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Jayne Persian

@drjpersian.bsky.social

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Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right. Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 6h

So nice to see good job news, congrats!!

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 18h

lol

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 19h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Careers in limbo after graduates discover university courses were never accredited

Students have been left with HECS debts and careers that are "non-existent" after completing degrees that were not accredited. Class actions have been launched against two Australian universities.

www.abc.net.au

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 1d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 1d

Straya

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

The future is artillery. It’s already everywhere. At the very least, you owe it to your students to *try* it in the classroom. If using it *doesn’t* help, have the remaining students explain *why.*

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 15d

1/ #Nazi Accusations. Join us on October 6/7 for a conference on past and present, on fact and fiction. Why do #Russia’s leaders describe a Jew in #Ukraine, president #Zelensky, as “Nazi”? What is the tradition of Nazi Accusations after #WW2 and #Holocaust? Which role did they play during ...

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Mykola Haievoi Center for Modern History @mhc-modern-history.bsky.social · 2d

Our annual conference "The Politics of Nazi Accusations: The Soviet Union and anti-Soviet Nationalisms in the Cold War" ist starting TODAY you can still register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

International conference "The Politics of Nazi Accusations: The Soviet Union and anti-Soviet Nationalisms in the Cold War" October 6-7 2025

The conference will have a focus on the Ukrainian case, but it also intends to include other cases. The Cold War will be the core period that the conference aims to address, but also the use of simila...

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks! I think it's a great article!! 😂

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

A gentler time. We didn't even get a staff email letting us know about colleague vol redundancies 🙃

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

I guess the world isn't ready for my historical reimagining of the Demidenko affair. Your kids are gonna love it 😎

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

Received my first rejection email today.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

Article rejection! I'm a job and grant rejection veteran 🫠

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

Received my first rejection email today.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

That's sweet!

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 6d

I can do that. With pleasure!

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 6d

Ok will google, I preferred it before he knew how to bark lol

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 6d

I have fallen down on day crate training 😔 now he just barks. A lot.

Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 6d

My puppy is either a perfect angel or the eveready battery toy from hell will I survive the 5am wakeups 😱

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d

Job alert! We have a 5 year fixed term teaching-focussed position in our new Indo-Pacific Studies program. Can highly recommend UNSW Canberra as a place to work.

IPS is an emerging field, so applications welcome from cognate disciplines.

Details: external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Lecturer, Indo-Pacific Studies

Share your knowledge and expertise in Indo-Pacific Studies with our cohort at UNSW Canberra.

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au