Reposted by Lina MairGregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16/08/2025This is profoundly bad. The data generated by NASA feeds research in many, MANY disciplines. I, for instance, am a historian, and my dissertation (now book project) uses satellite imagery as a major source for exploring the historical relationship between people and the environment. 9269105
Reposted by Lina MairYuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Everything is terrible, except the view-from-below paws of this ready-to-sew trompe l’oeil cat issued by Arnold Print Works, MA c. 1892 (courtesy Fashion and Textile Museum London) 326368
Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 17/08/2025If you have a doctoral degree specify topic area (not required), Upload doctoral degree (required), Why? This doesn't make sense Cries in PhD candidate I really wanted to apply, but clearly this one is not yet for me 110
Reposted by Lina MairKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/07/2025Tragedy in Texas hill country, where 4 months’ worth of rain in just four hours caused Guadalupe River levels to spike 30 feet in just an hour and a half - in the middle of the night. Two dozen are dead in the resulting floods and another 20 young campers still missing. apnews.com/article/texa...washingtonpost.comWhy the Texas floods were so severeFlooding rains in and around Kerr County had brought a widespread 10 to 15 total inches by Friday morning. Four months of rainfall came down in four hours. 21620256
Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Recent survey attack in my emails: What can we do so people accept AI more at their workplace? My thoughts: please stop. and: people are likely to accept it too easily, so maybe put some questions in between? Like maybe asking how, when, and where it would actually be useful? 010
Reposted by Lina MairClaudia Roesch @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025My colleagues put together an excited program for the Konstanz University's Mediterranean Platform in the upcoming summer term - and many presentations are hybrid! Feel free to share 😀 0133
Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 29/03/2025On this day in 1911 a fire destroyed a large section of the New York State Capitol. It included the collections of the New York State Library which were housed there at the time. Within hours vast amounts of documents were reduced to ashes. #history nyslibrary.libguides.com/capitolfire/...nyslibrary.libguides.comResources: Capitol Fire: The Capitol Fire of March 29, 1911Resources: Capitol Fire: The Capitol Fire of March 29, 1911 100
Reposted by Lina Mairelijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The guy in charge of The Atlantic.media.tenor.coma computer generated image of the earth with a few green dots on itAlt: Atlantic Ocean 2374
Reposted by Lina MairJoyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025For #WomensHistoryMonth: Mary Norris, an early American woman of #science, loaned her telescope to Philadelphia’s observation of the 1769 Transit of Venus (part of an international astronomical effort). Norris was formidable—John Adams said that if she’d been his wife, “I should have shot myself” 0134
Reposted by Lina MairClaudia Roesch @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Please share: Master students, come to wonderful Konstanz, study with my wonderful colleagues, have great discussions in the Mediterranean Platform, attend wonderful excursions and enjoy a cafeteria with a lake view: 😎🤩 www.connections.clio-online.net/studyprogram...connections.clio-online.netMA Mediterranean History at the University of KonstanzProgram Focus: The Mediterranean as a dynamic historical space, shaped by cultural, economic, and political entanglements. - Transregional and comparative perspectives, connecting Europe, Asia, Africa... 076
Reposted by Lina MairTiina-Liisa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @tiina-liisa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Äiti would tell me to put the book away, and go out and play. 2137933
Reposted by Lina MairDr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I already cancelled my trip and I‘m not the only one I‘ve seen this conference season, I expect more people to do the same as SCMS, PCA and other events in my field get closer (like by this point we were all long booked and it‘s financially tougher to back out than simply not to book). 0298
Reposted by Lina MairRonen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Heute wäre sie 92 geworden. Rest in power. 938351
Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Notes from Early American history In September 1766 governor Henry Moore of colonial New York and Guy Carleton future governor of Quebec met at Isle de la Motte, Vermont. There they discussed the location of the boundary between the two provinces paving the ground for the Canadian border. 211