Just published! ✨ A new translation of @jenniferisasi.bsky.social’s lesson: doi.org/10.46430/phen0131 We’re grateful to Natasha Nunn + Sarah Severson for their translation. Thank you to Kiran Mohammadi-Williams + Marii Nyrop for their reviews, and to @cosovschi.bsky.social for editing.

Building a Digital Exhibition with CollectionBuilder and the Internet Archive

In this lesson, you will learn how to use CollectionBuilder to create and customize a digital exhibition featuring digital objects hosted on another platform, such as the Internet Archive.

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new William Gibson book opening line dropped

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

Personne de gauche : Je ne veux pas voter Mélenchon car [1000 raisons]. LFI : Égoïste ! On vote non pour un candidat, mais pour un programme. Personne de gauche : Très bien, gardons le programme et proposez un autr... LFI : Le programme s'incarne en Mélenchon qui est le plus brillant, le pl...

📰 The book "European Perspectives on Transition", edited by Pablo Sánchez León e @cosovschi.bsky.social, includes a chapter by Rita Luís about the transition to democracy in Portugal. 👉 www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Sanche... #25deAbril #50Anos25Abril

I don’t get it, is he threatening to wage war on Iran, which is exactly what he’s been doing for more than a month now? Is he threatening to intervene specifically in the Strait, which is exactly what he’s already acknowledged he cannot fully do?

Politico@politico.com · 4mo ago

Trump threatens military action in Strait of Hormuz if Iran challenges new blockade

Happy to share that our ERC project Brokers-of-NAM now has a website: brokers-of-nam.splet.arnes.si We'll be sharing news and updates there, while also sharing historical datasets and exploratory analyses and visualizations on our brand new GitHub repository.

Artemis II crew returning to Earth.

I'm looking for two postdocs/research fellows (2.5 years, 100%) to join the #ERC project EMPSOLID. Preference for candidates with expertise on the Caucasus and/or Central Asia🌏, but applications focusing on other regions of the Romanov Empire are also encouraged.

A freylekhn Pesakh for those who celebrate, even in spite of the tremendous tragedies in which we as Jews find ourselves caught up these days.

American and Israeli adventurism will cost us billions but sure let’s keep calling them friends and allies. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Top Brussels official urges Europeans to work from home and drive less

Energy commissioner says the oil crisis triggered by Iran war will bring lengthy upheaval, in a speech reminiscent of the Covid pandemic.

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Je suppose que les 22,5 % de l’extrême zemmouriste dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris s'expliquent par « le désœuvrement et l'abandon de la gauche dans un contexte de forte désindustrialisation » ?

Someone needs to send an ambulance to X

If anyone has any hints about trustworthy organizations to make donations to the Lebanese, please let me know. Have a nice week.

🔎 Vous cherchez une occasion de perfectionner vos compétences en rédaction technique ? Notre édition francophone recherche des propositions de nouvelles leçons originales ou de traductions. 🔗 tinyurl.com/aac-2026-info 📩 20 avril 2026 #AppelAContributions

The chief of European diplomacy celebrating the use of political assassination as foreign policy.

Kaja Kallas@kajakallas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The death Ali Khamenei is a defining moment in Iran’s history. What comes next is uncertain. But there is now an open path to a different Iran, one that its people may have greater freedom to shape (1/2)

✨📢 Appel à contributions Notre revue francophone recherche des propositions de nouvelles leçons originales ou de traductions. 🔹 Développez vos compétences en rédaction technique 🔹 Transformez la pratique de la recherche en enseignement 🔗 tinyurl.com/aac-2026-info 🗓️ le 20 avril 2026

A word about myself for those of you who might decide to follow my updates. I'm a historian of socialist Yugoslavia and the Cold War. I was born in Buenos Aires, but I've been living in Europe for about 10 years. I've been mostly based in Paris, and I've recently relocated to Ljubljana.

Very happy to see this translation out!

Programming Historian@proghist.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just published! 🎉 A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson: doi.org/10.46430/phe... We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation. Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.

This has a name. It starts with a “c” and ends with “olonialism”.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"

This is like me saying that I am closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela, literally nobody cares.

Kaja Kallas@kajakallas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela. The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)

Remember today as the day in which any potential sympathy for Ukraine in the global South was forever lost, and when the EU finally lost any moral ground it had to support Kyiv against Russian aggression.

✨📢 Call for Proposals Our English edition invites proposals for new original lessons or translations. 🔹 Empower readers with knowledge of a digital method or tool 🔹 Hone your technical writing skills 🔹 Transform your research practice into teaching Learn more: tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog

Out now: Volume on European perspectives on the concept of "Transition", edited by Pablo Sánchez León and Agustín @cosovschi.bsky.social. @marcboc83.bsky.social and I wrote about how Germans spoke about the upheaval in the GDR/East Germany since 1989. www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Sanche...

European Perspectives on Transition: A Comparative and Transnational Approach to the History of a Political and Social Concept | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Author copies have arrived! The book is demonstrably real! Official publication date in about two weeks but I've heard it will already be available at ENIUGH next week. Check out the full info over at: lup.nl/publications...

Yugoslav partisan Rodoljub Colaković with spouse artist Milica Zorić in Croatia in 1939. Taking a break from fighting fascists in Spain before fighting Nazis in the Second World War.

I’m thrilled to announce that I was awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to carry out my project “Brokers of Nonalignment: Biographical and Network Approches to the Making of the Third World” for the next five years.

Friends, my book is available for pre-order! It's really real! The official publication date is October 14, but if you order from the UNC Press website (uncpress.org/.../978146.....) you can get 30% off with the code 01SOCIAL30 and get your book 2-4 weeks early!

I’m not a fan of Hannah Arendt but I do appreciate the reminder that a life without empathy is not a life worth living

Herman Lambers@herman61.bsky.social · last yr.

We are in the middle of it.

In the Balkans: Stojan Novaković and Nicolae Iorga.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

Bluesky history enjoyers: who would you say are the most prominent examples of historians who were also major historical actors? The ones that jump out at me are Walter Rodney, Adolphe Theirs, and W.E.B Du Bois