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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Posting this for no particular reason. ;)

Figure 137. Superimposition of Dürer's drawing (red), Burkmair's woodcut (blue), and Dürer's woodcut (mirrored in grey).

from:
Schich, Maximilian. Rezeption und Tradierung als komplexes Netzwerk: der CENSUS und visuelle Dokumente zu den Thermen in Rom. (Munich: Verlag Biering & Brinkmann, 2009).

open access:
https://www.google.ee/books/edition/Rezeption_und_Tradierung_als_komplexes_N/0cqnGaTvXTUC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA147&printsec=frontcover

Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"A smartphone analogy to explore the origin of animals" by Ruiz-Trillo et al. I got so many questions: 🧽 Where's the sponge function on my phone? 🐙 Will land-octopi scrub themselves with phones in 380m yrs? 🌈 How about superradiant tryptophones? @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social

"Figure 3. A 'choanoblastea' vision on how smartphones evolved."

from Ruiz-Trillo, Iñaki, Elena Casacuberta, Nicholas H. Brown, and Ricard Solé. "A smartphone analogy to explore the origin of animals." The EMBO Journal (2026): 1-13.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lab encounter with Kaisa Langer et al. – The Humanities Data Lab (HUMAL) of the Estonian Research and Cultural Data Infrastructure @etkad.bsky.social 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 8 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Picture of Pirita beach in Tallinn, Estonia, with white snow on the rocks in the foreground, black Baltic sea and fog in the middle, and BlueSky above, all together resembling the Estonian flag. Tallinn University is home to the Cultural Data Analytics Open Lab (https://cudan.tlu.ee).
Photo: Maximilian Schich (CC-BY-NC)

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Posting this @nsousanis.bsky.social mini comic about AI and creative work for no particular reason

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Fall 2025 Syllabi!

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'the greater the degree of interdisciplinarity, the lower the probability of being funded." This insight is now 10 years old. 🎉 Fellow "born this way" #multidisciplinaries, who want to survive: Read Anderson's Imagined Communities and Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender (and think "disciplines").

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Nature gives us so much inspiration [...]"

Figure 1: Japanese tree frog calling at the ridge of rice paddies

[Source: Hirano 2017]

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Christoph Bautz @christophbautz.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

"Es gibt nicht die echten und die unechten Bürger. Es gibt nicht die richtigen und die falschen Familien. Es gibt nicht die normalen und die nicht normalen. Das ist faschistischer Sprech!" 100% was Carolin Emcke sagt.

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Omas* gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈 @omasgegenrechtsle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

WOW! Heute waren in ganz 🇩🇪 Menschen auf der Straße & machten klar: Es ist Zeit zum Handeln! 👏 Die Wahl in LSA muss eine Zäsur sein, wenn wir die AfD stoppen wollen. Um das zu erreichen, fordern wir: Solidarität mit allen, die vor Ort dafür kämpfen, dass Rechtsextreme nicht 1/3

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I do wonder what David Hilbert would think about all this. He was accused of trying to automate mathematics, in the 1920s! The "Hilbert program" failed in an exact sense, because Gödel, but it succeeded by making formal proof systems like Lean possible. And Lean makes the AI-sausage-machine work.

Two panels from the graphic novel Logicomix.
Left: He wants a machine to feed it axioms and make theorems, like one where a pig enters the one side...
Right: ...and the sausages come out from the other!! (laughter)

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There is a special feeling of excitement and disgust emerging in trained experts when they look into the window of an antiquarian prints & drawings salesman, who sells sheets – obviously cut out of mutilated books. Click "View original page", to recover context, lost in the app, sometimes lost .

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Prior to OpenAI's announcement today that its AI solved one of the seven Millennium Problems, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof's origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations.

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OpenAI claims blockbuster math breakthrough amid swirl of controversy

Prior to the announcement, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof's origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Speak AfD as one word, not Ah-eff-deh, and it sounds like Aphte (mouth ulcer) for Germany.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Musk-backed AfD is three votes short of an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt. In a secret ballot, it may only need three CDU lawmakers to discover their independence. Americans may remember Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

For Americans reading the German election news this morning, it might help to know that Saxony-Anhalt is like the West Virginia of Germany. Population similar size and age, GDP similar, high out-migration, old dying industry. No less worrying, but good for comparison.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 04/09/2026

🛎️ Final call: Advanced School on AI Research Practice in Media and Communication. Apply by 15 Sept for VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School on AI research in media & communication. 📅 10–13 Nov. 🌐 Online PhD/postdoc/ECR melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/vi-...

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today, extreme-right AFD 💩 won 44% in Sachsen Anhalt 🇩🇪. AFD wants "peace politics with Russia" 🇷🇺, while signalling "Germany First" (as in "America First" 🇺🇸), and "Vision 2026" (as in "Project 2025" 🎃). Center-right CDU already does "Project 2025 light". The German media is tragically unprepared.

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Christina Clemm @clemm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

45 Prozent haben für Rassismus, Frauenhass, Queerfeindlichkeit, Behindertenfeindlichkeit, Menschenverachtung gestimmt. Das muss uns entsetzen.

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Sebastian Leber @tieresindfreaks.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wunderbare Menschen heute in #magdeburg

Schild "rückenleiden? Trotzdem da! die Ü50-antifa"

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Social media is an excitable #medium. It functions like a dynamic #reservoir, taken to #criticality by noise induction, made hypersensitive for external input. The readout is narrow-minded ideas. There is no central control, just game-theoretic #fracking, for profit. #piracy, not conspiracy. 🌊☠️

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"Man kann es auch positiv formulieren[...]: Wir brauchen Weltoffenheit, [...] eine Willkommenskultur, [...] Offenheit für alle Geschlechter. Alle sind bei uns willkommen, die Rationalität mitbringen, kritisches Denken, die die Wissenschaft voranbringen wollen und die in diesem Geist zu uns kommen."🔥

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ich wünsche allen Trittbrettfahrern des 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Rechtsrucks in #Deutschland einen heftigen Wahlverlust, und allen anderen ein schönes Wochenende. 🌍🇪🇺🇩🇪 💚 🌼 🎉 Es geht auch ohne #Gier & #Nepotismus, ohne #Xenophobie, #Misogynie, #Queer- & #Transphobie, ohne #Ignoranz der #Wissenschaft und des #Klimawandels!

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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Stell dir vor, du arbeitest beim Verfassungsschutz, nimmst das einigermaßen ernst, sammelst Material und erarbeitest Gutachten, die die Einstufung der AfD als gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung untermauern und dann lädt der ÖRR den Fascho-Spitzenkandidaten ins KINDERFERNSEHEN ein.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just in case you have no plans for the weekend, this year's Ig Nobel cohort is hilarious. 😘 [seriously]

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ULTRAKÆRL @ultrakaerl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ich liebe einfach alles daran, wie @ricardalang.eurosky.social den Schaumschläger und peinlichen Selbstvermarkter Poschardt bei Maischberger rasiert. 🔥🥰

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just in time for the Academy of #NaturalScience in to reconsider closing their #museum in #Philadelphia...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/12/2025

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Screen shot of an Instagram post that says the academy of natural sciences is closing its museum after nearly two centuries

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Living room #lullaby ... 🕸️ 🕷️🦋 🍽️ Spiderman is having moth for dinner tonight.

Orb weaving European garden spider eating a moth twice her size, after moving into our living room and waiting for a week or so.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yann LeCun throwing bombs at the ACM AI Leadership Summit

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Rinaldo Mogyorosy @rinaldomogyorosy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Die einzige Minderheit, die Amerika zerstört, sind die Milliardäre. Transpersonen nehmen uns nicht die Gesundheitsversorgung weg. Muslime kürzen nicht die Mittel für unsere Schulen. Immigranten senken nicht die Steuern für sich und ihre reichen Freunde. Es sind die Milliardäre .....

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google Maps's "Lake America" inherited 4.6 Start testified by 1632 reviews from #LakeOntario. #/r/place

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Christiane Eickmann @fraueickmann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Der Pianist Kai Schumacher hat etwas zu den Noten F*C*AFD komponiert, er und weitere Pianist*innen haben es interpretiert. Tolles Video auf Instagram. Ich habe es für euch runtergeladen, falls ihr nicht auf Instagram seid. #AFD #MusikAntifa

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wondering how K.H. Naumann and H. Bödeker drew those mind-blowing precision ellipses with ink gradients 🤯 for Hilbert's Anschauliche Geometrie (1932)? They adjusted the ruling pen's line width on their ellipsograph mid-draw 😎 without spilling a drop! 😬 #dataviz #arthistory #geometry #mathhist

A half-ellipse with a continuous gradient of line width, drawn with a Riefler ellipsograph, as visible in the picture, mounted on a white drawing board.

Photo: © Maximilian Schich, 2026

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Dream more. Learn more. Care more. Be more." – Dolly Parton ❤️

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hey the keynotes of the International Conference on Computational Social Science IC2S2 2026 are openly available online! Just watched the brilliant @katestarbird.bsky.social. Thank you, dear @ic2s2.bsky.social organizers!

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/08/2026

If you just happened to pick this week to start yelling about the importance of academic freedom, I sure hope you did more than watch silently for the past 18 months as the Trump administration assaulted everything from mRNA vaccine research to gender studies to the very idea of having universities.

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There is a raw milk cheese M&A drama rolling out in the Baltics ... [Meanwhile, can somebody tell me why Stockmann is hoarding all their Reblochon in Finland? It really goes well with Estonian potatoes!]

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There is another burst of "cup is ½ full/empty/else" posts. Just gonna say my fav coffee experience this year was a Caffe Shakerato in a Martini glass at Gambrinus in Naples, and last year it was a "Dirty" in a parametricist aroma glass at Nanjing University medical school. Who cares about cups. ☕🤷

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