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Hey world, remember when you thought this was awesome? (Which, by the way, it was). Yeah well she's been suspended for a week now because of it; it's coloniser rules and forms of expression allowed only, indigenous people must only be angry in white ways. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

Nou, kom er maar in @unileiden.bsky.social : is @WoinActie potentieel gewelddadig?

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Ik herken mijn universiteit niet meer. Praesidium libertatis tot aan deur blijkbaar. En dat eigenlijk niet eens. Even geen woorden voor het feit dat er zo over ons wordt geschreven binnen de universiteit omdat we om democratisering vragen. www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/unive...

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

We are looking for a new colleague!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Just don't risk it. Don't go.

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

submitted 39 days ago • 126 comments

URGENT: Take Action to Defend the NEH To the Members of the Medieval Academy of America: As a service to our members, we will occasionally share with you calls to action from organizations with whom we are affiliated. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/urgent-take-...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Also, the only rational retort to this, that responds to material reality, is “Well, then we’re fucked, aren’t we?” “Vote Tory, because we’re fucked anyway!” (100-seat majority ensues)

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'Bene valere te cupimus' - we desire that you be well. This might be the only known handwriting of a Roman emperor. A note on a papyrus with a petition from a bishop asking for help against raiders. The note in the upper right corner might have been written by Theodosius II. P.Leid. II Z, ca. 430

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

Not sure I've ever seen a more obvious picture to remind us that police exist to protect the property of the ruling class, not the rights of the people.

submitted 75 days ago • 66 comments

The UK university sector is on fire. This is happening virtually everywhere -- job cuts, hiring freezes, department closures, PhD funding programmes... full blown crisis

submitted 72 days ago • 13 comments

I saw NZCTU President Richard Wagstaff at Parliament on his way up to the Labour caucus room last night after the Privileges Committee ended. Missed the opportunity to ask him if he was there to plan a General Strike to support workers being harmed by this Government. All out! Everyone out!✊ #nzpol

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 72 days ago • 2660 comments

The new McCarthyism proceeds apace. To be clearer than the NYT headline: a Palestinian legal scholar was accused by a shady substack publication that uses AI of being a terrorist & Yale immediately suspended her with no investigation into veracity or due process of any kind. Fun times!!!

submitted 71 days ago • 9 comments

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: [email protected]. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Team! We are looking for a new permanent medievalist-Latinist to work with us at St Andrews! #medievalsky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD844/a...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

And here's an interactive map with all strikes in higher education. So impressive! woinactie.blogspot.com/p/stakingen-...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Whatever else this moment is, it is not medieval. The 21st century needs to own its own darkness. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

Zorg dat jongeren een opleiding kunnen kiezen op basis van hun eigen interesses en ambities, adviseert de Onderwijsraad aan het kabinet. En stuur dus niet te veel op de arbeidsmarkt.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

doing cutesy hypotheticals around the electoral effects of invading and annexing an entire country is everything that's wrong with the New York Times, elite media in this country, and you in particular total inability to consider the horror of what's being proposed, fuck off with this shit

submitted 94 days ago • 52 comments

America was given a choice between a lawless, amoral monster and a qualified, intelligent, joyful woman of color—and it chose the monster. We need to reckon with the reality of what that says about so many of us here. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/america-ch...

submitted 96 days ago • 1449 comments

Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

submitted 98 days ago • 22 comments

De Eppocalyps is begonnen

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Repeat: no surprises.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Pretty telling that the comparison here is “someone scolding you via a video you saw on Facebook that you found annoying” and “complete disregard for legal protections and long standing peaceful cooperation between nations”. It’s actually pretty accurate to how conservatives view the world

submitted 98 days ago • 159 comments

Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.

submitted 100 days ago • 308 comments

Iedere seconde dat 'fatsoenlijke' partijen als VVD en NSC nog langer met deze clown regeren, maken ze zichzelf onsterfelijk belachelijk.

submitted 102 days ago • 71 comments

Petition to save Ancient History at #Cardiff. chng.it/cHf9k27cXK

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Le même inhalateur coûte 3,58€ en France grâce à la sécurité sociale

submitted 112 days ago • 28 comments

Job in medieval Irish history at Trinity College Dublin #academicsky #irishhistory #history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ659/a...

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University www.change.org/p/save-cardi...

submitted 113 days ago • 14 comments

I know how tough it is out there, but we do have a fully funded PhD scholarship available here at CCCU, with a UKRI-linked stipend and great staff to support you. If you want to pursue a PhD in History, Archaeology, or Heritage; consider applying. We're a friendly bunch and Canterbury is lovely. 🗃️

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

Would you like to be the next Chichele Professor of Medieval History @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social? Applications now open.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Based on scientific evidence: Immigration does not increase crime rates.

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments

The PhD network I'm on is looking for a researcher to be based at Bristol, working on Carolingian literature during the period of transition from manuscript to early printed book – application deadline 27 Jan 2025. More details below. Spread the word! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Do get in touch if you want to know more than what the ad says!

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

www.uu.nl/organisatie/... When suddenly (REALLY suddenly): a 15-month teaching gig at our lovely Medieval Studies group in Utrecht. - Dutch = pretty much a CSQN - early middle ages preferred - the short deadline in no way implies that we already have a candidate in mind so go for it! #MedievalSky

submitted 124 days ago • 2 comments

UU is hiring my replacement for the remainder of my contract as I will be moving to Nijmegen to join @svenmeeder.bsky.social’s SOLEMNE-project. Please do get in touch if you have any questions about the position, your potential future colleagues (who are great) and/or teaching at UU!

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Just returned from a great mini-trip with the SOLEMNE team to the fantastic "Erbe der Antike" exhibition in the Diözesanmuseum #Paderborn (closing soon), combined with a private tour at #Corvey. As a bonus, we stumbled on an outstanding public lecture by Prof. Karl Ubl (@capitularia.bsky.social)!

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

One of the sad duties of historians of fascism is to constantly remind the world that the WHOLE APPEAL of fascism to a mass audience was “More for you, less for Them”. Who “They” were could be manipulated as required.

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

In 2023 Elsevier's publishing arm made a profit of 38%.

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Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.

submitted 135 days ago • 12 comments

“Amtrak sucks” “the DMV sucks” “public housing sucks” :::taps the sign::: what’s crazy is that enshittification now produces a parallel process for private services

submitted 140 days ago • 6 comments

My God this salary. I love the British Library, I really do. I worked in the Dept. of Medieval Manuscripts as a curatorial fellow & then as a research associate; I have spent hundreds of hours there as a researcher. And I get it, this is the going rate for such positions in the UK. But Jesus Christ.

submitted 140 days ago • 65 comments

Syrian intellectual and long-time dissident, Yassin al-Haj Saleh, in an interview with Reset Dialogues on Civilizations. www.resetdoc.org/story/yassin...

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments