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Nancy Wingfield
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Habsburg historian, occasionally, some Successor States; fan of cats, good coffee, wine, the Austrian Riviera, NYC, Paris, Prague, & Vienna. Under contract to write a book that stubbornly refuses to write itself. I've been awarded a medal! .. more

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · Sep 6
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kbruisch.bsky.social Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · Sep 4
It was good to co-author alongside @clarekelly.bsky.social & Caitríona Leahy & with the input from Harun Šiljak & Norah Campbell. We are clearly not the only ones thinking like this, both within Trinity & beyond, so let's build community to #resistAI

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI
Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI
www.irishtimes.com

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 9h
Nothing whatsoever unless the author was time traveling to let us know that things were better under FDR than the present regime.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h
Ok NYT wut does the second sentence have to do w/ the first

“The shooting of two National Guard members on Wednesday was not the first time there was violence near the White House.

During World War II, a stranger slipped into the White House to watch a movie with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h
Ok NYT wut does the second sentence have to do w/ the first

“The shooting of two National Guard members on Wednesday was not the first time there was violence near the White House.

During World War II, a stranger slipped into the White House to watch a movie with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.”

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 18h
👇👇👇 Not even worth satirizing as something like Kakania.
avielroshwald.bsky.social Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 18h
The regime in power in the U.S. is a travesty. We are living under a travestocracy.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 18h
This David Mastio? The Hillsdale-educated guy who backed Trump, writing in your paper last Thanksgiving about why he was thankful for Trump? He couldn't vote for the smart, experienced Black lady? @kansascitystar.bsky.social, do better.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 18h
The regime in power in the U.S. is a travesty. We are living under a travestocracy.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d
Isn't everyone's? 👇👇👇

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Canadian Slavonic Papers @canslavpapers.bsky.social · 1d
To mark the theme of the 2025 ASEEES conference, Taylor and Francis is providing free access to some recent CSP articles on the topic of "memory," available for download until Dec. 31. Check them out here:
slavists.ca/news/
News - The Canadian Association of Slavists | Canadian Slavonic Papers
To mark the theme of the 2025 Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) conference, Taylor and Francis is providing free access to
slavists.ca

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Sen. Jim Justice (R-West Virginia) and his wife agreed to pay over $5 million in unpaid income taxes that the IRS said dated back to 2009.
Sen. Jim Justice, wife to pay $5 million in back taxes to settle IRS suit
The senator from West Virginia and his wife struck the agreement hours after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit. The IRS said the unpaid taxes dated to 2009.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 1d
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d
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tomisitt.bsky.social Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social · 4d
History says the Austro-Hungarian army was starving in 1918, but what does that actually mean? What was the effect of starvation on frontline soldiers? The Minnesota Experiment gives some answers, but few historians have attempted to analyse the effects of starvation. So I’m doing some science…
Volunteer in starvation experiment being tested List of physiological effects of prolonged PEM The Biology of Human Starvation, by Ancel Keys (the man who invented the K ration)

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d
Long ago and far away, in a galaxy called graduate school, I wrote a paper on the use of Munich in political rhetoric. You know, like "the Munich of Morningside Heights." The attempt to force Ukraine to surrender is far worse; it bears no comparison. Dear Mango, You sir are no Neville Chamberlain.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d
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marcishore.bsky.social Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d
"The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. . .Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."-- @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d
No offense to Tim 🥰, but some of us refer to him as "Shore's husband." You do know that she's not only a public historian but is also one of the most important intellectual historians of a generation?

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 3d
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watsonkaren.bsky.social Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · 12d
WOW 🇨🇦 building on "historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore; philosopher Jason Stanley; and quantum chemist Alán Aspuru-Guzik, who is director of the Acceleration Consortium – an institutional strategic initiative that uses artificial intelligence and robotics..."
sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social 🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 13d
“Big win for Canada”, big loss for the USA

The poaching has already begun…

“…the University of Toronto is further strengthening its academic ranks with three top researchers from U.S. universities whose work ranges from the search for new planets to the economics of powering our own.”

#Canada
#US

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d
"The 28-point peace plan that the United States and Russia want to impose on Ukraine and Europe is misnamed. It is not a peace plan. . .Awkward wording, evident throughout the document, suggests that at least some of it was originally written in Russian."-- @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com

Reposted by Nancy M. Wingfield

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PH' @philipssr.bsky.social · 4d
O cara nesse pique

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 4d
Just wait til he gets ahold of 18th & 19th-c breastfeeding practices. Yikes.

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Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social · 4d
History says the Austro-Hungarian army was starving in 1918, but what does that actually mean? What was the effect of starvation on frontline soldiers? The Minnesota Experiment gives some answers, but few historians have attempted to analyse the effects of starvation. So I’m doing some science…
Volunteer in starvation experiment being tested List of physiological effects of prolonged PEM The Biology of Human Starvation, by Ancel Keys (the man who invented the K ration)

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 4d
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tsasson.bsky.social Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 6d
We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb.

www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 4d
The Czech ruling elites absolutely knew it was not a nation state, which is why there was early postwar violence, etc. Why the entire discussion of how many Germans to permit in the new state, blah, blah, blah. My big question is how much the Slovaks were in on the national "joke." 🥰

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 4d
PSA: Czechoslovakia was not a nation state, but a multinational state governed as a nation state. 🙄it's not even clear that the Czech Republic is a nation state. Ask the Moravians!🥰 End of rant. 😆🤣😆
stergarr.bsky.social Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 5d
If you're attending #ASEEES25 and are interested in how the new nation-states acted as nationalizing states, join us tomorrow at 2 pm.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 4d
Wait, wait! He oughtn't be using up our garlic supply. We need it for the vampires!
avielroshwald.bsky.social Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 5d
RFK Jr will also be ordering CDC to endorse bloodletting and garlic compresses as remedies for all ailments.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d
Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil
Far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro arrested in Brazil
Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from the capital
www.theguardian.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 5d
RFK Jr will also be ordering CDC to endorse bloodletting and garlic compresses as remedies for all ailments.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com

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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 5d
If you're attending #ASEEES25 and are interested in how the new nation-states acted as nationalizing states, join us tomorrow at 2 pm.

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 5d
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dominiquereill.bsky.social Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 7d
The @ualberta.bsky.social History, Classics, + Religion Graduate student association is organizing a conference "Memory and Narrative: Navigating Connection & Contention," with a call to papers open to any field + offering travel subsidies. Apply! Share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 5d
This is a joke, right? Right?
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d
House Republicans refused to condemn fascism just a few days ago
newrepublic.com/post/203347/...