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Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage..."
Steinbeck's prose is hauntingly precise. Grapes of Wrath has been a deeply bleak but spectacular read.
Anybody overwhelmed by *gesticulates arms wildly* should watch The Philosopher's Kitchen Jeong Kwan on Netflix. A Buddhist nun (who also happens to be an extraordinary chef) doing her thing in rural Korea is the energy we all need right now
Once more for everyone in the back: the green transition is good economics, good for energy security, and good for the planet. There is no absence of capital – there is an absence of will, and this absence is not built on any sound foundations
An amazing stat:
Iran exported more oil *today* than it did daily before the war.
It's the one country whose tankers are getting through the Strait of Hormuz.
www.wsj.com/world/middle...
1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work.
It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science.
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...exhibit two
Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?
"If the American way of war can’t work against Iran, a weak regime with a middling military, there is no chance that it will work in a much harder case — China, say." Excellent piece by Jacquelyn Schneider www.ft.com/content/9fae...
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
...and this is what makes me wonder if markets are simply seeing what they want to see by taking *some* of the Trump administration's words at face value but not others
Clearly I'm in the wrong line of business
Today's AMA on @askhistorians.bsky.social! Come check it out!
...I see the US is, in fact, angling for a perpetual war
Here's the cherry on top.
Well, quite, and this is my fear here too. I'm hoping there are good reasons for the assumption of a short war beyond it being uncomfortable to envision the repercussions of a long war.
A genuine question: a lot of the media reports and commentary I'm reading is working from the assumption that this war will end quickly (i.e. in a matter of weeks or months). Are there good reasons for this assumption? Any recommendations for reading would be very welcome!
Transitioning to renewables is good for the environment, good economics and good for energy security. If western leaders aren't convinced of this by now, they never will be.
Jusqu'au 3 mai 1725, au château de #Versailles, près de Paris, l'exposition "1725. Des alliés amérindiens à la cour de Louis XV".
Il s'agit du récit de la venue des ambassadeurs des Otoe, Osage, Missouria et Illinois, alliés de la France 1/9
www.chateauversailles.fr/presse/expos...
'Only four in 10 UK PhD graduates remain in academia just over a year after completing their degrees with many more heading overseas for research jobs than in previous years, a major national poll suggests.' 1/3
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
It's so discombobulating to realise that some researchers play by entirely different rules to everyone else. I just can't wrap my head around it
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨
Is British politics becoming riven with sectarianism? Are we the next Lebanon? Does dodgy bloc voting dominate our elections?
Many are saying "yes" after Gorton & Denton. But it doesn't reflect any of the evidence.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...
It's a phrase I'd be frustrated but unsurprised to see from a contrarian tabloid columnist. From a vice-chancellor, though...?
It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”
"Getting access to the student loan book"
New article in French History! ‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792' by William S. Cormack
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Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Co-editing a special issue is a lot of work, of course, but it's also *so* much fun reading the contributions and thinking about the links between them! Watch this space 🗃️
