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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

Democrats defend "science," but what they really should be defending is "wissenschaft." No major social problems - from global warming to AI - can be solved without non-commercial research across multiple fields, including the social sciences and humanities. Really wish the party understood this.

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

and like why are we centering the complaints of the parents who think the value of sports is "my kid might become a star" instead of the ones who are like "this is a great way to learn teamwork, move your body every day, work hard at a skill, and learn how to lose or fail at things with grace"

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Honoured to be chairing the Hakluyt Society essay prize committee for the second time, do consider submitting an essay and/or advertise to your PhD students/ECR colleagues. 🗃️ #earlymodern included!

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Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just a video about a turtle that wants attention🌝

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

As someone who is elbows deep in revisions on a book about historical knowledge production and its connection to how we develop and reinforce historical memory, I cannot emphasize enough how incredibly destructive and dangerous it is to get your history from content generated by LLMs/genAI.

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Dingus Khan @pupperpats.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The whole internet loves shitpostin hunter biden, a former president failson who loves shitposting! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the hunter biden is a cryptobro

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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm teaching war and militarization in Africa in the spring...I'm thinking that I need some texts to think through how people become numbers. Body counts, hostages, liberated. How do numbers bring meaning to narratives of conflict? Any suggestions--specific to African continent as a bonus?

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En 2 mois, l’armée nigériane a libéré 777 personnes enlevées

Le quartier général de la Défense du Nigéria a annoncé que les forces armées avaient mené 7 062 opérations de sécurité à travers le pays en juillet et août, neutralisant 1 487 terroristes et insurgés ...

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Malice Walker @humblecore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

immediately had to search for the video of Dolly and Patti singing Shortnin’ Bread while keeping the rhythm with their acrylic nails youtu.be/AOxsQNVOhro

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

You can't judge the need for a bridge by counting the people who swim across a river. And you can't judge the need for transit expansion by counting the people who struggle to reach transit in a car-depended status quo. We have to redesign the city for transit-supportive density.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump administration every day: Tariffs don’t raise prices. Trump administration today: We’re exempting 300,000 metric tons of ground beef from tariffs in order to lower prices.

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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Someone tell the New York Post they are free to use the headline "Natalie Imbroglio"

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chrishawn @chrishawn.net · 20/08/2026

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Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s massive and magnificent in person

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

they looked past his fictions because to them he was never meant to serve more than a superficial purpose. it wasn't their overzealous commitment to diversity that landed him at cambridge, it was their lack of it. they wanted a shallow commitment that could score them friendly headlines.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

9/ Misinformation can work by bypassing reasoning. But this sets up reason and emotion as opposites. Emotion is how we register that something matters. A message isn't manipulative because it moves you. It's manipulative if the feeling it produces doesn't fit the facts.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

cis Black women athletes are also VERY FAMILIAR with having their bodies policed by, or on screechy indignant behalf of, their white peers which is why we always say “scratch a TERF, find a racist”, and why the right is so motivated to downplay the very real solidarity happening across communities

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bex @blueraccoon.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

this is literally what I do for a living and it's called "blameless root cause" where you identify everything that went wrong without assigning blame to any one person in particular. the NTSB really went all in on this and it's one of the reasons airplane travel is/(was?) so safe in the US.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today Adobe's "AI Assistant" has asked if I would like to generate a summary of.... ... an archival finding aid....* and a CROSSWORD. And we're killing the planet for this. (*If you're not a researcher: the point of a finding aid is to give minute detail of what's there - a summary is 🗑️).

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Jonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · 14/07/2026

📣Job opportunity (d/l Aug 13): @willemdekoster.bsky.social is hiring a 3-yr postdoc to study the different meanings people ascribe to climate change, drawing on survey (experiment) and discrete choice experiment. Open to Sociology and Social Science PhDs! Apply here: www.eur.nl/en/working-a...

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Postdoc Sociology; Understanding climate change attitudes (3 years, 0.8 fte)

What does climate change mean to people? And how do these meanings shape their responses to policy and information campaigns?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/07/2026

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Submit by August 31, 2026!

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Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not sure he’d have a lot of hope to offer me

Mugshot of Grigorii Zinov’ev from 1936. He looks rough

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I would kill or die for Larry

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

There has been a severing of American history into two visions: one that can only see glory and one that can only see suffering and sin.

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hey Vancouver-area people! I'll be giving a talk at the Gibson Art Museum up on Burnaby Mountain later this month... "Would they do it in Paris?": Protesting France's Last Nuclear Detonations in the Pacific, 1995-96 Sunday, July 19th at 14:00 For more info: gibson.sfu.ca/whats-on/wou...

Screenshot of Gibson Art Museum page online for a talk by Roxanne Panchasi called "Would they do it in Paris?": Protesting France's Last Nuclear Detonations in the Pacific, 1995–1996. Cream letters on a purple background with an image of protesters handing out t-shirts that say "Would they" on the front and "do it in Paris" on the back.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10/06/2026

Our new poll finds that 79% percent of voters want a constitutional amendment that restores limits on money in elections. More results and what’s behind them: bit.ly/4dPG5yA

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Americans Are Furious About Corruption

A new poll shows deep frustration with both parties.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

25 minutes of Photuris tremulans fireflies in Tennessee's smoky mountains.

Portrait orientation photograph of a meadow in thick forest viewed over a split rail fence, with a small hut at center. Hundreds of glowing yellow orbs light up the scene.

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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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