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Christoph Dolna-Gruber @chrigru.bsky.social · 10h

„Eine Familie in Höflein bekommt ca. 720 Euro Energieunterstützung pro Jahr – nur dank unserer erfolgreichen Windkraft.“

In Höflein (NÖ) zeigt sich, wie Erneuerbare auch die Gemeindefinanzen retten können.

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31 Anlagen: Diese Gemeinde verdient mit Windrädern Geld | Heute.at

Windkraft in Höflein: Die Gemeinde erzielt mit 31 Windrädern satte Einnahmen, sanierte die Gemeindefinanzen und setzt nun auf Autarkie.

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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 9h

Es ist wirklich bemerkenswert, dass (Ex-)Politiker allen Ernstes im Jahr 2025 noch erklären, es wäre die Aufgabe von Abgeordneten bei Postenbesetzungen zu intervenieren.
Nein, ist es nicht.
Um diese Unsitte - aka Ämterkorruption - abzustellen, wurden Besetzungsverfahren eingeführt. Vor Jahrzehnten.

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 7h

"... pockets of American Christianity are openly rejecting Jesus’ ethics as politically naive. This should unsettle anyone who has criticized Islam for its political entanglements. American Christianity now faces its own version of the political theology crisis"
Great read by @shadihamid.bsky.social

Opinion | Two versions of Christianity battle for America’s soul

Charlie Kirk’s memorial shows how politics is reshaping this religious faith.

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Lena Schilling @lenaats.bsky.social · 1d

Rettet die Nachtzüge!

Frankreich will die Förderung streichen und damit die Nightjets Wien–Paris & Berlin–Paris aufs Abstellgleis schicken. Nach nur zwei Jahren!

Das wäre ein Rückschritt für Klima & Mobilität. Wir sagen: Non! 👇

🚂 Sauvons les trains de nuit Paris-Berlin et Paris-Vienne

Signez la pétition maintenant !

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 2d

My university has something called the "raft debate" where professors defend their disciplines. I've been chosen to represent the humanities and they asked me to make a promo video. You know what I had to do.

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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 2d

Case you missed it and want to have something to look forward to. youtu.be/ouuPSxE1hK4?...

Bad Bunny: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 2d

Join the #OSfestival2025 Follow-Up from #univie on 13 October!💡 Reflect, connect and gain practical skills for a healthier, more human research culture. Free & open to all, register to join online 👉 osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/programm/#c1...

Programm

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 2d

Justice and the Parables of Jesus

Yung Suk Kim, Korean-American biblical scholar, New Testament, Prolific Writer, Public Speaker, Hiker

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

Archaeologist of early Christianity Irene Selsvold has an interesting new (open access) article on streetscapes at Ephesus. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I do question the entire process of “Christianization” as a framework but this is an interesting dive into spatial studies in 1 street corner.

Figure 4. Plan of the Triodos with indicated changes in Late Antiquity (by author, adapted from Waldner (Reference Waldner2020)).

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

In the new issue of the Journal of Early Christian Studies (JECS), ancient med scholar Katherine Beydler & I have a new review of _Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean 500 BCE–600 CE: A Sourcebook_ by Kristi Upson-Saia, Heidi Marx, & Jared Secord muse.jhu.edu/search?actio...

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"metaphor squared," defined as "merging or grafting one upon another" several dulled classical metaphors to restore their luster (131). Ennodius, Merobaudes, and Arator provide the evidence. Helen Kaufmann employs "constructed unity" to counter charges that long-form poetry lacked the "organic unity" idealized by Romantic criticism. She focuses on the allegedly disruptive "descriptive digression, which she repositions as examples of variatio that impart unity (115). Andreas Abel analyzes the "Neoplatonists" (246) Macrobius and Symmachus, illustrating the "macrostructural level" unity (253) yielded by Neoplatonic metaphysics and numerology in works that appear "fragmentary and episodic" (245). Joshua Hartman and Jacob Levernier apply computational analysis to the texts contained in Musisque deoque to show that the count of enumerative lines distributed over time corroborates Robert's "hypothesis" that "single-word enumerations"
are
"more common in late antique poetry" (84).
The book's fourth chapter, Frances Foster's essay addressing how the jeweled style was learned, provides a suitable coda. She suggests that Servius's Vergilian commentary imparts a sense of how students learned poetry and reminds us that Ausonius and the professores he commemorated transmitted the rudiments of poetic composition in this mode to their elite students, which in Ausonius's case included the influential senator turned monastic impresario and Christian poet Paulinus of Nola. The long-term impact of this instruction, practiced in schools throughout the late imperial west, canonized the poetics of the jeweled style, ensuring its persistence for generations to come. In short, this volume confirms the security of the pathways Roberts plotted and points to new ones leading in the same direction: a deeper appreciation of late antique poetry. For scholars of early and late ancient Christianity such an …

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torical summaries for students to read. They can even serve as aids to the course design process. However, all anthologies and sourcebooks are prone to criticisms regarding what to include or exclude, what should be emphasized or elided, who should be allowed space, and why. Regardless of these debates, sourcebooks in translation can help reveal the ancient world to new groups of students that may not otherwise be able to read texts in the original Greek, Latin, Coptic, Syriac, or many other ancient languages. As such, the publication of Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE-600 CE): A Sourcebook (hereafter MHHAM) provides many compelling tools for instructors focused on the history of medicine and science in the ancient Mediterranean, particularly in its ability to speak to those entering into the fields of public health, the history of medicine, and the study of Science, Technology, and Society (STS).
The authors of this review used the sourcebook in two variant ways for two different courses. One used it as one of two textbooks assigned in a course focused on ancient medicine, a "Historical Perspectives" general education course taught as a large lecture class through a Classics Department at a state research university.
The other reviewer used portions in a survey course focused on Roman History within a History Department at the same institution. We found that the wide variety of primary sources in accessible translation presented the biggest benefit in both courses. The source material used to study ancient medicine is a major challenge at the undergraduate level, especially in a general education curriculum.
Medical texts, while increasingly available thanks to the work of projects like the Cambridge Galen Translations, are often not available in modern language translation. Even texts that are translated are not reliably available for free online; many Hippocratic texts are only available i…

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The MHHAM is useful to both novices and experts of the world of ancient medicine. The variety of excerpted sources makes it a good choice for any instructor whose research background might not be in Greco-Roman medicine.
In addition to the medical writings typically used in ancient medicine courses like case histories, therapeutic texts, and recipe books, MHHAM includes epistles (Fronto and Seneca), philosophy (Plato), ancient science (Theophrastus), historical writings (Thucydides and Procopius), and agronomy (Cato). It can be easy to maintain a narrow focus that leaves students without a robust understanding of the context in which medicine was practiced. The MHHAM provides opportunities for learning about the ancient world more broadly from a variety of perspectives, including patients and thinkers who theorized about the universe, the body, or medical materials. For those who have strong preferences about texts which are not included in this volume, it's simple to supplement with certain time periods, authors, or categories. To help better represent the diversity of thought in the Hippocratic corpus, we added the text of the Anonymous Londinensis papyrus from first-century c.e. Egypt, On the Heart, and Breaths. From Galen's corpus, we added The Best Doctor is also a Philosopher, which provides a kind of professional standard for doctors and allows students to contextualize the lack of credentialing processes in imperial Rome. For those wishing to add even more Galen, P.N. Singer's 2025 Galen anthology makes such modifications easier than
ever.
The organization of the MHHAM is topical rather than chronological, an approach that has both strengths and weaknesses. Two brief introductory chapters cover the rationale for the textbook, the current evidence base, and a brief chronological overview from early Greek natural philosophers to late antiquity.
The rest of the text is organized thematically (e.g., "Diagnosis," "Case Histories,
"Ethics and Prof…

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Each chapter's introductory synthesis was generally useful for students, especially in elucidating the relationships between the thinkers quoted in the chapter. Pre-med students within our courses engaged with the introduction to the physicians in Chapter Eleven and enjoyed learning about variant types of medical training alongside the Latin and Greek epigraphic evidence for medical professionals that followed. It was revelatory to see young women connecting with Naevia Clara, a freedwoman and physician (306), after previously believing that only Roman men could serve as physicians. At times, the chapter introductions can be reductive in synthesizing the material thereafter. For example, in the section "Women's Illnesses," the authors write,
"Because women were colder,
medical writers reasoned, they lacked the innate heat to digest their food as completely as men..." (133). However, in the first primary text offered in the same chapter, Diseases of Women I, the ancient author describes how women's suffusion with blood makes their bodies warmer than those of men. One of the most difficult things to impart sufficiently to undergraduates studying ancient medical practices is the great diversity and cultural variation of ideas regarding health and the body. Even within the Hippocratic Corpus, instructors must take care to clarify the nuance of the views that fit under the broad "Hippocratic" umbrella. Because students use the introductory synthesis to contextualize the ancient sources in each chapter, that nuance is especially important to include from the start.
The MHHAM effectively presents the material evidence (often with photos of the objects, inscriptions, or medical tools) for ancient medicine alongside textual evidence. The translations are accessible, geographically diverse, and extremely valuable for students without any prior training in ancient languages. It also underscores emerging tactics for recovering the life and…

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 4d

Conference on the Ezekiel Papyrus oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/conf...

Conference on the Ezekiel Papyrus

The recording of a recent conference on the famous Chester Beatty Ezekiel Papyrus (Ra 967) has been uploaded here . They have lots of intere...

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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 4d

Public Domain Loeb Volumes oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/publ...

Public Domain Loeb Volumes

The public domain Loeb library volumes are now all available here . I think they had all been previously available elsewhere, but this is a ...

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Oliver Scheiber 🇪🇺 @oliverscheiber.eu · 4d

Doron Rabinovici Im Journal zu Gast: diese Verbindung von Vernunft und tiefer Menschlichkeit ist das, was die Welt bräuchte. Schöns Gespräch.

Im Ö1 Journal zu Gast

Ausführliche Interviews zu aktuellen Anlässen aus den Ö1 Journalen.

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Markus Oehler @markusoehler.bsky.social · 4d

That is more than true, and I long for the day when this madness is over.

Poster promoting the October 18 protests against the Trump/MAGA coup. Image: a crossed-out crown. Caption: “We have friends everywhere. No Kings. October 18.”

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NT at Oxford @nt4ox.bsky.social · 5d

2026-27 Humanities Fellowships, British School at Rome, Italy. Fixed term: 3 or 9 months. "Any aspect of the social, religious, political, & economic cultures of the Italian peninsula", etc. Deadline 14 November. nt4ox.link/bsr-fell26

NEW OPEN CALLS 2026-27 | Humanities Fellowships - bsr.ac.uk

The British School at Rome is pleased to invite applications for the 2026-2027 academic year for the following award competitions, all with a deadline of 14 November 2025. References will be due on…

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 5d

📢 Panel Discussion "Science under Pressure – Europe and Austria in the Wake of Project 2025" at #univie
🗓️ Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 18:00 - 20:00 at Kleiner Festsaal, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna
Register online until 7 October 👉 www.upv.ac.at/registration...

Event-Sujet. Rechts oben ist eine Grafik mit der USA-Flagge, daneben eine Landkarte von Europa.

UPV: Österreichischer Universitätsprofessor/innenverband
Universität Wien
Science under Pressure - Europe and Austria in the Wake of Project 2025
Panel Discussion with:
- Christoph Gattringer, President, Austrian Science Fund
- Florian Krammer, Professor of Vaccinologiy (online)
- Carole Mancel-Blanchard, Head of Unit for International Cooperation, EU Commission (online)
- Sebastian Schütze, Rector, University of Vienna
- Barbara Weitgruber, Director General, Austrian BMFWF
- Sibylle Wentker, Director for International Relations, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Program:
Welcome
Eva-Maria Holzleitner, BMFWF (Video)
Barbara Schober, UPV Uni Wien
Video Statement by Florian Krammer
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Ignaz Semmelweise Institute
National and European Science Policy Statements
Barbara Weitgruber, Austrian BMFWF
Carole Mancel-Blanchard, EU Commission
Outlook
Michael Wagner, UPV Uni Wien

Moderation
Sylvia Kritzinger, UPV Uni Wien

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VCÖ - Mobilität mit Zukunft @vcoe.bsky.social · 6d

#badnews Die klimaschädlichen Emissionen des Flugverkehrs in Österreich sind auf neuen Halbjahres-Höchstwert gestiegen. Fehlende #Kerosinsteuer förderte den Flugverkehr im 1. Halbjahr mit rund 290 Millionen Euro. Die EU braucht eine Kerosinsteuer und mehr #Bahn. vcoe.at/presse/press... 1/2

ie Grafik des VCÖ zeigt die Entwicklung der Treibhausgasemissinen des Flugverkehrs in Österreich, jeweils im 1. Halbjahr 2019 bis 2025.
1. Halbjahr 2025 1,50 Millionen Tonnen Treibhausgase
1. Halbjahr 2024 1,38
1. Halbjahr 2023 1,25
1. Halbjahr 2022 0,90
1.Halbjahr 2021 0,37
1. Halbjahr 2020 0,62
1. Halbjahr 2019 1,46
Quelle: BMWET, BMK, UBA, VCÖ 2025

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Marcus Wadsak @marcuswadsak.bsky.social · 5d

Was die AUA auf ihre Flugzeuge schreibt und wie aktuell tatsächlich aussieht…. Mehr hier: orf.at/stories/3407...

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Markus Oehler @markusoehler.bsky.social · 6d

Und das alles steuerfrei!

Emissionen im Flugverkehr in Österreich auf neuem Höchstwert
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Emissionen im Flugverkehr in Österreich auf neuem Höchstwert

Der Verkehrsclub Österreich macht die fehlende Kerosinsteuer für den Anstieg verantwortlich

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch with one of the nation’s largest congregations, pleaded guilty on Thursday to sexually abusing a girl in the 1980s, according to court documents.

Texas Megachurch Pastor Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse

Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church, which has one of the nation’s largest congregations, admitted to sexually abusing a child in the 1980s.

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Durham Theology and Religion @durhamtheology.bsky.social · 6d

Leading article in the latest edition of The Tablet, 'Welcome, brother Grief' by our Duns Scotus Chair in Franciscan Studies, Dr. William Crozier. A profoundly moving account of wrestling with grief, and the model of St Francis of Assisi amidst the pain.

www.thetablet.co.uk/features/wel...

Front cover of The Tablet, 4th October 2025.

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Benedikt Narodoslawsky @dernaro.bsky.social · 6d

Das Telefon klingelt, TU-Professor Getzner ist dran. Er hat das Interview mit Verkehrsminister Peter Hanke (SPÖ) im STANDARD über den Lobautunnel gelesen.

Getzner ist verärgert. Er sagt: "Hanke argumentiert faktenfremd". Ein Interview zum Interview.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 6d

Beautiful.

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For our scientists

YouTube video by Elle Cordova

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Robert Misik @misik.bsky.social · 6d

Die Tragödie der amerikanischen Demokratie.

Share, verbreite, unterstütze meine Steady-Site. Vielen Dank!

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Die Tragödie der amerikanischen Demokratie

Die USA versinken in atemberaubender Rasanz in die Tyrannei. Dieses Verhängnis sollte uns eine Warnung sein.

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Armin Thurnher @arminthurnher.bsky.social · 7d

Über die Schwierigkeit, Israel und den Gaza-Krieg zu diskutieren. Samt einem zweckdienlichen Veranstaltungshinweis.
Seuchenkolumne 1696
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