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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 21h

It’s been fantastic to work with so many brilliant colleagues on this - brilliant chapters on everything from innovation to propaganda and covering great geographical range. We also hope the book speaks to qs of mil thought & organisation beyond history- check it out!

Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 1d

The 1 needs to be a capital letter ‘i’ I believe

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Dr. Claudia Hillebrand @ckhillebrand.bsky.social · 1d

Cool job opportunity 🕵🕵️‍♂️ PhD in Modern History, Political Science, or International Relations or related field required.

Historian

Job Opportunity: The International Spy Museum is searching for a Historian & Curator to join our Exhibitions and Collections team. Our new museum is located at L’Enfant Plaza.

www.spymuseum.org

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 6d

Palantir do those

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Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social · 6d

Dream PhD opportunity! We are recruiting another doctoral researcher in our @erc.europa.eu synergy project BLOCKADE - this one is on interwar blockades and sanctions. 4 years, fully funded at @uvahumanities.bsky.social and supervised by the amazing and super kind @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social

Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 6d

See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social · 6d

🦋 With Bluesky's membership growing, here's a reminder that we've put together not one but TWO starter packs of people, journals and institutions working and publishing in our field.

Follow one contemporary European historian, get 149 free!

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 6d

granted as obvious. Often I was struck that the value seemed most meaningful and accessible to students who were precluded from following their interest due to 'defined-by-the-hierachy' 'relevance' making those choices for them.

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 6d

'lethality' or similar. Being continually challenged on that point does have considerable benefit in that it requires you to constantly test, sharpen or re-define ways of articulating why thinking has value in ways that doesn't come naturally/frequently in some HE contexts where it is taken for

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 6d

This is a really perceptive point that has an interesting analogue in military education contexts, where varying doctrines of 'relevance' shape learning. It takes some courage to embrace the premise that learning has worth in ways that cannot be measured in terms of 'operational output',

Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent (but depressing) analysis by @gsoh31.bsky.social on the fragile state of higher education in the UK. This passage particularly struck me. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18d

Claims of the novelty of AI and its potential for innovation in education always make me wince a bit because really it continues a bunch of long-running tendencies in the sector. It’s an *intensifier* rather than an innovation. Some examples… www.forbes.com/councils/for...

The Impact Of AI Tools On The Next Decade Of Education Innovation

Education technology is more of a commitment to shaping a future where every learner has the tools to succeed.

www.forbes.com

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

Circumstances categorically shape all our research. Who feels confident stridently attempting something long-term and challenging? Perhaps some do, but I would offer that the scarring effects upon how a significant cohort of academics relate to their work & field will be quite pronounced

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

One person from my cohort other than me has one I believe. I guess my own version of believing there was a better time is a dim sense talking to people that the ‘bounce’ you mention occurred in 2010-12

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

Yeah I was guilty of just that. I remember the PhD coordinator saying ‘many of you won’t work in academia’ and thinking ‘oh wow all those poor people that won’t make it. Won’t be me!’ Immense naivety/hubris of course

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

Really makes one wonder about some of the discourses around merit and agency that are propagated around funded PhDs, postdocs etc

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

Which is not really the case for a great many immensely talented people. I applied for over 100 jobs to produce 2 interviews and 1 fixed term offer in 2013 and that was possible due to a capacity to live with parents for a year whilst holding a part time museum role that didn’t pay enough to live

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

In certain respects the myth that it was ‘kinda OK’ in the last little while is even more pernicious as it holds the tantalizing prospect that one might get through OK with some endeavor and luck

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 20d

I don’t dispute that things were *somewhat* less severe in 2013-14. Talking to ECRs it is interesting though that there does appear to be some folk wisdom that me as a person who has existed within the academy since that time experienced a time when getting. PhD = getting a job

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Diana Bolsinger @dianabolsinger.bsky.social · 21d

Are you a full professor in Security Studies with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Political Science, Public Policy, History (Intelligence or National Security), or a related field?

Please consider applying for or sharing this vacancy. We're a super team!

utep.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

utep.interviewexchange.com

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 21d

Pretty sure this content is what they had in mind when they invented the internet cc @redunley.bsky.social

Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 22d

This thing here, exhibit A in "the danger of leaving our ships to melt in the hot sun", is HMS Glatton.

And on this day in 1918 things went even more pear-shaped than they already were...

Looking fit to make Freddie Mercury's rocking world go round, HMS Glatton sits in dry dock. It's very very definitely all about that bass. Wooden keel blocks enable the ship to improbably levitate above the floor of the equally massive dock.

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you for coming! Was great to meet you & many others & hear some wonderful discussions

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Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 25d

Home from Britain, Conflict & the Sea conference @National Maritime Museum. Thanks to @dmorganowen.bsky.social for organising! Portsmouth had a great showing, with 7 attendees, and papers by @drmelbassett.bsky.social, Jayne Friend, former MA student, Zara Money, and myself. #NavalHistory

Slide of my aims: to invert Sea Fencibles historiography from a naval-centric to a coastal-centric view, and to reconsider Sea Fencible's motives for volunteering.

Part I: 'to take advantage of so able and hardy a ract of men': Duties and identities

Part II: 'For the protection of merchant vessels?': Sea Fencibles and French Privateers

Part III: Conclusions

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 26d

Pleased to be at the National Maritime Museum for the first day of this event, looking forward to hear a great range of papers

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David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social · 26d

Nor does funding = quality. There is a great deal of funded research that one could ask questions about…

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First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 6

Delighted to see this announcement of the forthcoming Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, a prize awarded annually by @fwwsoc.bsky.social and eventually to be published in our journal

Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · Sep 5

This year's remembrance lecture at Edinburgh Napier marks, as always, Craiglockhart's First World War links(the meeting place of Owen and Sassoon) and our late colleague Catherine Walker. This year it is also the @fwwsoc.bsky.social Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, given by @juliarsct.bsky.social.

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