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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 1d

Essential reading for historians
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Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide

Abstract. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has entailed extensive attacks on Palestinian heritage and history, including institutional archives which preserve his

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 3d

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I had to flee the US – as a foreign, Black, pro-Palestinian activist, I tick every box on Ice’s list | Amandla Thomas-Johnson

I’ve never been accused of any crimes, let alone prosecuted. My experience sums-up the draconian plight of non-citizens in the US, says journalist Amandla Thomas-Johnson

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 5d

Our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.

We are heartbroken to emerge from Yom Kippur into news of the attack at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester. No one should face violence for attending synagogue services and our hearts are with the victims and their families at this terrible time.
For many in our community, this news may only just be reaching you after a day spent in prayer, reflection, and fasting. To be confronted with such awfulness in this moment is particularly painful: please know that you are not alone.

In moments like this, it is vital that our communities - Jewish and non-Jewish alike hold one another close. Our safety and liberation depend on solidarity between all those who are marginalised and targeted, and we must not allow those who seek to divide us to succeed. Every person deserves to live, gather, and worship in safety and dignity. We condemn this act of violence unequivocally, and restate our commitment to building a world where this kind of horror is no longer possible.

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 10d

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On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)

On the run from the Nazis in 1940, the philosopher, literary critic and essayist Walter Benjamin took his own life in the Spanish border town of Portbou. In 2011, over 70 years later, his writings ent...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11d

“What makes a perfect monster?” The Borg Collective from Star Trek is my answer: “the ultimate terror they pose is that they monstrify those whom they assimilate.”

Check out my essay in @reactorsff.bsky.social for #psychology, cyborgs and more. 1/3

#sff #StarTrek #TNG #AI #histsci #histmed 🗃

“Resistance is futile.” Why Star Trek: TNG’s Borg Collective Is the Perfect Monster for Our Time - Reactor

35 years on, what can we learn from the Borg and "The Best of Both Worlds"?

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 13d

Intervention — "On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada" by Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 11d

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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely essential reading for all historians of science
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Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 13d

Absolutely essential reading for all historians of science
antipodeonline.org/2025/09/24/o...

Intervention—“On Grassroots Witnessing: Gaza as the Terrain of Epistemic Intifada” - Antipode Online

Patrick Anthony (Uppsala University) and Ghada Dimashk (American University of Beirut) Baba, when will we study astronomy in school? … I want to learn about the moon and stars. (Banias, age 9, quoted ...

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 15d

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Dog in Rembrandt’s The Night Watch was ‘copied from lesser-known artist’

Rijksmuseum says that just like Shakespeare, Rembrandt drew widely and shamelessly from earlier sources

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 19d

Had great fun writing this feature for @historytoday.com, exploring China's contested astronomical chronologies!

The piece will be out in the October issue

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Written in the Stars: How Old is China?

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 17d

I've deleted my academia.edu profile

Dr. Sheila 🦇-is🎃n 🧛🏻‍♀️ @drsaddison.bsky.social · 20d

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

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Trude Dijkstra @trude-dijkstra.bsky.social · 21d

Lovely view of the facade of the new University Library of the @uvahumanities.bsky.social, very fitting background when teaching our MA course 'The World in Books' #bookhistory @boekwetenschapuva.bsky.social

Image of facade full of text, with a view of the street it is on

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 19d

Had great fun writing this feature for @historytoday.com, exploring China's contested astronomical chronologies!

The piece will be out in the October issue

www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Written in the Stars: How Old is China?

www.historytoday.com

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 22d

Really enjoyed reading William Max Nelson's Enlightenment Biopolitics! Here are my thoughts in the American Historical Review: academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

William Max Nelson. Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens.

Reading William Max Nelson’s masterful Enlightenment Biopolitics amid the portentous atmosphere of the 2024 US presidential election campaign was at once a

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations on the brilliant article!

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Rory D. Kent @feyerabender.bsky.social · 29d

My article in HOPOS, "Feyerabend, Freedom, and the Tyranny of Science" is now available ahead of print over at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · Sep 2

Congratulations to the newly elected Leader of the Green Party of England & Wales, @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Leadership elections results

New Leader

Zack Polanski

Photo of Zack Polanski

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.

Green Party

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · Sep 1

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Elon Musk « x@elonmusk•6h
Remigration is the only way
Steve Laws
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Go anywhere in the UK and look around, you'll just see foreigners everywhere.
It's truly sickening the damage that has been done to our nation and our people....

Steve Laws & @Steve_Laws_
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Epping is everywhere.
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All Britain is Epping

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Keep highlighting this Elon, we appreciate it.

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very excited to speak about The Tartar Moment at the Italian Society for the History of Science's Early Career Conference in Padova next week!

See here for more information: www.societastoriadellascienza.it/index.php/it...

Historic circular garden plan labelled "Pianta dell'Horto dei Semplici di Padova". The design features a central circle divided into four ornate square sections, surrounded by labelled plots for different plants such as Sambuco Acquatico, Platano Orientale, and Loto Albero. The diagram includes directional markers (Levante, Ponente, Tramontana, Ostro) and the main entrance labeled "Porta Maestra" at the bottom (west direction)

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · Aug 28

We seek to hire a Postdoctoral Scholar for the "Uncovering Traces of Ming Occupations with Sociological Theory" (UTMOST) project.

📚 pursue an independent project
📋 support workshop and conference organization
🤝 engage in Institute life

🗓️ Deadline: Oct 15, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45V4tev

#HistSci #Sinology

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the history of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows researchers looking for books in the institute's library. The third shows people on the institute’s patio. Copyright of the second image: Setform 2017. Copyright of the third image: MPIWG 2021.

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · Aug 20

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator!

🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements

🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R

#HistSci #EnvHist

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the history of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows a researcher presenting at the March 2025 Publications Slam. The third shows a group of people at the institute's courtyard. Second image by Anna Ruhnow, MPIWG 2025. Third image by MPIWG, 2021.

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 27

British "debate" on migration is in the gutter, but we should still be shocked that Labour's response yesterday was to criticise Farage for being insufficiently detailed in his plan for mass detention camps.

Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · Aug 27

Regardless of whether Reform's deportation plan "works", if they get a chance to try it - like the Tories' Rwanda policy, or Trump's deportations - it will ostentatiously torment thousands of people and further engrain racism in British politics. It must be opposed on that basis.

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · Aug 26

As an example: the Vergelegen camphor trees. Asian trees, planted by Willem Adriaan vd Stel, a family with part-Malay ancestry who were instrumental in shaping the Cape, with the backdrop of the Cape Dutch architecture to whose development they were central; the trees are national monuments in SA.

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