Maja Lorbek

So proud of myself. Converted djvu files into jpegs then into PDF. A book by Ignaz Felbiger from 1783. Used IrfanView batch converter (be sure to enable djvu add-on) and then Acrobat. (I am working on schools 1945-1979, but sometimes I just have to go down the rabbit holes of the 18th century)

PS: commiseration, it's certainly not easy to be young during the current era. I really like your obsessions with specific topics, great to see that not all generations coming after gen X are so keen on commodifying everything. Lep pozdrav z Dunaja.

From what I vaguely remember: hysteria changed over time, from wandering uterus (hence the name) over those fainting women to anorexia. Von Braun's main point: the men described the symptoms, the women acted them out.

He took too much MDMA.

Everybody applauding Dario Amodei and Anthropic on not crossing the red lines. But then why is using Claude for mass surveillance of non-US citizens acceptable? This utilization seems OK for Anthropic.

with regard to anthropic / US gov / OpenAI, maybe time to revisit Aramis www.bruno-latour.fr/node/106

Symptoms of hysteria changed significantly over centuries. Christine von Braun wrote a book about this phenomenon. Perhaps also applicable to long covid... Not sure if the book is available in English. www.christinavonbraun.de/_buecher/nic...

Aus gegebenem Anlaß: www.slow-science.com

TBH - the first article has much better contextualization and analysis, and has a plausible structure/scope. For me such publishing practices are not quite ethical. I am aware that many scholars are under pressure to publish.

And there is more. One of the authors published an earlier article, where most of the material was already discussed, this is why the second article is such an oddly puzzled-together piece. (also highlighting *Croatian" architects). hpa.unibo.it/article/view...

A tacit feedback – reflections of work in Africa on the architectural and planning practices of socialist Croatia
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
FFS: it was socialist Yugoslavia! Did these authors research the family trees of all the YU architects working in Africa? Otherwise solid scholarship

www.schloss-elmau.de/en/culture/s...

VĚRA JOUROVÁ: Democracies Under Stress YouTube video by IWMVienna

you mean clueless pro censorship folks like this? Oh and btw IWM's Krastev is hosting a get together with Yarvin. www.youtube.com/live/fVFwiqZ...

YouTube video by IWMVienna VĚRA JOUROVÁ: Democracies Under Stress

Mischa Glenny "This is about regulation, about content,uh about what society thinks it's acceptable for people to engage in in terms of uh speech and so on and so on and so forth." That's called censorship, Mr. Glenny. youtu.be/fVFwiqZBz-4?...

The costs of competition in distributing scarce research funds | PNAS Research funding systems fundamentally influence how science operates. This paper aims to analyze the allocation of competitive research funding fr...

The Mellon debate - it is important to see the flaws and unintended consequences of competitive grants (incl. EU-funded). Recommend Gerald Schweiger's research on this dilemma: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Austrian Architecture Biennale 2027: Curators mining historical trauma for cultural capital while checking progressive boxes. Jury picks based on identity + approved anti-nationalist narratives rather than architectural or historical rigor.

ÖAW: classifying researchers into fixed-term and non fixed-term. This is just sad, Austrian Academy of Sciences! www.oeaw.ac.at/isa/team

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I dislike "Baufluencers" (DIY renovators posing on social media) very much. It's OK to decorate, but please don't demolish walls DIY-style. This Slovenian illustrator is particularly annoying: www.facebook.com/reel/2056620...

Over the years, I have bought many antiquarian books and magazines from platforms such as Willhaben, Leboncoin, ToddoCollectiones, Bolha, Njuškalo, and others. All the private sellers were very kind and delivered exactly what I paid for. Highly recommended. (see AA from 1933, my latest acquisition)

The Egon Riss story is more intersting (and local) than you might think: threadinburgh.scot/2022/10/23/t...

Winter @ Spenadl

But also quite telling.

and the FWF. IMO, CoalitionS is a completely failed policy, and the stubbornly continue on that path. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/11/16/a...

I’ve been reading about Rosalind Franklin and came across a fascinating piece on her visits to Slovenia and Yugoslavia. Impressive historiography from a chemist — precise and well-grounded. It’s in Slovenian, but DeepL handles it quite OK, native speaker here. acsi-journal.eu/index.php/AC...

Prater

I refuse to write Open Access with Capitals. Nothing to celebrate during this week for actual researchers. Different story for bureaucrats and publishers, particularly the big five.

Christmas starting early @Leuven

Ich weiss nicht, wieso ich euch so hasse, Fahrradfahrer dieser Stadt (Tocotronic), aber Leuven und nicht Freiburg

Day 6. Tried Venturo spritz, a "novita", but not for me, a bit too sweet...

Storm, not out of nowhere, day three