Brian Kuns
@briankuns.bsky.social
Social scientist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) studying agrarian change in Sweden and Ukraine. Places where I sometimes show up -- Stockholm, Uppsala, Tennessee, Ukraine
I very much agree with the sentiment... I'm unsure on how best to implement or enforce it.
I think scientists should be limited to publishing no more than 1 paper a year as fist author, and no more than 2 as a collaborating author. That's it. Maybe even less.
Tenure / review / grant review committees should enforce this.
It might force people to write fewer, but better, pieces.
Tenure / review / grant review committees should enforce this.
It might force people to write fewer, but better, pieces.
June 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I very much agree with the sentiment... I'm unsure on how best to implement or enforce it.
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Now published: Cultivating the steppe in Ukraine’s Gammalsvenskby. Part 1: perspectives on classic agrarian debates, Brian Kuns, Mats Widgren, Maria Zachwatowicz & Ivan Moysiyenko. in Landscape History 46:1. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Now published: Cultivating the steppe in Ukraine’s Gammalsvenskby. Part 1: perspectives on classic agrarian debates, Brian Kuns, Mats Widgren, Maria Zachwatowicz & Ivan Moysiyenko. in Landscape History 46:1. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interviews are great because if you talk with people for long enough you always hear something deeply interesting.
Professionals with a public role can be difficult, because they have worked hard to polish their persona, but 'ordinary people' will say the most magical realist stuff almost instantly
Professionals with a public role can be difficult, because they have worked hard to polish their persona, but 'ordinary people' will say the most magical realist stuff almost instantly
April 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Interviews are great because if you talk with people for long enough you always hear something deeply interesting.
Professionals with a public role can be difficult, because they have worked hard to polish their persona, but 'ordinary people' will say the most magical realist stuff almost instantly
Professionals with a public role can be difficult, because they have worked hard to polish their persona, but 'ordinary people' will say the most magical realist stuff almost instantly
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April 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Missa nu inte chansen att bli doktorand i agrarhistoria och forska om ekonomisk ojämlikhet i 1500-talets Sverige!
March 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Missa nu inte chansen att bli doktorand i agrarhistoria och forska om ekonomisk ojämlikhet i 1500-talets Sverige!
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A lot of Americans, even liberal ones, underestimate how much anger is building up towards Washington among those British and German social groups who were once the most fervent advocates for the alliance with the United States
Seeing a lot of left-leaning people express shock at this, but it's entirely what I'd expect from the MoS, and their readers - not doing so is a classic example of not understanding your political opponents.
March 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
A lot of Americans, even liberal ones, underestimate how much anger is building up towards Washington among those British and German social groups who were once the most fervent advocates for the alliance with the United States
I was there... Good speeches -- I just hope that there is follow up on the nice words.
February 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I was there... Good speeches -- I just hope that there is follow up on the nice words.
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Igår berättade vår ukrainska kompis Yulia att hennes gamla lågstadieskola just bombats till grus, ihop med det lilla bageriet intill, där hon och andra barn ibland fick bullar efter skolan. Om nån undrar vad Ryssland håller på med.
February 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Igår berättade vår ukrainska kompis Yulia att hennes gamla lågstadieskola just bombats till grus, ihop med det lilla bageriet intill, där hon och andra barn ibland fick bullar efter skolan. Om nån undrar vad Ryssland håller på med.
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Rewetting of peatland Bråtlandet in Stensjö cultural reserve. Bråtlandet was converted from wet meadow to arable field some hundred years ago, but the drainage never suceeded. Rewetting financed by County Board of Kalmar through project Grip on life.
February 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Rewetting of peatland Bråtlandet in Stensjö cultural reserve. Bråtlandet was converted from wet meadow to arable field some hundred years ago, but the drainage never suceeded. Rewetting financed by County Board of Kalmar through project Grip on life.
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Read about the tensions between family farming and agrobusiness in #ukraine during the war. By Natalia Mamonova, Olena Borodina and @briankuns.bsky.social longreads.tni.org/ukrainian-ag...
December 7, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Read about the tensions between family farming and agrobusiness in #ukraine during the war. By Natalia Mamonova, Olena Borodina and @briankuns.bsky.social longreads.tni.org/ukrainian-ag...