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Françoïs Guesnet
@guesnet.bsky.social
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Based in London and Berlin.
Modern Jewish history @ University College London, focus Poland/Eastern Central Europe.
Co-chair Board of Editors of 'Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry', Secretary European Association for Jewish Studies.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 9h
A Russian drone strike on a residential building in Kramatorsk killed three brothers - an 8-year-old boy and two 19-year-olds. Their mother and grandmother were injured. A fire broke out after the hit. In Odesa, a Shahed strike burned down a car dealership. #Ukraine

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SAINT JAVELIN @saintjavelin.bsky.social · 1d
”This is the price of our dignity”

Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified ahead of the first run of the skeleton event at the 2026 Olympics

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 1d
vile
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In Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, Russia destroyed a private home with a drone strike. Three small children were killed: a one-year-old girl and two boys aged 1 year and 3 months, as well as their 34-year-old father.

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 1d
The obvious intention of the Trump administration to support the Russian war effort is well known - but this chart is still shocking
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According to the Ukraine Support Tracker, U.S. military aid fell 99% in 2025, while EU aid rose 67%. Despite Europe's increased support, the massive U.S. decline kept overall aid at previous levels.
www.kielinstitut.de/publications...

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 2d
According to the Ukraine Support Tracker, U.S. military aid fell 99% in 2025, while EU aid rose 67%. Despite Europe's increased support, the massive U.S. decline kept overall aid at previous levels.
www.kielinstitut.de/publications...

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 2d
disgusting

serving their puppet master
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Just now:

Jordan Bardella and his party voted against the €90B EU loan to Ukraine in the European Parliament.

This aid is crucial to Ukraine, and the vote shows once again that the RN sides with Russia.

Traitors will be traitors

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 2d
Just now:

Jordan Bardella and his party voted against the €90B EU loan to Ukraine in the European Parliament.

This aid is crucial to Ukraine, and the vote shows once again that the RN sides with Russia.

Traitors will be traitors

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 2d
In Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region, Russia destroyed a private home with a drone strike. Three small children were killed: a one-year-old girl and two boys aged 1 year and 3 months, as well as their 34-year-old father.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 2d
Ukraine has begun planning presidential elections and a referendum, the Financial Times reports. The Trump administration is demanding both votes be held by May 15 or Ukraine could lose US security guarantees. Zelensky intends to announce elections on Feb 24. #Ukraine

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d
The bodies of a mother and her 11‑year‑old daughter lay in black bags on the ground‼️

Russia killed them by bombing their home in Sloviansk - a place where they should have been safe.

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 3d
Age verification?

The size of my first data admin computer application had 71 kb
moviessilently.bsky.social Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3d
Age verification? School handouts smelled good
theoscargoff.bsky.social Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 3d
Age verification? I complained to my mom that all the good movies at the rental store were on Beta and we only had VHS.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 3d
Age verification? School handouts smelled good
theoscargoff.bsky.social Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 3d
Age verification? I complained to my mom that all the good movies at the rental store were on Beta and we only had VHS.
danielsturner.bsky.social Daniel Tourneur @danielsturner.bsky.social · 3d
£25 to see Pink Floyd at Earl's Court.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d
Russian airstrikes hit Sloviansk, killing two people and wounding seven, according to Donetsk region officials. The dead are an 11 year old girl and her mother, while a 7 year old girl is among the wounded. OVA head Vadym Filashkin said casualties and damage are still being assessed. #Ukraine

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 4d
Herzlichen Glückwunsch - das ist großartig!

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 4d
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 4d
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 5d
@icrc.org should pay a visit

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 5d
Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 6d
Russia fired over 400 drones and around 40 missiles at Ukraine overnight targeting energy infrastructure according to President Zelensky. Energy facilities were hit across eight regions along with homes and a school.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 6d
Monitoring groups said an overnight strike was the largest this year by number of Shahed drones launched. The main targets were energy infrastructure in Rivne, Burshtyn, Stryi, Dobrotvir, Ladyzhyn, the Makariv area, and frontline territories. An official Air Force report has not yet been published.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 6d
Russia has killed over 650 Ukrainian athletes and destroyed at least 15 Olympic training bases.

🧵 1/12 ⬇️

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 7d
Russia attacked Ukraine overnight and in the morning with 328 strike drones, two Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, and five Kh-59/69 guided missiles. Air defense downed or suppressed 297 drones. No Kinzhals or Kh-59/69 missiles were intercepted. Impacts were recorded at multiple locations. #Ukraine

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 7d
❗️Shahed flies right over the houses…

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EHUNineteen @ehunineteen.bsky.social · 7d
Our brilliant PhD students have organised a conference - Placing the Nineteenth Century - and you’re all invited! Friday 26th June

CFP deadline: Friday 1st May

We’re all excited for our keynote speaker, @drclaireocall.bsky.social 🤩

Please share - and send us an abstract!
Placing the Nineteenth Century: A PGR/ECR conference Friday 26th June 2026 Image of Blackpool Edge Hill Nineteen research centre is excited to invite you to 'Placing the Nineteenth Century', a PGR/ECR conference focused on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literature and history. London and the South have often been the heart of discussion about the nineteenth century. However, development in industry during the period brought popularity to cities such as Liverpool and Manchester, which led to a boom of industrial growth in the north of England. In the nineteenth century, the north of England developed like never before, both within cities and in more rural areas. Following a recent EHU19 research symposium, PhD students from literature and history came together to discuss their emerging research and found a common theme - place. More specifically, the North (and North West) of England was a uniting thread, and so the idea for such a conference was born. We invite proposals that engage with 'place' in the long nineteenth century, with particular attention to the North (West), broadly conceived. Papers may approach place as material, imagined, represented, contested, remembered, or speculative. We welcome MA/MRes students, PhD students, and Early Career Researchers whose research interests focus on the North (West) of England in nineteenth-century literary studies, history, art history and related disciplines, with suggested (but not limited to) topics such as: • Fictional/fantastical representations of the North (West) • The legacy of space in the North (West) • Transnational and postcolonial links to the North (West): colonial, imperial, and transatlantic contexts (e.g, Liverpool as a global port) • Museums, archives, and collections: regional museums and the afterlives of nineteenth-century places • Gendered, racialised, and marginalised spaces: who belongs, who is excluded, and how space is policed • Landscape across disciplines: historical, literary, artistic, and creative engagements with the natural and industrial landscapes of the North (West) in the long nineteenth century • The North (West) in popular culture, periodicals, visual culture, and performance • Queer histories and queer readings of place, including non-normative identities & relationships Please send abstracts of approximately 250 words (including title) for 10-15 minute papers, along with a short biography to ehu 19place@outlook.com by 1st May 2026, including name, preferred pronouns, and academic institution. We are excited to have Dr Claire O'Callaghan giving a keynote address on Top Withens, Wuthering Heights and the impact of literary scholarship. As Dr O'Callagham is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Brontë Studies journal, she has kindly agreed to also run a workshop on publishing in an academic journal. Given the conference's emphasis on 'place', we are excited to offer an in-person conference gathering in the North West and warmly welcome participants to join us here. However, we are also committed to accessibility needs and widening participation, so please indicate if you would prefer to present online in your application. Please also do let us know about any other access needs or adjustments that can make your experience easier.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 7d
The head of the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov, stated that Ukraine and Russia are preparing to announce a full ceasefire. Mechanisms for implementing and monitoring the ceasefire have already been discussed in the United Arab Emirates.

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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 8d
📢 Exciting opportunity for ECRs & postgrads!

Applications are open for 'Holocaust Studies: Navigating the Field', a one-day networking event for ECRs & postgrads at the Imperial War Museum on 26 May 2026.

More details below, apply by 31 March ⬇️
Poster titled “Call for Participants: Holocaust Studies – Navigating the Field,” advertising a one-day academic networking event on 26 May 2026 at the Imperial War Museum, London, for early career researchers and postgraduates, with details about roundtables, speed networking, and application deadline of 31 March 2026.

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UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies @uclssees.bsky.social · 8d
Why does the most famous poem in the #Polish language open with the invocation ‘Lithuania! My Fatherland!’?

Please join us for Prof. Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski's Inaugural Lecture to find out more.

🗓️ 11 March at 6.30pm
📍 Gustave Tuck LT
➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...
Event poster for ‘Lithuania’ and ‘Poland’ in Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz, with an image of Grzybobranie (Mushroom picking) painting by Franciszek Kostrzewski (1826–1911), cca 1860. Wikimedia Commons.

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 8d
.... wow ....
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 8d
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 8d
Quick reminder: apply for up to £ 9,500 for an academic event in any field pertaining to Jewish Studies

New feature: Student Members of the European Association for Jewish Studies now can apply for funding for Graduate Conference!

Check out the details in the link below.
guesnet.bsky.social Françoïs Guesnet @guesnet.bsky.social · 21d
Apply for up to £ 9,500 for a conference/graduate conference/workshop/summer- or winterschool in any field pertaining to Jewish Studies through the Conference Grant Programme, European Association for Jewish Studies.

Deadline 26 March 2026

Full details:

www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-ann...
EAJS Conference Grant Programme: Call for Applications. Deadline: 26 March 2026 – European Association for Jewish Studies
www.eurojewishstudies.org