Michael Geiss
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The website for my new SNSF project, Equipping Schools: The Role of Finance in Shaping Switzerland’s Educational Media Landscapes, 1950–2010, is live! In January, we will be advertising two positions: one for a postgraduate researcher and one for a postdoc. www.equippingschools.ch #histed
Equipping Schools
The Role of Finance in Shaping Switzerland’s Educational Media Landscapes, 1950–2010.
www.equippingschools.ch
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jessicacalarco.com
quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods
Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a  suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.
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Hat zufällig jemand Friedrich Kittlers Aufsatz „Zu Thomas Pynchons ,Against the Day'“ (aus "Faltungen") als PDF?
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Some of you might know that the Renaissance hit "How can we read while our hats are burning?" was the main inspiration for Midnight Oil's later, far later, top hit.
dbellingradt.bsky.social
Cooling is a top priority in data center operations. In order to think things through properly (and protect your thinking hat from catching fire), have regular breaks to cool down from reading and thinking. This advice is brought to you from 1608. #skystorians
A detail from a 1608 broadside showing a man with a thinking hat reading in a big book. His hat is touched from a fire that comes from above. Source: http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN816080135
michaelgeiss.bsky.social
Interessant, vor allem Letzteres! Die Geschichte der Berufsbildung für Frauen ist kaum erforscht. Dabei steckt da so viel drin.
michaelgeiss.bsky.social
Puh, Glück gehabt, vor Frankfurt nun doch noch ordentlich Zeit gewonnen
michaelgeiss.bsky.social
Wenn der Zug weiterhin so pünktlich quer durch Deutschland fährt, habe ich ja gar nicht mehr genug Zeit, alle Mails abzuarbeiten
michaelgeiss.bsky.social
Kernel panic, aber als Gesellschaftsdiagnose
Bahnhof anzeige mit vielen Zeilen fehlermeldungen und dem Begriff Kernelpanik
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wendyo.bsky.social
The transistor and its applications by Wim van Bussel (1969)
Wim van Bussel is a Dutch author, also known for Radio and television technology (1966) and New Prisma hi-fi and stereo book (1978).
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barbara-hof.bsky.social
Our 2025 workshop series is NOW ONLINE!

Packed with practical know-how to equip Early Career Scholars (and everyone else) with tools that matter & tacit knowledge on key areas of academic work 🔧🧠

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Early Career Scholars Podcasts | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
www.chstm.org
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holgi.bsky.social
Jetzt geht's Hamm am Kragen
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Chilling. The Enlightenment was fun while it lasted.
ericklinenberg.bsky.social
It's a small step from here to prohibiting professors from teaching about climate change, slavery, colonialism, racial discrimination, evolution, and the efficacy of vaccines.
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
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dorialexander.bsky.social
And new paper out: Pleias 1.0: the First Family of Language Models Trained on Fully Open Data

How we train an open everything model on a new pretraining environment with releasable data (Common Corpus) with an open source framework (Nanotron from HuggingFace).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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joshshepperd.bsky.social
One of genealogies of Media Studies is that many early methods began as advocacy strategies of 1940s media reform, in the attempt to change broadcast regulation to allow for more educational channels. Put differently, Media Studies originated as a research movement to build US Public Media.
michaelgeiss.bsky.social
Vermisst zufällig jemand seine Bratpfanne?
Foto einer Bratpfanne auf dem Boden eines Fahrstuhls
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Allein die Existenz von Stempeln mit einem Hinweis auf “Elektronische Datenverarbeitung” (EDV) ist aussagekräftig und wird Historiker:innen der Zukunft noch sehr erfreuen.
Zwei Stempel der HAB Wolfenbüttel mit dem Abdruck: EDV
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jonbecker.bsky.social
I kinda feel like policy dictated by Truth Social post is probably not the best form of governance.
michaelgeiss.bsky.social
Oh, super! Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
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derlampenputzer.bsky.social
über allen gipfeln ist ruh

[sz-push: kulturpass out, wehrpflicht in]

über allen wipfeln spürest du

[nyt: trump executes first critic]

kaum einen hauch

[nzz: ist ihr hund woke?]

die vöglein schweigen im walde

[heiße singles in ihrer gegend]

die vöglein schweigen im walde

[tinnitus]

warte n