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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular
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Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies @Rutgers Newark History | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, migration. Author: The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · Nov 22
Excited to announce that you can now preorder my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina scheduled for December 5 release with a @stanfordpress.bsky.social discount code AMZI-ERDOGDULAR20
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#menasky #what's history 🗃️
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina - Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe examines how Bosnian Muslims navigated the Ottoman and Habsburg domains following the Habsburg occupation of Bosnia Herzegovina after the 1878 Berlin Congress. Prominen...
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ohhhaeee.bsky.social Rachel Merrill Artist for Gil Thorp and Death To Pachuco! @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 3d
NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up
February 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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Concert this Friday!
#newyorkcity
Tickets: www.viewcy.com/event/terenn...
Concert: https://www.viewcy.com/event/terennm__classical
January 26, 2026 at 5:16 PM
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Skimming is the new reading ☠️☠️☠️
“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have … right at the time when we need our kids to be sharper than we are.”
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath Senate testimony

youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_...
Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development
YouTube video by C-SPAN
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January 16, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026.

Call for Papers
Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: maowrutgers2026@gmail.com
#menasky #skystorians🗃️ #ottoman
We are delighted to announce the 6th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanist Workshop, hosted by Rutgers University, Newark on April 10–11, 2026. The workshop brings together scholars of Ottoman Studies at all career stages and from across disciplines. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. Call for Papers Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words) by January 21, 2026 to: maowrutgers2026@gmail.com Join us for two days of engaging discussion and collaboration in Newark, NJ!
January 7, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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You find yourself reading a book about the afterlife of Ottoman Europe, something you never thought about before, just because you read a post on Bluesky.
And find it quite interesting as well.
Please keep sharing your work!
December 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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public universities 🙌
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Dec 24
"Even after accounting for the upfront costs and delayed benefits, enrolling marginal applicants to public universities generates substantial net returns for society, the marginal students themselves, and the government budget."

Public Universities FTW!
December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Hvala Amer Maslo na prikazu moje knjige, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe; Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju
Many thanks to Amer Maslo for the review of my book in Contributions to Oriental Philology
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#Balkansky #Mena #Ottoman
Screenshot of the review text
December 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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this year. 😳
krisbrown.bradyunited.org Kris Brown | President, @BradyUnited.org @krisbrown.bradyunited.org · Dec 14
The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year.

This is not normal and we don't have to live this way.

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@bradyunited.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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ryanboyd.bsky.social Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · Dec 12
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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thatnatt.bsky.social
Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
The Royal Game of Ur from the British Museum
December 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Many thanks to Michael Hickok for his review of my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina in Histoire sociale / Social History @hssh1968.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/article/9715...
🗃️ what's history #skystorians #Balkans #OttomanEmipre #Habsburg #menasky
Title of the review The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina by Leyla Amzi-Erdoğdular (review) Michael Robert Hickok Histoire sociale / Social History Les publications Histoire sociale / Social History Inc. Volume 58, Numéro/Number 119, Mai/May 2025 pp. 201-203 10.1353/his.2025.a971523
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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These people talk like conmen and our universities are just inviting these companies and their technologies into our midst, to prey on our students
David Sacks: According to today's WSJ, AI-related investment accounts for half of GDP growth. A reversal would risk recession. We cant afford to go backwards.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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“Without an independent & sufficiently representative faculty body to oversee the curriculum & faculty status, an institution may fragment or fall victim to the latest fashionable notion proposed by a centralized administration, politicized board or legislature."

Read more about our new report👇
AAUP Report Defends Shared Governance Amid Political Attacks
In a report released Tuesday, the American Association of University Professors outlines its case for shared governance at colleges and universities as state legislatures increasingly seek to constrai...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Nov 23
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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Autumn in #NYC
A bee on top of flowers. Fuchsia Water Lilly; reflection of a building in a pond.
November 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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mikkibrock.bsky.social Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · Nov 13
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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edinh.bsky.social
sending thoughts and prayers to the many academics who supported the Biden-led crackdown of Gaza student protests in spring 2024
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Nov 7
BREAKING: Cornell caved.

Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
SIGNATURES For Cornell University: Michael I. Kotlikoff President of Cornell University Office of the President 300 Day Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Ben the Winited States (including but not limited to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Servives and the U.S, Department of Education): /N istant Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20530 For the Department of Health and Human Services: Paula Matana S Paula M. Stannard Director, Office for Civil Rights U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Effective Date: 14/7/2025.
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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#areastudies #academicsky
terrefebiruk.bsky.social Biruk Terrefe @terrefebiruk.bsky.social · Nov 5
The next time, I am asked what people can do with a degree in African Studies, I can finally say 'they can become mayor of New York.'
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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🎶 THE NAME IS MAMDANI. M-A-M-D-A-N-I 🎶
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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“Dress for the job you want”
dbellingradt.bsky.social Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Oct 30
Consider yourself an academic? But where is your hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, the spotted suit and checked tights, like this fella from 1773 - called: the Academic Mac - is wearing? #academicchatter
A 1773 brush drawing in grey wash, with pen and grey ink showing "The Academic Mac"; a man standing, wearing a hat with tassel, the hair worn in a plait, a spotted suit and checked tights. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-1014-459
October 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Six days left, NYC!
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Oct 29
Six days left and a whole lotta doors to knock.

Let's get it: zohranfornyc.com/gotv
October 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Our future mayor: “I will not look for myself in the shadows. I will find myself in the light”
♥️🧿
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#NYC #nycmayor #elections
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Oct 25
The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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October 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM