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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 10h

I'm casting around a bit for a good focused piece on the value and purpose of historiography. There's always a chapter of Jordanova etc to fall back on, but does anyone use anything a bit more spicy?

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm looking forward to visiting Vassar this week - perfect autumnal timing! In fact I am going to talk about two other enslaved young women's experiences of sexual violence as well as Adelaide's based on their own narration of them in some excruciating but very important primary source material.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had a lot of fun speaking with Luc Bulten about his new book! Historians and students interested in how colonial subjects could leverage colonial institutions in service to their own interests will find *so* much food for thought here 🗃️

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Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026)

New Books in Early Modern History · Episode

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How to be effortlessly dramatic and silly

A tabby cat sat on a chair with his legs stretched out dramatically

A tabby cat sat on a chair with his whole body stretched out dramatically

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Lives, Land, and Labour: A Social History of Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka with Luc Bulten (Brill, 2026)

New Books in Early Modern History · Episode

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Timeline cleanse (sound on!)

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The AfD, the RN, LFI, Reform: the rise of parties across Europe that don't take Putin seriously should concern us all. As things stand, there's a good chance we'll have a run-off between Le Pen and Mélenchon, which would force French voters to choose between two pro-Putin candidates

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Jean-Luc Mélenchon will win young French voters – until they realise the size of his Russia blind spot | Alexander Hurst

La France Insoumise gives voice to the left-behind, and progressives approve. But many recoil from a leftwing leader whose foreign policy is stuck in 1985, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hur...

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@jakedyble.bsky.social's new card game, Fortuna, is launching on Kickstarter soon! I've played this game *many* times over the years – I can vouch that medieval/early modern, maritime and commercial historians (and others!) will have *lots* of fun with it. Sign up to be notified when it launches! 🗃️

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Coming soon: Fortuna

A light strategic card game set in the glittering world of maritime commerce. Trade. Bluff. Run Risks. Retire in Style! Launching 2027.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If France and Germany capitulated to this (which I'm confident they won't for many reasons), you just know Trump would eventually impose an export ban anyway and leave Europe high and dry. There's zero incentive to yield to Trump's threats these days, and everybody has finally learned that lesson

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trust, confidentiality and transparency rules out all the major LLMs, which themselves may have irreparably undermined the trust of researchers in these models more broadly. I'm not convinced this goal is attainable (leaving aside whether it should even be pursued)

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I realise this is a boring take, but the devil is going to be in the detail, and I'm inclined to wait for more information before I offer my thoughts on this.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

people in/near bristol and into/violently against tarot/AI: we are hosting a series of events this year on “risk”, tarot and AI as part of my university research fellowship get in touch if you’d like to be involved

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TAROT / RISK / AI
a series of events hosted at the University of Bristol
November 4 2026: discussion event open to anyone interested in Tarot / Al

contact: william.pooley@
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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Claire and Ben have done an extraordinary job in bringing together so many wonderful scholars for this volume, and it's a privilege to have been able to contribute an essay myself. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the volume in print in March! 🗃️

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I really, really want to give Burnham a chance to turn things around, but the inflationary demand-side sticking plaster didn't fix the supply-side problem last time, and it isn't going to fix it this time either

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre... 23 original essays & 150 illustrations Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression. It is a life philosophy that asks us to be curious before we are certain, to leave room for an explanation, and to remember that the person on our screen has a life beyond the moment we are watching."

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Are there usually so many utterly unhinged speeches at the UN General Assembly? Maybe I'm forgetting, but it feels like this year has been especially "yikes"-inducing

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“so will, how did you get into marking google maps with all the scatological folklore landmarks mentioned in academic literature?” well

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/09/2026

Think it shows both the confused position of the govt and the relative powers of new/old media that the PM won't speak to The Sun but still uses the CSAM & disinformation app owned by the guy who advocates for the overthrow of the government.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NEW: The big story is not Chinese EVs everywhere —but Chinese EV factories everywhere. And its not just Chinese firms going out. Our CM-FDI database tracks every foreign Solar, Wind, EV and battery manufacturing plant built in 21st century. cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There are lots of issues regarding LLMs to discuss, but this is the fundamental one that should have stopped all else in its tracks: they are an unprecedented breach of intellectual property rights, and society cannot be ordered around pretending that LLMs are a special case worthy of exemption

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The link to this is going straight into my LLM policy for the course I'm currently developing!

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If anyone has reading they'd recommend on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mombasa, I'm all ears!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Netanyahu "Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Did any of the genocidal leaders ask people to leave so they could come in? Of course not." Netanyahu openly compares his actions to Nazis and all the genocidal leaders. His own words.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 24/09/2026

Built a "toy model" to illustrate a major problem with the "AI will kill all humans" #AIpocalypse brouhaha. Namely: at least for the foreseeable future, a hostile or indifferent #AI that tried to get rid of us puny humans... would also make *itself* extinct. jmkorhonen.github.io/models/kill_...

A graph of system trajectory of "Kill all humans" toy model, exploring what might happen if big bad AI would actually try to kill all humans, or even a significant portion of us.

It shows a jump in autonomous AI-controlled industrial capacity, but human industrial capacity it all is dependent upon drops fast (because the stupid clanker killed us) and what the AI has isn't enough to maintain its own existence. End result: mutual extinction.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ll always love this

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

CfP: 'Island Empires and Pacific Power, 1688–1995' symposium taking place in Adelaide in June 2027 🗃️

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this is weird because I have never heard of the song or artist until just this second

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When historians (hopefully) look back on how the early decades of this millennium have played out, one of the phenomena economic historians will surely highlight is how the West actively rejected the value of research and human capital just as China leaned into developing its university sector

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In our latest Current Debates essay entitled "The Marine Origins of Contemporary Warfare", Rahul Govind discusses how imperial practices couched in international law and Western notions of the 'right of conquest' derives from prize law. doi.org/10.1080/0308... @jich.bsky.social

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The Marine Origins of Contemporary Warfare

I would like to draw a genealogy of Donald Trump's rhetoric and military action in Venezuela and Iran, in particular, of how the acquisition of the resources of another country through a military o...

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