One of the magical moments when researching a project is finding important, thought provoking, and inspiring ideas in the least likely of places. My next major project is looking at the African soldiers in Burma during World War II.

Grades are submitted! Now I don't have to get out of my PJs until August! Though it will look strange when I present at @worldhistoryassn.bsky.social in June wearing my Golden Girls PJs.

Perfect Strangers: Bronson Pinchot's Dance of Joy

ALT: Perfect Strangers: Bronson Pinchot's Dance of Joy

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Join me, the day after tomorrow on Reddit for an #askmeanything

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YouTube video by Roy Doron, Historian of Africa

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Join me for an Ask Me Anything on Reddit on May 6th at 11 AM Eastern!

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YouTube video by Roy Doron, Historian of Africa

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Meanwhile, Netanyahu's plane is circling around the Mediterranean. No way to know if he's on it or maybe he just put his lunatic wife and shitstain of a son on board.

@degruyterbrill.bsky.social is a great publisher, and I am proud to have partnered with them to found and edit, along with @cthomasjamh.bsky.social, the Journal of African Military History. I'm pretty sure the person who made this display is also our contact at Brill.

De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies@dgb-mem.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Impression from the 72nd Annual Meeting of the #Renaissance Society of America, which took place in San Francisco this year. #RenSA26 #DeGruyterBrill

I regularly invite people to talk to my classes to discuss their work. Always an engaging time. Students appreciate when scholars take an interest in their education and scholars love talking about their work not to a mirror.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 6mo ago

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Just a reminder that we're hiring a #tenuretrack in #polisci to start in the Fall semester. Please apply or forward to someone who might be interested. #academic #academicjob #professor

Any #politicalscience #polisci people want to come be my colleague? #academicjobs #professor

Just one look at the map of this "plan" and you realize that this is a barely passing grade for an undergraduate poli sci or urban planning project, so who would have thought a project dreamed up by an imbecile nepo baby (Kushner) would be in any way feasible or even sane?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo ago

“President Trump has extravagant plans for the Gaza Strip. The only problem is that they bear no connection to the grim realities on the ground,” Hussein Ibish argues.

Just had a colleague submit a course proposal that was entirely AI generated slop. A history course with no history methodology, no actual content, but hey... he had a catchy title "Coded Kingdoms". Is this the end result of embracing AI? And he's of course on the university's new AI taskforce.

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It is exhausting to sit in meetings a/b “AI” & to have colleagues who’ve got nothing but logical-fallacy-laden big tech pro-AI talking points basically project on you their own laziness & malpractice. Care to see my no-genAI policy, bud? It’s got dozens of carefully considered rationales & footnotes

In Germany they are giving away 4000 tons potatoes because of a record harvest. In the US they would have destroyed them to protect corporate profits.

4,000 tons of potatoes to be given away for free  - The Berliner

Berliner Morgenpost and Ecosia are giving away an enormous crop of potatoes for free to Berliners to save them from waste.

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To be honest, most of these people would better choices than who's actually on it.

Maybe it's time to rethink the World Cup this summer? Too bad FIFA have their nose so far up Trump's ass that it will never happen. Scotland have essentially won Group C if Brazil, Morocco, and Haiti are banned.

Америкішка 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇰🇬🇬🇪🇰🇷@americatlady.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The US is no longer processing visas from these 75 countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia, Brazil, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, /1

When Trump invades Greenland, and he will, what is to become of NATO article 5?

After watching West Ham today I take solace in the fact that my day is not as bad as Maduro's

This seems like something @nytpitchbot.bsky.social would come up with

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 8mo ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com To compete with superpowers like China, the U.S. military must follow the lead of America’s private sector, writes the editorial board.

To be fair, Calibri is not an esthetically pleasing font, and I prefer using Garamond or Constantia. That being said, all my emails will be in Calibri for the foreseeable future.

Student emails me asking why he got a zero. He claimed he did not use AI. His submission:

I yearn for a world where this is the most important piece of news.

Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in

The intoxicated animal suffered no injuries and was released back into the wild by animal protection once sober.

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Had Tom Cotton been a senator during the Vietnam War, he would have been one of the ones trying to prosecute Hugh Thompson for stopping the My Lai massacre.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Q: What did you see in the second strike? Cotton: "I saw two survivors trying to flip a boat -- loaded with drugs, bound for the United States -- back over, so they could stay in the fight."

A few photos from my trip to Potsdam for the SHoW conference, which is one of my (if not THE) favorite conferences, and not just because it gives me an excuse to avoid Thanksgiving in the US. @sochistorywar.bsky.social

My new book, Biafra: A Military History is coming out on MONDAY. If you order from this link, use the following 30% discount codes: UF2530 for orders in the Americas IUP30 for orders outside of the Americas

Biafra

The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970), also known as the Biafran War, remains one of the most politically charged and divisive issues in contemporary Nigerian...

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Oliver Coates from Cambridge University speaking at the conference on Military Leadership in African History at the Nigerian Defence Academy.