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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ik was vorige week op de radio! Zeker voor de brei-community op dit platform: dit is hopelijk de leukste 'bollen wol'-video die jullie momenteel op BlueSky kunnen bekijken! En dat hopelijk niet alléén wegens gebrek aan concurrentie. Voor de hele aflevering: open.spotify.com/episode/43OD...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"The Hugging Face hack isn’t a mysterious, supernatural occurrence. It’s a Python loop and a chatbot. The people responsible didn’t accidentally create god: they created autonomous malicious software and then failed to closely monitor it (...)." doctorow.medium.com/https-plural...

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LLMs are real, AI is fake

No, it didn’t “go rogue.”

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kom je bij ons werken? We zoeken een universitair docent Politieke Geschiedenis (0,8 fte, uitzicht op vaste aanstelling). Solliciteren kan t/m 21 oktober: www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...

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Universitair docent Politieke Geschiedenis | Radboud Universiteit

Als Universitair docent Politieke Geschiedenis werken bij Faculteit der Letteren? Bekijk hier de vacature!

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ik was gisterennacht op de radio! Wil je meer horen over wargaming en de culturele verbeelding van het oorlogsverleden via games en daarbuiten, check de aflevering hier (via Radio 1 en Spotify): www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/d... open.spotify.com/show/5Cp2lQf...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Great resource on media ownership structures in EU-countries: media-ownership.eu

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Doe je onderzoek in het CABR? Bijvoorbeeld naar je eigen familie? Collega Jan Julia Zurné heeft een goede video gemaakt over hoe in de Bijzondere Rechtspleging verhoren werden afgenomen en wat je moet weten over de processen-verbaal die je vindt in CABR-dossiers. Bekijk 'm hier: vimeo.com/1208394578

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Achter de schermen bij verhoren van collaboratieverdachten 1945-1948

Een korte video over verhoorpraktijken in de Bijzondere Rechtspleging (1945-1948).

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is one great article, for all you global historians of emotions out there!

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Jesse Klaver @jesseklaver.progressiefnederland.nl · 24/08/2026

“Had Hitler gelijk in zijn strijd tegen het globalisme?” Weerzinwekkend. En maar lachen. ON uit het omroepbestel had allang moeten gebeuren, maar nu is het klaar. Wanneer wordt hier eindelijk eens ingegrepen door de minister?

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The trench & drone scenes are absolutely nerve-wrecking. I feel stressed out just watching it. But, also in a good way. As it confronts us with the shape war is taking now. A piece of fiction we will hopefully have more elaborate conversations about (as is the case for '2000 Meters to Andriivka').

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Bodycam: Official 'Road to Locked and Loaded' Dev Diary

YouTube video by IGN

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Great video, on agnotology (or socially constructed scientific ignorance) and its dire impact: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTh4... Also great for public history (I teach on it when discussing the abuse of history by the tobacco industry.) Go check out dr. Fatima's Patreon! www.patreon.com/cw/DrFatima

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How Fascists Construct Scientific Ignorance

YouTube video by Dr. Fatima

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Binnenkort begint @historicivertellen.bsky.social weer! Er is door onvoorziene omstandigheden een gat in de planning gevallen. Wie zou het leuk vinden om in de week van 7 september over diens historische werk te posten?

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What's up BlueSky! How about a fancy Call for Papers for TMG - Journal for Media History, on the use of computational research approaches to study mnemohistory? Reskeet = kind and amazing :) tmgonline.nl/announcement...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Me: I'm amost done with my WWII videogame-book YouTube: youtu.be/ewd_9pQ2oMs?... Me: Ok fine I will also write something about Japanese "anime fighterplane catgirl"-videogames in my WWII videogame-book

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Strike Witches Road To Berlin【AMV】Attero Dominatus

YouTube video by WOTundPANZER

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Easily one of the best Paradox Interactive-books I know! Go check it out and give @ylvagrufstedt.bsky.social a follow 👇

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Routledge Companion to Video Games and History should be out in November. Exciting news! My chapter "Historical Games in Class: An Introduction for Educators" was my, if you will, culminating overview on the topic before I dove into analog & Twine for the new book. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Cover for Routledge COmpanion to Video Games and History -- Screen from ??? Civ Revolutions

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

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Floor Rusman @floorrusman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Al sinds september heb ik kanker. De ziekte is nu weg, maar om terugkeer te voorkomen of vertragen is een medicijn nodig dat voor mij niet wordt vergoed. Gelukkig zijn mijn vrienden een crowdfunding gestart. Alle donaties zijn welkom en delen helpt ook! www.gofundme.com/f/help-floor...

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Donate to Help Floor aan een levensreddend kankermedicijn!, organized by Elizabeth Prins

Lieve vrienden, familie, en alle lieve mensen, Dear English-speak… Elizabeth Prins needs your support for Help Floor aan een levensreddend kankermedicijn!

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

update on predatory academic publishers 🧵

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Lamyae Aharouay @lamyae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wanneer weet je dat de periode die je beschrijft de geschiedenis zal veranderen en wanneer weet je zeker dat iets een voetnoot zal blijken te zijn? Na 7,5 jaar stop ik als politiek verslaggever. Lees hier mijn afscheidsstuk: www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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Zaken doen met uiterst rechts is geen punt meer in politiek Den Haag: tijd om te gaan

Politiek: In Den Haag zag Lamyae Aharouay hoe uiterst rechts normaal werd gemaakt door andere partijen. Ze was verbijsterd – maar bleef als journalist gefascineerd. Nu wil ze afstand: niet meer steeds...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Bluesky! This is very much a niche question I suppose, but does anyone have access to this book? www.routledge.com/Competing-Me... I'm especially interested in the chapter on the town of Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein.

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So, what if we rebranded reading and writing as: "Going to the gym, but for your brain" Or "High intensity neural network training"

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Oh, this look amazing! store.steampowered.com/app/4285930/... Not only it's a RPG set in modern-day India, exploring their folklore & myths, it's also made by a team of Indians who have a channel of animated videos on Asian history: www.youtube.com/channel/UCpZ...

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Rakshasa on Steam

Rakshasa is a first-person, narrative-driven RPG set in modern India, where a hidden world of Tantrik spellcasters and ancient mythological horrors operate on the margins of society. Rakshasa blends b...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Apart from the AI-sadness, this also tells you a lot about how citation politics currently works in general, and how dumb & superficial it often is.

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Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

We're happy to announce the call for contributions for our new HGN theme: Fictions! Following a successful event last month, this theme explores the relationship between history and fiction in games, and how they shape each other. www.historicalgames.net/call-for-con... #gamestudies #gamingthepast

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Call for Contributions - Fictions | Historical Games Network

Our theme of Fictions started with a HGN | IWM panel at the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Curious Festival. You can read more about the event on the Historical Games Network blog and you can watch the ...

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Here's how I put it on the Ezra Klein Show four years ago: "The news system isn’t really designed for public understanding. It’s designed to produce new content every day." www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/p... Which is to say: any "fix" has to be systemic too.

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Transcript: Nicole Hemmer Interviews Jay Rosen for ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ (Published 2021)

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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 13/09/2025

Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur

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Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur

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Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This will certainly be a book for my shelf.

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Lieke Smits @elckerlieke.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Ik had een leuk en inspirerend gesprek met historica Tina De Gendt, over publieksgeschiedenis, erfgoed als forum voor democratische onderhandeling en wandelen als methode, te lezen op @overdemuur.bsky.social: overdemuur.org/geschiedenis...

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Geschiedenis in het publiek. Interview met Tina De Gendt

De Gentse historica Tina De Gendt onderzoekt de geschiedenis van superdiverse wijken, samen met de inwoners van die wijken. Ze ziet erfgoed als een forum voor democratische onderhandeling en vertre…

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 29/08/2025

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

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Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology

<div> <div> <div> <p>Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Ik begrijp oprecht niet dat het zomaar op tv kan. Nog los van het feit dat etnische zuivering besproken wordt als 'business as usual', alsof het op zichzelf al geen grove misdaad tegen de menselijkheid is: Evian, 1938? Doet bij Marbe geen belletje rinkelen? Zo iemand is haar ziel kwijt.

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The Evian Conference, July 1938 | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Learn more about the July 1938 Evian Conference and American and international responses to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

To me, this is Digital Humanities

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The song below is part of my writing soundtrack atm, but also: The cover art for James Last's 1970s Polka Party albums are mindblowingly awetastic, let's be honest here www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZhk...

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Question to the BlueSky game studies-crowd! What are some of the best studies you know about the psychological, emotional and cognitive engagement of players with game fictions? I'm thinking of books by @kcisbister.bsky.social , Aubrey Anable and some others, but any other key recommendations?

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

... Another day in writing paradise. Today, I'm revising my chapter on games that directly depict the Holocaust (and, well, that chapter sure needs revising.) I'm writing about several games, but also Gerda. I can very much recommend it if you haven't played it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Fe...

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Gerda A Flame In Winter - Official Trailer

YouTube video by GameTrailers

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

PUBLISHED #OpenAccess! HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF GAME STUDIES: What It Has Been, What it Could Be 780 pages of disciplinary self-care, otherwise known as intellectual history. Come for the pixels, stay for the resolutions. #VideoGames #MediaStudies @cmejeur.bsky.social @emmavphd.bsky.social

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The most exhausting thing about Game Studies *by far* is all the rampant Columbusing that happens, both within and beyond the field (like when someone outside the field fails to even mention prior work on a particular game...)

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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Jan Kas - journalist @jankas01.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Voorpagina Trouw #Gaza

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Embed With Games is now available in this little ebook bundle for a limited time, pay what you want

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

🤯 He made those? Awesome! He sure was talented, in so many ways.

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hmm ok, so what if I taunt myself when starting my writing day

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Another day, another eat-write book-sleep cycle. What if I could just say: hey look, game, and then boom, it just flows like a river @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social, any cope-tips Anyway, here's a trailer for Raid on Taihoku, one of the WWII-games I'll be writing about today youtu.be/p6m2Tos0o2g?...

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Raid on Taihoku - Trailer

YouTube video by Trailer Vault

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I just cannot wrap my head around people not recognizing this for what it is. (Or, well, not wanting to recognize it.) Any person who knows at least a bit about the history of the Holocaust should scream with the loudest voice possible to make this stop.

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Pieter Van den Heede @pietervdheede.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I have several thoughts on this. So, little thread. 1/ Up front: I love the review and a harsh verdict seems warranted. If you have not tried to scope the field at all when writing your book, even when a quick Google Books-search offers multiple hits, then you have provided sloppy work. Period.

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