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)

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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/...

A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

theguardian.com

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

How an Edgbaston houseshare gave the world the atomic bomb

Two refugee scientists, a spy and the unlikely flatshare that changed history

birminghamdispatch.co.uk

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

Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today we are wishing a Happy Birthday to Maurice Sendak, who was born #onthisdate in 1928. If you've not read Where The Wild Things Are, read it today. Or if you've not read it for a while, read it today. And then let the wild rumpus start.

"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."

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Strategic plans have become so expansive and aspirational that they cease to guide choices. When almost every goal, value and aspiration is declared a priority, the plan cannot resolve the inevitable conflicts that real resource allocation involves. This is not a trivial failure.'

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....

Weimar’s Queer Visual Cultures - University of Toronto Press

Birgit Lang is a professor of German at the University of Melbourne.

utppublishing.com

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/...

Insecta Vindicta on Steam

A revenge-action game where you play as insects outsmarting, humiliating, and destroying humans across a chain of open-ended levels in a comedic story campaign.

store.steampowered.com

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"

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For the @ajc.com, I wrote about how close reading cultivates the virtues that promote eudaimonia, or human flourishing, or the good life. That's me in the picture at the front of the room. www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

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...

Languages and Cultures Reading on Instagram: "Please join us on Tuesday, 24 March for a talk by Dr Frederic Ponten (University of Regensburg) on the publication of his new book Enemy Literature: How A...

5 likes, 0 comments - dlc_reading on March 16, 2026: "Please join us on Tuesday, 24 March for a talk by Dr Frederic Ponten (University of Regensburg) on the publication of his new book Enemy Literatur...

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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.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 7mo ago

A key question is ‘whether Trump’s appetite for military adventurism will continue to spread. He has advertised designs on Canada, Panama, Greenland and the Gaza Strip. On Saturday, he implied Mexico was also in his sights’ Quick insight from @edwardluce.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/f047cbcd-9...

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.

The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History

The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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...

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum

The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

ndsmcobserver.com

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!

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland@ags-gbi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

After an aperitif in the charming courtyard, dinner in the elegant dining hall of St John’s College

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

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species

Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

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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 🦋

Francesca Bellazzi, The Metaphysics of Pregnancy - PhilPapers

Pregnancy is a one of the most complex phenomena of life and is essential to the life cycle of mammals. Pregnancy is also a crucial aspect of humans’ life and experience. ...

philpapers.org

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.