Michael Goebel
@mgoebel.bsky.social
Historian at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
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I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
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October 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...
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"Für internen Unmut sorgte dabei, dass nach taz-Informationen einige Fakultäten offenbar ohne große Diskussion bereit waren, für das Ministerium proaktiv Listen zu erstellen, woraufhin eine kritische Debatte innerhalb der Mitarbeiterschaft entstand."
Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
AfD hetzt gegen Hochschulen: Angriff auf die Freiheit der Wissenschaft
Die AfD Sachsen-Anhalt fragt gezielt nach Listen postkolonialer Seminare und Lehrstühle. Wie die Universitäten beginnen, sich gegen die Angriffe zu wappnen.
taz.de
October 14, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"Für internen Unmut sorgte dabei, dass nach taz-Informationen einige Fakultäten offenbar ohne große Diskussion bereit waren, für das Ministerium proaktiv Listen zu erstellen, woraufhin eine kritische Debatte innerhalb der Mitarbeiterschaft entstand."
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Be sure to spread it around
October 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Be sure to spread it around
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Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…
October 9, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…
A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History
Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue
This article relates to a new special issue published in Urban History titled ‘Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn’. The issue was edit…
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October 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Gaza. 04.10.2025
October 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gaza. 04.10.2025
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Die Ausschreibung für den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen.
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...
Thomas-Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 - German Labour History Association
Die German Labour History Association (GLHA) schreibt zum vierten Mal den Thomas-Welskopp-Preis für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour Histor...
www.germanlabourhistory.de
October 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Die Ausschreibung für den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen.
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...
I understand and share the alarm and exasperation, but is there really “an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now”?
So much unreality. There is an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now and no sign that we are learning anything from it.
Does anyone want to tell him what happened to the largest battleship ever built?
September 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I understand and share the alarm and exasperation, but is there really “an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now”?
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📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView
🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView
🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'
🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
Patchwork Cities – Urban Ethnic Clusters in the Global South During the Age of Steam
patchworkcities.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3
"...scheint es angebracht, der Dämonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russländischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"...scheint es angebracht, der Dämonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russländischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler
Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
September 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.
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More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies.
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...
September 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies.
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...
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A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives
September 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives
Increasingly convinced that the best way to save democracy is to prohibit social media.
Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.
Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.
www.liberalcurrents.com
September 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Increasingly convinced that the best way to save democracy is to prohibit social media.
I know this is a secondary point, but American citizenship is not a dimension that matters or should matter in this context.
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I know this is a secondary point, but American citizenship is not a dimension that matters or should matter in this context.
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This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/
Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature
Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...
www.nature.com
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/
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Dutch paper De Volkskrant interviewed 15 international doctors who say they saw minimum 141 children with single shot wounds to head/chest in Gaza. Adds to other doctors’ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur
Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...
www.volkskrant.nl
September 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Dutch paper De Volkskrant interviewed 15 international doctors who say they saw minimum 141 children with single shot wounds to head/chest in Gaza. Adds to other doctors’ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
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We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History!
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
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If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
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Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
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September 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History!
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
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Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
The flags were lowered last night around the base by order of President Trump after the killing of Charlie Kirk and will stay at half-staff on this U.S. outpost in southeast Cuba until sunset on Sunday.
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
"Nationalisten" sind immer die Anderen. Interessanter Austauch mit @efdavies.bsky.social in der FAZ um den russischen Historiker Alexei Miller, bis vor kurzem Darling der New Imperial History im Westen, jetzt offenbar Putin-Apologet. 1/
Auf die unsachlichen Angriffe vor einer Woche in der FAZ antwortet @efdavies.bsky.social heute ebendort
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
"Nationalisten" sind immer die Anderen. Interessanter Austauch mit @efdavies.bsky.social in der FAZ um den russischen Historiker Alexei Miller, bis vor kurzem Darling der New Imperial History im Westen, jetzt offenbar Putin-Apologet. 1/
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Auf die unsachlichen Angriffe vor einer Woche in der FAZ antwortet @efdavies.bsky.social heute ebendort
September 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Auf die unsachlichen Angriffe vor einer Woche in der FAZ antwortet @efdavies.bsky.social heute ebendort
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It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.
These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?
September 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
It’s so surreal seeing prominent right-wing figures—an influential presidential advisor, the last campaign’s biggest donor, etc.—call for violence, the GOP president lie and stoke violence, every Dem officeholder condemn it, and mainstream media treat those as the same, or the Dem reaction as worse.