@aelmgren.bsky.social
Docent in Nordic history, university lecturer in history and social studies (University of Oulu). Draws comics. Interests: History education, 1910s/1920s politics & culture, Tatars, Avars, Late Antiquity-Early Middle Ages. Suomi/Svenska/English/Deutsch
Uudessa julkaisussa Ulla Rajalan kanssa pohdimme mikä on klassillisen arkeologian tulevaisuus Suomessa. muinaistutkija.journal.fi/article/view....
"Niin kauan kuin tämänhetkinen (talous)poliittinen ilmapiiri pysyy vallitsevana, klassillisen arkeologian tulevaisuus on vaakalaudalla. ...
Nykyajan riesa on se, että poliitikot ja äänestäjät, usein myös sotilaat, haluavat sen "nopean ratkaisun", ja kun sitä ei ole, se jätetään tekemättä.
Tai joskus kuvitellaan, että nopea ratkaisu on olemassa, ja sitten tehdään typeriä asioita, kuten hyökätään Iraniin.
Keine Fake News, sondern die reine Wahrheit: Der aktuelle Band der Reihe "Das Mittelalter. Beihefte" ist online! Die Autoren gehen der Frage nach, inwieweit es Fake News bereits im Mittelalter gab. Zum kostenlosen E-Book: doi.org/10.17885/hei..., #openaccess, #Fakenews, #Mittelalter, #Mediävistik
Eläimettääkö?
"Rajoittunut käsitys eläimistä sekä ihmisen ja muiden eläinten vuorovaikutussuhteista on tutkijoiden mukaan osaltaan myötävaikuttanut lajikatoon sekä ekologisten ongelmien syntyyn."
#eläimet #koulu #opetus
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Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
"Ensimmäisen digitaalisen toimittamisen kokeiluni lopputuloksena oli se, että vastoin Kansallisarkiston tavoitteita, aineiston käyttö muuttui entistä hankalammaksi."
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Pitkästä aikaa sarjakuvia. Osallistuin tällaiseen Oulun sarjisfeministien zineen, aihe arki ja tila. Vapaasti luettavissa! Taitto ja toimitustyö @annahojarual.bsky.social 🎉
#sarjakuvat #oulunsarjisfeministit #sarjakuvazine #comicsfromfinland
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This feels like MORE WORK
FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.
'Alfred the Great’s Indian Embassy:
How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?' - an article by me in History Today: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
digital tools are going to change the world! btw that database you rely on no longer exists; that website you got a grant for will be gone in 3 years; have you considered doing an online edition instead?; we only do PDF review copies, For The Planet; would you like me to summarise that PDF for you?
Very impressed that someone else's inane annotations in a used book have historically led me to think "ugh I can't believe I paid $3 for this," but on BookTok/Etsy people are paying $100+ for the experience.
Just another Monday…
A Roman mosaic depicting a somewhat whimsical owl 🦉, found in Uzès, southern France, dating second half of the 1st century BC.
📷 Denis Gliksman, Inrap
🏺 #MosaicMonday
Membership keeps the lights on at Tribunate- if you like AI-free, anti clickbait history focused on the Roman working class, you can become a member for only $1 a month.
If you do, you’ll get access to videos like this where I am even more woke:
youtu.be/wTqjqOapVlw
again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!
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This l’il fella is a gold amulet from Roman Egypt, possibly representing the Egyptian god Anubis as a defender of Osiris-Dionysus. He wears a military tunic and breastplate, signifying him as a defender of Osiris; he also holds a thyrsus of Dionysus, equated with Osiris. 🏺 1/
📸 me #MetMuseum
Anagrammi. Ensi viikolla pelataan pakohuonepelejä. Opiskelijat tekivät niin hienoja tehtäviä että piti vähän panostaa omaan osiooni.
Great blog post by @gelliottmorris.com which is backed by decades of academic research. How you ask a question impacts how people answer the question!
This has important consequences for how to think about puic opinion and how to treat opinion polls. Short 🧵
Doesn't this reflect the broader pattern: we let AI compose music and write poetry, while humans are still the ones scrubbing toilets and taking out the trash. In academia, we let AI do the fun stuff, like writing and analysis, only to be left with the bureaucracy and administration.
Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.
”Se tarkoittaisi, että 2,25€ mustikkapussi maksaisi tulevaisuudessa runsaat kolme euroa.
Maksaisin mielelläni tällaisen hinnan puurooni tulevista mustikoista, jos se varmistaisi, ettei yhdellekään poimijalle enää käy kuten Anunya Mueangthongille.
Olen aika varma, että niin tekisi moni muukin.”
Älska @otherjudith.bsky.social.
New Medieval Books: Byzantine Sources for the Crusades, 1095-1204 www.medievalists.net/2025/03/new-... #books
So, here's the article I have out as of today and it's #OpenAccess. It deals with one of the earliest Christian Arabic scribal workshops in the Sinai monastery, where many of the mss produced there have been preserved to this day. In this 🧵 I do a quick rundown of the most important findings. 1/n
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Shocking news. Obviously one doesn't know the ins and outs, but it's hard to comprehend how such a large and weathy university as UCL finds itself unable to support a cutting-edge humanities research institute. Solidarity with everyone affected. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Mathias Hanses and Harriet Fertik co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition, "Above the Veil: Revisiting the Classicism of W. E. B. Du Bois" (2019). Fertik is at work on a book on Du Bois and Hannah Arendt #AncientBlackness
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[23] W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), born #otd, was an American sociologist, historian, and later Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. He died in Accra, Ghana. He was a Classics professor at Wilberforce University, and the first African American to earn his PhD from Harvard #AncientBlackness
From the abstract: "the British Toshakhana in colonial India, an office within the foreign department in Calcutta responsible for managing, appraising, and discreetly selling off diplomatic gifts without the giver knowing" - super-interesting!
Mit Max Oppel vom «Kompressor» im Deutschlandfunk Kultur durfte ich über #genAI im Histotainment sprechen. Er war ein wenig skeptisch, was meine Skepsis betraf, aber so wurde ein hoffentlich recht lebhaftes Gespräch daraus, ganz ohne bewegte Bilder www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-im-histot...
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