Romania’s pro-EU government dismissed in no confidence vote universul.net/romanias-pro...

Today is Macedonian Language Day! The modern Macedonian alphabet was adopted on this day in 1945, laying the foundations for the use of #Macedonian, until then only a spoken language, in administration, education and public life. 🔆Честит Денот на македонскиот јазик! #македонски #македонскијазик

Very grateful to Emanuela Grama, @granttharward.bsky.social, Irina Livezeanu, and Mihaela Serban for their reviews of my book ("Justice and Restitution in Post-Nazi Romania" recently published in the Journal of Romanian Studies! Many thanks! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/jrns/8/1...

Romanian in the World - looking forward to participating in this conference in Lisbon, 28-30 May rostul11conference.my.canva.site/page-2#page-9

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels

Political scientists' accounts of how they do 'historical' research will always remind me of Monty Python's How to Play the Flute sketch www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1sM...

Had not seen this news - RIP Peter Duncan, former teacher and colleague, and all-round lovely, kind and principled man.

Because they want to be Plutocrats?

In "The Burning Bush" [Неопалимая купина, 1913] by Cossack writer F.D. Kryukov (1870-1920), Mamaliga, a village schoolteacher, experiences poverty, bureaucratic control, and the moral strain of being educated but socially marginal. ru.wikisource.org/wiki/%D0%9D%...

amazing new work by computer scientists claims ‘this is the face of the real Anne Boleyn’.

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...

"empirical analyses that complement traditional art historical expertise" "combining art historical enquiry with data-driven analysis" such weird assumptions here - that traditional art history is unempirical? www.nature.com/articles/s40...

I’m just floored by the contempt than many in tech have for the humanities. They don’t even try to understand or appreciate what it is we do before arrogantly assuming they can do it better with a non-human machine.

People who spit or crack sunflower-seeds spread tuberculosis and are therefore enemies of the people's health. Colour lithograph, USSR 1920s @wellcomecollection.bsky.social wellcomecollection.org/works/hfepj6...

The Romanian edition is now available to order or buy in bookshops! polirom.ro/studii-roman...

Chic, a French word of German origin..?

Postodoc position open at UCLA on European early modern art and ecological questions ! https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10988 Project: https://www.makinggreenworlds.net/

Couldn't agree more!

Excited that "Un boem la București", my edition of travel reports and letters from 1840s Bucharest which I found in libraries and archives in Prague, did well last week!

Liberal universities offer too many courses in vague, poorly-defined, made-up areas. by A. Middling Whiteman, Palantir Chair of Western Free Speech Studies, University of Austin

yesterday i sat through a 45 minute presentation about how to develop students 'ai fluency' in order to *ethically* make students 'career ready' 10 minutes before a discussion about how we're probably going to lay people off, then asked us to share some joys. nobody had any if you were wondering!!!

“Applications from the United States to Sciences Po’s bachelor’s program surged 52% this academic year, while the number of Sciences Po students applying to study for a year in the United States has plunged by 50%. For the first time ever, America is not the first choice for its undergraduates”

In fact, not the US Supreme Court but the US Supreme Court Historical Society (an independent nonprofit organization) calculated this. Credit the historians! #primarysources

New and #OpenAccess - Infrastructural Development, Corruption, Xenophobia, and Colonization in Central and Southeastern Europe, edited by Silvia Marton, Andrei-Dan Sorescu www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

See you on May 11 in Vienna. www.iwm.at/event/invisi...

On protecting what matters. @ihr.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @histassoc.bsky.social History UK www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

"The study of history is not merely an intellectual pursuit but a civic obligation, essential to the maintenance of a reflective, resilient and democratic society ... And yet opportunities to learn the skills of historical practice are disappearing at an alarming rate." bit.ly/3QyZQCO

AI in schools is not just an education issue. It is a labour issue, an environmental issue, a privacy issue, an equality issue, and many more.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Ion Ghica (1816-1897), Romanian statesman, writer, mathematician, diplomat and politician, Ottoman Bey of Samos, later Prime Minister of independent Romania, uncanny resemblance to Amy Winehouse. galeriaportretelor.ro/item/ion-ghi...

Next year, again! Please, distribute, apply, consider coming as mentor, discussant, chair! @dacretu.bsky.social @giannako.bsky.social @johannamellis.bsky.social @zorapiskacova.bsky.social @rkpejsova.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Wherever I lay my hat — the stolen-and-recovered Coţofeneşti helmet back on display in the National History Museum of Romania, in recumbent position

Romanian authorities welcomed back the 2,500-year-old Golden Helmet of Cotofenesti and two ancient gold bracelets after the treasures were recovered from thieves who stole them from a Dutch museum.

Am ajuns cu bine la Bucureşti – vă aşteptăm mâine la Librăria Humanitas Cişmigiu! (see alt-text for details of book & launch event) Puteţi rezerva un loc aici: eventbook.ro/other/bilete...

#Moldova This month marks 80 years since the 1946-47 Soviet famine, which killed around 2 million people across the USSR. Proportionally,🇲🇩 was the hardest hit, losing around 10% of its population - a blind spot in the country’s history. Report with Bastien Renouil 🎥 🇫🇷 f24.my/BpNa 🇬🇧 f24.my/BpPK

(Caribbean) #mămăligă in Peterborough in the 1980s!

“I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.”

Bucharesters - if you're in town on Weds 22 April, I will be presenting the book "A Bohemian in Bucharest" at 7pm at Humanitas Bookshop Cișmigiu. Huge thanks in advance to Ioana Pârvulescu, Alina Pavelescu and Dennis Deletant for agreeing to speak about it. All welcome! eventbook.ro/other/bilete...

Word je mijn collega? We zoeken twee docenten Politieke Geschiedenis voor 2026/2027. Reageren kan t/m 29 april: www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...

Looking at a certain analyst's tweet on Hungary from a few days ago, there is a structural issue in social media land in that almost everyone with relevant expertise is professionally bound to be polite even in the face of total ignorance; because of course it's hard not to take offence

𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙖̂𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙧 - the Romanian translation of Natalie Zemon Davis's last book, "Listening to the Languages of the People", nearly out Traducere din limba engleză de Irina Vainovski-Mihai Prefaţă de Alex Drace-Francis Postfață de Ana Bărbulescu polirom.ro/studii-roman...

Szijjártómorrow

Things Can Only Get Better vibes (for those who remember UK 1997) except Hungary parties better

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

Can't wait to read and teach this - Alma Igra's forthcoming book The Lion's Share on how science of nutrition emerged out of turn-of-the-century British imperial management. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Book review of a great book just published

What an archhole

Seeing this, I wonder if AI also counts as tool theft

something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder" I hate it here!