Vielen Dank, lieber Marvin! :)

If you’re interested in what we do, check out our website: aesthetics-of-democracy.de?lang=en

In April, I will start a PhD position in the Research Training Group "Aesthetics of Democracy" at Goethe University Frankfurt. I look forward to working with my advisors and the doctoral candidates in my cohort.

Mathematician Gladys West dies at 95. She was a hidden figure behind GPS. Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”

Her research laid the groundwork for the Global Positioning System, GPS, a technology that has made getting lost a thing of the past.
wapo.st/4c3qzA5

❤️

Hier bieten wir Journalist*innen und anderen Medienschaffenden unser gebündeltes Expert*innenwissen zu Themen rund um die Geschichte, Kultur, Literatur und Politik Nordamerikas an:

dgfa.de/opportunitie...

The Origins of Culture Wars How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth century Germany? Robert D. Priest explores.

How is the concept of culture wars rooted in the social and political struggles of nineteenth-century Germany?

Robert D. Priest explores these little-known origins.

Zeitungsauszug: "Der LMU Career Service veranstalte rund 80 Events im Jahr für alle Branchen und Berufe, darunter eine KI-Akademie, die sich auch an Studenten richtet, die noch nicht so gern prompten, weil sie lieber selbst for-, mulieren und denken wollen."

Angebote für Studierende, "die noch nicht so gern prompten, weil sie lieber selbst formulieren und denken wollen."

Dazu fällt mir auch nichts mehr ein.

On Thursday, November 27, we welcome a special guest: Join us for a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. Christina Meyer @chrismey2203.bsky.social on newspaper comics and the Yellow Kid! The lecture is part of Kathleen's @kathleenloock.bsky.social course on “Seriality and Popular Culture.”
More info below!

D'Angelo Dead at 51 Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

Karton voll mit Exemplaren des Buchs "Frauen in Bewegung"

Gerade angekommen: Am 17.9. erscheint mein Buch "Frauen in Bewegung" zu politischen Räumen von Migrantinnen aus der Türkei in West-Berlin (1961-1989) im Print und Open Access. Ich freue mich sehr! Mehr Infos gibts hier: www.wallstein-verlag.de/978383535916...

Best Practices for Giving and Receiving Feedback — The DDGC Collective Joela Jacobs and Jeannette Oholi put together guidelines for sharing feedback during review processes of various varieties, in English or German.

Wie Feedback geben und wie Feedback bekommen? @joelalala.bsky.social und ich haben einen Guide erarbeitet, der bei @ddgc.bsky.social frei zugänglich ist (Deu&Eng):

www.ddgccollective.org/ddgc-blog/be...

Danke an alle, die uns unterstützt haben - inbesondere Isabel von Holt für die Übersetzung.

Sharepic: Schwarzer Hintergrund, in der Mitte ein Bild von Enver Şimşek. Schrift: Enver Şimşek. Am 9. September 2000 vom NSU in Nürnberg ermordet.

Wir gedenken: Heute vor 25 Jahren, am 9. September 2000, wurde Enver Şimşek an seinem Blumenstand in #Nürnberg vom #NSU ermordet. Er hinterließ seine Ehefrau und seine zwei Kinder. Er war das erste Opfer der rassistischen Mordserie des NSU.
#KeinSchlussstrich #KeinVergessen

@dilan-c.bsky.social and I are co-organising a seminar on @saranahmed.bsky.social at next year‘s ACLA! 😱 We want to assemble an international team of Ahmed-nerds and killjoy enthusiasts. Please send us your abstract and join us in The City of Conferences, Montreal! ✨ www.acla.org/seminar/028c...

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations “In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."

Feline Feces (lib catturd) @kitttenn.bsky.social M dashes (the long dash) are a dead giveaway. LLMs love using them for some reason, while actual human beings have no idea how to type that into the computer. They also love sets of three, overtly parallel structure, and impersonal writing. July 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM 1 quote 12 likes

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.

Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

This piece is a how-to guide for analyzing cartoons as historical documents and propaganda, but the questions within it apply to all media:

Who made it? Who commissioned it? What's the social/political/cultural context of the piece? What is depicted and whose perspective informed that choice?

Wer kann hier bei einem wichtigen Promotionsprojekt helfen?

Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...

Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.

On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.

Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...

What is Close Reading? By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

2543 2544 2545 2546 • Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften: Wir stärken die Förderung von Sozial-, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, vor allem die Erinnerungskultur, politische Bildung und Demokratieforschung sowie die Sozialpolitikforschung. Wir entwickeln ein Kompetenznetzwerk für jüdische Gegenwartsforschung und stärken die

In diesen Zeiten 1 wichtiges Signal: #Koalitionsvertrag stellt Stärkung der Sozial-, Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in Aussicht.*

*(Ja, gut möglich, dass wir daran werden erinnern müssen -- aber es ist gut, dass es hier 1 Versprechen gibt, dessen Einhaltung wir einfordern können.)

Drei Schwarze Figuren auf dem Buchcover des Sammelbandes "Schwarze deutsche Literatur".

Ich bin sehr dankbar für die tollen Beitragenden und die schöne Zusammenarbeit - der Band erscheint im Mai bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social 💜

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Unser Leben zwischen den Bildungsschichten: Aufsteiger erzählen ihre Geschichte - wdr.de Aus Gelsenkirchen, der ärmsten Stadt Deutschlands, nach London ins Investmentbanking? Solche Geschichten machen Mut. Aber was bedeutet es wirklich, einen höheren Bildungsabschluss als die eigenen Elte...

Ich hab’s von der Hauptschule über die Gesamtschule zum Studium & bis zur Professur geschafft. Trotz aller Hürden, Herausforderungen und Lehrer, die demotiviert haben.

Meinen und den Bildungsaufstieg anderer #Arbeiterkinder könnt ihr hier nachlesen, hören, sehen.

reportage.wdr.de/unser-leben-...