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Esa Iivonen @esaiivonen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Järkyttävä uutinen mediamaailmasta. Asia on juuri näin: ”Kun koko ajan puhutaan informaatiovaikuttamisesta ja huoltovarmuudesta, jokainen voi miettiä, mitä sitten, kun tällaista luotettavaa uutisvälinettä ei enää ole”, pääluottamushenkilö Hannu Aaltonen sanoo. journalisti.fi/uutiset/2026...

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STT:n toiminta on päättymässä nykymuotoisena – muutosneuvotteluissa uhan alla lähes kaikki työpaikat - Journalisti

Uutinen päivittyy. Suomen tietotoimiston STT:n toiminta on päättymässä nykymuotoisena 31. maaliskuuta 2027. Tähän liittyen STT aloittaa 7. lokakuuta muutosneuvottelut. Ne...

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Roman mosaic of snails escaping a basket. 🏛️ Basilica Patricale, Aquileia 🇮🇹 🕰️ 4th century AD #MosaicMonday

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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Zwei Namen sollten in der Empörung über Heidenau nicht untergehen: Fritz und Martha Goldstein. Für sie waren 2 der 12 Stolpersteine geplant, die nun wohl nicht verlegt werden dürfen. Bitte nehmt euch die Zeit und lest ihre Geschichte. gedenkplaetze.info/juedische-ge...

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gedenkplaetze.info | Ein Dokumentations- und Erinnerungsprojekt an die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.

www.gedenkplaetze.info ist ein Dokumentations- und Erinnerungsprojekt an die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus unter Trägerschaft des AKuBiZ in Pirna. Im Projekt arbeiten mehrere Historiker*innen aus versc...

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears? It is rare, worthless when it is offered for sale, and devoid of wit." www.medievalists.net/2023/09/medi... #teachers

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Medieval teachers complaining about their students - Medievalists.net

It is not too difficult to come across teachers talking about how bad their students are. However, even in medieval times there was a lot to complain about when it came to student performance.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as...🧵1/2 🏺

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 25/09/2026

Im sächsischen Heidenau hat der Stadtrat mit den Stimmen von AfD und CDU beschlossen, dass keine Stolpersteine für Nazi-Opfer mehr verlegt werden dürfen. Gedenkstein-Künstler Gunter Demnig wirft den Politikern Verlogenheit vor.

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Gunter Demnig zum Stolperstein-Verbot in Heidenau: »Dass die CDU da mitmacht, ist bitter«

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Ainur Elmgren @aelmgren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Talk To Animals" was literally my first pick, paired with "Book Smart". Loved the dog militia and the Catholic alpacas. Can't wait to play through #ScarletHollow at least five more times.

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Minkä puolueen kanssa arvelit, että hallitukseen menette tekemään massiiviset sosiaaliturvaleikkaukset ja työmarkkinamuutokset?" Riikka Purra Juhana Vartiaiselle (2019)

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ancient and beautiful amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows three glossy, bright orange, drop-shaped pieces of amber arranged in a row against a dark background in a museum display case. Each piece of amber is decorated with finely incised patterns. The smalleest piece on the left is decorated with a comb motif- three horizontal lines with short vertical lines on top. The largest piece in the middle has a patchwork of alternating incised rectangles, and the piece on the right has four evenly spaced horizontal rows a Ross the surface made up of drilled pits. Each piece of amber has a hole at the top suggesting it was attached to a cord to be worn as jewellery or suspended.

Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic'. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.

These pieces are part of the collections of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. They are currently on loan at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany for the ‘Shamaness’ temporary exhibition.

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History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can history classrooms move beyond textbooks? This author blog explores the HERJ article quoted below with the authors providing their personal perspective on why comic books can help support students' historical understanding. Read the blog here: journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/223/

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two centuries before the formal abolition of Slavery, an African prince from the kingdom of Ndongo (modern Angola) spearheaded an international legal case against Spain, Portugal, and Italy, accusing them of committing crimes against humanity www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...

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The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World.

Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some of which were global, while others were local and emerged from pre-existing Anti-slavery laws in pre-colonial Africa that sought ...

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This blog is so good on raising critically reflective questions for #historyteacher s wrestling with beguiling new technologies.

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piri @piri-ttart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ei sanat riitä kuvaamaan pettymystä, ni remixsasin meemin tähän sopivaksi

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Alex Voronov @alexvoronov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Vi som invandrat har skilda åsikter om allt möjligt. Men vi har även gemensamma och alltigenom legitima intressen. Det allra mest grundläggande är att slippa bli pissade på. Den som tycker att det är jobbigt att vi försvarar dessa intressen vid valurnan får vänja sig. För mer kommer.

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Taneli Kemppi @tanelikoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tää on uskomatonta, että tekoälyn käyttöä puolustellaan nykyään sillä että "käytössä on ollut mukana ihminen." No shit. Jonkunhan se huono valinta on aina laitettava alulle. "Minä kerroin sille että minkä tyylin se voisi nyt varastaa ja osasin jopa lauseilla kertoa mitä se tekee! Editoin myös!"

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Ainur Elmgren @aelmgren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taas mennään. "Tiima turvautui tekoälyyn." Oulun uusi museo- ja tiedekeskus täytti bingon. GenAI:n käyttö luonnollista, vastuullista, eettistä, harkittua, avointa (jos ymmärtää kysyä perään). Ei ollut aikaa eikä valmista kuvamateriaalia. Loppuhuipennus: "Tarkoitus ei ollut herättää mielipahaa."

Sanomalehti Kalevan juttu, keskiviikkona 23. Syyskuuta 2026. Tiima turvautui tekoälyyn

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.

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Modesty Blasé @hollylalarebel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

”Oikeistohallitus hyökkää aborttioikeutta vastaan rankaisemalla ei-lääketieteellisestä abortista ideologisella sakkomaksulla. Julkisuustietojen mukaan kyseessä on ollut kristilisdemokraattien vaatimus, johon taipuminen kertoo kokoomuksen alennustilasta, Koskela sanoo tiedotteessa.”🎯

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Minja Koskela: ”Oikeistohallitus hyökkää aborttioikeutta vastaan”

Hallitus esittää 257 euron suuruista aborttimaksua. Vasemmistoliiton puheenjohtaja Minja Koskela tyrmää Petteri Orpon (kok.) hallituksen esityksen 257 euron aborttimaksusta. Maksu

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

happy pubversary for Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Sept 14, 1867! open thread of good C21 critiques of p.e. and more:

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was very nice to come face-to-face with little Hugo Pictor today (MS Bodl. 717, fol. 287v). Unusually for a medieval scribe, Hugo is depicted as left-handed. He was also on the front cover of my book! #bookhistory #medievalsky

An image of a seated scribe with a quill dipped into an ink pot in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, held over a book on a stand. The scribe is in a blue robe with a tonsure

Full page of medieval manuscript with the image of a scribe in the bottom right

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Neil Younger @neilayounger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

14/24 September 1583: Albrecht von Wallenstein is born today in Heřmanice, northern Bohemia, to a minor noble family. He'll go into the army and rise to be one of the emperor's generals and one of the most prominent protagonists in the Thirty Years War, raising whole armies, ... #earlymodern

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Marcus Larsson @skolinkvisition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Och regeringen kommer att bestå av enbart partier vars genomsnittlige väljare är emot vinster i skolan. Precis som efter förra valet. Och förrförra.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My 1st article for National Geographic is out now. It is on Cleopatra’s & Antony’s surviving children after their parents’ deaths—especially Cleopatra Selene. Thanks to Jane Draycott (and her book, Cleopatra’s Daughter) & @candidamoss.bsky.social for their help. And @bresnick.bsky.social for edits.

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What Happened to Cleopatra’s Children With Marc Antony?

Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.

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Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Some more candid thoughts from the Great Viking Survey:

A response from the Great Viking Survey (2025), in which the surveyee answers whether or not they admire vikings: 'It's just a job from a different culture. It would be like admiring an ancient Egyptian accountant'.

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Mathias Cederholm @mathiasced.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"SD är inte här och kan försvara sig"

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The press as a showman, showing off. A timeless statement of media impact on human life. The Gutenberg Galaxy's main technology, the printing press, is half-man, half-machine! Goosebumps, dear #skystorians, goosebumps.

A wood engraving of early 19th century showing a printing press (called PRESS) with an ink pot as a hat, half human and half printing press. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1871-0429-668

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

This papyrus is one of the most important items in the Michaelides collection at @theul.bsky.social. This side is the full text of sura 69 of the Quran ('The Truth'), while the reverse has sura 64 ('The Loss'). It dates to the ~8th c. and is (I think) the 2nd longest Quranic papyrus in the world.

Yellowish-brown vertically-oriented rectangular papyrus leaf, showing 24 lines of Arabic text in grey-black ink. The papyrus fibers are frayed at the top and several holes are missing from the centre of the page. It sits on a black background next to a white label that reads Mich.Pap.D.1415.

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Eric Rosén @detljuvalivet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tonårsutvisade Abbe: ”Har sovit på gatan” Ungdomarna pluggade till sjuksköterskor, tandläkare och bilmekaniker - utvisades ensamma. Johanna Rapp och Natalia Kazmierska fortsätter sin granskning: www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ok...

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Tonårsutvisade Abbe: ”Har sovit på gatan”

Ungdomarna pluggade till sjuksköterskor, tandläkare och bilmekaniker - utvisades ensamma Abbe var toppstudent på Chalmers med bäst betyg i matte på hela utbildn

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Ainur Elmgren @aelmgren.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Koulutarkastajan paluu? "– Nyt olisi tarvetta uudentyyppisille koulutoimentarkastajille, jotka olisivat välittävä tekijä koulujen, opettajien, kuntien ja keskushallinnon kesken. Käytäisiin sivistynyttä keskustelua, ohjattaisiin ja neuvottaisiin, Simola hahmottelee." www.ku.fi/artikkeli/54...

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Mitä peruskoulukeskustelusta unohtuu – ”Pitäisi palauttaa keskiöön lapsen arvo tässä hetkessä ihmisarvon kautta, ei t

Eriarvoistuminen on yhteydessä laskeviin oppimistuloksiin, eikä koulu pysty ratkomaan koko yhteiskunnan ongelmia. Peruskoulun anneista mittareille hankalammin taipuvat toimijuus ja osallisuus,

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Kari Haakana @karihaakana.net · 09/09/2026

Miltä HS:n esittämät Pisa-tulokset näyttävät, kun tuloksia kuvaava Y-akseli alkaa nollasta? Jotenkin... vähemmän dramaattiselta?

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 09/09/2026

First reviews are in: "late 14th-century England seems like an utterly wretched place, not only because of the sludge-grey sky, scratchy brown sacks that everyone wears and the fact that no one seems to have had a wash in weeks": www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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The Uprising review – the peasants are revolting in muddled historical epic

Andrew Garfield’s charisma can’t save Paul Greengrass’s grim and depressingly generic period piece

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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Proofs just arrived! Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written together with Alexander Bauer @sascha06.bsky.social (Mainz). - Stay tuned😊 #OttomanHistory #RussianHistory #EarlyModern

The image shows the first page of the Book chapter "Transottoman Imperial Courts in the Early Modern Period: Comparing Istanbul and Moscow/Saint Petersburg" written by Gül Şen and Alexander Bauer

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Class today is on Heinrich Schliemann at Troy. This is the closest I can get to a tie with something close to the Trojan War on it. You’d think there would be a lot available by now, but no…

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Kjell Häglund @kjellhaglund.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

På tal om Pisa och "skärmpandemi" … "Huvudbetänkandet innehåller fullständiga Google-annons/spårningslänkar. Källförteckningen verkar med andra ord ha byggts genom att man suttit och googlat, och klistrat in webbadresser från den väg man råkat hitta källan." www.vilarare.se/specialpedag...

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Niclas Fohlin: Ogranskade ChatGPT-länkar bakom regeringens spec-utbildningsförslag

”Utbildningsdepartementets grundläggande brist på vetenskaplighet är faktiskt skrämmande.” Det anser specialläraren Niclas Fohlin efter att ha granskat underlaget till förslaget om ny speciallärarutbi...

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A sixth to seventh century AD wooden box lid from Egypt showing a scribe with a reed pen case slung over his shoulder - and just such a case with reed pens still inside it - both in the Coptic Museum in Cairo. Images from the 'Coptic Art Revealed' exhibition catalogue.

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“when we observe that a man is longing for leadership, especially if he is openly striving for it, then we know for certain that he doesn't deserve it” Bello's Usul al-siyasa (the fundamental principles of politics) c.1807 Sokoto, Nigeria

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Ainur Elmgren @aelmgren.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"... students' willingness to recognize different perspectives in distant places stands in marked contrast to their discomfort with perspective taking in more local settings." I'm always looking for this quote, so I might as well share it here out of context. Full citation in next post. 1/2

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The thing about the people who insist that AI will "revolutionise" my teaching in history classrooms if I would just be open-minded is that there is existing tech that I do already teach with. I use digital mapping tools to map the Black Death, annotation technology, 3D printing to build exhibits.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This seems to baffle people who *don't* teach History -- you keep shoving it at us and saying, I dunno, seems like you could use it? -- instead of *listening* to us. We do this for a living. Trust us, this doesn't have a use here. Go tell your plumber you want him to use a GameBoy on your pipes.

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