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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why I shouldn't answer emails before I am fully caffeinated. Exhibit one million: Today, answering an email from a student, I caught myself writing: "And in the meantime, if you have any questions, please let me know if you have any questions."

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Greek system should be put to the torch and the earth salted so nothing can grow in its place.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a great point why “but we teach marketable skills” argument (which I still think has merit in certain contexts) can only get us so far.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The funny thing is that even if you think about jobs taking history is great for students. Every year employers are asked about the skills they want from the grads they hire. Skills that a student can practice in history classes (or humanities classes more broadly): critical thinking, communication

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's been said, but Mamdani's media presence is built on playfulness and joy in stark contrast with both "serious"/ boring Dem leadership and the evil/weird Trump admin. A breath of fresh air, really.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A diet of worms. Or, as historians call it, luthermaxxing.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I once applied for (and got) a job at a Canadian university. I remember the ad included a link to detailed information about salary ranges, teaching loads, and benefits. Because unions. And it really should be like that everywhere.

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American Medieval Podcast @americanmedieval.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hello! Humpday means a new episode! @profgabriele.com and @tlecaque.bsky.social and @lollardfish.bsky.social talk the Bayeux Tapestry and the end of grim dark medieval vibes (among other things). Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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September Medieval News with David M. Perry & Thomas Lecaque

Podcast Episode · American Medieval · September 23 · 1h 6m

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/09/2026

please to see that my latest academic article is out now: "Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States" I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s all part of their cycle of bets: first you bet on something stupid with borrowed money and then other people get to bet on how quickly a loan shark arrives to break your legs

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The courts should block this. If they don't, we should tear it down on the very first day of the next administration. If possible, Trump should be made to watch the demolition. This, the ballroom, whatever he does to the Kennedy Center and all of the rest. Erase it all. Full damnatio memoriae.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Hi! I'm the senior official in charge of the country's healthcare!"

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Excellent article! I am teaching a survey of Ancient Rome again in the spring and right into the reading list it goes!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem

A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

just couple of years bro. i promise bro just couple of years and we'll fix everything bro. bro. just couple of years. please just a couple. just couple of years and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro c'mon just give me couple of years i promise bro. bro bro please i just need a couple of...

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How do we think about the "Fall" of Rome today? What can we do to frame it in a more productive way? Our new open access article tries to tackle these questions and offer a new view of the scholarly narrative of the end of Rome. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core

Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At long last we have created the New Stanford Prison Experiment from from classic psychology study Don't Create The New Stanford Prison Experiment

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Thing is,even if JKR was not a horrendous transphobe bankrolling violence against trans people, the HP show looks absolutely awful. Awful in the worst-unimaginative-cash-grab-made-by-AI-designed-by-Temu kind of way. I watched the trailer and would gladly get memory wipe to forget I ever saw it.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Great name for a horse, but also this is such a great term for feeling anxious. “Oh, man, I’m such a panic dumpling today! Gotta take a nap.”

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Stop making medievalism relevant! (Also, thanks Russia, now I have a hook for the essay on Russian wartime medievalisms I am writing 🙃).

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As an old Soviet joke goes: An elephant has poor vision, but given his size, that's really not his problem.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/09/2026

professors are workers

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

al shal be cringe, and al shal be cringe, and a manner of thyng shal be cringe

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

He’s going to buy Chess.com now, isn’t he? 😤

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is perhaps telling this this year is giving us such cinematic gems as "Robin Hood Was No Angel" and "Scrooge Had A Point." One already flopped and may the other follow suit.

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My disappointment about the Uprising Robinhood is that has a few lines. The first is it isn't giving American audiences credit. How are they supposed to judge whether or not the want a Peasants Uprising film if you never offer them one?

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This was one of the most soul crushing things about the job market. Constant cycle of “this could be us” followed by rejection, year after year.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I saw three movies in the theater this summer (“The Odyssey,” “Disclosure Day,” and “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma”) and found “Camp Miasma” the most enjoyable, clever, and fun of the three.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

what's funny about this is that monks were perfectly delighted with the printing press, the myth that the late medieval church resisted printing is false, you can actually embellish printed books and people did, illuminators and scribes are not the same people, and simon should read more.

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What the fuck is it with historical podcasts and plagiarizing lately??? 🤯

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"The Mahdi is too humble to to proclaim he is the Mahdi. Even more reason to know he is!" (But tbh I also think everyone needs to stop talking about the 2028 election four months before the 2026 one.)

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

These are all great but I particularly love that Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea made the list. A required reading, indeed (and one of my favorite books, hands down).

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Eugene Smelyansky PhD 🇺🇦 @eugene-smelyansky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This! Also, the U.S. would benefit from a national labor service where you work for a year as a condition for college financial aid. Personally, I strongly believe everyone should work at least a year of their their life in a service industry job, but that’s just me.

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