Merle Ingenfeld

Two colleagues over at the psychology department at @unibonn.bsky.social are currently researching #friendship between members of different sexes in different regions of the world. They are a bit short on data from 🇨🇦 - you can respond to their survey here:
www.soscisurvey.de/frcanada/

Job at Emory: Associate or Full Professor in Native American and Indigenous Studies - due date Feb. 28
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Beyond unsettling.

Karnevalskostüm nicht bei Deiters kaufen, obwohl man wie der Konzern aus Frechen kommt. ✅

Thomas Nagel · Now and Then: Living in Time Our lives don’t just play out over time: we lead them over the course of that time, shaping them as an extended whole...

‘A life gets its shape not only through memory and expectation but through the strong and enduring attachments that are its most important content.’

Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How to conduct behavioral experiments ethically in VR? Learn more in our next #InVirtuo talk this Friday at 2 p.m., when Dr. Konstantinos Armaos (@bachlab.bsky.social) and Clemens Uhing (@iwe-bonn.bsky.social) from our consortium talk about this challenge and how they approach it in their research.

Ex-Bundestagspräsidentin Rita Süssmuth ist tot Die CDU-Politikerin und ehemalige Bundestagspräsidentin Rita Süssmuth ist im Alter von 88 Jahren gestorben. Das teilte die amtierende Bundestagspräsidentin Klöckner mit. Sie würdigte Süssmuth als "ein...

R.i.P Rita Süssmuth
www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/e...

Looking forward to hosting Christian today. I'm sure it's going to be an interesting talk.

Today we are welcoming @derguenther.bsky.social to our #InVirtuo seminar. He is going to talk (in German) about design choices, ethics and the role of the perception of authenticity for VR applications, based on his empirical research of VR use in museums and at memorial sites.

Jamaican bobsleigh team set for ‘Cool Runnings’ reboot at Milano Cortina 2026 Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Jamaica eyes historic first at Milano Cortina 2026, after earning quotas in the women’s monobob, two-man, and four-man events.

Some feel good news:
www.olympics.com/en/milano-co...

🤔Does VR really build empathy? Find out in our next InVirtuo Seminar, where we welcome Dr. Charles Rathkopf @charles-rathkopf.bsky.social ( @fz-juelich.de) for a discussion of the #empathymachine hypothesis.

Further information: tinyurl.com/h6j38j47

Great example of history from below: www.uwz-archiv.de/Audios.227.0...

#paulwulf #antifascism #histpsych

SciFi for your WiFi 👉 filkcast.blogspot.com

You're welcome.

Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund - so oder so ähnlich.

This is btw a pretty good example of what STS calls a socio-technical assemblage: for something like this to happen, impact factor, academic precariousness, the horrors of the academic publishing industry, and a new technology (AI) interact with each other in the worst ways

Dream job, even in this climate. Amazing institute in a wonderful city. Gotta love the district. If you are entertaining the thought, do apply!

We are seeking to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 2026. Applications are due on January 11; for more details visit: www.ghi-dc.org/news-...

I'm delighted that this proposal that I assisted with repeatedly over the course of the last year has been granted funding. ☺️

Vertipper des Tages: Fussstäbchen

Today is World AIDS day and tmw I‘m teaching on the HIV/AIDS Crisis again. A shocking amount of students have zero knowledge of its devastating history. Given conservative backlash I doubt curricula will change soon & vital research has already been defunded by the Trump admin. Fight the forgetting.

Martha Wilczynski, ARD Warschau, zum Anschlag auf Bahnstrecke in Polen Martha Wilczynski, ARD Warschau, zum Anschlag auf Bahnstrecke in Polen

Ich poste hier einfach mal ein bisschen #News (Dinge die ich vom alten Twitter vermisse): Hier meine ehemalige Kommilitonin Martha, die gestern für die ARD aus Warschau über den Anschlag auf die Zugestrecke Warschau-Lublin berichtete. www.tagesschau.de/video/video-...

Every time Covid and learning loss hits the news, people act like the only factor is folk staying home and learning online, rather than… Living through a global mass death event.

Mit Hologrammen die Erinnerung an den Holocaust lebendig halten Mit dem Projekt HOLO-VOICES des NRW-Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft (MKW) und der TU Dortmund entsteht auf dem UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein in Essen ein neuer Ort der Erinnerung, der den Überle...

We congratulate our Co-PI and #Invirtuo consortium member Prof. Mario Botsch (#TUDortmund) for getting this project off the ground.

#livinghistory #holocaustsurvivors #rememeberance #memory #virtualhumans #exhibition

www.tu-dortmund.de/en/newsdetai...

Appel à communications : Faire l’histoire des migrations avec des méthodes numériques.
🔥 Rejoignez-nous à Paris l’an prochain pour l’école d’été au @dhiparis du 22 au 26 juin 2026.
🖥️ Repensez comment les sources numériques transforment l’histoire des migrations, des questions de recherche aux […]

The books, the tv adaptation or both?

Nine Movies That Break Down How Fear Works What to watch to understand your terror

The most effective scary movies tend to do more than just terrify us—they prompt us to question why we’re so afraid in the first place. Here are nine films that do just that:

🚨🚨CFP klaxon🚨🚨

International Conference on women’s & gender history in times of challenges to democracy, diversity & responsibility at Uni Bielefeld. See: www.genderhistory2026.de for info!

We are thrilled to announce the 2nd annual workshop of the InVirtuo Network. The title of this year’s event is “Embodied Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Digital Twins, XR Technology, and Volumetric Performance Capture.”

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

WE'RE HIRING!

The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING

I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions

Please share widely!

Hallo Mainz!