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Jeremy Morris
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Write and research on Russia. Work at Aarhus University, but opinions my own, not those of employer.

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Jeremy Nigel Morris is a British historian, Church of England priest and academic. He specialises in church history. From 2014 to 2021, he was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Previously, he was Dean of Trinity Hall from 2001 to 2010, and Dean of the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge from 2010 to 2014. .. more

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · Mar 23
Reminder that this is now out in hardback and softback as well as ebook formats. Link in the next post.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 1d
I signed up to the class action against Anthropic as one of my books was used for training. Now I'm imagining how they destroyed it after scanning it; the publisher did not provide author copies because we were too many editors so I have never even owned a physical copy and had to obtain the ebook.
brosandprose.bsky.social Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 5d
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Anthropic can eat shit.
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Jeremy Morris

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St. Gael @stgael.bsky.social · 1d
When I suggested we should do this months ago I didn’t believe it was possible tbh. Creative resistance looks like this. Guerrilla looks like this. A revolution doesn’t need blood, it needs courage.

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Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social · 1d
My review essay on "The Work That Never Ends" has been published open access in @conteurohistory.bsky.social. It reviews an edited volume on #emotions and #work, two books on #NS concepts of work and a monograpgh on a #GDR enterprise. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#skystorians
The Work That Never Ends? New Works on the History of Labour | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
The Work That Never Ends? New Works on the History of Labour - Volume 35
www.cambridge.org

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 1d
*not ever

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 1d
bit of fieldwork

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 2d
unfortunately apt today

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 3d
In which @tompepinsky.com suggests that #genAI may have is uses for social scientists (and social science?) after all
Agentic AI and Social Science Research Practice
I’ve been exploring AI tools of various forms for more than a year now, mostly from a critical perspective of identifying things that they cannot do (such as draw maps), but also so that I can unde…
tompepinsky.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 4d
coming up

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 4d
Interesting discussion with Harvard senior editor in *the other place*. Pitch v. patronage in academic publishing. Reminds me of my mild expose of the scam in a post two years ago: postsocialism.org/2024/05/17/t...

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 5d
Speaking of which, Reviewer 2 complains my abstract doesn't align at all with my article's argument.

Gonna tell him a "big AI did it and ran away".
jeremymorris.bsky.social Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d
It's also an argument for open peer review. People who use AI to write papers can then be named and shamed.

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 5d
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world,” an internal planning document unsealed in legal filings last week said. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Anthropic can eat shit.
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d
It's also an argument for open peer review. People who use AI to write papers can then be named and shamed.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d
pretty sure she thinks 'AI' training is the functional equivalent of library workers setting up olds with a Facebook account.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 6d
the *front line* will remain in inverted commas permanently.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 7d
www.zeit.de/kultur/2026-...
Jeremy Morris: "Viele versuchen, sich auf das Schlimmste vorzubereiten"
Was denken Russen wirklich? Jeremy Morris ist einer der letzten westlichen Wissenschaftler, der in Russland Feldforschung betreibt. Er hat Einblicke jenseits von Zensur.
www.zeit.de

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 7d
So my interview with Die Zeit is out. Instead of a snippet of the content - here's some comments. Really not had this level of constructive engagement from readers ever before in mainstream. If anyone wants an English version, just message me.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 8d
People (elsewhere) are writing that I'm unfair on Sakwa and completely missing the point of the post!

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 8d
Re-upping. If you want more reviews of Russia-Ukraine books, take a look at this post and leave a like.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Tár-Tár Binks @josie.zone · 9d
Wow, never thought of that, thanks Tim
Timothy Snyder skeet: "What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened."

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d
percentage of emojis in RBK telegram under the news:
🤬50%
🤡 20%
❤️10%
🤣8%
👎6%
🤨4%

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d
Russia's 2025 top inflationary products in "observed basket" of goods:

Notarized/reissued official documents (c. +35%)
Blood-pressure medicine (c. +25%)
Lemons (+32%)
Coffee (+26%)
Vet services(+23%)
social rent (+22%)
physical newspapers (+20%).

Other food down -15% (!)

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 11d
t.co/tNeiNHyu3I
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/russ.12583
t.co

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 11d
Current reading:
"A Chto Sluchilos'?: Ethnographies of Holding It Together", Tatiana Chudakova, Cassandra Hartblay, Maria Sidorkina in The Russian Review 83(1).

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 12d
"a lot of what passes for scholarly work on the Russia-Ukraine conflict fails to meet scholarly standards, becoming a rehash of media sources and stuck in a kind of ‘presentist’ and elite-focussed, geopolitics doom-loop" postsocialism.org/2026/01/21/b...
Books about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Part 1: evaluating the Western-culpability thesis
Sakwa’s perspective on the causes of the Ukraine war have been subject to detailed and repeated critique – proving, if not the adequacy of pre-publication peer review (which is not necessaril…
postsocialism.org

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 12d
And those statements mean they have 'scars', remember!!

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
My pension! We're so back.
danielagabor.bsky.social Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 13d
Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... or DM for a pdf
www.tandfonline.com

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
Current reading:
Kirsti Stuvøy (12 May 2025): Everyday authoritarianism in Russia: new and old stigmatisation and insecurities in monotowns, Contemporary Politics.

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Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 13d
I'm not saying this is the case, but it's ironic to think we might enter a timeline with more relative academic freedom from political monitoring (caveats apply) in some Asian contexts than the West. hongkongfp.com/2026/01/20/h...
Hong Kong sees 55% surge in job applications from US academics
Job applications from US academics to Hong Kong surged 55 per cent in 2025, as President Donald Trump’s administration targeted American universities.
hongkongfp.com

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 13d
Well well well. The Danes are weaponising firesales.