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Stef Espeel @stefespeel.bsky.social · 3d

New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇

Prices and Crises

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 1d

For the past few months, I have been using Obsidian, and I'm loving it. It is free, open access, easy to use, and allows you to link notes to each other. 🤯

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday, the news broke that the Flemish government will end funding for @iobua.bsky.social in just 3 months! This risks students’ futures, 32 staff careers, & undermines a cornerstone of Belgium’s hard-won international scientific reputation. A short-sighted decision with lasting consequences...

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 15d

The Flemish government’s unexpected decision not to renew IOB’s agreement puts €2.64M funding, 32 jobs, key programmes and global partnerships at risk. Support us! https://bit.ly/saveIOB

#saveIOB #developmentpolicy #developmentpolicy #iobcommunity

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 21d

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 22d

“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

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 21d

Earlier this year, Vicky Holmes published 'Living with Lodgers. Household Economy and Social Relations in Working-Class Victorian England'. It is a great book that not only rescues the lodger from the mists of history, but also invites us to question Victorian household ideals. Highly recommended!👇

Bringing Dead Victorians Back to Life: What Coroner’s Inquests Can Teach Us about Victorian Working-Class Homes

In June 1894, in her kitchen at 17 Lomas Street in the town of Burnley, Lancashire, Mary Ann Allen was murdered with an axe by William Crossley, one of her

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · 24d

Loved the Pfälzer Wandermusikanten workshop @ Kusel! The Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde brilliantly connected 'academic' with 'local' historians. The castle setting and hearing the music performed live by the Kusel Music Academy were unforgettable experiences. A 🧵 following soon..

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Vincent Scheltiens Ortigosa @vschelti.bsky.social · 27d

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · Aug 8

🔗Archief Stadsgeschiedenis nu digitaal!
Het archief van het tijdschrift Stadsgeschiedenis is nu digitaal toegankelijk! Nummers van het tijdschrift van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download.
Het digitale archief is hier te vinden: lup.be/archief-stad...

Archief Stadsgeschiedenis | Leuven University Press

Nummers van het tijdschrift ‘Stadsgeschiedenis’ van 2021 en eerder zijn vrij beschikbaar voor download. Klik op het nummer voor de downloadlink. 2006 – 1 > 2006 – 2 > 2007 – 1 > 2007 – 2 > 2008 – 1 > ...

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UAntwerp CUH - Centre for Urban History @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌍 Toerisme: zegen of last?
Al in 1926 dachten Belgen aan een “taks op vreemdelingen” toen toeristen het land overspoelden.
🖋️ Lees de nieuwe CSG-blog van Silke Geven over de geschiedenis van klachten én maatregelen rond toerisme:

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“Van de kwade der vreemde bezoekers, verlos ons heer!” | Centre for Urban History | University of Antwerp

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Sep 1

(Sorry if obvious 😅)

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dominiek Dendooven has a great thesis on the (de)mobilisation of Indians and Chinese at the Belgian front!
"Asia In Flanders Fields. A Transnational History of Indians and Chinese on the Western Front, 1914-1920"
repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/irua/...

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 28

Voor diegenen die denken dat de systematische afbouw van onderzoek en hoger onderwijs enkel een zorg is voor de humane wetenschappen 👇

Susan Monarez, de wetenschapper in het oog van de storm: ‘Dit zou elke Amerikaan bang moeten maken’

Een nieuwe dag, een nieuw ontslag in het ‘Land of the Free’. Het Witte Huis zegt het hoofd van de gezondheidsdienst CDC de wacht aan. Maar de kersverse topvrouw wijkt niet. ‘Minister Kennedy brengt mi...

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now.
Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢CfP! At the #EAUH2026 in Barcelona (sept 26), Hilde, Rosa and I are organising a session on the long term history of lodgers/boarders. We welcome papers on any area between 1500 and now.
Interested? www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu/sessions/#se... Or DM me directly. Sharing is welcome #UrbanHistory

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 18

What is the difference between a historian and a sociologist? A long time scale and bad data.

Perhaps a bit reductive but on point what the data concerns 🤣 Sam Bass Warner being interviewed by Bruce Stave in the first issue of Journal of Urban History in 1974

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Journal of Austrian-American History @jaustamerhist.bsky.social · Aug 16

From the editor's desk...

... if anyone is thinking about writing an article on Arnold Schwarzenegger, we would love to see it.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · Aug 16

BREAKING: Arnold Schwarzenegger:

“Mr. President Trump, you stood there like a little wet noodle, like a fanboy.”

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ik voel me bijzonder vereerd seg. Dankje! 😁

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 11

🖋️ For the Social History Blog, I wrote a piece on the often banal reasons that research (and especially PhD)-projects pivot, and the implications this has for our craft. Hopefully this can also offer some reassurance for new PhD-students..
A lodging house guy's reflection 👇

How we shape research projects, and how they shape us - A lodging house guy’s reflection by Jasper Segerink - Social History Blog

Urban and social history projects on infrastructures, migrants, lodging houses in 19th-century Belgium.

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Allison Schmidt @allisonschmidt.bsky.social · Aug 8

Me whenever someone suggests using AI

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 7

Serieuzer nu: het zou wel fijn zijn als onze journalistiek iets kritischer zou omspringen met de verkoopspraatjes van techbros

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 7

Uhu Ok 👍

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Aug 1

De puntkomma is aan het verdwijnen! Toch worden er in De Wereld van Sofie enkele mooie argumenten aangehaald voor het behoud ervan.
Ik maak me ook wel es schuldig aan overvloedige ;'s...

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De Wereld van Sofie · Episode

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Jul 30

Source: arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935

Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI

Given the rapid adoption of generative AI and its potential to impact a wide range of tasks, understanding the effects of AI on the economy is one of society's most important questions. In this work, ...

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Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social · Jul 30

New Microsoft study estimates that historians are the *2nd* occupation whose tasks AI can mostly cover, based on a large database of its Copilot users & their reported satisfaction.
That AI makes a poor historian is imo not a debate, but the fact that so many turn to LLMs for history is concerning.

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