Der Faschismus ist zurück – und mit ihm die Frage, wie wir ihn verstehen und bekämpfen können. Buchvorstellung und Diskussion Morten Paul (@mortenpaul.bsky.social) und Francesca Raimondi im Gespräch mit Ivo Eichhorn und Lea Gekle (@leagkl.bsky.social) (detour)

Please sign - Exeter colleagues need our support: c.org/pvDPwTNwts

in this heat we are officially a set of airconditioned corridors attached to a rural history collection

I am once again begging universities to realise that staff - academic, professional services, estates, all of them - are the product they are trying to sell. Without staff there is nothing to sell. No amount of flashy buildings will replace staff in universities. UKHE is in freefall.

'the future of the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature is under threat ... the Smithsonian Institution, which has faced severe funding cuts under the Trump administration, stopped hosting the BHL’s administration functions' ... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

TIL: How an Edgbaston houseshare gave the world the atomic bomb

On Maurice Sendak's birthday, a reminder that he illustrated Kleist's PENTHESILEA for a 1999 English edition. 😍😵

"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."

Am 8. Juni 1929 wurde Paul Hindemiths Oper "Neues vom Tage" in der Berliner Krolloper unter der Leitung von Otto Klemperer uraufgeführt. Die Parodie von Schlager und Varieté in der Badewannenszene empörte die Nazis: Die Protagonistin Laura schwärmt nackt über die Vorzüge der Warmwasserversorgung. 🧵

My dear comrade @jonahgarde.bsky.social posted about this yesterday, but: it’s out! “Weimar’s Queer Visual Cultures” is a great new collection of essays put together by Katie Sutton, Ina Linge, and Birgit Lang, featuring an amazing cast of scholars. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Hi #PitchYaGame, INSECTA VINDICTA is a game about insects having had enough of the damned human race and taking their revenge on them. All of them. Inspired by Shadow of the Colossus, Tony Hawks and Burnout the demo is on Steam. Publishers 🤙 us 😘 store.steampowered.com/app/4100290/...

gotta love the awkward essays now

"a mistake to cede the argument for the good life to the right. We should pursue a progressive educational philosophy directed toward human flourishing. Cultivation of virtues, each with their own intrinsic ends: archaeological dig, chemistry lab, ethnography, mathematical proof, close reading"

Remarque wacht vom Parkhaus in Osnabrück. ❤️

Wouldn't it be amazing to see this headline about UniversitiesUK? This is Austria's official uni association striking against government cuts. Via @wonkhe.bsky.social

Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable. The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently. This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...

Looking forward to Tuesday! www.instagram.com/p/DV8bFZHCDJ...

It is because I see the harm gAI use/misuse is doing to students in my classrooms that I am so critical of the enterprise. And Im not alone, either. futurism.com/artificial-i...

So clever of US, UK and European universities, with ample encouragement from their governments, to have been closing down Area Studies, History, Languages and Politics & International Relations programmes, so clearly irrelevant to the world in the second half of the 21st century.

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade. History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

Apply for a History of Biology internship at the APS! Interns will conduct research using the rich archival collections at both the APS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/apscshl-undergraduate-summer-internship-history-biology #internship #history #undergraduates

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary "employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class." www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism. This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

Still thinking about (digesting?) last week's fantastic Association for German Studies annual conference. Many thanks to the organisers!

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Das Buch zu diesem tollen Cover ist nun OA erschienen, d.h. es kann heruntergeladen & gelesen werden. Korrigieren begreifen wir darin als Kulturtechnik, die Produktionsverhältnissen unterliegt, aber auch selbst zur Produktion & Veränderung von Texten beiträgt. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

CALL FOR SUPPORT: Secure the Future of BHL Following the Smithsonian Institution’s decision to conclude its long-standing role as BHL’s host on 1 January 2026. #HistSTM #HistSci #Biodiversity #Ecology #EnvHist #NatHist #EnvironmentalStudies about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

My article for #PhilosophyCompass on the Metaphysics of Pregnancy has been accepted for publication! It has been the result of some years of teaching and I think it’s such a cool topic. 🎉 Here is the link to the AAM version: philpapers.org/rec/BELTMO-20 @assemblinglife.bsky.social 🦋

If you are able and willing to do so, could you please add your voice to our wall of support at the Save Cardiff Modern Languages website: www.savecardifflanguages.org The more voices we have on there from across the world, the better! Thanks and love to all.

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩 📷 Feb 2022 Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

Is the 'deadly double' – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead? www.the-fence.com/the-deadly-d...

so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges (this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

The closure of humanities & social science departments is very short-sighted, and we will come to regret it, but the closure of an English department at an English university is incomprehensible to me. I just tried to picture a German university closing down German Studies or a French one French...

📣Great opportunity for students in #HistSci & #PhilSci: Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social next April! 🤓 Find all information here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma... Deadline for application: 13/12/24 Please repost and share 🙏

Greetings colleagues-friends. What a dream to open this app and see lots of lovely people and also that I’ve been followed by the Hebbel-Gesellschaft. 🤝