How to conduct behavioral experiments ethically in VR? Learn more in our next #InVirtuo talk this Friday at 2 p.m., when Dr. Konstantinos Armaos (@bachlab.bsky.social) and Clemens Uhing (@iwe-bonn.bsky.social) from our consortium talk about this challenge and how they approach it in their research.

R.i.P Rita Süssmuth www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/e...

Looking forward to hosting Christian today. I'm sure it's going to be an interesting talk.

Today we are welcoming @derguenther.bsky.social to our #InVirtuo seminar. He is going to talk (in German) about design choices, ethics and the role of the perception of authenticity for VR applications, based on his empirical research of VR use in museums and at memorial sites.

Some feel good news: www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...

🤔Does VR really build empathy? Find out in our next InVirtuo Seminar, where we welcome Dr. Charles Rathkopf @charles-rathkopf.bsky.social ( @fz-juelich.de) for a discussion of the #empathymachine hypothesis. Further information: tinyurl.com/h6j38j47

Great example of history from below: www.uwz-archiv.de/Audios.227.0... #paulwulf #antifascism #histpsych

SciFi for your WiFi 👉 filkcast.blogspot.com You're welcome.

Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund - so oder so ähnlich.

This is btw a pretty good example of what STS calls a socio-technical assemblage: for something like this to happen, impact factor, academic precariousness, the horrors of the academic publishing industry, and a new technology (AI) interact with each other in the worst ways

Dream job, even in this climate. Amazing institute in a wonderful city. Gotta love the district. If you are entertaining the thought, do apply!

We are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...

I'm delighted that this proposal that I assisted with repeatedly over the course of the last year has been granted funding. ☺️

Vertipper des Tages: Fussstäbchen

Today is World AIDS day and tmw I‘m teaching on the HIV/AIDS Crisis again. A shocking amount of students have zero knowledge of its devastating history. Given conservative backlash I doubt curricula will change soon & vital research has already been defunded by the Trump admin. Fight the forgetting.

Ich poste hier einfach mal ein bisschen #News (Dinge die ich vom alten Twitter vermisse): Hier meine ehemalige Kommilitonin Martha, die gestern für die ARD aus Warschau über den Anschlag auf die Zugestrecke Warschau-Lublin berichtete. www.tagesschau.de/video/video-...

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

We congratulate our Co-PI and #Invirtuo consortium member Prof. Mario Botsch (#TUDortmund) for getting this project off the ground. #livinghistory #holocaustsurvivors #rememeberance #memory #virtualhumans #exhibition www.tu-dortmund.de/en/newsdetai...

Appel à communications : Faire l’histoire des migrations avec des méthodes numériques. 🔥 Rejoignez-nous à Paris l’an prochain pour l’école d’été au @dhiparis du 22 au 26 juin 2026. 🖥️ Repensez comment les sources numériques transforment l’histoire des migrations, des questions de recherche aux […]

The most effective scary movies tend to do more than just terrify us—they prompt us to question why we’re so afraid in the first place. Here are nine films that do just that:

🚨🚨CFP klaxon🚨🚨 International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!

We are thrilled to announce the 2nd annual workshop of the InVirtuo Network. The title of this year’s event is “Embodied Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Digital Twins, XR Technology, and Volumetric Performance Capture.”

WE'RE HIRING! The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions Please share widely!

Hallo Mainz!

CFP: Irrationality and the Age of AI: Language, Ethics, and the Future of Human Expression https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157793 Bonn, 18.05.2026-20.05.2026, Desirable AI, Center for Science and Thought, Universität Bonn, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.12.2025

Wenn die Nebel vom Siebengebirge ins Rheintal herunterrollen, ist das schon ein erhabener Anblick. Selbst aus der fahrenden Straßenbahn. Da kann man gut nachfühlen, warum so viele sich zum Verfassen eines Gedichts inspiriert fühlten.

Kartoffelernte war gut, Apfelernte war gut - das kann nur eins für den Herbst/Winter 2025 bedeutet: ganz viel Reibekuchen mit Apfelmus.

2025 gets weirder and weirder.

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Guten Morgen aus der Mitgliederversammlung des VHD. Die Frage des Tages ist sicherlich: werden wir uns umbenennen, oder bleibt es beim Namen #Historikertag ?

Unser Netzwerktreffen startet mit überwältigend hoher Beteiligung. Wir freuen uns sehr auf den Austausch - mal nicht per Zoom😊 #Historikertag2025 #hist4dem @historikertag.bsky.social

Good morning. Kicking the day off with listening in on a panel on data culture in the humanities. Oh, and coffee! ☕ #Historikertag2025

Heute: Tag 1 #Historikertag2025 @unibonn.bsky.social

Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

We might be “experiencing an AI bubble,” Rogé Karma argues. “If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.” https://theatln.tc/K9m2UMuD

"Eine Erzählung über die verborgene Magie in unserem Leben und die vielen Glücksmomente, die unser inneres Licht erstrahlen lassen." Beim Lesen solcher Verlagstexte brennt mein inneres Licht instantly durch.

Follow-Empfehlung: der Account der Wiener Stadtbüchereien ist super lustig. Bonus: es gibt obendrein noch gute Buchempfehlungen. Ich bin ein Fan!

Support: "Das ist nicht ganz intuitiv." Deutsch: "Wennn man lange genug herumprobiert, klappt es manchmal plötzlich, keine Ahnung, warum."

Ever since I was a child I wanted to be in a befristete Anstellung in Teilzeit als Elternzeitvertretung

The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...

A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec). jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

[1/2] Ever wondered how your brain learns to anticipate negative events? 🧠 We just helped to map the brain's 'fear network'! This #ENIGMA consortium study found that while fear responses are universal, task design and clinical status yield relevant differences in brain activity.

Mood open.spotify.com/track/0GODLE...

CFP: Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte in Zeiten der Anfechtung von Demokratie, Diversität und Verantwortung https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157025 Bielefeld, 09.09.2026-11.09.2026, Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG), Universität Bielefeld und Arbeitskreis …

CFA: Hormonal Bodies in Body Politics https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156994 Berlin, 27.02.2026, Xenia Steinbach, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover; Sophia Wagemann, Charité Berlin, Bewerbungsschluss: 27.02.2026

🕊In Memoriam: Wulf Kansteiner With great sadness, the MSA shares the news that Wulf Kansteiner passed away on 8 August. Read the full tribute on our website: bit.ly/3UZB0Lb

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Meine Schwester @racoonizable.bsky.social hat Donnerstag ihre erste Lesung in Hamburg. Falls ihr #Comics mögt und in der Gegend seid, schaut doch vorbei. 19:30 Uhr, Fabrique, Gängeviertel.

I have seen teams of PhD level experts fail at almost everything imaginable, including, but not limited to: agreeing on a place to have lunch, making coffee and finding a bus stop. And I have been on all those teams.

#bignews: @unibonn.bsky.social now has a Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience and it is already growing! Welcome to Bonn, Professor Floris de Lange @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! New #caian website and more updates will follow within the next few weeks. www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news