The summary from the Summer School on "Schreibweisen der Gegenwart" which took place at @unigreifswald.bsky.social earlier this summer is available to read now! Written by Leonie Sroka (Bern), Hannah Willcox (Greifswald) and me – German version here: germanistik.uni-greifswald.de/institut/arb...

The full summer school summary is now also available to read in English: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... @leoniesroka.bsky.social

Great, important piece by Mark Chadbourn.

Our flag does not belong to one creed or to one race. It belongs to one people, the British people. We will not let our flag be used to intimidate.

Und so beginnt sie die Unterwerfung einer traditionellen Institution Europas durch US Tech Oligarchen. Ich bin nicht gegen die Nutzung von LLM. Universitäten sollten ihre eigenen Open Weight oder Open Source Modelle bauen, um nicht ihre Autonomie aufzugeben und sich an Firmen wie OpenAI auszuliefern

No surprise here. It’s grim but it’s no surprise. The political temperature has been at a dangerous level for a while now. “Far-right AfD’s vote triples in elections in German bellwether state” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Wishing, threatening, or doing harm to people who are doling no harm to anyone except making them uncomfortable by their mere existence. Attitudes like this are always with us, unfortunately. The difference today is that those holding them are being encouraged to express, even act on, these views.

"Rather than prioritise investment in staff, the beating heart of the university, management has spent an average of over £40m a year on capital expenditure and splashes out £1.5m a year on external consultants." (UCU branch chair Joseph Choonara) #UKHE www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicest...

So Berichterstattung ist halt nicht wirklich etwas anderes als hetze

When do you think was the last time Michael Gove spoke to a member of the public?

Great, important piece by Mark Chadbourn.

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

A major anti-abortion march taking place in London this weekend is being heavily influenced by US Christian right group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), raising concerns about the import of anti-gender fundamentalism to the UK: https://goodlaw.social/gdxk

Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles: www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Das internationale Handzeichen für häusliche Gewalt ist einfach auszuführen: Die Handfläche offen mit ausgestreckten Fingern zeigen. Den Daumen in die Mitte der Handfläche legen. Die übrigen Finger über den Daumen schließen und eine Faust bilden. Dies kann auch hinter dem Rücken gezeigt werden.

Badenoch is joining Trump’s War on Humanity.

Naoise Dolan, one of Ireland’s most acclaimed young novelists, will be boarding the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza.

Wondering what Prof. @karenattiah.bsky.social’s Race, Media and International Affairs 101 class is all about? Let her give you a preview👀 📝Then register here!: www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Hive mind: Empfehle mir einen großartigen deutschsprachigen Roman aus den letzten 5 Jahren

„Dieses Jahr am 23. August wird nun endlich die reale Umbenennung gefeiert, auch wenn es nach viel juristischem Hin und Her am Freitag vorübergehend nicht danach aussah.“ @teresaroelcke.bsky.social @tagesspiegel.de www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/symbo...

"Der Hamburger Historiker Jürgen Zimmerer nennt das zweierlei Maß. Beim Holocaust sei Wiedergutmachung selbstverständlich, beim Kolonialismus aber nicht. Lange herrschte in Deutschland, so Zimmerer, eine 'völlige Amnesie'. Guter Kommentar von Oliver Marquart: www.sonntagsblatt.de/artikel/kult...

Wenn nur jemand vor der US-Wahl ein 900-seitiges Manifest geschrieben hätte, in welchem genau dargelegt wird, was jetzt alles genau so im Trump-Regime umgesetzt wird, und man denjenigen geglaubt hätte, die davor gewarnt haben. Mit der AfD wird uns Deutschen das nicht passieren, richtig?

Letter of the day (in the Times)

1953. Molesworth invents AI.

Medikament BC007 Hoffnungsschimmer für Long-Covid-Patienten: Behandlungserfolg in Erlangen „Die Ergebnisse sind vielversprechend“, sagt Studienleiterin Hohberger. „Wir haben gesehen, dass die speziellen Autoantikörper nach der BC007-Therapie verschwanden.“ www.nn.de/region/hoffn...

2023--over 27 years after her death and people are still her writing has/had "no literary significance." Get out of here. Ugh. 9/

Ayim still confounds Germans who believe Germanness is whiteness. She doesn't fit what a poet should be according to some. She confounds people in the Black diaspora who are surprised Black people exist in Germany. Ayim conjures through her writing. 8/

Ayim was born in 1960 like the great author Yoko Tawada, but she was born in Hamburg. She was German and it matters. 7/

That I need to tweet all this in 2023 tells you how much work needs to be done in Germany to recognize Black German and other minoritized authors. 6/

Her wit, playfulness, critique, assessments, etc. all included in her poetry, essays, and speeches. She was a writer. Period. Her work has meaning beyond the German canon. She showed the world so much of her intellectual prowess. It would be foolish to not recognize this. 2/

I need white Germans to realize that May Ayim was a poet in addition to being an activist, intellectual, speech therapist, etc. Her writing has literary significance. Just because you don't read her doesn't mean she isn't important. 1/

“Even though this book is billed as a memoir, it’s ultimately a call to action.” I appreciate this thoughtful review of my new book, Coming Up Short. I hope it inspires some of you to give it a read. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/books/review/coming-up-short-robert-reich.html

I was reading about how in WW2 Lithuania killed the highest percentage of its Jewish population of any country in Europe and I thought, at what point between the dehumanisation of a people and their eventual massacre do we start holding ourselves accountable as individuals, and not just the media.

A little note with a pile of No's. substack.com/@feministkil...

Loads of celebrities sign an open letter against the Starmer government’s new trans Section 28+. Including Stephen Fry, Kate Nash and Daniel Lismore. Well done @lailaelmetoui.bsky.social, you are awesome!

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead. 500+ students online and in person. My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT! WE MOVE!! karenattiah.substack.com/p/resistance...

Last one, Penguins on a trampoline for @spinoff44.bsky.social. Made me smile so might sell copies of that if anyone wants one. Pencil but on much better paper for lots of (some) money.

My new book just arrived in the post - Brecht and the Art of Spectatorship, published by Oxford University Press this week! A big thank you to the many friends and colleagues who helped along the way! @uoe-llc.bsky.social global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Puh.

A new interview with @mahaelhissy.bsky.social in @newgermanbooks.bsky.social on her 'Accidental Portents' project and upcoming podcast series 'Ne7ki' with Palestinian writers in and outside Gaza. www.new-books-in-german.com/interview-wi...

"25-34 year-olds purchased almost a quarter (24.9%) of all TF in the UK in 2022, an increase from 21% in 2021. The second highest purchase group is 13-24 year olds, which means that book buyers under the age of 35 account for almost half (48.2%) of all translated fiction purchases."

Schwarze Literatur als Teil der deutschen Kultur – Geschichte, Ästhetiken und gesellschaftliche Einflüsse seit den 1980er Jahren.  https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7075-2/ @jeannetteoho.bsky.social‬ #Literatur #SchwarzeLiteratur #Kultur #Geschichte #Aktivismus #Literaturwissenschaft

Ich bin sehr dankbar für die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social 💜 www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

"While Sudan’s crisis continues to escalate, it has received limited coverage in international media, and Sudan’s humanitarian collapse raises a difficult question: Why is the world ignoring Sudan? Part of the answer lies in global attention fatigue" #Sudan

Are you a good listener who enjoys a chat? We’re looking for friendly volunteers for our Games & Chat Group with asylum seekers in Edinburgh. Wednesdays, 2-5 PM. Fully supported by our Friendship Activities Coordinator. #volunteeredinburgh 📧[email protected] 🔗http://bit.ly/4o1Mhb9

IT HAS A COVER! Pleased to announce that _The Campus Crisis Toolkit: Strategies and Solidarity For the Rest of Us_ is coming from @sunypress.bsky.social in Feb. With 25 chapters from over 40 contributors, the book tackles everything from anti-DEI laws to consultants and cuts to campus violence (1/2)

Ein historischer Moment! In Belgien steht ein Diplomat wegen der Ermordung von Patrice Lumumba (1961) vor Gericht. Das ist wichtig für die gesamte Aufarbeitung des Kolonialismus: Menschheitsverbrechen dürfen nicht ungeahndet bleiben. www.ecchr.eu/en/press-rel...