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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I think the Founding Fathers would be most shocked to find our that in the year of their semiquincentennial, the citizens of the American Republic have the ideals and values of liberty and democracy explained to them by the Pope and the British King. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Mission accomplished as king’s speech to Congress goes down a storm

Charles quoted Wilde and Dickens in measured masterclass – and no tirade as yet from mad monarch in White House

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

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Lum @brokentoys.social · 13/04/2026

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I do not think there will ever be an announcement in the newspaper that World War III has started. I think a future group of historians is going to hypothesize in a grant application that we were already in it for years.

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Thomas Hogeling @hogeling.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

We krijgen een minderheidskabinet dat voor meerderheden aan moet kloppen bij de oppositie. Dat kan de ene keer bij GL-PvdA, een andere keer bij Groep Markuszower, afhankelijk van de vraag of het bijvoorbeeld over verduurzaming van woningbouw gaat of over de aanschaf van Israëlische clustermunitie.

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Opinie | ‘Constructief’ doet het lijken alsof we met z’n allen ergens heen willen

Dat mag jij vinden: Thomas Hogeling beschouwt wekelijks de publieke opinie. Wat wordt er gezegd en vooral niet gezegd? Deze keer: dit kabinet wil ‘constructief’ zijn.

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Tullibee @tullib.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This is like eating dog shit to get out of your “food bubble”

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

In the middle of a wonderful meeting between staff members of @manchstm.bsky.social and @utrechthps.bsky.social, lead by @ctimmermann.bsky.social and Toine Pieters!

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Thanks to John Cale I am finally having my brat summer. Only now discovered this. Damn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

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Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)

YouTube video by Charli xcx

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Cliff PervoSCARY @pervocracy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish

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Fenneke Sysling @fsysling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Our upcoming seminar in the Global Histories of Knowledge series. The link to the meeting will be on the website: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...

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Naturalis Biodiversity Center @naturalis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Nederland geeft fossielen Dubois-collectie terug aan Indonesië. Statement en meer informatie te vinden op www.naturalis.nl/persberichte...

Scheldepkapje in Dubois-collectie in zaal vroege mens

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Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Breaking news: Netherlands to return the Dubois collection of fossils to Indonesia

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jacobian term @evpok.love · 16/09/2025

like, sorry, daddy feyerabend said "anything goes" but most people aren't good at it as galileo

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Final ms ready for submission:

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Stockholm is the city the Prussians would have built if they wanted a San Francisco of their own. After having drank too much Scotch.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

On my way to #ESEH2025 in Uppsala. Happy to chair two sessions and present on history of German weather & climate science. Took the train via Hamburg/Copenhagen, and very happy that I had time to do slow travel. A bit sad because the train before us hit an elk.😭 #envhis #hisstm

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

"Life is like a sewer--what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." Tom Lehrer, mathematician & #ColdWar satirist, has passed away. His albums warped my comedic & political sensibilities at a young age, and I'm pleased to report that I've never fully recovered. #RIP #TomLehrer #comedy

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Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel

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Remco Ensel @reopkantoor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Kennis die knecht, verschijnt a.s. oktober:

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Link here: amocscenarios.org?lat=-53&lon=... Credits to van Westen’s research group for releasing this as part of their knowledge mobilization work.

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AMOC Collapse Visualisation Map

The interactive map that shows you the effects worldwide of climate change scenarios and the AMOC current collapsing

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

in Germany gen Z climate activists call themselves 'the last generation'. I think they have given up. Let us all dress as if we are retired, mow our gardens (not on Sunday) and watch the world burn with a glass of beer in our hands.

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Bestor - Belgian Science and Technology Online Resources @bestor2008.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

80 years after the liberation, we still know little about science during the German occupation. Wonderkamer now devotes a special to this history. Pre-order the new issue until 26 May at a reduced price of 10 euros by sending an email to gewinamagazine@gmail.com (ovv "Wonderkamer 11")!

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Very happy with today's presentations until sofar, excited about giving mine later today, hopefully warming up the audience for @naomioreskes.bsky.social keynote in the Institution's famous theatre! Thanks @katysduncan.bsky.social and @miguelohn.bsky.social for organizing this!

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It is easy to mix up Leo and Louis. I pity the poor students taking history exams in the future, mixing up popes and French kings. 'Leo the Fourteenth? Ah, you mean that guy from 'L'Eglise, c'est moi'? Did you know he inherited a lot of benefices from Francis I?'

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Young pope, old name. The last Leo modernized the Church, published the Rerum Novarum, had to deal with Bismarck and capitalism, and became one of the longest sitting popes. They have voted in office a US pope who will be there for a while, saying hi to one American president after another.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

When I feel like I need energy to teach, I will use Wagner's opening of Das Rheingold, but instead of having the sopranos sing I immediately skip to this song by David Bowie, here performed live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuDJ...

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David Bowie - Queen Bitch (Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972)

YouTube video by David Bowie

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Thomas Hogeling @hogeling.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

NSC is zoveel meer dan alleen Pieter Omtzigt, het is óók een verzameling opportunistische conservatieve Kamerleden zonder duidelijk plan.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yes yes yes, madman Realpolitik always works very well in... [reads hastily written notes of online course International Relations 101] eh... economically dominating the world system.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Rutte's NATO is changing climate into 'operational environment'. That sounds like using 'special operation' instead of war. Importantly, this does NOT mean they deny climate change. It means what was public becomes a military secret. Climate change becomes privileged knowledge for armies.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Historians of science were brutally treated in the 1970s, never forget. #historySTM #historyofscience #historyofmeteorology

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Yup. We are him at the end of the video.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Actually, this is a refreshing analogy.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This was 1778 and King Louis XIV was much more gracious to his guest than the American King Kong this evening was. I hope that this time it does not take 11 years for the people to come to their senses.

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Western Civ 2.0: from broligarchs misreading Plato to the destruction of NATO

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Dutch people selling books in Frankfurt: why are you looking at me with forks and knives in your hands... (from: Daniel Stolzenberg, 'The Holy Office in the Republic of Letters', Isis (2019))

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Robert-Jan Wille @rbwille.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Sigh. Fear and loathing in clickbait tv and newspaper land. Foreigners are over represented in the German news when it comes to violent crime. Luckily there are no vital elections coming, where say, climate, democracy and war in Ukraine demand protective policies.

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