Jennifer Finch, langjährige Bassistin der einflussreichen US- #Punk- und Alternative-Rock-Band L7, ist tot. Die Musikerin starb am 18. Juli 2026 im Alter von 59 Jahren an den Folgen einer aggressiven Form von Hirnkrebs. Rest In Peace

senior male academics giving a conference paper, after being shown the "one more minute" sign

Wie easy jetzt auch wieder die alte Legende ausgepackt wird, es sei die Angst vor der Gewalt auf der Strasse gewesen, die die Weimarer Republik erledigte und nicht genau das was jetzt wieder passiert, nämlich Eliten die den autoritären Umbau der Institutionen lange vor der Machtübernahme vornahmen.

Great job 👏

Honestly quite surprised I had to find this myself and hadn't been sent it by at least 4 of you.

Axel Springer is a German media giant — with Bild & Welt — which has become a major international player — with Politico & Business Insider. Its leadership is a prime example of radicalization of the mainstream right and of the enabling of the far right. Their newest award winner: Peter Thiel.

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Dutch people always sit in a circle at birthday parties. The circle keeps getting bigger, until you can only speak to the person on either side of you. No one knows why. It is one of life's great mysteries. #FolkloreFriday

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Weils nochmal aufkam: ZDF-Pfuschdesinformation: Ungesicherter (!) Ballon, der hinter (!) einem Sperrholzfeuer mit heißer Luft befüllt werden soll!?! Vergleich mit durchdachter (!) hist. Befüllung: gemauertes Podest, Ballon (Sackleinen/Papier) gesichert 10-15 m über Feuer, Menschen Sicherheitsabstand

Vgl. www.moma.org/artists/41 www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/... George Sullivan: Berenice Abbott. An Independent Vision, 2006. Bildnachweis Pike Street und Henry Street, 1936. commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi...

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

Decided to look at the classes taught at West Virginia University ’s Washington Center for Civics, Culture and Statesmanship (the one with one enrolled student) and it turns out it’s teaching classes on the wonders of fascism

Loved talking to @josearroyo.bsky.social about the fabulous Queen Kelly, which you can see in Bristol 25/26 July @cineredis.bsky.social and my book, which gives you every twist and turn of its story.

At the risk of looking biased, I'll go ahead and say that when it is all done and dusted, the government-driven demise of the UKHE sector will be considered, along with Brexit, among the most senseless examples of collective social and economic suicide among Western nations

Any suggestions of journals for literature/culture/environment articles with a reasonably quick turnaround time at the moment?

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Von der US-Regierung gibt jetzt ein großes Förderprogramm, das der finanziellen Förderung des Kulturkampfskripts der (radikalen) Rechten IN EUROPA dient. Damit greift die USA mittelbar in die demokratische Souveränität Europas ein. 1/ www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...

Auch noch was zum Hören

It is Walter Benjamin's birthday. He famously wrote that "The work is the death mask of its conception." By that standard LLM like ChatGPT are quite literally zombies, reanimating the dead letter of the works without the lifeblood of thought.

We are looking for a Network Coordinator and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow! Full details: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

V interesting, although of course it’s not at all true that researchers have overlooked the “ground-level workers” of authoritarianism. Yet another case of quants discovering a problem historians have been studying for decades and declaring it “new” 🗃️

I would really like to include this image from a trans rights protest in my book, Common Sense and Its Others, with an eye on the placard "Your Common Sense Isn't Our Common Sense," but I can find the original source to ask for permission (I've tried google image reverse search). Any ideas anyone?

Longer paternity leave benefits the whole family. Nice bit of qualitative research supported by a @britishacademy.bsky.social small research grant www.thetimes.com/article/d547... (underlying paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

A new open access article co-authored by our Co-Director Dr Christine Schmidt, is available now via the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Journal. Find out more and read the full article now ⬇️

Reviewing a lot of articles on German colonialism lately, and a stock view that seems to have crept in is that Kaiser Wilhelm II sparked Weltpolitik in the 1890s. This is despite the wholesale creation of colonies in the 1880s and the fact that the emperor was rarely involved in the process.

Gotta stay humble

'"This is pure mentality," he said.' Actually, as cultural historians will instantly have picked up, Thomas Tuchel was making a sophisticated reference here to the concept of mentalité. If England wants to beat Argentina, the coaching team needs to be augmented with a cultural historian pronto.

Much better than that bizarre NYT piece. 🗃️

People love to dump on gender studies as woke and such, but at least in my sociology of gender classes (from histories of intersex people and analyses of intersex activism) I learned why this stuff was nonsense

taking deep breaths and scrolling past the England fans on my feed without unfollowing tho idk how long this will last

Kate Mann argues that the male gaze now turns on men, but I don’t think that’s new: in the 19th c. men also looked to other men as models of looks ánd character. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...

It means you’ve broken up with the person who made you the mix tape.

The first sentence of every history undergraduate essay.

this. #SignalBoost

Today, I declined another invitation to present my research at a fantastic American University because it is not safe to travel to the US for people like me. And mind you, I'm a pretty bourgeois professor.

QUERY FOR HISTORIANS (Not directly on preoccupying current events): I’m making tweaks to syllabi. I want to show students in a Craft of History class how to analyze academic articles (& talk about what AI summaries miss or mangle). What’s your favorite article, esp. in terms of compelling writing?

Hard times on the horizon for German academia: according to the government, “research is not an end in itself. Research must lead to value creation, production and innovation in Germany and across Europe.”

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Umeå University is advertising two assistant professor positions in the humanities: www.umu.se/en/work-with... I was a postdoc at Umeå and it's a great place to work! @ethannowak.bsky.social would back me up on this.

Liest sich vielleicht paradox, aber aktuell braucht es eher mehr als weniger "woke". Diese ganze "woke"-Kritik hat doch den Raum für die AfD geschaffen, und Leute wie Balzer, Fraser und Neiman haben dabei Schuld auf sich geladen.

Seit 1918 haben wir den Achtstundentag. Seitdem ist er unter Druck. Bis heute und insbesondere heute.

Die Flucht klappte nicht, weil sie zusammenbleiben wollten: Das großartige Buch »Das Leben festhalten« zeigt deutsch-jüdische Fotografien der 1930er-Jahre.

Wenn ihr heute etwas lest, dann lasst es das hier sein über das Ende der Polarisierungsbehauptung, die maßgeblich von Verkäufern des „Goldene Mitte“-Geschäftsmodells gepredigt wird. Das Ziel: Sich selbst als „neutral“ & „objektiv“ zu inszenieren. Weshalb das nicht nur intellektuell beleidigend ist:

Nederland profileert zich graag als wetenschapsland, maar pleit in Brussel voor zwaardere bezuinigingen op onderzoek. Dat zei ERC-president Maria Leptin dinsdag bij de Radboud Universiteit, waar een symposium over wetenschap en democratie begon met luidruchtig protest tegen Leptin en de ERC.

'Notably, a record 88.1 per cent of students who completed the NSS are positive about the quality of teaching on their course – with 93.6 per cent agreeing that teaching staff are good at explaining things.' 1/3