Matthias Ammon
@drmammon.bsky.social
Academic librarian, European migrant, former medieval philologist. Open Research, Eurovision, wombats, puns, pints, sci-fi/fantasy, FPL. He/him.
Sorry but Currywurst with Sauerkraut is an offence against all that is good.
September 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Sorry but Currywurst with Sauerkraut is an offence against all that is good.
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📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom.
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Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social
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anyone recognise or know anything about this seal/stamp?
September 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
anyone recognise or know anything about this seal/stamp?
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It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)
August 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)
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@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession.
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Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia
People constantly name The Secret History by Donna Tartt as the foundational text of dark academia—but A.S. Byatt’s masterpiece Possession was published two years earlier. Possession is the novel t…
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August 19, 2025 at 3:30 PM
@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession.
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buff.ly/8dVQ52k
Judas Deacon
Slightly diminish a band
The Rolling Pebbles
The Rolling Pebbles
Slightly diminish a band
Light Purple
Light Purple
August 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Judas Deacon
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Dear colleagues and friends,
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
August 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Dear colleagues and friends,
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨
Currently on pre-order at my local independent bookshop:
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
August 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Currently on pre-order at my local independent bookshop:
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman
This reflects my interests pretty well.
I have a free spare ticket for tonight’s @pilottvpod.bsky.social’s live event. (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...) I’ve caught a bad cold and can’t go but don’t really want to see the ticket go to waste so if anybody wants it or knows anybody who might want it, let me know.
Pilot TV Live - Episode 350 • Words • Kings Place
A live episode of the Pilot TV podcast — your essential guide to every show that matters. Join hosts James Dyer, Boyd Hilton and Kay Ribeiro for an in-depth discussion of TV news, the latest reviews, ...
www.kingsplace.co.uk
August 8, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I have a free spare ticket for tonight’s @pilottvpod.bsky.social’s live event. (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...) I’ve caught a bad cold and can’t go but don’t really want to see the ticket go to waste so if anybody wants it or knows anybody who might want it, let me know.
Top of the league, we’re top of the league…!
August 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Top of the league, we’re top of the league…!
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"Hemp. Mead. Hemp." England playing like a wild medieval night out.
July 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Hemp. Mead. Hemp." England playing like a wild medieval night out.
Rather amusing find (inscription on house in Scalloway, Shetland). More information here: newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/w...
![An engraved inscription that reads:
This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood.
RE EARTH TIDES: we are told that the Moon raises the solid surface of the Earth under it about 8 inches and raises the OPPOSITE SIDE 8. This I hold to be impossible. The phenomenon called EARTH TIDE IS CAUSED BY E-H’s WEIGHT PULLING …
[The remainder of this stone has worn but the Geograph contributor was informed that it ended: AGAINST THE SUN’S ATTRACTION.]
The water flows back when att’n over & forms a heap on opposite side of E. to balance att’n flood. There is no …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:673e6yusym7kyb2kkocwvesj/bafkreibecdemuvidsckodstd67vfnvjs2hf2ltwhjgmrthvaca7h3pk2le@jpeg)
July 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Rather amusing find (inscription on house in Scalloway, Shetland). More information here: newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/w...
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Careful where you put the commas in your salary range when advertising jobs...
July 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Careful where you put the commas in your salary range when advertising jobs...
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Feministly arguing that people assigned male at birth are innately better at strategy games than those assigned female at birth. Sensational women’s rights movement you’ve got there.
IT’S FUCKING CHESS
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
What POSSIBLE advantage, even in the warped mind of a transphobe, could being transgender give you at chess? They’re so nakedly hateful they just can’t stand any trans person winning anything ever. Pathetic.
June 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Feministly arguing that people assigned male at birth are innately better at strategy games than those assigned female at birth. Sensational women’s rights movement you’ve got there.
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Happening tomorrow!
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
Join us on 1 July at 5:30pm for lecture in co-operation with the Modern German History Seminar, IHR, given by Sonja Levsen (@unituebingen.bsky.social) on 'Zeitgeschichte and the Nation: Some Thoughts on an Intricate Relationship'. 📅
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June 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happening tomorrow!
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series:
www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu...
#zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians
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@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...
Institute of Historical Research
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June 26, 2025 at 4:51 AM
@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...
I think one of my main takeaways from #Bibliocon25 is that it's a fools errand trying to build sustainable research infrastructures, particularly on the national level, on the basis of projects with short-term funding and no clear idea of what happens after the end of the funding period.
June 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I think one of my main takeaways from #Bibliocon25 is that it's a fools errand trying to build sustainable research infrastructures, particularly on the national level, on the basis of projects with short-term funding and no clear idea of what happens after the end of the funding period.
Intrigued to hear at #Bibliocon25 about several cases in which "traditional" librarian roles have been replaced with media designers, in the context of library-based scholar-led OA publishing and as a research support role in a medical faculty.
June 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Intrigued to hear at #Bibliocon25 about several cases in which "traditional" librarian roles have been replaced with media designers, in the context of library-based scholar-led OA publishing and as a research support role in a medical faculty.
At a library conference in Germany, attending my usual share of Open Research panels and I feel we’re still having the same conversations about OA and research data management that I was having 10 years ago when I started working on this at Cambridge (at least in the context of the humanities).
June 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
At a library conference in Germany, attending my usual share of Open Research panels and I feel we’re still having the same conversations about OA and research data management that I was having 10 years ago when I started working on this at Cambridge (at least in the context of the humanities).
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Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
Opinion: “A total library would be a bibliographic nightmare, like Borges’s Library of Babel. But neither is a library a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them.”
✍️ Andrew Hui
#highered #EduSky
✍️ Andrew Hui
#highered #EduSky
Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture
A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?
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It's my birthday! 🎂 To celebrate, can I invite you to check out the charity auction for trans rights that @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I are running with verrrry covetable donations by brilliant genre creators, ending 1am BST 7 June. bit.ly/genrefortrans
June 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It's my birthday! 🎂 To celebrate, can I invite you to check out the charity auction for trans rights that @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I are running with verrrry covetable donations by brilliant genre creators, ending 1am BST 7 June. bit.ly/genrefortrans
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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
First we take the title, then we take Berlin.
May 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
First we take the title, then we take Berlin.