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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Im wunderschönen #Salzburg 🇦🇹 für die #DigitalHistory2026, wo ich unser Projekt AIon (www.uzhfoundation.ch/themen/mensc...) vorstellen darf. Freue mich auf spannende Diskussionen! #DigiHist #DigiHist2026 #DigitalHumanities

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wie kann Künstliche Intelligenz die Kulturvermittlung von morgen prägen? 🏛️🤖 Das Forschungsprojekt AIon des AIncient Studies Labs von @FKMaier an der @UZH_ch entwickelt adaptive, KI-gestützte Ansätze für eine personalisierte Erschliessung historischer Orte.

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One of the fun things about LLMs is we can use their greatest weakness in OCR/HTR (their non-determinism) to be their greatest strength in identifying potential errors. The same model running over the same image multiple times shows where divergence (errors) appear. Blog and app coming soon!

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Antike Texte interaktiv analysieren & übersetzen: Das AIncient Studies Lab der Universität Zürich veröffentlicht den AIncientTutor! 🏛️✨ Features: 🔹 8-Schritte-Satzanalyse mit Farbsystem 🔹 Adaptive Hilfe-Leiter, Quizzes & XP-Ränge 🔹 Discovery-Modus für thematische Leseeinheiten

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Antike Sprachen meets moderne KI! 🏛️⚡️ Heute am @UZH IAKA beim Studientag „KI in Latein & Griechisch“ in Zürich – und ich stelle unseren #AIncientTutor vor! Wie verändert KI das Verstehen klassischer Texte? 🤖📜 #DigitalClassics #EdTech #AIinEducation #DigitalHumanities

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Geschafft: Master in Altertumswissenschaften! 🎓📜 Unfassbar abwechslungsreich, da ich mir alles selbst zusammenstellen konnte. Danke an alle für den Support! Auf zu neuen Projekten. 🏛️✨ #Master #Abschluss #Altertumswissenschaften #History

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🏛️ Re-Experiencing History v2 ist live! Unsere Plattform verbindet KI-Bildgenerierung mit 3,2 Mio. Passagen aus der altertumswissenschaftlichen Forschungsliteratur: für quellenbasierte historische Visualisierungen.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🏛️ Unsere Projektwebseite ist online! 👉 voxlapidum.hist.uzh.ch Vox Lapidum ist ein KI-gestützter Chatbot für über 500'000 lateinische Inschriften und macht die grösste Epigraphik-Datenbank der Welt für Forschung, Bildung und Museen erlebbar. 1/2

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Vox Lapidum — KI-gestützter Inschriften-Chatbot

Vox Lapidum macht über 500'000 lateinische Inschriften durch KI, linguistische Annotation und einen dialogischen Chatbot für Forschung, Bildung und Museen erlebbar.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Augustus hätte es so gewollt: TE VOLO! 🫵🏛️ Wir suchen Leute mit Lateinkenntnissen, die mithelfen wollen, antike Inschriften im Rahmen des vom @dizh.bsky.social geförderten Projekts Vox Lapidum an der @uzh-ch.bsky.social syntaktisch zu annotieren. 1/3

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Zurück aus dem Zypern-Ulraub 🇨🇾☀️ und schon am Vergessen. Wer kennt's: Man steht vor Ruinen, die 3'000 Jahre alt sind, liest jede Tafel (wenn man sie denn lesen kann), ist überwältigt… und drei Wochen später weiss man kaum noch, welches Mosaik wo lag 🤷‍♂️ 1/🧵

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Zypern Archäologischer Reader — Interaktive Erkundung der Kulturlandschaft

Interaktiver akademischer Reader zur Geschichte und Archäologie Zyperns. GPS-kartierte Fotodokumentation, epochenübergreifende Analyse und Forschungsliteratur.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Was lange währt, wird endlich gut. 🏛️🐍 Ich freue mich, den Reader „Von der Pythia zu Python – Einführung in die Programmierung für Historiker:innen" als Open-Source-Projekt zu veröffentlichen. #DigitalHumanities #Python #OpenEducation #AncientHistory #Epigraphik #Lehre 1/8

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Presenting the #AIncientTutor at @dariaheu.bsky.social #DARIAH2026 Annual Event 🏛️🤖 Developed at @uzh-ch.bsky.social, this system reshapes ancient language learning using #LLM support to guide learners through primary sources without prior annotations. 📜✨ #DigitalHumanities (1/3)

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

✨ Today at the #LT4HALA workshop at #LREC2026, my brilliant student Wenhui Cui and I present some work on #NER in #Latin #inscriptions 🪦 . Paper 📜 can be found here: lrec-conf.org/proceedings/... #digitalhumanities #ancienthistory #digitalhistory

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Wir freuen uns sehr auf die Realisierung des @dizh.bsky.social Projekts "Vox Lapidum". In den nächsten drei Jahren wird die Kollaboration zwischen den Institutionen @phzuerich.bsky.social (Charlotte Axelsson, Ursula Stohler, Marcial Koch) und der @uzh-ch.bsky.social (Anne Kolb, Jens Bartels, ...

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

History you can hold in your hand! 🏺✨ 🔥 The AIncient Studies Lab at the University of Zurich just got an upgrade: A 3D scanner from @creality3dofficial.bsky.social 🩻 and a 3D printer from @bambulabglobal.bsky.social 🖨️. Check out our first prints: 👸 The iconic bust of Nofretete ... 1/🧵

The 3D printer in action, printing a model of the ancient Roman inscription.

A desktop PC and Monitor, showing the Bambu Lab Software. On the screen, there is a 3D model of an ancient Roman inscription, ready for printing.

The Bambu Lab H2S 3D printer with a model inside.

The finished 3D printed model of Nofretete.

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Can we find all the maps in (out of copyright) literature? @axel-bax.bsky.social presents his work at #CHR3025!

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Zeroshot translation with LLM of Homer align more with Lattimore's translation, apparently a canonical one in the English speaking world? #chr2025 doi.org/10.63744/Xcj...

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Patrick J. Burns @diyclassics.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026. CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc

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LatinCy Developers/Users First Annual Meeting

Announcing the LatinCy First Annual Meeting

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

How can we better understand the ancient Greek 'mind' 🏛️ ? Is it through translations? How can LLMs help 🤖 ? Felix Maier and I from the University of Zurich will present preliminary findings on that at #CHR2025 in beautiful #Luxembourg.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Felix Maier und ich freuen uns darauf, am IDA-Workshop zu den digitalen Altertumswissenschaften teilzunehmen und die Universität Zürich dort vertreten zu dürfen! Danke an die Berner Kolleg:innen für die Einladung! #digitalhumanities #digitalclassics #digitalhistory #history #workshop

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Ich durfte kürzlich im Podcast des Deutschen Fotorats zu Gast sein – gemeinsam mit Jürgen Scriba und Boris Eldagsen habe ich über unser Projekt Re-Experiencing History gesprochen. 🏛️✨ 👉 Hier geht’s zur Folge: youtube.com/watch?v=kDHCBi4pOWk

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Deutscher Fotorat | KI-Podcast #09

YouTube video by Deutscher Fotorat

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Auf dem Weg nach Augsburg zu "Prompted Pasts?" 🚂 Freue mich auf spannende Projekte und Diskussionen! #history #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ai #images

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ich darf im kommenden Semester an der UZH im Kolloquium der Reihe "Geschichte in der Praxis" einen Einführungskurs in Python für Geschichtsstudierende geben (bit.ly/47VdlDe). 🎓 🔢 🏺 Das Ziel ist es, den Lernenden Python direkt an geschichtlichen Gegenständen beizubringen. 🪙

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨ I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar). The dataset is freely available on Zenodo: 👉 zenodo.org/records/1699... 🔎 2,152 line images 1/🧵

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Our project "Re-Experiencing History" is featured in the UZH news. Thanks for having us 🙏. www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/... The project team (Felix K. Maier, Raphael Müller, Nicola Steger, Eva Willi, and I) is pleased to have had the opportunity to work on this. 1/🧵

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Legionäre per Klick

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Zejie Guo and I were honoured to be nominated! Congratulations to Francisco for winning the Fortier Prize!

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Please join us in congratulating the nominees for the Paul Fortier Prize. Be sure to attend the Closing Ceremony on Friday, 19th July, when the winner will be announced—don’t miss it! @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Zejie Guo' Fortier Prize-nominated work at #DH2025: "Enhancing Text-to-Image Alignment with RAG GPT for Historical Event Reconstruction: Evaluating with Multimodal LLMs"-a very heady mix of LLMs correcting LLM-created prompts for genAI images, evaluated by LLMs w/ LLM-generated questions. 🤯

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Interested in early modern letters 📜 & the Reformation period ⛪? The Bullinger correspondence ✒️ is now also linked in #correspsearch -> correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm... This connects Bullinger with plenty of other reformers! Have fun exploring! #correspondence #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

A network graph of Heinrich Bullinger's correspondens in correspsearch.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The #DH2025 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 finally begins (unfortunately, in a broadcast room 🥲). I'm looking forward to an exciting & inspirational conference. Zejie, Felix, & I will present a paper in Session LP10. Looking forward to discussing with you. #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ancienthistory

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Wie sah der Alltag im antiken Rom wirklich aus? 🤔🏛️ Unser Projekt "Re-Experiencing History" nutzt KI 🤖, um historisch fundiertere Bilder der Antike zu erstellen. Schluss mit KI-Fehlern wie Legionären mit Sneakers! 👟❌ 1/🧵

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

The UZH Digital Society Initiative Community Digital Humanities finally has a face! We’re thrilled to announce that our brand-new webpage is officially live. 🎉 digitalhumanities.dsi.uzh.ch

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🌊⚡️ New Episode Alert! ⚡️🌊 Listen now! 👉 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... Or here 👉 t.uzh.ch/1Nv Dive into the mystery of the Bronze God of Artemision! 🏺 Is it Poseidon, the sea god? 🔱 Or Zeus, king of the gods? 🌩️ We unravel the heated debate! 🤯

An AI-Generated image of the bronze statue found at Artemision.

The Artemision Bronze (c. 5th century BC). Lost-wax cast Bronze sculpture. Height 209 cm. Depicts either Zeus or Poseidon. Found near Cape Artemision, Greece. National Archaeological Museum of Athens

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The #DHd2025 has officially started! Looking forward to interesting 3 days! #digitalhumanities #conference

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎧 Listen here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv Or here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... Our AI hosts are "cracking open" the Cyrus Cylinder! 🏺 This ancient Babylonian artifact isn't just a dusty relic – it's Cyrus the Great's personal PR campaign! 👑

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This week's talking points of our AI hosts: 🔥Humanity rebels against the sun god Re! ☀️ Hathor, the "Sun Eye," unleashes divine wrath! 😠🍺 Rivers of red beer flow! 🎧 t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎶 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 🩸 The Myth of the Heavenly Cow 🐮: a tale of cosmic disruption,

An AI-generated image inspired by ancient Egyptian mythology. At the center, a celestial cow with a sun disk between her horns radiates golden light. Below, a red-ochre river winds through a sandy desert landscape, symbolizing the beer offering from the myth. The scene features Egyptian temples with hieroglyph-covered columns, flanked by sphinx-like statues. The sky is filled with golden stars, celestial symbols, and a large planet resembling Saturn. Warm golden and earthy tones dominate the image, blending intricate details with a stylized Egyptian art aesthetic.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🎉 Get ready for the Dionysiac Mysteries with the AISL Podcast! 🍇 We're exploring these wild ancient Greek rituals dedicated to the god of wine, ecstasy, and transformation. 🤯 Think secret initiations, ecstatic dances, and mystery! Listen: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...

The image presents a mystical and dramatic representation of the ancient Dionysiac Mysteries, evoking an atmosphere of secrecy, ecstasy, and ritual.

At the center, a marble statue of Dionysus stands in an imposing yet enigmatic pose. He is adorned with ivy and grapevines, symbolizing his association with wine and nature. He holds a thyrsus, a staff wrapped in ivy and topped with a pinecone, a key emblem of his cult.

Behind him, shadowy, robed figures engage in a mysterious ritual dance, their faces partially concealed by masks. Their movements suggest an ecstatic frenzy, reminiscent of the Bacchic rites.

A golden glow subtly illuminates two important ritual objects in the foreground:

A winnowing fan (liknon), a sacred tool linked to initiation rites and the myth of Dionysus.
A cista mystica, a chest associated with secret knowledge and sometimes depicted with a snake inside.
In the background, ruins of an ancient temple rise under a deep twilight sky, adding an air of antiquity and mystery. The sky is cast in rich purple and blue hues, reinforcing the dreamlike, otherworldly atmosphere.

The title, "The Dionysiac Mysteries," is elegantly inscribed in an ancient-style font, blending seamlessly with the mystical surroundings, hinting at the arcane knowledge and esoteric traditions of the Dionysian cult.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

🗣️ Podcast Alert 🗣️ 📢 Step back in time with me to ancient Rome! 🏛️ Join our two AI 🤖 hosts who discover the Fratres Arvales, a mysterious priesthood of 12 men 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 from the senatorial class, devoted to the goddess Dea Dia. 🌳 Listen here: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 1/🧵

An AI generated image of the secret grove of the Dea Dia, with a priestly procession into a round temple in the middle of a forest with high trees.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Get ready to sail back in time! ⛵️ Dive into the fascinating world of the ancient Mediterranean, where the Greeks 🇬🇷 and Phoenicians 🇱🇧 were the ultimate power players! 💥 Listen to the newest AI-generated podcast episode: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️ 🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 🎙️ 1/🧵

AI-generated image of ships sailing close to a harbour.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The deed is done! More than 2100 pieces later, our office has a new decorative object: the #Akropolis by #BlueBrixx. It was a nice build! And what a nice way to learn something about #AncientHistory, too! #buildingbricks #klemmbausteine #notlego

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

📢🎧 New Podcast Episode Alert! 🎧📢 Journey back to the Iron Age! 🤯 Discover the secrets of the Heuneburg 🏰, Germany's "oldest city north of the Alps"! ⛰️🇩🇪 Tune in to explore the rise and fall of this fascinating urban center! 🎧➡️ Here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv Or on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...

The AI-generated title image of this podcast episode featuring a settlement that seems to consist of mud-brick houses in a plane between hills. The sky is cloudy.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

✨🎙️ Podcast alert: First episode in 2025 🎙️✨ ▶️ Explore the Temple of Poseidon's innovative architecture, connection to Athenian naval power, and the stories it whispers from the past. 🤫 🎧 Listen here: ⁠https://t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎧 Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 1/🧵 ...

AI-generated title image of podcast. It shows Greek temple ruins and a sunset over the sea.

Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion as viewed from the sea

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Just donated CHF 50 to @wikipedia.bsky.social because Elon Musk tells people not to (see nypost.com/2024/12/25/b...). If you also want to contribute: donate.wikimedia.org. #donation #Wikipedia #DonationForWikipedia #HelpWikipedia

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

✨ Immerse yourself in the world of Byzantine art! ✨ Our latest AI-generated podcast episode delves into the intricate mosaics of San Vitale. ⛪ 🎧 Listen here: www.tiny.uzh.ch/1Lr⁠ or on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ainci…

AI-generated thumbnail image of podcast episode.

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Phillip B. Ströbel @phillipstroebel.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

✨ 🎄 Christmas Special AISL Podcast Episode 🎄✨ 🎙️ For more information, go to ⁠www.tiny.uzh.ch/1Lr⁠ 🎧 Or listen to it on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... From ancient roots to global celebrations, Christmas is a tapestry of traditions! 🧵 Our new AI-generated podcast episode ... 1/3

AI generated. It shows the theme image of this podcast episode. It features a decorated Christmas tree in the middle, surrounded by other decorative elements like baubles. In the front, there are two lanterns to the left and the right, a microphone, candles, and an open book.

"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens - This Edition Published by Macy's; Illustrated by Daub's Studio

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