🗃 Fun to see my MA work on Soviet food (particularly dairy) production being discussed. A post on Professor Elena Korchmina's Telegram channel (по-русски): t.me/economhistor... #SovietHistory

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Борьба за качество VS борьба за вкус? Особенности позднесоветской молочной промышленности Сегодня поделюсь статьёй про так любимое мною молоко: Donald Morard III, Communist Quality: Dairy Production ...

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the "Thucydides Trap" shows how bad history can succeed if it serves a purpose

China's Favorite American Idea

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I was consulted recently by an editor of an interdisciplinary journal who was ready to retract a paper based on hallucinated citations. It’s a real research integrity problem, and it’s arriving in humanities and social sciences publishing. (It’s already been a problem in STEM.)

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

you are literally the one guy who isn't allowed to complain about this

Reuters@reuters.com · 7mo ago

Vladimir Putin described the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei as murder and said it violated all the norms of human morality and international law reut.rs/4cSIObM

Should Canada have won? Nah. This gold will motivate the next generations of American hockey players. It's amazing. And this stupid conservative cultural moment will die. Hockey will continue.

I was born in MI, hockey is a religion in my house. Myself and another member of my family played Hockey at a high level. The fact that a US Olympic squad, made up largely of Michiganders from the Detroit suburbs, partied with Kash Patel is as heartbreaking as it is unsurprising.

my new piece in FP: The US keeps telling people to rise up against their regimes, then leaving them to die. Hungary, Iraq, Syria...now Iran? I try to offer an explanation for this very consistent pattern. (gift link) foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/16/t...

A Long History of Betrayal

Why Washington keeps encouraging foreign uprisings—and then walking away.

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We have a new, excellent post up by @donnie-m.bsky.social on Estonia as a space of economic experimentation in the late Soviet period www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...

A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism

Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...

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Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!

A little something I wrote on the role of Estonia as a "laboratory" space for experimenting with new forms of economic management in the Soviet Union, particularly in regards to the food system. Thank you @peripheralhist.bsky.social! www.peripheralhistories.co.uk/post/a-labor...

A Laboratory of Economic Reform: Estonian Experiments with Agro-Industrial Associations in the Era of Late Socialism

Donald MorardIn 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle, in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for t...

peripheralhistories.co.uk

Deadline for submissions is Nov 15, 2025. We are keen on a range of presentation, panel, workshop and art formats and welcome new ideas. In regard to panels, we prioritise transregional and global debates and dialogues For more details, see the full call ruta-association.org/conference/r...

Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change - Ruta

For many years, canonized expertise on the RUTA region(s) has been produced from the outside, in particular through a Western academic gaze. This gaze has

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Despite all the negative things about academia/grad school (dealing with AI, funding cuts, some people being snobs), I do think being able to travel and look at old documents in archives, museums, and libraries (and then write about it) is a pretty rad job

Are you a PhD student/ECR working on contemporary European history? If so, consider submitting to the @conteurohistory.bsky.social article prize. Deadline 12 September. I strongly encourage submissions from those working on Central/Eastern Europe & the USSR! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.

Man in Business Suit Levitating@dfeldman.org · last yr.

Oh my god

Love how this book describes Ottawa: what if like Moscow, but without all the interesting stuff?

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

insanity. but insane people create global orders too open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

Geopolitics, But Make It Dumb and Personal

Why we should think seriously about Trump’s neo-feudal order—even if he doesn't.

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Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.

I am finally free from the bird app