Joschka Meier
@josserme.bsky.social
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/
Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
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"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
Mouse 'midwives' help their pregnant companions give birth
Scientists have observed mice helping each other when they encounter difficulties during birth, prompting a rethink of caregiving among rodents and other animals
www.newscientist.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Mice seem to assist pregnant females when they get into difficulty giving birth, with experienced mothers being the most helpful. This is thought to be the first official sighting of such assistance in non-primates, and so expands our knowledge of caregiving behaviours across the animal kingdom."
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Terrifying, maddening and utterly heart-breaking. Truly incredible journalism to expose and document this.
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
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Wer eigene Angehörige pflegt, kann dafür seit ein paar Jahren bezahlt werden. Dieses an sich sinnvolle System droht aber von Akteuren wie der St. Galler Firma Pflegewegweiser ad absurdum geführt zu werden.
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
Angehörigenpflege: Wer den Markt kontrolliert, gewinnt
Die Kritik am System der Angehörigenpflege nimmt zu. Im Fokus: Firmen wie Pflegewegweiser aus St. Gallen. Doch die Missbrauchsdebatte verdeckt, worum es wirklich geht.
www.woz.ch
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Wer eigene Angehörige pflegt, kann dafür seit ein paar Jahren bezahlt werden. Dieses an sich sinnvolle System droht aber von Akteuren wie der St. Galler Firma Pflegewegweiser ad absurdum geführt zu werden.
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
Von @wozbeck.bsky.social und Marlene Kalt
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UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
UK Covid Inquiry concludes: 23,000 deaths could've been prevented if the March 2020 lockdown had been imposed just a week earlier.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
No mistake by any prime minister in living memory has caused so many deaths in the UK.
The tragic and catastrophic price of Boris Johnson's incompetence & negligence.
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The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Appell an den Bundesrat gegen den Unterwerfungsdeal mit Trump. Unterschreiben.
www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...
www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...
Jetzt Appell unterzeichnen – es bleiben uns 48 Stunden
Wir haben weniger als 48 Stunden Zeit. Immer deutlicher wird, dass SVP-Bundesrat Parmelin beim Trump-Deal entscheidende Punkte verschweigt. Am Mittwoch tagt der Bundesrat erneut. Bis dahin müssen wir ...
www.sp-ps.ch
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Appell an den Bundesrat gegen den Unterwerfungsdeal mit Trump. Unterschreiben.
www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...
www.sp-ps.ch/kampagne/tru...
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
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McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
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CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
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EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
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EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
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EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
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[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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[Customer looks inside the cup]
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[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
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EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
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I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
Keep coming back to Summers’ annoyance that this female mentee he’s trying to sleep with “takes her presentation very seriously.” To men like this—to a lot of men—women’s intellectual or professional ambition is an irritating presumption that they condescend to tolerate.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I’ve now aged out of this but navigating the pestering attention of older men in my field—which varied from manipulative flattery when they were trying to sleep with you to contemptuous retaliation when they realized they couldn’t—was an exhausting and demoralizing tax of my early professional life.
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The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...
#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
Äuä iu
corn husker
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Äuä iu
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sometimes when people ask me why I’m wearing a mask I say I’m traveling or have some important thing soon and can’t afford to get sick and miss it and that’s pretty much always true but I think it would be nice if it were more normalized to just say “I don’t want to get sick” and leave it at that
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writing a journal article
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
writing a journal article
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
proportion of time taken writing the article: 20%
proportion of time taken learning an entirely new reference system you'll never use again: 80%
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
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This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.
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The issue with all these takes is "controversial" usually means "something historians settled 25 years ago"
I wish Douthat had followed up and asked Andrews what "areas of inquiry" have been "ruled out of bounds in history" because they are "too controversial" and lead historians away from "truth seeking."
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The issue with all these takes is "controversial" usually means "something historians settled 25 years ago"
Hab mir Europa Universalis 5 angeschaut und war positiv überrascht von vielen neuen Nuancen & Details zu Geschichte, rekrutierte einen General und das Ganze gab dem den Namen...Fritzli Franz von Bern.
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Hab mir Europa Universalis 5 angeschaut und war positiv überrascht von vielen neuen Nuancen & Details zu Geschichte, rekrutierte einen General und das Ganze gab dem den Namen...Fritzli Franz von Bern.
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch