junior position in economic history @ Wadham College Oxford

Suspended in midair

On this All-Saints’ Day, I remember the Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) to which I have no particular relation. It’s just that this subspecies of the Iberian wild goats went extinct. The last of this subspecies – the endling – was called Celia.

And so it continues (gift article). In 2-3 years, this generation will hit college. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/u...

It breaks my heart that the annual fall migration of cranes (grus grus) in Germany turns into a mass extinction due to the bird flu outbreak. The pictures in this news clip (in German) are nauseating. www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...

Central Europeanists, Mikkel is here! @mikkeldack.bsky.social

If Harvard sneezes....

beyond words.

Interesting teaching day so far. An "incident".

Eigentlich muss ich Unterricht vorbereiten, aber für die Laudatio von Katja Petrowskaja und die Dankesrede von Karl Schlögel muss unbedingt Zeit sein. Hier der Mitschnitt. www.zdf.de/play/intervi...

High praise by @marcusrediker.bsky.social for a book on the ship that I thought was called "The Zong". www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/b... (gift article)

Job at Univ. Jena (Germany) in Global Environmental History (due Dec. 11 // work start Fall 2027) - German language skills required for teaching #EnvHist #EnvHum www.berufungsportal.uni-jena.de/VAADIN/dynam...

In case anyone needs it today.

Your weekly summary.

She tried to teach us humans something important. #JaneGoodall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

PSA

Sounds like y'all want some more details authorsguild.org/news/what-au...

Very cool

For ATL peeps (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

The anatomical theater (1660s) at the Gustavianum at University of Uppsala #ESEH2025 @eseh.bsky.social

The Uppsala #ESEH2025 conference hare hops to the next session @eseh.bsky.social

Spectacular meeting space this morning #ESEH

First impressions of Uppsala are very favorable -- gorgeous weather surely plays a role! @eseh.bsky.social

wie traurig. @thegsa.bsky.social FYI

Well, someone has to pay for the nuclear plant, unit by unit.

Just on time for the next @eseh.bsky.social #envhist #envhum bit.ly/4l5xQAj

very glad to read this important article by @efdavies.bsky.social this morning.

Navid Kermani im Merkur: "Der Westen, in dem ich geboren bin" www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/der-...

Should I be glad not to be an interpreter/translator? Like historians, they have apparently done a poor job explaining why actual brains matter.

Karl Schlögel erhält den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels 2025. Was für eine gute Entscheidung! 👇👇👇 www.zeit.de/kultur/liter...

The war against civil society, or Gleichschaltung 2.0

“Two years on from the disaster, … scientists say [the reservoir] represents both a 'return to life' for the ecosystem and wild creatures that inhabit it – and an unpredictable, potentially toxic 'timebomb'.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

LArch Archivfund mit (freud'schem?) Tippfehler -- Abschwung Ost

It’s #ShowYourStripes day, so here are the climate stripes for Berlin showyourstripes.info/c/europe/ger... that you can also find on a few tram cars here. Show me your stripes with this tool from @edhawkins.org showyourstripes.info

I'm in the Netherlands and have significant bike lane envy.

"Under the terms of the executive order, political appointees loyal to the president can willfully find justification to label any research finding as scientific misconduct, and then penalize the researchers involved accordingly."

Spot on. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/o...

@milophd.bsky.social As I was listening to a German news broadcast, I suddenly heard MiLO! What a nice surprise! www.deutschlandfunk.de/black-lives-... @emorycollege.bsky.social

slight earthquake in ATL at 9:04. That's a first for me. Glad that the US Geological Survey is still working... earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Well, they had good reasons to hurry up. "The cardinals selecting the next pope will take their meals at a Vatican guesthouse. One conclave veteran said the fare was “food you could eat at a train station.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/w...

After listening to gibberish and the poised response of PM Carney, I made use of our flag post for the very first time.

Ich begutachte ein Gutachten, das dann einem Gutachterausschuss vorgelegt wird. Kein Wunder, dass ich hier auf bsky prokrastiniere.

Ein sehr unangenehmes Bild.

Ah, more material for teaching next Fall. Those who clamored for more applicability of history, I hope you regret your wish. “… there’s a more precise way to understand the Trump administration’s approach to the law …: the concept of the “dual state.” 1/3 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...

Nobody has done anything wrong. At this point, it's enough that this is an academic endeavor.

I just attended a lovely event in multipurpose room #2.

my gosh, all the anguish, the heartbreak, the damage ... for what!?

Mein Feed auf einer anderen Plattform hat einen Uptick an guten Nachrichten: Niederlassungserlaubnis, Einbürgerung. Wer 2015/16 angekommen ist, schafft es langsam durch den BAMF-Dschungel. Ich hoffe, einer der Journalist:innen hier greift das Thema mal auf.