I have a new post at the Remaking blog on That Atlantic Article. It blames Mellon for the humanities crisis, I say why this is misdirected. It's not the wokeness it's the weakness--weakness in (not) fighting for a funding system for ALL humanities research. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/02/line...
Can state-building disrupt rather than stabilize society? In a new @apsrjournal.bsky.social article, @victorgayeco.bsky.social and I show that the expansion of state communication networks spurred rebellion for decades in France before the Revolution
👉 Article: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Next is a review of Choon Hwee Koh's "The Sublime Post" (2024), about the Ottoman postal system and its maintenance through the ages, serving the Empire's communication needs.
newdiplomatichistory.org/the-sublime-...
Thank you very much!!
Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Cover illustration, “Seven Occupations,” Molla Nasraddin, 6 June 1910. Illustrator: Oscar Schmerling. Image reproduced by Çınar-Çap Nəşriyyatı (vol. 3, 2005).
New on FirstView: Serkan Yolaçan's "A Seven-Headed Public: #Empire and #Satire in Revolutionary #Caucasus." #History #Anthropology
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
論文 オスマン帝国の国家形成：集権化／分権化の隘路を超えて：増殖する仲介者
Koh, Choon Hwee. “The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2025, 1–18. otmn
doi.org/10.1017/S002....
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Thank you so much Jeff!!! I'm just checking into my BlueSky account right now, appreciate it!!! <3 <3 <3
This was pretty obvious to non-experts before the invasion even began. Now 20,000 people are dead and Israel continues to lack a plausible strategy. It’s a moral and political disaster.
Excited to announce that you can now preorder my book, The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina scheduled for December 5 release with a @stanfordpress.bsky.social discount code AMZI-ERDOGDULAR20
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#menasky #what's history 🗃️
![There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there.
And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important.
Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.”
And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:h6srr75ahvugj6gts7ql4cpl/bafkreie7jkxonqwgbbcuni4dh54nhodteq24wv4dp6smnvsomdpwpve4we)
There is a “centre” where the money, the fame, is; most likely your proposal gets funded because it’s on the most favourable topic. Maybe today, RNA is [most favourable]. If you are working with mRNA, maybe that's the centre there. And then there are people in the periphery. There is no fame, there is no money, no nothing there. The only thing in the periphery is freedom. You can do what you like to do, what you feel is important. Here’s what a proposal is: why they should give me money. And they should question that. “She came from university nobody knew about.” “She never had a mentor who was famous.” And somehow it gravitates always to the same people, same circle. They get published there, they get the money. And that's another explanation: I was not famous enough or didn't have anybody who would support me in a way that somebody that’s a famous and well-established scientist stands behind you and says, “Oh, look at this, it’s good.”
Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve.
Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...
I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow in digital history. Please join our growing and vibrant team at HKU Big Data Studies Lab.
jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/52...
Flyer with call for participants for workshops for data-driven approaches to premodern travel
We've already received some excellent applications. This will be a great cohort, and you could be one of them! Applications open until October 1st, more info at emdigit.org/2023/call-fo... #earlymodern 🗃️