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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · 1d

A book as smart and engaging as its title. @clairedederer.bsky.social reflects not just on polanskis, wagners, and other picassos, but also on ourselves, redemption, love, and more.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17d

"Youth Protest in Serbia: And some thoughts for America."
Serbia is a country without the rule of law, and its young people have been taking risks for the better part of a year in the hopes of creating a future where they can live normally in their own country.
snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...

Youth Protest in Serbia

And some thoughts for America

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · 21d

First time working at the National Archives in Kew, London, this week. So efficient, friendly, and brutalist. Really, can it get any better?

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · 22d

‘The Kremlin is threatening all of Europe. In other words, just because Putin is carrying out stunts in the Baltic does not mean that the alliance must necessarily focus its response there.’

Edward Lucas @edwardlucas.bsky.social · 23d

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Test: Found Wanting

NATO just set a powerful signal to the Kremlin: “We’re not serious”. Russia does not need to defeat NATO militarily if it can politically.

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · 23d

New Historiographical Perspectives on Influence and Propaganda successfully steered through two major strikes in France and the waves of seasonal viruses. Many 🙏 to our panelists for the stimulating exchanges - it was wonderful to have you all in Brussels!
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Martin D.B. Brown @martindbbrown.bsky.social · 27d

HOME | Cold War Archives www.cold-war-chronicles.com

HOME | Cold War Archives

The Cold War Archives serves as a portal to an extensive collection of digitized documents from the Eastern European country files found in the LBJ Presidential Library and stored in Texas Scholar…

www.cold-war-chronicles.com

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Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social · 29d

I am very proud to share with you the introduction to the special issue that I co-edited with Robert Gerwarth in the journal @conteurohistory.bsky.social : "Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction" #Humanitarianism #CivilWar www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Intra-State Conflicts and the Politics of Aid in Europe, 1917–49: An Introduction

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · Sep 9

Check out Peter Gatrell, John Horne and my (I know, I know, how did that happen?) article on European civil wars and the dialectic of humanitarianism 1914-1949, + the entire special issue edited by @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social and Robert Gerwarth www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core

Civil Wars and the Dialectic of Humanitarianism, 1914–1949

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216

Hugo Souza de Cursi @hugodecursi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Le 16 et 17 septembre aura lieu à Bruxelles une journée d'étude autour des questions de propagande, d'influence et du renouvellement des études historiographiques autour de ces sujets!

Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you happen to be in Brussels on 16–17 September, join us at the ULB for the international conference “Influence and Propaganda: New Historiographical Perspectives”
repine.hypotheses.org/1216

Hugo Souza de Cursi @hugodecursi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Le 16 et 17 septembre aura lieu à Bruxelles une journée d'étude autour des questions de propagande, d'influence et du renouvellement des études historiographiques autour de ces sujets!

Programme : repine.hypotheses.org/1216

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 28

Still in Oxford, but my first farewells will be at the Old Boys School, as today the Faculty of History moves out of this building. It’s been a real privilege to spend two years here - with great people - in what was once Lawrence of Arabia’s high school.

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 26

Good news!

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 26

Lithuania’s parliament today approved Inga Ruginienė — a longtime trade unionist and political newcomer — as prime minister, following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas amid allegations about his financial dealings.

Trade union veteran becomes new Lithuanian PM

Inga Ruginienė now has to submit a governing program and build her Cabinet.

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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · Aug 25

CFP: Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe
Vilnius 16.04.2026 - 17.04.2026
Application deadline: 30.11.2025
URL: www.dhi.waw.pl/pl/ak...

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · Aug 23

For the EU, this should be a very urgent matter of national security. All EU member states should build on Denmark's wise strategy to phase out Microsoft products

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · Aug 20

today I am loving the UN Geneva Archives platform which hosts the complete League of Nations archives, digitised, entirely free

some archive digitisation programs are very clunky & hard to use, this is immaculate & has an incredibly user friendly interface + excellent metadata

archives.ungeneva.org

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · Aug 16

I don’t understand why Trump insists on the Nobel Peace Prize specifically. He is just as qualified to claim the one for literature.

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Aug 12

“A single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to ‘financially ruin’ the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.” 🎻🎻🎻

Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · Aug 12

The absurdity of their argument is basically: "It's too hard to figure out how to pay everyone we stole from." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

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Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · Aug 12

Making science possible

Ces « bibliothèques de l’ombre » où les scientifiques du monde entier partagent gratuitement des articles

« Un monde de pirates » (2/5). Les sites sur lesquels les articles scientifiques sont mis à disposition, en toute illégalité, sont très populaires au sein de la communauté universitaire. Rapides, effi...

www.lemonde.fr

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 11

"Pessimism doesn’t have to mean despair. It can be a form of political seriousness: a way of keeping our eyes open to risks and truths we might prefer to ignore."

Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · Aug 11

My new Substack on revisiting the pessimistic early “breakdown prophecies“ made about Eastern Europe im early 1990s.

Wrong then, but look more prescient

open.substack.com/pub/drseanha...

What the early pessimists on Eastern Europe got right

After 1989, a few scholars warned Eastern Europe’s new democracies would rapidly fail. They were wrong — but 30 years on, their “breakdown prophecies” look prescient.

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Brigitte Le Normand 🟥 @blenormand.bsky.social · Jun 25

My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring a postdoctoral researcher. Must have strong German language skills and archival research experience. Please help spread the word! Deadline is Sept. 1.

Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany

vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 6

Very promising!

Marijam Didžgalvytė @marijamdid.com · Aug 6

Absolute scenes in Lithuania - the country is set to have EU's most left-wing Prime Minister! 🥰
Inga served as chairwoman of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation 2018 -2024, and as vice president of the European Trade Union Confederation since 2023.
Glasses raised, this is just rad as hell. 🥂

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 6

Following the resignation of Gintautas Paluckas last week, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party has selected Minister of Social Security and Labour Inga Ruginienė as its candidate for prime minister.

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Vaida Niksaite @vaidanik.bsky.social · Aug 3

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