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Najdraža slučajnost koja mi se dogodila ove godine: na istraživanju u Bjelovaru sam se javila djelatnici lokalne kulturne institucije. Njezina obitelj odselila se iz Krapine nakon Drugog svjetskog rata u okolicu Bjelovara, u dio koji je nazvan "Mala Krapina" zbog puno doseljenih u tom periodu.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 23h

No shared coat racks in waiting rooms or bars, rare-to-nonexistent umbrella racks (surprising for a place with so much rain) – everyone having to hold onto their stuff – is something that makes me unexpectedly sad here

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ovaj tjedan smo same i prekovremeno radim na svojoj sramežljivosti: jučer na hrvatskoj nastavi sam se prikrpala mamama, danas sam čavrljala s 90-godišnjakom o čaplji i pokazao mi je fotke navodno iste ptice iz 2023 + prišla sam ženi s dvoje djece koja je pričala njemački za volju svom djetetu

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ornament & craft appreaciation day, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

u Irskoj poslije kiše dolazi kiša, ali nam je duga danas uljepšala jutro i olakšala put do škole

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

U školi uče plesti, 1xtjedno umirovljenice uče djecu. Krasno, ali se sad i ja moram time baviti jer imaju zadaće. Stalno popujem djetetu o growth mindsetu i važnosti vježbanja jer skoro ništa ne uspije odmah i evo idealne prilike da pokažem svojim primjerom, ali toliko mi se ne da, fina motorika 0 🫠

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

nakon debakla sa zubima radost je malo reducirana, ali ipak se veselim festivalu kamenica u Galwayu ovaj vikend 🦪🚂

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

went to the dentist today, but hey, everyone is exceptionally friendly and you can watch Bundesliga on a screen on the ceiling 🤡

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the first (and the last?) appearance of my hometown in some of my academic texts

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some good sentiment here

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...

intermedialites.com

CALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...

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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism

Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More than 50% in my Wahlkreis voted for Die Linke 🥳

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Složili smo se da se danas iznimno nećemo kupati jer smo prije po gradu i nije mi se dalo tegliti ručnike i kupaće, ali kad sam vidjela ljude da se kupaju, preplavila me takva zavist da sam morala fokusirati točku u daljini. još u glavi imam 10 godina i tjedan dana godišnje priliku plivati 🫠

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really happy to share the schedule for this semester's History Research Seminar in Maynooth. A fantastic lineup of speakers covering a wide range of geographic and temporal contexts. All are welcome to attend.

September 24
16:10-18:10 Rocque Lab Dr Patrick Doyle, (University of Limerick), ‘The Occupation of Heaven’: Catholic Political Economy, Land, and the Irish World, 1880-1930’.

October 01
16:10-18:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Bernadette Cunningham, (Maynooth University), ‘Medieval Irish Women as Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela’.

Launch of the new School of History and Ancient Classics, featuring launches of the new books Irish Townspeople: The Early Modern Urban Experience, c.1400-c.1640 by Prof Emeritus Colm Lennon and Akrasia and the Catullan Lover: Resisting Reason in Republican Rome by Dr Leah Hearn.

October 08
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab Dr Zhouxiang Lu, (Maynooth University), ‘Yellow River Piano Concerto: History, Politics and Identity’.

October 15
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab
Dr Idriss Jebari, (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global Sixties and Seventies’.

October 22
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab Dr Laura McAtackney, (University College Cork), ‘Material Worlds and Contested Histories: material revelations related to gender and class in Ireland’s recent past’.

November 05
16:10-17:10 Iontas Building
MUSSI Seminar Room
Dr Angel Alcalde, (Melbourne University), ‘Four Global Moments in the History of Fascism’.

November 12
16:10-17:30 Rocque Lab
Dr Clodagh Tait, (Mary Immaculate College), ‘Robert Perceval’s wraith: death omens, family folklore, and male violence in late seventeenth-century London’.

November 19
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Lea Horvat, (University of Jena) ‘Coffee, gender, and labour on the southern semi-periphery of the Habsburg Empire (1867-1918)’.

November 26
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Siobhán Doyle, (National Museum of Ireland), ‘Irish Sport in 100 Objects: Writing a Public and Material History of Sports in Ireland’.
December 03
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Mina Hristova, (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), ‘Printing the Nation, Timing the Bloc: Temporalities of Money in Socialist Bulgaria, with Comp…

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

biggest fan of patterns, 🍁 edition

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Briefwahl done last week, with ample time for the letter to arrive before the end of this week 🗳️ hopeful about the government change in Berlin after this Sunday 🤞

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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is the last day to register for our 90-minute co-writing workshop on September 16, 2026 (6 pm CET/noon EDT). Join us as we think together about collective writing and writing about collectivity: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Na dan ambliopije (slabovidnosti) drago mi je pročitati da u zadnjih par godina postoji preventivni program za rano otkrivanje. Meni bi to značilo kao djetetu, ovako je nažalost prekasno otkriveno i vidim 30% na jedno oko, što drugo oko zasad dobro kompenzira. stampar.hr/hr/novosti/p...

hzjz.hr

Slabovidnost

Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo štiti i unapređuje zdravlje i sigurnost stanovništva.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ako netko ikad ubuduće zapne na stanici Berlin-Gesundbrunnen, javite se! Ja sam na 10 min pješke od stanice i mogu vam ponuditi kauč, napitak po izboru i rame za jadanje o kašnjenju DB ako ništa drugo *Ponuda vrijedi od 7/2027 kad sam opet in town

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

saznala od susjeda iz BiH da su smjeli vozačku dozvolu koristiti 1 godinu nakon dolaska, a sad imaju samo opciju pune autoškole u Irskoj ☠️ nema veze s vezom, osim diskriminacije

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1 year in Ireland, 1 hike a week as a not really sporty person relying on public transport this week: Great Sugar Loaf loop

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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Together" is coming closer 📝💻 A little reminder to get your pitches in and/or join us for the Together workshop on Zoom. More info here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

Call for pitches: Together

A reminder that the deadline to submit pitches for our fall/winter special, Together, is September 30!
If you have an idea for a piece exploring different dimensions of collectivity, we’d love to hear from you. You can e-mail us a pitch, or join our workshop on September 16, where we’ll share ideas and experiences, talk through the process, and answer questions.
The special also invites writers to experiment with co-authorship.

If you’re interested, write to us or come meet us on Zoom next week!
We’re looking forward to hearing your ideas.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today’s good omens/happy coincidences: 1) ☕️ with a lecturer in Maynooth who spotted me on Zoom conference last week and reached out - we were surprised to hear that my office is 3 doors away from hers 2) found out that the couple living in an apt above us is from 🇧🇦 & we are making some ☕️ plans

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Meanwhile, I have dual citizenship, a PhD from a German university, and wrote my dissertation/book in German. My husband is German, and I work there, yet I still have, at best, the loose attachment of a Visiting Fellow to Germany, and I would be ready to go elsewhere quickly (yes, it's a privilege).

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

checking in on my migrant friends who work in Sachsen-Anhalt 💔

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thinking today of the many immigrants in Germany who, like my parents, experienced downward mobility, have no inherited wealth, no pensions to speak of, and live under the poverty line with no grievance politics (and *no voting rights*)—and sending them all my strength

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

otišli smo u izvidnicu, torba je blagoslovljena, crkva je bila poluprazna i saznala sam da se ovdje dvaput skuplja milodar u tijeku jedne mise. jedini sitniš koji sam imala, 2 centa, smo ubacili u prvom krugu, u drugom je bio izbor između novčanice od 50 EUR ili da kažemo da nemamo sitno 😶‍🌫️

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

dobili pozivnicu za blagoslov školskih torbi, je li to nova tradicija i u HR?

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Rok Stergar @stergarr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

After a very long delay, caused largely by my inability to find the time needed to write it, my introduction has finally been published and the @nationalitiesp.bsky.social special issue on education and identifications in the Habsburg Empire has been completed.

cambridge.org

Compulsory Education and Identities in the Habsburg Empire | Nationalities Papers | Cambridge Core

Compulsory Education and Identities in the Habsburg Empire

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Formatting my chapter manuscript & the life of someone with the most common last name in Croatia: No, I'm not related to the early 20th c president of the Association of Croatian Waiters (though he did have the same name as my grandfather)

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Some late 19th c misogyny from Viennese waitstaff, claiming that women work in factories&men stay at home doing women’s jobs + stating that feminisation was a sign of the decline of the Roman Empire. Allowing myself a little Schadenfreude at the fact that this was the magazine's final issue.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

danas prvi put vidjela da dvije osobe u vezi imaju istu profilnu na kojoj su zajedno 👻

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Good-quality rainwear appreciation year has begun!

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: The Saxophones Repetitor Molly Nilsson Molly Nilsson Molly Nilsson Calexico Tina i Nikša Yann Tiersen Peter und der Wolf with Robert Habeck The National

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Novo boravište je za isprobavanje novih stvari i onog što zbog nepotrebnog srama izbjegavam, a zanima me: bukirala sam si 4 probna sata reformer pilatesa (prva grupna sportska aktivnost na koju idem dobrovoljno) i riješila da ponesem goblen na Craft Club u gradskoj knjižnici

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

a few days ago learned about the existence of colcannon and encountered it almost immediately in Maggie O’Farrell’s Land! learning is rewarding 💫

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Removed the Instagram app (for a few months?) and blocked the site in the browser; scary how many times I've tried to go there without even thinking ☠️

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll.

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Inače rijetko telefoniram i to samo s par iznimaka gdje se tako ustalilo, ali otkad sam u Irskoj baš mi znači da se par ljudi javilo da se malo čujemo, jedan večernji razgovor me garantirano oraspoloži na par dana

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Unhappy to report that I might have picked up a German stare: when I look at people I don't know for a few secs as they walk by, just out of curiosity, trying to make sense of my new surroundings, they get hyper/nervous, greet, and throw a “How are you?” at me

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This week in work: wrapping up some publications and working on my presentation on chicory for this lovely workshop on uncharismatic species: uncharismaticspecies.wordpress.com

uncharismaticspecies.wordpress.com

Hideous, Invasive, Forgotten: Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Starting the day by practicing together the pronounciation of the Irish name of my kid's babysitter. 1 thing I repeat when teaching: if unsure, look it up, don't mumble sth random. Grateful for the generous childcare budget included in Feodor Lynen fellowship: makes it possible to pay a fair price!

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Irish Film Institute & name a seat 💍

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Lea Horvat @leahorvat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the special joy of learning a new language for no practical purpose, just to learn about new-to-me ways of perceiving the world

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