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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦
@astridme.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Germany, Europe, and the environment | author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain (OUP, 2019) + Zonenrandgebiet (Ch. Links, 2022) | Atlanta, Moabit | I wish I were in Greifswald
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 2d
magnificent
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 3d
Your weekly summary.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d
And here's a 2.5-minute run down of what authoritarian things Trump did on Saturday 4th October...

youtu.be/j44MxnNujgY
Trump's authoritarian actions - Sat 4th October 2025
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 6d
It was the worst of times. It was the worst of times.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 7d
She tried to teach us humans something important. #JaneGoodall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 7d
And congrats!!!
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 7d
DM DM DM DM DM DM DM DM
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 7d
PSA
Screenshot NYT, Oct. 1, 2025 -- Editorial about Govt Shutdown
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 14d
Da ist der Buchtitel: "Gründliche Liebe" 😧
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 16d
Maybe you can get to it through the history of chickpea cultivation.
Kerem Z, Lev-Yadun S, Gopher A, Weinberg P, and Abbo S. 2007. Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective. Journal of Archaeological Science 34(8):1289-1293. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2006.10.025
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 17d
Das Buch ist die beste App, die ich mir je heruntergeladen habe.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 17d
well done y'all!
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 19d
And "Legacy" is pretty cool! Many unexpected twists in Danish inheritance law...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 19d
oh, watch "Dicte"
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 29d
how long do we have to wait for History to show up? Asking for a friend.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · 29d
In Stabü hat das Kind auch nicht aufgepasst, aber wenn das dann von der Uni-Leitung gedeckt wird, hat die Professorin keine Chance.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 8
Pssst, look here.. super small, works with pencil, has long-term data storage, comes in different colors... 😀
image of paper notebooks
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 5
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
Home | Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 5
Sounds like y'all want some more details 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...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 5
affogato, Kolibris, Dahlien, mein Füllfederhalter...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 3
that's Convocation Hall. No one is teaching there. It's representative space. If you are lucky, you get to use it for a conference or special speaker, but only if your unit on campus pays for the use of the space. So.
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 3
Rauhfutter-Trockenanlage.... 🐮
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 3
Very cool
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Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social · Sep 3
The LSU History Department is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 20th Century European History (excluding Britain). Please spread the word! More details at the link below: lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0224...
Assistant Professor - Modern European History
All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Sep 2
For ATL peeps (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...
It Was Supposed to Connect Segregated Neighborhoods. Did It Gentrify Them Instead?
www.nytimes.com
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Aug 29
great photo :-)
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Astrid M. Eckert 🇺🇦 @astridme.bsky.social · Aug 27
Hier gleich noch das Buch zu Ihrer Beobachtung, in der die Behauptung kontextualisiert wird, z. B. mit der Geschichte der Zonenrandfoerderung, die die Regionen jahrzehntelang subventioniert hat.
Buch cover
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