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Prof. Uni Tübingen. Dean Faculty of Humanities (joint deanship). Rhetoric, literature, and the arts. All posts express private opinions.

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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 663 🔁 268 💬 11 📌 22
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"Das ist erschreckend"
Acht Prozent der Professoren hatten nach eigenen Angaben in den vergangenen sechs Monaten ein Burnout, berichtet Forscherin Yvette Hofmann. Was die neue Studie PROFESS sonst noch über Professorengesundheit verrät. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/03...

06.03.2026 10:52 👍 40 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 7

Ja, klar.

02.03.2026 20:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Das @fortextlab.bsky.social sucht Verstärkung! Wer hat Lust zu helfen, das beste Annontationstool @catma.bsky.social der Welt noch besser zu machen? Wir freuen uns auf Eure Bewerbungen!

26.02.2026 07:38 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Die gefährdete Architektur der Wissenschaft

Bund und Länder ringen in der GWK um die künftige Wissenschaftsfinanzierung – und um ihre eigene Handlungsfähigkeit.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2026/02...

18.02.2026 11:11 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2

Ich finde, dass es IN DIESEM FALL gut passt. Sonst sehr schade, sind Jobs für Kreative.

02.03.2026 19:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Official Team GB Paralympic photo, with the the crests and everything, and a professional headshot, but it's for "Pickle, A Very Good Girl", who is a black labrador, with a hi-viz harness and a red collar.

Some of you like dogs, in which case you may appreciate that guide dogs of Team GB for the Paralympics get official photos

24.02.2026 19:39 👍 2711 🔁 877 💬 37 📌 74
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(Vorläufige) Endstation für den Demokratiebahnhof Anklam

🚉 2014 startete in Anklam das Projekt "Demokratiebahnhof". Nach zwölf turbulenten Jahren haben die Verantwortlichen Anfang 2026 das Aus bekanntgegeben.

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20.02.2026 08:12 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

12. Sommerkurs Paläographie. Lateinische Schrift in Heidelberg.
Der Kurs vermittelt die Grundlagen aus zwei Jahrtausenden Schriftgeschichte (Datierung, Lokalisierung & Lesekompetenz). Wir freuen uns auf die Bewerbungen (bis 31.05.2026) 📖
#medievalsky

17.02.2026 15:17 👍 18 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0

Mittlerweile sind auch die Kisten weg.

14.02.2026 21:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
CfP: Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium für (Post-)Doktorand:innen in den Postcolonial und Gender Studies,Trier (20.03.2026) | H-Net **please scroll down for english versionCall for Papers: Interdisziplinäres Kolloquium für (Post-)Doktorand:innen in den Postcolonial und Gender Studies an der Universität Trier [Deadline: 20.03.2026]

CfP für das jährliche Kolloquium für (Post-)Doktorand*innen in den Postcolonial und Gender Studies in Trier. Ich freue mich auf Bewerbungen!

10.02.2026 13:59 👍 21 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 0

Mist.

05.02.2026 20:38 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Obersee, Berlin

24.01.2026 14:39 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Auf so etwas in der Art wartete ich bislang vergebens.

13.01.2026 17:04 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Super Thema, echt abgefahren 😁

12.01.2026 19:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Neue Bürotasse

11.01.2026 20:31 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Legalize Plato" t-shirts and a revision to Professor Peterson's syllabus, in the updates at dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

09.01.2026 16:31 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, was told by university officials today about his upcoming "Contemporary Moral Problems" course, due to start next

Texas A&M has decided that Plato is woke & thus has forbidden a philosophy professor from teaching Plato's works.

Not a joke. Not satire. This is the world the anti-woke "free speech warriors" have bequeathed us.

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

07.01.2026 21:13 👍 251 🔁 96 💬 17 📌 7
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Redaktionsassistent / Redaktionsassistentin (w/m/d) im SWR Studio Tübingen Wir dienen der Gesellschaft. Wir hören den Menschen zu. Wir stehen für lebendige Demokratie und solidarisches Zusammenleben. Wir bieten mit unseren unabhängigen Angeboten allen Menschen in Baden-Württ...

Die Redaktionsassistenz arbeitet im+am Herz des journalistischen Alltags.Sie fühlt den redaktionellen Puls,lindert Schmerzen und wenn‘s drauf ankommt,weiß sie, wie man letzte Kräfte mobilisiert. So wichtig.So schön. Erst recht in unserem aufgeschlossenen Team in Tübingen.
www.swr.de/unternehmen/...

19.12.2025 15:35 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
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München, #jetzt.

02.01.2026 19:48 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Erst 19:17

25.12.2025 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER CHRISTMAS IS ΟΝ 25/25/25

THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER CHRISTMAS IS ΟΝ 25/25/25 THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN IN OUR LIFETIME

24.12.2025 19:01 👍 26 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of a search input in the British Library's interim Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.

A screenshot of a search input in the British Library's interim Explore Archives and Manuscripts catalogue.

An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk

It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records.

15.12.2025 13:40 👍 62 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 5

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

19.12.2025 17:20 👍 2384 🔁 1224 💬 69 📌 357
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Buchhandlung H. P. Willi #Tübingen. Das Ende. Die Reste.

20.12.2025 14:28 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0

"Forschungsspirituose"

16.12.2025 16:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Jauchzet etc.

12.12.2025 18:32 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with
the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a
wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications
of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."

Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?

'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.

New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

11.12.2025 14:08 👍 85 🔁 53 💬 1 📌 10
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Schaubühne Berlin

16.11.2025 18:37 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Preis der Dr. K. H. Eberle Stiftung an Carolin Führer (Deutsches Seminar) und Ulrike Cress (IWM). Herzlichen Glückwunsch! @unituebingen.bsky.social

12.11.2025 22:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0