Ainur Elmgren
@aelmgren.bsky.social
Docent in Nordic history, university lecturer in history and social studies (University of Oulu). Draws comics. Interests: History education, 1910s/1920s politics & culture, Tatars, Avars, Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages. Suomi/Svenska/English/Deutsch
"The design, rejection, and failed trials of two supervisory signals, in 1919 and 1929, reveal a narrative of inter-institutional collaboration and engagement with disabled employees."
History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3d agoHow can historians use institutional archives to recover the lived experiences of disabled people? @lucyanne.bsky.social explores technological collaboration and disabled expertise in the General Post Office in early twentieth-century Britain.
I use an advanced form of AI it's just I. No machine necessary.
"Neuvottelukunnan ratkaisut eivät ole kunnioittaneet OECD-ohjeistoja, neuvottelukunnan jäsenten jääväyskäytännöissä on ongelmia ja valittajille asetettu näyttökynnys on muodostunut kohtuuttoman korkeaksi, Finnwatchin toiminnanjohtaja Sonja Finér sanoo."
Finnwatch@finnwatch.org · 5d agoFinnwatch on päättänyt erota työ- ja elinkeinoministeriön alaisesta yhteiskunta- ja yritysvastuun neuvottelukunnasta YHVAsta. Olemme olleet jo pitkään tyytymättömiä neuvottelukunnan toimintaan, resursseihin ja rakenteeseen.
"För några år sedan ville Skolverket rensa bort antiken helt från grundskolan och även om man efter hård kritik tvingades backa är det i praktiken inte mycket som svenska barn lär sig om äldre historia." Ja jösses. Inget glömt, inget förlåtet!
Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 5d agoAtt mota svensk historielöshet är svårare än att ta sig hem från Troja www.dn.se/ledare/isobe...
Of bone and ivory: Eastern Atlantic sources of the medieval European walrus ivory trade discovered by ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.07.743312v1
New translation of a major part of a vitally important text for the late Sasanian and Early Islamic period, and for the history of the Church of the East. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...
The Chronicle of Seert, ca. 580–660 — Harvard University Press
The Chronicle of Seert, a Middle Arabic history written in the late tenth or eleventh century, draws on earlier Syriac sources from the Church of the East dating back to the sixth and seventh centurie...
hup.harvard.edu
Preserved ancient Egyptian foodstuffs from the tomb of the architect Kha and his wife Merit near Deir el-Medina, c. 1425–1353 BCE. Reflecting daily life in Egypt, they were arranged carefully in front of the coffins to ensure the couple’s sustenance in the next life 1/2 🏺 #Archaeology
'As a port city, Hamburg was a space in which borders were regularly being crossed and redrawn, where belonging was constantly contested and negotiated, with tangible – and sometimes deadly – effects.' Annika Bärwald on Black history in eighteenth-century Europe.
Being Black in the Borderlands
What are borderlands and how do they shape questions of identity and belonging? Annika Bärwald explores the history of Hamburg's port and the people who passed through it.
historyworkshop.org.uk
Nyt on viestinnän paikka ihmiselle joka ei pelkää haasteita: "... yliopiston kriisiviestinnän kokonaiskoordinaatio ja vastuu kriisiviestinnän operatiivisesta tekemisestä (mukaan lukien simulaatiot, koulutukset, ohjeistukset) , vastuu talousviestinnästä ..." duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...
Viestinnän asiantuntija - Helsingin yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori
Avoin työpaikka: Viestinnän asiantuntija - Helsingin yliopisto, Helsinki. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!
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Voisiko kannustaa opiskelijoita tekemään luentomuistiinpanoja joukkoistamalla tehtävän? Opiskelijat kirjaavat anonyymisti jonkun sovelluksen kautta (Howspace?) omasta mielestään oleelliset asiat luennolta yhteen tiedostoon. Ketterä tekstikooste videotiedoston sijaan. Vai onko tässä mitään järkeä?
Had a chat with the WarTalk team about The Odyssey www.chinatalk.media/p/wartalk-od...
WarTalk: Odyssey Edition
yes you need more odyssey content
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Ancient Expeditions to Central Africa and the Circumnavigation of the Continent www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-ex...
Ancient Expeditions to Central Africa and the Circumnavigation of the Continent
The ancient world was a far more interconnected place than is commonly recognised.
africanhistoryextra.com
Now open access: “What's less well known is that [the Trojan War] 🐴 also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions. Yet even with all the historical & archaeological research into Homer and Troy, most scholars today rely heavily on Western sources, giving Ottoman work in the field short shrift.“
Homer, Troy and the Turks | Heritage and Identity in the Late Ottoman
Homer's stories of Troy are part of the foundations of Western culture. What's less well known is that they also inspired Ottoman-Turkish cultural traditions.
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Frederick Douglass, 1857: Those who profess to favor freedom yet deprecate agitation want crops without plowing the ground; they want rain without thunder + lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
”Lindell och Voronov förklarar att vi inte haft en lägre andel som försörjts av sociala ersättningar på nästan 50 år. Kurvan har pekat nedåt under hela 2000-talet, och trenden påverkades inte av det stora inflödet av invandrare kring 2015.” DN:s ledarredaktion har läst Den långa bluffen.
Ledare: Den mörka beskrivningen av integrationen är en bluff
Många i svensk politik tar för givet att invandrare går på bidrag och inte kommer i jobb. En ny bok visar att perspektivet inte tål faktagranskning.
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Unga i Sverige verkar ha gått rejält åt vänster sedan valet 2022. En tidigare högervind har brutits. De mellan 18–29 år skulle idag ge Tidö-partierna 40 procent av rösterna, och oppositionen 57. Analys av DN/Ipsos opinionsdata, publicerad idag. www.dn.se/sverige/unga...
"What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?" This iconic cartoon by Joel Pett is 17 years old Originally in USA Today for COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009 #GlobalBoiling
Joel Pett: The cartoon seen 'round the world
I've drawn slightly upwards of 7,000 editorial cartoons in my career. Most of them have a one-day shelf life, are glanced at and discarded in the daily detritus. A few may become subjects of minor con...
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yle.fi/a/74-20238004 Epäonnistunut yritys leikkiä fasismia. Kertoo paljon nykyisestä äärioikeistosta; tuhlataan valtavat määrät rahaa siihen, että näytetään fasistisilta, mutta sitten ei saada edes leireille ihmisiä.
Turvapaikka kuin keskitysleirissä
Albanian palautuskeskuksissa mitataan, kuinka pitkälle EU-maat voivat venyttää maahanmuuton sääntöjä. Nyt Italia ehdottaa mallia muillekin.
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Laura Wimanin väitöskirjasta on nyt sanottu hämmentävän paljon. Poliitikot, maamme valtiovarainministeri yhtenä heistä, ja vielä pari ekonomistiakin on ollut äänessä. Seuraavaksi äänessä olen minä. Ketju seuraa.
Worth reading this whole piece, which ends with something that I've been leaning on lately too: the answer isn't to give up. Writing/thinking/learning, all part of making meaning in your life, which kids need and deserve. And good teachers matter! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
So as a 26+ year HS history teacher now, since the start I have told my students" I care more about how you know what you know than what you know." The complete decoupling of words from their human sources, is problem #1 w/ generative LLM AI in humanities & humanities education 2/
"...we have all been left on our own to jury rig workable pedagogical scaffolds while the educational edifice is being bulldozed around us. Individual responses will not suffice; collective action is necessary."
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8mo ago"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
'An allegory for our crisis-ridden present?'
Christian Kleindienst@postkulturwissenschaften.de · 2w agoEine Allegorie für unsere krisenhafte Gegenwart?
#Art #WomensArt . Buried for not being Brueghel: overlooked masterpiece by still-life pioneer discovered in storage area …Norway’s nat'l museum in Oslo is bringing…Flemish baroque artist Clara Peeters out of obscurity in a major exhibition of female artists . www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Buried for not being Brueghel: overlooked masterpiece by still-life pioneer discovered in storage area
The curator of Norway’s national museum in Oslo is bringing the work by the Flemish baroque artist Clara Peeters out of obscurity in a major exhibition of female artists
theguardian.com
Your reminder that a slave economy was not necessary to have a society where social hierarchy was upheld by possession of enslaved people.
Sarah E. Bond@sarahebond.bsky.social · last wk.When late antique ascetics left their “worldly possessions” behind, did that include all their enslaved persons? Um, no it did not. E.T. Dailey & Justin Pigott have a new, open access article in EME on “Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave”
This is extraordinarily bad, as even the UK copyright libraries (e.g. Cambridge) have moved over to frequently only acquiring the ebook version of new publications. If you don't own the hard copy, you're just renting and you are at the mercy of the publisher.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last wk."In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
The fifth installment of Rhea Receptions is an exploration of VR museum exhibits, specifically the Getty's "Persepolis Reimagined" (@gettymuseum.bsky.social). Give it a read and go take yourself on a tour of this fantastic exhibit.
Persepolis Reimagined
Getty’s “Persepolis Reimagined” virtual online experience (part of the “Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World” exhibit in 2022) curated by Timothy Potts, Jeffrey Spier, and Sara E. Cole Revi…
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