Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMarie Turcan @turcanmarie.bsky.social · 2hUn 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... 29841563
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxRichard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My 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... 510240
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxCLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Congratulations 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....journals.uchicago.eduDialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 78, No 2This 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 ... 01810
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxCorporate Pravda has appropriated your thought and response. @martinelms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Courtesy WaPo. 0168
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxCambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Student 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 ⬇️ 143
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxBoyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026now available - in open access www.cambridge.org/core/books/k... 053
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026Nihar 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. 5293117
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxVauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I 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! ✨bloomberg.comThe World’s Most Reliable AI Detector Has a Human ProblemArmed with a near-perfect detection tool, Pangram is fighting to convince the public AI cheating can be caught. 68342
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxSeth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This 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.networks.h-net.orgBrown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net1. 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. 2275235
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxSteve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Note how the moral panic about blocking the roads disappears if it's the far right doing it 17505183
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI 20836001429
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxFinancial Times @financialtimes.com · 03/09/2026A 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 34135101
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxZack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Right 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. 22561941633
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMaria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Her gift of £1m to support the development of the Moderna Covid vaccine: www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...independent.co.ukThe story behind Dolly Parton’s $1m Covid vaccine donationNaji Abumrad tells The Independent: ‘She is probably one of the smartest and most giving human beings I have ever met’ 12812
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." 😃 161
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In 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."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective 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 […] 231899795
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxPatricia Tilburg @proftilburg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Come 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...fa-exci-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.comAssistant Professor of HistoryAssistant Professor in Middle Eastern history, broadly defined to include North Africa, West Asia, and the Islamic World 0118
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxKrista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Pleased 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... 0104
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Last 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/ 633199
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxCarsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 30/07/2026That’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...theguardian.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceState department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil 2197
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The 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...bbc.co.ukDevastating European wildfires in maps - and how they're being tackledSpain and France have so far borne the burnt of this summer's wildfires, caused by a succession of heatwaves and prolonged dry spells. 1425499
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/07/2026While 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. 321258364
Reposted by Renaud Morieuxpetercracknell.bsky.social @petercracknell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If 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...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risksThe 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 ... 02019
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxChristina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Today, 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 43620
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxBon Pote @bonpote.com · 27/07/2026Beaucoup 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 ! 5315611235
Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Very powerful. And this is also why I was rooting for Spain 010
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026This 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.thenerve.newsFarage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denialThe 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... 54782496
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxProf. 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. 1112
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxYTSL @ytsl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026This photo is one of the ages. And should be made famous. 3325145
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Home 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/... 1514474
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026In 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 35536259
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Does that include universities? 321455
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxRenaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Before buying AC units, people, can you please try these first? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...theguardian.comSun stoppers: seven ways to keep your home cool this summerYou can keep temperatures down without the cost – or environmental price – of air conditioning. Here’s some tips and tricks 001
Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Before buying AC units, people, can you please try these first? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...theguardian.comSun stoppers: seven ways to keep your home cool this summerYou can keep temperatures down without the cost – or environmental price – of air conditioning. Here’s some tips and tricks 001
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026How it started / how it’s going 131210327
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Times are terribly tough for historians at the moment, but this is a wonderful scheme, a ray of light. #Skystorians 16441
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxPast and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Our 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... 215391
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxAndrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I 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?...youtu.beMacron pays tribute to Marc Bloch and 'his teachings against the spirit of defeatism' • FRANCE 24YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English 13816
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxRenaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 001
Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Polanski and unions warn Burnham against backsliding on climate action www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 001
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Excellent. About bloody time. What excuse is there for any other Department -and the PM? 10469108
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Le 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] 34577378
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxThe 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... 12914
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Don' 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. #Skystorianshistory.ac.ukDisabled Women, the Labour State, and Enterprise In Twentieth Century BritainWomen's History Seminar 05127
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxPurchase 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.windowscentral.comEuroOffice emerges as Europe’s sovereignty‑focused alternative to Microsoft 365Europe’s biggest tech players debut EuroOffice, a sovereign suite designed to challenge Microsoft 365’s dominance. 521522468
Reposted by Renaud Morieuxlucasmarin.bsky.social @lucasmarin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Cher•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 ! 01412
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxJon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Please 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/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL 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). 288151
Reposted by Renaud MorieuxKevin 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. 9539801039