Michael Goebel

I jump into the moderation debate. I agree with @adambonica.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com on the methodology, but I want to draw attention to a bigger issue. The collapse of candidate effects generally.
leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-modera...

"Für internen Unmut sorgte dabei, dass nach taz-Informationen einige Fakultäten offenbar ohne große Diskussion bereit waren, für das Ministerium proaktiv Listen zu erstellen, woraufhin eine kritische Debatte innerhalb der Mitarbeiterschaft entstand."

No kings No dictators October 18 Nokings.org

Be sure to spread it around

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

A corrected version of our colloquium program @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social , with an additional talk by Sven Beckert on Nov 5: Capitalism: A Global History

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue This article relates to a new special issue published in Urban History titled ‘Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn’. The issue was edit…

Of Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Making of a Special Issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social . New blog post by Christian Jones on shorturl.at/EKABu This way to the special issue itself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gaza. 04.10.2025

Die Ausschreibung für den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen.
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...

I understand and share the alarm and exasperation, but is there really “an actual WW2-scale war going on in Europe now”?

Thanks!

Title and abstract for the linked article

📣 New special issue "Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities after the Global Turn" out now on #FirstView

🌏 Christian Jones and Yorim Spoelder, 'Introduction: writing the history of port cities after the global turn'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory

Oh, and I forgot the link over all the excitement: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ademide Adeluyi-Adelusi (on Lagos), Cyrus Schayegh (on Beirut), and Guadalupe García (on Havana). Here's to hoping that some people find it useful for teaching and future research. Thanks to all the authors, the journal, and the @snsf.ch for making this happen! 3/3

Apart from our own team members as authors, the special issue features articles by Michael Yeo (on cities in North Borneo), Sujit Sivasundaram (on Colombo), Lucia Carminati (on Port Said), Olivia Durand (on New Orleans and Odessa), Adrián Lerner Patrón (on Iquitos), Anindita Ghosh (on Calcutta), 2/3

I am so glad and proud finally to announce the publication of our special issue @urbanhistory.bsky.social: Bridgeheads and Breakwaters: The Socio-Environmental History of Port Cities After the Global Turn. It's the result of the four-year @snsf.ch project patchworkcities.com 1/3

"...scheint es angebracht, der Dämonisierung des Nationsbegriffs entgegenzuwirken... Wer Nationen untersuchen will, essentialisiert sie nicht automatisch". Weiterer Debattenbeitrag zur russländischen Imperiengeschichte, u.a. von meinem Kollegen Robert Kindler

Thanks Joel. Hope you are well and would be marvelous to see you in Berlin one day.

Nov 3: Romain Tiquet (Centre Marc Bloch) Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers Nov 24: Dora Vargha (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Communist M*A*S*H: The Making of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital Dec 1: Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics) joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism, 1830–1962 Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd (Stockholm University) A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and Social Norm Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany, 1880 to the Present Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to the World Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal.

Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

First read him in a German translation and loved it.

Map of Gaza Strip, OCHA

More than two million people are ordered to concentrate in an area of 65 sq km. That's three times the population density of NYC - in what is largely a wasteland with no adequate infrastructure and supplies.
www.ochaopt.org/sites/defaul...

A horrific bombing and shelling, and now tanks reported in the centre of Gaza.
The ground invasion of Gaza city appears to have started.
Thousands fleeing for their lives

Yes, that would be better.

Yes, I don’t think it’s a serious option either. A political non-starter also… But 🤷🏽

Yeah, no, I mean I don’t think prohibition is a serious option, so 🤷🏽

Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones. Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.

Increasingly convinced that the best way to save democracy is to prohibit social media.

I know this is a secondary point, but American citizenship is not a dimension that matters or should matter in this context.

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/

Schotwonden bij Palestijnse kinderen wijzen op gericht vuur Artsen zagen in Gaza een verontrustend patroon: kinderen met een enkele schotwond in hoofd of borst, een teken dat er gericht op ze is geschoten. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van de Volkskrant, die sprak ...

Dutch paper De Volkskrant interviewed 15 international doctors who say they saw minimum 141 children with single shot wounds to head/chest in Gaza. Adds to other doctors’ testimony indicating some IDF shooters deliberately targeting children. www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

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