A key provision of the EU regulation on artificial intelligence comes into force on Sunday August 2. Professional designers and users of #AI systems will have to mention that their content was created by this technology, under penalty of fines. www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

Intelligence artificielle : la mention « généré par IA » devient obligatoire dans l’UE

Une disposition-clé du règlement européen sur l’intelligence artificielle entre en vigueur dimanche 2 août. Les concepteurs et utilisateurs professionnels de systèmes d’IA devront mentionner que leurs...

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“Writing tip #8 : Embodiment. Anytime you can make an idea or a concept come alive through a person or an event, do it. An argument made through vivid, concrete human thought and action is much more powerful and memorable than a dry abstraction.”

Marcus Rediker@marcusrediker.bsky.social · 3d ago

For all you writers out there: a list of sixteen writing tips, culled from long experience of trying get unruly words down onto the page. Originally posted on social media, recently republished in the *Pittsburgh Review of Books (@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social). pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...

Poland's right-wing opposition PiS party is set to split after a more moderate faction of over 30 MPs loyal to deputy leader and former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki refused to sign a loyalty pledge demanded by leader Jarosław Kaczyński, who said today that meant they had effectively resigned.

Polish opposition PiS party set to split, with over 30 MPs being expelled

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🎓 📖 J’ai le plaisir de signer dans ce volume collectif, dirigé par Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, à paraître le 28 juillet, le chapitre consacré à la Hongrie de Miklós Horthy. J’essaie de définir la nature de ce régime et de montrer sa spécificité dans le paysage européen des années 1920 et 1930.

'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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Poland is planning its biggest rail expansion in history. A new €143 billion program aims to build 4,700 km of new railway lines and modernize 5,600 km more, with high-speed routes designed to cut travel times between major cities and strengthen military mobility.

Poland to plow €143 bln into ambitious railways revamp

The railway expansion is a key element of Poland's flagship transport hub project, Port Polska.

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Lovin’ my cup of coffee this morning at the UIUC Slavic Reference Service 🤓

What a pleasure it was to discover this legendary forum dedicated to the Baltic world. I very much hope to be there for the next edition in Tartu 🇪🇪!

AABS@balticstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hard to believe it's already over! AABS 2026 was a milestone conference: our 30th biennial. It facilitated the warm community and vibrant academic exchanges that remain the hallmark of Baltic Studies conferences. 1/5

CfP: Conference "Switzerland as an Incubator of Political Ideas for the Future of Central and Eastern Europe Between 1848 and 1918" more:

Great PhD opportunity (fr/engl, ) on Cookbooks during the 1910s and 1920s with Emmanuelle Cronier at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne - Share and Apply! adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

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Last Sunday was the 40th anniversary of the explosion of the atomic reactor in Chornobyl. Yet, even today, the Ukrainian dimension of this crucial event for European history is often overlooked. In this essay, I describe how Moscow's response strengthened the Ukrainian independence movement:

Chornobyl. 40 years on.

The Ukrainian dimension of the nuclear accident in 1986 and how it galvanized the Ukrainian independence movement is still often overlooked.

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We’re delighted to announce our ‘Women in Revolution’ webinar Thursday 4 June 7:00-8:15 PM featuring @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @earner.bsky.social + Catriona Kennedy. Attendance is free. All are welcome For more info + to register 👀👇 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d2a073...

Long-awaited, fantastic article by Katherine Lebow on Polish 'ordinary' people’s memoirs of #WWI, exploring how the war generated new mobilities, perspectives and subjectivities, and how these histories from the margins have been silenced. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Grasping the Pencil: Polish Memoirs of Childhood on the Eastern Front, 1914–1921* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 98, No 1

Abstract This article recovers the voices of civilian survivors of World War I in parts of today’s Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Poland. Drawing on a rare cache of retrospective accounts composed i...

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Ambitious in scope and bold in its argument, also not lacking in good jokes, this is a compelling read on the present, past and future of the #Baltic region by journalist Oliver Moody.

Happy to announce the publication of my article on international volunteers in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social. Thanks to @sdanisimova.bsky.social & Robert Gerwarth for their support and to the reviewers for their advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Commissars for the ‘world civil war’: recruiting and educating internationalists in the Russian Civil War, 1918–1920

Nearly 18,000 people enlisted in international volunteers’ units in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. With many of them being former prisoners of war and foreign workers, the technical and...

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AABS is pleased to announce the publication of "Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered," eds. Bradley Woodworth, Violeta Davoliūtė & Darius Staliūnas, supported by a 2025 AABS Book Publication Subvention Grant. Link to the book in post following!

CEU Press Executes AABS Book Publication Subvention for Ethnic Relations in the Baltic Reconsidered – AABS

Ethnic relations in the Baltic Reconsidered has been published open access by CEU Press thanks in part to an AABS grant.

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When you protest, you say this isn't normal and you prime yourself for other kinds of organization. And protests give a sense of hope. I talked with @katiecouric.bsky.social about the challenges we are facing and what people can do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U0I...

Historian Timothy Snyder on Orbán's Defeat, Christian Nationalism, and What Trump Is Really Planning

YouTube video by Katie Couric

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40 years ago one of the reactors of the nuclear station of Chornobyl went into meltdown and exploded. The consequences of this event still reverberate today, not least in the ongoing struggle for independence by Ukraine and Belarus. The accident ripped off the plaster covering past Soviet wounds.

An exciting forthcoming publication on an understudied topic (and one with very little written on it in English)--the Duchy of Courland (Europe's smallest colonial power), its encounters with Africa and the Americas, and its many entanglements with other European states. bsky.app/profile/john...

John Freeman@johnffree.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Many thanks to @balticstudies.bsky.social for the subvention award! I'm excited for the publication of the book once we get it all ready. Look out for 'The Duchy of Courland's Colonial Networks: Seventeenth-Century Encounters from the Baltic to the Atlantic' in the future from CEU Press.

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.

Kombinatas is an annual gathering for left-wing organisations and individuals around the Baltic region. This year it will take place in this lush location in Lithuania. 1/2

Kombinatas Festival@kombinatasfest.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW LOCATION Great news -- this year, Kombinatas is heading to "Tolieja" campsite in Labanoras regional park! The space is surrounded by forest and lakes, it has sport facilities and many spaces for various open-air activities. All the practical info here: kombinatasfest.org/practical-in...

Please help defend Ukrainian civilians from Russian missiles.

Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities

The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.

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I have GONE WILD on the 1926 Irish census and have made some fun discoveries: Trinidadian medical students, a Baháʼí couple in Donegal, the Irish widow of an emigré Cossack, and Egyptian sailors in Cork city - among many others.

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. www.forbes.com/sites/kensil...

Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World

Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.

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Very happy to have taken part in this stimulating two-day forum on 19th century transnational histories in East Central Europe. www.dhi.waw.pl/en/events/ta...

L’entretien de Lavrov sur France 2 est un cas d’école de la vulnérabilité de nos médias face aux stratégies d’influence russes. Entre la nécessité de la polyphonie et le piège de la mise en scène, l'équilibre est fragile. Comment protéger notre espace médiatique ? colinlebedev.fr/2026/03/29/l... 1/2

L’interview de Lavrov sur France 2 : comment tirer les bonnes leçons d’un cas de vulnérabilité médiatique à l’influence russe ?

L’interview du ministre des Affaires étrangères russe, Sergueï Lavrov par Léa Salamé, diffusée sur France 2, ne m’a pas mise en colère. Elle m’a confirmé dans la conviction qu’il y a une urgence à …

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everyone’s discussing how financially stupid this is and they’re right but it’s also logistically stupid. zero way to charge foreigners and not locals without a hell of a lot of racism coming out in the wash

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 4mo ago

England set to charge foreign tourists for entry to major museums ft.trib.al/S6xEBl2

Pieter Lagrou sur la génuflexion de Bart De Wever.

"Bart De Wever a choisi de s'agenouiller devant Poutine et Trump. C'est un manque de courage mais surtout un manque de compréhension"

Dans une interview à L'Écho, le Premier ministre a déclaré au sujet au sujet de la guerre en Ukraine, qu'"il faut se réarmer et remilitariser la...

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"- And what would you say to people who deny the risk of new Russian aggression? - If they’re so sure, they should publicly swear that they will personally come to fight against the Russian army in the event of a new invasion. Without this, their words are worthless."

Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Four years into Russia’s invasion, Taras Bilous — a socialist serving in the Ukrainian army — reflects on exhaustion, negotiations, and why a bad ceasefire could be a boon for the far right.