Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives Β£200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journalβs aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
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19.01.2026 13:22 β π 17 π 28 π¬ 0 π 0
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
13.01.2026 15:38 β π 661 π 283 π¬ 25 π 60
Paperback copy of the book The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History with the Dead Sea shore in the background.
Happy new year everyone! If you are looking for something to read in 2026, The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History is now available in paperback. @yalebooks.bsky.social β¬
01.01.2026 05:21 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
How an international security force in post-war Gaza could work - Academia - The Jakarta Post
An international stabilization force is a central plank in the plans for post-war Gaza that have been put forward by US president Donald Trump.
One potential contributing country for an International Security Force for #Gaza is #Indonesia - which is why I'm particularly excited to see an article I co-wrote with @nirarielli.bsky.social on it will take to succeed published by the Jakarta Post!
www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025...
21.10.2025 12:55 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
How an international security force in post-war Gaza could work
Weeks after the war began, we collaborated on a proposal for a multinational peacekeeping force in Gaza. Many of our recommendations remain relevant.
@jacobstoil.bsky.social, Mary Elizabeth Walters and I wrote about deploying a multinational peacekeeping force to #Gaza long before it was cool. Now that such a force is being assembled (haphazardly), we revisit some of the ideas we put forward in 2023 share.google/Zm2MEI5kNdIF...
17.10.2025 17:41 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is the best plan available out of this nightmare. Netanyahu will try his best to torpedo it. I hope it'll be implemented nonetheless. @jacobstoil.bsky.social
27.09.2025 10:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Armed Internationalists
Cambridge Core - Global History - Armed Internationalists
I recommend this book wholeheartedly. Not only because it was written by my friends @enacciai.bsky.social, Morten Heiberg, and Carl-Henrik BjerstrΓΆm, but also because it is innovative and fascinating. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
22.09.2025 13:14 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The Starmer Declaration
21.09.2025 20:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
@jacobstoil.bsky.social - does some of this look familiar to you?
18.09.2025 10:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Diminish a book
The Not So Lively Sea
08.09.2025 13:47 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Do you prefer to listen to books rather than read them? Good news, in that case - the audiobook version of The Dead Sea: A 10,000 Year History is now available. Many thanks to @tantoraudio.bsky.social & @nigelpatterson.bsky.social tantor.com/the-dead-sea...
26.08.2025 03:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Saving the Dead Sea
As the Dead Sea shrinks at an alarming pace, environmental experts from the Middle East and UK are calling on regional policymakers to take urgent action.
It was an honour and a privilege to work with experts from Jordan, Israel and Palestine, developing ideas to alleviate the environmental crisis in the #DeadSea. Good to be reminded that there are plenty of kind and forward-facing people in the region. www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...
05.08.2025 13:00 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
History Books of the Year . . . so far! - Yale University Press London
This reading list brings you our History books of the year so far, as chosen by critics. You can shop this selection with a 30% discount.
Our History books of the year so far, as chosen by the critics.
Includes books by @tlgrady68.bsky.social, @hdiamond.bsky.social, @nirarielli.bsky.social and many more!
You can shop this selection with a 30% discount and free UK postage here:
yalebooks.co.uk/history-book...
#skystorians
08.07.2025 10:37 β π 11 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0
Thank you for initiating the letter. It's good to see the British government and other countries targeting two individuals who have a lot to answer for.
10.06.2025 15:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Global shortage of popcorn looming
05.06.2025 20:20 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
For once, we must agree to disagree.
13.05.2025 06:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Very sad to learn that historian Motti Golani, an expert on the British Mandate in Palestine, passed away unexpectedly.
26.04.2025 12:46 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by YaleBooks
The Dead Sea - Nir Arielli
youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0a...
14.04.2025 12:02 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nir Arielli, author of The Dead Sea, was interviewed on American Purpose's podcast, Bookstack @nirarielli.bsky.social @americanpurpose.bsky.social https://www.persuasion.community/p/episode-160-nir-arielli-on-10000?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
02.04.2025 17:02 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Truly beautiful
30.03.2025 22:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Prophecy can never be delivered because when it is, the entire faith/cult/movement ceases to have purpose. So much politics is just a giant pyramid scheme.
28.03.2025 13:49 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
This reminds me of Netanyahu who is constantly on the verge of delivering 'total victory' but is, at the same time, prevented from doing so by a changing cast of domestic obstructions.
28.03.2025 13:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Netanyahu is trying to divert attention away from his many misdeeds as well as the surge in anti-government protests.
23.03.2025 19:47 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by University of Leeds
Studying Undergraduate History at the University of Leeds #UniversityOfLeeds #HistoryBA
Great to see the first of this new suite of videos about our undergraduate degrees in History at Leeds launched. Featuring brilliant colleagues @sarakbarker.bsky.social & @lauracking.bsky.social and our wonderful students & alumni, plus me making the case for the value and joy of a History degree.
21.03.2025 16:19 β π 32 π 6 π¬ 2 π 0
Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
#Author: THE NAZI & THE PSYCHIATRIST (movie NUREMBERG opening 7 November 2025); FACE IN THE MIRROR; THE LOST BROTHERS; THE LOBOTOMIST. #Writer of DAMN #HISTORY newsletter. jack@el-hai.com
#OneYoungWorld Ambassador, Author 'Elite theory and the 2003 Iraq Occupation by the United States: How US corporate elites created Iraq's political system'
Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of Δ°stanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney πΉπ·π¦πΊπ
Archaeologist researching the US Southwest, and museum professional.
reading, baking, art, archaeology, museums, sparkles, birds, politics
Professor of Modern North American History at the University of Oslo, Norway. Nuclear strategy and arms control.
Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker β’ Writer β’ Reviewer β’ Editor βοΈ
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
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Prof of climate adaptation. Uni of Southampton. Research and teach on reducing damaging weather and climate impacts. Side interest in nuisance seaweeds, space, cats, and things that make me laugh.
Image: Ed Hawkins 2025
Prof at University of Leeds, PFHEA, Sustainable Curriculum Leadership Team, University Academic Lead on Professional Development, School of Earth & Environment, Sustainability Research Institute. Likes swimming outside.
Climate reporter @ Sky News, covering energy, climate change and the environment. Panel moderator and speaker.
https://news.sky.com/author/victoria-seabrook-795
PostDoc at IIT Gandhinagar. Studying rivers, sediments and morphology
https://dixitabhishek.wordpress.com
Publishing in all aspects of water, wastewater and related environmental fields. All journals Open Access since 2021!
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Research Fellow @lborogeog.bsky.social| Natural flood management, laser scanning, sediment transport & 360 video | https://joshwolstenholme.github.io/
Mum, tennis player, occasionally runner/cyclist/French. Learning about modelling/mapping/rivers. For an economy where people and the environment matter.
Green, vegan, tofu-eating wokerati type. Research Manager at University of Leeds. Walker of 2 rescue dogs. More enthusiastic than skilled gardener. Retrofitting and behaviour change to be lower consuming
Pro Dean Research and Innovation in Engineering and Physical Sciences at Leeds University. Indoor air, ventilation, infection risks, fluid dynamics, academia, EDI in science and a few cats. Views my own. #academicsky
water@leeds is one of the largest interdisciplinary centres for water research in any university in the world. #academicsky #EITwater #FreshwaterQuality
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historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
