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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 · 57m
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Universities justified job cuts with numbers no-one could check
Universities said staff cuts were necessary to secure their financial futures. But disputed models, alternative plans and changing forecasts suggest other choices may have been available.
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aggressive deaccessioner is aggressive @kayloulee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Also, ultra niche, in the Australian crime drama East West 101, there's a plot set at the University of Sydney, in March. The jacarandas are in bloom. Any fool with any acquaintance with the uni and Sydney seasons knows the fucking jacarandas bloom in spring, i.e. October/November, not fucking March
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This needs more detail to rule out accidental corruption of evidence
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
😬
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Historians are indefatigable archival researchers. My note in an archive summary: 'More on all this. I got bored.' 😂
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Alan Kohler on the stories he covered — and the ones he missed
In his final column before retiring from the ABC, Alan Kohler reflects on the stories that shaped him, plus those that shaped Australia in ways he could not predict.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Yes. Howard was an astute politician. "Tampa, boats!" while letting in the most migrants lol
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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Learning too much about Whitlam
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Rowley Waving - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
ALT: Rowley Waving - Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm thinking my next book should be on the Byzantine Empire. I mean, I mean I have a PhD so I think i'm qualified to write it and I don't think i've heard of anyone else doing any work on it. #envhist #envhum #histsci
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Stage 4 never invited into the club, particularly not in this piece
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I would die before admitting this
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Another 'history of Australia' with no references to migration historians, whole slabs of text unreferenced 🙃 #invisible
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A builder with a better moral code than all of Sydney's legal fraternity & every staff member of a children's charity www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Retracing the steps of Mark Dennis, 'brilliant' barrister with a dark side
The ABC travelled to Cambodia to reveal the inside story of how former top silk turned accused paedophile Mark Dennis accumulated power within a celebrated charity and gained access to vulnerable chil...
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Actually, some women are diagnosed straight away with Stage 4 but always forgotten in these fluff pieces www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Judith Lucy's cancer journey will reveal resilience she didn't know she had
Judith Lucy's breast cancer diagnosis means she has joined a club nobody wants to be a part of. A survivor tells how humour and resilience can make the journey easier.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My chapter is titled 'The Australian War Crimes Trials' and the brilliant editors are Avril Alba & Jan Lanicek
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I have a new (umm, written in 2023) chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust, an epic collection with 33 chapters! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com
The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust
This Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's excellent, get on it!
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reading this new book to lock in my fear of never being able to write this well 😭
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, so young
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
They built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millions
The companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Interesting fit @dieworkwear.bsky.social
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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 · 04/10/2026
"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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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Make it Level D, permanrnt, proficiency in Russian & Ukrainian diaspora politics 😁
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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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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yep.
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've ordered the book 👀
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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
Fiona, glad you are ok! Must remember to add "women" to every search 🙄😬
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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
What would we call it
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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👋
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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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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Squee!
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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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