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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The International Journal of Central Asian Studies is seeking articles for its second biannual issue. For more details on the journal, submission guidelines, and its digital journal archive, please visit the journal's website: www.ijcas.or.kr/ #centraleurasia #centralasianstudies #CallForPapers

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Don’t let them trick you with this Swede nonsense! Also, I’m pretty sure that the meaning of “turnip” and “rutabaga” switch by region in North America. I’ve never quite been able to figure out how and it drives me nuts

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Polly Jones @drpollyjones.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

TWO full time researcher positions in Oxford and Sheffield now open for applications, as part of our Leverhulme project “The 101st Kilometre: Soviet marginalization, migration, memory and mapping”. Please spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRE941/p... jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

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Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Ever wanted to know where your nearest UK #ColdWar collection or heritage site is? www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

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Cold War Sites - Google My Maps

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This cover… but then again, who among us hasn’t found themselves waist deep in bloodthirsty weasels at some point in life?

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Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I am organising a workshop at Manchester on 11-12 June entitled 'HIV/AIDS and the Boundaries of Europeanness'. Abstracts are due 29 April and you can find the full call for papers here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Please share with interested colleagues!

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Call for Papers

Call for Papers HIV/AIDS and the Boundaries of Europeanness Workshop held at the University of Manchester 11–12 June 2026 This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to ex...

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I’ve been calling for a moratorium to let me catch up for years! No takers so far…

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Great scholars and research projects in this issue!

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Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) @cessnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Marianne Kamp was awarded a CESS Book Award for "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan." Dr. Kamp spoke about the recent book in an interview with Nicholas Seay, graduate student board member of CESS. Read the piece here: tinyurl.com/42u9zdf5

Book cover for Marianne Kamp's "Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan." The cover features the title in white text, Kamp's name in yellow text, and a purple-to-red gradient from the upper right to the lower left. A block-printed design in the middle of the cover depicts a man wearing a do'ppi and chopon. He is kneeling in a field, next to an upright hoe, and planting a seedling.

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

They got me too! Feels slower, looks worse, key app icons now unrecognizable… what’s not to love?!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Thank you! And I’d be happy to come over to Manchester some time!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

You’re still thinking too narrowly in terms of batch production. I imagine a future in which the tawdry details of human life are but a brief instant in a Great Unbroken Chain of Continuous Laundering.

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I did a terrible job announcing this in the rush to arrange everything, but I have started a new role as a Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds! Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

This is all so beautifully stated. Exactly this!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

There are so many layers here, where to even begin?!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

May the temperature and humidity break in your favour!

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Slavic Reference Service @srs-uiuc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Every donation, no matter the amount, makes a real difference in ensuring we can continue providing programming and research support. Those wishing to donate can find instructions here: buff.ly/XNmS9CG We thank you for your continued support!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

With a hat tip to @ukrarthistory.bsky.social, who posted about it over on Twitter, I'll be very excited to check out this new exhibition on Tatlin as a Ukrainian artist! If you are (or will be) in NYC, check it out at the Ukrainian Museum until April 27! www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/

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TATLIN: KYIV

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Thank you so much for all this advice! Especially about preservation, always a sticking point for digital resources from what I've experienced!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I think if you can fit the content into that sort of framework, it makes sense. In my experience, asynchronous lessons work best when combining short videos with other activities!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thank you for this! Already found some ideas by hunting through this hashtag!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This is great, thank you so much for sharing! Amazing examples of the kind of thing I'm hoping to do!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

If it isn't real yet, I'm sure some organization somewhere is working hard to make it a reality!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Ouch! Don't encounter any problems, and if you do, make sure they are not in any way atypical! Things must break down in an orderly way, so they fit within the framework of the forms and the helpline structures!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

And, it goes without saying, I have not gotten an answer to my question!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Not an earth-shattering point, but it occurs to me that the entire infrastructure of robo-service is optimized to make sure only *my* time is wasted. I have a question. 2 emails and 1 phone call later, I have gotten a robo-reply and a robo-phone message. I have not managed to trouble a single human.

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If it's any consolation, your book with Oxana Shevel is easily the clearest, most even-handed, and most convincing explainer I've ever read on it! I think it changed the thinking of some of my students last year!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Great to see the volume is out in ebook form, and in open access! Full of wonderful contributions! Check out my chapter on Soviet participation in the "wider networks" of WHO malariology if you want to know how Soviet specialists both reinforced and transcended the boundaries of the Cold War!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Has anyone written about the (apparently ill-fated) Soviet role in the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC? NYPL has over 1,000 linear feet of records on the fair, and mentions significant controversy over Soviet plans and eventual withdrawal...

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The whole volume looks great!

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Canadian Slavonic Papers @canslavpapers.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We are excited to start off the year with a new double-issue, featuring, among other contributions, a cluster of articles on "War against Ukraine: language, culture, and media." www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcsp20/c...

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Canadian Slavonic Papers

Volume 66, Issue 3-4 of Canadian Slavonic Papers

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In today's think-piece, Paul Kurek explores and situates Reinhart Koselleck's model of conceptual history with the more recent "geological turn" in history and social theory. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2025...

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Towards a Cultural Geology: Merging Material and Conceptual History

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

New year, new (post about a) starter pack! I’ve been slowly adding people to the Russian/Soviet/Eurasian history pack as they appear. If you’ve never seen it or it’s been a while, check it out! And if you want to be added, just ask (reply or DM)! go.bsky.app/CagBxPQ

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Almost certainly not tax free! I guess the positive side is that Texas has no income tax. In New York, I paid federal, state, and city income taxes on my stipend. Do UK stipends include a tuition rebate too, or is tuition paid out of them (the latter was the case for me in Canada in my MA)?

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

In my experience, the "health benefits" normally means that the school pays for health insurance (but not the out of pocket costs). But dental is normally separate, so I assume no coverage here. Stipends also tend to count as taxable income, so federal taxes need to be taken into account too.

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Seconded! Non-alcoholic beers are really improving! For common brands I like athletic (they have an IPA, hazy ipa, Belgian style white, a corona clone etc.), but I’ve also noticed microbreweries starting to get into NA!

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I’m teaching Research Methods for the first time this coming semester. #skystorians , tell me about articles in which the authors use their primary sources in unconventional, masterful, and/or especially compelling ways. Any time period, any topic! Trying to fill a few holes in the syllabus.

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Designing a graduate course for students who have no familiarity with working with archival sources. Any readings I should or could include in the syllabus?

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Loren Graham (based at MIT) one of the greatest historians of science, who wrote on Russian & Soviet science, passed away on Dec 15. Loren's brilliant insights and publications are many but he was also an incredibly kind & generous scholar. He supported me throughout my career & I owe him immensely.

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