted"

Another reason to dislike Tarantino... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

getting some help rereading my applications, and fact checking pretty much everything I print

As Honnold himself would say: this is extremely low risk for a climber like him. It is an easy climb when trained at the level H is. It is a bit like when I go to the climbing gym and I know I can easily climb a certain grade. I know I will not fall. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

#Emploi | Mediapart recrute un·e journaliste réseaux sociaux (CDI) 🔎 Pour produire et diffuser des contenus éditoriaux, animer les communautés et participer à la stratégie du journal. 🗓 Fin de candidature : 29 janvier 2026 ✉️ Réponse à l'annonce : Notion 📍 Date de prise de poste : avril 2026

A little bit of Breton working-class history, taking you back to 1924! Tonight, my partner is celebrating their birthday and I picked this card from my collection for the occasion. It portrays the failed assassination attempt of the communist mayor of Douarnenez, Daniel le Flanchec.

This UK university finance dashboard is so good. Incredible public service.

Writing a non-academic cover letter today: it's actually refreshing.

this definitely reflects what I see around me: so many friends on universal credit (including myself), and these are friends with degrees of which no one thought you'd ever be on UC, chemical engineering, structural biology...

Out now! I've edited a special issue of New Political Economy on 'Centring exploitation in global political economy'. Link to the intro: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Other articles (all brilliant!) and a short summary 👇 1/

With the rise of extreme wealth, there's also a growing resistance to it. I don't doubt this is a good development, but it is also extremely limited view of why extreme wealth is possible in the first place, www.theguardian.com/books/2024/j...

Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...

Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!

Some prices matter much more than others for livelihoods, production and distribution. They are systemically significant and key in the fight for affordability and against inflation. So proud to win the Nelson & Freeman Prize for our paper! Thank you ICC! 🥳 academic.oup.com/icc/article/...

Very excited we have five funded PhD fellowships, open to all fields of political science and economics, so please do spread the word to prospective political theory students! www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

'we're too civilised for this banana republic behaviour' is such neocolonial language.

bet you didnt have BlackRock presiding over Trump's destruction of Fed independence on your bingo cards

In NLR 156: History’s Shadow. Why is South Africa stuck in forms of social and economic segregation, 30 years after apartheid? Kevin Cox unpacks the white regime’s class-making processes. newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...

Very happy to see this out in CPS! We study class identities and their social and political relevance over several decades in Britain, Denmark, Norway, and the US. A small thread: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/SIRW4...

Trinity Hall, also the college that has been trying to hide years of sexual harassment cases. What is going on at this college? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

References: can you ask reviewers of your book manuscript? Or is this generally not considered a good reference?

My department is hiring! Open rank faculty position in Helsinki Anthropology jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Ha I was right. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

UK postdoc applications: when you assess a postdoc application for a three-year appointment, how many articles do you consider to be realistic/a good ambition for the applicant to be writing (in history)

The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

I'd be curious to read more about Maria Corina Machado, who seems to be a dubious Nobel Peace Prize pick, especially given how recently it's been awarded...

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Scientific funding is a net negative: "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...

The logic that connects my research: showing that ideas are not free floating and that they relate to real things happening in the world, to people who are no necessarily producing those ideas, whether this is in philosophy, economics or literature.

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What's this thing about people being active on LinkedIn? Did I miss anything?

Interested in conducting original research with our internationally significant collections? ✍️📚 Applications for Library Visiting Research Fellowships at @glasgow.ac.uk are open! Apply here: gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... Closing date: 5/01/2026 #UofGLibraryFellows