Federico D'Onofrio
@fdonoff.bsky.social
Historian of data and government
Associate Professor, University of Vienna
ERC Datarev project: datarev.univie.ac.at
Associate Professor, University of Vienna
ERC Datarev project: datarev.univie.ac.at
Pinned
Project MUSE - Journal of World History-Volume 36, Number 3, September 2025
muse.jhu.edu
The article came out in the Journal of World History and it is open access: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55899
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The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!
Universität Basel: PhD position: History of Interwar Czechoslovakia (case study Bohemian Lands)
The Department of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a invite applications for a fully funded, four-year (1 plus 3) PhD position in a history project led by Dr. ...
jobs.unibas.ch
January 5, 2026 at 2:45 PM
The University of Basel has just advertised three positions in my project on treason, disloyalty, and the defense of democracy in interwar Czechoslovakia. If you know any students and junior scholars interested in working on interwar Czechoslovakia, please encourage them to apply!
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🔔The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 funded doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities to do your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor.
❗Application deadline: March 2, 2026
👇Check eligibility here:
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
❗Application deadline: March 2, 2026
👇Check eligibility here:
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
careers.univie.ac.at
January 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
🔔The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 funded doctoral positions across the Social Sciences & Humanities to do your own research project and choose your preferred supervisor.
❗Application deadline: March 2, 2026
👇Check eligibility here:
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
❗Application deadline: March 2, 2026
👇Check eligibility here:
careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
How should EU scholars prepare to avoid losing their files in case the US excludes us from their internet services (including cloud, emails etc.) after the invasion of Greenland? Should I simply download everything I have on onedrive, dropbox, gdrive?
January 12, 2026 at 10:04 AM
How should EU scholars prepare to avoid losing their files in case the US excludes us from their internet services (including cloud, emails etc.) after the invasion of Greenland? Should I simply download everything I have on onedrive, dropbox, gdrive?
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The historian Vincent Lemire, who has lived in Israel, worked with numerous Israeli colleagues, held an ERC on the history of Jerusalem and has published extensively on this topic has been barred from entry to Israel for alleged Anti-Zionist views.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Israel bars entry to French historian over alleged 'anti-Zionist' views
Prof. Vincent Lemire, a French Historian of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Who Previously Lived in Israel, Was Notified Days Before His Arrival in Tel Aviv That His Visa Had Been Revoked. French Off...
www.haaretz.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 AM
The historian Vincent Lemire, who has lived in Israel, worked with numerous Israeli colleagues, held an ERC on the history of Jerusalem and has published extensively on this topic has been barred from entry to Israel for alleged Anti-Zionist views.
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The so-called “Venezuela majority” (EPP + ECR + Patriots for Europe + ESN) is no longer an anomaly.
In December it was decisive on:
• another vote on the deforestation law
• key parts of the “simplification” agenda
• the new EU list of safe countries of origin
In December it was decisive on:
• another vote on the deforestation law
• key parts of the “simplification” agenda
• the new EU list of safe countries of origin
January 7, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The so-called “Venezuela majority” (EPP + ECR + Patriots for Europe + ESN) is no longer an anomaly.
In December it was decisive on:
• another vote on the deforestation law
• key parts of the “simplification” agenda
• the new EU list of safe countries of origin
In December it was decisive on:
• another vote on the deforestation law
• key parts of the “simplification” agenda
• the new EU list of safe countries of origin
For a course, I had to use McNeill's Webs of Humankind.I find it a terribly confusing book, with no sense of priorities.The bits on ww1 and the interwar period are particularly bad, McNeill even acritically repeats propaganda claims.The students, as I can see from their exams, are equally confused.
January 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
For a course, I had to use McNeill's Webs of Humankind.I find it a terribly confusing book, with no sense of priorities.The bits on ww1 and the interwar period are particularly bad, McNeill even acritically repeats propaganda claims.The students, as I can see from their exams, are equally confused.
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Excellent résumé !
"L’euro numérique n’a rien de spectaculaire. Et pourtant, il est au cœur d’un choix fondamental : voulons-nous que le paiement reste un service public, sûr, transparent et démocratiquement contrôlé ? Ou acceptons-nous qu’il soit entièrement abandonné à des intérêts privés ? "
"L’euro numérique n’a rien de spectaculaire. Et pourtant, il est au cœur d’un choix fondamental : voulons-nous que le paiement reste un service public, sûr, transparent et démocratiquement contrôlé ? Ou acceptons-nous qu’il soit entièrement abandonné à des intérêts privés ? "
L’euro numérique, un sujet hautement politique
A première vue, l’euro numérique n’a rien de révolutionnaire. Nous payons déjà sans contact, avec notre téléphone, via des applications comme Apple Pay ou Wero.
www.alternatives-economiques.fr
January 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Excellent résumé !
"L’euro numérique n’a rien de spectaculaire. Et pourtant, il est au cœur d’un choix fondamental : voulons-nous que le paiement reste un service public, sûr, transparent et démocratiquement contrôlé ? Ou acceptons-nous qu’il soit entièrement abandonné à des intérêts privés ? "
"L’euro numérique n’a rien de spectaculaire. Et pourtant, il est au cœur d’un choix fondamental : voulons-nous que le paiement reste un service public, sûr, transparent et démocratiquement contrôlé ? Ou acceptons-nous qu’il soit entièrement abandonné à des intérêts privés ? "
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Deadline extended, January 16
We are glad to remind you to apply for the joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economics Society (HES)
Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France / 26-29 May 2026
Deadline: 22 December 2025
listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A...
Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France / 26-29 May 2026
Deadline: 22 December 2025
listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A...
listserv.yorku.ca
December 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Deadline extended, January 16
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For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.
Zvi Griliches and the Productivity Puzzle in Midcentury American Agriculture
by Ibanca Anand
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
For the JHI Blog’s forum on political economy, Ibanca Anand recounts how midcentury US growth economists' influential models of "multi-factor productivity" in agriculture systematically occluded the role of labor and supported narrow, warped criteria of economic health.
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And so with a wimper, the EU scraps the ban on internal-combustion engines from 2035. The new rules are an incomprehensible fudge that only lobbyists will understand.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
December 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
And so with a wimper, the EU scraps the ban on internal-combustion engines from 2035. The new rules are an incomprehensible fudge that only lobbyists will understand.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
Saying "the climate matters, here is something tangible we are doing about it" was a big deal. Whatever this is, it's a little sad.
Every new hire at an Italian university has to follow courses on workplace safety. they are awful. the content is absurd (a sort of long history of Italy's laws on work safety), and the way the course is administered is even worse: endless videos summarizing the relevant laws... why?!
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Every new hire at an Italian university has to follow courses on workplace safety. they are awful. the content is absurd (a sort of long history of Italy's laws on work safety), and the way the course is administered is even worse: endless videos summarizing the relevant laws... why?!
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In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe.
@fdonoff.bsky.social
@fdonoff.bsky.social
The Margins of the Field: Rediscovering Agricultural Economists for the History of Ideas
by Federico D’Onofrio
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum, “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In a new piece for the JHI forum on political economy, Federico D’Onofrio discusses the rise of a class of "agricultural economists" as part of a broader trend intersecting with and going beyond "rural modernism" in twentieth-century Europe.
@fdonoff.bsky.social
@fdonoff.bsky.social
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Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Call for Applications — DEADLINE: JANUARY 31, 2026
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
Fourth Lake Como Summer School in Philosophy of Economics
Como, Italy, 8–12 June 2026
Sponsored by INEM, U. of Insubria, and U. of Milan
Full information at:
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org
phileco4.lakecomoschool.org/application/
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And, of course, both @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu are still creating content for Elon Musk's site.
Rule of thumb for representatives of democratic institutions: If you wouldn't give an interview to an ultranationalist far-right newspaper, you shouldn't be on X either.
Rule of thumb for representatives of democratic institutions: If you wouldn't give an interview to an ultranationalist far-right newspaper, you shouldn't be on X either.
December 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
And, of course, both @ec.europa.eu and @europarl.europa.eu are still creating content for Elon Musk's site.
Rule of thumb for representatives of democratic institutions: If you wouldn't give an interview to an ultranationalist far-right newspaper, you shouldn't be on X either.
Rule of thumb for representatives of democratic institutions: If you wouldn't give an interview to an ultranationalist far-right newspaper, you shouldn't be on X either.
She s waiting for reactions from member states
Still waiting a reaction by @vonderleyen, @eucopresident or @kajakallas on the new US National Security Strategy and its aim to destroy the EU and its liberal democracies.
No comment from Ursula von der Leyen's Commission on Trump's new national security strategy that represents a direct attack on European liberal democracy.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
She s waiting for reactions from member states
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Festival Parade: Twenty-four Formations https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/235804
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Festival Parade: Twenty-four Formations https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/235804
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We are testing the Morning Post Europe
Today’s analysis by me: “Von der Leyen II: A Year of Slow Agony”.
Don’t miss our brief: a new delay on the Russian assets, the Uk will not be in Safe.
With @cspillmann.bsky.social and @grimmse.bsky.social👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/copy-lack-...
Today’s analysis by me: “Von der Leyen II: A Year of Slow Agony”.
Don’t miss our brief: a new delay on the Russian assets, the Uk will not be in Safe.
With @cspillmann.bsky.social and @grimmse.bsky.social👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/copy-lack-...
Von der Leyen II: A Year of Slow Agony
Good morning!
europemorningpost.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
We are testing the Morning Post Europe
Today’s analysis by me: “Von der Leyen II: A Year of Slow Agony”.
Don’t miss our brief: a new delay on the Russian assets, the Uk will not be in Safe.
With @cspillmann.bsky.social and @grimmse.bsky.social👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/copy-lack-...
Today’s analysis by me: “Von der Leyen II: A Year of Slow Agony”.
Don’t miss our brief: a new delay on the Russian assets, the Uk will not be in Safe.
With @cspillmann.bsky.social and @grimmse.bsky.social👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/copy-lack-...
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
I really hope that one day researchers will revolt against the OA scam, the worst idea ever, enforced by institutions that know nothing about the incentives and constraints of researchers and only wish for more bureaucratic power over research
November 15, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I really hope that one day researchers will revolt against the OA scam, the worst idea ever, enforced by institutions that know nothing about the incentives and constraints of researchers and only wish for more bureaucratic power over research
The article I wrote with Niccolò Mignemi on how governments tried to make markets more efficient by publishing international data on world supply is finally out: muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl... in the Journal of World History! #datarev
Project MUSE - Making Perfect Markets: The Demand for Global Numbers at the Origin of the International Institute of Agriculture
muse.jhu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The article I wrote with Niccolò Mignemi on how governments tried to make markets more efficient by publishing international data on world supply is finally out: muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl... in the Journal of World History! #datarev
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We are testing La Matinale Européenne in English.
Today’s pilot by me: “Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment”
Don’t miss our brief. And let we know what you think.
With @grimmse.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social 👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/omnibus-po...
Today’s pilot by me: “Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment”
Don’t miss our brief. And let we know what you think.
With @grimmse.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social 👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/omnibus-po...
Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment
Good morning!
europemorningpost.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
We are testing La Matinale Européenne in English.
Today’s pilot by me: “Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment”
Don’t miss our brief. And let we know what you think.
With @grimmse.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social 👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/omnibus-po...
Today’s pilot by me: “Omnibus Politics: Killing Legal Certainty, Stalling Investment”
Don’t miss our brief. And let we know what you think.
With @grimmse.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social 👇
europemorningpost.substack.com/p/omnibus-po...
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Now online! Giulio Talini (Università Bocconi) reviews "Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805" (@oxunienl.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social, 2024) by Lavinia Maddaluno www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Now online! Giulio Talini (Università Bocconi) reviews "Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805" (@oxunienl.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social, 2024) by Lavinia Maddaluno www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ormai le muraglie toscane hanno perso i loro cocci di bottiglia e il meriggiare è solo frane e puntelli
October 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Ormai le muraglie toscane hanno perso i loro cocci di bottiglia e il meriggiare è solo frane e puntelli
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Gegen die anlasslose Massenüberwachung privater Nachrichten per Gesetz chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...
October 6, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Gegen die anlasslose Massenüberwachung privater Nachrichten per Gesetz chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...