edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026get the M out of STEM, welcome to the humanities comrades spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathem...spectrum.ieee.orgWhat it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the MathResearchers debate motivation, purpose, and the field’s future 091
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It's a matter of factual record that the American Historical Association argued that the legitimacy of the historical profession rests on "appropriately narrow boundaries," thus safeguarding it from political reprisals. Let's see how that narrow-and-safe ploy turned out. 171
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026my little review of Piro Rexhepi's "White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route", def recommend src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/publictn/act...src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp 051
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026the whole album but esp this track, so urgent and acute, by the amazing @vijayiyer.bsky.social & henry threadgill & dafnis prieto... has a burning soundtrack of the 2020s feel about it youtu.be/LKj7-JwzhHw?...youtu.beHenry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - I Wanted a Map (Official Video)YouTube video by Vijay Iyer 0123
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026they really are the Lake America of the social sciences... bljak 000
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It's also important to note that ever since the war, some Europeans and esp Dutch would prefer to minimize both their complicity in the genocide and the gravity of what actually transpired in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995. That's why these obfuscations persist, but so do we. 0110
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026right, after 3 years of mass slaughter accompanied by the establishment of int'l bodies to investigate the war crimes, Karremans was not aware. it's frankly disgusting to state such obfuscations in 2026 bsky.app/profile/elve... 1100
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The commander of the UN peacekeeping forces, Thom Karremans, holding a glass of rakija, with smiling Ratko Mladić, while his soldiers were carrying out genocide a few miles away. Srebrenica, July 1995. 310947
Reposted by edin hadnito @a-d-n.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The death of Ratko Mladić means nothing to me. He won. The West rewarded the genocide and handed almost half of Bosnia's territory to his political project. As long as the genocidal entity exists, no justice is possible. The monument to his crimes outlives him. 19736
Reposted by edin hStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...chronicle.comOpinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington PlaybookDid the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members? 11332195
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026the thing is, there are AHA officials who are true believers when it comes to this. they don't need a lobbying firm to research & inform them that the other historian plebs are moral deviants while they're on the righteous path, and they've said as much over the last 3 yrs 150
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026the peakest livestream out there www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BG3...youtube.com利尻島 仙法志御崎公園LIVE配信！-Rishiri Island, Hokkaido-YouTube video by Tetsu Kuro 040
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I haven't heard people talk about this, but history involves a lot of human error as well as human getting things right. AI is an absolute game changer as it takes out both of those things in a delightfully easy way. /s 0182
Reposted by edin hDavid Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social · 05/08/2026My department is hiring an assistant professor of (post-1945) Korean history. Come work with me! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10290 Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions about the position. And I'd be ever so grateful if you could spread the word to potentially interested parties.recruit.ap.uci.eduAssistant Professor of Korean History (post-1945)University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now! 02531
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026what's funny is that large swaths of US academia will remain stalwart holdouts of Clintonism and all manner of washed-out liberal triangulating long after the tide turns in actual halls of political power www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comAbdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in defining race for DemocratsProgressive candidate will face Republican Mike Rogers in race to represent midwestern purple state in the Senate 0132
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026just ordered it for our library, it looks really interesting! (and as a historian of the balkans, i count myself among those who are trying to grasp the larger context and reframe the all too familiar eurocentrism that pervades scholarship as well as public discussions) 140
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026fascinating, thanks for posting it. i used a part of Hyunhee Park's book in a seminar once, tho i think a primary source like this might be even better for undergrads even when it requires a lot of contextualization, v interesting in any case 140
Reposted by edin hAna Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'm sure everyone's heard about the Bosnian tattoos by now. I explored the story for the @newlinesmag.bsky.social, and if you’re curious about Ottoman Bosnia, Catholic women, and the stakes of turning complicated histories into myths, take a look: newlinesmag.com/essays/the-o... 13918
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 13/05/2026So many converging factors have shrunk the spaces of intellectual and material connection (and as you said, the banality of social media are just one small reflection of it, bsky seems really bad for non-US discussions). The pandemic did damage too, but fascist consolidation is at the root of this 030
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026i think they're working it, i wrote it in eng (and happy to share, email me), but published first in cz print, we'll see about online or other edition... 120
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Brothers with Baggage: Eight Chapters on the Austro-Hungarian Civilizing Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina" is out, including an essay of mine (in Czech) on "Colonial ambivalence: On foreigners and expertise in Habsburg Bosnia" — plus many more interesting essays here: avu.cz/publikace/br...avu.czBratři s kufry. Osm kapitol o rakousko-uherské civilizační misi v Bosně a Hercegovině (1878–1918) - avuWeb Akademie výtvarných umění. 1236
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 12/05/2026NYer believes in rigorous fact-checking the same way that NYT believes in rigorous critical op-eds (which is to say these are hype tropes of two dying brands) 010
Reposted by edin hČarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de 12122
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026bosnian curses. bringing them back in 2026: may you be remembered only by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals 0325
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026not unexpected but still totally nuts 😖 (and maybe i will!) 010
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026right, let's never demand that elected officials take any public *action* on their own, without the approval of the party of the january 6 coup and mass deportation because "unrealistic" www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/pre...nysenate.govBREAKING: 75+ Electeds, Clergy, & NYers Arrested at 26 Federal Plaza For Standing Against ICE; Protestors Call on Leaders to Take ActionNew York, New York – Earlier this evening, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials and NYPD officers arrested more than 75 elected officials, everyday New Yorkers, advocates, and faith leaders ... 020
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"would you work for a company that got business by threatening to kill the families of potential customers?" gave me the chills bsky.app/profile/chri... 031
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026thanks! again i'm only superficially familiar, but v interested in hokkaido esp. of course, each empire has its own peculiarities, but having studied the turn of the 20th c, they all also took notes from each other (not copying or imitating, but def comparing and testing diff things) 010
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026that's fascinating. unfortunately i don't know japanese, so i'm only familiar enough with related debates, like within french empire there were similar arguments and shifting terms, but certainly colony not treated as a dirty word at the time. (PS if you have a link to the book that'd be great?) 111
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026let the record state that no one from the other political party in the US staged a public protest, chained themselves in front of the White House, or otherwise acted on the principle of absolute rejection of this monstrous horror 020
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026we're the biased ones, whereas a pure mind like slezkin's can see clearly /s 0120
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Yrs ago I met Slezekin as a grad student, told him I'm from Sarajevo, he said "I was just near there, at Pale" (former HQ of Radovan Karadzic).. I asked why, he said it's important to see for yourself (but not Sarajevo). When I told him my family was shelled for 4 yrs from Pale, he just walked away. 05913
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026not sure about the trump part, but my colleague elliott gorn sounds fitting global.oup.com/academic/pro...global.oup.com 110
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026i appreciate the indisputably sound point that there was no use for introspection in 1920s after plunging everyone into a catastrophic world war. i believe that's called data-driven decision-making 🚀🚀🚀 020
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 16/03/2026ahhh the NYT brand — frame an obvious political campaign of repression as being mostly about individual choices of syllabi, assignments, or pronouns, without once mentioning the Vice President saying "the professors are the enemy" or noting gov-encouraged TP chapters in every university 031
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 13/03/2026/ you doomers just don't get it, these jobs, they're new jobs, like prompt-fondling and cranking out error-ridden output that no one wants and have no real world use, it's a far-reaching revolution that few can truly grasp etc etc /s 060
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026trying to put it together: there are scientists (from original post) who are also common bsky characters, who refuse to use genAI, but in science they've already for decades used ML, so they are using it? in any case, still seems like punching down while AI companies wreck education, society etc etc 100
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026i really don't get what is the target of the original post... genAI does differ from older pattern-recognition ML types in the ability to generate new combinations and inevitable hallucinations etc. i really don't understand who or what the original post is trying to criticize? 100
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026i don't get it — which scientists are actively resisting machine learning? is that what your original post is criticizing? or something else? (because my impression is that most scholars have been using all kinds of applied statistics and ML for decades, but "genAI" is something else, we're told) 100
edin h @edinh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026i guess the difference is that many ppl, including myself, is that what's being sold as toothpaste ain't toothpaste, but bundle of smoke and mirrors with a smattering of flouride-free toothpaste, and we just don't want to settle for it bsky.app/profile/rude... 100
![This issue of Fortnightly News [September 2024] includes major policy interventions on the part of the AHA. We're more active than any comparable association in our activism on behalf of the work of historians, whether the professional integrity of teachers in states considering and/or enacting "divisive concepts" legislation, state social studies standards, or reminding congressional staff that everything has a history and why that history matters. We also occasionally sign onto amicus curiae briefs when historical method and accuracy stand at the center of the issue.
The AHA cannot, does not, and should not intervene everywhere. We don't comment on controversies in other disciplines. As a membership
association, we keep our distance from issues that are controversial within and among our members. And we keep in mind that our effectiveness rests on our legitimacy, our reputation for even-handedness, professional integrity, and appropriately narrow boundaries.
See the AHA's Guiding Principles for Taking a Public Stance. 2024](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:naek3hs4hoimcxof4u6lpfxs/bafkreicgitkg3tytzs7jevfgjhxga7mf5mu4xgoti75euslirtesaq274a)
