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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 4h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

We never tried it.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4-word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Need a bigger boat.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 4h

interesting orientalist image... could have have been the Nautes pilar or some Provençal peddler.

makes me think of how pseudo-Marxists tend to use the word "compradores" instead of "merchants" which always has the effect effect of pushing out the profession our of the national community.

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IHMC - UMR 8066 @ihmc.bsky.social · 3d

En préparation de la première séance du séminaire « La Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine en débat » (jeudi 23 octobre 2025), dans laquelle nous accueillerons Mme Fiume.
➡️ ihmc.ens.psl.eu/mediterranee...

Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · Sep 7

Une excellente synthèse sur la course méditerranéenne à l’époque moderne signée Giovanna Fiume.

Vient de paraître chez Carocci.

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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 3d

The @nytimes.com recently reported on RCC’s doctoral candidate Sevgi Mutlu Sirakova and the #ant #yogurt study she participated in.

You can read the article “This Traditional Yogurt Recipe’s Secret Ingredient Has 6 Legs” online:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/s...

This Traditional Yogurt Recipe’s Secret Ingredient Has 6 Legs

www.nytimes.com

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 3d

Arturo Marzano - Storia di Gaza

Terra, politica, conflitti

À paraître en octobre chez il Mulino

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Doc Quantique @docquantique.bsky.social · 3d

Ubisoft collabore donc avec le fascisme. Où sont des laches, au mieux.
Bah boycott du coup.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 3d

Don't ask "what is a Turk?" but "when is a Turk?"

Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social · 3d

To take just one example, the majority of MHP voters identify with the Turkish nation (AKP voters identify with an Islamic community), but when asked which historical period matters most to them, they respond with the Ottoman/Seljuk period (as opposed to the Republican period).

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 3d

not gonna lie: I'm a tad bit jelly

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The Conversation France @france.theconversation.com · 3d

Le marketing viral du chocolat de Dubaï

Une tablette de chocolat artisanal, née à Dubaï et popularisée sur TikTok, est devenue en quelques mois un phénomène mondial. Plus encore qu’un produit, c’est un nom qui fait vendre.

theconversation.com

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Desperta Ferro Ediciones @despertaferroed.bsky.social · 3d

"En una época de acelerado cambio tecnológico, la historia puede parecer irrelevante. Sin embargo, comprender el pasado es más importante que nunca para la humanidad". Peter Wilson, Chichele Professor de la Universidad de Oxford, hoy en nuestro blog.
www.despertaferro-ediciones.com/2025/la-util...

La utilidad de la historia - Desperta Ferro Ediciones

En una época de cambio tecnológico, la historia puede parecer irrelevante. Sin embargo, la utilidad de la historia es mayor que nunca.

www.despertaferro-ediciones.com

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 3d

Neeeeeeed!!!!!!

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 3d

Now available in #paperback, Volcanoes in Human History by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer & Donald Theodore Sanders is the classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture & science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. Helens.

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Volcanoes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders. The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. Helens.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 4d

I’d heard so much praise for this book and finally found time to read it. It’s a fascinating read that pushes us to reconsider the Eurocentric nature of Marxist accounts of production that often erase the history of medieval slavery.

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Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com · 4d

Un fanzine de fuentes históricas con mucho mucho spicy (véase ejemplo)

El fanzine incluye las cartas transcritas y la información para consultar los originales online

Hazte con él por solo 6 leros envío incluido (para España, si es en otro sitio tengo que preguntar en correos)

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shmesp.bsky.social @shmesp.bsky.social · 6d

Souscription ouvrage : Saint Jacques, Toulouse et Charlemagne

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 4d

🎨 Catholic Women from #Chios Island, 1807

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 5d

Yes!!!!

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 5d

This looks good

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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 5d

where did you find the France part? Everything I'm looking at indicates that the French read less than both the Americans and the Brits (which based on personal impression, feels true)

for example: worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Average Books Read Per Year by Country 2025

Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.

worldpopulationreview.com

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 5d

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 5d

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 · 6d

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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Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 5d

Will you be in Paris at some point before or after that?

Can I buy you a coffee and a slice of cake?

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 5d

And the Lord said: Go down, Mosses

Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · 5d

I know at least one person who would appreciate this as a gift!

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World: A Guide to Every Order
Joanna Wilbraham
August 2025. @princetonupress.bsky.social

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts of the World

A magnificently illustrated guide to the bryophyte species found across the world

press.princeton.edu

Blue history @bluehistory.bsky.social · 5d

I know it's revolutionary to say so but: colonization sucks.

New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 5d

11.🧵While the world’s attention is focused on Gaza, extremist Israeli settlers are, with their government’s complicity, violently annexing the West Bank. Nicolas Cortes tells the story of four villages in the South Hebron Hills for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...

While the World Watches Gaza, the West Bank Burns

Since Oct. 7, Jewish settlers have been waging a bloody, unchecked war of displacement, beatings and killings against defenseless Palestinian villagers

newlinesmag.com

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Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com · 5d

¡Hemos impreso una nueva tirada de los fanzines! Con un sello especial tallado a mano a partir de un original del siglo XVIII

“Me dejaste como la flor en la escarcha: Selección de cartas de mujeres a sus maridos en América, 1740s”

5€ más gastos de envío. Escríbeme un privado si te interesa

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Matt Wolfbridge (read Typebar Magazine) @wolfbridge.bsky.social · 6d

Good essay. Had not considered how sound itself can be policed by gender.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Soundscapes of the Silenced | Erin Maglaque

In late Renaissance Florence one in five women lived behind institutional walls whose rule was sensory mortification. Historians are struggling to recover their inexpressible secrets.

www.nybooks.com

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 5d

A World of Piety by Jeremy Phillip Brown examines the historical aspirations of kabbalah to prompt a revival of ancient rabbinic piety in medieval Castile.

https://www.sup.org/books/religious-studies/world-piety

#ReadUP

Book cover of A World of Piety: The Aims of Castilian Kabbalah by Jeremy Phillip Brown

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