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Mathilde von Bülow
@muvonbulow.bsky.social
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Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
 
I wrote about why I left academia, why I left America, why I left Substack - and why I need your support as I am starting over as a full-time independent writer:
 
Some major personal news:

steady.page/en/democracy...
Onward. Forward. Steady.
Things have really changed. Now I need your help.
steady.page
September 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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luca1994.bsky.social
We are happy to present the conference which will take place in Naples, 6 and 7 March 2026, on "Violence and Empire"

Here is attached the CFP including a list of themes we are interested into

Deadline for proposals November 16, authors will be notified by January 9
July 23, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
CFP: Violence and Empire. From the Early 1800s to the End of the Great War

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156683

80138, 06.03.2026-07.03.2026, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Bewerbungsschluss: 16.11.2025
www.hsozkult.de
August 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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hsozkult.bsky.social
CFP: Zwischen Imperium und „Neuen Kriegen“. Eine geschichtswissenschaftliche Einordnung der Dekolonisierungskonflikte

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156680

Eichstätt, 05.02.2026-06.02.2026, Grischa Sutterer, Lehrstuhl für Neuere und Neueste Geschichte, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, …
www.hsozkult.de
August 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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michellelkahn.bsky.social
With all the news about Elon Musk and the AfD, I guess it’s time to repost my starter pack: “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism”

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January 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
We are on @bsky.app.

Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.

Repost please.
The main gate of the former Auschwitz I camp with the 'Arbeit macht frei inscription.
November 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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garethknapman.bsky.social
I have started building a stater pack for history of colonialism and imperialism

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November 9, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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janeijking.com
A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3
November 9, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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juliairwin.bsky.social
Excellent news for historians of humanitarianism & disasters: the catalogue for the International Federation of Red Cross & Red Crescent Societies (League of Red Cross Societies) Library & Archives is finally online!! Lots of digitized material, too. Yay! ifrc.soutron.net/public/catal...
January 11, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Still time to apply for fully-funded PhD studentships at Kew and a wide range of excellent UK universities. Projects span from History through to Natural History:
Available PhD opportunities
Discover the studentships we currently have available and find out more about our involvement with a range of Doctoral Training Partnerships and similar schemes.
www.kew.org
January 3, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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avielroshwald.bsky.social
In alarming turn of events, ChatGPT accidentally develops a social conscience. Management promises to nip this problem in the bud.
neillewisjr.bsky.social Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Dec 11
ChatGPT doesn't want to work anymore.

"The company announced on Thursday that it was looking into reports that ChatGPT began refusing user demands by suggesting that they finish tasks themselves..."

www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-accu...
Are you using ChatGPT to complete tasks at work? It might be tired of doing the heavy lifting.
ChatGPT users say that the bot is becoming more difficult to work with.
www.businessinsider.com
December 11, 2023 at 9:19 PM
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historians.org
From the AHR in March 2023: In the AHR History Lab, a forum “On Transnational and International History” asked, “what should we make of the transnational turn?” A dozen scholars reflected on "the challenges and satisfactions in working on a transnational canvas." 🗃️ doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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December 11, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
UCD Dublin is recruiting a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in 20th Century Military History to join an interdisciplinary team.

Project: « Spectres & Camouflage: The Sound of Silence (1938-1970) »

Duration: 36 months
Deadline: 29th November 2023.

#Job #PostDoc
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEE029/p...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 at University College Dublin
An academic position as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 23, 2023 at 11:56 AM
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mtmcgurk.bsky.social
47/2023 exceptional work by Dr. Aimée Fox on British Army learning during WWI. I had no idea the British Army prized flexibility and individual initiative in that era. Lots of lessons about observing allies, training, publications, civilian expertise, and integrating Australian units.
November 26, 2023 at 5:38 AM
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efdavies.bsky.social
1/26 Die Ukrainer:innen erinnern heute an ihr größtes nationales Trauma, den Holodomor. Diese von Stalin und seinen Gefolgsleuten künstlich herbeigeführte Hungersnot kostete in der Sowjetukraine etwa vier Millionen Todesopfer.

November 25, 2023 at 8:04 PM
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tgpeterson.bsky.social
We're hiring a historian of modern Europe; area, period, and rank open, with pref. for an interest authoritarianism or autocracy. Applications due 12/3. I'm on the committee and happy to answer any questions here or by email: tpeterso [at] fiu [dot] edu

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
www.h-net.org
November 8, 2023 at 6:54 PM
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eriklinstrum.bsky.social
My book, Age of Emergency, is out now. It’s about how colonial violence comes home and what it means to live with warfare that is simultaneously distant and present, unsettling and unstoppable, existential and futile.
November 5, 2023 at 7:12 PM
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ankahajkova.bsky.social
Excellent piece with my wholehearted recommendation
danielpaisner.bsky.social Daniel Paisner @danielpaisner.bsky.social · Oct 14
"There are many Jews willing to join Palestinians in a movement to end apartheid, even if doing so alienates us from our communities, and... our families. But we will not lock arms with people who cheer the kidnapping or murder of a Jewish child." - Peter Beinart
www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/o...
Opinion | There Is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive.
Ethical resistance is the answer to grief and rage.
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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brionyneilson.bsky.social
🗃️ Researchers of French history and culture: the call for papers for the next George Rudé Seminar is now out (see images for details). The conference will be held at Macquarie University 11 to 13 July 2024. For more details keep an eye on h-france.net/rude/cfp/ Hope to see you in Sydney, Australia!
October 13, 2023 at 5:10 AM
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dfontaine.bsky.social
Hi everyone! It’s nice to catch up with you all again.

Big news around here: I quit my tenured academic job at the University of South Florida earlier this year and have started an academic developmental editing and translation company called Les plumes rouges with my friend Sandrine Sanos.
October 8, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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chowleen.bsky.social
Friends: my department, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke, has three tenured/tenure-track positions open in Japanese Studies (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25879), Korean Studies (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25886) and South Asian Studies (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25880)!
Duke University, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
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October 3, 2023 at 9:55 PM
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dfontaine.bsky.social
If anyone is wondering what it has been like to live and work at a public university in Florida for the last few years (and why I quit my job), here’s a piece I wrote for the LRB about the DeSantis admin’s war on education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
October 11, 2023 at 5:28 PM
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thierrybreton.bsky.social
Following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against 🇮🇱, we have indications of X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU.

Urgent letter to Elon Musk on DSA obligations ⤵️
October 10, 2023 at 9:47 PM
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jasminekgani.bsky.social
Join us next week for this ISA panel on State Violence.

I'll be discussing racial militarism & state violence as features of the (post)colonial state.

Register here: isanet-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

w/@tsolomon.bsky.social, Alexandria Innes, Leonie Fleischmann, Sasikumar Sandaram #Polisky
ISA Online Panel on State Violence on 19th October - 1PM BST, 8AM ET.
October 10, 2023 at 9:43 AM