Julia Sittmann
@normseite.bsky.social
Academic Editor, Translator & Indexer at Normseite
Publications Manager at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Retired Historian
Publications Manager at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Retired Historian
There are few things more exciting that seeing friends publish the books you can't wait to read ...
Page proofs are here! Addiction, Inc. is coming in April 2026!
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
There are few things more exciting that seeing friends publish the books you can't wait to read ...
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Alt-text is for screen readers and for descriptions of the image. It's not for image credit and certainly not for links. Credit should be included in the text that goes in the post.
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Alt-text is for screen readers and for descriptions of the image. It's not for image credit and certainly not for links. Credit should be included in the text that goes in the post.
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If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.
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The White House briefing room. Four Hs. Three of them are upside down. And it’s been that way since 2007.
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The White House briefing room. Four Hs. Three of them are upside down. And it’s been that way since 2007.
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I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
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Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
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“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
September 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
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Today we are highlighting L. Sasha Gora's new book, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2025)
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
September 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today we are highlighting L. Sasha Gora's new book, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2025)
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race & Indigeneity in the Arctic
Published in The AAG Review of Books (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
so moved by this review of my book -- AwA'ahdah for this careful engaged read of my work!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This curious folly in Barking looks ancient, but is less than 20 years old. It's just one of the many fragments of 'fake history' in London, which we've tracked down in this article -> londonist.substack.com/p/fake-history
Fake History
Some notes on London's bogus past.
londonist.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
This curious folly in Barking looks ancient, but is less than 20 years old. It's just one of the many fragments of 'fake history' in London, which we've tracked down in this article -> londonist.substack.com/p/fake-history
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LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
September 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later.
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website.
Many implications for knowledge 🧪
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Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
September 7, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
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I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild
Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
authorsguild.org
September 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I’m seeing a lot of inaccurate info about the Anthropic settlement being passed around as fact, so here’s a good basic explainer from the Author’s Guild that I highly recommend reading so you understand it better if you’re potentially part of the class: authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
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I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I am delighted to have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project Laboratories of Humanitarianism: Aid, Intervention, and the End of the Soviet Union, 1985-2000. The project will examine the transformative impact of humanitarianism on state collapse and reconstitution. I cant wait to get started!
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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Friends who've published with Hopkins, check out the below if you weren't already aware:
“Authors have until the end of August to opt out of the licensing agreement. If they do not, their work will be used to help train AI models.”
Johns Hopkins Press will license its books to train AI models
Authors at the Johns Hopkins University Press will be able to opt out of the AI licensing agreement until the end of August; if they do not, their work will be used to train AI models.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Friends who've published with Hopkins, check out the below if you weren't already aware:
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Das Buch zu diesem tollen Cover ist nun OA erschienen, d.h. es kann heruntergeladen & gelesen werden. Korrigieren begreifen wir darin als Kulturtechnik, die Produktionsverhältnissen unterliegt, aber auch selbst zur Produktion & Veränderung von Texten beiträgt.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
July 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Das Buch zu diesem tollen Cover ist nun OA erschienen, d.h. es kann heruntergeladen & gelesen werden. Korrigieren begreifen wir darin als Kulturtechnik, die Produktionsverhältnissen unterliegt, aber auch selbst zur Produktion & Veränderung von Texten beiträgt.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
July 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.
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Now available: a special issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality (34:2) on the topic of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe during the 1980s-90s.
July 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Now available: a special issue of Journal of the History of Sexuality (34:2) on the topic of HIV/AIDS activism in Europe during the 1980s-90s.
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Herzlichen Dank @jungeakademie.bsky.social und @volkswagenstiftung.de für die tolle und wichtige Initiative und Glückwunsch allen nominierten Teams und Mit-Gewinnern! 🎊Voller Freude darüber, dass wir ausgewählt wurden, sowie Stolz darauf, dass wir als Team so ein Forschungsumfeld geschaffen … 1/2
🏆 Die 10 Gewinnerteams des Preises „Bestes #Forschungsumfeld 2024“ stehen fest! Aus fast 300 Bewerbungen wurden sie aus einer beeindruckenden Shortlist per Los gezogen. Wir gratulieren gemeinsam mit der @volkswagenstiftung.de! 🎉
Wer gewonnen hat? 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/be...
Wer gewonnen hat? 👉 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/presse/be...
June 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Herzlichen Dank @jungeakademie.bsky.social und @volkswagenstiftung.de für die tolle und wichtige Initiative und Glückwunsch allen nominierten Teams und Mit-Gewinnern! 🎊Voller Freude darüber, dass wir ausgewählt wurden, sowie Stolz darauf, dass wir als Team so ein Forschungsumfeld geschaffen … 1/2