Eric Hobsbawm on E.P. Thompson (published in International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 46, 1994)

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention AI and the deskilling of academic labour

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour

lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention AI and the deskilling of academic labour

Another really good piece, asking the hard questions right now, exactly because he acknowledges the usefulness of these tools. By @lucaspoy.bsky.social

Great, accessible overview of how deskilling works generally and what it means for academic labor specifically

Very careful, thought-provoking piece on AI and academic (historical) labour, from the coal-face

@lucaspoy.bsky.social

Generative AI has forced me to think a lot more concretely about all the discrete components of doing historical work - and where the value of those different pieces lie

Brilliant Borges

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention AI and the deskilling of academic labour

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour

lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

The Revista Brasileira de História is published by ANPUH (Brazil's National History Association) and ranks Q1 in its field on Scimago: www.scimagojr.com/journalsearc...

Publication is planned for the second half of 2026.

Please share widely! 🔁

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The dossier also welcomes work on how class struggle, collective identities, and movements for reparation have historically challenged these structures of inequality, from mass enslavement to contemporary regimes of exception.

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This feels especially urgent right now, as we witness accelerating attacks on labour rights and democratic institutions: the rise of platform exploitation, algorithmically driven precarisation, environmental collapse, and a sharp authoritarian turn in many countries.

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We're looking for original articles that explore the historical roots of racial, regional, class, and gender inequalities, and how they have shaped (and undermined) democratic experiences across different time periods.

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📢 Call for papers in English, Spanish and Portuguese: “Work, Inequality and Democracy”, a special dossier for the Revista Brasileira de História, one of Latin America's leading history journals.

Submissions open June 1–19, 2026
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it's funnier than i thought, we discovered some potential viral tiktokers in the class

Adjusting course manuals for the spring period in times of AI

Thrilled to be in a sunny, snow-blanketed Boston to present my research tomorrow at the Global History Seminar, hosted by Harvard University's @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social

Looking forward to a great discussion!

How did this person ever think that Gemini could find that??

Thrilled to be in a sunny, snow-blanketed Boston to present my research tomorrow at the Global History Seminar, hosted by Harvard University's @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social

Looking forward to a great discussion!

gracias!!

Just published in the International Review of Social History @irsh-iisg.bsky.social !

Our article examines the “peripheral inter-nationalism” of Argentine socialism and its relationship with the Internationals between 1889 and the Second World War.

In open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

The take-home essay is indeed a thing of the past, we must accept it. lucaspoy.substack.com/p/the-last-d...

The call for papers for the European Social Science History Conference is out!

It will take place in Lyon on 21-24 April 2027. It is organised by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social, with thousands of colleagues and lively exchange in many small groups.

More info here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

And Fiona Lane reviews @lucaspoy.bsky.social and @hannesrolf.bsky.social edited book, Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Activism across the World (UCL Press, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

I want to rewrite the whole thing to incorporate the environmental aspect that i had overlooked

indeed!

Considering a History MA in English for next year? Come to Amsterdam and study with us the history of social movements and protest!

www.instagram.com/p/DUtMjOlDW2r/

Great. I only started using this week. For something very simple: merge PDFs of single issues of newspapers into one-week "chunks". Thousands. It did it smoothly in the background while I was doing something else.

Thanks to Fiona Lane for this generous review of “Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Actions across the World” (co-edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social and edited by @uclpress.bsky.social).

The book can be downloaded open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... (more than 2.1k downloads already🤯)

Thanks to Fiona Lane for this generous review of “Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Actions across the World” (co-edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social and edited by @uclpress.bsky.social).

The book can be downloaded open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... (more than 2.1k downloads already🤯)

De partner ligt helaas thuis in bed te Netflixen, terwijl de door AI georganiseerde zakenafspraak in dat hoogwaardige restaurant in iets heel anders uitmondt...