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niki rhyner
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history of science @humboldtuni.bsky.social, Berlin
scholar-led publishing @intercomverlag.bsky.social, Zurich-Berlin-Vienna
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hhedition.bsky.social
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Die Neue Frauenbewegung skandalisierte seit den 1970er Jahren männliche Gewalt gegen Frauen in der BRD. @davi-cath.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy rekonstruiert in »Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat« die jahrzehntelangen feministischen Kämpfe: www.hamburger-edition.de/buecher-e-bo...
Hannah Catherine Davies, Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat
Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der Bundesrepublik 1973 bis 1997
www.hamburger-edition.de
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'We need a more participatory model for question formation'.

Indeed, we do.
Letter: Elite institutions cannot be sole curators of the science agenda
From Stefaan Verhulst, Research Professor, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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will-davies.bsky.social
Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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kwi-essen.bsky.social
#Reminder: Heute am KWI – „Die Moral von der Geschicht‘? Über Biopolitik, Bioethik & den Wert des Lebens in Deutschland“, Vorträge und Gespräch mit Petra Gehring, Dagmar Herzog und Jonas Schmidt

⏰ 18 Uhr
📍 KWI Essen & Zoom
🔗 tinyurl.com/45hhddmj
Veranstaltungsinformationen: "Die Moral von der Geschicht' Über Biopolitik, Bioethik und den Wert des Lebens in Deutschland" mit Jonas Schmidt, Petra Gehring, Dagmar Herzog. 4.11.25, 18 Uhr
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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ueberdruss.bsky.social
new exhibition 'robotron: code and utopia' on the history of gdr computer technology looks great gfzk.de/en/aktivitae...?
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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kwi-essen.bsky.social
#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment.
@mellon.org
📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund
⏱️15 Nov 25
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October 28, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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onurerdur.bsky.social
Auf das Buch freue ich mich schon sehr! Gratulation, @christianjacobs.bsky.social!
hamremar.bsky.social Martin Hamre @hamremar.bsky.social · 28d
What a great cover for the forthcoming publication "The Politics of Culture. Far-right, Feminist, and “Immigrant” Movements in France, ca. 1965 to 1985" by my friend @christianjacobs.bsky.social! You can pre-order the book for your local library here:
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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onurerdur.bsky.social
Zum Vormerken: Im November erscheint das so wichtige Buch „Rechtsstaat und Patriarchat. Eine Geschichte sexueller Gewalt in der BRD 1973-1997“ von Hannah Catherine Davies. Absolutes Muss! www.hamburger-edition.de/fileadmin/us...
October 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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intercomverlag.bsky.social
am 7.11. / anlässlich des 50jährigen Bestehens des Instituts für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte an der TU Berlin
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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intercomverlag.bsky.social
new & online💥

cache 06 / Verwaltete Umwelt, Teil 1, von Nils Güttler, Christian Reiß und Mareike Vennen

″Wir träumen von Natur, leben aber in einer verwalteten Umwelt.″

cache.ch/verwalteteum...
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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nbrisset.bsky.social
Hyped to read the special issue that goes with this introduction by @vhalsmayer.bsky.social and Eric Hounshell.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
October 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
“Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24”

You know what to do.
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Sep 26
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
September 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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modomodo.bsky.social
Jonas Stähelin über den offenen Brief der Zürcher Historiker:innen.
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Zürcher Historiker:innen schreiben Brief an die NZZ
Die NZZ wirft dem Autor des ETH-Berichts zu rassistischen Inschriften im Niederdorf wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten vor – gestützt auf ein unveröffentlichtes Gutachten. Kolleg:innen kontern: Das sei ...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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modomodo.bsky.social
Nächster Donnerstag ist die Abschiedsvorlesung von Michael Hagner.

ethz.ch/de/news-und-...
«Die Wissenschaft ist kein Lieferdienst»
Über 20 Jahre lang war Michael Hagner Professor für Wissenschaftsforschung an der ETH Zürich. Er hielt der Wissenschaft den Spiegel vor und setzte sich für ihre Freiheit ein. Was er zu seinem Abschied...
ethz.ch
September 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.
infodocket.bsky.social infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · Sep 17
Company News: Elsevier Announces Development of a "Next-Generation 'End-To-End' AI-Powered Solution For Academic and Corporate Researchers"; Closed Beta Launching Today, Available For Purchase During Q1 2026 www.elsevier.com/about/press-... @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #AI #scholcomm
September 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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lhst-epfl.bsky.social
Excited to share this year's program for the Séminaire romand d’histoire des sciences et des techniques! The colloquium is co-organized with @brunostrasser.bsky.social (Geneva), Simona Boscani Leoni (Lausanne), & Gianenrico Bernasconi (Neuchâtel) #histSTM #histsci

www.epfl.ch/labs/lhst/la...
13 October 2025, Université de Genève Laurence Talairach (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès): “Women, Algology, and Science Popularisation in Nineteenth-Century Britain” 3 November 2025, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Dania Achermann (Universität St. Gallen): “Travelling with Isotopes: Radiocarbon Dating and the Interdisciplinarisation of Climate Science” 15 December 2025, Université de Lausanne Sabrina Minuzzi (Università degli Studi di Udine): “From Early Modern materia medica to Modern Pharmacology: Framing a Research Hypothesis” 16 February 2026, Université de Genève Caitjan Gainty (King’s College London): “Radical Medicine: Medical Activism in the Long 1960s” 16 March 2026, Université de Lausanne Barbara di Gennaro (CREA Padova): “The State Drug: Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy” 20 April 2026, Université de Neuchâtel Elisabeth Davin-Mortier (Sorbonne Université): “Les utopies hydro-politiques sionistes durant le Mandat en Palestine britannique (1922-1948) : une stratégie d’accaparement des ressources en eau ?” 11 May 2026, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Marco Storni (Université Libre de Bruxelles): “Provincializing Natural Philosophy: Or, Being Cartesian in Newtonian France” 15 June 2026, Université de Neuchâtel Guillaume Carnino (Université de Technologie de Compiègne): “Automatisation : faux enjeux de substitution et vraies évolutions du travail”
September 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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bojerlanski.bsky.social
Das alles erklärt dieser Artikel von The Conversation sehr gut: theconversation.com/why-openais-...
Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.
https://theconversation.com/why-openais-solution-to-ai-hallucinations-would-kill-chatgpt-tomorrow-265107?utm_medium
September 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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intercomverlag.bsky.social
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September 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
The Sorbonne's justification of its decision to leave the Times Higher Education league table game raises key issues for universities in an era of attacks on science and for UK science (SHAPE & STEM) & the escalating growth of proprietary bibliometrics. 1/4
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings
As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...
www.sorbonne-universite.fr
September 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Huge profits from scientific publishing are good, says commercial scientific publisher.
resprofnews.bsky.social Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 4
Transformative deals accelerating open access, says publisher.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...
August 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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brunostrasser.bsky.social
The final negotiation round for the Global Plastic Treaty Begins today. Check out our essays in The Lancet on how plastics became so central in healthcare and what cam be done to reduce their use.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#PlasticTreaty
Plastics in health care: rethinking medical device innovation, use, and disposal for sustainability
Around the world, some 16 billion plastic syringes and 15 billion face masks are thrown away each year.1,2 Unknown in the first half of the 20th century, the global production, circulation, and dispos...
www.thelancet.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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sebgiessmann.bsky.social
AI prompt injection for manipulating peer review: Are we really that screwed by the mere allure of #LLM s as a stress relief? If I try to imagine this as a humanities practice, we'll end up in a mess. Let's call all of this machine unlearning in the meantime.

www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
AI-Enabled Cheating Points to ‘Untenable’ Peer Review System
It’s not clear how widespread the new cheating strategy is, but it’s highlighting longstanding drivers of the peer review crisis some reviewers are now trying to alleviate with AI.
www.insidehighered.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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modomodo.bsky.social
Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist.
zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025
June 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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sven-reichardt.bsky.social
Weiterleiten! Oder lesen! Oder beides!
July 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM