Such a lovely evening with the RHS last night. Thrilled to have won the First Book Prize! Thanks to my publishers @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ; to @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofleicester.bsky.social and @mpilhlt.bsky.social for support as I finalized the manuscript (1/2)

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last mo.

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians

Kiran Mehta's book, 'To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840' bit.ly/4xRg23k is described by the judges as 'a highly original monograph that addresses a notable gap in studies of early modern crime and punishment' 2/4 @kiranmehta.bsky.social

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians

Nour has been on here for the past few years. She just had her baby and needs support if you can afford to support.

Stephan Schmid & Hamid Taieb eds., A Philosophical History of the Concept - @universitypress.cambridge.org, March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

A Philosophical History of the Concept

Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - A Philosophical History of the Concept

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I still am surprised with white Germans’ racism. I shouldn’t be but I am, even after all these years. Last week das Schauspielhaus Hamburg used Blackface for their production of Othello. In 2025!!!!! Ugh. Do better!!! There countless Black German actors and consultants. Come on now!

Fun fact: la durée médiane des doctorats soutenus aux US, quelle que soit la discipline, est d'au moins 5 ans, et ce depuis plusieurs années. Pensez-y quand on vous mettra la pression pour faire soutenir les doc en trois ans parce que "les standards internationaux" ncses.nsf.gov/browse-libra...

Je pense que tout le monde devrait écouter cette prise de parole et mesurer ce qui vient de se produire avec cette tentative d'annulation, validée en haut lieu, d'un colloque scientifique au Collège de France

André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 9mo ago

La 1e journée du colloque Palestine/Europe est en ligne, avec des mots forts sur la tentative de censure assez invraisemblable qui vient d'avoir lieu. Salam Kawakibi rappelle qu'il organisa un colloque à Alep en 2002, sous Bachar, plus librement qu'à Paris en 2025... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sSU...

Vous connaissez un bon livre de synthèse d'histoire sur les deux guerres du Congo et les conflits au Kivu ?

Les médecins de Gaza commencent à être trop affaiblis pour pouvoir traiter leurs patients www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by

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Bei extremer Hitze forschen, lehren, studieren …? Viele dt. Hochschulen haben bislang keinen Plan, der heiße Tage erträglicher macht. Spoiler: „Viel trinken, morgens lüften, luftige Kleidung“ ist noch kein taugliches Hitzekonzept! Dabei ließe sich mehr tun. Konkrete Vorschläge in #ArbeitInDerWiss!

Zu heiß zum Denken: Deutsche Hochschulen brauchen Hitzekonzepte!

Wie sollten Hochschulen auf die extremen Temperaturen reagieren? Hier sind drei konkrete Ansatzpunkte!

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These companies are stealing our data — the fruit of our labour — and then forcing us to subscribe and pay for their rubbish in order to be 'competitive' enough to survive. It just drives me crazy

Michael Socolow@michaelsocolow.bsky.social · last yr.

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below. They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models." The web is being murdered. So aggravating. digital.hagley.org

Comme promis (avec trois minutes d'avance même) www.arretsurimages.net/emissions/ar...

Rima Hassan, d'un écran à l'autre - Par La rédaction | Arrêt sur images

La critique média en toute indépendance : enquêtes, analyses, chroniques et émissions.

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Arrêt sur images@arretsurimages.net · last yr.

En ligne à partir de 12h30 sur le site arretsurimages.net

Pendant ce temps, en Suisse... J'ai eu accès à la note qui a servi pour aiguiller la décision du Canton de Genève à valider le déploiement de Microsoft 365 au sein de l'administration cantonale. Lecture instructive dont j'ai parlé ici : www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Il se passe un truc : de plus en plus de gens comprennent que la tech est politique et souhaitent qu'on maîtrise notre destin numérique. | Rayna Stamboliyska

Il se passe un truc : de plus en plus de gens comprennent que la tech est politique et souhaitent qu'on maîtrise notre destin numérique. Une preuve supplémentaire ci-dessous. J'ai passé un bo...

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Rayna 🤓🇪🇺👩‍💻📚✍️@maliciarogue.bsky.social · last yr.

Lyon rejoint le nombre croissant de villes et institutions décidées à reprendre leur maîtrise technologique en délaissant les solutions Microsoft en faveur des logiciels libres et #opensource #EuroStack www.lemondeinformatique.fr/actualites/l...

mais allez bien vous faire f****

Return the stones to their rightful owners

The Court Jeweller (Lauren Kiehna)@courtjeweller.bsky.social · last yr.

It's an heirloom brooch debut for Queen Camilla at Royal Ascot today! For the first time in public, she wears the Cambridge Emerald Cluster Brooch. Learn more about the Cambridge Emeralds here!

Israeli tank fire kills at least 59 in Gaza crowd trying to get food, medics say www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Israeli tank fire kills at least 59 in Gaza crowd trying to get food, medics say | CBC News

Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence ...

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Survey on abuse of power at Swiss universities – The investigative research team www.reflekt.ch is looking for people who can report on abuse of power at Swiss universities. Our group supports the anonymous and secure survey – please share the link widely! reflekt.ch/survey/

Survey on abuse of power at Swiss universities

Help us investigate and share your experiences with us - safely, securely and confidentially.

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The following thread contains 201 open access articles, books, chapters & reports written and led by First Nations’ researchers. We write our own research across all areas. The order is random and ranges across disciplines, because of course it does. #201FirstNationsArticles

ALL.OUR.JOBS. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years

Andrew Jassy tells white collar workers that such technology means fewer people will be needed for some jobs

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What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? women have always worked

minimaliste13@minimaliste13.cpesr.fr · last yr.

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Whether there exists a subset of real numbers which you cannot fully enumerate simply by counting 1, 2, 3... yet is not as big as the whole set of real numbers is essentially up to you.

Decolonising SSK: SSK, Science Wars and the Margaret-Linda Tuhiwai Effect” Ce sera à Zurich “Holding Things Together? Change, Continuity, Critique?” on 10–12th September, 2025. J'espère ne pas être trop rouillée. @laurepiguet.bsky.social

Dites, le Bluesky historien, est-ce que quelqu'un•e aurait un accès (électronique, si ça existe) à la thèse de Francis Simonis, "Des Français en Afrique : les "Européens" de la région de Ségou : 1890-1962", soutenue en 1993 à Paris 7 ? Ça me serait d'une grande aide 🙏🏻

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