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Felix Schilk @stillapossibility.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ich freue mich, dass unser Band aus dem #REDACT Forschungsprojekt endlich im #OpenAccess erschienen ist. Dabei ist auch mein Artikel über die Arbeit von Organisationen, die zur Prävention von #Verschwörungstheorien und #Desinformation arbeiten. Dafür haben wir ca. 100 Interviews geführt. /1

Cover des Routledge Buches "CONSPIRACY THEORIES IN THE
EUROPEAN DIGITAL SPHERE". Auf dem Cover ist neben dem Titel ein Ausschnitt einer Netzwerkanalyse zu sehen, das aus farbigen Linien und Knotenpunkten besteht.

Screenshot der ersten Seite des Artikels: "COMBATTING CONSPIRACY
THEORIES AND DEBUNKING DISINFORMATION IN THE EUROPEAN
INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT"

Tabelle, die zeigt, wie viele Interviews im Rahmen des Projekts geführt wurden.

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ich unterstütze Reflekt, weil unabhängiger Journalismus wichtig ist. "Wir recherchieren dort, wo es unbequem wird: von Wohnungsnot über Machtmissbrauch bis hin zu organisierter Kriminalität und Machenschaften Schweizer Konzerne." reflekt.ch/crowdfunding

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Crowdfunding

Damit wir weiterhin recherchieren und Missstände aufdecken können, brauchen wir bis Ende September 1000 neue Unterstützer:innen. Ermögliche auch du mutigen Journalismus mit Wirkung!

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We started a new Working Group on Theorizing Religion within the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR). More in German here: religionswissenschaft.unibas.ch/de/fachberei...

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Arbeitsgruppe "Theory and Theorizing Religion/s"

Die Arbeitsgruppe "Theory and Theorizing Religion/s" formiert sich innerhalb der European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR).

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not "ancient Egyptian" of course, but a nice example of how religious and cultural traditions blended in the western desert

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 29/09/2026

NEW How did Nazi archaeologists try to prove a mythical Germanic past? New research explores the Ahnenerbe’s meticulous casts of Nordic rock art, used in attempts to legitimise racist origin myths and construct a fabricated Germanic prehistory. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Person brushing a rock art carving with soapy water in preparation for its casting in plaster.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

evitable
adjective
uk /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The plot thickens. First they stole everything, then they wanted to be loved. Now it is time to fear them, and partly nationalize them. It is so obvious: they desperately need money, land, water, and energy to further exist.

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm not the only one not seeing the EASR conference program of next week, right?

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s incredible to have ‘Silence of the Gods’ shortlisted for @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social, and I’m so pleased that the largely forgotten history of northern and eastern Europe’s last pre-Christian religious traditions is finally receiving the attention it deserves 📚

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re constantly told how AI is coming for people’s jobs. But who knew it was also going to come for the ancient religious profession of medium/summoner of the dead?

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Alexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“The university—especially the public university—has never been an ‘ivory tower,’ but rather a place where we help create the public sphere we want to see in the world.” Loved this urgent article about the assault on religious studies as part of the authoritarian project

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Restored first century CE frescos and mosaics? Yes, please. Rome’s restoration and enhancement project for the large exedra and underground gallery of the Baths of Trajan at Colle Oppio is finally finished! www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeolo...

“ An additional section of mosaic decoration depicting a port city—composed of a series of buildings likely facing the sea—has been unearthed. The motif appears to be associated with the so-called “maritime villas.” Beneath the decoration, remains of a cladding made of large marble slabs were also uncovered. In the center of the wall, a niche—also clad in marble—approximately 2.20 meters high was identified.”

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Call for Applications! 🎓 Each year, the GHIL offers research scholarships for postgraduate students, Habilitanden, and postdocs at German universities, providing an great opportunity to conduct research in the UK! 🇩🇪✈️🇬🇧 1/2

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How dare you forbid vehicles in cities! We cannot have towns where the only vehicles will be for deliveries and services! This is an insane left-wing idea, a novelty against any tradition and it will kill the inner cities. Lex Iulia Municipalis from 45 BCE:

14) After January 1 next no one shall drive a wagon along the streets of Rome or along those streets in the suburbs where there is continuous housing after sunrise or before the tenth hour of the day, except whatever will be proper for the transportation and the importation of material for building temples of the immortal gods, or for public works, or for removing from the city rubbish from those buildings for whose demolition public contracts have been let. For these purposes permission shall be granted by this law to specified persons to drive wagons for the reasons stated.

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I recently had a situation where I had to correct a private security guy... And I cannot believe that you Americans have to do this on a daily basis.

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

At 9000 followers I will reveal what Manichaeism is really about ...

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

AI "writing" seems to aim for generic internet voice, because it doesn't have a community to address

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Today's Top AI News @todaystopainews.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Claude now embeds an invisible watermark into every piece of text it generates #ai #artificialintellidence #news #tech #claude

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Are you looking forward to seeing the #SolarEclipse today? On 29 March 1652 Alice Thornton saw a solar eclipse which cast complete darkness over much of northern England: 'I could not refrain [from] going out into the garden and look on the eclipse in water.' (Book 2, 136-7) #EarlyModern 🗃️

Title page of William Lilly's Annus Tenebrosus (1652). The central image is of a smiley sun in black with two black circles either side and some clouds in a circular orbit.

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Paul Cooper @paulmmcooper.com · 05/08/2026

It's an example of how just one drop of AI in your work brings the whole thing into question. If you're happy using it on your cover, did you use AI to write this? Research it? Can I trust that your primary source quotes are real?

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today is my first day at @unibas.ch Happy to support the academic study of religion/s for a while!

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Andrew Connor @andrewconnor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

We're hiring! Do you work on ancient Egypt (including Ptolemaic), want to join a fantastic department with great colleagues, and live in one of the best cities in the world? Come join us! www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Archaeology & Ancient History - Clayton, Australia job with MONASH UNIVERSITY | 414023

The School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies is seeking either a Level B Lecturer or Level C Senior Lecturer ...

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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yes of course, my expertise totally fits within the theme of this - nonexisting - conference in Tokyo!

Spam email inviting me to talk about AI, Blockchain, Cybersecurity because of an article on Erich von Däniken....

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

church of scientology, print ad, your commodore, magazine (1986) archive.org/details/16-y...

aside from a picture of einstein, text:
we use only 10% of our mental potentials
einstein
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in his book "dianetics: the modern science of mental health l. ron hub- bard takes one more giant step in this direction.
he reveals how anyone can use his dis- coveries to isolate the exact barriers that have so far prevented people from using their mental potentials to the full.
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Mattias Brand @mbinzurich.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Do we already have the publications of this site?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

Reconciliation for priests
The procedure set out by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, beginning on July 1, 2026, provides that a priest who has decided to leave the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X - and who is willing to accept the Second Vatican Council and the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo Missae, while remaining attached to the ancient rite - must "find an Ordinary - a diocesan Bishop, a Major Superior of clerical religious institutes of pontifical right or of clerical societies of apostolic life of pontifical right, etc. - willing to receive him ad experimentum."

The priest must then "write by hand a letter to the Holy Father in which he presents himself and asks for the remission of the censures incurred because of the ordination he received from an excommunicated or irregular Bishop, or because, having been validly and legitimately ordained, he subsequently became a member of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X."

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