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Lina Mair

@mair-lina.bsky.social
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Intrigued by the depths and complexities of change, past and present PhD candidate (project on early Vermont), Historian/Americanist history of Early America and transatlantic history, revolutions, spaces, knowledge, culture

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This 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.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Everything 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)
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Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
If 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
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/07/2025
Tragedy 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...
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Why the Texas floods were so severe
Flooding 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.
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Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Recent 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?
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Claudia Roesch @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
My 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 😀
Mediterranean Platform
Wednesday, 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm
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16.04.	Juliane Tauchnitz (Würzburg), Platon, Herkules und die Straße von Gibraltar. Ein emergenter mediterraner Kulturraum in hispano-marokkanischer Literatur, in cooperation with Romanistik

29.04.	Ada Ferraresi (Barcelona), Sovereignty Entangled: The Libyan Submarine Cable as a
Repository of History [digital], in cooperation with CMH, 5-6:30 PM, D 201

06.05. 	Aleida Assmann (Konstanz), Genealogie der IHRA Definition
in cooperation with CMH, 5-6:30 PM, D 201

13.05. 	Vuk Uskoković (Florence), These Half-Wild Mountains: The Perceptions of Savagery in the 
Early Modern Mediterranean, in cooperation with MA/FNZ Colloquium, 5-6:30 PM, F 424

21.05. 	Jorge Flores (Lisbon), Interstitial Documents in the Early Modern Portuguese Colonial Archive: 
Concepts, Questions, Cases [digital]

03.06.	Manuel Borutta (Konstanz), Liquid Continent: The Modern Mediterranean in the Age of (Post-)Empire, in cooperation with DFG-Research Training Group "Post-Eurocentric Europe," 6:45-9:15 PM, Y 310

04.06. 	Oğuzhan Akeren (Konstanz), French Naval Policies, Maritime Security Measures and Coastal Transformations in the Mediterranean (1715–1815)

11.06.	Francesca Biancani (Bologna), Writing the Modern Mediterranean: Prostitution [digital]

25.06.	Erik de Lange (Utrecht), Menacing Tides: Security, Piracy and Empire in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

01.07.	Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva), Thinking about (Settler) Colonialism (and National Liberation) through the Israeli Case, in cooperation with CMH, 5-6:30 PM, D 201

02.07.	Ciro Dovizio (Milan), Writing the Modern Mediterranean: Mafias [digital]

08.07.	Jürgen Osterhammel (Freiburg), Rethinking Global History
in Cooperation with CMH, 5-6:30 PM, G 300

09.07.	Milinda Hoo (Utrecht), Globalizing the Ancient Mediterranean 
in cooperation with Colloquium Ancient History, 5-30 PM, R 511

16.07. 	Shira Pinhas (Princeton), Writing the Modern Mediterranean: Energy [digital]
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Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
On 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/...
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Resources: Capitol Fire: The Capitol Fire of March 29, 1911
Resources: Capitol Fire: The Capitol Fire of March 29, 1911
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The guy in charge of The Atlantic.
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a computer generated image of the earth with a few green dots on it
Alt: Atlantic Ocean
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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
For #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”
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Claudia Roesch @claudiaroeschdc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please 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...
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MA Mediterranean History at the University of Konstanz
Program Focus: The Mediterranean as a dynamic historical space, shaped by cultural, economic, and political entanglements. - Transregional and comparative perspectives, connecting Europe, Asia, Africa...
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Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Re-reading this wonderful book
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Tiina-Liisa 🇫🇮🇨🇦 @tiina-liisa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Äiti would tell me to put the book away, and go out and play.
Illustration of a girl lying on floor reading books.
"I was the kid who got in Trouble for reading past my bedtime."
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I 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).
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Ronen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Heute wäre sie 92 geworden. Rest in power.
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Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Notes 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.
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Lina Mair @mair-lina.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Finally made the step to join here!
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