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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian.bsky.social
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Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Make it Level D, permanrnt, proficiency in Russian & Ukrainian diaspora politics 😁
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12h
"the Ukraine" 😬 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance
David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fixed-term teaching/research job attached to ARC-funded project ‘Rebuilding Ukraine: From its War-torn Past to its War-torn Present’ at the Australian National University. Requires PhD in History and proficiency in English, Russian & Ukrainian. Submissions due 1 Nov. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
jobs.anu.edu.au
Lecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $124,638 - $141,317 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Fixed term (up to 3.5 years) In 1946, ANU was founded to help rebuild a changing...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you that if we were staffed and resourced enough to teach by leisurely Platonic dialogues the university would not depend on writing as heavily as it does.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stop the circadian rhythm shaming!!
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is one of the reasons I work on perpetrators. I was raised as a fundie, I know this intimately.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Instead of Chris Hammer, check out Joanna Jenkins
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where is the European Holocaust fellowship for an Australian MCR 🧐
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chris Hammond's latest book is terrible, whole chapters of unreliable narration 🫤
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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As part of the Women and Their Books study day on Saturday the 3rd of October, we're displaying a book written by Richard Hooke owned by Magdalene Wake, who inscribed the title page: "Magdalene Wake her Booke Given her by Maister Hooke 1655".
Christ Church WG.8.10 title page
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hope you’ll do a review. As well as the 1000s of pearling workers and other indentured labourers, to ignore the many many thousands here during and after WWII is a pretty serious omission. Part of the ‘anyone can do history, you don’t need training’ mentality.
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Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Economists who don’t know history, @news.abc.net.au needed to do fact checking on the statement that there was no temporary migration to Australia between 1901 and the 1970s! youtu.be/uKxBtPWywCw?... (at 17.45)
youtu.be
Australia's migration economics | That's Business with Alan Kohler
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Alan Kohler was a godsend when I happened to have postnatal anxiety during the GFC, calming and wise. Enjoy retirement @alankohler.bsky.social 😍 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Finance presenter Alan Kohler retiring after three decades at ABC
Alan Kohler, one of the most influential journalists Australia has ever produced, will retire at the end of the year.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not
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Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bluesky
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is there a support group for burnt out MCRs who have given up hope
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reading @evansmithhist.bsky.social @drjpersian.bsky.social et al this week for teaching 20th c. fascism to the first years. This little medievalist is learning a lot.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Enough Trope @enoughtrope.com · 19/09/2026
We're open for submissions! Have thoughts on genre fiction and want to share them? We accept submissions of 1000 words with a relevance to Australian genre fiction. Commentary, reviews, articles, or thoughtpieces? Share them with us: enoughtrope.com/submissions
enoughtrope.com
Submissions — Enough Trope
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Newcastle University is facing a backlash from conservationists over the appointment of the heir to an Indian oil and gas fortune who runs a controversial mega-zoo as a professor of sustainability."
theguardian.com
Indian oil and gas heir made professor of sustainability at Newcastle University
Incredulity over role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Anger over lives lost as Jehovah's Witnesses shift on blood transfusion
The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds in 2019 has expressed anger after the church altered its longstanding opposition last week.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TFW you get that email...
Jaws poster of shark emerging from the deep, with text over the shark: "You have been added to the journal's peer review management system"

Above the swimmer: "Me"
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
telling my disbelieving students what it was like for my generation to live without AI, 18 months ago
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Timely, in bed all afternoon with a migraine 🙃 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Number of people with migraine doubles after years of undercounting
Revised figures show the number of Australians living with migraine is about 4 million, with experts saying it highlights how authorities have been grossly under-reporting the chronic disease.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Is this the Hanson-inspired move to the even further right?
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
All those child martys .. www.jw.org/en/global-co...
jw.org
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Each Witness Now Decides Whether to Accept or Donate Main Blood Components
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
maths 🤔
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have to agree with Trump here. But also, every day in north Qld 🐊
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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My 👏 culture 👏 is 👏 not 👏 your 👏 costume 👏
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s excellent getting to say to a group of students, We’re gonna read X & we’re gonna spend 75 minutes talking about it, & ideally the way you think about the world & yourself is gonna be a bit more nuanced, complex, & satisfying, & that’s today’s “product.” Or, as @cnygren.bsky.social & I said:
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While in recent years universities have promoted student “productivity” (projects, online portfolios of their work, social media posts about their research papers, the list goes on), little of this push to deliver outputs and create content serves the actual purpose of education, which is to foster the capacity to think well, read well, listen well, and look well. Higher education strengthens the process; if we are going toteach sophisticated materials and challenging content, students need to learn how to think,read, listen, and look their way through it. The emphasis on “content creation” is detrimental to the educational mission.
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Nicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“an important challenge for university leaders”
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I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
Alt: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yeah, they don't care
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Arthur Calwell did NOT coin "populate or perish" come to me for Calwell facts next time ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
We put 165 years of migration data into four charts. Here's what we learned
The story of Australia is a story of migration, and the country's immigration system is once more at the centre of heated political debate.
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'd vote for the future where there's the option of a box that pops up when lazy nonsense appears and says "this looks like AI slop. Would you like me to find a piece written by a thoughtful human on this topic - something that's valued by other humans and is actually worth reading?"
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026
Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses
A bookclub scammer to whom I replied “Eat shit” sent a follow up email that reads (in part, because it’s really long):

Colin,

Fair enough. I got your "eat shit" loud and clear, and honestly, I respect the directness.

But I want to clarify something, because I think my original email read like boilerplate SEO spam, and that’s on me.

I didn't pull your name from a random list. I came across Ghostland while I was digging into American folklore and the way abandoned places hold collective memory. I picked it up, read it, and genuinely found myself stuck on it, particularly the way you tied "zombie homes" and economic decay to the ghost story tradition. It wasn't what I expected, and it stayed with me.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
culture-centered.blogspot.com
The Suit Walks the Corridor
Mohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/Dcd6izU...
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Nathan Dufour Oglesby on Instagram: "Okay this is a little late to the game but I finally wrapped up teaching a summer mythology class which culminated in seeing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and here a...
nathanology_ on August 25, 2026: "Okay this is a little late to the game but I finally wrapped up teaching a summer mythology class which culminated in seeing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and here are ...
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
me and the girls entering the academic job market
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Massive congratulations to one of the most brilliant and lovely academics I know @evansmithhist.bsky.social on his successful Future Fellowship 🥳🥳
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today I have finalised the grades for two courses, written a lecture and submitted a workload survey. WHAT HAS THE ARC DONE
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
look, whatever happens, all of our projects are amazing and deserve to be funded *group hug*
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ffs
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Sorry, what creek?
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This wasn't super successful even when it was legal lol @evansmithhist.bsky.social
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No sleep tonight then 🙃🙃
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Zoe @zmcadler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
>botlicker Absolutely amazing word
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Dr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is one of the two great questions of the historical profession
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