Some of the most fun #EverythingHasAHistory articles are the ones for ubiquitous items in modern life. Today at #AHAPerspectives, the transnational and fascinating history of a bag you can buy in a dollar store. 🗃️
Dan Hassler-Forest’s Fast and Furious Franchising charts the transformation of Hollywood through the story of one of its most successful cinematic universes.
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It's got to sting for recently rejected ERC applicants that blocks on resubmissions have been extended by a year
Maria Leptin said the ERC is making the move because panels are dealing with ~250 applications compared to 50-150 in the past
The message is v much 'only apply when absolutely ready':
I'm 57 now, and I've read this article about Western men fed up with upppity western women and seeking a "traditional" aka economically dependent wife in former colonies since I'm reading newspapers. That's like from the 1980ies onwards.
CFP: Weimarer Geist? ›Civic spirit‹, Krisenerfahrung und wissenschaftliche Impulse
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-161810
Bensheim, 18.11.2026-20.11.2026, Prof. Dr. Volkhard Huth, Institut für Personengeschichte Bensheim, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.06.2026 Weimarer Geist? ›Civic spirit‹, …
Tom Waits and Massive Attack released a collaboration today--words I did not expect to put together
Werde ich von jetzt an auch verwenden.
We need a Sec’y of Defense who quotes The Big Lebowski.
heated chivalry
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Screenshot aus dem Youtube-Video zum Spiel Bayern gegen Real Madrid. Untertitel des Kommentators „Polen sind offen.“
Ah, okay. Absolut zeitgemäße Redewendung für den Kommentar eines Champions-League-Spiels.
Fortune from a fortune cookie reading “Silence the critic within.”
Panda Express has joined the war on the humanities.
This is a page from the Marx-Engels reader with all the words intact.
Pretty cool stuff, this. Here's a before and after of a PDF "remediated" by my university for the deadline. Here's the original:
![Detail from the painting “Abend über Potsdam” [“Evening over Potsdam”] by Lotte Laserstein, 1930](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vny6rfv7ic24qx3depkrx2dy/bafkreic5xryrm6h2bwvosripbsslahywe5j5ef5jx5xcl6b3tj3uimhjji)
Detail from the painting “Abend über Potsdam” [“Evening over Potsdam”] by Lotte Laserstein, 1930
“Weimar Germany, 1918/19–1933,” the final volume of our relaunched “German History in Documents and Images” primary source project, is now published and available! You can find the expanded edition, edited and with a new introduction by Erik Jensen, here: germanhistorydocs.org/en/weimar-ge...
Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity - Spitting Image: political satire in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Working across @exeter.ac.uk and @theul.bsky.social in partnership with the @camglamresearch.bsky.social and drawing on the Roger Law archive.
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Ringvorlesung & Forschungskolloquium im #SoSe 2026 von @dighistberlin.bsky.social, Professur für Technikgeschichte (TU Berlin) und #ZZF. Wir freuen uns auf Gäste aus Brasilien, USA, Hong Kong und Europa!
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Popping in with a reminder that any "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism"-esque line cannot be a get out of jail free card for one's unethical choices. That line's meant to be an invitation to think critically about the systems we operate in.
Quoted post refers to the Substack issue.
This is wonderful news. The UK has officially signed up to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme from 2027
It means students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe 👏
Just seeing this 6 months on, but very happy to see @michellelkahn.bsky.social 's words on my article in the CEH digest - and discovering so many new articles to read!
Das queere Vergnügungsetablissement "Eldorado" an der Ecke Motz- und Kalckreuthstraße. (Aufn.: 1932) 12933-32 Plakat über Eingang "Hier ist's richtig". Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.
Das queere Lokal Eldorado erhielt bei der neuen Adresse in der Motzstraße 15 / Ecke Kalckreuthstraße 11 am 15. April 1930 eine Schankerlaubnis.
1933 wurde es im Nationalsozialismus endgültig geschlossen.
My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist
If you're wondering if you should publish your next book with an Open Access publisher, or are interested in our OA project "Teaching European History in the 21st Century", register for this OAPEN talk: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/01/23/o...
Grant proposal reviews are always like "but I don't see how this is going to revolutionise the field" while article peer reviews are always like "stop saying that you're going to revolutionise the field".
I still get students tying themselves into knots with garbage like “In this paper it will be argued that” because someone once told them they weren’t supposed to use first-person pronouns in academia. #smh
black and white image of a mid twentieth century desktop computer running a program "project scheduling"
Postcolonial nations in the Global South staged a revolution to build their own domestic computer and IT industries. They were met with a counter revolution led by major Western tech firms and their institutional allies. Learn more on the latest #HagleyHistoryHangout!
www.hagley.org/research/his...
Their understanding of this stuff is all wikipedia skimming and ai summaries. They're not actually that interested! bsky.app/profile/sara...
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
An excellent opportunity - do apply!
It's 2026, and Word still won't let you add comments to footnotes.
