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Joschka Meier
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Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & communal resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.

Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
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Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 11d
🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article!

It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including:
- How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women
- ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps
-⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)
Toil and Trouble: The Labour, Duties and Rights of Women in Alpine Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
How were women perceived and treated in Alpine communities in the late Middle Ages? This study explores this question by using sources ranging from the fourteenth up to the sixteenth century and fr...
www.tandfonline.com
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waldmeer.bsky.social
Mit dem "Nationalen Referenzzentrum für postvirale Syndrome" vefügt 🇦🇹 über eine hervorragende Expertise in diesem Bereich. Höchste Zeit, dass dieses Wissen endlich beim Aufbau von Versorgungseinrichtungen genutzt wird! Hier findet ihr die neue Website des Zentrums mit vielen Infos zu ME/CFS & Co. 👍
Nationales Referenzzentrum für postvirale Syndrome | Meduni
Das nationale Referenzzentrum für postvirale Syndrome bündelt Forschung und Vernetzung zu postviralen Syndromen wie Long Covid und ME/CFS in Österreich.
www.postviral.at
February 2, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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timegentleman.bsky.social
"brilliantly written, raucously funny, scathing in its satire, spectacularly well-acted and beautifully presented"
moegamer.net Pete Davison @moegamer.net · 1d
Feeling productive today, so also wrote a piece about the excellent Earth Must Die from @danthat.bsky.social @timegentleman.bsky.social and friends. This is a brilliant, unusual adventure with some biting satire, a truly hilarious script and an incredible voice cast. moegamer.net/2026/02/01/e...
Earth Must Die: a bad day for a bad guy - MoeGamer
Earth Must Die is a hilarious, satirical comedy adventure game with stunning visuals and a truly spectacular voice cast.
moegamer.net
February 1, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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marinamueller935.bsky.social
Barred Owl 🪶 visited us this morning 🤓
Barred Owl on tree with smooth bark & cedar foliage in the background
February 1, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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susscrofa.bsky.social
Am 2.2.2026 um 18:00 Uhr Echo der Zeit über Long Covid, unter anderem mit Professor Akiko Iwasaki (Yale), Chantal Britt und mir.

www.srf.ch/audio/echo-d...
Am 2.2.2026 um 18:00 Uhr Echo der Zeit über Long Covid, unter anderem mit Professor Akiko Iwasaki (Yale), Chantal Britt und mir. https://www.srf.ch/audio/echo-der-zeit
February 1, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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beritmiriam.bsky.social
Ich würde es ja ganz gut finden, wenn wir uns mal genauer anschauen würden, wer in Deutschland wie und wann mit Edge und John Brockman kooperiert hat, angesichts der Verbindungen von Brockman und Epstein.
February 1, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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litgamestudies.bsky.social
@floriankluge.bsky.social und ich durften eine @paidia.bsky.social-Ausgabe zu Final Fantasy herausgeben, die nun online ist.

Darin sind 9 Beiträge versammelt, die sich vornehmlich Spielen der Hauptreihe aus ganz unterschiedlichen Forschungsinteressen heraus nähern.

🧵👇
January 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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michaelanes.bsky.social
And Joscha Bach! Abhorrent stuff.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
michaelanes.bsky.social manes @michaelanes.bsky.social · Nov 13
I did a search for "cognition" and there is at least one *exceptionally racist* Joscha Bach email in there, attitudes that are not alluded to in other citations (Wikipedia; Bach was discussed in a Sept. '19 Science piece about Epstein...)
February 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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nicomaramckay.com
In the '90s, unimaginative blowhards included bullshit like this at the front of their books rather than acknowledge the existence of women and anyone else who wasn't a cis dude.

A species of, "I don't want to be 'PC' because I find it inconvenient and your absence doesn't affect me personally."
Excerpt from a book written by a cis white man.
February 1, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
Centrists are those kind of people who are completely surprised when the dystopian surveillance apparatus they‘ve helped building for decades is actually being used against people they care for
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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rcwmsn.bsky.social
And now for something completely different…

Crows, 1891.
Oil on canvas

Bruno Liljefors (1860–1939)
Swedish animal, portrait and landscape painter.
February 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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toveharris.bsky.social
1/6 Anhaltender Anstieg der Todesfälle in Industrienationen - Analyse von Daten aus 34 Ländern (Artikel und Studie)

Die COVID-Pandemie habe Todesfälle nicht vorgezogen, sondern in den meisten Industrienationen zu einem anhaltenden Anstieg der Sterblichkeit geführt.

#COVID #COVID19
Global Assessment of COVID-19 Mortality Displacement From 2020 to 2024 Conclusions The findings of this cross-sectional study suggest that 31 of 34 countries with high-quality mortality data exhibited no statistically significant evidence of mortality displacement. In contrast, for Greece, Latvia, and Poland, countries with above-average COVID-19 mortality, part of the postpandemic decline may reflect mortality displacement, particularly among the oldest age groups. However, the scale of early excess mortality far exceeded what displacement alone could make up for COVID-19. This underscores a widely seen failure of shielding strategies to adequately protect broadly defined individuals. Recognizing this distinction is essential for accurately interpreting postpandemic mortality trends and for designing policies that effectively safeguard broader populations without propagating the myth that older individuals who died in the COVID-19 era were already near death. Future research should further disentangle mortality displacement from genuine recovery to establish a clearer causal understanding of the factors driving postpandemic mortality trends, as well as unravel why so many European countries have failed to resume their pre–COVID-19 pattern of mortality decline.
February 1, 2026 at 12:43 AM
josserme.bsky.social
Neue Massstäbe im toxic civility-Diskurs: Subtweeting sei schrecklich unfair & man müsse doch Dialog suchen...als Verteidigung von nem Typen, der sich an Jeffrey Epstein anbiederte.

Enttarnt mal wieder wie Debattieren um der Debatte Willen Schmarrn und hohle Ausflüchte sind
markpachucki.bsky.social markpachucki @markpachucki.bsky.social · 1d
I admire folks who do so, and admire even more those who can do so with a spirit of curiosity. Instead of subtweeting displeasure, has anyone here tried engaging in dialogue? (8/end)
February 1, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
And Epstein was an explicit eugenicist! Even in the (unlikely) scenario that the academics writing him chummy emails didn't know about the pedophilia charges, they were seeking funding because they thought their work aligned with his interests, which were monstrous.
Interest in eugenics and transhumanism Beginning in the early-2000s Epstein developed an interest in "improving" the human race through genetic engineering and artificial intelligence, including using his own sperm. He addressed the scientific community at various events and occasions and communicated his fascination with eugenics.[395] It was reported in 2019 that Epstein had planned to "seed the human race with his DNA" by impregnating up to 20 women using his New Mexico compound as a "baby ranch", where mothers would give birth to his offspring. He was an advocate of cryonics and his idiosyncratic version of transhumanism, and said he intended to have his penis and head frozen.[396][397]
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
Martin Shuster sdSreptoon1hm9t97235g2u5796glgh0435l6iaf05it1l232lc20cllf4g0 · So apparently on Sunday Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, said in a press conference that "we have got children hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside ... many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody’s gonna write that children’s story about Minnesota.” Then on Monday--one day before International Holocaust Remembrance Day--the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tweeted in response that: "Anne Frank was targeted and murdered solely because she was Jewish. Leaders making false equivalencies to her experience for political purposes is never acceptable. Despite tensions in Minneapolis, exploiting the Holocaust is deeply offensive, especially as antisemitism surges." As someone who spent a year at the Museum as a fellow doing research, I feel embarrassed for the institution. First, it is very clear that Walz wasn't drawing an equivalence, he was drawing an analogy. So this kind of response reminds me of the atrocious positions that the ADL has started to carve out, and why it has become mostly a sycophantic joke, now seemingly mostly geared towards currying favor with MAGA. Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime). We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century. In noting this, let me be clear that this does not erase or make less relevant the centuries of European antisemitism that fed into the Nazi project. That's the whole point: these are all related phenomena. European antisemitism influenced the way in which European colonialism and imperialism operated against indigenous populations in the Americas. Strikingly, as innovations mounted in "administering" the Americas, antisemitic policies also evolved in Europe. Administrators (oppressors) would sometimes even move from one sphere to the other and back. They were all synergistic (a brilliant examination of some of this is María Elena Martínez's _Genealogical Fictions_). (And one could, btw, also tell an important story about the development of Islamophobia in this very same orbit, since policies stumbled on in the Americas came back to oppress both Jews and Muslims in Europe). This is all to say: Walz's analogy is not at all far fetched. The history of oppression doesn't move in any kind of neat or purely linear fashion. It is oftentimes recursive, shifting, necessarily granular. Neither is it a competitive history. It is, in the words of Michael Rothberg, a *multidirectional* history. Drawing these analogies in fact *helps* us understand all the involved phenomena better. At least this is what "Never Again" has meant and means to me: it does not mean only never again for me or other Jews. And it does not mean never again only something that looks exactly like the Nazi genocide. I think also, btw, that this is what it meant for Otto Frank, who spent time *editing* his daughter's diary so that it could be available to anyone, not only to Jews. For ultimately the Nazi genocide--any genocide--is a highly mediated phenomenon: it consists of many diffuse events, marshals an immense amount of people and institutions, relies on sometimes conflicting or contradictory cross-sections of society, and, indeed, emerges out of a process that does not neatly, especially as its happening, have a clear beginning, middle, and end, but rather arranges for itself a kind of constellation that harnesses a range of actors, perspectives, and also histories (this is one way to understand how German colonial projects or anti-communism or ableism were no less crucial to Nazism than European antisemitism). The genocidal outcomes emerge from the structural forms society adopts. And all of this without in any way eliding the special role that Jews played in the apocalyptic Nazi worldview.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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buechnerronja.bsky.social
Darüber wundere ich mich auch. Obwohl viele es ganz klar sehen. Wird wohl Zeit für ein bisschen mehr Lärm liebe Kolleg*innen 📣📣
waldmeer.bsky.social Waldmeer @waldmeer.bsky.social · 1d
Das kann ich total nachvollziehen. Ich wundere mich darüber, dass Psycholog*innen, Psychotherapeut*innen und Psychiater*innen sich nicht viel lauter gegen diese inflationäre Pseudo-Psychologie im Kontext von LC und ME/CFS wehren. Das ist doch eine Schädigung ihrer Professionen, die dort stattfindet!
January 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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debcha.bsky.social
Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”
sheologian.bsky.social Sheo @sheologian.bsky.social · 3d
I may have a stroke.

Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.”

A PROTESTant.

I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.
January 31, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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emptystands.me
Kunsttherapie bei Long-COVID? Während dringend benötigte Mittel für die Erforschung vielversprechender medikamentöser Therapien fehlen, werden hier Ansätze gefördert, die ME/CFS und Long-COVID verharmlosen und psychologisieren. Mehr dazu in den Slides ⬇️
KUNSTTHERAPIE BEI LONGCOVID? Unser Kommentar Spoiler: Nein, Kunsttherapie hilft nicht bei Long COVID.
January 29, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"After using his knowledge of decision-making and behavioral economics to convince his girlfriend to marry him" would have been a serious contender for top 20 worst sentences in the Epstein files but somehow it's on a university website instead
January 31, 2026 at 2:59 AM
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hypoautonomic.bsky.social
The visual of NIH leadership alone is arresting. They are all sitting in front of MAHA (TM) Institute signs. It's a trademark. That's like them sitting in front of coca cola signs. It's streamed on Real America's Voice, a channel that has videos with Qanon tags
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Am...
January 30, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
This guy can’t stop getting W’s
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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ncallaway.bsky.social
This is an aside, but like… in 50 years time, good luck convincing any regular person that th etymology of “trumped up charges” doesn’t come back to this era
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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josserme.bsky.social
New Open Access article about how people in the Alps managed to adapt to the dangers of water (14th to 16th cent.), including fun stuff like bridge recycling or why a tree was a better border than the Rhine: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#SkyStorians #Medievalsky #EarlyModern #envhist
Damit die Strassen […] iren Gang hab und zu Fuessen gehalten wird: Schnee, Eis, Wasser und alpine Verkehrsinfrastruktur im Spätmittelalter
Water was the cause of many problems for people living in the Alps during the Middle Ages, ranging from snow covered or muddy roads up to devastating avalanches or floods carrying away entire bridges....
works.hcommons.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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josserme.bsky.social
🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article!

It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including:
- How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women
- ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps
-⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)
Toil and Trouble: The Labour, Duties and Rights of Women in Alpine Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
How were women perceived and treated in Alpine communities in the late Middle Ages? This study explores this question by using sources ranging from the fourteenth up to the sixteenth century and fr...
www.tandfonline.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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danthat.bsky.social
As we head into the weekend, a quick reminder that Earth Must Die requires your PURCHASE and REVIEW please, so that we stay totally relevant.

Every copy sold at this critical juncture helps us out more than, like three copies sold next week. So please do.

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...
Review of Earth Must Die saying it's BLOODY RIPPER, and that's an Australian saying that so you can really really believe it.
January 30, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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picardonhealth.bsky.social
The Real Reason MAHA Hates Vaccines: It's an attack on the social safety net. Simply put, health libertarians want the country’s weak and vulnerable to suffer and die, by @dwallacewells.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | The Real Reason MAHA Hates Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM