I love everything about this! The conviction that a major figure was not struck by a bolt of lightning but worked to understand the system he would ultimately critique and help dismantle. The scholarly sleuthing rare books — all of it. 😎🤓
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Vacancy for a fully funded 4-year PhD at @uvahumanities.bsky.social on the key roles played by social science, demography, and nutritional science during the blockades of the First and Second World Wars, especially where they related to food.
Really excited to get started as part of the BLOCKADE project at the university of Amsterdam with @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social. I’ll be exploring ways LLM’s and ML can facilitate historical research on blockades as means of warfare.
#BLOCKADE is recruiting again!
Join our team and delve into the history of blockades during the First and Second World Wars — from their planning to their far‑reaching consequences. We are pleased to announce two postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Hamburg:
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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Deadline approaching (17 January!) on another #BLOCKADE funded PhD position! See for more information on the project and this vacancy our BLOCKADE website at www.blockades.eu.
Annelien de Dijn -Freedom: an unruly history is a good and up-to-date conceptual history, which might fit with the goal of the syllabus.
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
James Lambie has an interesting case study on Sports papers and their efforts to work with bookies and tipsters to avoid the betting act of 1878 by moving to the continent, publishing from France and Holland.
Libraries are the best.
Librarians, too. I went to mine looking for a book that the catalog said was there. I couldn’t find it. I told the librarian, she told me they don’t like it when books can’t be found, she assembled her colleagues, and they fanned out to find it (they did). ✨
Today we strike against the destructive budget cuts in Higher Education.
Zo te zien heeft iemand bij de NOS dit artikel van newsweek bijna een-op-een overgenomen; dit voelt toch als niveau ‘stagiair mocht ook even wat doen’…
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"The leading AI models are now very good historians" - by Benjamin Breen, a history professor at UC Santa Cruz resobscura.substack.com/p/the-leadin...
Vandaag begint ‘Inleiding in de Geschiedschrijving’ weer. Na 4 jaar dit vak gedoceerd te hebben, heb ik nu eindelijk het gevoel dat ik een lesplan heb dat goed werkt.
Het kost tijd voor een docent ingewerkt is, vandaar dat tijdelijke contracten en de bezuinigingen op onderwijs funest zijn!
Veel zin in dag twee van de Pathways to Empire conferentie in Leuven!
