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Franziska Heimburger
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French historian with British & German nationalities. Cultural history of coalition warfare, 1850-1918. Exploring and teaching history and languages as MCF
at Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université. https://www.franziska.fr/
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Franziska Heimburger @franziska.fr · Oct 3
#helloESR
Je travaille à l'intersection des langues et de l'histoire sur les échanges, la communication, les transferts en contexte guerrier, Première Guerre mondiale, mais aussi de plus en plus fin XIXe. #coalitions
Enseignement d'histoire britannique et de choses numériques et/ou quantitatives.
franziska.fr

Today I'm reading towards #365papers: "Der Stachel des Digitalen: Geisteswissenschaften und Digital Humanities"

https://www.zotero.org/groups/365papers/items/HJLR7YZI
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching digital histories' buff.ly/XwrPrf5 @brepols.net
Online reading lists from BBIH
A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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cieraparis.bsky.social
🖼️ Avis aux historien·ne·s ! Vous voulez découvrir des voies pour l’histoire en dehors des institutions académiques ordinaires ? 🏛️Cet atelier présente les parcours extra-académique en DE, FR et dans l'UE.🌐
📆11 -12/12
🔗Délai 3/11 www.ciera.fr/fr/manifesta...
@ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
franziska.fr
Oui, voilà. Mon histoire de commande d'ordinateur que je racontais ce matin, c'est aussi parce que notre gestionnaire de l'époque gérait à elle toute seule huit équipes de recherche.
Pour les services financier, je reste indécise sur mon rasoir d'Ockam d'incompétence ou malveillance...
mixlamalice.bsky.social mixlamalice @mixlamalice.bsky.social · 6d
voila, donc monsieur le ministre, si vous voulez qu'on soit moins à la ramasse, remettez des gens pour nous aider dans les labos plutôt que de les barricader à la délégation ou je ne sais où où ils ne verront jamais un chercheur de leur vie.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
franziska.fr
C'est le moment de raconter comment j'ai mis de septembre à fin juin de l'année suivante pour obtenir un ordinateur ? Avec un nombre dingue de relances et sièges de bureaux ?
Année de congé pour projet pédagogique devant justement servir à enregistrer des capsules vidéo avec le dit ordinateur ?
achatenetc.bsky.social Dr Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste @achatenetc.bsky.social · 6d
Une Erc ? quand la simple signature d'une convention et d'un bon de commande pour publication me donne des insomnies et m'oblige à faire le siège des bureaux pendant 6 mois . Apparemment, c'est le cœur de mon métier. Impression de vivre dans la maison des fous d'Asterix.
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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korybing.bsky.social
I hadn’t considered this particular flavor of AI hell and now I’m mad all over again
susannashore.bsky.social Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 7d
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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mixlamalice.bsky.social
J'y reviens mais entendre ça dans un moment où aucune commande, aucune mission, aucun remboursement, aucun recrutement ne peut se faire sans "effort", ne parlons même pas de faire de la recherche mais simplement de travailler, c'est vraiment dur à entendre (voir aussi le fil d'@aigverte.bsky.social)
cedricbrun.bsky.social Cédric Brun @cedricbrun.bsky.social · 11d
Quand notre ministre de tutelle nous insulte devant la représentation nationale. "Bande de nuls" "complètement à la ramasse".
Nous reprocher des taux de réussite faible à Horizon Europe et ERC, quand manquent les moyens pour assurer nos missions de service public. Surtout changez rien!👌
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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hippriest.bsky.social
We will fight them on the quiches
Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up. Regurgitated from my Twitter account
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
franziska.fr
This is going in my module for the first-years on gen AI...
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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bflmouse.bsky.social
A really good example of the kinds of things that can go wrong is the vegetative electron microscope...
www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-ph...
A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".
www.sciencealert.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
franziska.fr

Today I'm reading towards #365papers: "Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s career as a colonial officer: learning the ‘colonial way of war’?"

https://www.zotero.org/groups/365papers/items/D7GXETML
October 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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miriamposner.com
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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chriskempshall.bsky.social
The Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture is a hugely significant event for @fwwsoc.bsky.social & we're delighted that @juliarsct.bsky.social will be delivering it this year.

There are around 50 tickets remaining for those wishing to attend either online or in person, so check out the details below. 🗃️
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it. Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies. This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement. This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies. The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk). This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#rantMGEN Donc si j'ai bien compris, d'ici l'année prochaine, on aura perdu les 3 seuls trucs bien à la MGEN : le fait que la carte de mutuelle soit sur la carte vitale, le remboursement en une seule fois et la prévoyance.
L'avenir rayonnant en PSC a intérêt à être à la hauteur des promesses...
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23d
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.
www.ndsmcobserver.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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cr-historial.bsky.social
“Ukraine, une nouvelle Grande Guerre” -
Conférence de Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau le 11 novembre à l'Historial de Péronne, organisée par le Centre International de Recherche de l’Historial avec le soutien du Conseil départemental de la Somme.
1418.hypotheses.org/3368
October 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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jacksaundrs.bsky.social
What possible use could the "People Who Teach You How To Understand and Work With Ideas and Information" have in the age of "The Machine That Punches Out Information of Questionable Quality"?
porcupunk.bsky.social Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · 26d
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
franziska.fr
All hope is not lost. No idea how this Yorkshire Blue escaped post-Brexit Britain and it to the cheese counter at the Montrouge market, but it is was delicious.
October 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
franziska.fr
Aujourd'hui c'est la journée des doctorant.e.s de notre équipe HDEA @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social . Plein d'exposés passionnants et un bel enthousiasme.
Je m'occupe du terre à terre avec un atelier Word et Zotero pour une rédaction heureuse...
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
franziska.fr
Und dann und wann ein weißer Elefant...
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
franziska.fr
Parce qu'il faut bien se changer les idées, vu le climat politique...
humanite.fr l'Humanité @humanite.fr · Oct 6
Dans les Pyrénées, l’ourse Claverina a donné naissance à un ourson

➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/G4v
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
franziska.fr
I have been teaching our new research masters intake digital research skills and this is what they say they feel like at the moment when they think about their reading at the moment.

It is easy to forget how lost students can feel at the beginning of that journey when everything is new and unknown.
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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phdhurtbrain.bsky.social
Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
franziska.fr
Séance 4/6 du passage annuel dans les beaux quartiers, sur un campus où tout fonctionne...
September 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM