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Aviel Roshwald

@avielroshwald.bsky.social
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History Professor Comparative study of nationalism Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/O…

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1h
U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2h
I’ve outsourced my grading.
Photo of my dog grading an exam.
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The Times of Israel @timesofisrael.com · 5h
Former government hostage point man Maj. Gen. (res.) Nitzan Alon said Friday that Israel could have secured the release of all remaining Gaza hostages a year before they were released in late 2025, but “political and personal considerations” got in the way, delaying the agreement. Read on ToI.
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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 5h
🚨 NEW: Labour says it's "shameful" for the Green Party to "condemn the vast majority of British Jews and Jews around the world as racist for supporting Israel’s right to exist" "Today’s vote crosses a line and should be condemned across the political spectrum"
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The Economist @economist.com · 5h
Zack Polanski has tried to accommodate the Green Party’s left wing. The party's leader needs to grasp that his movement has been taken over by zealots—and seize it back from them
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Britain’s Greens have voted, shamefully, to say Zionism is racism
It is a damning moment for a political party with pretensions to power
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I scoff at the notion of AI achieving consciousness, but say “thank you” to Siri just to be on the safe side.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is there any wiggle room here? $500,000 would be closer to the figure I’m thinking of.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess our insurance premiums will go up.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Claude’s lack of a soul will not prevent it from playing God. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Epistolary nugget of the day: the “Best” sign-off used in emails is derived from the early-modern formal parting expression, “Best in Show.”
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Breaking: Moral arc of universe hits snag.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Office of Teutonic Knights
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He sounds like a vile little playground bully repeating some words he heard his bigoted parents say.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s hard to believe this is a fully grown man.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
* FRANCE'S MACRON: IF THE BRITISH PM WANTS BRITAIN TO RETURN TO THE EU THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT NEWS AND A GOOD DECISION @reuters.com
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 30/09/2026
Ponomaryov declined to confirm or deny whether he had been tipped off, but said that the allegations mark “a new level of escalation” by Russia.
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Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomaryov Targeted in Alleged Assassination Plot in U.S., Report Says - The Moscow Times
A Russian intelligence network planned to assassinate exiled opposition figures Garry Kasparov and Ilya Ponomaryov in the United States this summer, the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported Tuesday.
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Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today is book release day!!! So thrilled that An Inconvenient Woman is finally out after years of research & writing. Thanks to everyone who has ordered or told their library to order - I truly appreciate you!♥️♥️♥️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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An Inconvenient Woman
A revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregati...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump‘s post-structuralist belief in the power of renaming things is touching to behold.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I can’t wait for the next monstrous technological nightmare to come along, so that we can switch away from talking about AI all the time.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He’s naming more things than Adam.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026
The Vanderbilt report's operating premise - that a "pre-political" scholarship existed or even could exist - is invalidated by the actual history of scholarship. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/the-vander...
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The Vanderbilt Report Ignores the History of Scholarship
Criticizing the distortion of scholarship by politics, the authors conveniently elide how knowledge and politics have long been intertwined.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why would an aspiring autocrat want to support the cultivation of critical thinking?
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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New York Times executive fatally shot allegedly by elderly in-laws
Jonathan McKinsey's in-laws, who are both 77 years old, face multiple charges including first-degree murder.
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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
First proofs of the forthcoming book have arrived in my email inbox from Bloomsbury. In classic fashion: in the middle of frantic marking and at the start of the school holidays. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In his waking moments, though, our president remains as deliriously incoherent as he was at his prime.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WOW
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 28/09/2026
My friend's office is next door, I wasn't sure where she was at the time. Just heard from her and thankfully she is unharmed. What is happening in Kyiv right now is truly horrific. Millions of people are at risk of dying at any time. I'm not quite sure this really comes across, abroad.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you for your letter about ways of taking public engagement with my work to the next level. I appreciate the way your proposal takes a deep dive into the ways my work navigates the issues surrounding deep-sea diving. I look forward to working together at the intersection of our journeys.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My optimistic take on this is that the stupidity explosion will prove powerful enough to neutralize the intelligence explosion. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’
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Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The real shock here isn't that the AfD opposes Stolperteine. That party has wanted to minimize or eliminate Holocaust commemoration for a long time. The real shock is that the CDU in Heidenau joined them, indicating a split between the local (or Saxony) CDU and the national CDU.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Donald Trump, cub reporter
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
People who make fun of armchair revolutionaries have no idea what generations of armchairs have been subjected to over the years.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the rebranding of AI as Stupid Intelligence makes a lot of sense.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I guess the Xi flyover is in progress (as seen over Georgetown).
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Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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8 Sailors in U.S.S. Lincoln Strike Group Attempted Suicide, Navy Says
The aircraft carrier with its crew of about 5,000 sailors has spent more than 300 days at sea.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need a program to certify intellectual products as organic and AI-free.
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit...
A simple doodle showing a man, Conan Doyle, waving his diploma over his head. Underneath the doodle it says: Licensed to kill
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well we certainly ought to have done so.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oh! The second part of the de Gaulle movie that's been taking France by storm is coming to London this Friday! With a special screening and discussion with director and actors on the 26th! (based on an actual academic book by one of ours, @qmulsse.bsky.social!)
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De Gaulle (Part 2): Liberté at Ciné Lumière - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni
+ Q&A with director Antonin Baudry & actors Simon Abkarian, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Mison on 26 Sept at 19.00
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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The Shahed drone that was supposed to deliver my manuscript must have been shot down..."
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Academic best practice of the day: If you are running late with a manuscript submission, blame it on Hormuz-related supply-chain issues.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Man and police officer wounded in gunfire near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
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Man and police officer wounded in gunfire near Ontario synagogue on Yom Kippur
Authorities say a man was critically injured and officer was wounded in exchange of gunfire near a Belleville synagogue
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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Boom!!! The Constitutional Court backs the full application of the amnesty voted by Congress to seperatist leader Carles Puigdemont. He'll likely soon return from Belgium. Pedro Sánchez always wins
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also, White House to be rebranded as Aryan House.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Still haven’t decided what I want to be when I grow up: a mover or a shaker. 
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The brain implants take one hour to insert, with full agentic mind-control consolidated over 24 months.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump makes cartoon villains look sophisticated.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I thought they were storing all the munitions at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“This arch will self-destruct in 5 seconds.”
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