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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 9d

You’re still thinking too narrowly in terms of batch production. I imagine a future in which the tawdry details of human life are but a brief instant in a Great Unbroken Chain of Continuous Laundering.

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 10d

I did a terrible job announcing this in the rush to arrange everything, but I have started a new role as a Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds!

Our project (PI: Robert Hornsby) will study the USSR's role in the WHO and global health, 1957-1991. Lots more to come!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · 17d

This is all so beautifully stated. Exactly this!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Sep 3

There are so many layers here, where to even begin?!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Jun 30

May the temperature and humidity break in your favour!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Jun 15

Gorgeous!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · May 14

Done!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Apr 20

Жайлоо!!

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Slavic Reference Service @srs-uiuc.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 13

With a hat tip to @ukrarthistory.bsky.social, who posted about it over on Twitter, I'll be very excited to check out this new exhibition on Tatlin as a Ukrainian artist! If you are (or will be) in NYC, check it out at the Ukrainian Museum until April 27!

www.theukrainianmuseum.org/tatlin-kyiv/

TATLIN: KYIV

www.theukrainianmuseum.org

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 11

Thank you so much for all this advice! Especially about preservation, always a sticking point for digital resources from what I've experienced!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 10

I think if you can fit the content into that sort of framework, it makes sense. In my experience, asynchronous lessons work best when combining short videos with other activities!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thank you for this! Already found some ideas by hunting through this hashtag!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 10

This is great, thank you so much for sharing! Amazing examples of the kind of thing I'm hoping to do!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 10

Digital historians! I know some of you are doing amazing work with GIS, and I was wondering: could you share your favorite guides, courses, and tools for this work? And for data generation, management, and use in general? #skystorians #academicsky

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 3

If it isn't real yet, I'm sure some organization somewhere is working hard to make it a reality!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 3

Ouch! Don't encounter any problems, and if you do, make sure they are not in any way atypical! Things must break down in an orderly way, so they fit within the framework of the forms and the helpline structures!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 3

And, it goes without saying, I have not gotten an answer to my question!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Mar 3

Not an earth-shattering point, but it occurs to me that the entire infrastructure of robo-service is optimized to make sure only *my* time is wasted. I have a question. 2 emails and 1 phone call later, I have gotten a robo-reply and a robo-phone message. I have not managed to trouble a single human.

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Feb 28

How did I not know that Eastview has a full open-access database of the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (1942-1992)?! Check it out: on-demand.eastview.com/browse/publi...

Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (PDF, article-based)

Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (PDF, article-based). Established in 1942 by the Ministry of Health of the USSR, the journal Sovetskoe Zdravookhranenie (Soviet Healthcare) was Soviet Union’s premier scient...

on-demand.eastview.com

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social · Feb 13

#aseees people: @labendz.bsky.social Jacob Labendz and I are looking to put together a panel on Postwar state security in a global perspective, with or without Jews as the focus. Please send either of us a message if you are interested!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Feb 1

If it's any consolation, your book with Oxana Shevel is easily the clearest, most even-handed, and most convincing explainer I've ever read on it! I think it changed the thinking of some of my students last year!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Jan 29

Great to see the volume is out in ebook form, and in open access! Full of wonderful contributions! Check out my chapter on Soviet participation in the "wider networks" of WHO malariology if you want to know how Soviet specialists both reinforced and transcended the boundaries of the Cold War!

Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social · Jan 29

It also includes my chapter on “International organizations and the issue of natural disasters during the Cold War” alongside contributions by @crwdietrich.bsky.social, @simon-graham.bsky.social, @marekeby.bsky.social, @dsharnak.bsky.social (and other great scholars not yet on bsky) (2/3)

International Organizations and the Cold War

www.bloomsburycollections.com

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Jan 28

I may!

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Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social · Jan 28

Has anyone written about the (apparently ill-fated) Soviet role in the 1939-40 World's Fair in NYC? NYPL has over 1,000 linear feet of records on the fair, and mentions significant controversy over Soviet plans and eventual withdrawal...

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