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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Evidence from the US that nuclear families really aren't traditional. They only became the most common household type around the 1940s (larger households including either extended kin or kin and non-kin were common before) and are now on the decline

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Leute, um den dritten Platz muss man sich doch nicht so zanken

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 08/07/2026

absolutely insane story, and yeah, just looking at this chart... with the exception of maybe two people, this entire class was cheating like motherfuckers

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Once you get a friend-enemy politics rolling—once mutual expectations are aligned around doing politics in that mode—enemies must & will be found, no matter how marginal, inoffensive, or defenseless. Their persecution will become the routine business of more and more serious political actors.

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Diese Frau bekam 390,000 Euros vom Berliner Senat, um u.a Verschwörungstheorien zu bekämpfen.

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

CfP: Conference of the Global Urban History Project, Mexico City, June 21-22, 2027: shorturl.at/FPpLS Layered Cities: Scale and Time in Global Urban History. Please share widely.

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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Very first results from the canton of Lucerne show a huge urban-rural gap:

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Yet another death following ICE custody was ruled a homicide. Daphy Michel, 31, died from hypothermia at a bus stop after ICE released her in subzero temperatures in Pennsylvania with "untreated severe mental health issues and a significant language barrier," the medical examiner said.

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

As historians, can we please at least settle on a definite method to determine, once and for all, which centuries were long and which were short? That’s the least non-historians can expect from us.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Next up, este viernes: Roy Hora sobre capitalismo y sociedad en Argentina, siglos XIX y XX: www.vierneshistoricos.org

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los viernes históricos

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Astrid Deilmann @astriddeilmann.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Endlich! SPD, Grüne und Linke empfehlen heute ihren Mitgliedern, ihre Accounts auf "X" still zu legen. Bleibt die Frage: Wann folgen die anderen demokratischen Parteien? Und was ist mit der Bundesregierung? Musks Plattform ist kein Forum, sondern ein Verstärker für Hass & Hetze. #WirVerlassenX

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Online-Plattform von Elon Musk - Grüne, SPD und Linke stellen Aktivitäten auf X ein

Mehrere Bundestagsparteien stellen ihre Aktivitäten auf der Online-Plattform X des US-Unternehmers Elon Musk ein.

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

📣 Volume 53, Issue 2 is out now 🚢 Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn 👇 Check it out 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 26/04/2026

"Paranoia, cruelty and the faux-knowing cynical cluelessness of conspiracy theories all extend far beyond the Magaverse now. They are qualities routinely displayed across the political spectrum… "This might be Donald Trump’s lasting legacy: he has already reshaped America in his own image."

thenewworld.co.uk

The Trump shooting conspiracy theories show America has gone mad

Paranoia and cynicism are no longer just for MAGA - and that might be the president’s lasting legacy

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 24/04/2026

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

erininthemorning.com

Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This is the exact same RFK saying the exact same stuff he does now. The big bad corporations are doing vaccines and stuff to make you sick and all the experts and agencies are corrupted by them, and they're like Nazis really, so I'm gonna go clean house and stop them. It's the same shtick.

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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

In Haaretz ist heute ein Artikel über posttraumatische Belastungsstörungen bei israelischen Soldaten, die zuletzt in Gaza gedient haben. Ich habe einige der Aussagen im Artikel über die Verbrechen, die sie dort begangen haben, übersetzt. Dazu gehört tatsächlich eine Trigger-Warnung:

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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Knowledge graphs are transforming my research methodology. Claude Code allows me to build knowledge graphs as I take notes from primary sources. open.substack.com/pub/computat...

open.substack.com

Nodes, Edges, and the Historian’s Craft: Knowledge Graphs as Research Notes

How moving from Word docs to network graphs transformed my research workflow and how LLMs made it possible.

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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Now try to imagine your 2015 self being shown this post. cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thu...

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Thales ZP @thaleszp.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

What began as a lecture on the field's evolution is turning into a paper. An animation mapping the affiliations of over 3,000 authors published in the EHR over the last century (Latin America is the most underrepresented region). @echistsocreview.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 04/04/2026

China’s Great Leap Forward caused a dramatic spike in child deaths— Child mortality rates in China have fallen from more than 20% in 1950 to less than 1% today. But this steady progress was interrupted in the late 1950s during the “Great Leap Forward”.

Line chart of the estimated share of newborns who die before reaching the age of five from 1950 to 2023 where child mortality in China spikes to about 1 in 3 children during the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962), producing a noticeable uptick in global rates. After the 1960s both China and world rates decline steadily to low single digits by 2023.

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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

But instead they just don’t care. They don’t really bother to push back. They don’t worry how it will be perceived. They know they can do anything, no matter how bad, and their insensate numbskull supporters will never question it, nor will the opposition or media ever truly push the issue.

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Orbán’s Ceaușescu moment. Booed at his own rally, ranting and pointing fingers. His final message: Ukraine hatred.

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Brent @bk4us.com · 27/03/2026

"Some 2.1 million Gazans are now crowded into less than half the area they lived in before the war, trying to survive in harsh conditions amid rubble they cannot clear."

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We see this in every war, images and videos that serve as stark reminders of how life carries on, even in a war zone. An Iranian girl plays on swings at a beach in the city of Bandar Abbas as smoke rises into the air from a nearby naval base that was targeted by US strikes.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 27/03/2026

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

startribune.com

Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Today, the UN General Assembly voted to condemn the transatlantic slave trade as a crime against humanity. ➡️ 123 countries voted in favour. ➡️ 52 abstained. ➡️ 3 voted against: USA, Israel, Argentina. 🤐

UN General Assembly voting board showing results for a resolution on the transatlantic slave trade, with 123 countries voting in favour, 52 abstaining, and 3 voting against (United States, Israel, Argentina), alongside a list of countries and their votes.

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

The globalization of double standards through right-wing autocrats really makes you wonder about the short-term disadvantages of norms-bound behavior.

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A week ago, @vdeminstitute.bsky.social published its latest annual report. A record 41% of the world’s population lives in countries undergoing autocratization. Yet aside from outlets like Guardian, ZEIT, SRF, media coverage across Europe has been strikingly limited. Why? www.srf.ch/news/interna...

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

With 11 other colleagues, we are launching a new online seminar series about Latin America in global history on Zoom. Here's the program for 2026. First meeting with @svenbeckert.bsky.social on Apr 10 at 4pm CET. All welcome. Link in program below, website to follow soon.

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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY IN NEW PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CAPITALISM: ACTORS, CONCEPTS, AND PROBLEMS OF SCALE
10.04.2026
08.05.2026
05.06.2026
04.09.2026
02.10.2026
06.11.2026
04.12.2026
Sven Beckert (Harvard University): A Conversation with Sven Beckert: Capitalism in Latin American History
Roy Hora (Universidad de San Andrés - Buenos Aires): Capitalism and Society in Argentina in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Rossana Barragán (CIDES - UMSA - La Paz): The Empire of Work: History of the Social Production of Silver from Potosí for the World
Pablo Pryluka (CUNY - New York): Markets, Consumers, and the Making of Developmental Capitalism in Postwar Latin America
Constanza Castro (Universidad de los Andes - Bogotá): "En este puerto está el mundo". A Microhistory of Global Tobacco: Honda,
Columbia, 1846 — 1880
Melissa Teixeira (University of Pennsylvania): "Tem que dar certo": Inflation and the Remaking of Brazilian Democracy
John Tutino (Georgetown University): The Revolution that Remade Global

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There was a time when this guy was actually a reasonably serious commentator on economic policy. Like Nate Silver, he decided to take the mask off, & it's just incredibly ugly now.

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Christophe Chartreux @libreavanttout.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

1/30 Pourquoi l’article du Figaro (18 mars 2026) signé Paul-François Paoli est-il une attaque ABSOLUMENT SCANDALEUSE contre Johann Chapoutot, Nicolas Offenstadt, Gérard Noiriel… et contre la recherche universitaires en général. ⤵️

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

You spent the entirety of Biden’s presidency calling him a warmonger for supporting Ukraine.

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Global Histories @globalhistories.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 We are accepting submissions for issue 11.2 of Global Histories: A Student Journal! Please complete your submission by March 31, 2026 🗓️ For more details, see our website: www.globalhistories.com/index.php/GH... #GHSJ #callforpaper #globalhistory #history

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Really sorry to hear about Ricardo Pérez Monfort‘s passing, who I remember as an untiringly curious and original scholar and a real mensch. He went too early.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It's very likely that an oil shock helped to crater housing production in the 1970s and could be about to do so again. publiccomment.blog/p/the-housin...

publiccomment.blog

The Housing Angle

Strait of Hormuz Edition

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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

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Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى @salmamousa.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We are quantifying this exact pattern and find: Israelis double as likely to be described using humanizing frames. Palestinians overwhelmingly described wrt infrastructure damage. Palestinians 6X more likely to be discussed in relation to their govt. Israelis paired with govt 5% of the time.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

i think most people who follow me are already with me on this, but here's my full case for why accountability is necessary & how i think we should lobby for it www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/abolish-ice

politicalphilosophypodcast.com

Abolishing ICE isn't enough. They must be held accountable.

What comes after the murder in Minneapolis.

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