Jayne Persian
@drjpersian.bsky.social
Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
The actors are great but I do not understand the love for The Beast In Me, which is a steaming pile of ponderous crap
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The actors are great but I do not understand the love for The Beast In Me, which is a steaming pile of ponderous crap
Always a mixed blessing when my work is topical 🙃
November 29, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Always a mixed blessing when my work is topical 🙃
Wollongong!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Dairy 'disrupter' who invented spreadable butter in 70s wins science award
An 86-year-old farmer claims this year's Dairy Science Award for inventing spreadable butter, by mixing oils with cultured cream at a time when it was illegal.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Wollongong!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
James Watson reviews ‘Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia’ by Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social, Andrew Saniga and David Beynon
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/1031...
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
Mentioned in the same sentence as these two classics AMAZING
... Glenda Sluga’s Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (1988), Mark Peel’s Good Times, Bad Times: The Past and Future in Elizabeth (1995), and Jayne Persian’s Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (2017) ...
... Glenda Sluga’s Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (1988), Mark Peel’s Good Times, Bad Times: The Past and Future in Elizabeth (1995), and Jayne Persian’s Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (2017) ...
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Mentioned in the same sentence as these two classics AMAZING
... Glenda Sluga’s Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (1988), Mark Peel’s Good Times, Bad Times: The Past and Future in Elizabeth (1995), and Jayne Persian’s Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (2017) ...
... Glenda Sluga’s Bonegilla: A Place of No Hope (1988), Mark Peel’s Good Times, Bad Times: The Past and Future in Elizabeth (1995), and Jayne Persian’s Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians (2017) ...
Shout out in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung re a conference in Lviv:
When Lubomyr Luciuk (Kingston) tried almost entirely to refute Nazi and war criminal accusations against Ukrainians in Canada and the Waffen-SS Division "Galicia" he was contradicted by Kai Struve and Jayne Persian.
When Lubomyr Luciuk (Kingston) tried almost entirely to refute Nazi and war criminal accusations against Ukrainians in Canada and the Waffen-SS Division "Galicia" he was contradicted by Kai Struve and Jayne Persian.
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Shout out in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung re a conference in Lviv:
When Lubomyr Luciuk (Kingston) tried almost entirely to refute Nazi and war criminal accusations against Ukrainians in Canada and the Waffen-SS Division "Galicia" he was contradicted by Kai Struve and Jayne Persian.
When Lubomyr Luciuk (Kingston) tried almost entirely to refute Nazi and war criminal accusations against Ukrainians in Canada and the Waffen-SS Division "Galicia" he was contradicted by Kai Struve and Jayne Persian.
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Success rate is just number of successful submissions as a proportion of the total (eligible) submissions. For DECRA, there's a fixed number funded – 200 per year – and so the changing success rate directly indicates the number of applicants, with some exceptions (e.g. in 2012, 277 were funded).
November 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Success rate is just number of successful submissions as a proportion of the total (eligible) submissions. For DECRA, there's a fixed number funded – 200 per year – and so the changing success rate directly indicates the number of applicants, with some exceptions (e.g. in 2012, 277 were funded).
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DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran).
What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…
DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8
What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…
DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8
🚨 #DECRA #DE26 announcement:
❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2026❗️
See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ https://rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/Download/Report/a3f6be6e-33f7-4fb5-98a6-7526aaa184cf/285
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November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran).
What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…
DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8
What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…
DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8
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Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Everything must be THE MARKET!!!!
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November 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I didn't do well on my Yr 12 HSC because I was too busy reading, underlining and making notes know William Shirer's Rise & Fall of the Third Reich 🤣
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I didn't do well on my Yr 12 HSC because I was too busy reading, underlining and making notes know William Shirer's Rise & Fall of the Third Reich 🤣
This is such a howler. It's 2025. The literature is out there. Read it. Please.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This is such a howler. It's 2025. The literature is out there. Read it. Please.
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Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.
At the airport cafe and through my Bose noise-cancelling headphones I can hear music, TV, conversations & announcements 🙃 sell me silence!!
November 19, 2025 at 3:56 AM
At the airport cafe and through my Bose noise-cancelling headphones I can hear music, TV, conversations & announcements 🙃 sell me silence!!
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“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Pope Leo with the antidote to a HE planning day 🙃
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Pope Leo with the antidote to a HE planning day 🙃
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"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fascists in Exile: Post-War Displaced Persons in Australia
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
"Persian forces readers to confront the uneasy coexistence of humanitarianism and hypocrisy in Australia’s post-war nation-building."
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Pierluigi Bolioli reviews @drjpersian.bsky.social's 'Fascists in Exile' for @jich.bsky.social (advance access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New review of my book 🤓
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
New review of my book 🤓
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The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...
Ok I need to know without watching the thing how they can know that is Hitler's DNA
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Ok I need to know without watching the thing how they can know that is Hitler's DNA
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4/ Neither is nationalism, xenophobia, or male supremacy.
On the contrary.
In fact, an argument could be made that groups like the NSN simply provide the most consistent & rigorous expression of these sentiments in ways that appeal to young(er) white men in particular.
That, and antisemitism.
On the contrary.
In fact, an argument could be made that groups like the NSN simply provide the most consistent & rigorous expression of these sentiments in ways that appeal to young(er) white men in particular.
That, and antisemitism.
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
4/ Neither is nationalism, xenophobia, or male supremacy.
On the contrary.
In fact, an argument could be made that groups like the NSN simply provide the most consistent & rigorous expression of these sentiments in ways that appeal to young(er) white men in particular.
That, and antisemitism.
On the contrary.
In fact, an argument could be made that groups like the NSN simply provide the most consistent & rigorous expression of these sentiments in ways that appeal to young(er) white men in particular.
That, and antisemitism.