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Olga Byrska
@obyrska.bsky.social
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PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 18m
It's been a carnage indeed. When I started my PhD in 2019, things did not look well, but now... Phew.
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 22m
There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 23h
via @rabeari.bsky.social: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social announced a German Studies Association Dissertation prize for the best recent (last two calendar years) unpublished dissertation!
Deadline: 1 November.
de gruyter brill / GSA dissertation prize | German Studies Association
thegsa.org
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 1h
(for those who don't speak Polish: wrote a small op-ed for the left-wing media outlet Krytyka Polityczna about the current mess in France)
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 1h
A dla @krytykapolityczna.bsky.social napisałam krótki komentarz o tym, co dzieje się od poniedziałku we Francji:
Nieśmiertelny Macron, śmiertelna Francja
Upadek rządu Lecornu po 14 godzinach pogłębia kryzys polityczny we Francji. Macron traci kontrolę, a społeczeństwo coraz mocniej się buntuje.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 1h
What a pleasure to be writing while listening to the #Chopin Competition! The second round is just starting, I recommend tuning in right now very much.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 1d
Historians of the 20th century be like:
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 23h
via @rabeari.bsky.social: @degruyterbrill.bsky.social announced a German Studies Association Dissertation prize for the best recent (last two calendar years) unpublished dissertation!
Deadline: 1 November.
de gruyter brill / GSA dissertation prize | German Studies Association
thegsa.org
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 1d
Historians of the 20th century be like:
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 3d
Plus ça change…
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Nicolas Hervieu @nhervieu.bsky.social · 3d
Renommer un gouvernement renversé par l’Assemblée nationale, c’est une vision assez particulière du régime parlementaire…
Selon nos informations, seront reconduits ce soir au même poste : Bruno Retailleau à l'Intérieur, Gérald Darmanin à la Justice, Elisabeth Borne à l'Education nationale, Jean-Noël Barrot aux Affaires étrangères, Manuel Valls aux Outre-Mer, Rachida Dati à la Culture, Annie Genevard à l'Agriculture, Catherine Vautrin au super-ministère Santé-Travail-Solidarités, Agnès Pannier-Runacher à la Transition écologique et Amélie de Montchalin aux Comptes publics. 
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 7d
Perhaps the most hopeful image one can get in those terrible times. #GlobalSmudFlotilla
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 7d
RIP Jane Goodall, you were one of the best of our species.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 8d
The Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies in the Faculty of the Arts and Science at the University of Toronto (@utoronto.ca) invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in History of the Holocaust.
#job #skystorians

Deadline: 21 October 2025
Associate Professor of History (University of Toronto)
Date Posted: 08/18/2025 Closing Date: 10/21/2025, 11:59 PM ET Req ID: 42293 Job Category: Faculty - Tenure Stream (continuing) Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 8d
Today, I teach a class about research gaps and intentional erasures in science. And my students prepared a presentation that started with this slide <3
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 9d
Someone cc Quinn Slobodian and his Crack Up Capitalism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 9d
Night trains from Paris to Berlin and Vienna to be cancelled starting in December. Despite huge popularity, the French government decided to not to subsidise the connections, despite, as @franceculture.fr notes, the subsidy only worth 10 min € for it to exist.

What a shame.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10d
Congratulations, Moldova!
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10d
⚡️Pro-EU party leads in Moldova election as votes are counted.

The EU has warned that Moldova is enduring "an unprecedented campaign of disinformation" from Russia ahead of the election.
Pro-EU party leads in Moldova election as votes are counted
The EU has warned that Moldova is enduring "an unprecedented campaign of disinformation" from Russia ahead of the election.
kyivindependent.com
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10d
Researching the topic, I stumbled upon this new series of articles that are very thought provoking!
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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · Aug 27
In summary, epistemic erasures have been the basis for imposing Eurocentric models of living that are capitalist, colonial, racist, and patriarchal, and expressed through alleged “development” interventions."

✍️ From our blog
www.developmentresearch.eu?p=1425
Understanding epistemic erasures of local & indigenous communities:
Decolonizing research and re-imagining alternative partnerships in Development Studies By Yafa El Masri, Melis Cin, Kitty Furtado, Paola Minoia and Rahime Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm / New Rhythms of Develo…
www.developmentresearch.eu
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10d
Dear colleagues, I will be talking to my students about research gaps and omissions in research. I will be mentioning "Invisible Women" by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social and "Erased" by @patriciaowens.bsky.social. Any other books you would suggest talking about? Esp Black, queer, non-European histories.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10d
😂/🥲
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 11d
So unsurprising.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 11d
French investigators believe Russia involved in dumping of pig heads at mosques
French investigators believe Russia involved in dumping of pig heads at mosques
One person, residing in Serbia, is believed to have orchestrated two destabilization operations aimed at religious and remembrance sites in and around Paris.
www.lemonde.fr
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 13d
From a book I am browsing, journals of the Polish teenagers from 1944-48, an entry of an 18yo boy: "When I reflect on myself, I become convinced that I am a womanizer, only I cannot get a woman"
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 13d
Exchanging looks with the audience when somebody's delivering "more a comment than a question".
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 13d
Awkward silences, since we excel at that anyways.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 13d
Lots, and I mean LOTS, of zooming in and out.
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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 13d
Hear me out: a series about academia, The Office style.
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