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Franziska Heimburger
@franziska.fr
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French historian with British & German nationalities. Cultural history of coalition warfare, 1850-1918. Exploring and teaching history and languages as MCF
at Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université. https://www.franziska.fr/
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Franziska Heimburger @franziska.fr · Oct 3
#helloESR
Je travaille à l'intersection des langues et de l'histoire sur les échanges, la communication, les transferts en contexte guerrier, Première Guerre mondiale, mais aussi de plus en plus fin XIXe. #coalitions
Enseignement d'histoire britannique et de choses numériques et/ou quantitatives.
franziska.fr
Si vous cherchez des versions non-moches des chants de Noël pour petites personnes, puis-je vous conseiller celles-ci open.spotify.com/album/7BCZX1...
Les plus beaux chants de Noël
open.spotify.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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pandosia.bsky.social
Une fois n'est pas coutume, la vie des chercheurs utilisant des images sous droit d'auteur va être considérablement simplifiée par l'article 48 de la nouvelle loi de programmation de la recherche: www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/faciliter...
Faciliter le travail des chercheurs : l’article 28 de la LPR simplifie l’utilisation des images dans les publications scientifiques en accès ouvert et permet d’économiser des dizaines de milliers de t...
Cette avancée, issue d’une convention signée avec les organismes de gestion collective des droits d’auteur, marque une étape importante dans la politique de science ouverte portée par le ministère.
www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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scottbot.bsky.social
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.

We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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#tradition
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
franziska.fr
Are you really doing military history until you get your conference coffee in a Bundeswehr tent?
Having a lovely time at the SHOW conference in Potsdam!
November 27, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
I 100% set Gemini up for failure here but I appreciate LLMs' game willingness to go along when I asked it for details on the musical number I had just entirely made up
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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davidandress.bsky.social
In one of those “obvious once you think about how insane British politics is” moments…
jim.londoncentric.media Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 26d
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…

I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
franziska.fr
Vous saviez que l'image d'un cours dans Moodle peut être un .gif animé ?
Made my week!
Je n'ai plus qu'à trouver ou fabriquer des .gif pour tous mes cours maintenant...
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
franziska.fr
I've just wrapped up the last of these.
In the end I did the following:
- Thompson, The Making of the English working class
- Scott, Gender and the politics of history
-Fogel/Engerman, Time on the Cross

Overall I'm happy with the texts (despite being sad about lots of others I couldn't include)
franziska.fr Franziska Heimburger @franziska.fr · Jun 11
I've been given an impossible task: three one-hour lectures as part of a series on "great texts" for masters students in anglophone studies. I get to cover the History part (there's also literature and linguistics).

I get to choose three history books, preferably on the anglophone world.
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Today I'm reading towards #365papers: "Der Stachel des Digitalen: Geisteswissenschaften und Digital Humanities"

https://www.zotero.org/groups/365papers/items/HJLR7YZI
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
You can also explore BBIH's free online reading list 'Researching digital histories' buff.ly/XwrPrf5 @brepols.net
Online reading lists from BBIH
A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.
buff.ly
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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ihr.bsky.social
Are you studying, researching or teaching digital histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
www.history.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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cieraparis.bsky.social
🖼️ Avis aux historien·ne·s ! Vous voulez découvrir des voies pour l’histoire en dehors des institutions académiques ordinaires ? 🏛️Cet atelier présente les parcours extra-académique en DE, FR et dans l'UE.🌐
📆11 -12/12
🔗Délai 3/11 www.ciera.fr/fr/manifesta...
@ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @dhi-paris.fr
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
franziska.fr
Oui, voilà. Mon histoire de commande d'ordinateur que je racontais ce matin, c'est aussi parce que notre gestionnaire de l'époque gérait à elle toute seule huit équipes de recherche.
Pour les services financier, je reste indécise sur mon rasoir d'Ockam d'incompétence ou malveillance...
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
franziska.fr
C'est le moment de raconter comment j'ai mis de septembre à fin juin de l'année suivante pour obtenir un ordinateur ? Avec un nombre dingue de relances et sièges de bureaux ?
Année de congé pour projet pédagogique devant justement servir à enregistrer des capsules vidéo avec le dit ordinateur ?
achatenetc.bsky.social Dr Aurélie Chatenet-Calyste @achatenetc.bsky.social · Nov 5
Une Erc ? quand la simple signature d'une convention et d'un bon de commande pour publication me donne des insomnies et m'oblige à faire le siège des bureaux pendant 6 mois . Apparemment, c'est le cœur de mon métier. Impression de vivre dans la maison des fous d'Asterix.
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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korybing.bsky.social
I hadn’t considered this particular flavor of AI hell and now I’m mad all over again
susannashore.bsky.social Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · Nov 4
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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hippriest.bsky.social
We will fight them on the quiches
Poppy pizzas, clearly not quiches before you pipe up. Regurgitated from my Twitter account
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
franziska.fr
This is going in my module for the first-years on gen AI...
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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bflmouse.bsky.social
A really good example of the kinds of things that can go wrong is the vegetative electron microscope...
www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-ph...
A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why?
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".
www.sciencealert.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Today I'm reading towards #365papers: "Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s career as a colonial officer: learning the ‘colonial way of war’?"

https://www.zotero.org/groups/365papers/items/D7GXETML
October 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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miriamposner.com
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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chriskempshall.bsky.social
The Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture is a hugely significant event for @fwwsoc.bsky.social & we're delighted that @juliarsct.bsky.social will be delivering it this year.

There are around 50 tickets remaining for those wishing to attend either online or in person, so check out the details below. 🗃️
fwwsoc.bsky.social International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5
We are delighted to share the details for this year's Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture 'Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War' to be delivered by @juliarsct.bsky.social on 11th Nov 2025

You can book to attend in person or online:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remembranc... 🗃️
Poetry under fire: what poems did during the First World War 5.30pm, Tuesday 11 November 2025 Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University What did the First World War do to poetry? What did poetry do during the First World War? In this lecture, Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz will explore a brand new corpus of war poets to interrogate not what is a good or bad war poem nor what war poems say about the war, but rather the social and cultural functions accomplished by poetry in 1914-1918: inventing itself, creating social links, anchoring the war in relation to a poetic past and multiple imagined futures, mediating the experience of war, and producing knowledge about the conflict. She will explore how the expansion of our definition of war poetry allows us to ask new questions about the First World War, as well as future possibilities to continue broadening our understanding of what war poetry was and, above all, what it did and continues doing for those writing and reading it. Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz is a postdoctoral researcher at Université de Lille. She completed her doctorate, on French poetry of the First World War, at Université Paris Nanterre. Julia has already published widely in academic journals, and is a Fellow of the International Society for First World War Studies. This lecture continues the annual series of Remembrance lectures at Edinburgh Napier University, marking the historical significance of Craiglockhart as a War Hospital during the First World War, famously the meeting place of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. We also remember our late colleague Catherine Walker, who was for many years curator of the War Poets Collection. Funding comes from the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture and the Centre for Military Research, Education & Public Engagement. This year the event is also the Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, selected by the International Society for First World War Studies. Named after Dennis Showalter, the leading historian of Germany during the war and a longtime friend and supporter of the Society it is delivered each year by a leading early career researcher in First World War Studies. The event is held in the Rivers Suite at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus (Google map | travel info). There will be a wine reception from 5.30pm; the lecture will start around 6pm. The event will also be streamed online via Zoom. If you have any queries about the event, please contact Dr Andrew Frayn (a.frayn@napier.ac.uk). This event is both in person and online. If you wish to attend online, please buy an 'online Ticket'. Zoom information will be found in the email confirmations.
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#rantMGEN Donc si j'ai bien compris, d'ici l'année prochaine, on aura perdu les 3 seuls trucs bien à la MGEN : le fait que la carte de mutuelle soit sur la carte vitale, le remboursement en une seule fois et la prévoyance.
L'avenir rayonnant en PSC a intérêt à être à la hauteur des promesses...
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 PM