Slovenia is preparing to provide universal access to genAI and has opened a tendering process to support this initiative. I too signed the open letter by Danes je nov dan, opposing such plans for the following reasons: n1info.si/novice/slove...

LLM-based gen AI for writing, audio, art, and video are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books [and other human-made things] which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains." buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

The Center for Humanities Research at GMU is hosting a hybrid book talk for my monograph Civil Blood: Vendetta Violence and the Civic Elites in Early Modern Italy this upcoming Friday from noon-12:30. Register at this link: chr.gmu.edu/events/17595

The decline of violence UK since the 1990s is unheralded social progress. More evidence that overall rates of violence have little to do either with policing or inequality. #skystorians

The Würzburg data provides the thus far richest proof that plebeian feuds (Fehden) and their mediation by the state continued well after the practice was banned in the Holy Roman Empire in 1495, as is demonstrated by princely remissions (Landshuldung) or ‘pardons’ for feuding. (1/3)

My Marie Skłodowska-Curie project SOCRESTA has its own Bluesky account and now even a few posts @socresta.bsky.social

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns Confirmed keynote speaker: @jddavies66.bsky.social Deadline: 20 December 2025 Conference: 22 May 2026, European University Institute, Florence all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/gender... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

AI experts in higher ed aghast at higher ed’s embrace of AI apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Only available on microfilm

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire" Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9

cool new stuff from cool historians but also me hah take that #16thC #17thC #earlymodern #spain #italy #skystorians #iberia www.routledge.com/Evidence-Crime-and-Forensics-in-the-Early-Modern-Mediterranean/Homza-Scott/p/book/9781032781464

Another book I'm very much looking forward to this year. Congrats, Amanda! #earlymodern #vendetta

Join us for this semester's seminars on #earlymodern history, hosted by the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento! With Louise Bonvalet, Robert Kendrick, Antonio Chemotti, Umberto Cecchinato, Laura Righi, @amandamadden.bsky.social, and @massimorospocher.bsky.social #skystorians

Really excited that this book is getting an English translation - congrats, Paolo! #earlymodern #peacemaking #vendetta

The 56th edition of the Austrian History Yearbook has officially been published! For now you can read its 10 research articles and 58 book reviews online while we eagerly anticipate the journal's physical publication. #History #AcademicSky #Austria #Vienna #Europe www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ranting on elite violence in early modern Styria at this fine conference on violence in Warsaw in September. Really looking forward to it!

Late to the show, as always, but still honoured to having this paper published in the Austrian History Yearbook.