Am 5. August 1943 wurden in Plötzensee viele Frauen des Widerstands ermordet: Hilde Coppi Liane Berkowitz Ursula Goetze Annie Krauß Klara Schabbel Else Imme Frida Wesolek Maria Terwiel Eva-Maria Buch Oda Schottmüller Cato Bontjes van Beek Rose Schlösinger Ingeborg Kummerow.

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

Fortunately there's been a lot of attention in the press recently on the importance of thorough academic peer review and examination standards, so I'm sure the same newspapers doing that reporting will be calling for more funding for it 🙃

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 21h ago

As thousands of research academics are made redundant the whole system of free/cheap peer review will collapse.

The sheer number of people dying in ICE custody is terrifying. Of course, this is fascist, but let's not forget that Nazis also drew from Jim Crow laws and hung out with American eugenicists. These ideas keep traversing the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans back and forth.

I'd also say you don't understand much about PhD supervision if you think there is an inalienable link between supervison and outcome quality. Poorly supervised PhDs can be excellent; well-supervised PhDs can still be poor.

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

"Kult der Härte" ist ein gutes Stichwort - und übrigens auch eine relevante Parallele zu den 1920er und 1930er Jahren, wo dem Faschismus ebenfalls ein nicht nur von rechts gepflegter Diskurs der notwendigen Härte voranging.

Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik@blaetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ultrarechte Parteien werden nicht nur stärker, viele radikalisieren sich auch nach und nach – oder sogar rasend schnell. Und eine entscheidende Rolle spielt dabei ein Kult der Härte, der die schräge Allianz aus Neuem Faschismus und Ultraliberalen fest zusammenhält: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...

Dear hivemind, can anyone with access to Dutch Pamphlets Online get me a copy of this one? Knuttel 6475. Copie translaet uyt het Portogijs, waerin verhaelt wort de Vrede dewelcke ghemaeckt is tusschen de onderdanen vanden koningh van Hispanien... (1649) www.degruyterbrill.com/database/dup...

huh...

hunchback from sardinia@dogfromsinope.bsky.social · 2mo ago

what's funny about trump's 38% "floor" of support is that its literally the same exact figure as the floor of support that got daniel ortega into power in 2006, where he remains to this day...

You should be embarassed to be in middle age and doing this “my dad could beat up your dad” type shit. Unfortunately this seems to be the majority of American middle aged men bsky.app/profile/down...

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

Die neuen Grundlagen der Klassengesellschaft.

We’ve moved from income world to wealth world

Passive wealth gains increasingly matter more than earnings for one’s standing in society

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"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."

London's first month without rain

Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?

londoncentric.media

The last two or three times I've been to business meetings in Germany I have told my clients "be careful, because whatever has gone wrong with Britain it started with the trains"

David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d ago

My initial view of German trains is they aren't just bad, but utterly catastrophic, sweeping cancellations far in excess of any reasonable system, and everyone just shrugging that this is normal. As a symbol of a fading economic giant it is perfect.

Now available in Open Access! 🔓 A special issue of "Geschichte und Gesellschaft" (@ggjournal.bsky.social) on "Gender Regimes", edited by Christina von Hodenberg (GHIL) and Sylvia Walby (Royal Holloway, UoL), which brings together historians, sociologists, & political scientists. 1/3

So einfach ist es dann leider doch nicht. Selbst die DDR – nicht gerade als neoliberales Musterland bekannt – hat sich als „Leistungsgesellschaft“ verstanden. Ich empfehle dringend: Nina Verheyen – Die Erfindung der Leistung. www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/nina-ve...

Die Erfindung der Leistung

Unsere Gesellschaft ist eine Leistungsgesellschaft. Aber was meinen wir, wenn wir von "Leistung" sprechen? Wie wurde Leistung zu einer vermeintlich objektiven, individuellen

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Christian Eichfeld@ceichfeldleipzig.bsky.social · 2d ago

Der ganze Bullshit neoliberalen Populismus in einem Tweet, der übrigens genauso gut aus dem FDP -Parteipräsidium stammen könnte. #Leistungsfetischismus

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

AI companies are trying to do this, but with human knowledge. It's why they're destroying the books. Wipe out our ability to think for ourselves, then own the means of thinking.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Job Opportunity! Yale University - Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, U.S. Cultural History and Cultural Studies Seeks specialist of nineteenth- and/or twentieth-century cultural history of the United States, nationally and transnationally. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70183/y...

'one of the more deleterious clichés of British higher education has been the...assumption that international students can be defined by a series of deficits, by the assumption that they lack English language abilities, critical thinking skills, and familiarity with British academic conventions.'

Where does the international student deficit really lie?

International students are often treated as financial assets rather than pedagogic partners. Sumeya Loonat sets out four lenses for moving beyond the deficit model

wonkhe.com

Few people understand that the UK university system is in crisis, but even fewer realise that many of the people losing their jobs are amongst the best in their fields

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 3d ago

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

A longer post in this weekly series - a tribute to Carlo Ginzburg, and his approach of the historian as a detective, with a particular focus on his important essay 'Clues'. "The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’" progressivegeographies.com/2026/08/02/t...

The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “…

progressivegeographies.com

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

I never tire of such things.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 3d ago

Hundreds of wartime letters from a man to his wife showed up at an office in 2022. Little was known of the life they lived — until now.

Swooping in to post your fabulous interview with the day job: www.unseenhistories.com/humans-a-mon...

How to Make a Monster with Surekha Davies

Surekha Davies's new book sweeps back through human history in a quest to find the monsters and tell us what they mean

unseenhistories.com

Ich hab schon ewig ein Abo & kann das nur empfehlen.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4d ago

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I don't think there's ever been much of an intellectual justification for this kind of culture, to me the aggro Q&A is pretty transparently service to inert nerd masculinity and serves no other function

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!

‘I bought this before he went crazy’ sticker on a 1938 VW Beetle