#Stadtbild - Afrika-Rat: afrika-rat.org 7/7

#Stadtbild - Solidaritätskreis Mouhamed Lamine Dramé Dortmund: justice4mouhamed.org 5/7

#Stadtbild - Initiative in Gedenken an Oury Jalloh: initiativeouryjalloh.wordpress.com 4/7

#Stadtbild - African Black Community: www.theleftberlin.com/african-blac... 3/7

#Stadtbild - International Women* Space: iwspace.de 2/7

Die Menschen, von denen #Merz spricht, posten hier kaum, werden nicht gebeten, Artikeln zu schreiben, werden nicht interviewt – es ist an uns, ihre Geschichten zu finden & ihre Stimmen lauter zu machen. Sie müssen keine Ärzt*innen oder Reinigungskräfte sein, um unsere Solidarität zu verdienen 1/7

“Deskilling” skilled professions is a core promise of technological projects, so it’s probably not best understood as a side-effect even if some of the people pushing generative AI see it that way themselves. If the erosion of thinking is unforeseen, that’s just (so to speak) for lack of thinking.

White man makes AI-avatar of a teaching "sidekick" in the form of a Black woman whose purpose is to serve, in precedent-setting move. 🫠

Struggling to participate in the Indian Ocean sea trade Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article by Michael O'Sullivan on the evolution of Ottoman shipping in the Indian Ocean from 1650 to 1900 👉 buff.ly/GN9hF8G Part of our CAPASIA @erc.europa.eu project research 👉 buff.ly/K57rhlr 📚 #Fridayreads

When I was 16 I smoked real actual cigarettes on an international flight. It was unthinkable then, but now, thanks to actual political will, you can hardly smoke in public spaces (and I am glad to say I quit when I was 23). LLM chatbots are a menace and can be banned.

Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.

Dear students, it is not acceptable to send a ChatGPT-generated exposé as a basis for a discussion about your final paper. Thanks, Max.

Kompakt und sehrgut über dieses Gestreite um die Amo-Straße in Berlin-Mitte: Alice Hasters 🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/koloniale-st...

Sharon Dodua Otoo @sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social bei der Taufe der Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße in Berlin-Mitte

“It is irresponsible if ScienceDirect continues to have these AI features. The AI generated texts on ScienceDirect spread misinformation and pollute the scientific knowledge infrastructure. This harms science, researchers, lecturers, students, and ultimately also the public.”

Fabulous headline: "It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes" Also: "Microsoft explicitly warns users that its AI function should not be used for things like "doing math" or "anything actually important""

Es ist fraglich, ob die #Privatdozentur die für die Professur vermeintlich so wichtige #Bestenauslese liefert - oder ob sie nicht vielmehr die letzte Etappe sozialer Selektion im Wissenschaftssystem ist, die durch entsprechende #Prekarität schon in der Promotions- und Postdocphase beginnt. 7/8

So wie mir geht es vielen anderen Privatdozent:innen. Nicht alle können es sich leisten, so lange durchzuhalten. Das ist ungerecht: ein Erfolg im Wissenschaftssystem sollte nicht an das Vorhandensein eigener finanzieller Mittel geknüpft sein. 6/8

For decades, the German academic system has been characterized by structural problems that make the working and living situation of those working in it massively more difficult. 1/9

He was also an Imperial/ War artist. Among the Marsh Arabs (lithograph). Cairo - the Indian Hospital (ink and wash). Moslem Kitchen - Riasc 8th 10th and 12th Indian Mule Coys, Zghorta, Syria. The Emperor Haile Selassie at Khartoum early in 1941.

Wallpaper designs: Tree and cow, Pigeon and clock tower, Sahara, Mermaid.

Zanzibar’s beauty draws crowds, but its coral-stone streets hold memories of the Indian Ocean slave trade that cannot be ignored. 🏝️ theconversation.com/abdulrazak-g... #ArtsCultureAndSociety

Apparently historical images are now based on vibes and historical writing can be conducted through hallucinatory autocomplete plagiarism machines. You could, instead, support historians and the important work they do. As a historian and archivist, I’m appalled by this “guidance”

Call for Proposals: 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) and History of Science Society (HSS), Scotland, 13-16 July 2026 Link to the full Call For Proposals is available here<hssonline.org/page/2...>

It's here! Everything you never really wanted to know about Mamluks and their socks (and the creation of medievalist identity through modern knitting pattern design)! www.academia.edu/125167738/Au...

Join us at @chstma.bsky.social for our next #mmea session on Thursday, August 14 at 10am EDT (Philadelphia time) with Tuli Mekondjo (Windhoek): Oimbodi Yedu: Herbs of the Soil Free, online, all welcome! Sign up for free membership here to receive the zoom link! www.chstm.org/group/plants...

"Ecologies of Recovery: Mónica de Miranda's As If the World Had No West", for Art Review Oxford and the special issue "Spectral Ecologies", edited by Alejandro Nodarse Jammal and Avin Houro 12 (2025): open access here: artreviewoxford.com #monicademiranda #asiftheworldhadnowest #artreviewoxford

Wrote a text for @ndaktuell.bsky.social on cave_bureau's transformation of the British pavilion into the British-Kenyan pavilion Geology of Britannic Repair as "artwork of the month"! www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192... This is an initiative of @leuphana.bsky.social #ndaktuell #kunstwerkdesmonats

CFP: From the Universal Museum to Critical Museology (online, 21-22 Nov 25) https://arthist.net/archive/50438

CFP: "New Relational Ethics" in Art History and Archaeology (online, 14-15 Nov 25) https://arthist.net/archive/50415

Join us for our #mmea series on #plants in #africa at #chstm tomorrow July 10, 10am EDT (Philadelphia time) for a talk by Rabiu Yusuf on indigo dyeing in Northern Nigeria! free, online, all welcome! to join sign up for free membership for the working group here: www.chstm.org/group/plants...

Wonderful from Jason Farago at The New York Times: Cezanne and the Hard Facts of Time - celebration, art history, personal reflection, beauty, rigorous analysis, and the continuing invention of a new form between text, images and film. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Historical breakthrough for German colonial restitution policy: Under guidance of @diplo.de, museums in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart & Bremen ready for „first wave“ of return to Cameroon. @profdanhicks.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @michmo.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @rhoelzl.bsky.social

Exciting news from SAR: A new Getty-funded seminar will challenge extractive museum practices and reimagine how art historians engage with Native art and communities. Launching summer 2026 in Santa Fe. Details → sarweb.org/getty-founda...

My wonderful colleague Karen Hall and I are convening a panel at AAANZ2025 in Perth on unruly histories and practices of water. Histories & practices of infrastructure, hydrofeminism, blue humanities, oceanic thinking. #envhum #aaanz #cfp #water #arthistory aaanz.info/aaanz-home/c...

If you’re a climate/energy person, I will take your portrait pro bono.

This is the first known aerial photo of L.A. It was taken in 1887 from a hot air balloon as part of a promotional stunt by William Randolph Hearst. The balloon was launched from Agricultural Park (now Exposition Park), and traveled as high as 14,000 feet. www.raremaps.com/gallery/deta...

Call for Papers: 'Charles Ignatius Sancho: A Black British Man of Letters and His World' conference. Deadline for submissions 14 July 2025. Conference will be held 13-14 March 2026 at Northeastern University, London: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A huge thanks to the brilliant Maya Goodfellow who recently interviewed me for @theguardian.com about my book, and the entangled histories of extinction and empire more broadly. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The new V&A East Storehouse opened on 31 May, offering public access to over 500,000 objects in a groundbreaking new space. Director Gus Casely-Hayford joined us‬ to reflect on the curatorial decisions behind it. Watch: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/cur...

Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art by Caroline Fowler Duke Press (2025) 📌 Antien Knaap, MFA assistant curator and Prof Mary Hicks discuss impact of colonialism and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on 17th-century Dutch society—and how it manifested in art from the period. #Art #History

CFP: Hotels in Africa (online, 9-10 Jan 26) https://arthist.net/archive/49579

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Honouring Koyo Kouoh's life, work, and legacy - buff.ly/44pe4cR On 10 May 2025, the world lost an extraordinary cultural force. Koyo Kouoh passed away unexpectedly at the age of 57. More than a visionary curator, she was a guide and advocate for countless artists, especially from the Global South.

Join us for four days discussing pseudo-scripts, (il)legibility and ornamentation with case studies from across the globe! Pisa and online, program and links to register for online attendance (free, all welcome) here: www.leuphana.de/institute/ip... May 2-3, May 9 and May 17!

It was an honor to write a text for the upcoming Mamluks exhibition at the Louvre, curated by Carine Juvin #materialmigrations #mamluks #mamluk #metalwork #africa #louvre #museedulouvre

amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down

Join us for Sahar Bazzaz' talk on Plants of the Red Sea Littoral: PE Botta's Expedition to Yemen, 1836 in the #MMEA series of the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine on Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 10am EDT (Philadelphia time), online! www.chstm.org/group/plants...

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.