Uma Kumar
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Germanist / Big Vienna fan / love dogs / she/her
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Please join us today, 12:30 pm for our first online Ziegler Lecture 2025-26, focusing on the theme of ânetworksâ. Dr. Jeremy Bryant will talk on âFrom fin de siĂšcle Vienna to the ends of the earth: the legacy of secular Jewish social networks (a case study)â.
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
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https://cenes.ubc.ca/events/event/ziegler-lecture-jeremy-bryant-from-fin-de-siecle-vienna-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-the-legacy-of-secular-jewish-social-networks-a-case-study/
3 months ago
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SiobhĂĄn McElduff
4 days ago
Off to see this exhibition for the second time as it is huge and needs a few visits at least. Highly recommended if you're in Vancouver.
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Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama
Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of work by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama.
https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/enemy-alien-tamio-wakayama/
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www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
While AI models excel at technical tasks, the job roles that use these models demand versatility and the precise meta-skills developed through liberal arts education.
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Opinion: An AI future demands liberal arts agility
Graduates have the ethical and creative thinking skills that the AI-driven jobs of tomorrow will demand
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-an-ai-future-demands-liberal-arts-agility/
4 days ago
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SiobhĂĄn McElduff
8 days ago
It is. It's appalling to see academics push GenAI.
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CHEK News
7 days ago
A Vancouver violinist who was threatened with legal action by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra after breaking a non-disclosure agreement and speaking out about an alleged sexual assault by one of its former senior musicians says she won't be "intimidated" into silence.
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Violinist undeterred by Vancouver orchestraâs legal threat over sexual assault claim
A Vancouver violinist who was threatened with legal action by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra after breaking a non-disclosure agreement and speaking out about an alleged sexual assault by one of its former senior musicians says she won't be intimidated into silence.
https://cheknews.ca/violinist-undeterred-by-vancouver-orchestras-legal-threat-over-sexual-assault-claim-1297077/
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SiobhĂĄn McElduff
7 days ago
Nice of 2025 to remind me on its last day that it truly is a cursed year.
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Margarete Stokowski
11 days ago
auch dieses juli zeh interview lasse ich ungelesen vorĂŒberziehen wie einen tag mit garstigem wetter
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Mario Sixtus
11 days ago
Was Thomas sagt. Alles ist Politik, auch und gerade der Versuch, diese Tatsache zu bestreiten.
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Ned Richardson-Little
10 days ago
Mandatory quote in coverage of far right towns: âI am normal, my neighbours vote for Nazis but I am not someone who would be friends with Nazis so my neighbours are not Nazis. The foreigners are not like me and so I am indifferent to their fate compared to the hurt feelings of my neighbours.â
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Brooke Newman
11 days ago
You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and itâs my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! đđ#booksky
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Aparna Nair
11 days ago
Weâre just going to produce entire generations unable to write or read arenât we
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Mario Sixtus
10 days ago
Es ist im Ăbrigen völlig egal, ob die WĂ€hler*innen der AfD sich selbst als Rechtsextremist*innen identifizieren oder nicht. Die wenigsten WĂ€hler*innen der NSDAP sahen sich selbst als Nazis, sondern sie verrieten ihre jĂŒdischen Nachbarn allein aus StaatsbĂŒrgerpflicht.
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)
14 days ago
"In other words, they argue that Holocaust memory, which was designed to prevent the worst, is being used to motivate and justify the worst. And they feel outraged â and betrayed." Dirk Moses
thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...
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Is Holocaust Memory Over? â the Diasporist
How the German political and media classes have hollowed out the lessons of history
https://thediasporist.de/is-holocaust-memory-over/
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Andrea Junker
14 days ago
This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasnât the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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New Scientist
13 days ago
Big AI firms have built their models by hoovering up copyrighted material from the internet as training data. They say this is legal, but copyright holders disagree - and this year they hit back in a major way
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AI firms began to feel the legal wrath of copyright holders in 2025
Big AI firms have built their models by hoovering up copyrighted material from the internet as training data. They say this is legal, but copyright holders disagree - and this year they hit back in a major way
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2502650-ai-firms-began-to-feel-the-legal-wrath-of-copyright-holders-in-2025/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=SOC&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1766638850
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Eltern gegen Rechts
15 days ago
Wir sind erst seit Kurzem hier bei Bluesky und brĂ€uchten bitte eure UnterstĂŒtzung: Insta legt unseren Hauptaccount immer wieder lahm und wir wĂŒrden hier gerne die verlĂ€ssliche demokratische Alternative aufbauen. Könntet ihr unseren Account vielleicht weiterempfehlen? Das wĂ€re eine Riesenhilfe đđ
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Zachary Gillan
16 days ago
Walter Benjamin wrote that the work of translation is âto liberate the language imprisoned in a work" to find the âpure languageâ of âthe unfathomable, the mysterious, the âpoeticââ. This is all, of course, utterly anathema to AI
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Aurelius
18 days ago
Still waiting for AI to cure diseases, eliminate climate change and give every animal a home. AI is basically crypto at this point. A propped up Ponzi scheme that will eventually collapse under its own weight.
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SiobhĂĄn McElduff
17 days ago
I think one of the best things my university could do for my mental health is allow me to unsubscribe from end of year emails that tell what a great and wonderful 12 months that was and how jolly things are looking for the future. It's like getting newsletters from a parallel universe.
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Sounds like an amazing trip.
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17 days ago
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Dorian Stuber
17 days ago
How I wish I could have been on this trip!
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H.P.
17 days ago
»In Deutschland gilt derjenige, der auf den Schmutz hinweist, als viel gefĂ€hrlicher als derjenige, der den Schmutz macht.« Guten Morgen mit Kurt Tucholsky 9. Januar 1890 - 21. Dezember 1935 ïżŒ
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Thanks for making it Open Access!
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Please join us on Jan 22 for a talk by Dr. Matache on Anti-Roma Racism in European and Global Studies
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
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https://cenes.ubc.ca/events/event/enduring-silences-anti-roma-racism-in-european-and-global-studies/
22 days ago
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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite
23 days ago
we can kill them all if we just work together and âšbelieveđ«
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Such an amazing idea!
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about 1 month ago
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Holly Brewer
about 2 months ago
To âmy students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Donât surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.â
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540
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Please join us today, 12:30 pm for our first online Ziegler Lecture 2025-26, focusing on the theme of ânetworksâ. Dr. Jeremy Bryant will talk on âFrom fin de siĂšcle Vienna to the ends of the earth: the legacy of secular Jewish social networks (a case study)â.
cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...
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https://cenes.ubc.ca/events/event/ziegler-lecture-jeremy-bryant-from-fin-de-siecle-vienna-to-the-ends-of-the-earth-the-legacy-of-secular-jewish-social-networks-a-case-study/
3 months ago
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
5 months ago
An amazing story.
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Christy
5 months ago
#booksky
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Dr Anna HĂĄjkovĂĄ
6 months ago
Reminder this event for
#pridemonth
is in five days, online, in English. You need to register via email to Nora Hogrefe.
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Kate Ozment
6 months ago
how different would academia be if we valued community impact more than perceived global impact. What if the distinguished professors were distinguished first by making their region / state / students' lives directly better rather than the acceptance quality of an Elsevier journal article.
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Musa Okwonga
6 months ago
The thing about this article: there are *plenty* of migrants who want to move to these areas (eg in places like Brandenburg and Saxony in Germany) but too many of the locals have fascist sympathies and hound them out. That is a major problem, unaddressed in this piece.
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... policy matters. Through long-term commitment to social housing and limited privatisation, housing can be made better and more affordable. Takeaway for cities like
#Vancouver
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6 months ago
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The Guardian
6 months ago
Vienna has been declared a rentersâ utopia â and itâs easy to see why | Justin Kadi
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Vienna has been declared a rentersâ utopia â and itâs easy to see why | Justin Kadi
Social housing makes up almost half of the cityâs 1m homes. The system isnât perfect, but it gets a lot of things right, says housing expert Justin Kadi
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/housing-crisis-in-europe-vienna-renters-social-housing?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1752128653
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Jen Evans
6 months ago
Perhaps a good time to re up the New Fascism Syllabus, an online repository of resources on neofascism, populism, and authoritarianism, including a research repository and relevant secondary literature.
newfascismsyllabus.com
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Rebecca BrĂŒckmann
6 months ago
Let us just collectively stop reading the NYT. Journalism is dead there.
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"Among the 87 sammelans so far, only four have been chaired by women writers. Now, Banu Mushtaq becomes the fifth to receive this honour,"
www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
6 months ago
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Children from rural areas should not feel embarrassed. They should focus on gaining knowledge and speak confidently in their own language.â Bhanu Mushtaq,
#Booker
prize winner Read more at:
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Language Confidence: Banu Mushtaq Urges Youth Not to Feel Inferior Without English Fluency
Cultural Voices: Booker winner Banu Mushtaq encourages Kannada-medium students to value knowledge and language pride over English fluency.
https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/banu-don-t-feel-inferior-for-lacking-fluency-in-english-3571817?_gl=1*31ez24*_ga*eUpUZHJVQWRYajVmdV9nbzlnamJTWFBQSUs3YmJVOFR4b0RVcktKNW80UmlWVERzbkNvdThPaWNNaGsyMWwxRw..*_ga_F45W975H2J*MTc1MTI4MTg3OS4xLjEuMTc1MTI4MTg3OS4wLjAuMA.
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Alan Richardson
6 months ago
A message from the Toronto Public Library
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I recommend Heart Lamp: Selected Stories to everyone, but especially those working on
#multilingualism
. This is a collection of short stories by Indian writer Banu Mushtaq, originally written in Kannada between 1990 & 2023. Now an International Booker winner.
english.metrovaartha.com/life/people/...
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Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, Kannada writer, feminist and now International Booker winner
New Delhi | She's a lawyer, an activist, a feminist. And a writer in Kannada who distils it all in her stories that are deeply reflective of the lives of women
https://english.metrovaartha.com/life/people/banu-mushtaq-lawyer-kannada-writer-feminist-and-now-international-booker-winner#google_vignette
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Joyous celebrations at Banu Mushtaqâs home in Hassan; elated husband watched award ceremony online
Hassan businessman Mushtaq Mohiyudin ecstatic as wife Banu Mushtaq wins International Booker Prize in London.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/joyous-celebrations-at-banu-mushtaqs-home-in-hassan-elated-husband-watched-award-ceremony-online/article69600531.ece
6 months ago
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Dr Anna HĂĄjkovĂĄ
7 months ago
Good interview with the two directors from A Land for All
archive.is/9DLcx
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Stephen King
7 months ago
I think it would be good to get some women in charge of the countries that have nuclear weapons. Women talk to each other. Women can be reasonable. Enough with the macho men and swinging dicks.
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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine
7 months ago
I am so sick of seeing people respond to anti-war posts with "so you want Iran to have nuclear weapons?" Believe it or not, there are lots of ways to prevent nuclear proliferation that don't include starting wars. The choices are not limited to "bomb residential buildings" or "nuclear armageddon."
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Greg Pak
8 months ago
hey a small request: don't use fucking LLMs or generative "A.i." for anything. they destroy your brain. they're wide open to manipulation by right wing billionaires. they're full of lies. they're based on theft. just say no.
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Morgan J Freeman
8 months ago
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Dr Anna HĂĄjkovĂĄ
8 months ago
Fantastische Arbeit meiner Freundin
@fraukest.bsky.social
taz.de/Historikerin...
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Historikerin ĂŒber Opfer von Fritz Honka: âEs ging auch darum, WĂŒrde fĂŒr sich zu behaltenâ
Ein Gedenkstein erinnert nun an die vier Frauen, die Fritz Honka umbrachte. Die Historikerin Frauke SteinhÀuser hat nach ihren Spuren gesucht.
https://taz.de/Historikerin-ueber-Opfer-von-Fritz-Honka/!6088952/
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SiobhĂĄn McElduff
over 2 years ago
Eamonn delighted with himself for finding a football in the park.
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