Vor rund 150 Jahren wurde die Erbswurst erfunden, die erste industriell hergestellte Fertigsuppe der Welt. Millionenfach verzehrt von Soldaten, Bergsteigerinnen, Familien. Und 150 Jahre lang war kein Verbraucher verwirrt.

„The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions.“

🧵 In 2025, book censorship in the United States is rampant and common. Never before in the life of any living American have so many books been systematically removed from school libraries across the country.

Die unglaubliche Geschichte eines Filmdiebstahls - und was danach geschah. Die beiden Filmemacher entschließen sich, in die USA zu fliegen und den jungen Filmdieb zu treffen. Um ihn zu konfrontieren, aber auch um ihn kennen zu lernen, seine Motivation zu verstehen. War beim Zuschauen mit aufgeregt.

Maori scholar, Makereti Papakura writing at her desk c.1910. The room is decorated with a mix of Maori & European mementoes whilst the rafters are painted with traditional kowhaiwhai patterns. Makereti will be awarded a posthumous degree in Oxford tomorrow, almost a century after she died in 1930.

Wie heißt es: "Physik verhandelt nicht" Die Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft hat zusammen mit der Deutschen Meteorologischen Gesellschaft einen dringenden Aufruf zu entschlossen Handeln veröffentlicht. www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...

“A circa 1900 Chinese carved hardwood five-panel screen, reputedly from Peking Palace" really says it all... #boxerloot

Academic career symbolized in a picture. #Ichbinhannah #postdocchatter

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Yes! Der Historikertag heißt jetzt "Tag der Geschichtswissenschaft". Der Vorschlag wurde mit überwältigender Mehrheit angenommen. @vhdonline.bsky.social

Best Wall-Fall Quote Eva 😆

Auch Naturkundemuseen sind nicht vor Diebstahl sicher. Muss an Kirk Wallace Johnsons großartiges "The Feather Thief" denken, auch wenn hinter dem Raub der Goldnuggets wohl eine deutlich weniger poetische Motivation steht...

The Crystal Palace, venue and icon of the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, built from Lego with lovely detail. This is amazing!

The new XKCD has to be a reference to the ant paper where ants just casually lay eggs of a different species, yes? Maybe? There are so many weird bugs its hard to know.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com How does the Make America Healthy Again movement turn some health-conscious people against all healthcare? In this new Opinion video, we analyzed thousands of videos by MAHA wellness influencers — and interviewed their former followers — to find out.

Die M10-Verlängerung über die Oberbaumbrücke ist verschoben, seit Eröffnung der A100 fahren Busse in Stoßzeiten erheblich verspätet oder gar nicht über die Elsenbrücke & als Fußgängerin schlängelt man auf dem Weg zur S-Bahn Treptower Park bei Grün durch mehrere Spuren in der Kreuzung stehende Autos.

This is a great piece by @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social with helpful tips for addressing COVID misinformation. As a science communicator, my experience is that the best way to win people over is with empathetic real world conversations and it's work we all need to do if we want to turn things around.

A very timely song about the current state of science, deeply tragic but also a bop (and as eloquent as @ellecordova.bsky.social always is). In German I'd say: I've got an earworm! 🎶"can we protect it the scientific method cause it's our best and only way to keep ignorance and fear at bay" 🎶

Menschen, die mehr als eine Stunde auf den Bus warten, der einfach nicht kommt. Gefährliche Fahrmanöver, um abzukürzen. Berlin-Korrespondentin Claudia van Laak berichtet über das A100-Chaos: share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...

Maria Reva, @schreibersnaturarium.de, and @edyong209.bsky.social discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.”

Wer 80h/Woche arbeitet gründet keine Theatergruppe. Trainiert keine Nachwuchsfußballmannschaft. Engagiert sich nicht für die Rettung der lokalen Krötenart. Wenn das alle so machen, gibt es halt kein Theater, kein Fußball und keine Kröten mehr. Das will der 80h-Arbeiter aber schon alles haben.

Das ist alles so bräsig und so ultimative Stadtverschlechterung mit Ansage www.rbb24.de/content/rbb/...

Due to rising food costs, the 5-second rule has hereby been extended to 10 seconds. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The Trump administration will move to pull the COVID vaccine off the US market “within months,” one of RFKJr’s closest associates has told the Daily Beast. It will mark the fulfillment of one of RFKJr's passions and will expose thousands to death just as COVID is again surging.

Love this photo of Monarch Butterflies in Ontario Canada probably Point Peel National that i went to yearly in Sept in my twenties as they gathered to cross Lake erie migrating south waited for the wind to change

step aside, "mir nicht"-Adorno

"Die kulturkämpferischen Signale kommen jetzt aus der Regierung selbst." Ein paar sehr deutliche (und lesenswerte) Worte zum vorläufigen (?) Abschied.

“It’s people who will get cancer in 10, 20 or 30 years who will really pay the price for these cuts, and now we won't even know what we've lost”

The Trump administration called for a review of all exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s museums this month. Some other museums across the U.S. have already changed their programming significantly, as they try to steer clear of potential hot-button topics including gender, sexuality and race.

Instagram „Bundeskultur“ Links: Amtszeit Roth Rechts: Amtszeit Weimer

Dee Gendarmenmarkt weint.

"For Pawel Machcewicz, founding director of the Museum of the Second World War, it’s been unsettling to see American museums subject to the sort of political intimidation he experienced in Poland. 'I believed that American democracy had stronger rules... It turns out that it can also be subverted.'"

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

The funny thing about this is that the Smithsonian African American History Museum is built around the exact "Success" narrative Trump claims to want. You climb through the Middle Passage, slave cabin, Jim Crow train, etc, and come out into Oprah's studio and Obama. www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/p...

In all seriousness, the Smithsonian is terrific and the good people who make it the world's best ensemble of museums don't deserve the abuse hurled at them by this fool of a president.

My job as a professor is not to create a serviceable worker. My job is to help foster thoughtful citizens or community members. If that sounds fanciful it’s bc corporate interests have spent decades framing how we talk about education so they don’t take the heat for immiserating labor conditions.

I can relate, Friedrich.

Learning languages broadens your horizon, I guess that's not seen as desirable anymore. Heartbreaking.

What a time to be finalizing my Museums: Power + Politics syllabus. Teaching through all of this last semester was jarring and destabilizing and confusing - this semester I have a plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

"the U.S. has not only abandoned internationally accepted definitions of what is meant by rights, but also any objectivity or consistency. (...) This puts the U.S. directly in alliance with China, whose diplomats have been campaigning for years to change the diplomatic discourse about human rights."

Rettet Tucholsky! Die Zukunft des Tucholsky-Museums im brandenburgischen Rheinsberg ist durch Sparpläne rechter Lokalpolitiker bedroht. 13 Au­to­r:in­nen fordern, dass das Museum zu Ehren des antifaschistischen Dichters eigenständig bleibt. Ein Aufruf taz.de/!6102712/

Die Unterschreiberei kann ja recht beliebig werden heutzutage. Aber da wir nicht in beliebigen Zeiten leben, unterschreibt mal da! Und fahrt hin und zeigt denen die sowas verhindern wollen dass es uns gibt. Ich werde am 27.9. wieder in Rheinsberg sein. Und im Rest Deutschland den ganzen Herbst!

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

Jene Bundesregierung, die permanent fordert, Geflüchtete müssten sich integrieren, die Sprache lernen und arbeiten, hat die Förderung für Sprachkurse durch das BAMF gestoppt. Sprachkurse werden storniert, Sprachschulen gehen pleite, Flüchtlinge lernen kein Deutsch. www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/wirt...

Wahnsinnsgrafik, Wahnsinnszahl, kaum besprochen:

Motherfucking wind farms…

"A significant change in fossil fuel use in Europe, one of the world’s biggest economies, could affect how quickly the Earth’s atmosphere continues to heat up, and thus, the fate of billions of people around the world."

And here's one I made (raining venn)...

Geisterregen, welch ein schönes Konzept

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot