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🇩🇪 NEW German Election Special 🇩🇪 @sturdyalex.bsky.social's 30m German election explainer with the brilliant @annettedittert.bsky.social. What the result means and what it doesn't. What to be worried about and what to welcome. 🔊 open.spotify.com/episode/794B... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 5 days ago • 152 comments

The German Literature Archive at Marbach permanently acquires Kafka's famous 'Letter to my father', which remained undelivered. Much more than just a letter - more like a key to understanding Kafka's works.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely delighted to see this project take such a significant step forward.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Here are 21 glorious examples open.spotify.com/playlist/1cL...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

“Trump accuses Ukraine of the lasting Russian war of aggression” is a good headline over at @spiegelonline.bsky.social www.spiegel.de/ausland/dona...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It seems like as good a day as any to repost links to the five metaphor-based animations we created - based on this paper journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... - about the importance of #vaccines. @sflusberg.bsky.social First one: A castle metaphor for how vaccines work youtu.be/DOD854panQg?...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

An excellent opportunity to join the fantastic team at Lancaster!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Support the colleagues @cardiffunilib.bsky.social fighting the good fight to defend Modern Languages. This excellent website they’ve put together tells you how and provides all the background information: www.savecardifflanguages.org

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Sobering read in @timeshighered.bsky.social from the frontline of academia in the face of the redundancy crisis, including @academicdiary.bsky.social on the urgent need for repair amidst unprecedented fear and insecurity among colleagues www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-re...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Open-ended professorial position at University of Sheffield. We are seeking a Head of the School of English (any EGH discipline, including Language & Linguistics). Deadline 23rd Feb. Details here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Head-of-.... Please share.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Anselm Kiefer: Early Works review – his Nazi salute dominates a show haunted by horrors

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Reach for the Sky

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Read now: Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card... @emmacayley.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Solidarity with colleagues at Cardiff University

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

When Laura K insists rejoining the EU wouldn't bring growth for the UK as EU countries on average don't grow much atm, it is (deliberately?) misleading. The UK's economy can of course grow if trade with EU countries increases, no matter how well they are doing for themselves.

submitted 26 days ago • 90 comments

It would take too long a post to do justice to this event organised by the DARE partnership between @universityofleeds.bsky.social @operanorth.bsky.social . I’ll put a link in the comments to an informative piece about the overall project.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The University of Leeds has become the first Russell Group university to officially announce that it is quitting Elon Musk’s social media site X. It will, however, be alive and well on Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

submitted 36 days ago • 7 comments

This. Made my day today. 🥳

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

Even in the 16th century, London was a diverse city where many languages and cultures came together. @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social spoke to the History Extra podcast about what life was like for Elizabethan London's migrant population. 🎧Listen to learn more ⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/65T4...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of comments today on the language used in the UK government's AI announcement. A quick Word Sketch of 'unleash' in the Oxford English Corpus shows that it has a negative semantic prosody, i.e. that most of the things that are 'unleashed' are bad. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X - www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/ov...

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...

submitted 49 days ago • 192 comments

Our colleagues at Water at Leeds continue to recognize and celebrate the inspiring power of women in the discipline as their Water Woman Award opens for nominations. Good luck to all entrants. water.leeds.ac.uk/news/water-w...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Pages from Everything Must Go on Y2K anxiety, which peaked 25 years ago today - millennial dread wrapped in a coding problem

submitted 59 days ago • 8 comments

Such an impressive selection box of political commentary and insight from the excellent team @quietriotpod.bsky.social

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Am enjoying all the President Musk memes, and they remind me of this one. Reputedly David Steel enjoyed Spitting Image but recognised that the show’s depiction of him as a puppet in David Owen’s pocket didn’t help his public image. Surely only a matter of time before it gets recycled for Trump.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent analysis in this new podcast series from @aiannucci.bsky.social and Helen Lewis www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing! Kunsthalle Mannheim re-does (and then some) the original 1925 exhibit that gave the New Objectivity its name. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

Was ist grün und auch bei BlueSky? Werder Breeeeemen! Herzlich Willkommen an unsere lieben Freund*innen von der Weser! 🤎🤍💚 @werderbremen.bsky.social ✅ #fcsp #werder #xodus

submitted 102 days ago • 69 comments