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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am now a contributing editor over at the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog! Here's an interview I commissioned and edited with the brilliant and iconoclastic Australian based intellectual historian Ian Hunter.

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Spiritual Exercises in Kantian Philosophy: An Interview with Ian Hunter

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 10/07/2026

Kauft Euch mal wieder ne Zeitung. Ich hab im @nd-aktuell.de Die Woche einen langen Nachruf auf Carlo Ginzburg geschrieben, über Spuren, die Detektivarbeit des Historikers und warum diese Methode politischer ist als man vielleicht denkt.

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Auf den Spuren der Geschichte

Am 17. Juli 2026 starb Carlo Ginzburg. Er begründete die Mikrogeschichte gegen Großerzählungen, postmodernen Relativismus – und gegen die Herrschaft.

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A new Israeli report confirms what Palestinians, the UN, aid workers, & experts have said for years--not to mention anyone vaguely conscious who isn’t racist--apartheid Israeli has pursued a relentless policy of deliberate starvation as part of its genocide. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

By Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel
Published date: 3 June 2026 15:46 BST | Last update: 2 days 14 hours ago

A recent Israeli study has concluded that starvation in Gaza resulted from a premeditated policy, despite sustained public denial by the Israeli government and much of the media.
Titled Data for Denial: The Smokescreen Behind the Starvation of Gaza, the study was published last month by the Forum for Regional Thinking at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
Its author, Shmuel Lederman, an Israeli scholar specialising in genocide studies, told Middle East Eye that he was motivated by what he described as widespread denial within Israel over starvation in Gaza during the two-year genocide that began in October 2023.
He said such denial among the public was to be expected, drawing comparisons with historical cases of mass violence.
"There is a thirst for denial," Lederman said, with many in Israel seeking to portray the army's conduct in Gaza and elsewhere as entirely justified or unproblematic.

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is Beirut currently. Each plume of smoke is a separate airstrike.

Photo from al-Hadath news of a wide panorama of southern Beirut beneath a cloudy blue sky. 7 plumes of grey-white smoke are visible in the distance, each the product of an Israeli aistrike.

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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨ Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9 Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 06/04/2026

Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Iran’s dismisses Trump’s Hormuz deadline; 2 killed in Israel’s Haifa

Iranian officials dismiss Trump's ultimatum, condemn latest threats as 'incitement to war crimes'.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“As B’Tselem showed in its 2025 report Our Genocide, the dehumanisation of Palestinians is a long-term process. The debate is not about facts. It is about recognising Israel for what it is: a state that systematically kills Palestinians with impunity & erodes international law & basic moral norms.”

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

Cover of book 'Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815' by Morgan Golf-French

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/03/2026

📰 Excavation at the 6th-century-BC temple at Samikon, Greece finds inscribed bronze sheets, possibly public and sacred documents, indicating the temple was an archive for official or religious records. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via Greek Reporter greekreporter.com/2026/03/10/g...

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New Excavations Suggest Greece’s Samikon Temple May Have Served as an Ancient Archive - GreekReporter.com

Greece excavation at Samikon suggests a sixth-century BC temple hall may have stored sacred or official records in antiquity.

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Tilo Jung @tilojung.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Jetzt LIVE: Historiker Quinn Slobodian bei Jung & Naiv u.a. über Elons "Muskismus" & die Zukunft des Kapitalismus youtu.be/3Mzr_g8WQmA (englisch)

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Historiker Quinn Slobodian über Elon Musk & den Angriff auf die Dmeokratie - Jung & Naiv: Folge 813

YouTube video by Jung & Naiv

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Soon in print! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

The cover of a book by Peter Stacey entitled "The State in Machiavelli" in the series Ideas in Context

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

GUYS GUYS GUYS my incredible colleague, Antoine Borrut, just texted me this pic, the BOOK IS IN HAND, which means you too can have it soon! Astrology and History in Early Islam, coming out with Edinburgh!

Image of a copy of the book, Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth, by Antoine Borrut

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The first event of the semester: a seminar on Machiavelli, organised by the Political Philosophy Student Club at Istanbul University. The seminar will focus on a comparative study of the dedicatory letters of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories.

Machiavelli - Reading Seminar
25 February 2026
Istanbul Uni. Faculty of Political Science

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Very pleasing to talk early modern news, information, and communication (and two excellent books by Rachel Midura & Joad Raymond Wren) with @moonjets.bsky.social on this week's LRB podcast. @lrb.co.uk

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Julia Jorati @juliajorati.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Huaping Lu-Adler and I are organizing another Zoom talk series on Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy this semester! It's open to the public; please spread the word / consider attending. The schedule, registration info, and recordings of (most) past talks are linked below. #philsky #academicsky

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Update: It is now closer to c.300,000 words of new Pocock

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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

‘The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws’!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country?”..“It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 29/01/2026

‘When he was accused of using Hegel’s name as a “pseudonym” for his own opinions, he agreed enthusiastically: “Bien vu!”’ Jonathan Rée on the philosopher and translator of Hegel Alexandre Kojève. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of...

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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin @karldietzberlin.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Nach Fanon fußt Kapitalismus auf militärischer Unterwerfung, rassistischer Entmenschlichung und Ausplünderung der Kolonisierten. Diese Gewalt frisst sich in Körper, Psyche, soziale Beziehungen. Tipp für Samstag: Fanon-Workshop mit Philipp Dorestal in Kiel > stadtteilladen.gaarden.net/2026/01/09/p...

Foto: Porträt Frantz Fanon, auf dem der Titel des Buches »Denker der Dekolonisation« steht. Darüber gesetzt steht die Unterzeile »Zur Aktualität von Frantz Fanon«.

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest." 🫡😤

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

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The King's Slaves

A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America

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Georg Gangl @ggangl.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Very interesting talk and cool overall project and a great listen for the holidays, imho. Happy holidays!

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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

When you're trying to outdo your neighbours during the mid-autumn festival... 一份絕妙的中秋節禮物!

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Jaakko Björklund @jaakkob.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Coming next spring! ”The Business of War in the Early Modern Baltic Sea Region 1530–1765” Description in comments @profmurdoch.bsky.social @anulah.bsky.social

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Anton Jansson @antnlj.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My review article on R Bourke’s and Q Skinner’s anthology ”History in the Humanities and Social Sciences” is included in the latest issue of @global-ih.bsky.social. Open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Oh look! Now it has a cover

Cover of Morgan Golf-French, Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815, due out with Oxford University Press in early 2026 (I'd be really stoked if you could recommend it to your library plz)

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Ksenia Arapko @marxologist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The ISS will be deorbited in 2031, handing over space station operations to private companies. How befitting for NASA to have paid SpaceX almost $1 billion to develop a vehicle that will strike the final death blow, dumping the ISS back into Earth. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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After a Quarter-Century of Hosting Humans, the International Space Station Is Approaching Its End. What Comes Next?

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Open access book on material aspects of ancient philosophy: brill.com/display/titl... #philsky #philosophy #ancientphilosophy #openaccess

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Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The cover of the book, featuring a historic portrait of Cloots

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Ateş Uslu @atesuslu.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Next Tuesday (5 November 2025, 17:00-18:30): A talk on "The Specificity of the Political: Georg Lukács’s Political Thought in the Post-Stalinist Ferment of Ideas (1956-1971)" @uni-konstanz.de Colloquium of Modern History.

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

“If human beings would learn to stop insisting on their distinction from animals, perhaps they would no longer need to humble themselves so before the angels.” —Adorno (1944)

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

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Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Couldn't ask for a better person to undertake this adventure with 🥰

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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

[1] This study by Fabian Goldmann, presented in the Jacobin article below, analysed 4,853 German headlines on Gaza and Israel (Oct 7, 2023 – Jan 19, 2025). The sourcing imbalance is staggering — and has arguably contributed to distorting how the German public understands the war.

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Chris Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Forthcoming De Gruyter Release – "Already her correspondence shows that Du Châtelet was at the very center of the scientific movements in Germany and of the intellectual elites of France and Europe."

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“A magician was expelled from his city. He froze time in it and decided that the city shall not be allowed to return to life until its youth destroyed its ancient ramparts.” —Kanafani, “Man & Principle” (mid-1950’s)

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