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Renaud Morieux

@renaudmorieux.bsky.social
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Historian at University of Cambridge. Oceanic history, migrations, social history of war, history of international law, incarceration, history of the family, statelessness.

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Marie Turcan @turcanmarie.bsky.social · 2h
Un monde parallèle où la préfecture de police parle de « violences » en montrant du serum phy, un foulard, des boules quiès et des paires de lunettes. Lundi dernier, un policier a fracturé la mâchoire d'un adolescent de 14 ans avec un tir de lance-grenade Cougar : www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
un tweet de la préfecture de police qui montre le matériel confisqué (lunettes, serum phy et boule quiès) et un message : "Manifester est un droit. La violence ne l’est pas. Avant les rassemblements, les policiers procèdent à des contrôles et saisissent les matériels susceptibles d’être utilisés pour commettre des violences ou des dégradations."
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Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new book, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society, is (sort of) out now! Currently available online for anyone with institutional access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Book cover of Richard Thomas Bell, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society
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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations to Karen B. Graubart (@kbgraubart.bsky.social) on winning the Paul Vanderwood Prize for her article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," in Renaissance Quarterly @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 78, No 2
This article presents a methodology for identifying the influence of free Black women in a set of Spanish legal documents. In response to a 1574 decree imposing tribute on them, Panamá’s free men and ...
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Corporate Pravda has appropriated your thought and response. @martinelms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Courtesy WaPo.
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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Student Art & Photography Competition 2026: Meet the Winners 👏👏 We invited History students at every stage, from undergraduate to PhD, to submit original artworks and photographs inspired by the histories encountered in their studies, or in the places and experiences that shape life in Cambridge ⬇️
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
now available - in open access www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026
Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I profiled the startup behind Pangram, the AI detector everyone’s talking about. It works really, really well. I wanted to understand how they did it. and also: why people still don’t trust them. (also, news: Penguin Random House is using it.) gift link! ✨
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The World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human Problem
Armed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught.
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Note how the moral panic about blocking the roads disappears if it's the far right doing it
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/09/2026
A company linked to Chelsea FC co-owner Todd Boehly has donated £75,000 to Reform UK, part of the more than £5mn raked in by the rightwing populist party in the second quarter of 2026 ft.trib.al/Y3UFcko
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Right now the government is putting our communities, our water security and our climate ambitions second to the demands of tech giants. It's time to slam the brakes on water-guzzling, energy hungry datacentres.
Greens call for temporary ban on new data centres
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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Her gift of £1m to support the development of the Moderna Covid vaccine: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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The story behind Dolly Parton’s $1m Covid vaccine donation
Naji Abumrad tells The Independent: ‘She is probably one of the smartest and most giving human beings I have ever met’
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"let me make a very specific threat: I will come to your house, make a Yorkshire pudding from a packet, chop it up, eat it cold and call it a Sunday roast to your face." 😃
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Patricia Tilburg @proftilburg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Come work with me! My department (History at Davidson College) is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern history, broadly defined to include North Africa, West Asia, and the Islamic World. Please help spread the word. fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Assistant Professor of History
Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern history, broadly defined to include North Africa, West Asia, and the Islamic World
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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Pleased to see that the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social's special issue of its ‘Intersections’ magazine, on ‘Peace in History/La paix dans l’histoire’, is now online – including my short piece on ‘Peace, “Perpetual Oblivion,” and the Functions of Forgetting.’ cha-shc.ca/publications...
image of 'Intersections' cover from vol. 9.1 (2026) showing a peace medal wotj Justice and Peace embracing
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/
A group of world leading historians in their finery, some in gowns, stand together under a tree. Some carry signs saying 'Historian at risk', other raise a glass to the camera.
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Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
That’s so incredibly stupid and lazy. I’m starting to feel embarrassed on behalf of Americans who don’t trust Claude and Chat GTP with everything. Fremdschämen. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The anti-climate lobby has been all over UK media this week, pushing stories designed to counter action. There's been almost no pushback from political leaders. Governments need to use these scenes as a teaching moment, to show what climate change means &what it costs www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Devastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackled
Spain and France have so far borne the burnt of this summer's wildfires, caused by a succession of heatwaves and prolonged dry spells.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
While fires rage in large parts of Europe incl UK, farmers face crop failure and livestock loss, every RefUK or Tory politician on the news must be challenged on their "let's do away with costly net zero nonsense" stance, side-by-side with live images of the cost of inaction. Expose the charlatans.
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petercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you're a #British citizen, or a #UK resident, consider signing & sharing this UK Parliament petition, created by Chris Packham, which calls for the UK Government to hold a UK-wide briefing on climate & nature risks. #climate & #nature petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks
The UK faces growing risks from climate and nature breakdown - from extreme weather to economic disruption and national security threats. Yet the public has never been given a clear national briefing ...
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Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Today, Filippo de Vivo, Martin Conway, @faridahzaman.bsky.social and I, along with 30 other members of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford have written to the leadership of the University of Exeter to express our deep concern about the proposed cuts to Humanities and Social Sciences
We write to express our profound concern at the proposed redundancies at the University of Exeter...History at Exeter has built a global reputation in recent years through its outstanding scholarship, major international research projects, and research-led teaching./We in Oxford have benefitted enormously from collaborations and exchanges with colleagues at Exeter, including on the Socialism Goes Global project, and on a developing programme of research focusing on Downward Social Mobility, and we frequently draw on the excellent work that your department members publish. The Exeter Centre for Global History in particular, has been world-leading in the field and stimulated our work in Oxford, as has the department’s long-established excellence in European, Imperial and Military history, Economic and Social History and the History of Science. We note too, the recent election to Fellowship of the British Academy of Professor Jane Whittle and Professor Mark Jackson, whose work has also inspired and guided ours. We have seen our undergraduates go on to prosper as graduate students in Exeter’s School of Archaeology and History, and recruit Exeter students to our own graduate programmes with enthusiasm, knowing they will have had excellent preparation for their studies. These strengths have taken decades to establish but could be undermined in a matter of months. Such losses would diminish the University’s academic standing, weaken its ability to attract outstanding staff and students, and jeopardise the reputation on which the University’s long-term institutional success depends./The case for cuts of this scale is difficult to reconcile with the University’s own recent financial position or with the continued strength of the disciplines most heavily affected. Rather than protecting Exeter’s future, these proposals, and the consequent restructuring and generalising of the curriculum, risk causing lasting reputational and financial harm while reducing the quality and bread…
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Bon Pote @bonpote.com · 27/07/2026
Beaucoup de bla-bla et de mensonges sur la lutte anti incendie, donc Bon Pote a analysé les votes par parti depuis 2022 à l’Assemblée nationale. Désormais, vous savez qui se bat vraiment pour les pompiers et notre survie. À partager massivement !
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Very powerful. And this is also why I was rooting for Spain
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Prof. Catherine Rowett, ex MEP @catherinerowett.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
£2 each way is good. Better than £3. But if you really want to help people get back to work, try free buses for working age people, buses to rural places at the times working people need them, and lower train fares everywhere for everyone. Burnham knows how these things improve the local economy.
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YTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This photo is one of the ages. And should be made famous.
The caption for it in the HKFP article that it's in reads: "A woman is taken away from indie bookstore Have a Nice Stay, escorted by police, on July 15, 2026. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP."
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Home Office floating "compromise" on "earned settlement" reforms - settlement/ILR after 5 years, but no access to benefits until 10 years. Some thoughts..(1/4) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Up to 1.6 million migrants could be granted indefinite leave to remain after five years instead of ten — but they would face waiting longer to qualify for benefits.

The proposed compromise to appease Labour MPs would affect foreign workers and their families who arrived in the UK since 2021 — a group known as the Boriswave after the boom in immigration under Boris Johnson.

This group would be exempted from reforms spearheaded by Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, to double the time it takes to qualify for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) — a status that grants the right to live, work and study in Britain permanently — from five years to a decade.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In case there was any doubt. Restricting access to benefits isn't enough for Conservatives/Badenoch. They want to deport/"remigrate" people who came here on legal work visas, not because of (debunked) claims about benefits/fiscal costs but because they've embraced an openly ethnonationalist agenda
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Does that include universities?
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Kane just got trumped
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Before buying AC units, people, can you please try these first? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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Sun stoppers: seven ways to keep your home cool this summer
You can keep temperatures down without the cost – or environmental price – of air conditioning. Here’s some tips and tricks
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Before buying AC units, people, can you please try these first? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...
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Sun stoppers: seven ways to keep your home cool this summer
You can keep temperatures down without the cost – or environmental price – of air conditioning. Here’s some tips and tricks
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
How it started / how it’s going
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Times are terribly tough for historians at the moment, but this is a wonderful scheme, a ray of light. #Skystorians
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments
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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I was asked to share reflections on the life & work of the historian Marc Bloch as he was inducted into the Panthéon. I emphasised how Bloch's example taught us the value of history, historians, & the necessity of critical enquiry as a civic virtue 🗃️ #twitterstorians youtu.be/yaw86u_cK1w?...
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Macron pays tribute to Marc Bloch and 'his teachings against the spirit of defeatism' • FRANCE 24
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
No need for a hydration break in this game
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Excellent. About bloody time. What excuse is there for any other Department -and the PM?
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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Le saviez-vous ? Pendant que vous souffrez de la canicule, les matchs de la Coupe du Monde de foot que vous regardez sont sponsorisés par Aramco, la plus grande compagnie pétrolière de la planète. Cette multinationale saoudienne est l'entreprise la plus néfaste pour le climat au monde. [1/4]
Bandeaus publicitaires Aramco sur les abords d'un terrain de football durant un match de la Coupe du Monde 2026.
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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
📣Out now on #firstview! Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social on 'Archive/s, Methodologies, and Silenced Subjects in the Past, Present, and Future of Global Histories' #Roundtable #Archives #History #Global #World 🗃️ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On Thursday 7 March 2024, an initial roundtable discussion of Mooring the global archive: a Japanese ship and its migrant histories was held at the University of Oxford History Faculty, as a part of the ‘Moving Stories: Sectarianisms in the Global Middle East’ Seminar Series, chaired by John-Paul Ghobrial, with Jennifer Altehenger, Jessica Fernández de Lara Harada, Giuseppe Marcocci, and Filippo de Vivo in conversation with Martin Dusinberre. An open access copy of the book can be consulted here. The present essay takes Martin Dusinberre’s Mooring the global archive as a starting point to analyse, discuss, and elaborate distinct approaches to global archives; historical methods; forms, meanings, and reproductions of violence; the place of ethics in historical research and writing; and global, transnational, and local histories. This essay draws on the above-mentioned roundtable discussion, and whenever relevant refers to the contributions of the colleagues who also participated in it to acknowledge the fruitful discussion that inspired The Historical Journal roundtable publication. In this collection of essays, we expand and deepen the discussion with other academics and early career researchers. Together, the collection of essays aims to pose questions, identify blind spots, and build new perspectives that enrich our shared understanding.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Don' miss Prof. Lucy Delap's paper on Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain this Friday 12 June at 5:30 pm in person at the IHR, London and on Zoom. #Skystorians
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Disabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century Britain
Women's History Seminar
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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
🇪🇺 Meet EuroOffice, Europe’s bold alternative to Microsoft 365, promising sovereignty and control It is based on OnlyOffice and offers a near-like-for-like experience as Microsoft for free. Something for everyone to check out, not only Europeans.
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EuroOffice emerges as Europe’s sovereignty‑focused alternative to Microsoft 365
Europe’s biggest tech players debut EuroOffice, a sovereign suite designed to challenge Microsoft 365’s dominance.
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lucasmarin.bsky.social @lucasmarin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Cher•e•s ami•e•s, j’ai le plaisir de vous partager l’appel du colloque « MARITIMITÉ(S) CARAÏBE » que je coorganise avec Jean-Sébastien Guibert et Boris Lesueur ! Nous attendons vos propositions pour le 1er avril !
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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"Y'all are in a death spiral. That's why you have to redistrict. That's why you have to cheat." Watch this man.
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