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Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Since we‘re collecting, my favorite remains the East German priest who protested conditions in his country through a fatal act of self-emulation

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Andreas Püttmann @puettmann.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Reich ist, wer erkennt, dass unser Wohlstand wesentlich ausländischen Bergarbeitern zu verdanken ist. Wer dankbar ist für den syrischen Arzt, die muslimische Krankenschwester, den Kongolesen, der auf der Intensivstation arbeitet. Arm ist wer ins Blaue wählt." www.kirche-und-leben.de/artikel/nrw-...

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Bischof Wilmer: Arm ist, wer „munter ins Blaue wählt“

Münsters Bistumsleiter und Westfalens Präses Ruck-Schröder feierten beim NRW-Tag einen ökumenischen Gottesdienst. Was sie am Bundesland schätzen.

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Several good points on the use of LLMs in philosophy: 1) our strict views on the appropriate style of writing analytic philosophy implicitly encourages LLM use, 2) It's not deskilling that's a worry but the loss of process, 3) especially of the social ideal of philosophy as "showing up". #philsky

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Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Springer Nature’s internal policing software removed the paper and posted the retraction notice unilaterally, without human supervision."

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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg @stabihh.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Der #NDR meldet: Hamburger Universitätsbibliothek: Kein Geld für neue Bücher Der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky (StaBi) fehlt es an Geld, um Bücher zu kaufen. Sie hat den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern mitgeteilt, dass sie ihren Kernauftrag momentan nicht erfüllen könne:

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Spendenaufruf: Hamburgs Uni-Bibliothek hat kein Geld mehr, um neuen Bücher zu kaufen

Der Hamburger Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky (StaBi) fehlt es an Geld, um Bücher zu kaufen. Sie hat den Nutzerinnen und Nutzern mitgeteilt, dass sie ihren Kernauftrag momentan n...

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Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The colour palette for the cover art for many coming 21st US History dissertation books

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

When I assign analysis, I am not trying to extract a polished product; I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Western Hemisphere should never be allowed to host the World Cup. The whole point is to be able to get to work and watch soccer all day until I need to pick up my kids from summer camp. I should be watching Ghana-Uzbekistan at 9am.

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Martin Clemens Winter @martincwinter.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

ja fragt euch mal

Graffiti „but would your thesis defend you?“

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Auf der #re:publica26: Mareice Kaiser zu Hanno Sauer über ihre Bücher zu Klasse: „Ich denke, wir sollten Vorschüsse vergleichen. Wie viel hast du bekommen?“ Sauer: „160.000“ Kaiser: „15.000“ - wow

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Very happy to share that I am going to be the new Director of the Democracy unit at the @wzb.bsky.social Berlin Social Science Center. I am excited to form a new research unit on democratic politics and to engage with people in Berlin and elsewhere to make liberal democracy more resilient.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

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Laura Bundesen @laurabundesen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Turning an old beaded earring into a purkinje cell #NeuroArt #Neuroscience #Beads

Hand embroidery all in shades of green using different stitches and in the top right is what looks like a beaded green purkinje cell

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Adrian Currie @adrian-currie.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Exeter’s got a two-year teaching stint for someone into philosophy of data and related - the job’s pretty plush as far as non-permanent ones go - and Exeter is an amazing place to do this kind of philosophy - please pass around! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ094/l... #philsci

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Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence at University of Exeter

Apply for the Lecturer in Philosophy or Sociology of Data and Artificial Intelligence role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Books will outlast your puny digital technology www.thetimes.com/article/74a7... @whippletom.bsky.social

You see it, most ironically, in the Domesday Book. In 1986, the BBC marked the 900th anniversary by making a modern version. It conducted a new census of the nation, taking down thoughts, feelings and occupations, all recorded using a technology lIth-century scribes would have marvelled at.
A technology that was, a few years later, defunct: the LaserDisc. A few years after that, no computer could read it. The original Domesday Book persisted, unchanged, on vellum. The modern one barely lasted a generation.

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Johanna Wenckebach @jowenckebach.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

„Vor der Wahl habe Tesla versucht, sich „ein bisschen zu verwöhnen“, sagt der 25-Jährige. Der 30-J. stimmt zu: „Als wären wir Kinder, haben sie uns letzte Woche Obst und Kekse gebracht. Als ob wir dumm wären.““ Bei #Tesla geht es gerade um bessere Arbeit & #Demokratie. Alle Daumen gedrückt!!

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„Ich habe vor nichts Angst“: So erlebten Tesla-Mitarbeiter den ersten Tag der Betriebsratswahl

Seit Montagmorgen können die Mitarbeitenden von Teslas „Gigafactory“ ihre Stimmen für einen neuen Betriebsrat abgeben. Der Wahlkampf war ruppig. Was treibt die Beschäftigten um?

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Another image is from a German prisoner-of-war camp (Döberitz), where a group of Indian, Egyptian, Persian, Tatar, and Arab anti-colonialists visited in 1915 to persuade prisoners to defect and join the revolutionary cause.

A group of anti-colonialists visit a German prisoner of war camp in 1915.

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Teresa will angeln @teresavincenzo.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

300 in der Halle, 7.000 vor der Halle. Höcke: "Viele sind durch die Bildungsanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ideologisiert worden, sind fehlgeleitet worden." Ich möchte mich bei den 7.000 'Opfern' vor der Halle herzlich bedanken.

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Rund 7.000 Demonstranten: Tausende protestieren gegen Höcke-Auftritt in Düsseldorf

Ein bunter Protestzug, ein hochumstrittener Redner und ein Anti-AfD-Wagen von Jacques Tilly: Antifaschisten zeigen der AfD auch in Garath die Rote Karte – dafür gibt es viel Spott von Björn Höcke.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

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Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

This tracks with the numbers coming from the DFG, GACR and many other national / foundation funders. Many more people applying for far fewer opportunities.

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Olga Byrska @obyrska.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

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GEW – Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft @gew.de · 27/01/2026

Was ist am 29.1.2026 – STREIKTAG! 📣 Die GEW ruft zum bundesweiten STREIKTAG BILDUNG auf. Die zentralen Veranstaltungen finden in #Berlin, #Hamburg, #Köln, #Leipzig und #Mannheim statt. Infos: www.gew.de/streiktag-bildung #ProfisbrauchenMEHR #Warnstreik #GEW #BlueLZ STREIKTAG!

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 26/01/2026

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

A screenshot of WhatsApp:

Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question.
Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know
Ash: Are jaguar soft?
Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

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Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Turns out a lot of the tools used in the production of catgut would be familiar to any weaver.

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Jasper Prigge 🏳️‍🌈 @jasperprigge.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Das Landgericht Göttingen hat heute entschieden, dass die Sparkasse das Konto der @rotehilfe.bsky.social fortführen muss. Eine von uns beantragte einstweilige Verfügung war erfolgreich. Ein wichtiges Signal für die Zivilgesellschaft! Zum Hintergrund: www.prigge-recht.de/pressemittei...

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Sparkasse muss "Rote Hilfe"-Konto fortführen

Das Landgericht Göttingen hat mit Urteil vom 16.01.2026 entschieden, dass die Sparkasse Göttingen das Konto der Rechtshilfeorganisation "Rote Hilfe e.V."

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm trying to write a thing about AI slop and why we want pointless animal videos to still be real. Any storytelling theorists out there who've written about this already?

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

About the 19th Century periodization, I have a question. Well, it's actually more of a comment...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There’s an excellent and devastatingly thorough article in the latest @indexers.bsky.social journal by Elizabeth Bartmess and Michele Combs demonstrating that LLMs are worthless for indexing

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Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

There are few things more exciting that seeing friends publish the books you can't wait to read ...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/11/2025

Alt-text is for screen readers and for descriptions of the image. It's not for image credit and certainly not for links. Credit should be included in the text that goes in the post.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/11/2025

If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 24/04/2025

The White House briefing room. Four Hs. Three of them are upside down. And it’s been that way since 2007.

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Sara @sportsandsuffering.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians

A unicorn watermark in one of the oldest European paper sheets.
Source: https://memoryofpaper.eu/apccv/apccv.php?Signatura=1475.1

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David Ludwig @davidludwig.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Today we are highlighting L. Sasha Gora's new book, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2025) niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n... #envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous

Sonny Assu Gwa’gwa’da’ka “Breakfast Series” 2006, installation, Seattle Art Museum.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

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Jen Rose Smith, PhD @sprucehen.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic

Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Londonist: Time Machine @londonist.com · 17/09/2025

This curious folly in Barking looks ancient, but is less than 20 years old. It's just one of the many fragments of 'fake history' in London, which we've tracked down in this article -> londonist.substack.com/p/fake-history

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Fake History

Some notes on London's bogus past.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

A line chart showing that 38% of webpages from 2013 were no longer accessible one decade later.

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