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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 6h

Would fit perfectly with this new alt-history media project american-kingdoms.com

In American Kingdoms, American history is re-imagined as a medieval setting - an age defined not by musket and cannon, but by knightly honor and courtly intrigue.

american-kingdoms.com

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 18h

Possible, though I reckon it might be just a bonus, a byproduct of more crude tactics. Doesn't change the fact the lack of self-preservation instincts is baffling.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 1d

Deloitte has been caught selling an AI generated report to the Australian government for the price of 440,000 dollars. Smart. An even cheaper way to make expensive BS consultant reports about how we can cut the public sector without any bad consequences at all.

Deloitte delivers report to government using AI which contained errors | ABC NEWS

YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 1d

New on the blog: 'Diverse Tales of Slaves, Sex, & Female Owners'

In this post, James explores how late antique sources show female masters exploiting the bodies of their slaves. It follows from the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency' workshop in Bonn.

Link: www.dosseproject.com/diverse-tale...

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 2d

... but I guess instead of solidarity one can opt for everyone for themselves approach. This is not to say we don't get to be critical over funding allocation etc., but this particular attack seems very silly and irresponsible.

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 2d

That whole thread over there seems very bizzare. You would think academics in the States would be a bit more weary of trivialising other academics research over funding they receive in the context of the current political climate surrounding funding of research there...

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 6d

I don't buy it. I do believe that Russia made a deliberate intelligence leak about something like that to scare the Americans, and it worked. It's also a convenient story for the US establishment, btw, because it justifies a strategy that turned out to be a failure.

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 7d

📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de

A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027
-The deadline is on January 10, 2026

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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 8d

📢 Congratulations to Julia Hillner for her contribution to an article in SPIEGEL Geschichte on slavery & prostitution in the Roman Empire!

(Article in German, subscriber access only)

🔗To the Article: buff.ly/DGw3EZDin: Spiegel GESCHICHTE 5/25 'Roms Kampf um German

@unibonn.bsky.social
@dfg.de

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 9d

More opportunities @dependencybonn.de !

We are also looking for research fellows to join us in 2026-7, with projects that develop and critically reflect on specific methodological approaches to the study of strong asymmetrical dependencies, to help us develop our newly minted Method Lab.

Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 9d

In addition, the call for new Heinz Heinen fellows has just gone live: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/fellowshi... (for doctoral, junior postdoc, senior postdoc, and alternative knowledge producer positions)

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 9d

The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!

3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)

full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152

www.uni-bonn.de

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 10d

Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look!
More on the seminar's website...

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 13d

To all those who couldn't join us at this time - we hope this workshop will result in something tangible, so keep your eyes open 😊.

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 13d

Many thanks to our speakers: @lucygrig.bsky.social Jessica van 't Westeinde, @kateantiquity.bsky.social James Burns, Marta Szada, Charlotte Spence, Anna Kelley and Erin Dailey; our moderators @jmharland.bsky.social and Giulia Cappucci; and to our responder @writinghelena.bsky.social

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 13d

We had an entire day of stimulating discussions yesterday at the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity' workshop organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly. We are grateful to @dependencybonn.de for providing funding and assistance for this event.

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 15d

What does going "further than original form" would even mean? Reclaiming the regions of the Cossack Kuban People's Republic of 1918-1920😅?

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 20d

My institution, the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, is currently advertising five nine-month fellowships to support the writing of a PhD funding proposal. Deadline 1 October.

Any questions, do get in touch (my email is on my webpage :)

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/about...

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 24d

Or we might end up with Adeptus Mechanicus. Praise the Omnissiah.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 28d

There are many statements right now where MAGA politicians complain about being compared to the Nazis, but seriously: have these people spent any amount of time studying what the nazis did and how that compares to themselves?

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 28d

These two paragraphs, these two statements one after the other is quite something.

“Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire,” said Matt Forney, a rightwing writer and blogger. He said Democratic politicians should be arrested and the party banned. “It is time for a complete crackdown on the left.”

He was not alone. Katie Miller, the influencer and wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, said liberals were to blame for Kirk’s killing. “You called us Hitler,” she wrote on X. “You called us Nazis. You called us Racists. You have blood on your hands.”

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Piotr Stankiewicz @stankiewicz.bsky.social · 29d

Warto przemyśleć politykę wysyłania tych alertów RCB. Bo na razie to wygląda tak, że jak ma spaść grad, to przychodzi wiadomość o końcu świata, a jak rosja robi nalot na Polskę, to jest mowa bez mała o UFO, "neutralizowanie obiektów", "w związku z naruszeniami" itp. biurokratyczne kocopoły.

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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · Sep 10

I just published this video, and the next night, Russia launches drones at Poland. It really underscores the point. The European NATO countries need Ukraine just as much as Ukraine needs security guarantees from them.

European security depends on Ukraine

YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · Sep 10

Unfortunately we in Central and Eastern Europe are the ones who will be reaping what the Buffoon of the White House and his bunch of clueless plutocratic attendants sowed for the sake of having a couple pictures with the Despot of Moscow in Alaska

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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · Sep 9

kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-au...