Betty Banks

@abigailkret pls also drop a pin on the fountain on the side of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence where you can choose between still and sparkling, & the one by Palazzo Pitti where the free drinking water flows out of the mouth of a metal lion right into your refillable bottle

Dropping a pin for those TikTok girls! And a recording of me saying "une carafe d'eau, s'il vous plaît" in my BEST American girl speaking french accent

@g_m_roberts there is still time I guess?

@_BettyBanks haha, fantastic. Surprised you never ended up working at the IMF

Struggling to accept that the FAO's Advisory Committee on Pulp and Paper was chaired in the 1970s by a certain Mr. Forest...

@bucephalus424 @abigailkret @tedfertik Omg article title! Yes I have a whole section in my MS about this that I am neglecting rn to try to write an article about problem rubles in another place.

@abigailkret @tedfertik @_BettyBanks A good ruble is hard to find

Stalinism as an austerity regime driven by the need for the Soviet Union to remain credit worthy in international trade and currency - I don't think it's necessarily wrong, but I also don't think it's fully right either lol

@revjorobertson my "favourite" part is at the end when he admits she has more relevant professional knowledge than him and yet somehow he still thinks she is the dummy for not playing along with his game

guess which country had recently become #1 exporter of fishmeal? 🧐🧐

@Severyan me? will email...who else is on the panel? Siobhan?

Looking for a CHAIR #ASEEES23 for our amazing panel on #RedCross in the Eastrn Bloc: Relief, Nursing, Blood transfusion programs, and propaganda. We are all set with prof Varga-Harris as discussant. Deadline March 15. severyan_dyakonov@fas.harvard.edu

@OrRosenboim I do not know but if you want I can ask in a fb group of all historians of Russia/n Empire/USSR asking each other niche questions all the time?

#twitterstorians and friends, I have a special niche question: can you recommend any experts in Russian railway history, circa 1924-1930?

@OrRosenboim I do not know but if you want I can ask in a fb group of all historians of Russia asking each other niche questions all the time?

@ecwillroth1 @rodriguesjm6 @OpenAcademics I love this idea.

Academics, can you share a rejection story (e.g., journal, award) and/or how you move forward? I am presenting on "Recovering from Rejections." I have plenty of my stories, but I'd love more ex's to show students that rejection happens to ALL & throughout careers! @OpenAcademics

@evansmithhist @sandroantonello As in utorontopress.com/9781487522759/… for eg, which focuses mostly on one school, the Internet in Ivanovo, which Elizabeth McGuire is also writing about (but not published yet, as far as I know).

@VictorPPetrov 100% winter sea

Obligatory winter flying visit to Varna to remind myself that in many ways the winter sea is more beautiful than the summer one.

@Olia_Hercules here she is on YouTube talking about it youtube.com/watch?v=q_LhxK…

@Olia_Hercules Mayhill Fowler has great work about Ukrainian theatre in the 1930s, inc this book amazon.com/Beau-Monde-Emp…

Can someone please recommend resources so I can learn more about the Ukrainian renaissance - writers and artists opressed and murdered by the Soviets in the 1930s? Books, articles, podcasts? Thank you!

@sovietvisuals would buy if you re-made them as merch

Soviet greeting card, 1973.

@karstetter @terrelljstarr I like this minimum days idea a lot. And they better make the minimum more than 10!

Unlimited PTO is the way to go. Some folks think people will abuse it, but my last employer had unlimited PTO and that was not the case. Not only did people not abuse it, but folks were careful of still being perceived as not working hard enough.

@AllysonEdwards1 there was just an article in the guardian about the Ukrainian Duolingo boom with various resources linked theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I've started learning #Ukrainian via #duolingo but are there any YouTube channels or podcasts that I can listen to, to supplement my learning?

@OByrska This is memoir but theoretical, with both gender and class: amazon.com/Landscape-Good…

@stephenburgen I don't think you can explain that whole population loss with out migration. Something else happened to Jews in Soviet territory inc Ukraine between 1926 and now that had quite an effect.

@stephenburgen "Russia’s Jews have been emigrating in their tens of thousands during the past 100 years, [...] [in the] 1926 census there were 2,672,000 Jews in the then Soviet Union, 59% of them in Ukraine. Today only about 165,000 Jews remain in the Russian Federation"