Verdi meldet, dass ein Amazon-Beschäftigter während seiner Schicht im Amazon Fulfilment-Centers in Erfurt-Stotternheim gestorben ist - und fordert Aufklärung. Berichten zufolge soll er vorher vergeblich versucht haben, sich bei seinem Vorgesetzen krank zu melden. sat.verdi.de/presse/press...

Put ‘water colleague’s plants’ in my calendar for the next two weeks: a bit of green lining among the appointments

The awards will be presented this Friday at ASEEES; if you're in Washington, consider stopping by. Just one committee member is attending the conference (not me) - a notable withdrawal in my bubble.

I am so excited to share the news that after many years of research & writing the collaborative monograph of the project #ZARAH #Women'sLabourActivism is out today with @uclpress.bsky.social ! It is available in print and online (open access). uclpress.co.uk/book/womens-...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Wichtiger Artikel, der auch eindrücklich zeigt, wie verwundbar Befristungen das dt. Wissenschaftssystem machen: Befristetes Personal kann man ohne Kündigungsschutz loswerden & so Wissenschaft empfindlich schwächen. Für Resilienz braucht’s dringend mehr unbefristete Stellen! #IchBinHanna #WissZeitVG

Yesterday I forgot my notes for the Vorlesung in the office, panicked a bit, and decided not to go back and risk being late. In the end, there was almost no difference from the usual session (mentioned it in the beginning, in case I miss a detail here or there). Very restorative experience!

We started Essay Camp today. It's five days, flexible, and free to join. All are welcome www.awritersnotebook.org/p/essay-camp...

Last week I enjoyed a much-needed research trip at the Wirtschaftsarchiv Baden-Württemberg, exploring promising avenues for my second book. As I work through the material and write, it is exciting to see its contours more clearly.

I recently saw a list of the first members of the Croatian Mountaineering Association:a group of prominent men (scientists, politicians, artists) who used the outdoors as a space to develop their relationships and networks. www.matica.hr/media/upload...

I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...

Just one of those words you love, unexplained. (This word: "bat" in BCMS.)

"Arbeiten Sie ohne Gehalt und ohne soziale Absicherung? Pendeln Sie jahrelang an einen Arbeitsplatz ohne jeglichen Arbeitsvertrag, ohne Büro und ohne dauerhafte E-Mail-Adresse und bezahlen Fahrt und Unterkunft aus eigener Tasche?"

Forgot to self-promote here (distracted by my catastrophic DB trip), but I was in Ljubljana last week, talking about chicory - my first contact with business history! www.wbhcee.org

... and the winners are: Olena S. Dmytryk, “Communicating community: Early Internet and trans* digital cultures in Ukraine and beyond” Honorable Mention: Eralda L. Lameborshi: “'My Body, My Choice, My Country, My Voice': Kosovar Film, Women’s Rights, and Postwar Trauma”

This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.

This year's Heldt Article Prizes awarded by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies are officially announced! Chairing the committee for the second year in a row has taught me a lot about organizing this kind od work and it gave me the opportunity to read many interesting articles.

A thread on this experiment, connected to my seminar on sitting. I started with a brief introduction about why I believe reading is important and shared an example of the reading load I experienced as a student, esp in Belgrade, where it was common for entire books to be assigned for exams.

Behold! The new season of the History on the Edge lectures begins! 💪

A bit anxious to start the semester next week! I'm trying something new - a heavy emphasis on reading and both my classes will conclude with a Klausur. There is more to read than usual + pockets of time for reading during class, along with several reading-centered assignments.

I couldn't imagine a better home for what turned out to be by far one of the hardest pieces to write—read it over at @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social 💙

We're immensely proud to share with you "Airborne," a new story by @enaselimo.bsky.social: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/airbo...

my mom's package reaction when I told her there was no kviki gric at a small island store in Croatia

Another few WWII bombs found in Berlin. Once again heard some gleeful you-reap-what-you sow comments. Recently, a bomb was suspected in our communal courtyard, in an area where 60+% have Migrationshintergrund, children who play there almost exclusively with MH, including refugees. Who would reap?

Preparing my seminar on chairs/sitting and craving ornament for my cheap furniture

Hate how omnipresent AI is (or in Croatian: iskače iz paštete/jumps out of a tin of paté). Grading Hausarbeiten and Adobe pops up with: "Dieses Dokument scheint lang zu sein. Spare Zeit und lies eine Zusammenfassung."

Potaknut ovim threadom - otvoren poziv blueskajašima koji žive u Zagrebu a nikad se ne voze vlakom da odemo na demonstracijski izlet - ovog ljeta sam prošao 75% željezničke mreže u HR i ozbiljno tvrdim da željeznica unatoč svemu u ovoj zemlji ima budućnost i moguće je voziti se vlakom brzo i sigurno

Going to Japan tomorrow, like seemingly every middle-class person in Germany I know in 2025, and every upper-class person in Croatia. I don’t have a Japan obsession yet (though fascinated how so many different ppl have one), but looking forward to food&my dear friend who moved there.

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

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I got some lovely messages re: my essay on parental loneliness. I especially appreciated how non-parents connected with it: immigrants, people unsure of their place in the queer community, (un)wantedly childless people. Our capacity for compassion and connection is stronger than assumed&I love that.

1 dreamy week in a simple socialist resort (still not privatized!) on a car-free Adriatic island 🪸

Za VoxFeminae sam (plaćeno!) pisala o roditeljskoj usamljenosti: voxfeminae.net/feministyle/...

What a wonderful day to slice my CV anew into the exact brackets the application portal demand, only to upload a different, specifically formatted version at the end anyway

my region 🥹

Yes. 25 years on, I teach differently: I read to them, we read silently together, we have weekly experiments week of setting different situations to read (with/out food, company, music; in/outdoors; varying light; &c) & discuss them. It's made ALL the difference to foreground reading as a process.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Every body is a summer body, but not every inbox is a summer inbox ☀️🌊

1x per week, my kid attends a Croatian language class for native speakers, organized by the embassy. The teacher told us how it’s getting more and more difficult to find schools willing to host them (we already travel across town). According to the teacher, other minorities have similar problems.

Dear German historians and German Studies friends, the Tucholsky Museum in Rheinsberg is threatened by far-right politicians. It's the only museum in Germany dedicated to the life and work of Kurt Tucholsky. Please sign this petition to help save it – Tucho dankt's: weact.campact.de/petitions/re...

Summer routines: listening to Gotan Project in an overheated office (top floor, no A/C) and forsaking the foolish decision to agree to two June 30 deadlines

My neighbor (single mom from 🇺🇦) had an injury, so I walk her kid to school together with mine (+kids play after school) She is always profusely thanking me. Today, her toddler echoed her words: "danke, danke". Reminded me of @enaselimo.bsky.social stellar piece Counting Change: tinyurl.com/y8pwsnnn

My ERC project FeMMiWork is hiring a postdoctoral researcher. Must have strong German language skills and archival research experience. Please help spread the word! Deadline is Sept. 1. Postdoctoral Researcher on Women Migrants in Postwar Germany vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Graded all the Hausarbeiten from the second term of the WiSe (submitted in early summer)! I aim to return grades within 3 weeks and let students know the date - keeps me accountable. As a student, I hated the surprise system, with some tenured profs taking extreme liberties with return times.

Starting my mid-week day right: arranging something nice and free with a friend ☀️

The longer I am in this system, the more convinced I become that German academic excellence is largely (but not always) a matter of nepotism (here called "strong network") and prolonged dependence on a powerful mentor who can create opportunities for you - kind of pathetic if you ask me.

Rassismus hat so viele Gesichter.

What we must do is stop stacking money in the pockets of senior PIs and start giving emerging researchers individual fellowships, with no team, agenda, or strings attached. 3/4

This week in joyful anticipation: gifted myself a day off in the middle of my b-day week to see how I feel about turning 35 + to swim in Brandenburg’s beautiful lake(s) around sunrise 🚲🚂 The struggle of being surrounded by night owls: no one ever wants to join me for my pristine sunrise plans.