Olga Byrska
@obyrska.bsky.social
PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
And there’s already plenty of evidence to back this up.
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
And there’s already plenty of evidence to back this up.
Was lucky to made it to the museum visit in the Warsaw’s own Queer Muzeum and to listen to the Ukrainian and Polish quests to their own queer identity!
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Was lucky to made it to the museum visit in the Warsaw’s own Queer Muzeum and to listen to the Ukrainian and Polish quests to their own queer identity!
Me, when one day this damn PhD will be defended:
*(3 days post-finale I can kind of spoil it no?)
*(3 days post-finale I can kind of spoil it no?)
November 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Me, when one day this damn PhD will be defended:
*(3 days post-finale I can kind of spoil it no?)
*(3 days post-finale I can kind of spoil it no?)
Dear friends in academia, could you please share your recommendation letters for students trying to apply for their MAs to Oxbridges? I know the form matters much more there than anywhere else, so I wouldn't want to tank my students' chances with the wrong register! DM meee
November 8, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Dear friends in academia, could you please share your recommendation letters for students trying to apply for their MAs to Oxbridges? I know the form matters much more there than anywhere else, so I wouldn't want to tank my students' chances with the wrong register! DM meee
Scholarship for early- to mid-career researchers from the EU enlargement countries (the Western Balkans, Turkey or Eastern neighbourhood) via @epc-official.bsky.social!
Deadline: 4 December.
Deadline: 4 December.
Connecting Europe Fellowship
Bringing candidate country voices to Brussels
www.epc.eu
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Scholarship for early- to mid-career researchers from the EU enlargement countries (the Western Balkans, Turkey or Eastern neighbourhood) via @epc-official.bsky.social!
Deadline: 4 December.
Deadline: 4 December.
Berlin colleagues in history and/or theatre: who's around next week? Let's meet up!
November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Berlin colleagues in history and/or theatre: who's around next week? Let's meet up!
I genuinely don't know any better placed National Library than the one in Warsaw, in the middle of the park. Particularly right now, in the autumn. It's breathtakingly beautiful!
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I genuinely don't know any better placed National Library than the one in Warsaw, in the middle of the park. Particularly right now, in the autumn. It's breathtakingly beautiful!
Reposted by Olga Byrska
I have some faith in Zohran Mamdani and his political future for one reason: he is an excellent public speaker. For a long time, if ever, I have not seen a person who would stick to their message with such clarity.
Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I have some faith in Zohran Mamdani and his political future for one reason: he is an excellent public speaker. For a long time, if ever, I have not seen a person who would stick to their message with such clarity.
Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
I have some faith in Zohran Mamdani and his political future for one reason: he is an excellent public speaker. For a long time, if ever, I have not seen a person who would stick to their message with such clarity.
Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
November 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I have some faith in Zohran Mamdani and his political future for one reason: he is an excellent public speaker. For a long time, if ever, I have not seen a person who would stick to their message with such clarity.
Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed!
Today's session of my seminar "Curiosity, Critical Thinking and Research in Social and Human Sciences" concerns conducting research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and I am super excited to have a chat with my students about fragments of these two books!
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Today's session of my seminar "Curiosity, Critical Thinking and Research in Social and Human Sciences" concerns conducting research that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries and I am super excited to have a chat with my students about fragments of these two books!
Your Master students think about PhD? Let them look at the EUI! I can also talk to them about the general vibe/history dept!
📣 Applications for our fully-funded #PhD programme are now open! 👉 loom.ly/pvk17dc
⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!
What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM
🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
⏰ Apply by 15 January 2026!
What to know more? Meet us on our:
🌐Virtual Open Day - 2 December 2025 👉 loom.ly/sp5lOKM
🎓 #PhDlife #academicsky #history #skystorians
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Your Master students think about PhD? Let them look at the EUI! I can also talk to them about the general vibe/history dept!
"America appears to be [...] in a sort of benevolent hostage situation. AI-related spending now contributes more to the nation’s GDP growth than all consumer spending combined, and by another calculation, those AI expenditures accounted for 92 percent of GDP growth during the first half of 2025."
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"America appears to be [...] in a sort of benevolent hostage situation. AI-related spending now contributes more to the nation’s GDP growth than all consumer spending combined, and by another calculation, those AI expenditures accounted for 92 percent of GDP growth during the first half of 2025."
Hello from one of my favourite places: the National Library in Warsaw.
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Hello from one of my favourite places: the National Library in Warsaw.
"intellectual life itself, central to the pedagogical optimism of the Enlightenment and still deemed a source of progress by nineteenth-century liberals, was now regarded as a wellspring of political disaster," writes Samuel Moyn on J. Shklar's "After Utopia" and her criticism of liberals. Fitting.
a woman is standing in a room with the words `` sounds about right '' written on her face .
ALT: a woman is standing in a room with the words `` sounds about right '' written on her face .
media.tenor.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
"intellectual life itself, central to the pedagogical optimism of the Enlightenment and still deemed a source of progress by nineteenth-century liberals, was now regarded as a wellspring of political disaster," writes Samuel Moyn on J. Shklar's "After Utopia" and her criticism of liberals. Fitting.
Cat Burns in the #CelebrityTraitorsUK is all of us getting through 2025.
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Cat Burns in the #CelebrityTraitorsUK is all of us getting through 2025.
Sounds absolutely fascinating!
Really happy to see another alumni of the graduate school Global Intellectual History published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Bravo @christianjacobs.bsky.social can't wait to read and assign this!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
Bravo @christianjacobs.bsky.social can't wait to read and assign this!
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Sounds absolutely fascinating!
Academy in Exile opened applications for 12-month fellowships at TU Dortmund University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. Eligibility: scholars from anywhere with a PhD in the humanities, & at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement.
Academy in Exile
www.academy-in-exile.eu
October 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Academy in Exile opened applications for 12-month fellowships at TU Dortmund University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen. Eligibility: scholars from anywhere with a PhD in the humanities, & at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement.
Reposted by Olga Byrska
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.
Is [enter the most obvious bit related to the female body] overlooked in women's health?
After learning that the ob-gyn tools haven't changed since the 1850s, and menstrual products started being tested with actual blood only in 2023, the response to this question more often than not is OBVIOUSLY.
After learning that the ob-gyn tools haven't changed since the 1850s, and menstrual products started being tested with actual blood only in 2023, the response to this question more often than not is OBVIOUSLY.
‘A medical miracle’: is period blood ‘the most overlooked opportunity’ in women’s health?
Period blood has long been thought of as ‘stinky and useless’, but startups are exploring using the fluid to test for a wide range of health conditions – including difficult-to-diagnose endometriosis
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Is [enter the most obvious bit related to the female body] overlooked in women's health?
After learning that the ob-gyn tools haven't changed since the 1850s, and menstrual products started being tested with actual blood only in 2023, the response to this question more often than not is OBVIOUSLY.
After learning that the ob-gyn tools haven't changed since the 1850s, and menstrual products started being tested with actual blood only in 2023, the response to this question more often than not is OBVIOUSLY.
it's also, I reckon, a vicious cycle of neverending pushing of the overton window, with trump flipping the table altogether. more and more hostile politics towards universities--politicians like trump show that it's at least partly socially acceptable--let's apply this to other places--here we are 🤷♀️
I’m old enough to remember when everybody agreed that higher education was a “market” and offering “choice” was how the universities were meant to grow
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October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
it's also, I reckon, a vicious cycle of neverending pushing of the overton window, with trump flipping the table altogether. more and more hostile politics towards universities--politicians like trump show that it's at least partly socially acceptable--let's apply this to other places--here we are 🤷♀️
Praying to Dante in Naples.
October 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Praying to Dante in Naples.
The most important tourist spot in Paris these days: the window through which the thieves went in to the Louvre.
October 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The most important tourist spot in Paris these days: the window through which the thieves went in to the Louvre.
Old school Polish film cool: the movie director Andrzej Żuławski and his then-wife, Małgorzata Braunek, in 1973.
Fun fact: Braunek, probably one of the best actresses of her generation in Poland, became a Kanzeon Sangha Buddhist and received Dharma transmission, becoming rōshi, in 2011.
Fun fact: Braunek, probably one of the best actresses of her generation in Poland, became a Kanzeon Sangha Buddhist and received Dharma transmission, becoming rōshi, in 2011.
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Old school Polish film cool: the movie director Andrzej Żuławski and his then-wife, Małgorzata Braunek, in 1973.
Fun fact: Braunek, probably one of the best actresses of her generation in Poland, became a Kanzeon Sangha Buddhist and received Dharma transmission, becoming rōshi, in 2011.
Fun fact: Braunek, probably one of the best actresses of her generation in Poland, became a Kanzeon Sangha Buddhist and received Dharma transmission, becoming rōshi, in 2011.
After yesterday's episode of #CelebrityTraitorsUK I have only one comment:
YOU DONT HAVE ANY INTEREST TO MAKE US THIS STRESSED IN 2025!
YOU DONT HAVE ANY INTEREST TO MAKE US THIS STRESSED IN 2025!
October 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
After yesterday's episode of #CelebrityTraitorsUK I have only one comment:
YOU DONT HAVE ANY INTEREST TO MAKE US THIS STRESSED IN 2025!
YOU DONT HAVE ANY INTEREST TO MAKE US THIS STRESSED IN 2025!
Pretends to be shocked
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October 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Pretends to be shocked
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