Maximilian Schich
@schichmax.bsky.social
Professor for #CulturalDataAnalytics at Tallinn University in #Estonia
#complexity #netsci #arthistory #aesthetics
#culturalanalytics #compsocsci #infovis
"My PhD is in Art History" – Dr. Zoidberg
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#complexity #netsci #arthistory #aesthetics
#culturalanalytics #compsocsci #infovis
"My PhD is in Art History" – Dr. Zoidberg
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Maximilian Schich
@schichmax.bsky.social
· Nov 12
![[flow diagram]
A Systematic Science of Art and Culture [going back to] Leibniz [via four paths]
[1] Network Science > Graph Theory > Euler 1736 > Leibniz
[2] Topological Data Analysis > Topology > Poincaré 1882 > Leibniz
[3] Computation > Shannon 1938 > Couturat 1911 > Leibniz
[4] Art History [Warburg/Panofski/Wittkower] > Cassirer 1927 > Leibniz
[1, 2, and 4, meet in eight lines of Leibniz!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mjfngciy3l5es4c6bzsovlpl/bafkreicekc3ydprcrclxfug72kd6qynmqjrvzhwehqb2bgszkloctcvvjy@jpeg)
#CulturalAnalysisSitus, because
#NetSci, #Topology, #Computation, and #ArtHistory
share a common foundation in Leibniz
Receipts: archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6347/...
#NetSci, #Topology, #Computation, and #ArtHistory
share a common foundation in Leibniz
Receipts: archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6347/...
The shading of visual intuition has to stop!
Nothing about this node-link diagram is "ridiculous":
"we can visualize and describe the distribution of corruption risk [...] find that highly centralized markets tend to have higher corruption risk [...] In all EU [...]".
#netsci #visualization
Nothing about this node-link diagram is "ridiculous":
"we can visualize and describe the distribution of corruption risk [...] find that highly centralized markets tend to have higher corruption risk [...] In all EU [...]".
#netsci #visualization
January 19, 2026 at 8:16 AM
The shading of visual intuition has to stop!
Nothing about this node-link diagram is "ridiculous":
"we can visualize and describe the distribution of corruption risk [...] find that highly centralized markets tend to have higher corruption risk [...] In all EU [...]".
#netsci #visualization
Nothing about this node-link diagram is "ridiculous":
"we can visualize and describe the distribution of corruption risk [...] find that highly centralized markets tend to have higher corruption risk [...] In all EU [...]".
#netsci #visualization
The Onion post suggesting a "Segregation Score" on the Zillow real estate platform looks satirical and funny ...
... until you realize: It's #NotTheOnion but bitter reality. Such data is readily available in the US and used to buy homes, develop effectively segregated services, and to gerrymander.
... until you realize: It's #NotTheOnion but bitter reality. Such data is readily available in the US and used to buy homes, develop effectively segregated services, and to gerrymander.
January 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
The Onion post suggesting a "Segregation Score" on the Zillow real estate platform looks satirical and funny ...
... until you realize: It's #NotTheOnion but bitter reality. Such data is readily available in the US and used to buy homes, develop effectively segregated services, and to gerrymander.
... until you realize: It's #NotTheOnion but bitter reality. Such data is readily available in the US and used to buy homes, develop effectively segregated services, and to gerrymander.
For everybody who needs this today:
Alice Coltrane – Turiya and Ramakrishna 🦋 🎶 ♥️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMu...
Alice Coltrane – Turiya and Ramakrishna 🦋 🎶 ♥️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMu...
Alice Coltrane - Turiya And Ramakrishna
YouTube video by Rosa Felix
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:47 AM
For everybody who needs this today:
Alice Coltrane – Turiya and Ramakrishna 🦋 🎶 ♥️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMu...
Alice Coltrane – Turiya and Ramakrishna 🦋 🎶 ♥️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUMu...
Racist von Däniken died.
January 11, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Racist von Däniken died.
Check this out: The US Dept. of Labor literally quotes the Nazi slogan "One People, One Realm, One Leader", replacing the leader with "Heritage" as the "Foundation".
PS: Remember the Washington bust is done by Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon, and as such is actually French.
PS: Remember the Washington bust is done by Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon, and as such is actually French.
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Check this out: The US Dept. of Labor literally quotes the Nazi slogan "One People, One Realm, One Leader", replacing the leader with "Heritage" as the "Foundation".
PS: Remember the Washington bust is done by Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon, and as such is actually French.
PS: Remember the Washington bust is done by Jean-Antoine, chevalier Houdon, and as such is actually French.
Reposted by Maximilian Schich
TL;DR: the huge amounts of funding put into the human genome project meant researchers kept chasing funding to find genetic causes of disease, but it’s looking more and more likely that only a minority of disease is caused by genetics—even diseases that can be genetic are more often environmental.
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 AM
TL;DR: the huge amounts of funding put into the human genome project meant researchers kept chasing funding to find genetic causes of disease, but it’s looking more and more likely that only a minority of disease is caused by genetics—even diseases that can be genetic are more often environmental.
Open Source Software 🏠🔥👀
*StanfordOrKetamine has set me and my formerly-human open-source friends on fire"
January 11, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Open Source Software 🏠🔥👀
🔥 This brilliant image is not just #iconic!
Project 2025 bros will feign a transphobic hissy fit, while their Opus Dei daddies will pee their pants: As they will cry blasphemy, the more educated among them will recognize that she reflects their own usurpation of ancient religion. She is spot on.
Project 2025 bros will feign a transphobic hissy fit, while their Opus Dei daddies will pee their pants: As they will cry blasphemy, the more educated among them will recognize that she reflects their own usurpation of ancient religion. She is spot on.
Los Angeles, CA -
Bit of a false alarm; crowd isn’t marching yet though they are assembled in the street currently. Making speeches still.
Bit of a false alarm; crowd isn’t marching yet though they are assembled in the street currently. Making speeches still.
January 11, 2026 at 7:14 AM
🔥 This brilliant image is not just #iconic!
Project 2025 bros will feign a transphobic hissy fit, while their Opus Dei daddies will pee their pants: As they will cry blasphemy, the more educated among them will recognize that she reflects their own usurpation of ancient religion. She is spot on.
Project 2025 bros will feign a transphobic hissy fit, while their Opus Dei daddies will pee their pants: As they will cry blasphemy, the more educated among them will recognize that she reflects their own usurpation of ancient religion. She is spot on.
This is a pure example of the #EvilGloating trope.
cf. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
s.v. Evil Gloating
Behold the grin & eyebrows exchange between Vance & Rubio at second 20, behaving like altar boys enjoying a bit of blasphemy, while the priest turns away to the altar in pre-Vatican-II liturgy.
cf. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
s.v. Evil Gloating
Behold the grin & eyebrows exchange between Vance & Rubio at second 20, behaving like altar boys enjoying a bit of blasphemy, while the priest turns away to the altar in pre-Vatican-II liturgy.
Trump is clearly not well.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
January 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This is a pure example of the #EvilGloating trope.
cf. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
s.v. Evil Gloating
Behold the grin & eyebrows exchange between Vance & Rubio at second 20, behaving like altar boys enjoying a bit of blasphemy, while the priest turns away to the altar in pre-Vatican-II liturgy.
cf. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
s.v. Evil Gloating
Behold the grin & eyebrows exchange between Vance & Rubio at second 20, behaving like altar boys enjoying a bit of blasphemy, while the priest turns away to the altar in pre-Vatican-II liturgy.
Everyone, with Rage Against the Machine in the 1990s, will chuckle seeing David Bowie chased by Trent Reznor in this video. David Bowie died 10 years ago today. Trent Reznor, the American 💔🇺🇸, did this awesome remix. Neither of them were ahead of their time. They just had the courage to point it out.
I’m afraid of Americans youtu.be/LT3cERVRoQo?...
David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans (Official Video) [4K]
The official music video for David Bowie - I'm Afraid Of Americans written by David Bowie and Brian Eno. I'm Afraid of Americans is from Bowie's 21st studio album 'Earthling' released in 1997, which…
youtu.be
January 10, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Everyone, with Rage Against the Machine in the 1990s, will chuckle seeing David Bowie chased by Trent Reznor in this video. David Bowie died 10 years ago today. Trent Reznor, the American 💔🇺🇸, did this awesome remix. Neither of them were ahead of their time. They just had the courage to point it out.
Bets are taken for a third anniversary "joint keynote" at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston 2026:
1. Girvan & Newman? 👫🥋
2. Faloutsos, Faloutsos & Faloutsos? 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷
3. Joint lighting keynote session featuring 10 speakers of the Boston Joint Network Seminar 2010-2012, moderated by Maksim Kitsak? 🔥🎉
1. Girvan & Newman? 👫🥋
2. Faloutsos, Faloutsos & Faloutsos? 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷
3. Joint lighting keynote session featuring 10 speakers of the Boston Joint Network Seminar 2010-2012, moderated by Maksim Kitsak? 🔥🎉
We're picking up the pace with speaker announcements for #NetSci2026! Stay tuned for more 👀
...and get those abstracts submitted! Portal closes in <24 hours www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...
**The deadline will not be extended again** @netsciconf.bsky.social
...and get those abstracts submitted! Portal closes in <24 hours www.netsci2026.com/call-for-abs...
**The deadline will not be extended again** @netsciconf.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Bets are taken for a third anniversary "joint keynote" at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston 2026:
1. Girvan & Newman? 👫🥋
2. Faloutsos, Faloutsos & Faloutsos? 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷
3. Joint lighting keynote session featuring 10 speakers of the Boston Joint Network Seminar 2010-2012, moderated by Maksim Kitsak? 🔥🎉
1. Girvan & Newman? 👫🥋
2. Faloutsos, Faloutsos & Faloutsos? 🇬🇷 🇬🇷 🇬🇷
3. Joint lighting keynote session featuring 10 speakers of the Boston Joint Network Seminar 2010-2012, moderated by Maksim Kitsak? 🔥🎉
Reposted by Maximilian Schich
Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.
January 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Since Plato is in the news: What was Plato's status at the Nazified university? This 1934 diagram from the journal "Völkische Kultur" shows one response. It puts Plato in a cosmopolitan lineage of degradation leading to Kant which was, in a common antisemitic trope, portrayed as suspiciously Jewish.
🔥 General Stanley McChrystal #TeamOfTeams 🎉
This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban.
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
“I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.”
Full remarks:
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
🔥 General Stanley McChrystal #TeamOfTeams 🎉
"With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins."
As a 4-time ERC panelist, I think at least 60% of proposals could be funded without damage. Funding the top 10% only is a massive waste of societal potential.
As a 4-time ERC panelist, I think at least 60% of proposals could be funded without damage. Funding the top 10% only is a massive waste of societal potential.
Forschungsförderung ist toll, oder? Nicht unbedingt. Es kann passieren, dass Forschungsförderung der Wissenschaft mehr Geld entzieht als bringt. Es ist ein wachsendes Problem, das wir endlich anpacken müssen. (Thread) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
www.nature.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
"With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins."
As a 4-time ERC panelist, I think at least 60% of proposals could be funded without damage. Funding the top 10% only is a massive waste of societal potential.
As a 4-time ERC panelist, I think at least 60% of proposals could be funded without damage. Funding the top 10% only is a massive waste of societal potential.
@callingbullshit.bsky.social on this figure: The German term "Lage" does not imply "layer", as in cake, but "position", as in network, topology, or frame of reference. Society, Economy, and Nature are non-orthogonal. Collective value, direct benefit/exploitation, and (in)direct drivers are n:n.
Natur, Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft zusammendenken: Wissenschaftler:innen fordern neues Konzept nachhaltiger Entwicklung
Was bedeutet eigentlich der Begriff nachhaltige Entwicklung? Bislang basierte der Nachhaltigkeitsrahmen auf einem Drei-Säule...
weiterlesen
Was bedeutet eigentlich der Begriff nachhaltige Entwicklung? Bislang basierte der Nachhaltigkeitsrahmen auf einem Drei-Säule...
weiterlesen
January 8, 2026 at 12:09 PM
@callingbullshit.bsky.social on this figure: The German term "Lage" does not imply "layer", as in cake, but "position", as in network, topology, or frame of reference. Society, Economy, and Nature are non-orthogonal. Collective value, direct benefit/exploitation, and (in)direct drivers are n:n.
"Tradition"
– US Republicans defund Corporation for Public Broadcasting, #PBS, #NPR;
– #NASA tosses away books of largest library;
– #Bavarian public broadcaster #BR throws away their #tape (now lost), #vinyl & #CD archives (temporarily salvaged).
– US Republicans defund Corporation for Public Broadcasting, #PBS, #NPR;
– #NASA tosses away books of largest library;
– #Bavarian public broadcaster #BR throws away their #tape (now lost), #vinyl & #CD archives (temporarily salvaged).
Das CD- und LP-Archiv des BR sollte entsorgt werden. Eva Demmelhuber packte zwei Wochen lang mit zehn Helfern. Nun sucht sie einen Abnehmer. www.tz.de/muenchen/sta...
Hüterin des BR-Schatzes: Münchnerin rettet 175.000 Tonträger aus dem Archiv vor der Entsorgung
Das CD- und LP-Archiv des BR sollte entsorgt werden. Eva Demmelhuber packte zwei Wochen lang mit zehn Helfern. Nun sucht sie einen Abnehmer.
www.tz.de
January 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
"Expert-service regarding the situation in Venezuela following the US intervention. The following scientists are available for interviews without honorarium (list to be extended):"
Expertise-Dienst zur Situation in Venezuela nach dem Eingreifen der USA.
Folgende Wissenschaftler*innen stehen honorarfrei für Interviews zur Verfügung (diese Liste wird weiter ergänzt):
www.fu-berlin.de/presse/exper...
Folgende Wissenschaftler*innen stehen honorarfrei für Interviews zur Verfügung (diese Liste wird weiter ergänzt):
www.fu-berlin.de/presse/exper...
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 PM
"Expert-service regarding the situation in Venezuela following the US intervention. The following scientists are available for interviews without honorarium (list to be extended):"
50 years after "The Logic of Questions and Answers" by Belnap & Steel, human Q&A is "delving" into the ground:
January 4, 2026 at 2:16 PM
50 years after "The Logic of Questions and Answers" by Belnap & Steel, human Q&A is "delving" into the ground:
Reposted by Maximilian Schich
"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't you forget to have fun doin' it." – Molly
but don't you forget to have fun doin' it." – Molly
We're turning 70, y'all! 🤠
On December 3, celebrate the Texas Observer at Scholz Garten in downtown Austin! Here's everything you need to know to join and support our work: www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-mira...
Donate at least $25 here to attend: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/70thdonate/?...
On December 3, celebrate the Texas Observer at Scholz Garten in downtown Austin! Here's everything you need to know to join and support our work: www.texasobserver.org/a-texas-mira...
Donate at least $25 here to attend: texasobserver.fundjournalism.org/70thdonate/?...
November 14, 2024 at 8:13 AM
"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds,
but don't you forget to have fun doin' it." – Molly
but don't you forget to have fun doin' it." – Molly
Remember this song, if someone is "nice" to you, while supporting and living out their #kleptocracy, #nepotism, #xenophobia, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, and #science denial behind your back:
"Nice is the little sister of crap!"
"Nett" – Jacques Palminger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOZ...
"Nice is the little sister of crap!"
"Nett" – Jacques Palminger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOZ...
Nett
YouTube video by Jacques Palminger - Topic
www.youtube.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Remember this song, if someone is "nice" to you, while supporting and living out their #kleptocracy, #nepotism, #xenophobia, #misogyny, #homophobia, #transphobia, and #science denial behind your back:
"Nice is the little sister of crap!"
"Nett" – Jacques Palminger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOZ...
"Nice is the little sister of crap!"
"Nett" – Jacques Palminger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOZ...
The inconvenient truth comes in a simple line plot. #infovis
The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...
The rate of global sea level rise doubled during the past three decades - Communications Earth & Environment
Global mean sea level rise amounted to 4.5 mm per year as a result of warming oceans and melting land ice, more than twice the rate of 2.1 mm/year observed at the start of satellite data in 1993, base...
www.nature.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
The inconvenient truth comes in a simple line plot. #infovis
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
It really would be a coup if Braunschweig University of Art would hire @weirdmedieval.bsky.social for her outstanding "expertise and extensive international networking in the field of Cultural Animal Studies"! 🎨🌰🐿️🔥
www.hbk-bs.de/fileadmin/Ho...
www.hbk-bs.de/fileadmin/Ho...
January 2, 2026 at 9:51 AM
It really would be a coup if Braunschweig University of Art would hire @weirdmedieval.bsky.social for her outstanding "expertise and extensive international networking in the field of Cultural Animal Studies"! 🎨🌰🐿️🔥
www.hbk-bs.de/fileadmin/Ho...
www.hbk-bs.de/fileadmin/Ho...
Aretha Franklin & @carolekingofficial.bsky.social 🔥
What the KENNEDY Center used to be…
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
Remember that time Aretha Franklin performed at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors, paying tribute to Carole King, who co-wrote “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman,” and it brought a tear to Obama’s eye and everyone to their feet? And Carole King’s reaction. Wow.
January 1, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Aretha Franklin & @carolekingofficial.bsky.social 🔥