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Maximilian Schich

@schichmax.bsky.social
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Professor for #CulturalDataAnalytics at Tallinn University in #Estonia #complexity #netsci #arthistory #aesthetics #culturalanalytics #compsocsci #infovis "My PhD is in Art History" – Dr. Zoidberg (max/max)

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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is dope!
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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
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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 · 26/09/2026
Vonnegut’s story types superimposed on a Footloose Fourier Transform. You must resist reading anything into it, but Scot asked for it.

(yes, this is handmade)
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Vonnegut’s story types superimposed on a Footloose Fourier Transform. You must resist reading anything into it, but Scot asked for it.

(yes, this is handmade)
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is awesome! Do you agree that broader audiences should understand that crazy-ass feats, such as vocabulary consensus, can emerge from relatively simple local rules and interactions, as in bio & human social systems, rather than requiring anything resembling god-like "artificial intelligence"?
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Had raw shrimp from a small booth at Haneda airport in 2017, and questioned my motifs all the way to Munich. Fortunately nothing happened, other than reminiscing how awesome it was. Sushi is the food-equivalent of back country skiing. :)
a small plate of sushi (left to right): tuna, raw shrimp, hotate, ikura, uni, ginger.
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The future is #analog!
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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
And Hilbert was not just talking: Their "Anschauliche Geometrie" is a timeless master-class of intuitive visualization, building on a decades-long tradition at the Göttingen institute. cf. bsky.app/profile/schi...
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is indeed curious: Later, Hilbert strongly argued for the importance of "vivid intuition" to grasp and honor the "abstract results" of algebraic geometry. As such, the 1932 preface of "Anschauliche Geometrie" resonates deeply with the recent letter by @teorth.bsky.social et al.
"In der Mathematik wie in aller wissenschaftlichen Forschung treffen wir zweierlei Tendenzen an: die Tendenz zur Abstraktion – sie sucht die *logischen* Gesichtspunkte aus dem vielfältigen Material herauszuarbeiten und dieses in systematischen Zusammenhang zu bringen – und die andere Tendenz, die der Anschaulichkeit, die vielmehr auf ein lebendiges Erfassen der Gegenstände und ihre *inhaltlichen* Beziehungen ausgeht. / Was inspesondere die Geometrie betrifft, so hat bei ihr die abstrakte Tendenz zu den großartigen systematischen Lehrgebäuden der algebraischen Geometrie, der RIEMANNschen Geometrie und der Topologie geführt, in denen die Methoden der begrifflichen Überlegung, der Symbolik und des Kalküls in ausgiebigem Maße zur Verwendung gelangen. Dennoch kommt auch heute dem *anschaulichen* Erfassen in der Geometrie eine hervorragende Rolle zu, und zwar nicht nur als einer überlegenen Kraft des Forschens, sondern auch für die Auffassung und Würdigung der Forschungsergebnisse."

Hilbert, D. & S. Cohn-Vossen. Anschauliche Geometrie. Dover, 1944. p. V s.v. "Vorwort." [June 1923]

Source available: https://archive.org/details/anschaulichegeom0000dhil/page/n10/mode/1up
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Or the Dürer Melancholia I projection. :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melenco...
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Melencolia I - Wikipedia
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"The word Dymaxion, Spaceship Earth and the Fuller Projection Map are trademarks of the Buckminster Fuller Institute. All rights reserved." Pretty sure Elmo would want to extend "copyright" to infinity, buy BFI, and claim "Spaceship Earth" is all his. www.reddit.com/r/legaladvic...
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From the legaladvice community on Reddit: Copyright vs Patent: Can I use the Dymaxion Projection? [NY/DC]
Explore this post and more from the legaladvice community
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
cf. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/t...
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The Unnecessary Peril of the Fuller Projection
Throughout my career, I’ve heard a variety of rumors and conflicting opinions about whether or not you can get in trouble for using the Fuller projection. Let’s find out if it’s true.
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just in case your Navier-Stokes equations blow up or get stolen, rest assured that snails have a mucus for every occasion: fyfluiddynamics.com/2026/09/snai... 🌊🐌
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Snails Tune Their Slime
Snails have a mucus for every occasion. The grove snail/lemon snail makes five different varieties: one for lubricating its motion, one for adhering to surfaces
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I now want pickups on my Gerber Variable Scale.. . . . . . .
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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 · 05/09/2026
Functional descriptions share compression ("Dichtung") with poetry. Can't speak to sadomasochism (no experience, beyond pursuing a tenure track position in Texas).
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Vorsicht... 🕳️🐇 :) fyfluiddynamics.com/2022/11/mixi...
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Mixing Effectively
Mixing two fluids is a tougher task than you might think. One of my favorite asides from a fluids lecture concerned how to mix fruit into yogurt in an industria
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Hi Carl, this is cool work. Qmax: The welfare function covers authors, readers, and reviewers, yet excludes those who fare well the most: publishing houses, whose merger and acquisition officials think scientists are the dumbest cash cows, providing free labor and buying their own work.
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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
Hey Bruce, about that diagonal angle in your laser-cut bookshelf: Speccing the lab furniture over here, I had my eyes on a "futuristic" couch that looked totally "science fiction" to me. But my Estonian colleague convincingly talked me out of it, saying it looks like the Soviet couch of her grandma.
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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.publishersweekly.com/9781452176826
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What Do People Do at the Science Museum? by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Tokuda-Hall (Love in the Library) and Leng (At the Window) pack a science and natural history museum to its neoclassical rafters...
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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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Maximilian Schich @schichmax.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
There is a neat indicator to test Bavarian proficiency, asking the speaker what they use to count in their head. For me there is a pretty significant speed difference using Bavarian, English, or high German (in that sequence).
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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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