What I Actually Use AI For, Vol. 1: Research open.substack.com/pub/seriousj...

Eine Toilette hat mich fast zum Weinen gebracht. Neuer Newsletter: open.substack.com/pub/seriousj...

All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 239 of The Continent Macron is back in Africa: energetic, ambitious, and still trying to convince the world Paris is relevant. Meanwhile, in Mayotte — legally France, geographically Africa — asylum seekers wait for la République to notice them. bit.ly/239_TC

Focusing on buying my own apartment from a very early point on has definitely been one of the best decisions in my adult life.

I finally got it together and wrote a second issue for my newsletter. Find out what I have been up to and read about my musings on running and research: seriousjourneys.substack.com/p/monthly-ro...

from a UNDP report to determine the contribution of aviation to economic development in Africa in 1977

Case studies on how #businesses have dealt with #threat while operating internationally Link to download below @bruegel.org @chathamhouse.org @mtkonczal.bsky.social @nataliefoster.bsky.social @epi.org @cepr.org @unctad.bsky.social @csis.org @aomconnect.bsky.social @piie.com

Halbwegs dringend: Ich habe gerade eine sehr unschöne Situation mit der DFG und würde mich über vertraulichen Austausch freuen mit jemandem, der schon mal eine Entscheidung (Verfahren oder fachlich ist egal) anfechten musste.

What counts as a #threat for companies when operating across #borders 👇 Our volume #openaccess #risk #security @businesshistory.bsky.social @akku-ev.bsky.social @economist.com @epi.org @nsarchive.bsky.social @climateeconomics.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social @globalhistories.bsky.social

The first of several jobs in our project on corporate social responsibility as a transnational cause: 1 PhD position in sociology. We are a very supportive and ambitious international team. 2 PhD positions in history coming soon!

Christina Ricci zündet schon die ganze Woche das Internet an aber das hier trifft es:

This vibecoding historian is now going to lunch while a script is renaming, tagging and keywording all of my library scans from last week.

How did global companies handle political risk? 🌏🇩🇪 A new volume, Security Strategies in International Business History, tracks German firms in Asia across the 20th century. Check out the contributors and TOC below! 👀 👇 #BizHis #EconHis #InternationalRelations #Asia #Security #History #Security

Hiring soon for 2 projects on African business & industrialisation history. Thinking about roles with a 70/30 split between research and science comms or project management. To reflect current academic career trajectories and workload better. PI's and job-seekers: what do you think?

Ein offener Brief, in dem zahlreiche Professor*innen die HU Berlin auffordern, Angelegenheiten rund um schon länger bestehende Missbrauchsvorwürfe gegenüber einem Professor zum Abschluss zu bringen. Wir haben hier zuletzt zu 2 Beiträgen verlinkt, die ausführlicher darauf eingehen. Was überrascht /1

[YES] Civil aviation is often told as a Western story of technological progress and glamorous airlines ✈️ 👀 [BUT] This ( doi.org/10.1177/0022...) Special Issue @jtransporthist.bsky.social focusing on the Global South shifts the lens. Full 📹️ abstract drive.google.com/file/d/1_6hr...

From workshop to book 3️⃣ years of collaborative research, now published Security Strategies in International Business History #Germancompanies #bizhis #econhis #finhis #asianchallenges #businessinasia #SecurityStrategies #internationalbusiness www.routledge.com/Security-Str...

📢 Spannende Stelle an der TU Berlin: Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in (E13, 100 %) im Berlin #Anthropocene Lab! Gesucht wird eine Person mit vertieften Kenntnissen der Forschungslandschaft und -debatten zum #Anthropozän in Umwelt- und Technikgeschichte, Env. Humanities, STS oder angrenzenden Bereichen, ...

Eine Gruppe von Professor:innen forderte in einem Brief an die Hochschulleitung der HU Berlin den Schutz eines ihrer Kollegen, dem mehrere Personen Machtmissbrauch, zum Teil sexualisierte Übergriffigkeit vorgeworfen hatten. Ein Brief, der zahlreiche Fragen aufwirft. Unsere Stellungnahme dazu: 1/17

Entrepreneurial expectations guide decisions in moments when information is incomplete and the future feels open. We @nkleinoeder.bsky.social + Jonathan Krautter use 2 examples: German colonial 🚂 and the post-independence ✈️ Air Afrique to examine how these expectations. tandfresearch.bsky.social

Without exaggeration, one of the most intense years of my life. Reduced workload, research stay in the US, job-market uncertainty — and somehow also a fellowship and €2m+ in research funding. Stepping back from social media for a while. 2026: finish the book, run a half marathon, take a real break.

Welcome to Serious Journeys 🌍✍️ My first post turned out to be personal 🧠📚, after reading an article on gender equality in German academia #seriousmarie #womeninacademia #ichbinhanna #academia #academicmotherhood #singlemoms @womenknowhistory.bsky.social

Airlines are political. Across the #GlobalSouth, national carriers became symbols of sovereignty, shaped by colonial ties, #ColdWar strategy, and uneven access to #technology. ✈️📝👇

Writing an article on German tax legislation and FDI, and it's a new experience, and one that makes me sad compared to most of my other research: I can so easily add biographical information because of 20+ actors, every single person in the story is a man and has his own Wikipedia article.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Gewinn des ERC Starting Grant, @mariehuber.bsky.social! 💐 Die Wirtschaftshistorikerin an der Uni Marburg und am CMB erhält 1,5 Mio Euro Förderung vom @erc.europa.eu für ihr Projekt „Manufacturing Modernity in Africa“ (MAGIC). 🔗 cmb.hu-berlin.de/zentrum/neui...

This week my 7 yo will have his first lock down drill in a US elementary school. He has never heard of attacks on schools of any kind until now. How would one best talk about this beforehand, to prepare?

Kleiner Kommentar von mir im Artikel von Otto Wöhrbach und Natalie Ille (im Tagesspiegel) zur Equal-Earth-Karte und zur "correct the map" Initiative: www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/die-a...

Sometimes the impossible becomes possible ✓ My project "Manufacturing Modernity in Africa" (MAGIC) just won a €1.5 million ERC Starting Grant - Europe's most competitive early-career research funding. I'll be investigating Bata shoe factories in Kenya, Malawi & Zimbabwe from the 1940s to 2000s.

We made it! Arrived two weeks ago in DC to start my Smithsonian NASM Fellowship. Adventure starts now! - office view: not bad - DC commute upgrade - Smithsonian researcher mode: ON - for the nerds: 80s cargo planes hit different - exploring DC and American life (strange times)

Spoke on “Flying White Elephants?” at a civil aviation history conference earlier this year, inside Lufthansa HQ, with runway views & the hum of business around us. African airlines after independence weren’t just prestige projects - some reshaped economies & global aviation deals.

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Die Universität Würzburg bietet jetzt zum ersten Mal ein Zertifikatsprogramm zum Thema "Machtmissbrauch erkennen und verhindern" (MEV) an. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Im Verlauf eines Jahres werden Wissens- und Handlungskompetenzen in diesem Bereich vermittelt (jeweils 1 Modul).

I am currently looking for a (remote) research assistant for about 60 h. of work in total (literature research, fact-checking, and data analysis—Excel skills required). A background in 20th-century international history, technology, and transport would be ideal. Please share with interested people!

Picture puzzle announcement

How I present myself in grant applications vs. interviews for a faculty position

Ich kann Amerikas Spitzenforschern leider nur ein Praktikum in meinem Social-Media-Team anbieten. Aber vielleicht erst einmal gut zum Ankommen? Gehalt gibt’s keines, aber exposure durch Auftritte in meinen Reels

*Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social

Die besten Geschenke im Leben kommen unerwartet:

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

Kleine Frage an die deutsche Wissenschafts-Bubble: wie definiert ihr #firstgen ? Mein Vater: Landwirt, meine Mutter: spät (mit 38, ich war schon Teenager) studiert und ein Uni Diplom. Mein Opa + seine 2. Frau (es gab wenig Kontakt): FH Professor und Lehrerin. Bin ich aus einer Akademikerfamilie?

VG Wort Metis - online Texte melden, ultimative Kurzanleitung: 1. Melden kann man in dieser Kategorie zB > e-Versionen von Zeitschriftenartikeln > jede Seite, auf der ein open access e-books zum Download steht, auch Buchhändler > e-versionen von Dissertationen bei Univerlagen meine Meldungen:

Kein Video aber ich schreibe hier nachher gleich mal eine einfache Anleitung rein, wie ich es gemacht habe.

Meldungen zu Online-Texten nicht vergessen - muss jedes Jahr neu gemeldet werden. Pro Meldung/Domain gab es letztes Jahr 12 Euro!

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Germany with a focus on the int’l/ transnational history of technology, medicine, and environment? Come work with me @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social ! I’m looking to fill 2 PhD positions (for 4 years), details below and inquiries very welcome zzf-potsdam.de/en/chances/j...

If you are into urban history, history of consumption, or gambling, check out my book "Feeling Lucky - The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas"! A story about casinos, capitalism, and consumers in the 19th and 20th century link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

We just launched the website of our ERC project CATTLEFRONTIERS. Have a look at www.cattlefrontiers.eu With 5 historians at different career levels and supporting staff, we will be studying the transformations of cattle production in (post)colonial Africa until well into 2028...

There are no gifs on this app, but everything‘s still shit, so here, once again, is Ted Lasso as academic life:

Good morning skystorians! 🗃️ I am curating a research blog connecting local spaces and networks with #globalhistory and the history of #colonialism. The current series of articles focusses on 19th- and 20th-century colonial history of the city my university is located in: trierglobal.hypotheses.org

Ich danke ganz besonders @leising.bsky.social, der sich so engangiert gegen Machtmissbrauch einsetzt und die Mechanismen, die diesen ermöglichen so gut erklären kann. Ich bin froh meine Mitstreiterinnen von @metoohistory.bsky.social gefunden zu haben und danke auch ihnen für ihren Einsatz! 3/3

6 1/2 years ago Fintan O‘Toole published this article and I have to think about it a lot in the past weeks: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fint...