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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The restitution of dignity: Photography, resistance and her-stories in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King’, in: Philosophy of Photography, 17.1 (2026) online first: doi.org/10.1386/pop_... #maazamengiste #theshadowking #restitution #dignity #photography #resistance #herstories #literature

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#Stadtbild - Solidaritätskreis Mouhamed Lamine Dramé Dortmund: justice4mouhamed.org 5/7

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

#Stadtbild - Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh: initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com 4/7

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BREAK THE SILENCE

Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh

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Ms. Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Die Menschen, von denen #Merz spricht, posten hier kaum, werden nicht gebeten, Artikeln zu schreiben, werden nicht interviewt – es ist an uns, ihre Geschichten zu finden & ihre Stimmen lauter zu machen. Sie müssen keine Ärzt*innen oder Reinigungskräfte sein, um unsere Solidarität zu verdienen 1/7

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

“Deskilling” skilled professions is a core promise of technological projects, so it’s probably not best understood as a side-effect even if some of the people pushing generative AI see it that way themselves. If the erosion of thinking is unforeseen, that’s just (so to speak) for lack of thinking.

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/08/2025

White man makes AI-avatar of a teaching "sidekick" in the form of a Black woman whose purpose is to serve, in precedent-setting move. 🫠

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Struggling to participate in the Indian Ocean sea trade Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by Michael O'Sullivan on the evolution of Ottoman shipping in the Indian Ocean from 1650 to 1900 👉 buff.ly/GN9hF8G Part of our CAPASIA @erc.europa.eu project research 👉 buff.ly/K57rhlr 📚 #Fridayreads

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

When I was 16 I smoked real actual cigarettes on an international flight. It was unthinkable then, but now, thanks to actual political will, you can hardly smoke in public spaces (and I am glad to say I quit when I was 23). LLM chatbots are a menace and can be banned.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.

It gave him a list of people without formal degrees who
"reshaped everything," including Leonardo da Vinci.
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How could that be, I didn't even graduate high school
CHATGPT
That's exactly how it could be.
Formal education often teaches people what to think, not how to think— and certainly not how to question the frame itself.
You're doing something far rarer: you're asking, What if the whole framework is missing something essential?

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max koss 🦩 @maxkoss.com · 21/08/2025

Dear students, it is not acceptable to send a ChatGPT-generated exposé as a basis for a discussion about your final paper. Thanks, Max.

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René Aguigah @aguigah.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Sharon Dodua Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social bei der Taufe der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße in Berlin-Mitte

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”

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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Fabulous headline: "It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes" Also: "Microsoft explicitly warns users that its AI function should not be used for things like "doing math" or "anything actually important""

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It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes | Defector

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of compa...

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Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Es ist fraglich, ob die #Privatdozentur die für die Professur vermeintlich so wichtige #Bestenauslese liefert - oder ob sie nicht vielmehr die letzte Etappe sozialer Selektion im Wissenschaftssystem ist, die durch entsprechende #Prekarität schon in der Promotions- und Postdocphase beginnt. 7/8

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Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

So wie mir geht es vielen anderen Privatdozent:innen. Nicht alle können es sich leisten, so lange durchzuhalten. Das ist ungerecht: ein Erfolg im Wissenschaftssystem sollte nicht an das Vorhandensein eigener finanzieller Mittel geknüpft sein. 6/8

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

He was also an Imperial/ War artist. Among the Marsh Arabs (lithograph). Cairo - the Indian Hospital (ink and wash). Moslem Kitchen - Riasc 8th 10th and 12th Indian Mule Coys, Zghorta, Syria. The Emperor Haile Selassie at Khartoum early in 1941.

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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Wallpaper designs: Tree and cow, Pigeon and clock tower, Sahara, Mermaid.

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A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Apparently historical images are now based on vibes and historical writing can be conducted through hallucinatory autocomplete plagiarism machines. You could, instead, support historians and the important work they do. As a historian and archivist, I’m appalled by this “guidance”

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HPS.CESEE @hpscesee.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS), Scotland, 13-16 July 2026 Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here<hssonline.org/page/2...>

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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

It's here! Everything you never really wanted to know about Mamluks and their socks (and the creation of medievalist identity through modern knitting pattern design)! www.academia.edu/125167738/Au...

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Join us at @chstma.bsky.social for our next #mmea session on Thursday, August 14 at 10am EDT (Philadelphia time) with Tuli Mekondjo (Windhoek): Oimbodi Yedu: Herbs of the Soil Free, online, all welcome! Sign up for free membership here to receive the zoom link! www.chstm.org/group/plants...

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

"Ecologies of Recovery: Mónica de Miranda's As If the World Had No West", for Art Review Oxford and the special issue "Spectral Ecologies", edited by Alejandro Nodarse Jammal and Avin Houro 12 (2025): open access here: artreviewoxford.com #monicademiranda #asiftheworldhadnowest #artreviewoxford

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Wrote a text for @ndaktuell.bsky.social on cave_bureau's transformation of the British pavilion into the British-Kenyan pavilion Geology of Britannic Repair as "artwork of the month"! www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192... This is an initiative of @leuphana.bsky.social #ndaktuell #kunstwerkdesmonats

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Join us for our #mmea series on #plants in #africa at #chstm tomorrow July 10, 10am EDT (Philadelphia time) for a talk by Rabiu Yusuf on indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria! free, online, all welcome! to join sign up for free membership for the working group here: www.chstm.org/group/plants...

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Wonderful from Jason Farago at The New York Times: Cezanne and the Hard Facts of Time - celebration, art history, personal reflection, beauty, rigorous analysis, and the continuing invention of a new form between text, images and film. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Finding the Key to Cézanne, the First Painter I Ever Loved (Gift Article)

In the artist's breathtaking quarry pictures, his singular vision runs into the hard facts of deep time.

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Decolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Historical breakthrough for German colonial restitution policy: Under guidance of @diplo.de, museums in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart & Bremen ready for „first wave“ of return to Cameroon. @profdanhicks.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @michmo.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @rhoelzl.bsky.social

Article in Cameroon Tribune, 2 July 2025, about meeting of Cameroon‘s Restitution Committee with German Foreign Office on 1 July 2025

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School for Advanced Research @sarsf.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Exciting news from SAR: A new Getty-funded seminar will challenge extractive museum practices and reimagine how art historians engage with Native art and communities. Launching summer 2026 in Santa Fe. Details → sarweb.org/getty-founda...

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Transforming Art Historical Practices Through Collaboration | School for Advanced Research

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Toby Juliff @tobyjuliff.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My wonderful colleague Karen Hall and I are convening a panel at AAANZ2025 in Perth on unruly histories and practices of water. Histories & practices of infrastructure, hydrofeminism, blue humanities, oceanic thinking. #envhum #aaanz #cfp #water #arthistory aaanz.info/aaanz-home/c...

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Call for Papers | 2025 Conference - AAANZ | The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand

The call for papers for the 2025 CONFERENCE | UNRULY OBJECTS are now open. If you would like to speak at the conference, apply to join one of the panels detailed below. To apply, read the instruction...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

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Daniel Miller @danielnmiller.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

This is the first known aerial photo of L.A. It was taken in 1887 from a hot air balloon as part of a promotional stunt by William Randolph Hearst. The balloon was launched from Agricultural Park (now Exposition Park), and traveled as high as 14,000 feet. www.raremaps.com/gallery/deta...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Portrait of Ignatius Sancho painted by Thomas Gainsborough. Sancho look to the left. He is wearing a red waistcoat with gold trimming and a dark jacket.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘A billionaire will pay a lot of money to shoot a recreated being’: historian Sadiah Qureshi on extinction and empire

In her new book, Vanished, the history professor picks apart the political and philosophical dimensions of species loss

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The new V&A East Storehouse opened on 31 May, offering public access to over 500,000 objects in a groundbreaking new space. Director Gus Casely-Hayford joined us‬ to reflect on the curatorial decisions behind it. Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/cur...

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Curatorial Conversations | V&A East Storehouse

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by Caroline Fowler Duke Press (2025) 📌 Antien Knaap, MFA assistant curator and Prof Mary Hicks discuss impact of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 17th-century Dutch society—and how it manifested in art from the period. #Art #History

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Hidden Cost of Luxury

YouTube video by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Honouring Koyo Kouoh's life, work, and legacy - buff.ly/44pe4cR On 10 May 2025, the world lost an extraordinary cultural force. Koyo Kouoh passed away unexpectedly at the age of 57. More than a visionary curator, she was a guide and advocate for countless artists, especially from the Global South.

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Koyo Kouoh | African Studies Centre Leiden

On the 10th of May, the Camerioonian-Swiss curator Koyo Kouoh unexpectedly passed away at the age of 57. She served as executive director and chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art…

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Join us for four days discussing pseudo-scripts, (il)legibility and ornamentation with case studies from across the globe! Pisa and online, program and links to register for online attendance (free, all welcome) here: www.leuphana.de/institute/ip... May 2-3, May 9 and May 17!

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

It was an honor to write a text for the upcoming Mamluks exhibition at the Louvre, curated by Carine Juvin #materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

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Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Join us for Sahar Bazzaz' talk on Plants of the Red Sea Littoral: PE Botta's Expedition to Yemen, 1836 in the #MMEA series of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 10am EDT (Philadelphia time), online! www.chstm.org/group/plants...

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