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CEU Press @ceu-press.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏’𝒔 𝑷𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆 explores the success and challenges of female politicians and activists amid authoritarianism and populism. Read in open access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048578863/wo…

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've often heard that, given the chance, players will optimize the fun out of video games. I think in the same way, these kinds people want to optimize the life out of living.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've often heard that, given the chance, players will optimize the fun out of video games. I think in the same way, these kinds people want to optimize the life out of living.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Only reason this is not my answer is Aardman Animations: Volume One on VHS. Incredible artistry that creeped me the hell out. Next would be the Borg scenes in Star Trek:TNG.

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CEU Press @ceu-press.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 takes the reader on a journey through the world of post-war Czechoslovak society at night. This is the first book to apply night studies to the research of state socialism. Read in open access: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633868584/th…

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Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#opportunity 5-6 Fellowships "Center for Eastern European Studies" (Univ. Zurich) @uzh-ch.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/sti...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can't get over this. It reminds me of Emma Goldman talking about drinking really good wine for the first time and realizing that working class people should be able to access culture and goods usually reserved only for the wealthy. Good art should belong to everyone!

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📣 Upcoming Event 📣 Applying to Postdoctoral Fellowships in Europe: Perspectives on the Process 📅 October 2, 2026 📍 Online 👉️ For more details, see the event webpage: buff.ly/kGqlqgO #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #posdoc #fellowships #aseees

Poster announcing an upcoming event: a large cream rounded banner reading "Upcoming Event" overlays a Trinity College Dublin quadrangle with a domed building, people walking, bicycles and a statue, with patterned borders at top and bottom.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...

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The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Paul Goode @jpaulgoode.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 New publication alert (open access) 🚨 I've been working on everyday nationalism for a good portion of my career, so it was a genuine privilege to contribute to this exchange along with @davidstroup.bsky.social, Jon Fox & Cynthia Miller-Idriss, Kanchan Chandra, and @tptrost.bsky.social.

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ASEEES Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies @aseees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

ASEEES presents a two-part virtual roundtable for scholars considering postdoctoral fellowships in Europe. aseees.org/event/applyi...

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Of course. Gotta have the whole team together.

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My department at LSU is hiring a historian of Modern East Asia (tenure-track assistant professor). We are seeking historians of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. Those working on modern China are encouraged to apply, but we welcome candidates who specialize in any part of the region. /1

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Assistant Professor - Modern East Asian History

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nothing wrong with packing a research assistant.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Bayesian priors aren't very favorable" you could just have a hobby like tarot or astrology

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

📣 Job Opening 📣 Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Eastern European and/or Central European Literature and Culture 📍 University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, US 👉️ For more details on the position, visit the job posting: buff.ly/LJHJPFq #centraleurasia #eurasianstudies #jobopening #upenn

Hiring announcement sign reading "Open Position" over a sunset city skyline, framed by decorative floral motifs and multiple East and Central European national crests along the top and bottom borders.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hard-pressed to see how there could be anything neutral about Dolly Parton.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It guarantees the right to "bear arms." Not freestanding arms.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So much for "intellectual diversity" and "academic freedom."

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

speaking as a gamer and a nephew the polite way to reciprocate would be to download whatever Fort Fight game they are playing and join them

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Rob Cameron @robcjournalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“It was a copy-and-paste of Danube. I mean it literally and not as a metaphor.” Russian researcher Kamil Galeev on Putin's attempt to seize Kyiv in 2022 - and Opertion Danube, the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Read what he told me 👇 robjcameron.substack.com/p/the-prague...

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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've been emailing like crazy to spread the word about the Central European History Convention (CEHC) July 2027 to those not on social media. Will you help through your networks? Submission deadline Sept. 13; we're fundraising to find subsidies for who needs it. ceh-c.univie.ac.at/news/call-fo...

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Call for 2027

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

It's pub day for BLACK FARM BOYS: The Untold Story of the New Farmers of America by Bobby J. Smith II 🎉 uncpress.org/978146969693...

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This looks great but I have to ask - isn't that banner image straight from one of the Mount & Blade video games? Maybe Warband? I don't see any credits on the webpage.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Drinking water? Breathable air? Anyone?

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You're not the only one. I don't know if I can stomach another week above 30C without air conditioning.

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I finally saw Nolan’s Odyssey, & everything Emily Wilson said was correct, especially the weirdness of an Odyssey without gods. But imo, the lack of “pagan” gods is really only one example of the broader Christian ethos that has been layered onto the Odyssey for this movie. 1/10

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Tomas Bartoletti @tomasbarto12.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

In Manaus for fieldwork and just got news my article on Samoa and Pacific history is out in the Journal of Global History! I use a multispecies, more‑than‑human lens on capitalism and colonialism, showing how Samoan people allied with the rhinoceros beetle. OA Link below 👇👇🪲

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

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Zora Piskačová @zorapiskacova.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

📢 My new article, "Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38," is now out in Central European History via First View! And it's open access! Many thanks to everyone who made this piece better. You know who you are!

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Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38 | Central European History | Cambridge Core

Stranded Savings: Financial Vulnerability and State Legitimacy in the Polish-Czechoslovak Borderlands, 1918–38

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Decolonial memories of Germany: Excellent new publication by @dependencybonn.de on transnational perspectives of German colonialism from 16th to 21st centuries. Including text by Daniel Bendix @dajoben.bsky.social Open access at @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Whenever this happens I'm going to renew my call to strip from the governor the power to name university regents. If the regents and the presidents they hire are going to get directly involved in programming and personnel decisions, they should be chosen by consitituencies of more than one person.

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"I'm sorry sir, but we cannot serve you the Mama's Trio without a Real I.D., doctor's note, and copy of your birth certificate." Almost certainly he was thinking of their "unlimited pasta pass" which is non-transferable.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The One Thing Everyone in America Can Agree On? Costco Why the warehouse club with a mass appeal rivaling Hollywood’s may be our last best source of common culture www.wsj.com/business/ret...

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The One Thing Everyone in America Can Agree On? Costco

What it means for the popular warehouse club to become a piece of common culture.

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

📣 New Graduate Program 📣 📖 Transnational History MA 📍 Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic 👉️ Further program details and a link to the application interface can be found here: buff.ly/j2Qf5le 📅 Application deadline: August 31, 2026 #TransnationalHistory

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Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For me personally (excluding Heat) gotta be Repo Man (1984) with an honourable mention to Assault on Precinct 13 (1976).

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British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies @basees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Call for Papers: #BASEES2027 Annual Conference BASEES invites proposals for panels, roundtables, papers, book discussion roundtables, and thematic colloquia. 📍 Robinson College, University of Cambridge (9–11 April 2027) 🗓️ Proposal deadline: 5 Oct 2026 Details & submission: baseesconference.org

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

CFP: The Constitutional Road to Authoritarianism: States of Exception in Historical Perspective, 1900-1945 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1632… Rethymno, 13.05.2027-14.05.2026, STEXEU – “The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship:´States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, …

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I know that all of Higher Ed, not to mention the planet, are on fire right now... but this special issue on teaching is so inspirational and full of refreshing ideas, it's a wonderful reminder of the thoughtful work so many colleagues around the world dedicate to their students. Do take a look!

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The latest in a series of SCOTUS rulings that state we can’t seek damages when our legal rights are violated—which means our rights can be violated with impunity since there will be essentially no consequences. Prior rulings have already been applied to ADA and Title IX rights.

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Supreme Court rules Rastafari man can’t sue Louisiana prison officials who cut his dreadlocks

The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.

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