Julia Sittmann

You see it, most ironically, in the Domesday Book. In 1986, the BBC marked the 900th anniversary by making a modern version. It conducted a new census of the nation, taking down thoughts, feelings and occupations, all recorded using a technology lIth-century scribes would have marvelled at. A technology that was, a few years later, defunct: the LaserDisc. A few years after that, no computer could read it. The original Domesday Book persisted, unchanged, on vellum. The modern one barely lasted a generation.

Books will outlast your puny digital technology
www.thetimes.com/article/74a7... @whippletom.bsky.social

„Ich habe vor nichts Angst“: So erlebten Tesla-Mitarbeiter den ersten Tag der Betriebsratswahl Seit Montagmorgen können die Mitarbeitenden von Teslas „Gigafactory“ ihre Stimmen für einen neuen Betriebsrat abgeben. Der Wahlkampf war ruppig. Was treibt die Beschäftigten um?

„Vor der Wahl habe Tesla versucht, sich „ein bisschen zu verwöhnen“, sagt der 25-Jährige. Der 30-J. stimmt zu: „Als wären wir Kinder, haben sie uns letzte Woche Obst und Kekse gebracht. Als ob wir dumm wären.““

Bei #Tesla geht es gerade um bessere Arbeit & #Demokratie.

Alle Daumen gedrückt!!

Another image is from a German prisoner-of-war camp (Döberitz), where a group of Indian, Egyptian, Persian, Tatar, and Arab anti-colonialists visited in 1915 to persuade prisoners to defect and join the revolutionary cause.

Rund 7.000 Demonstranten: Tausende protestieren gegen Höcke-Auftritt in Düsseldorf Ein bunter Protestzug, ein hochumstrittener Redner und ein Anti-AfD-Wagen von Jacques Tilly: Antifaschisten zeigen der AfD auch in Garath die Rote Karte – dafür gibt es viel Spott von Björn Höcke.

300 in der Halle,
7.000 vor der Halle.

Höcke: "Viele sind durch die Bildungsanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ideologisiert worden, sind fehlgeleitet worden."

Ich möchte mich bei den 7.000 'Opfern' vor der Halle herzlich bedanken.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

This tracks with the numbers coming from the DFG, GACR and many other national / foundation funders. Many more people applying for far fewer opportunities.

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

I also make protest signs.

Was ist am 29.1.2026 – STREIKTAG! 📣

Was ist am 29.1.2026 – STREIKTAG! 📣

Was ist am 29.1.2026 – STREIKTAG! 📣

Was ist am 29.1.2026 – STREIKTAG! 📣

Was ist am 29.1.2026 – STREIKTAG! 📣
Die GEW ruft zum bundesweiten STREIKTAG BILDUNG auf. Die zentralen Veranstaltungen finden in #Berlin, #Hamburg, #Köln, #Leipzig und #Mannheim statt.
Infos: www.gew.de/streiktag-bildung
#ProfisbrauchenMEHR #Warnstreik #GEW #BlueLZ STREIKTAG!

‘Keep Carleton Human’: Carleton University staff rallies to push for protections from A.I. At Carleton University, CUPE 4600 -— the union representing Teachers Assistants, Research Assistants, and Contract Instructors — held the ‘Keep Carleton Human’ rally on Thursday, fighting for clear-cu...

> “This could become a school where ChatGPT writes the papers, ChatGPT grades the papers, rich kids buy an experience, and nobody gets an education,” says Ariel Becherer, a PhD student

www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

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.”

LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

Turns out a lot of the tools used in the production of catgut would be familiar to any weaver.

Sparkasse muss "Rote Hilfe"-Konto fortführen Das Landgericht Göttingen hat mit Urteil vom 16.01.2026 entschieden, dass die Sparkasse Göttingen das Konto der Rechtshilfeorganisation "Rote Hilfe e.V."

Das Landgericht Göttingen hat heute entschieden, dass die Sparkasse das Konto der @rotehilfe.bsky.social fortführen muss. Eine von uns beantragte einstweilige Verfügung war erfolgreich. Ein wichtiges Signal für die Zivilgesellschaft! Zum Hintergrund: www.prigge-recht.de/pressemittei...

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

I'm trying to write a thing about AI slop and why we want pointless animal videos to still be real. Any storytelling theorists out there who've written about this already?

About the 19th Century periodization, I have a question. Well, it's actually more of a comment...

There’s an excellent and devastatingly thorough article in the latest @indexers.bsky.social journal by Elizabeth Bartmess and Michele Combs demonstrating that LLMs are worthless for indexing

There are few things more exciting that seeing friends publish the books you can't wait to read ...

Alt-text is for screen readers and for descriptions of the image. It's not for image credit and certainly not for links. Credit should be included in the text that goes in the post.

If you're going to make a post praising an incredible news photo, it's a real bad look when you don't include the photographer credit in the post.

The White House briefing room. Four Hs. Three of them are upside down. And it’s been that way since 2007.

a graphic showing the pantone numbers for the two core colors of the toronto blue jays. they are skydome blue (pantone 293) and Stieb Navy (pantone 282)

a hat and canvas tote with the pantone number for Dodger Blue (294 C)

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

A unicorn watermark in one of the oldest European paper sheets. Source: https://memoryofpaper.eu/apccv/apccv.php?Signatura=1475.1

Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians

“Transformative Transdisciplinarity. An Introduction to Community-Based Philosophy” is out with Oxford University Press! I’m actually pretty proud of this book. It’s Open Access, so feel free to share fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

Sonny Assu Gwa’gwa’da’ka “Breakfast Series” 2006, installation, Seattle Art Museum.

Today we are highlighting L. Sasha Gora's new book, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2025)

niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...

#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections