iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The longest known Viking ship was discovered by chance while digging up ground to build an extension to the Viking Ship Museum.

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"We need another university now because its deadly practices shape lives well beyond those who study and work in it. It is worth fighting over for that reason." 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Darren Hayman @darrenhayman.bandcamp.com · 16/08/2026

I love the sight of a tram or train approaching. Especially if it’s through a bridge or tunnel. This is Woodside tram stop on the Croydon tram. This is my stop for my allotment. I painted this just yesterday and it’s available now! darrenhaymanart.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Over the last few days I've watched highly politically engaged, educated people who are otherwise clear and careful thinkers attempting to litigate the obvious facts of the matter with respect to the late Arday's obvious layers of misconduct, taking their turn wheeling the horse into the gates. 11/

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Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1

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Ivo Eichhorn @ivoeichhorn.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Der Faschismus ist zurück – und mit ihm die Frage, wie wir ihn verstehen und bekämpfen können. Buchvorstellung und Diskussion Morten Paul (@mortenpaul.bsky.social) und Francesca Raimondi im Gespräch mit Ivo Eichhorn und Lea Gekle (@leagkl.bsky.social) (detour)

Was war Faschismustheorie? Buchvorstellung und Diskussion. Dondorf Druckerei 2.OG, 15.07.2026, 19:30 Uhr, detour

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

in this heat we are officially a set of airconditioned corridors attached to a rural history collection

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 23/06/2026

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

'the future of the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature is under threat ... the Smithsonian Institution, which has faced severe funding cuts under the Trump administration, stopped hosting the BHL’s administration functions' ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Sendak, a close reader of Kleist's language, gives us her blind fury as her blank eye, powerfully suggesting the inhuman malice that moves her; his sprawling Achilles also recalls Penthesilea sprawling after their first meeting. Sendak's fine illustrations ... distill and extend Kleist's text."

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Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

On Maurice Sendak's birthday, a reminder that he illustrated Kleist's PENTHESILEA for a 1999 English edition. 😍😵

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."

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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Am 8. Juni 1929 wurde Paul Hindemiths Oper "Neues vom Tage" in der Berliner Krolloper unter der Leitung von Otto Klemperer uraufgeführt. Die Parodie von Schlager und Varieté in der Badewannenszene empörte die Nazis: Die Protagonistin Laura schwärmt nackt über die Vorzüge der Warmwasserversorgung. 🧵

Traugott Müller: Bühnenbildentwurf, 1929. Vorne Skizzen auf weiß, dahinter eine Straße mit Neubauten und einem Strommasten.
Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

My dear comrade @jonahgarde.bsky.social posted about this yesterday, but: it’s out! “Weimar’s Queer Visual Cultures” is a great new collection of essays put together by Katie Sutton, Ina Linge, and Birgit Lang, featuring an amazing cast of scholars. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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Weimar’s Queer Visual Cultures - University of Toronto Press

Birgit Lang is a professor of German at the University of Melbourne.

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NOTHING MATTERS 🪰 @nothingmattersug.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Hi #PitchYaGame, INSECTA VINDICTA is a game about insects having had enough of the damned human race and taking their revenge on them. All of them. Inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, Tony Hawks and Burnout the demo is on Steam. Publishers 🤙 us 😘 store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...

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Insecta Vindicta on Steam

A revenge-action game where you play as insects outsmarting, humiliating, and destroying humans across a chain of open-ended levels in a comedic story campaign.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

gotta love the awkward essays now

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

"a mistake to cede the argument for the good life to the right. We should pursue a progressive educational philosophy directed toward human flourishing. Cultivation of virtues, each with their own intrinsic ends: archaeological dig, chemistry lab, ethnography, mathematical proof, close reading"

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Remarque wacht vom Parkhaus in Osnabrück. ❤️

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Wouldn't it be amazing to see this headline about UniversitiesUK? This is Austria's official uni association striking against government cuts. Via @wonkhe.bsky.social

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 22/05/2026

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is because I see the harm gAI use/misuse is doing to students in my classrooms that I am so critical of the enterprise. And Im not alone, either. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Working in the trenches, most professors, especially in the humanities, probably didn’t need formal research to tell them what those studies found, when they could easily intuit it by interacting with their pupils. Michael Clune, a literature professor and novelist, lamented to The Guardian that many students are now “incapable of reading and analyzing, synthesizing data, all kinds of skills.” Clune’s school, Ohio State University, recently required all students to enroll in “AI fluency” courses “across every major,” ostensibly to prepare them for a world that is dominated by the tech.

Clune was critical of the push. “No one knows what that means,” he told newspaper. “In my case, as a literature professor, these tools actually seem to mitigate against the educational goals I have for my students.”

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

So clever of US, UK and European universities, with ample encouragement from their governments, to have been closing down Area Studies, History, Languages and Politics & International Relations programmes, so clearly irrelevant to the world in the second half of the 21st century.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

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The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History

The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

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American Philosophical Society @amphilsociety.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Apply for a History of Biology internship at the APS! Interns will conduct research using the rich archival collections at both the APS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. www.amphilsoc.org/grants/apscshl-un… #internship #history #undergraduates

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary "employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class." www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

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Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum

The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism. This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

Poster of Gillian Rose: history, Marxism, and the Turn to Law. 3 December 2025, University of Warwick. With Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'kane, Nadia Bou Ali and the organiser, Rosie Woodhouse.

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Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

...and really the dehumanisation of women, which is central to all this.

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Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Still thinking about (digesting?) last week's fantastic Association for German Studies annual conference. Many thanks to the organisers!

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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

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B. Ricardo Brown, PhD @node801.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

CALL FOR SUPPORT: Secure the Future of BHL Following the Smithsonian Institution’s decision to conclude its long-standing role as BHL’s host on 1 January 2026. #HistSTM #HistSci #Biodiversity #Ecology #EnvHist #NatHist #EnvironmentalStudies about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

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Francesca Bellazzi @frabellazzi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My article for #PhilosophyCompass on the Metaphysics of Pregnancy has been accepted for publication! It has been the result of some years of teaching and I think it’s such a cool topic. 🎉 Here is the link to the AAM version: philpapers.org/rec/BELTMO-20 @assemblinglife.bsky.social 🦋

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Francesca Bellazzi, The Metaphysics of Pregnancy - PhilPapers

Pregnancy is a one of the most complex phenomena of life and is essential to the life cycle of mammals. Pregnancy is also a crucial aspect of humans’ life and experience. ...

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Christie Margrave @christiesmbc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you are able and willing to do so, could you please add your voice to our wall of support at the Save Cardiff Modern Languages website: www.savecardifflanguages.org The more voices we have on there from across the world, the better! Thanks and love to all.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩 📷 Feb 2022 Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

A fossil ammonite carved into a face during the Late Iron Age or Roman period

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Is the 'deadly double' – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead? www.the-fence.com/the-deadly-d...

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The Deadly Double

Organised fun in east London.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges (this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

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Britta C. Jung @brittajung.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The closure of humanities & social science departments is very short-sighted, and we will come to regret it, but the closure of an English department at an English university is incomprehensible to me. I just tried to picture a German university closing down German Studies or a French one French...

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RUB History & Philosophy of Science @roto-rub.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📣Great opportunity for students in #HistSci & #PhilSci: Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social next April! 🤓 Find all information here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma... Deadline for application: 13/12/24 Please repost and share 🙏

Screenshot from the website for Utrecht Summer Schools with a short discription of the Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society. The describing text is "This Spring School addresses differences between scientific and other forms of knowledge, the relation between science, pseudoscience, and non-science, and challenges of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production from philosophical and historical perspectives."

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Alice Christensen @alicerc.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Greetings colleagues-friends. What a dream to open this app and see lots of lovely people and also that I’ve been followed by the Hebbel-Gesellschaft. 🤝

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