iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Psychobabble explanations from pollsters and psychologists when the real failures are political

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Christophe Chartreux @libreavanttout.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

La jeunesse a du talent !

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Sophie Tlk @sophietlk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Les flics qui essaient de s'infiltrer dans les groupes Snapchat de lycéens : on en parle ? En plus de puer le racisme, ils sont ridicules ! Ils sont grillés à 1000 bornes les 7/20. Par contre le "Bismillah c'est les ténèbres", je vais m'en faire une pancarte et un tee-shirt.

Flic infiltré dans un groupe Snapchat de Lycéens, sous le pseudo Mamadou, et qui dit "Salut, Bismillah c'est les ténèbres"

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David Dufresne @davduf.net · 06/10/2026

Place de la Bastille, à l’instant. Manif sauvage. Les automobilistes klaxonnent d’encouragement. #Lycees

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Samuel Hayat @samuelhayat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Le 1er octobre 2026 a donc vu le plus haut nombre d'interpellations de l'histoire récente. Il faut remonter au terrible 17 octobre 1961 pour dépasser ce nombre. Et près de 90% de mineurs. C'est une répression inédite, inouïe, et qui révèle un pouvoir en guerre contre la jeunesse. Force à elle

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

While Glucksmann is still seen as the favourite, he may have hurt his chances this weekend after footage emerged of him making sexist remarks about primary rival Ségolène Royal. Faure may also be bolstered by unexpected enthusiasm among the youth movement of the Socialist Party.

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For anyone watching the last Socialist debate, a primer on the candidates and the stakes of this primary:

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Samuel Harrison @samharrison1812.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some Sunday reading: this week, the "Socialist pole" in France will hold the first round of its primary vote, which is likely to push Raphaël Glucksmann and Olivier Faure through to the second round. But is it all a waste of time?

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A primary contest for a quaternary party

Five bald socialists argue over a comb that Jean-Luc Mélenchon is holding

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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

Le sous-titre est génial : "Cinq socialistes chauves se disputent un peigne que tient Jean-Luc Mélenchon"

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nemo @whynotnemo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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

En effet -- que l'on vote ou non pour les fascistes, on aboutit à des résultats fascistes...

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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 👻Boo!rsi👻 @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 👻Boo!rsi👻 @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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