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Jayne Persian
@drjpersian.bsky.social
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Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
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fahad-s-ali.bsky.social
Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.
February 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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bstaples.bsky.social
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
February 9, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵

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Who Makes the Far Right? Exploring Membership Application Data of the National Front of Australia
This paper addresses a problem for scholars examining the question of who supports far right political parties or movements. Due to the semi-clandestine or oppositional nature of far right groups, hi....
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February 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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reddishraven.bsky.social
Vale, Jon Kudelka.

And as always, Fuck Cancer.
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
Dripfeeding weekly episodes should be outlawed at this point
February 7, 2026 at 11:03 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
if only there were working class academics 🙃
aunz.theconversation.com The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 2d
In the age of ‘whitened, straightened, veneered smiles’, the distance between ruined poor teeth and healthy, wealthy teeth is growing.
What our teeth reveal about the growing gap between rich and poor
theconversation.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:40 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
An excellent episode, @ankahajkova.bsky.social is the real deal 🙌
February 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
brb, just removing CAPITALS and "don't you know who I am"s from my response to reviewers 🤣
February 6, 2026 at 2:55 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
This is from the Herald Sun but these allegations are horrific

Holocaust simulations, mock graves and dog collars: Inside summer camp of horrors

www.thechronicle.com.au/education/re...
www.thechronicle.com.au
February 4, 2026 at 11:50 PM
drjpersian.bsky.social
Another contender for Australian of the Year & amazing 13yo of the year!!
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Mother says sending son to swim 4km for help 'one of the hardest decisions'
A WA mother says asking her teenage son to swim four kilometres through rough seas to get help after their family was swept out to sea, was "one of the hardest decisions" she has ever made.
www.abc.net.au
February 3, 2026 at 9:11 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
The border of Croatia and Serbia is absolutely where I would plonk my micro state
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
'We will be recognised': 21-year-old Australian backs his micronation
Daniel Jackson claims to be the youngest president in the world. The problem is that no other countries recognise him.
www.abc.net.au
February 1, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
For further information on the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, I have uploaded the intro to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia' here.

@drjpersian.bsky.social

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January 30, 2026 at 10:59 PM
drjpersian.bsky.social
Barrel jeans are a joke, right?
February 1, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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amigrationhn.bsky.social
Applications due 15 March 🚨 for projects including immigration & multiculturalism
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant @unimelb.bsky.social share.google/M9rlWtlbX2tg...
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant
Malcolm Fraser Research Grant
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January 28, 2026 at 6:01 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
Reading an archivist's takedown of the 'bungling, misunderstandings and conflicts' in the post-war DP screening space lol
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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aunz.theconversation.com
Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.
New fear unlocked: runaway black holes
theconversation.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:57 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
Anyone want to add - a thread of our FABULOUS papers that have not even once *gulp* been cited
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
drjpersian.bsky.social
👻 read me 👻 cite me 👻
Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”

Hit me up for a pdf 🙌

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Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now”
This chapter takes as its subject the memories of the 170,000 displaced persons (DPs)—predominantly Central and Eastern Europeans—who arrived in Australia as International Refugee Organiza...
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January 27, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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plso.bsky.social
LOL.

One of the author's of one these AI-slop papers is associated with the Responsible AI Research Center at Adelaide University.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
drjpersian.bsky.social
why did this not cause an international incident
January 24, 2026 at 11:18 AM
drjpersian.bsky.social
Keith wuz robbed
asherwolf.bsky.social Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · Jan 10
Never cared about the Triple J Hottest 100 before, but if ‘Keith’ doesn’t win this year, you are all dead to me
January 24, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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ozkitsch.bsky.social
The Coldest 100 returns to Bluesky this Saturday with 100 Australia-adjacent musical oddities, atrocities and curiosities. Listen at your own peril ☠️ #coldest100 #hottest100
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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newfascismsyllabus.bsky.social
See the open letter co-signed by over 300 scholars on the state-sponsored attacks against historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. We stand against intimidation and for academic freedom.

#AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland
An Open Letter in Defense of Academic Freedom and the Historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe - The New Fascism Syllabus
We, the undersigned, protest against the state-sponsored defamatory attacks on the German-Polish Holocaust historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe and the ongoing campaign of intimidation against scholar...
newfascismsyllabus.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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amigrationhn.bsky.social
🚨 new article by Sean Brawley
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
No Trace: ASIO and the End of the White Australia Policy
This contribution to the special issue studies the history of the White Australia Policy through an exploration of the intersections between national security, immigration restriction and social re...
www.tandfonline.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:47 AM