www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u... Harvard, stay strong. The world needs independent and free research, international cooperation, transdisciplinary research and to embrace diversity

Concluding a rewarding visit to the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy with a workshop about the Printed Appeal Papers and fascinating insights into the workflow of our record specialists, conservators, and imaging operators!

What an impressive project and a fascinating way to bring early modern maritime history to life!

Together with researchers and records specialists of the National Archives and @prizepapers.bsky.social, we facilitated a workshop where we discussed digitisation processes and potentials of digital humanities to engage with the printed appeal papers in record series HCA 45 and PCAP 6.

Provenance research is key to DiViAS! On April 9, join for Object Dating Provenance Research at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch. Discover the histories of objects from North America & Oceania. Free entry! www.arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/tdp/landesmu... 📸 Martin Henze, LMNM

Transkribus is an important tool used in the DiViAS project. The case study “Movement in Space and Time” specifically benefits from the automatic transcriptions, which serve as the basis for subsequent named-entity recognition. #DiViAS #transkribus @rmkaiser.bsky.social

PAST Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records, 19 June 2025 at the UK National Archives – organised by our very own Dr Oliver Finnegan! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-recor... Looking for more information about the workshop? See the description in the comments below.

Congratulations. Great first results of our transdisciplinary project @divias.bisky.social which closely cooperates with @prizepapers.bsky.social

PNG meets DiViAS! 🌍 On April 7, researchers from Papua New Guinea, Oldenburg & Wilhelmshaven met at Landesmuseum Natur und Mensch for a workshop on colonial-era collections & digital access. Inspiring exchange & future ideas!

Our researchers presented at #LeLa25 their work on transcriptions, analysis and reconstruction of shipping routes and let participants try a dashboard created by master students using AI extraction.

During #Dhd2025 in Bielefeld, DiViAS researchers held a workshop on spatiotemporal uncertainty and how to visualise movement data of the Gunboat Albatroß's (1886) with QGIS.

Wissenschaftsraum ProSaDi Provenance and Collection Research financed by the VWFoundation and the State of Lower Saxony. Great transdisciplinary project meeting at Oldenburg University with our partners. Thank you for your great presentations and questions.

How can objects held in European museums be made accessible to the #Tlingit in Alaska? What role can #3D-digitisation play? We were honoured to welcome representatives of the Tlingit community, Joe Zuboff & Garfield George, researchers and museum professionals at the State Museum Nature and Human.

Developments in #3D-digitisation pave the way for new approaches to researching museum and archival objects that aren't possible to achieve with conventional 2D methods. In our workshop, experts from the humanities and technical sciences came together to address questions around #materiality.

Meet our researchers working on the case study “Movement in Space and Time”.

The research network DiViAS brings together scientific methods and practices of digitising, researching and representing collection items from colonial contexts. #research #3ddigitisation #AI #colonialcontexts #heritage #maritimehistory #museumcollections #transdisciplinary #prizepapers #divias

DiViAS systematically combines expertise from the fields of museum-, history- and cultural studies with that of technology and computer science – including artificial intelligence, data analysis, geoinformatics and threedimensional measurement technology. Meet the heads of the project.

Maischberger blendet die Beleidigungen des rechtsradikalen Tech Milliardärs Elon Musk gegen Scholz auf X in ihrer Sendung ein als Beleg für die Unpopularität des Bundeskanzlers. Der Rest des Interviews ist auf diesem Niveau. Das ist kein professioneller Journalismus der Öffentlich Rechtlichen.

We are online now, you can still join, highly interesting paper by Wim, see below

On Monday, 20 January, we welcome Dr Wim de Winter (KU Leuven) for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Marital Cooperation and Economic Agency of Maritime Women: Evidence from the Eighteenth-Century Southern Netherlands, 1pm CET. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Dear followers, we are all devastated about what happened to our colleague Luan. Please consider donating, see below. And consider signing a petition to forbid private fireworks which you find here innn.it/boellerverbot

#Oldenburg Angesichts dieser furchtbaren Verletzungen auch in diesem Jahr von Unbeteiligten muss die Stadt aufgefordert werden, private Feuerwerke zu untersagen. Stattdessen könnte ein öffentliches Feuerwerk organisiert werden wie in anderen Ländern auch.

Auch in der Provinz verlief die Silvesternacht laut Nordwest-Zeitung #Oldenburg „wie erwartet“ mit Schwerverletzten etc.

Ohne Worte. Unten eine Petition für ein Böllerverbot …

innn.it/boellerverbot Unterschriftensammlung der Gewerkschaft der Polizei für eine Petition zum Verbot privater Feuerwerke angesichts so vieler Schwerverletzter und Toter auch an diesem Jahreswechsel und angesichts von Angriffen auf Helferinnen und Helfer

We are celebrating our traditional team Christmas party in Oldenburg with our wonderful research students! #Christmas #PrizePapers

enzyklopaedie-der-ganz-grossen-worte.podigee.io/4-new-episode Podcast der Union der Deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften zum Thema Freiheit, den ich zusammen mit Ute Frevert in Berlin aufnehmen durfte. Moderation @markschies.bsky.social

Prize Papers Talk now Online - great lecture by Anne Brinkman on air

The lunch talk just started, you can still join, see below, today is speaking @Prof Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

What's going on here? The @prizepapers.bsky.social Project in a podcast studio? Oh yes! Something's coming your way, folks. Thanks to Chloe & Drew, Tash & Adam from @auntnellproduction.bsky.social & my colleague Annika for a lovely morning at the National Archives. Stay tuned! #earlymodern #history

Hello Bluesky. We are the Prize Papers Project, dedicated to the study & digitization of the Prize Papers collection, a vast trove of documents & artifacts stored at The National Archives, UK: www.prizepapers.de Watch this space for updates, exciting finds & upcoming events #earlymodern #skystorians

The Prize Papers Talks are back! The Online Lecture Series of the Prize Papers Project. We are happy to invite you to join us during our first talk by Prof. Rebecca Earle on Monday, 1-2 pm CET: The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker. #earlymodern 🗃️ www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-...

Went to where the Princess Amelia shipwrecked in 1647 not far out from the Mumbles, to get a feeling of the place, the rocks, the sand, the sea. #PrizePapersOpera @prizepapers.bsky.social

Exciting times ahead! Today our research students received an introduction to @transkribus.bsky.social from Frank Marquardt and will now be using it regularly for their work and research. Transkribus is a very helpful tool if you work with documents in at least 19 languages. #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Discussion about the multilayered meanings of „freedom“ in past and present societies with @markschies.bsky.social Markschies and Ute Frevert in Berlin to be published as podcast in November adw-goe.de/artikel/enzy...

Wo sind die Poltiker*innen, die sich gegen die rechte Hetze vor die Kameras stellen, die Solingen betrauern, Hanau nicht vergessen und klar sagen, dass das Problem nicht Migration sondern die Menschenverachtung derjenigen ist, die die offene, vielfältige, solidarische Gesellschaft bekämpfen?

Thank you, Jobina. We are so looking forward to working with you on this amazing project @prizepapers.bsky.social @jobinatinnemans.bsky.social #prizepapersopera

A very warm welcome to our new research students at @prizepapers.bsky.social. They will work in the team @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social, focusing mainly on French material www.prizepapers.de

Historian & journalist @anneapplebaum received the Carl von Ossietzky award for her detailed analysis of the drift of the political middle to the right, the impact of fabricated news on our political culture, the danger of autocracies and the risk of violence.

Morgen, 24.5. eröffnen wir unser transdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt www.divias.de, gefördert von der VolkswagenStiftung und dem Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur Niedersachsen. In Kooperation mit @prizepapers.bsky.social u.a. Anmeldung und Infos hier divias.de/events

Congratulations to Suzanne Foxley, former researcher @prizepapers.bsky.social for her impressive viva today and her highly innovative and interesting PhD „The American Experience of British Prize Jurisdiction, 1776-1804“ #earlymodern and to Dr Amanda Bevan @UkNatArchives for her great support.

Presenting our research and teaching projects based on @prizepapers.bsky.social on #slavery at global.rice.edu/pariscenter

Great conference #earlymodernhistory #historians on Hidden Archives of Capitalism and #Slavery in the Indian Ocean State, Business, Personal Collections at Rice Global Center Paris. @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social @dagmarfreist.bsky.social presented sources and teaching from @prizepapers.bsky.social

Putins Helfer: Deutsche Unternehmen aktiv beim „Wiederaufbau“ in #Mariupol. Unsere Exklusiv-Recherchen jetzt ausführlich in der Mediathek. #Monitor #Knauf www.ardmediathek.de/video/monito...

Auch verpasst? Noch auf Youtube, s.u. Ein sehr wichtiger Beitrag zur politischen Lage mit Blick auf Russland, den Vernichtungskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine und die politischen Debatten und Wahrnehmungen dazu in Deutschland @georgrestle.bsky.social spannende Gesprächspartner*innen im #studioM

Amazing what research questions can be sparked off by a 200 years old knitted jumper found in the @prize_papers #earlymodern #history ranging from knitting and colouring techniques to communication practices as signs of emotion for those absent, ideas of fashion to name but a few