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lou. @einsiedlerspiel.bsky.social · Nov 14
If you ever wondered where you'd find hot takes on Paul Schreber you're in luck: I started collecting them.

www.repetitions.de/posts/202408...
Dossier: Daniel Paul Schreber
Collection of literature and other artifacts relating to Paul Schrebers Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken. (Cover image by Jan Peter Tripp, who, full disclosure, seems not big on that whole having ...
www.repetitions.de
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mckenziewark.bsky.social
"You have to let us take you hostage, otherwise our ransom demands won't work."
January 20, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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mckenziewark.bsky.social
Having read Anderson on Tooze, and witnessed New School Marxists try to take on Tooze, I'm team Tooze. Just more methodologically open, intellectually curious, and focused on the right issues (climate, China).

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
The long read: Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enter...
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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inquiline.myatproto.social
i want someone who understands the history of citation to weigh in on the fact that citations are not manually inscribed now, but rather reproduced by citation management software, and whether this affects their spellcasting power
January 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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emilydische.bsky.social
Germany has finally caught up to the “war on Christmas“ stage of the culture wars 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/u...
December 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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momorulez.bsky.social
Klar, weil jene, die seit Jahren alles attackieren, was sie als "woke" fantasieren und dann diffamieren, das ja eigentlich als argumentatives "adressieren" intendieren und das, was sie als "woke" behaupten, so immens stärkten. Es geht hier nicht um Stellungskriege, sondern um Vernichtungsfeldzüge.,
postendorf.bsky.social Patrick Ostendorf @postendorf.bsky.social · Dec 11
Und ja (damit meine ich nicht Sie): Wer immer im eigenen ideologischen Schützengraben bleibt und nur das eigene Lager adressieren will, stärkt damit auch die extremen Gegenpositionen.
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
In UK muss man das mit einem aus dubiosen Quellen finanzierten Unternehmen (History Reclaimed) machen, in Deutschland übernimmt die CDU-eigene Stiftung die Aufgabe ganz offiziell, kolonialrevisionistischen Mist zu verbreiten und einen dummen Strohmann aufzubauen.
unddieregel.bsky.social Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · Dec 10
Ich will das schon ernst nehmen aber norbert lammerts Vorwort zum kas reader ist ein wenig beyond parody
Die Geschichte der Weltreiche, die die Menschheit seit Jahrtausenden und bis heute prägen, ist lang und lehrreich. Sie reicht vom Reich der Sumerer über das agyptische, babylonische und persische Reich, das römische Imperium und byzantinische Reich bis hin zu politischen Gebilden unserer Zeit mit offensichtlichen Weltmachtambitionen. Postkoloniale Theoretiker setzen sich mit dieser facettenreichen Geschichte kaum auseinander. Stattdessen kennzeichnet post-koloniale Werke eine auffällige Fixierung und Fokussierung auf die imperiale Geschichte europäischer Mächte. Eroberungen, Ausbeutungen und Sklavenhandel durch nicht-europäische Mächte finden im Diskurs kaum statt. Europa - oder auch „der Westen" oder „der globale Norden" - wird aufgrund seiner imperialen Vergangenheit als der allein verantwortliche Schuldige für alles Ubel der Welt dargestellt, der bis heute weite Teile der Welt unterjoche und in Knechtschaft halte.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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markrubin.bsky.social
“Where are the findings? You only provide quotes.”

New article considers qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback

Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1037/qup0...

Few quotes follow 🧵
Although peer review is one of the central pillars of academic publishing, qualitative researchers’ experiences of this process have been largely overlooked. Existing research and commentary have focused on peer reviewers’ comments on qualitative articles, which are often described as indicative of a quantitative mindset or hostility to nonpositivist qualitative research. We extend this literature by focusing on qualitative researchers’ experiences of methodologically incongruent reviewer and editor comments—comments that are incommensurate with the conceptual foundations of the reviewed research. Qualitative researchers (N = 163) from a range of health and social science disciplines, including psychology, responded to a brief qualitative survey. Most contributors reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the assumptions and expectations of postpositivist research and reporting. Some also reported that peer reviewers and editors universalized the norms and values particular to specific qualitative approaches. Contributors were concerned that peer reviewers often accept review invitations when they lack relevant methodological expertise and editors often select peer reviewers without such expertise. In response to methodologically incongruent comments, many contributors described a process of initially “pushing back” and explaining why these comments were incongruent with their research. When this educative approach was unsuccessful, some knowingly compromised the methodological integrity of their research and acquiesced to reviewer and editor requests. Earlier career researchers especially highlighted the powerlessness they felt in the peer review process in the context of a “publish or perish” academic climate. We end by outlining contributors’ recommendations for improving the methodological integrity of the peer review of qualitative research.
December 18, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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kaibosworth.bsky.social
extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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tinido.bsky.social
Ich krieg‘s noch nicht so richtig zu fassen, aber ich glaube, dass diese strukturell rassistische, spät-imperialistische Weltwahrnehmung von Fritz Merz, deren Umschlagen in ein gravierendes außen- & klimapolitisches Versagen hier von Ann-Kathrin Büüsker sehr gut erklärt wird, & das weitgehende
kattascha.bsky.social Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · Nov 20
Diese wirklich tolle sachliche Einordnung von @uedio.bsky.social macht deutlich, warum die abwertenden Aussagen von Merz über Belém (wo die Klimakonferenz diesmal stattfindet) aus diplomatischer Sicht taktisch maximal unklug waren.
November 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Jesus Christ
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
September 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
Some of you guys need to learn to like things without having to make them communist. “Pickup basketball in my neighborhood after work provides a space free of the extractive logic of capital” no it doesn’t.
July 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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momorulez.bsky.social
Deswegen ist es auch gar nicht nur gut, wenn diese Liebes-Slogans zu vordergründig werden, glaube ich zumindest. Die überschreiben auch was.
July 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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momorulez.bsky.social
Glaube ja, dass die Queer-Hater weniger ein Problem mit Liebe als mit Sex und mit für sie unklaren Geschlechterrollen haben.
July 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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kleinertod.bsky.social
Den Hass und die Ablehnung, die - vor allem erkennbare - Queers erleben, können sich viele, die sich als "normal" sehen (und so gesehen werden), nicht einmal vorstellen. Das Privileg der "Unsichtbarkeit" der "Normalität".
fcstpauli.com FC St. Pauli @fcstpauli.com · Jul 29
Wir haben auf Facebook die Kommentarfunktion unter dem Post zum diesjährigen CSD geschlossen. Grund sind Hunderte beleidigende und hasserfüllte Kommentare. Die Moderation ist so aufwändig, dass wir diese nicht mehr leisten können.

#fcsp
July 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social
99% of the population doesn’t know what a Board of Trustees is. They think universities are run by the faculty. Which is like thinking line cooks at McDonald’s are making corporate decisions.
mwyarbrough.bsky.social Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Jul 29
Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.

They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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lalonsander.bsky.social
Zu Beginn des Ukrainekrieges rief die Bundesregierung russische Männer zum Desertieren und zur Flucht nach Deutschland auf. Doch von mehr 6.300 Asylanträgen wurden bisher nur 349 anerkannt. Viele leben nun seit Jahren und in Angst vor der Abschiebung hier: www.taz.de/!6097197
Russische Deserteure in Deutschland: Flucht vor dem Töten
Tausende Russen haben in Deutschland Asyl beantragt, weil sie den Kriegsdienst verweigern. Gewährt wird es nur wenigen, obwohl ihnen die Einberufung droht.
taz.de
July 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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selmajahic.bsky.social
Gestern war der 30. Gedenktag an den Genozid an den Bosniak:innen & der erste internationale Gedenktag.
Zu dem Anlass waren ich & ein weiterer Genozidüberlebender, sowie einige bosnische Diplomat:innen im deutschen Bundestag eingeladen.
Was folgte war extrem traumatisierend.
July 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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taz.de
Israels Regierung will #Gaza ethnisch säubern. Warum Deutschland längst eine andere Israelpolitik braucht, dazu Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green von der israelischen Friedensbewegung „Standing together“ im Dissens Podcast bei @lukasondreka.bsky.social
blogs.taz.de/dissenspodca...
War on Gaza: „If you support Israel no matter what, then you support genocide“
Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green from the Israeli peace movement
blogs.taz.de
July 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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rheinze.myatproto.social
Since, in the context of this NYT article, the lack of a unitary among method among historians came up, I’m gonna try to explain - to myself as much as you all - what the historical method is. 1/
rheinze.myatproto.social Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · Jun 17
We do have a method and ethos though, it’s literally called the historical method, and while there are many ways in which to follow it I don’t think it has changed fundamentally. And part of it is about source criticism, intersubjectivity and transparency, all things that AI famously lacks.
June 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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historyned.bsky.social
The danger right now is not just that Schengen collapses, but that it transforms into a stable system of racialized mobility where freedom of movement is still guaranteed for white (passing) people but there remains a hard border for minorities.
casmudde.bsky.social Cas Mudde #AbolishICE @casmudde.bsky.social · Jun 16
It is peak “Brussels Bubble” for the EU to celebrate 40 years Schengen rather than address that Schengen is “melting before our eyes.”
June 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Just Frontex having a booklet for kids about to be deported to tell them it ain’t so bad

op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
Frontex Frontex Frontex Frontex
June 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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zachfb.bsky.social
Really important story - army officials asked soldiers to identify themselves if they don't agree with Trump's politics that way he'd get only supportive soldiers in uniform during his political rally on base. Heavier soldiers were also barred from participating.
Bragg Soldiers Who Cheered Trump's Political Attacks While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance, Appearance
As Trump viciously attacked his perceived political foes, he whipped up boos from the gathered troops directed at California leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.military.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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nanjala.bsky.social
This article in the Financial Times is encouraging US citizens to move to Europe. There are so many layers to it but the underlying vibe is “not all of you”. “Fortress Europe, so unwelcoming to people from poor countries, keeps one gate permanently open for Americans”. Quiet part, out loud.
World View Americans, it's time to move to Europe by SIMON KUPER ILUSTRATION bY MARRY HAYIOM E uropeans have always emigrated to America. But what if the Bow reversed? The number of Americans saying they want to leave the US jumped from 10 per cent in 2011 to a record 21 per cent by last year, report the poll- sters Gallup - and that was before Donald Trump unleashed his dual assault on American wealth and treecom. I live emotionally between the two continents. As a British student in the US in the early 1990s, I thought it was the greatest country on earth. I acquired an American wife and kids, but we ended up in Paris. Over decades of transatlantic visits, I've tracked the lives of American friends and relatives. I now feel that even somehow setting aside the mammoth issues of Trump and freedom, most Europeans live better than most Americans. There's one big exception: the mega-rich. If you're among the wealthy Americans awaiting another tax cut from Congress, then congratulations: the Trump administration is at least trying to run the country for your benefit. You're unlikely to get that from European governments. Similarly, most Americans in tech or finance will find undynamic Europe frustrating. That leaves about 99 per cent of the population for whom emigrating to Europe would be a life win. The biggest potential beneficiaries are adults under the age of 35: unable to afford a home or even child. care in America's biggest cities, but young enough to acquire a new language and circle of friends. The logistics of emigrating have never been easier. Remote work also makes possible the ultimate life arbitrage: earning a US salary while living in the Mediterranean. Technology has assuaged homesickness you can cross the ocean but stay in all your WhatsApp groups. For those unable to learn languages, English now works in most of Europe. And Fortress Europe, so unwelcoming to people from poor countries, keeps one gate permanently open for Americans. Countries from Port…
June 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.social
I've said it before in slightly different contexts, but not having any ambitious, grasping assholes affiliated with your cause is one of the surest signs that you are completely cooked
June 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵
""Frankly, we have imported antisemitism with the big numbers of migrants we have within the last 10 years." German Chancellor Friedrich Merz blamed the rise in antisemitism on migrants, calling it a "terrible challenge" for the country."
June 9, 2025 at 11:06 AM