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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier
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Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · Nov 12
Actually very proud to announce that I am doing a thing: a new book series called "TV Matters" with Intellect! Television / media / pop culture scholars, take note and get in touch if you wanna write about TV! Please share far and wide.
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Probably -.-
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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I‘m always saying this
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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Niemand:
Kassel Versität:
Mensa Tafel mit Tagesgerichten „Protein-Kick am Leguminosentag“ Close up der selben Tafel „Leguminosen-Tag“
February 10, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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In der Kassel Versität Mensa läuft grad einer rum der aussieht wie Hartmut Rosa auf Wish bestellt
February 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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slavagreenberg.bsky.social
Knowing he funded transphobic research, I do want to see a peer reviewed academic paper denouncing all the “scholars” who received this money and used it against my community. But I don’t think that this book is trying to do that.
smittermeier.bsky.social Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 6h
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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I say as a pasty white person but sometimes
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Literally know nothing about who is doing this so it could be a sinister grift but my money is on white people doing white people things
February 10, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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*seek
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Yeah exactly. We need to fucking denounce and see legal justice against these motherfuckers not publish something done by precarious scholars that‘s also paywalling this discourse.
February 10, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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animalarchaeology.com
DinoCon with a more prompt response to academics complicit in sexual abuse than uh, the entirety of academia.
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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Fair although we probably don‘t even need to overanalyze it, it‘s showing the range of a musician‘s catalogue plus a tradition of Reggaeton lyrics being incredibly raunchy
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
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newjorg.bsky.social
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? I don’t want it to breathe or fuck for me; I want it to solve cancer,” Verbinski tells The Hollywood Reporter in support Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’s Feb. 13 theatrical release. “Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
February 9, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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I‘d definitely want to read the paper on the juxtaposition of the powerful plea against colonialism and the song about anal (we call this range)
February 10, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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We need to both side the Epstein files
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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Yes absolutely. The way it is now this could easily be people just trying to collect names on who‘s willing to publish on this. I‘m just so used to people in academia doing this kinda self serving bullshit in the name of „activism“ that that‘s what I suspect it is but it could be much more sinister.
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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Yes absolutely. The way it is now this could easily be people just trying to collect names on who‘s willing to publish on this. I‘m just so used to people in academia doing this kinda self serving bullshit in the name of „activism“ that that‘s what I suspect it is but it could be much more sinister.
February 10, 2026 at 7:52 AM
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wir haben ja auch über prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen publiziert anstatt mal zu streiken aber das is nochmal zwei Nummern drüber
February 10, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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Robert ich halte mich seit 20 min davon ab dieses „likely place for him to be“ meme über Epstein + Uni profs zu machen und das hier hilft nicht
February 10, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
Academics: radical in theory, *shrug emoji* in praxis since 1856
smittermeier.bsky.social Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 6h
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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I get why they don‘t want to be doxxed but it‘s also exactly that why do an anonymous call about *checks notes* academics and the Epstein files
February 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Yeah I also get doing this anonymously and yet at the same time isn‘t this a bit ironic, don‘t you think?
February 10, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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Like we barely have all evidence yet let alone are anywhere close to processing this
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 AM
smittermeier.bsky.social
Imho you should focus on shunning perpetrators & protecting victims of abuse on your own campus instead of mining this monstrous scandal for a line on your CV, like, are you gonna publish with T&F? A public event and open access publication, maybe but…
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...
Academics and Epstein deadline for submissions: March 7, 2026 full name / name of organization: Academics and Epstein: Upcoming Book contact email: academics.and.epstein@gmail.com In the early stages of understanding the scope of the most horrifying criminal empire in American history, we are grappling with academia’s role in it. Several faculty members and institutions have been implicated. A few were genuinely innocent and ignored Epstein’s invitations, and some were willingly complicit in crimes against humanity. Epstein’s co-conspirators have fundamentally compromised the student-teacher relationship and the student-university relationship. In this collection, we will consider how academic policies, environments, funding structures, and toxic subcultures were vulnerable to Epstein’s manipulation. Epstein was a narcissist who collected academics like trophies because they lent credibility to his "philanthropy." He used the reputation of esteemed institutions to make himself sound trustworthy. Every academic who thought they were benefitting from a "friendship" was used as a stepping stone, an anecdote at cocktail parties, and a way to boost his own ego. Epstein threw in just enough pseudo-intellectual buzzwords (and funding) that these academics convinced themselves that he was legitimate. He slowly tested the waters of their morality, pushing boundaries of inappropriateness to see what he could get away with, and pursuing relationships with those who never said no to him. The actions of those complicit with Epstein have shattered the lives of their victims. The survivors and the families of victims are owed not just reparations, but the knowledge that 1) they have been heard, 2) their tormentors are being held accountable, and 3) the rest of us are working to make sure that this never happens again.
February 10, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Digitale Erinnerungsarbeit die scheinbar ohne KI auskommt. Solls ja geben.
February 10, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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olivia.science
"no employee should even be expected to defend or overlook actions that conflict so deeply with our own moral values"

MFW she has more backbone than centuries old universities
popcrave.com Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 11h
Chappell Roan is leaving her talent agency led by Casey Wasserman after he appeared in the Epstein files.
February 10, 2026 at 7:02 AM