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Jadon Nisly-Goretzki
@jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
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Postdoc Agrarian History Uni Kassel. Interested in early modern Germany, cattle breeding, race, gender and rural inequality & the Oeconomic Enlightenment. Also Brown Swiss cows, Baroque choirs & prairies. He/him.
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
"The strangers who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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fachstelle-farn.bsky.social
📣📣Neue Online-Veranstaltungsreihe📣📣

"Die Vereinnahmung der Natur – Zwischen Spiritualität und Radikalisierung"

Ziel der Reihe: Umweltbildner*innen zu stärken, problematische Inhalte frühzeitig zu erkennen, einzuordnen und ihnen in der Arbeit zu begegnen.

www.nf-farn.de/natur-spirit...
Übersicht über die Veranstaltungen der Online-Verantaltungsreihe von FARN
January 28, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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sethf.bsky.social
Interesting study, but coverage is undermined by using fake AI-generated fossils ("Credit: AI/ScienceDaily.com") rather than authentic specimens. I am not aware of any actual Ediacaran fossils that look like this. To be clear, this is a criticism of Science Daily, not the authors of the study.
January 27, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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nberlat.bsky.social
more evidence that "heterodox visionary" always means, "phrenologist."

always.
caitlingilbert.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 16d
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 AM
jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
Yet again wishing my research on 18th /19th century animal breeding would not seem so directly relevant to the news. New CBS contributor seems to use craniology to justify phrenology?
caitlingilbert.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 16d
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
January 28, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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caitlingilbert.bsky.social
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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josserme.bsky.social
I've missed a key step in donkey-science: I've been told that until yesterday the new technique consisted of both donkeys pinching the top of the gate beneath their heads & rattling together

But now only one donkey needs to rattle, while the other cheers him on

Rapid pace of donkey innovation!
josserme.bsky.social Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social · 20d
The donkeys of my parents have refined their lock-picking technique and are now using sophisticated vibration methods - basically the donkey equivalent of Doctor Who's Sonic screwdriver.

Maybe they didn't want to be overshadowed by the Austrian broom wielding cow
January 24, 2026 at 7:37 PM
jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
At least being able to enjoy the beauty of this heavy snow is a nice break during what feels like a steady drumbeat of bad news from everywhere.
A sunken path with trees on both banks, blanketed by heavy snow. A view from a hilltop over a vineyard and fruit trees towards a baroque palace and the steeples of a Romanesque and Gothic cathedral and the towns are below. Everything is covered in snow Twilight, and a row of historic houses along a river, with warm light shining out on the snow collected on the banks, the roofs of the houses, and their docks along the water.
January 26, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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kimatiwagner.bsky.social
And this is why we should never refer to killings, massacres or other atrocities as 'tragedies'.

A 'tragedy' is an unfortunate but unavoidable event for which no-one is to blame - that is the definition. To call the inevitable result of deliberate policy a 'tragedy' is a denial and a whitewash...
davidcorn.bsky.social David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18d
Alex Pretti did not “tragically die. He was murdered.
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 AM
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sebastianlakner.bsky.social
New paper led by Marie Meyer-Jürshof: What are costs of rewetting peatland in German agriculture? We modelled 25 typical farms in all regions of DE and show a high degree of heterogeneity with rather low costs in East Germany. Abatement costs are also calculated.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From dry to wet: economic assessments of peatland rewetting scenarios in German agriculture
The process of rewetting previously drained peatlands holds significant promise in aiding efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the agricultural sector. Consequently, measures to suppor...
www.tandfonline.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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passamezzo.bsky.social
Today's #marginalmusician is a monstrous creature playing the #lute.
From La #DanseMacabre, c1500-1510
BNF Français 995

#earlymusic #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymodern #illuminatedmanuscript #lutenist #sixteenthcentury
January 26, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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jensfoell.de
LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it
A LinkedIn post from my profile, reading: “It's a very simple equation, really: Science communication needs to be accurate, it needs to be authentic, and it needs to be transparent. If you're not doing it that way, you're not doing science communication at all. In addition, *good* science communication is inclusive, it's ethical, it's sustainable. If you're not heeding these things, you're not doing science communication right. Which is why I am profoundly shocked by ostensibly reasonable people promoting the use of chatbots for science communication. Their use decreases factual accuracy. It decreases transparency. It decreases authenticity. Those things are true regardless of *which* chatbot you're using and regardless of *how* you're using it. Plus, the tech is not sustainable, not inclusive, not ethical. The promotion and use of Al chatbots is already damaging science communication and, if taken to the extreme, will be capable of quickly destroying it. Not through the rise of evil Al, but through ignorance on part of the users, rapidly destroying the trust that science communicators have been able to build over decades. Everything I will ever publish will be written by humans, and by humans only. If science communication goes the way of the robots, it will go there without me.”
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM
jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
My review (in German) of Hans-Ulrich Schiedt's wonderful new book about working horses, cattle, mules, donkeys and dogs in Switzerland was just published on the website of the Archiv für Sozialgeschichte. www.fes.de/afs/rezensio.... Vital research for anyone doing work on labor ca. 1700-1900.
Archiv für Sozialgeschichte - Rezensionen (online)
Aktuelle Besprechungen von Neuerscheinungen zur Sozialgeschichte und zu weiteren Themen
www.fes.de
January 26, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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josserme.bsky.social
🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article!

It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including:
- How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women
- ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps
-⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)
Toil and Trouble: The Labour, Duties and Rights of Women in Alpine Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
How were women perceived and treated in Alpine communities in the late Middle Ages? This study explores this question by using sources ranging from the fourteenth up to the sixteenth century and fr...
www.tandfonline.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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transitionalform.bsky.social
Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage
January 21, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
Sounds like they were doing just what they were trained to do.
January 21, 2026 at 10:49 PM
jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
Fascinating example of driving a draft cow (with a forehead yoke) from the wagon without someone walking at her halter. 1979, from the amazing digitalized collection of the former director of Franconian Open-Air Museum in Windsheim, Konrad Bedal www.bavarikon.de/object/bav:F...
Color photograph of a reddish brown "yellow" cow with a forehead yoke and downward curled horns pulling a traditional wooden wagon with a ladder hanging from the side. An elderly farm couple is riding on the wagon, the man is steering. There is a tree and a grassy bank in the near backgound, a few power lines, and on the horizon a forested hill.
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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andreapitzer.bsky.social
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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jochenhung.bsky.social
The German Ministry of Science and Technology has produced an exhibition making "make female scientists visible" – by feeding their actual photographs into Midjourney and coming up with some truly terrible AI images.
I am calling it now: by next year, we'll get yassified Holocaust victims.
smittermeier.bsky.social Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 27d
Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden.

www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...
January 19, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden.

www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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donauschwalbe.bsky.social
Weil jetzt "Silent Friend" im Kino ist zur (fiktiven) ersten Biologiestudentin in Marburg 1908: Die ersten Frauen, die (Ehren)Doktortitel dort erhielten, waren Daniel [sic] Jeanne Wyttenbach 1827 und – bslang unbekannt & von mir entdeckt – Marie Anne Boivin 1828.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_A...
Marie Anne Boivin – Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft...

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Officer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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lemoustier.bsky.social
🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery.
Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects.
(they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)
Screen grab of bluesky post showing text about Neanderthal aesthetics and a gen-AI image showing a male with inaccurate facial anatomy in a cave looking pensive, in front of him is a very complex graphic engraving in the floor and behind that is a red handprint on the wall with six fingers and a star-shape negative inside it. Screenshot of bluesky post with text about Neanderthals and fire, and a gen-AI image showing a group of male Neanderthals near extremely small mammoths in a snowy forest. The Neanderthals have a mix of fur and leather belts and wristguards, with metallic details including buckles. They have spears, the tips of which are clearly modelled on metal spears and in no way resemble any known Neanderthal artefacts. Close-up on the body of one Neanderthal in the forest showing details of the metal and leather belts and wrist-guards, and metallic-looking spears.
January 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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lsangha.bsky.social
New year's resolution: to one day also own eleven small cheese plates 🧀🧀🧀

Will of Elizabeth Gill, TNA PROB 11/1130/310
handwriting that reads 'and eleven small cheese plates'
January 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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jamellebouie.net
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM