iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Est-ce que vous imaginez la retenue (dont la victime malgré le traumatisme) et le respect des lycéen·nes pour continuer à donner du “monsieur” aux flics dans cette circonstance ?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As an anthropologist, I think the idea of young people as "digital natives" works if we see them as analogous to any other sort of natives: they know what they know and they're experts on their own experience, but haven't a clue about what scaffolds all of that, like explaining water to a fish...

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's a similar place in San Francisco -- has to be seen in person really, the colour is extraordinary maps.app.goo.gl/1tiieZNQBB55...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NINETY programmes, fucking hell

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Nicolas de Condorcet, French Enlightenment philosopher, political economist, mathematician, born #OTD 1743; protégé of Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, published landmark work on probability in 1785; reformer, champion of constitutional government, public education & equal rights. Château de Versailles ALT

Nicolas Condorcet, portrait c.1789 (unknown artist)
Château de Versailles

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well, the rules of xenia still apply

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Received an unexpected guest this morning

A praying mantis about the size of my palm

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ECHOES @echoes-she.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

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SHE Conference 2027 – Society for the History of Emotions

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

***BREAKING NEWS*** We have extended the deadline on our #CFP by 5 days to give those of you that missed our early deadline another chance! New deadline: 20 September 2026 Get writing! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I hate to say it, but this absolutely slaps. It's like something straight out of a Dr. Strangelove-esque spoof.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the AI safety story is the psychology of people doing a job that they sincerely believe has a good chance of annihilating humanity

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I spent two weeks in China 'arguing the case' and they told us it's too expensive and they may as well go to any other country.

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Helge Schwiertz @helgeschwiertz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Happy to share that our new book is out now #OpenAccess! Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity explores how grassroots actors across 11 European cities build solidarity and enact citizenship through struggles over migration, housing and care. doi.org/10.51952/978... @brisunipress.bsky.social

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Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity

Enacting Citizenship and Solidarity - Urban Struggles on Migration, Housing and Care in Europe; How are grassroots movements reshaping European cities? This book explores how activists across ten citi...

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Proof that language matters in politics: there is also no ambiguity about this in French or Italian, in which all research output in any field is routinely referred to as "scientific". English insists on drawing a distinction and now we don't get to have History departments any more

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Come and join us in Turin (where the temperature is still above 25C) on the 23rd and 24th for our workshop on new approaches to abolitionism!

The programme for our workshop Rethinking Abolition

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As a whole, England doesn’t seem to actually understand what makes England appealing, and in the process they’re making England almost impossible to love. It’s a bizarre phenomenon, entirely self-defeating. Most newcomers just want the chance to be and in return England actually gets richer.

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For a variety of reasons my newsletter came out a bit early this week -- in this two-parter, I weigh up who's ahead and who's behind in the French presidential race. This week I look at the people who might be the next president; next week, at the people who definitely won't

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A bookie’s look at the race for the French presidency: part 1

Please do not actually use these odds to do any gambling; I don’t know how odds work and I don’t even own a calculator

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We’re hiring! Poli Sci & IR department at IE University in Madrid is hiring three tenure-track Assistant Professors, starting 1st of September 2027, in: Comparative Politics: lnkd.in/ePDfwjJB International Relations: lnkd.in/eDu5vGTf Political Economy: lnkd.in/eciDukTA 1/3

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One thing I continue to find remarkable is that European countries led by centrists keep doing things that the US had to elect a far-right regime to achieve (appointing right-wing client journalists to major networks, demolishing the university sector, etc)

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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Like the US government is clawing back all federal funding for cancer research but also parachuting resources into Belgium to make sure The Racist, PhD can continue working 60% of his time on new blog posts about how white supremacy is correct

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Adam Bursi @adambursi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Imagine having the Empire come save your one-year postdoc

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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

'Enlightenment Decentred': moving on from the centre-periphery paradigm and national Enlightenments to focus on connections and multi-directional transfer. Join us in Oxford, 30 Sep - 2 Oct: intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/enligh...

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Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

-clearly unqualified -a career built entirely on saying outrageous things to attract negative attention -funded and promoted by actors inherently hostile to universities in general -already lost one job for all of above that’s the lesson

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

academic freedom: to be clear, of course cofnas shouldn’t have lost his job he should never have had the job. happy to clear that up

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The IDF have destroyed even more of Tallouseh and Bani Hayyan since I shared the below images in July. Between 8-12 and 8-24, Sentinel-2 imagery shows the few remaining buildings in Tallouseh and a large amount of buildings in Bani Hayyan have been demolished. A large burned area is visible as well.

A Sentinel-2 satellite image from August 12 2026 shows an area of southern Lebanon centered on the villages of Bani Hayyan and Tallouseh. The IDF's "Yellow Line" is marked to the west of the villages and the village of Markaba is largely destroyed to the east. Tallouseh has a large amount of destruction visible and Bani Hayyan has a small portion showing demolished buildings.

A Sentinel-2 satellite image from August 24 2026 shows an area of southern Lebanon centered on the villages of Bani Hayyan and Tallouseh. The IDF's "Yellow Line" is marked to the west of the villages and the village of Markaba is largely destroyed to the east. The few remaining buildings undamaged in Tallouseh in the August 12 image have now been demolished and a large amount of buildings previously standing in Bani Hayyan are now destroyed. A large blackened area of about 60 acres is visible to the east of Tallouseh.

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Antoine Lilti - La promesse des Lumières L’émancipation par le savoir À paraître en novembre chez Flammarion

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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yes and no, and I am speaking from the past 5 months of a rather hellish experience of searching a full-time job in Europe (still seaerching!). On the one hand, HR should be able to see the actual skills behind the application rather than searching for a 150% fit that doesn't exist 1/3

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I guess everything is just Schmitt now

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Doing pop evo-psych explanations for modern political phenomena but wokely

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

For last week's newsletter I wrote a 3000-word essay on Charles de Gaulle, because there are no rules and no-one can stop me

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Bonnie Prince Charlie

Why does Charles de Gaulle, or “Le General”, loom so large in French public life?

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's quite galling to have senior faculty saying this kind of thing in the middle of this jobs and funding crisis. Many of us are effectively "banned" from doing our research simply because no-one will pay us to do it. Why should scarce resources get funnelled into Cofnas's race science project?

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.

soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.

I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unit

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If anyone needs an early modernist for lecturing, consultation, copy editing, or freelance work. I have a lot of experience and would appreciate any work sent my way for the next academic year! #EarlyModern Things are looking a little grim!

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Same old playbook: deny the story, spread disinformation, wait until the media has forgotten about it, finally admit wrongdoing and open investigation, then punish no-one.

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

From last week: an explainer on how France makes its laws, complete with increasingly confusing diagrams

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How are laws made in France?

Your guide to an often baffling legislature

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Happy to share this statement from the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, which responds to recent comments about my position as Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth Century Studies and work I supervise. Solidarity with all marginalised academics under attack by the peddlers of a culture war.

Statement from BSECS
Published on: 18th Aug 2026
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The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the work of scholars of the period from all backgrounds and career stages, working in all disciplines. The Society has recently reaffirmed its commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, and its opposition to bullying and harassment.
As such, members of the Society have been deeply concerned about the public hounding of academics by sections of the media and on social media platforms.
In the current 'culture wars', universities and their staff
- and Black scholars in particular - have been targeted to score political points about EDI, 'woke' culture and progressive causes. This tragically came to a head last week with the death of Prof Jason Arday, who had been subjected to weeks of hostile commentary and personal attacks.

A recent article in The Spectator typified this trend. In this article, one of our own colleagues and his doctoral students were attacked for their work on queer readings of fiction. We stand in solidarity with our colleague, and strongly object to any such attempt to bully scholars and students in our field.
Furthermore, we insist that the study of sexuality is a legitimate and urgent academic endeavour, not least because many of today's attitudes towards sex and gender have their roots in the eighteenth century.
Indeed, current scholarship on the eighteenth century is very much alive to the challenges faced by society today, in fields such as race, gender, class and the environment, among many others. The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will continue to support those who carry out this important work, and we wish to assure our members that the Society will stand up to any attempt to harass them.
The Executive Committee of BSECS

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This cat guarding the cheeses in Paris in 1918 (BnF)🗃️

b&w photo of the outside of a cheese shop with a table full of cheeses out the front and a tabby cat on a box underneath it

A close-up of the tabby cat on a box underneath a table

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Sam Heller | سام هيلر @abujamajem.com · 14/08/2026

@financialtimes.com's @rayajalabi.ft.com and Aditi Bhandari on how Israel is systematically destroying homes, essential infrastructure and agricultural land in occupied south Lebanon, apparently to prevent residents' future return: www.ft.com/content/25bc...

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Israel’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’

Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

V useful thread -- it's always a good indicator when someone uses "DEI" instead of "EDI" that they don't know anything about the actual policy and have instead just cooked their brains with US culture wars

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Gvt adopts a novel "forced death spiral" strategy for funding HE

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