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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦

@astridme.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Germany, Europe, and the environment | author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain (OUP, 2019) + Zonenrandgebiet (Ch. Links, 2022) | Atlanta, Moabit | I wish I were in Greifswald

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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This much for academia being somehow above or outside the war: this is the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and these are our colleagues, engaged in the same work we do. This is also late punishment for the instrumental role the Academy played in the late 1980s in the struggle for independence.
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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Job opening in (my) Department of Environmental Sciences, @emorycollege.bsky.social, for an Assistant Teaching Professor! We're looking for someone in the Applied Environmental Social Sciences; non-tenure position, but renewable & promotable. More info at the link: apply.interfolio.com/192159
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Kurzzeit-Dozentur bei uns in Emory fuer ein Semester – Bewerbungsfrist 17. September (sorry, not my fault) www.daad.de/de/im-auslan...
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Freie Lektorate und Dozenturen - USA - DAAD Visiting Distinguished Chair at Emory University, Atlanta (Kurzzeitdozentur) - DAAD
Datenbank mit aktuellen Ausschreibungen für Lektorate (DAAD-, IC- und Fachlektorate), Dozenturen und Sprachassistenzen.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In lieu of flowers, they ask for a donation to her library project that encourages kids to read. That tells you all you need to know about her. RIP Dolly Parton.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
And there it is: the new book by my wonderful colleague Ellie Schainker. _Rites of Empire_ explores the religious reform impulse among Jews in the Russian Empire, home to the world’s largest Jewish population over the long 19th century. academic.oup.com/book/63018?l...
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Rites of Empire: Reforming Judaism in Imperial Russia
Abstract. Rites of Empire explores the religious reform impulse among Jews in the Russian Empire, home to the world’s largest Jewish population during the
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Call for postdocs at the Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard) in Environmental Humanities (e.g. humanistic approaches to climate change, biodiversity, social justice, env justice, food justice, landscape, and animal studies) Due date Nov. 20, 2026 #EnvHist #EnvHum networks.h-net.org/jobs/70205/h...
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Harvard University - 2027-28 Mahindra Humanities Center Postdoctoral Fellowships | H-Net
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
read and weep. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/u...
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Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)
A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This truly sucks: the Berlin Program for Advanced German Studies will not accept any applications for next year. The program has been an important German-American bridge for emerging scholars. Underfunding universities has consequences. www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bpr... @thegsa.bsky.social
Screenshot of cancellation notice of Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I haven't found the "reverse cartoon" yet that explains what the end of summer means for academics...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
As I'm wrapping up an inspiring conference on conservation biology in Europe, news like this is a gut punch. This is deeply immoral #ECCB2026 @eccb26leiden.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...
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Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The move ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could open up crucial habitats to drilling and mining.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.arte.tv/de/videos/12... Ideal preparation for the visit to the Hortus Botanicus on Thursday #ECCB2026 @eccb26leiden.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
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Flower Power - Niederländische Malerinnen im 17. Jahrhundert - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Im 17. Jahrhundert bewirkten die Naturwissenschaften, dass niederländische Malerinnen Reptilien und Insekten in ihre Kunst holten. Frauen wie Maria Sibylla Merian, Alida Withoos und Maria Moninckx hab...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just heard a great paper on subterranean mammals, little ecosystem engineers we know remarkably little about. And, of course, their habitats are under threat. #ECCB2026 @eccb26leiden.bsky.social
subterranean mammal slide
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Very excited to attend #ECCB2026 in Leiden for the first time next week. If you are there, please visit our symposium “Conservation Histories and Humanities: Understanding the Present, Unearthing the Past” eccb26leiden.eu @scbeurope.bsky.social
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ECCB 2026
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
a great opportunity (note the annual theme "prevention" in the comments)
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
So glad to hear this!
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Montag noch nichts vor? Spannende Veranstaltung zur Sozialgeschichte: Where the Rich Live: Wie verteilte sich Reichtum räumlich nicht nur in Berlin, sondern im gesamten Deutschen Kaiserreich? Mo, 22. Juni 2026 um 18 Uhr, TU Berlin Fraunhoferstr. 33-38, Raum: FH 804 leibniz-irs.de/veranstaltun...
Poster für ein Event über die Entstehung, Entwicklung und Wandlung von Villenvierteln in Deutschland im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
An amazing resource: The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) www.theguardian.com/environment/... @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #envhist #envhum
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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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Sabine Höhler (Center for Anthropocene History, KTH Stockholm) wrote a great report on our recent conservation workshop in Lusatia. The region is worth the visit for ecological reasons. www.kth.se/anthropocene... #envhum #envhist @eseh.bsky.social @untamed.bsky.social @pavlasimkova.bsky.social
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On Tilted Ground: Paradoxes of Nature Conservation in the Anthropocene | KTH
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Found the off-season carnival in Koblenz on the Rhine
photo of dry cleaner's shop window with carnival uniforms freshly laundered
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Cartoon about academics in the summer
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“The area was once a vast peat bog, and peat bogs are highly efficient at storing planet-warming carbon dioxide. They also happen to be very good at stopping tanks” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/c... (gift article) @akrotelm.bsky.social @greifswaldmoor.bsky.social #EnvHum
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They’ve Got a Plan to Combat Global Warming (and Also Russian Tanks)
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Falls jemand höchstzufällig am 20. Mai in Malschwitz bei Wartha bei Bautzen bei Dresden ist, seid Ihr ganz herzlich zu meinem Vortrag eingeladen. #MAB #Biosphärenreservat @diesachsen.bsky.social
Vortragsankuendigung Plakat
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Did you know that the League of Nation’s Palais Wilson made its staff sick because they couldn’t ventilate the building properly? Utterly fascinating article on the League of Nation’s microclimate in Geneva.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Misty Copeland wins the cobblestone carpet. By far.
screenshot of Misty Copeland arriving at the Met Gala.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
ILL now comes with entertaining cartoons...
Cartoon: interlibrary loan hits pothole in Poughkeepsie
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Tomashi Jackson, Is Anybody Gonna Be Saved? (1948 Middle of Voter Registration Line) (1965 Abernathy and King Watch the Signing of the Act), 2020 (Atlanta High Museum) #VotingRightsAct
Photo of Tomashi Jackson, Is Anybody Gonna Be Saved? (1948 Middle of Voter Registration Line)
(1965 Abernathy and King Watch the Signing of the Act), 2020 (Atlanta High Museum)
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Moorexperte werden ist anstrengend. Körperlich anstrengend. Am Ende geht man krumm. Michael Succow ist beides, Moorexperte und krumm. Er hat sich in jungen Jahren den Rücken ruiniert. Werkzeuge schleppen, die Bodensonde in den Grund treiben, beide Hände an den Griffen und dann drehen, drehen, drehen
Succow 1967 im Recknitzer Moor – Photo Succow Stiftung
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Leo hing falsch. "Nach gründlich durchgeführten Provenienzrecherchen hat das Deutsche Historische Museum das 1876 von Adolf Jebens gemalte Porträt des Historikers Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) an die Familie von der Schulenburg zurückgegeben." www.dhm.de/pressemittei...
Jebens Gemaelde Leopold von Ranke
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Three good things this week: 1) The safe return of the Artemis crew; 2) the outcome of the Hungarian elections; 3) and this Eastern Bluebird mama
Eastern Bluebird (female) peeking out of nest box
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
No BS detected.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
As an ATL user, I can relate.
Screenshot from The Onion: Artemis II Mission fails after astronauts miss connection rocket in Atlanta
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Glückwunsch @elisabethansel.bsky.social für diesen wichtigen Beitrag zur #Romantikforschung @kruppkolleg.bsky.social
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Have you published an amazing book in Central European history lately? Then this is for you!
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
MV ( #Stralsund, #Stavenhagen) in der New York Times – leider geht’s um die AfD und ihre Erfolge im ländlichen Raum. „Part of the AfD’s appeal is the simple act of showing up.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/w... (gift article) @katapult-mv.bsky.social
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In Some Areas of Germany, the Far Right Is Part of the Fabric
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
www.tagesschau.de/inland/nachr...
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Jürgen Habermas gestorben
Eine der einflussreichsten und bedeutendsten Stimmen Deutschlands ist verstummt: Der Philosoph und Soziologe Jürgen Habermas ist im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg gestorben. Von Alex Jakubowski.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Ukrainian Stamp "Russian warship, go f*ck yourself" (2022)
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Where to?
Car against sunset on ATL hwy
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
terror. pure terror.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Job at Emory: Associate or Full Professor in Native American and Indigenous Studies - due date Feb. 28 apply.interfolio.com/180222
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I realize y'all's attention is torn in all sorts of directions, but the war's still on. In Ukraine. Find a way to support. Here or elsewhere. Thanks!
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
listen
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
whoa
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The killings in Minneapolis didn’t come out of nowhere. Funding, legal cover, weakened oversight, and dehumanising rhetoric ramping up over a year. This started on 20 Jan 2025 with Trump's executive orders on immigration. I lay it out in my latest post. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-ice-st...
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The ICE Storm: a year-long escalation
Funding, law, rhetoric, violence. How each has fed the other to lead here
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Worth listening to. “What ICE is doing, what the administration is pushing, is not immigration enforcement. It has much more in common with ethnic cleansing, with trying to change the overall ethnic and racial mix of the country.” www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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Video: Opinion | Is This Who Trump Meant by the ‘Worst of the Worst’?
The columnist Jamelle Bouie argues that the Trump administration’s immigration policy has more in common with ethnic cleansing than actual immigration enforcement.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@eseh.bsky.social #envhum #envhist Job in Freiburg www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
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1 Akad. Rät:in / Wiss. Mitarb. (w/m/d) "Umweltgeschichte" (Univ. Freiburg)
Die Professur für Wirtschafts-, Sozial- und Umweltgeschichte am Historischen Seminar der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg sucht zum 1.4.2026 in Vollzeit einen/Akademische/n Mitarbeiter/in bzw. Akad...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Every now and then you need a good summary of how terrifying things have become. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
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Opinion | One Year of Trump. The Time to Act Is Now, While We Still Can.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well. I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III. (Gifted.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit
His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.
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Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
CFP 📢 Join us for a panel on conservation histories for the European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden @eccb26leiden.bsky.social If you're interested, email @georgeholmes.bsky.social or me with an abstract by Feb 9. #envhist #histsci #animalhist #conservationhumanities
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