I am glad Marie Favereau doesn't live in UB when she conjures the following words: "Another aspect I find particularly striking—and so different from Western models—is the Mongol relationship with cities. There’s a common stereotype that nomads don’t build cities...

Hada's "case highlights the broader pattern of repression in Southern Mongolia, where communities face forced assimilation, cultural erasure, and land expropriation as part of Beijing’s systematic targeting of non-Han populations. His recent nomination for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize by U.S. and...

Who else would have witnessed it better than a mining worker-turned-electrical engineer, who just received the Goldman Prize for conservation, turned to legal suits and activism when it was the turn of his own pastureland and home that saw what he describes as:

It is already stress-inducing to exist as a mongolian student in France, but the jaw-dropping stupidity of our mongolian so-called « puppy state » rivals that of the US in intensity, if not in scale montsame.mn/en/read/363183

"An historian concerned with the Arabo-Latin transmission of science may not, for example, be compelled to learn about al-Biruni, one of the greatest of Islamic scientists, because al-Birimi was not known to the Latin West. I have even heard some medievalists say that they need not deal with...

My goodness, I have a déjà vu : Replace “Bishkek” with “Ulaanbaatar”, and all holds true?🤦🏻‍♀️

Students of mongolian studies confide in me that they are told they don’t need to learn mongolian to study mongolian history. I would love to hear more. @chakarchinggis.bsky.social @nomadism.bsky.social any insights?

Nathan Thrall at the Grand Continent of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, to speak about his recent book that won him the Pulitzer.

When one’s convictions find expression in another’s words, I realise we are t least sharing the same world.

Our current paradigm has been dominated and created by sedentary civilizations, and various "nomads" have been unmanageable pains in the ass. Now, those deemed "uncivilized" are speaking up against them being denied the acknowledgement that "nomadic civilizations" existed on par with the sedentary..

Find of the day. The second husband of my great-grandmother was a camel caravaner, who apparently travelled between Mongolia and Tibet.

When I was writing up my internship project at the IPGP 3 years ago on uranium mining site cleaning, I had not even an iota of thought that this would be happening in the near future.

It's publication day for The Blue Machine in the US and Canada! Tell your US/Canadian friends 🙂

"I love Helen Czerski’s writing, and this is her richest work yet—as clear as springwater, yet as filled with fascinating things as the ocean itself"- Sarah Bakewell
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#ocean 🧪

As @juliebozza.bsky.social pointed out to me, today's Featured Article on Wikipedia is The Baljuna Covenant! My favourite covenant by far. Read about 'an oath sworn in 1203 by Temüjin—the future Genghis Khan—and the Baljunatu, a small group of [embattled] companions.'

New to blue sky, but not khukh tenger... How do people from minority languages manage their online presence? I personally have to choose between talking about social sciences with my french colleagues, about science-related topics with the anglo/international sphere, and all-things mng with mngs...