A new Israeli report confirms what Palestinians, the UN, aid workers, & experts have said for years--not to mention anyone vaguely conscious who isn’t racist--apartheid Israeli has pursued a relentless policy of deliberate starvation as part of its genocide. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

btw! for those who’ve been asking, the recordings from the Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group seminar series on Adorno & Communism—with Chris O’Kane & myself—are up on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

BREAKING: Humanitarian evacuation centers in Lebanon overflow due to war crimes by Israel.

NEW: Lebanon is Gaza 2.0. That’s what Israeli ministers are saying in their own words. Believe them. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...

Meanwhile, the international press is using Israel’s fake language & euphemisms. These are all headlines from the international media. It’s not a ground operation’ or a ‘security buffer zone’. It’s an INVASION. These are war crimes. 2/

This is Beirut currently. Each plume of smoke is a separate airstrike.

Dr. Nick Posegay@nposegay.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pakistan: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire Iran: Lebanon is part of the ceaefire US: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire Lebanon: Lebanon is part of the ceasefire Israel: We bombed Lebanon 100 times in 10 minutes

✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨ Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9 Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Holy shit. This is like if a foreign country bombed MIT. Sharif University is the top science and engineering institution in Iran, and one of the top in the world. Absolutely unconscionable www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Iran’s dismisses Trump’s Hormuz deadline; 2 killed in Israel’s Haifa

Iranian officials dismiss Trump's ultimatum, condemn latest threats as 'incitement to war crimes'.

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Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“As B’Tselem showed in its 2025 report Our Genocide, the dehumanisation of Palestinians is a long-term process. The debate is not about facts. It is about recognising Israel for what it is: a state that systematically kills Palestinians with impunity & erodes international law & basic moral norms.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novak

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

📰 Excavation at the 6th-century-BC temple at Samikon, Greece finds inscribed bronze sheets, possibly public and sacred documents, indicating the temple was an archive for official or religious records. 🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via Greek Reporter greekreporter.com/2026/03/10/g...

New Excavations Suggest Greece’s Samikon Temple May Have Served as an Ancient Archive - GreekReporter.com

Greece excavation at Samikon suggests a sixth-century BC temple hall may have stored sacred or official records in antiquity.

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Jetzt LIVE: Historiker Quinn Slobodian bei Jung & Naiv u.a. über Elons "Muskismus" & die Zukunft des Kapitalismus youtu.be/3Mzr_g8WQmA (englisch)

Historiker Quinn Slobodian über Elon Musk & den Angriff auf die Dmeokratie - Jung & Naiv: Folge 813

YouTube video by Jung & Naiv

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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Soon in print! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

GUYS GUYS GUYS my incredible colleague, Antoine Borrut, just texted me this pic, the BOOK IS IN HAND, which means you too can have it soon! Astrology and History in Early Islam, coming out with Edinburgh!

The first event of the semester: a seminar on Machiavelli, organised by the Political Philosophy Student Club at Istanbul University. The seminar will focus on a comparative study of the dedicatory letters of The Prince, Discourses on Livy, The Art of War, and Florentine Histories.

Ateş Uslu@atesuslu.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Nearing the end of a long sabbatical (16 months!), and preparing my return to Istanbul... It seems that I will be focusing on the 14th–18th centuries next semester: a course on political thought in that period,and a series of activities on Machiavelli (including at least a seminar and a conference).

Very pleasing to talk early modern news, information, and communication (and two excellent books by Rachel Midura & Joad Raymond Wren) with @moonjets.bsky.social on this week's LRB podcast. @lrb.co.uk

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 6mo ago

On the podcast: @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to explore how information (and disinformation) circulated in early modern Europe, and whether our predecessors were any better than we are at sifting fake news from fact. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Huaping Lu-Adler and I are organizing another Zoom talk series on Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy this semester! It's open to the public; please spread the word / consider attending. The schedule, registration info, and recordings of (most) past talks are linked below. #philsky #academicsky

Update: It is now closer to c.300,000 words of new Pocock

Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー@tomaashby.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I am currently editing c.50,000 words of writings unknown to scholars by J.G.A. Pocock on the Second World War, historiography, political ideas, republicanism, and more for publication next year (with all permissions and family blessing). I look forward to sharing in due course.

‘The co-founder of Palestine Action has won a legal challenge to the home secretary’s decision to ban the group under anti-terrorism laws’!! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate

US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

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“What does it mean to not allow a single drop of fuel to reach a country?”..“It affects the transportation of food, food production, public transportation, the functioning of hospitals, institutions of all kinds, schools, economic production, tourism. How do our vital systems function without fuel?”

johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Good article on the misery that the US is inflicting on everyday people in Cuba. What Trump is doing is just an intensification of six decades of US economic warfare. apnews.com/article/cuba...

‘When he was accused of using Hegel’s name as a “pseudonym” for his own opinions, he agreed enthusiastically: “Bien vu!”’ Jonathan Rée on the philosopher and translator of Hegel Alexandre Kojève. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jonathan Rée · We are all layabouts now: Kojève v. Hegel

Alexandre Kojève described his book on Hegel as ‘very bad’, and he had a point. His take on the Phenomenology of...

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Nach Fanon fußt Kapitalismus auf militärischer Unterwerfung, rassistischer Entmenschlichung und Ausplünderung der Kolonisierten. Diese Gewalt frisst sich in Körper, Psyche, soziale Beziehungen. Tipp für Samstag: Fanon-Workshop mit Philipp Dorestal in Kiel > stadtteilladen.gaarden.net/2026/01/09/p...

"That’s why I hate New Year’s. I want every morning to be a new year’s for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest." 🫡😤

Stuart Elden@stuartelden.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’ - translated by Alberto Toscano for Viewpoint viewpointmag.com/2015/01/01/i...

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

Very interesting talk and cool overall project and a great listen for the holidays, imho. Happy holidays!

Centre for Philosophical Studies of History@cpshoulu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New video on our Youtube channel! Watch the talk "Reading in Historiography and Iterative Measurement: Atheism, Forgery, Cannibalism and Deification" that Fons Dewulf gave in our joint research seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7acs.... Happy watching and holidays, everyone!