As it should be.

Nobel laureate and Resistance fighter Frédéric Joliot-Curie said it very clearly during the Cold War, when he was denied a US visa : "The Americans much prefer Nazis to leftists". From there, one only had to wait for Nazis to become rich and for the state to be painted as socialist.

I know the street! It is in Athens, near the University campus.

After three years of discussions and hard work, the volume has finally been announced and will soon be printed. My only regret is that Ron will not see it published. Truly grateful to all the excellent scholars that took part in this, the first volume of its kind.

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What an excellent article. I am sorry I just found out about it.

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Noone outside the US has believed that the US is what it says it is, for at least half a century. Greece for example saw the US back a Greek military junta from 1967 to 1974. Sudan saw Clinton bomb its pharmaceutical factory in 1998 with no evidence whatsoever, because al-Qaeda and stuff. So...

The British bombed the Greek communists in Athens, to prevent them from gaining political power. General Ronald Scobie was ordered to Greece to *delay* German withdrawal, so that communists do not get the upper hand. Churchill told him to treat Greece as a hostile, occupied territory.

What an interesting read this is promising to be!

When I asked for a reason, I was told to read the FAQ, rules etc etc. I did, and I still could not find out why. I messaged them again and I was then told that I was not following instructions and that I was banned after all.

Oh well. I guess I will just to continue to publish academically then.

As an old, old atheist, I find the amount of whining and obstinate stupidity from the intellectual orphans of Dawkins and Hitchens amazing. And quite embarrassing.

A very very funny thing happened. I was banned from the reddit r/atheism for posting that the historical consensus is that Jesus did exist, but that does not mean that he was the son of God.

I am so very jealous of people who can draw.

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... The best thing I’ve read in a long time #18thC #FrancisWilliams

What a fascinating read!

A good point and a valid perspective. I understand your argument. However, iconoclasm can take down ontologies, too. At least this has been my pedagogic experience.

I like this article a lot. However, there is a difference between saying "The concept of the Silk Road as a free-flowing land highway of silk did not exist" and "Silk Road did not exist". "America" did not exist as a concept before the 16th century. The landmass and its people certainly did.

...and has been out, I mean, for some months now.

Science, Religion and Nationalism: Local Perceptions and Global Historiographies “Science” and “Religion” have been two major elements in the building of modern nation-states. While contemporary historiography of science has studied the interactions between nation building and the...

Just a shout-out that my latest co-edited volume is out.

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Captain Piccard facepalm

The energy I am bringing into 2025

I can't seem to get the grasp of OneNote. I really want to like it, but something gets in the way.

Not a Mac person, myself. But thank you.

Academics, please respond if you may:

What tablets and apps (readers, etc) do you use for work?

I have a Samsung S7+ and it has become my reader and ppt presenter. Plus the Samsung notes is one of the best apps I have ever used and it's a shame it does not exist for PC.

Athens, Greece

Two people frown at a phone. One says to the other, “Bluesky seems to be the app where you post about being on Bluesky.”

Are we doing it right? #NewYorkerCartoons
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🖊️ @jasonadamk.bsky.social

Could you perhaps add me?

And they will be called AI-ssistants (Tm), and the older generation of scholars will be grumbling about the younger colleagues who cannot write anymore. The younger will have AI conferences and extol the benefits of being able to AI-read 500 papers in a day.

Thus I have seen. Thus I have spoken.

I have seen the future.

Most pdf readers now have an AI-assistant-thingy that offers to summarize the document, answer questions etc.

In say 20 or 30 years, scientific papers will be written specifically for Assistants to read, because most will be using Assistants to read them anyway.

Having a ton of work to do, including two papers and a book chapter by the end of the month?

Yes.

Leaving everything behind to answer a question on Lysenkoism in @askhistorians.bsky.social ?

Also yes.

Bye, writing discipline, I barely knew you.

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