Renaud Morieux

@renaudmorieux.bsky.social

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History Professor at University of Cambridge.
Oceanic history, migrations, social history of war, history of international law, incarceration, history of the family, statelessness.

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Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social · Jun 24

My new article 'The Politics of Colonial Lists' just published in Comparative Studies in Society and History @csshjournal.bsky.social
And it is open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny

Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 3d

More news about our AHRC-funded project, “Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana.”

www.xavier.edu/now/2025/xav...

Xavier professor receives $2M for research into Caribbean slavery

www.xavier.edu

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP

Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible not just that this happened, but that it’s not even a second or third tier news story, let alone something Farage will actually be held accountable for. Doesn’t make the top 15 stories on either the BBC or the Guardian! Filed under “Wales”.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 6d

Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24

Is it

A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.

James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 6d

15 years for people in medium skilled jobs and care workers too. I believe this goes down to 10 years if they earn over £50,270. Someone in a high skilled job earning over that qualifies in 5 years.

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Sadiah Qureshi @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 7d

This is just so grim. Students deserve to be taught by experts, not be expected to settle for AI. It is so disheartening to add this to the list of ways in which staff expertise is devalued, undermined or sidelined by institutions across the sector.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

www.theguardian.com

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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 7d

Professor Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled Dislocated Families: Women, War, and Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions.

For more information and to register for the event, please visit our website:

www.asmcf.org/news/sixteen...

Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture 2026 | ASMCF

Sixteenth Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture in French History

www.asmcf.org

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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 7d

We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14d

"Another minister, who asked to be kept anonymous, told PoliticsHome it was 'pretty simple': "We either increase our birth rate, slash the state in half, or make the positive case for migration"

Perhaps they could try saying this non-anonymously? Just a thought

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

'It's About Earning Consent': Inside The Labour Government's 'Difficult Tightrope' On Immigration

Government insiders believe there is political space to set out a more positive case for legal immigration. But even Labour MPs who support a progr...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15d

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich

Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships

www.rmg.co.uk

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 22d

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

London Lives

www.londonlives.org

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · Oct 14

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

Reposted by Safiya U. Noble, Christian Odendahl, Laurent Pech , and 4 more Safiya U. Noble, Christian Odendahl, Laurent Pech, Ann Bartow, Stuart White, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Renaud Morieux

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Oct 10

@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · Oct 9

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · Oct 4

It appears that my employer, Dartmouth, one of the Trump 9, has said no to the compact. All the better given that our president is cited within it. But she’s saying no. Count the small victories when they come.

Office of the President
Dear Dartmouth community,

As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

I am deeply committed to Dartmouth’s academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.

You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.

Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · Oct 2

Once again, please tell your friends who want to study the modern US but not live in it about this job

Applications close on Oct 27
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920

The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The

www.cam.ac.uk

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · Sep 29

Paris-Berlin sleeper: low carbon, 2 years old, constantly full, but currently losing SNCF a few million EUR/yr

Intl Jet fuel tax exemptions are 80 years old and cost the EU 22 million EUR/yr for the Paris-Berlin route alone.

And you're cutting... the sleeper?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · Sep 29

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · Sep 29

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · Sep 19

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Patricia Tilburg @proftilburg.bsky.social · Sep 9

Please help spread the word: Davidson College’s Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor. The specialization is open, but we are hoping for candidates who add to, rather than replicate, existing strengths in teaching and research among our GSS faculty.

Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies (731) - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

www.higheredjobs.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 4

Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules

Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case Managers and supervisors brace yourselves: calling the boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, a tribunal has ruled. The ruling came in the case of an office manager who was sacked on the spot when – during a row – she called her manager and another director dickheads. Continue reading...

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Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paperback day!

Cover of book 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel'. Ship and map on blue background.

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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · Sep 3

The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...

Assistant Professor - Modern European History

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Aug 28

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

1/n

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Kevin O’Sullivan, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Renaud Morieux

Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social · Aug 27

With news of a reported settlement with Anthropic I went back to check the class action form and it now allows authors outside the US to input their address, so it may be worth adding your known pirated titles (from the LibGen pirate database) www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

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