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Sarah-Maria Schober
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early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / assistant professor , University of Lucerne
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Extreeemly happy to announce that the @snsf-ch.bsky.social awarded me a „starting grant“ to work on early modern hair, race, trade and multispecies history! 🥳🥳🥳
The project starts mid-next year at @uniluzern.bsky.social! Keep an eye out for #modi.hair. Still working on civet cats though too!
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Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...
Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag
openletter.earth
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Gegen Machtmissbrauch und Prekarität an den Unis hilft genau eine Sache: gut organisierte Gegenmacht. Diesen Punkt habe ich vorgestern am von @inabullwinkel.bsky.social souverän moderierten Podium von @bajour.ch betont. Was die anderen tollen Panelists gesagt haben im Artikel👇

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«Wenn man es sich mit einem Silberrücken verscherzt, dann gute Nacht»
Die Diskussion im kHaus über Machtmissbrauch an Universitäten machte sichtbar, wie sehr Betroffene unter Abhängigkeit, Hierarchien und intransparenten Verfahren leiden – und welche Reformen nötig sind...
bajour.ch
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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CfP - «Gemeines Land / Terres communes ? » (#traverse 2/2027) – deadline verlängert bis 10.11.!
Salome Egloff, Jamieson Myles und @smschober.bsky.social freuen sich auf Vorschläge für das Themenheft «Gemeines Land / Terres communes ? »
Alle weiteren Infos unter www.revue-traverse.ch
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Was uns im Stadtbild wirklich stört, warum wir die Migrations­gesellschaft neu denken müssen und wo für Friedrich Merz die Welt noch in Ordnung ist. Unser Schwerpunkt in der wochentaz und unter 👉 taz.de/Stadtbild-De...
October 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Nachtrag: Ursprung und Chronologie einer Radikalisierung.
October 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Hallo Baden-Württemberg!

Eure Regierung will Palantirs Software einsetzen, was absolut nicht im Interesse von irgendwem ist.

Es gibt eine offizielle Petition dagegen, mitzeichnen, weiterleiten, Eure Eltern und Familien damit zusammen:

petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Petitionen/D...
Keine Nutzung der Software “Gotham” von Palantir in Baden-Württemberg
petitionen.landtag-bw.de
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨
Come work with me in Brno in a new project on how Scots pine & forestry changed societies and environments in the 18th-19th centuries! 🌲🌳
👇Fully funded postdoc position 👇
www.ibot.cas.cz/en/vacancies...
Application deadline: 13.11.2025
Please distribute widely!
#envhist #histecol
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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CfP Gemeines Land!
Wem gehört das Land?

Please share - and write: CfP „Gemeines Land?“ der @revue-traverse.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
www.unilu.ch
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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CfP Gemeines Land!
Wem gehört das Land?

Please share - and write: CfP „Gemeines Land?“ der @revue-traverse.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
docs.google.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Schaut in die neue Traverse!
September 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I wrote about Samir Amin and the necessarily transdisciplinary aspect of dependency theory between economists and historians in @revue-traverse.bsky.social. The editorial process was a joy and I’m looking forward to reading all the other great contributions 🤩!
September 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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CfP is out for next year’s #Socare Early-Career-Symposium!

Know someone researching the #Caribbean or related regions? Spread the word and share this call! 🌍

www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Fractured Connections in the Caribbean
Considering the Caribbean’s multifaceted history and its ongoing tensions and complexities, the planned symposium focuses on the exploration and critical reflection of three modes of relationality: co...
www.hsozkult.de
September 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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We're experiencing an unbelievable deluge of submissions. At our journal we got ~200 per year in 2020. Last year it was 600. This year it's 800 with several months to go. So that's why we're slower to get stuff out for review.
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Wenn jemand den sogenannten Kulturkampf lässigst zum frühstückskaffee in seinem bedrohlichen Ausmaß schildern kann, dann ist es Nils Minkmar in seinem Newsletter …

steady.page/de/nminkmar/...
Der Krampf mit dem Kulturkampf
Das Rätsel der Milchflasche/Marcel Ophüls/Annie Ernaux/Nigel Slater In der Klasse 5 des Gymnasiums hatte unser Klassenlehrer Hans Eckert eine Frage. Ich weiß gar nicht…
steady.page
August 31, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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Did you ask the permissions of the authors to feed their work into Claude or Grammarly? Because I don't want my work to be fed into these theft machines, and am kind of shocked when academics feel its okay to do this to other people's work?
I've not seen Grammerly condense a 3.5 page letter written by a committee to a clearer, superior 1 page document, with a single prompt. I have seen Claude do that, in the hands of a colleague. Impressive and useful.
August 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Wem gehört das Land?

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August 25, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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HSSUISSE - History of Science Switzerland
hssuisse.ch
August 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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„Zecke? Nehm ich als Kompliment.“ Jette Poensgen ist 15 Jahre alt und hat eine klare Haltung. 👉 taz.de/Rechtsruck-i...
August 24, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Es sind schwierige Zeiten für die Grünen. Ein Weg raus aus dem Dilemma wäre volle Unterstützung – besonders für zwei Kandidaten.
Raus aus der Identitätskrise: Wie kommen die Grünen wieder nach vorn?
Es sind schwierige Zeiten für die Grünen. Ein Weg raus aus dem Dilemma wäre volle Unterstützung – besonders für zwei Kandidaten.
taz.de
August 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM