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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

5:42pm: I can finally check my email for the first time today.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New book review published advance access by Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social @jakobburnham.bsky.social reviews 'By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire' by Mélanie Lamotte @harvardpress.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll be honest: I thought RG was the first French pro tennis player or something vaguely related to tennis.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m on a flight and, as we began our descent, the person seated next to me just STARTED a movie. Live your life, but that is unhinged behavior.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If we were truly talking "top academic talent" a) Canada would be investing in the people who already work there and b) people who are teaching 5/5 at a community college and changing people's lives on a shoestring would be top of the list.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So pleased to announce that, given present conditions of labour and the state of the world, I cannot: 1) afford anything 2) keep up with everything 3) overcome burnout 4) find the will/energy to work for sustained periods of time Thank you for coming to my TedTalk!

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Birkin Logan gives Rory is UGLY.

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The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 17/09/2026

Texas public libraries generated $4.74 in community value for every $1 invested in fiscal year 2024, according to a statewide study released Wednesday. bit.ly/4rpszIv

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It’s the Friday before a three-day weekend and my day was eaten up by random things. So here I am at 5:09pm, continuing to work for the foreseeable future to try to catch up.

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America's Best History @ambesthistory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

TIMELINE OF THE MONTH: 1700s. The conflict of colonies in their empires as England, Spain, France, & Netherlands compete for settlement & trade as the American plantations grow along the Atlantic Coast. americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1... @frenchcolonial.bsky.social @colmigproject.bsky.social

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Getting an email on the 12th day of the Fall semester asking me for my book orders for the Spring semester is WILDLY TRAUMATIC.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Why is it so difficult to say what I want to say?! #AmWriting

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The Dallas Morning News @dallasnews.com · 25/08/2026

Texas Woman’s University plans to establish a college in downtown Dallas that would offer an associate degree with a path to a bachelor’s degree for students who might otherwise not enroll in college, university officials said. bit.ly/4xhLI10

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Is the common ground somewhere I can also just pitch myself into the sea?

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Someone is tired after a long day of watching me move us into a new apartment all by myself…

A grey tabby Maine coon mix asleep on my shoulder

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Really, the crashout is going to be over the introduction to this article. I cannot get it how I want it!

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Excited to announce I will be having my crashout the old fashioned way… Absolutely no AI, just mounting professional overcommitment, an R&R are due in ~10 days, the start of the semester, dealing with a mycotic kitten, a solo apartment move, persistent underpay, and generalized burnout!

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Middle East update: US and Iran still at war, Israel still committing genocide and crimes against humanity being a absolute shit to everyone around them, the gulf states are still getting the shit beat out of them, Yemen is still a collapsed state, and everyone is bullying Oman.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sleepy boy’s toe beans are just soooo cute and perfect!

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Marcel has been cleared by the vet for cuddles :) welcome, finally, to my emotional crutch

Two green eyed beauties: a human man and a grey tabby Maine coon mix

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tomorrow is the first day of the semester, I have 193753 on my to do list, I move on Saturday and have BARELY started packing/cleaning/sorting… Yet I don’t want to do anything today. I just want to rest.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Stress/Anxiety insomnia starting back up, and the semester hasn’t even started. Joy. 🙄

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

As I prepare to move, I am cleaning out old things. I’m trying to be more ruthless than I have ever been before…but I need help: Should I keep this Organic Chem Molecular Model set, which I haven’t used since Organic Chemistry in 2013?

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mister Marcel yearns to be free from his isolation :(

Adorable grey tabby Maine coon mix kitty staring directly at camera, yowling in annoyance

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Since the semester starts on Monday (gah!!), I guess its time to get my syllabus underway for my graduate readings course on "Law and Society in Europe's Early Modern World"! Any and all article suggestions are welcome!! 🗃️

Readings for the course:
- Into the Archives: Writing and Power in Colonial Peru, Kathryn Burns;
- Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France, Natalie Zemon Davis;
- Dispossessed Lives, Marisa Fuentes;
- A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400–1900, Lauren Benton;
- Bonds of Empire: The English Origins of Slave Law in South Carolina and British Plantations in America, 1660-1783, Lee B. Wilson;
- Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico, Brian Owensby;
- Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire, Laurie Wood;
- Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab, Leslie Pierce;
- The Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants and Colonialism in the Spanish Empire, Bianco Premo;
- Empires of Complaints: Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765–1793, Robert Travers;
- Inventing the English Massacre: Amboyna in History and Memory, Alison Games;
- The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, Martin Nesvig;
- A Colonial Affair Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India, Danna Agmon

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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m thrilled to introduce a major new project: “After 2C.” It’s an interactive website that tries to answer a simple question: how will the history students of the future write about global warming in our century? (1/5) #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #ElNino #EnvHist after2c.com

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After 2C - Histories of the Future of Global Warming

An interactive exploration of five plausible, research-grounded climate futures, written as history papers looking back from the year 2100.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SOS! I think i have made my introduction worse with these edits...

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lookout everyone: I wrote 337 new words during the revision process today!

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

You will still certainly not regret assigning my book

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Marcel Update: he is an ABSOLUTE angel…but sadly caught ringworm at the rescue (which was not disclosed when I picked him up, hence the cuddling) So, in addition to his medical dip and a 5-week regimen of an oral antifugal, he must quarantine for 4 weeks. My little boy in the plastic bubble 🥹😞😷

Image of an angelic grey-tabby Maine Coon mix with green eyes

A cat pen of clear plastic used as a quarantine space.

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Eoin Price @eoinprice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Christopher Nolan is going to do the Illiad next but he's decided against using Emily Wilson's translation and will instead go straight to the original source: Jennifer Lopez's first edition.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We also awarded an honorable mention to Clement Huang (York University, @clemhuang.bsky.social) for “David’s Black-and-White Bear: Global Networks of Sciences and Religions via the MNHN’s First Giant Pandas, 1869." frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/

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Awards & Prizes – French Colonial Historical Society

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are pleased to award the 2026 Eccles Prize to Abdelhakim Belhacel (ATER--Université Paris Nanterre, @abdelhakimbelhacel.bsky.social ) for "Une histoire connectée de la traite et des impérialismes français et omanais sur la côte swahilie." frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/

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Awards & Prizes – French Colonial Historical Society

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm so tired of everything being so desperately stupid

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I feel like some of the people complaining about that review had never seen the LRB before. It was probably not written for you!

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Marcel wanted to help edit this article, but writing is exhausting!

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If CN doesn’t want to be lambasted for a film with yet again more with mid interpretative choices, perhaps he could director film on new stories.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Finally, after months, my special little guy comes home tomorrow!!

A green cat collar with the name on its name tag obscured by the label “tomorrow”. Other labels include a black cat and the sign “incoming”

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My burnout-induced executive dysfunction is sooooooo bad right now. I physically cannot make myself do any of the 18582 things I need to finish. Even my usual tricks and self-lying tactics aren’t working.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thank you, Reviewer #2, for claiming an article published 39 years ago about a vaguely similar event in the British India means my article on an event in French India 122yrs earlier “lacks sufficient originality”… Everyone knows that 1720s French India was EXACTLY THE SAME as 1840s British India.

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Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Brushing up for a new class and it really is remarkable how much the Anglophone historiography of North America has been transformed by something as simple as “more people learning Spanish”

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Gender-affirming care for America's empire maintenance.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/07/2026

French lawmakers on Wednesday approved a bill to legalize medically assisted dying for the terminally ill, adding the country to a short list of nations that allow the practice. nyti.ms/4gGdpeI

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Happy to report that I have finally submitted a book review, and only 11 weeks late :) please clap

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

And before any one gets into a snit: Senator Mc“Weekend at Burnie’s” was my senator for 21 years!! I’m allowed to say whatever I want.

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Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Gonna start saying”sorry, I was talking to My good friend Mitch McConnell” anytime I’m delayed or whatnot from this point forward.

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