Daniel Bellingradt

Die "Initiative Buchersatzprodukte" reibt sich die Hände und bereitet im Stillen nun eine Klage auf Umbenennung aller Bücher, die nicht aus Papier sind, vor. #ebooks

German Buchhandelsgeschichte - English speaking #bookhistory - French style Histoire du livre

Today, I am in solidarity with my British humanities colleagues and all their *checks notes* "low-quality courses".

Dim-lit silence it the best.

#libsky #bookhistory

It is always the Reading Room of the Special Collections where the magic happens.

No. Won’t do that.

That’s the point. No one will easily understand.

I have been contacted by colleagues asking about phantom publications and it's always terrible when you start thinking "damn, I really should have written that."

To add to this one more point: #genAI will surely blur the accessibility to our cultural memories, as it actively manipulates the streams and sources of memories accessible. In a nutshell, #historiography will have to deal with lots of more plurals of everything.

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Agreed.

As a historian, I truly like the "foreverized pastness" part of this. And I agree, on a daily basis we are floating towards a permanent establishment of badly manipulated memories. A plural of nonsense histories. #skystorians

This is the way.

The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news. #NewsHistory

A male human head with three mouths.

"... yackety-yak, blah-blah, have you heard the news yet?"

Good point!

A detail from a German pamphlet showing three male human heads: a Turk, A Hungarian, and a German. All heads have three mouths and you can see the tongues. The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news.

Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip

Really I should have been born in the seventeenth century, when random speling was normal.

Programm der Tagung "Prompted Pasts?" vom 9. Oktober 2025

Programm der Tagung "Prompted Pasts?" vom 10. Oktober 2025.

Yay, Tagungsprogramm! @studioranokel.bsky.social, @mberg.bsky.social + das Team der Didaktik der Geschichte/Uni Augsburg (u.a. @chr-kuchler.bsky.social) freuen uns, zur Tagung #PromptedPasts einzuladen. 🩷 Es wird um Geschichte, KI + Illustration gehen. 🪩

Programm + Anmeldung ➡️ t1p.de/promptedpasts

Applaus!

An die deutsche Wissenschaft: (k)ein Liebesbrief Liebe deutsche Wissenschaft, wir müssen reden.

Liebe dt. Wissenschaft, von mir verlangst Du seit Jahren vollstes Commitment. Von Dir bekomme ich im Gegenzug nichts als maximale Unverbindlichkeit. So kann es mit uns nicht weitergehen. Deshalb schreibe ich Dir diesen Brief — nachzulesen heute in meinem Newsletter #ArbeitInDerWiss!

#IchBinHanna

Sounds interesting

Follow me for more (thinking) hats on fire.

YouTube video by Hornskov Hats Why do hat makers set hats on FIRE? 🔥 Singeing & distressing explained.

Totally unrelated: Why do hat makers set hats on FIRE? 🔥

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Das stimmt natürlich.

Und wer ein bißchen bayrischen Dialekt kann, kennt vielleicht das "I glaub, dir brennt da Huat" als Steigerung von "I glaub, du spinnst".

Alas!

Thank me later for having the song now stuck in your head.

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.

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

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