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Holger Nehring

@holgernehring.bsky.social

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Contemporary historian #ColdWar #diplomacy

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 1d

Peace means feeling some measure of compassion for the enemy's suffering and relief at their solace.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh => Edinbru

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 1d

This new piece by @hornseyhq.bsky.social in Modern British Studies looks fascinating: Factory tourism in inter-war Britain: the spectacular construction of social-democratic mass production.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 1d

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update - On History

What’s new in BBIH?  The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and…

blog.history.ac.uk

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 2d

Really looking forward to the Paris launch of this extraordinary Cambridge history of rights project - honoured to be part of it, and congrats to all the editors

events.uchicago.edu/event/254562...

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2d

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 12, 2025 ~ The end of bees.

"Fifteen species of bumblebee, which play a crucial role in pollinating peas, beans, peanuts and clover ... are now classified as threatened."

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 4d

Really upsetting to hear that Polwarth medical practice is closing via social media. I suppose it was inevitable after they mived to Tollcross. But crazy that they’d close a practice, given levels of demand. www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinbur...

Edinburgh medical practice closure will see 5,000 patients relocated

An Edinburgh medical practice is set to close next month following a review by the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership and NHS Lothian.

www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

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François Heisbourg @fheisbourg.bsky.social · 4d

Lecornu re-named Prime Minister by Macron. His challenge will be to get a budget passed by end December. Composition of the Lecornu 2 cabinet will emerge by Monday but will be quite different from Lecornu 1 and its brief 13h56 lifetime . Macron says he's giving Lecornu carte blanche. We'll see

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d

US President Donald Trump floated the idea that Spain could be removed from NATO as he met with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, in his latest swipe against a chronic under-spender on defense.

Trump Floats Throwing Spain Out of NATO Over Defense Spending

US President Donald Trump floated the idea that Spain could be removed from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as he met with Finnish President Alexander Stubb on Thursday, in his latest swipe against a chronic under-spender on defense.

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Aslak Berg @aslak.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone who knows a little bit about Norway and the Nobel Peace Prize Committee knows Trump has no chance of getting the prize. They're capable of embarrassing mistakes, like giving it to Obama, but they're just not going to give it to Trump.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 6d

UK food industry blames govt for rising grocery bills - on.ft.com/43df9V1

Fascinating all round. Factors include:

Bad Brexit effects
NICs rise pass through
Higher NMW
Skills shortage exacerbated by post Brexit effects
Weather
Producer responsibility regs
Subsidies don't incentivize growing 1/

UK food industry blames government for rising grocery bills

Living wage increases, new regulations and backed-up planning system driving price rises, say producers

on.ft.com

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Munich Security Conference @munsecconf.bsky.social · 6d

📢 After over 2 years as Vice-Chair, @rainerrudolph.bsky.social is returning to @germany.diplo.de and will take up a new posting as German Ambassador to Kosovo. His dedication, strategic insight & international perspective have left a lasting mark on our work!
securityconference.org/en/news/full...

MSC Vice-Chair Rainer Rudolph Returns to the German Foreign Service

securityconference.org

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Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social · 6d

A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History

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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 6d

📣📣Call for papers

sites.google.com/uniroma1.it/...

Hybrid workshop, "Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939)".

27 feb 2026, University of Glasgow.

Please share!

Motherhood Without Poverty 2026

Motherhood Without Poverty: Working-Class Women and Global Struggles for Work, Family, and Reproductive Autonomy (1918–1939) Call for papers A One-Day Hybrid Workshop at the University of Glasgow Frid...

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 6d

Agree, but prospective applicants can find out about employment prospects after uni by degree course: the Graduate Outcomes Survey includes that data for individual subjects, I think. And employment prospects after graduation are not just (and I'd even say not mainly) an indicator of degree quality.

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 6d

Interested in cycling and Europe?
Fancy talking with other researchers about how we might develop our work?

Then sign up for the launch webinar of a new network, Cycling Europe Study Circle, with me and @patrickbijsmans.bsky.social, on 24 October, 14-16 UK time

forms.office.com/e/SsXKNb1gvC

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 6d

The @stsucl.bsky.social History of Science Reading Group is back. Yesterday we discussed Helen M. Rozwadowski @oceanhistories.bsky.social , ‘Ocean literacy and public humanities’, Parks Stewardship Forum (2020) 36(3) escholarship.org/uc/item/11w5... (suggested by Janet Browne & Jordan Goodman)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7d

The UK’s steel sector warned of a potentially existential crisis after the European Union proposed raising tariffs to shield its own ailing sector

UK Steel Sector Warns of Crisis as Starmer Vows EU Tariff Talks

The UK’s steel sector warned of a potentially existential crisis after the European Union proposed raising tariffs to shield its own ailing sector.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 7d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 8d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 7d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 8d

All hail a true hero. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 8d

This is already operating in the UK...and I can tell you that it's not just Turkish people who feel that way...

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Holger Nehring @holgernehring.bsky.social · 8d

I'd love it if it looked as clean and tidy where we live.
There's one pavement that you cannot use because a tree has started growing through the tarmac...

Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 8d

A walk from near ARU on East Road down Burleigh Street in #Cambridge. Sad to see my home town in such a state. Dread to think what other places are like after 15 years of austerity. (I’ve not left the county since…2019 😳)