Two years ago, the president of @ahahistorians.bsky.social complained that historians were catering too much to the present. Meanwhile the academic job market collapsed, so tech companies are now skooping up history PhD´s at bottom prizes to train AI history models. Absolute strategic idiocy.
In de VS blijven de academische historische opleidingen maar bloeden en bloeden: vorig jaar laagste aantal diploma´s in 35 jaar tijd.
Also little know fact locally, but the studio that currently manages the old series + updates + reworkings, is of Belgian origins!
Age of Empires II turned 25 and so I wrote a piece about the impact it had on me, and many other historians who were inspired by the game 🏰 Thanks so much to @gregjenner.bsky.social, Agnes Arnold-Forster, and @mathewlyons.bsky.social for chatting to me www.theguardian.com/games/2024/o...
Many historians of a certain age admit that the game reinforced their passion for the past and got them into the field. Four of them explain what drew them in
De nieuwe Vlaamse regering bestaat uit: 5 juristen 3 pol&soc´ers 1 sociaal werker/criminoloog (diploma´s van de faculteiten sociale wetenschappen en rechten) Qua opleidingsachtergrond dus wel heel homogeen.
Ik ga bordjes in de tuin zetten, ik vrees dat er een veenlijk zou kunnen komen bovendrijven na al die regen.
Charming coat of arms of Anna Francisca Nonnius (Nunez), abess of St. Victor, in the dedication of F. Cauwe's biography of sister Françoise Clara van Sint Lieven (Dunkirk, 1677) of the Franciscan penitents. EHC 518631, online: books.google.be/books?vid=EH...
Leuven verandert volgende week even in een archeologisch paradijs, en #sunkentower is present! Op woensdag 8/5 kan je tussen 14u en 16u in de archeohub (Diestsestraat 187) terecht voor een speldemo en uitleg over historisch spelontwerp.
N: Edinburgh S: Ho Chi Minh City W: Toronto E: Kyoto Toronto was for work, the rest not so much :)
Dag Thomas, tijdje geleden inderdaad :). Hopelijk alles goed!