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Ainur Elmgren

@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

created October 22, 2023

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Profile picture New Lines Magazine (@newlinesmag.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: Nepal’s youth-led uprising follows similar events in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, signaling a push for greater accountability and a break from the past across South Asia, writes Vandana Menon for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/argument/nep...

18/9/2025, 10:33:35 AM | 32 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jussi Ahokas (@ahokasjaj.bsky.social) reposted

Nyt on taloustieteellistä kovaa näyttöä, että köyhyydestä nouseminen auttaa mielenterveyttä. En olisi ikinä arvannut! #talous #tiede #yhteiskunta

22/9/2025, 9:43:57 AM | 175 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kawa Zolfagary (@zolfagary.se) reposted

År 2023 hade Sverige en utsläppsnivå på 3,5 ton koldioxidutsläpp per capita. Centralafrikanska republiken har 0,1. Här hittar ni siffrorna för 2022 och kan med enkelhet se att det finns ~90 länder som har lägre utsläpp per capita än vad vi har: www.ui.se/landguiden/s...

22/9/2025, 10:49:09 AM | 9 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jawad Zanganeh (@jawadzanganeh.bsky.social) reposted

Det är en nästan för perfekt illustration av kritiken i kulturkanondebatten: nu har vi en kulturkanon men inga pengar till kulturen.

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22/9/2025, 10:50:30 AM | 59 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Tätä suunnittelen itsekin, vaihtoehtona Linuxin asentaminen.

22/9/2025, 5:48:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jussi Ahokas (@ahokasjaj.bsky.social) reposted

Jotenkin osasin arvata. Joku tosin tästäkin syyttänyt venäläisiä.

Hs visio. Heikoin lenkki taloudessa: suomalaiset.
22/9/2025, 3:12:30 AM | 115 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mikko Räkköläinen (@mrakkol.bsky.social) reposted

Israelin asevoimat on surmannut Gazassa tänään vähintään 55 palestiinalaista. Sairaalalähteiden mukaan 1 ihminen on kuollut nälkään. Iso-Britannia, Kanada ja Australia ovat tunnustaneet Palestiinan valtion.

21/9/2025, 6:39:55 PM | 3 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Emilie (@prismatic-tiger.bsky.social) reposted

Visste ni att 'trolling' är ett mycket äldre begrepp än internetkultur? Det kan vara bra att ha koll på, eftersom högern anammat trolling/att trolla som del av sin politiska strategi. 'Trolling' har ursprungligen inget med mytologiska troll att göra. En liten tråd.

21/9/2025, 11:21:58 AM | 24 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Miten opettaisin itse nuo aiheet? Vinkkejä sopivista materiaaleista otetaan vastaan. Ongelmat kasautuivat kolmeen aihealueeseen: Antiikin Rooman yhteiskunta (patriisit ja plebeijit), keskiaika Euroopassa (feodalismi, kristinusko/kirkko), ns. "vapauden" eli säätyvallan aika Ruotsissa ja Suomessa. 4/4

21/9/2025, 11:06:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Ongelma: Monissa luvuissa opetettiin epäolennaista tai väärää tietoa totena (esim. että patriisien ja plebeijien ero perustui varallisuuteen), tai tapahtumia kuvailtiin epäselvästi passiivimuodossa ilman selkeitä toimijoita. Jätin nämä luvut pois tehtävästä, mutta jäin miettimään: 3/4

21/9/2025, 11:05:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Tätä varten lainasin lukuja oppikirjoista. Kriteeri: Luvussa pitää mainita erilaisia toimijoita (yksilöitä tai ryhmiä), joilla on selkeästi eri näkökulmia luvussa kuvattuun ilmiöön (vaikkapa "löytöretket"). Sopivia lukuja löytyi runsaasti. 2/4

21/9/2025, 11:04:32 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Mietteitä historianopetuksesta. #alakoulu #historianopetus Valmistelin tuleville luokanopettajille tehtävän, jossa he laativat opetuksen tueksi ajatuskartan ja apukysymyksiä, joilla oppilaiden kanssa tunnistetaan eri näkökulmia oppikirjan tekstistä. 1/4

21/9/2025, 11:03:54 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Io Dodds 🌘🏳️‍⚧️♾️ (@iododds.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: This is a story I worked really hard on. I spoke to four American trans people about why they're claiming asylum in Canada or the Netherlands. It's an eye-opening window into just how unsafe people now feel here — and what drove them to that point. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

20/9/2025, 7:07:20 PM | 846 358 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Tykkäänkin väittää hämmästyneille opiskelijoille, että idän vaikutteiden laiminlyönti suomalaisessa historianopetuksessa on suomettuneisuuden perintöä :) Kävin keväällä Tallinnassa Rahva Raamatussa ja ihailin sikäläisiä oppikirjoja. Hiukkasen laajempi näkökulma keskiaikaan!

21/9/2025, 8:39:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Pidin viime viikolla harjoituksen tuleville luokanopettajille, jossa he saivat piirtää kartalle erilaisten muinaisten kauppatavaroiden mahdollisia matkareittejä Suomeen. Syntyi mielenkiintoinen kuvio, jossa melkein kaikki viivat kiersivät nykyisen Venäjän alueen kaukaa.

21/9/2025, 8:22:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Myös eurooppalaisella ja globaalilla tasolla itä on näkymätön tai lännestä erillinen. Eräässä uudessa alakoulun historian oppikirjassa Kaarle Suuri esitellään "Euroopan keisarina" (vanhassa kirjassa sentään Länsi-). Pronssikauden kauppaverkostot kuvataan ainoastaan länteen ja lounaaseen ulottuvina.

21/9/2025, 8:19:37 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Joo, peruskoulun oppikirjoja tutkiessa ilmiö tulee edelleen vastaan. Kerrotaan kyllä että kristinusko tuli Suomeen sekä idästä että lännestä, mutta fokus on kuitenkin lännessä tai pikemminkin lounaan suunnassa koko ajan.

21/9/2025, 8:17:13 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Jeltsinin aikana oli tendenssejä Novgorodin uudelleen arviointiin, esimerkki tässä 28 vuotta vanhassa jutussa: jamestown.org/program/hist...

20/9/2025, 4:29:20 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mathias Cederholm (@mathiasced.bsky.social) reposted

Nu är min artikel upplåst. "När ska man stoppa ett folkmord?". Om internationell rätt, mediernas ansvar, "implikatorisk folkmordsförnekelse", med mera.

20/9/2025, 7:46:42 AM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Booth (@boothicus.bsky.social) reposted

“Today, we’re very similar to each other. Even the most different people are at most maybe 200,000 years separated, with little gene flow,” Reich said. “But 70,000 years ago, there were at least five groups far more different from each other than any groups living today.”

20/9/2025, 9:39:28 AM | 21 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture William Dalrymple (@willdalrymple.bsky.social) reposted

New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

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18/9/2025, 5:26:46 PM | 163 78 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage (@ottomanhistory.bsky.social) reposted

🖌️ An Ottoman Miniature Depicting the Descent of Jesus Christ (pbuh) to Earth, Escorted by Two Angels, in Damascus (Second Coming), 1583 #JesusChrist #SecondComing

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19/9/2025, 2:02:21 PM | 97 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Duncan Mackay (@theduncanmackay.bsky.social) reposted

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

Playmobil figure kitted out as prehistoric iceman Ötzi.
19/9/2025, 9:16:57 AM | 605 208 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

-> "minorities deserving affirmative action; they are now viewed as not only ungrateful but also as ‘evil or one of its numerous surrogates’ (Connolly 1991, 64), existentially threatening the Chinese national self."

19/9/2025, 3:13:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

U. Bulag writes: "I have elsewhere argued that minority nationalities are now viewed as ‘Frankenstein's monsters,’ creatures of the Communist state that have come to torment their creator (Bulag 2021). Nationalities have thus acquired an entirely different image to that of small and weak" ->

19/9/2025, 3:13:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Reading and savouring: Bulag, U. E. (2023). The wheel of history and minorities’ ‘self-sacrifice’ for the Chinese nation. Comparative Education, 60(1), 96–117. doi.org/10.1080/0305...

19/9/2025, 3:12:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Asian Review of Books (@asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social) reposted

Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast features host Nicholas Gordon in conversation with Charles R Butcher, co-author of “Before Colonization: Non-Western States and Systems in the Nineteenth Century” @columbiaup.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...

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18/9/2025, 9:14:56 AM | 29 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Natasha Saunders (@negsaunders.bsky.social) reposted

Deleted my account. Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

18/9/2025, 5:58:03 AM | 29 13 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jussi Ahokas (@ahokasjaj.bsky.social) reposted

Huhuh. En ole koskaan nähnyt Suomen talouden sektoritileissä tällaista. Kotitaloudet ovat laittaneet täysin kuluttamisen ja investoinnit jäihin. Siinä ei pieni nousu yritysten investointiasteessa silloin auta. Pahinta on, että tämä alkaa näyttää rakenteelliselta eli pysyvältä tilalta. #talous

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18/9/2025, 6:13:30 AM | 221 43 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mathias Cederholm (@mathiasced.bsky.social) reposted

Jag har skrivit ny artikel. Det är officiellt: "Israel begår folkmord i Gaza enligt ny FN-rapport. Men larmet gick i januari 2024. Sedan dess har rapporterna staplats, medierna tvekat. När tvekan blir en form av folkmordsförnekelse." 1/3 magasinetkonkret.se/folkmord-i-g...

17/9/2025, 3:15:12 PM | 20 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture LSE Library (@lselibrary.bsky.social) reposted

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

10/9/2025, 12:01:15 PM | 24 10 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Its ruaa “Telling what can’t be spoken…” (@itsmeio.bsky.social) reposted

they killed his friend while he was searching for flour! He was supposed to travel before October 7, and all his papers were ready. But the war of genocide robbed him even of the simple life he wanted to improve.

15/9/2025, 11:05:38 AM | 47 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Json Momoa (@jotatx.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

@olivia.science coined the finest definition ever about LLMs "Correlation is not Cognition" and i might tattoo that phrase somewhere visible in my arm

15/9/2025, 2:56:02 PM | 53 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Niko Jaakkola FI (@nikoekon.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Monet kokevat houkuttelevana usein viitata "koviin" luonnonlakeihin ikäänkuin ne olisivat tiukempia rajoitteita verrattuna "vain sopimuspohjaisiin", "tietokannoissa oleviin" sosiaalisiin lakeihin. Mielestäni tällainen argumentti vähättelee poliittisten ongelmien vaikeutta. 5/n

11/9/2025, 7:52:19 AM | 9 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture John Skiles Skinner (@skiles.blue) reposted

When everything is broken, why does Wikipedia still work? "because disputes on Wikipedia are won or lost based on who has better followed Wikipedia process, every dispute becomes an opportunity to reiterate the project’s rules and principles."

5/9/2025, 9:10:29 PM | 332 70 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Meinasin suositella tumminta sävyä. Mutta jos alavasemmalla oleva on luonnossa myös tummempi, ja huone pieni, se sopii ehkä kuitenkin paremmin.

14/9/2025, 3:33:54 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nina Willburger (@drnwillburger.bsky.social) reposted

Two adorable Egyptian figurines: a roaring hippo and a baby hippo, dating ca 1,800 BC. Hippos were associated with life and rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Two turquoise-blue hippopotamus figurines, one larger with black plant motifs and an open mouth, the smaller one lying on its side.
14/9/2025, 8:14:49 AM | 855 228 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture SVT Nyheter (@svtnyheter.bsky.social) reposted

Oväntade effekten: Matsvinnet halverades efter mobilförbudet https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ovantade-effekten-matsvinnet-halverades-efter-mobilforbudet

14/9/2025, 3:58:55 AM | 8 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"The [textbooks] overlook influential empires from the Middle Ages, such as the Mongols and Ottomans [...]. The Mongols are mentioned only for their attack on China" (Rosa Pesonen, Master’s Programme in Contemporary Societies, University of Helsinki) helda.helsinki.fi/items/6cec43...

13/9/2025, 6:31:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aki Lehti (@akilehti.bsky.social) reposted

Isoista maista Ranska, Italia ja Espanja kannattavat tätä hulluutta edelleen. Täältä löytyvällä valmiilla sapluunalla voi laittaa viestiä haluamallaan kielellä vaikka joka ainoalle mepille: fightchatcontrol.eu

13/9/2025, 1:55:06 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

For some reason Keenious had no access to this (found via Google Scholar). digitalcommons.bard.edu/history_mat/...

13/9/2025, 10:33:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Thanks, Keenious. New field of research unlocked? I refuse to believe that I am the only one thinking about this every day.

Keenious result:
13/9/2025, 10:09:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Jonotan tätä Kansalliskirjaston ilmaisessa E-Kirjasto-sovelluksessa. Tällä hetkellä sijalla 45. #ahistoryofthemuslimworld

13/9/2025, 8:30:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kofi (@kofiemeritus.bsky.social) reposted

“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack. You still won’t be able to eliminate dependencies and vulnerabilities on foreign states.” restofworld.org/2025/chinese...

13/9/2025, 6:14:54 AM | 22 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Kunnollista! Luulen että @jiipuuusitalo.bsky.social arvostaisi?

13/9/2025, 8:03:01 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Commilito, ex qua legione es aut cuius centuria? www.earth.com/news/roman-s...

13/9/2025, 7:57:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

Breaking News: Sushila Karki, a former chief justice of Nepal, was appointed as the country’s caretaker leader after the Gen Z protests against the government turned deadly when security forces opened fire on the students.

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Profile picture rogueclassicist ~ david meadows (@rogueclassicist.bsky.social) reposted

Exceptional Imperial-Era Mosaics Found in a Roman Necropolis on the Via Appia www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/09/t...

12/9/2025, 5:13:55 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter Clines (@peterclines.bsky.social) reposted

This whole thread is fantastic, but this bit in particular stood out for me.

12/9/2025, 3:47:05 PM | 9 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ody (@odeecs.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

DO. NOT. COMPLY. IN. ADVANCE. What the fuck is wrong with these goddamn administrative cowards? You do not save yourself by feeding the fascist wolf! You only whet his appetite for human flesh.

12/9/2025, 12:10:06 PM | 35 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Uuden ajan alun tutkimuksen verkosto (@uudenajanalku.bsky.social) reposted

Lue Suomen Historiallisen Seuran hallituksen avoin kirje "Suomeen tarvitaan kansallinen arkistostrategia". Myös uuden ajan alun tutkimuksen aineistojen saatavuus on uhattuna. @keskisuomalainen.bsky.social @turunsanomat.fi @hbl.fi.web.brid.gy @abounderrattelser.fi www.kaleva.fi/suomeen-tarv...

12/9/2025, 11:06:19 AM | 14 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Håkan Gustafsson (@marknadsavd.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Det här kan vara Harry Martinsons debut i Brand (i alla fall under eget namn) lördagen 3 september 1927. I samma nummer skriver också Ottar!

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Profile picture Mikko Neuvo (@mikkoneuvo.bsky.social) reposted

Jos valtion tukirahoilla eläimiä kiduttavaa ei kiinnosta ruuvata valtion maksamaa verkkoa katokseen maailmanlaajuisen katastrofin välttämiseksi, niin ei voi kiinnostaa minkkien hyvinvointikaan.

12/9/2025, 7:45:15 AM | 58 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

It should be a happy occasion to receive proofs for an upcoming publication, and not at all a daunting task to review them within a week, but in mid-September I just feel like he proverbial camel.

12/9/2025, 12:22:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

The art looks amazing! 🔥

10/9/2025, 3:47:53 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Isaac Samuel (@rhaplord.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

The travel accounts of the two East African globetrotters and their contrasting experiences are the subject of my latest Patreon article: ⬇️ a Comorian prince and a Somali seafarer across four continents. www.patreon.com/posts/contra...

10/9/2025, 2:31:09 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cas Ⓜ️udde (@casmudde.bsky.social) reposted

Indeed! Remember that we would not be here without the years of "anti-woke" bashing in self-professed "centrist" and "liberal" media like The Atlantic and NYT. It is insane how often I heard and still hear "anti-woke" paranoia among "liberal" acquaintances and colleagues in both Europe and the U.S.

10/9/2025, 2:48:28 PM | 52 16 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kim Weeden (@weedenkim.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature. *As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.

Screenshot of reddit post from user Wang_Lung_1921. Begin quote: I understand that ENG 360 is Children's Literature, and that's what has been reported, but she's not in the Course Schedule for 360. Instead, look at ENG 394, which does show as her course. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But that's what my search pulled up. You can still find her syllabus, with a detailed course description, that falls within the range of the general description given in the Catalog.
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Profile picture Matthew Facciani (@matthewfacciani.bsky.social) reposted

“When university presidents have little choice but to dismiss faculty members’ expertise and enforce ideological edicts,” Friedman said, “the space for free speech and open inquiry on our campuses is undeniably being suffocated.” www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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Profile picture Sami Eerola (@eerolasami.bsky.social) reposted

Taitaa olla Wahlroosin lause. Tulee vaan mieleen tää tapaus josta luin kuklausi sitten

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Profile picture Jussi Jalonen (@jojalonen.bsky.social) reposted

Helvetin kova suoritus kahdessa vuodessa. Suomi siis tipahti alemmalle sijalle kuin Puola ja Nigeria.

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Profile picture Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) reposted

In a sign geared to the "populist" politics of our times, Pope Leo XIV canonizes Pier Giorgio Frassati, a martyr in the struggle against fascism in Italy, who passionately advocated against wars and colonialism and advocated fidelity to international law. www.lastampa.it/cronaca/2025...

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Profile picture Ideas Roadshow (@ideasroadshow.bsky.social) reposted

🎨 September is Sofonisba month! 💯 Playful content related to our new film, Sofonisba's Chess Game, on our substack here ➡️ ideasroadshow.substack.com 🎟️ Sign up to qualify for a free pass for subscribers! 🗳️ 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #womenartists #Artherstory #blueskyart #womeninart #chess

Miniature painting by Sofonisba Anguissola.
31/8/2025, 12:43:22 PM | 14 5 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chapps (@chapps.bsky.social) reposted

Mood. Portrait head of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, of the 'Formia type'. 🏺 Museo Nazaionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome (inv. 627). 📸 me

The Formia type, named after the place where the displayed example was found, is the most common portrait type in the representation of images of emperor Antoninus Pius. The carving of the original portrait, from which this head and other replicas derive, dates back to the period of his assumption of power (138 CE). The original model was replicated with a few variations for the entire duration of Antoninus Pius's rule. The very high-key lighting casts heavy shadows over his eyes and makes all of the lines and sagging skin appear more distinct. Yikes - it looks like he has the flu. Roman, ca. 150 CE. Lunense marble. Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome (inv. 627)
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Profile picture Kris Å (@kris2000.bsky.social) reposted

Alla som umgåtts med mobbare vet att ska man bry sig om att reagera på en insinuering så ska detta göras omgående, i samma medium, genom en direkt konfrontation: ” Exakt VAD menar du? Jag förstår inte, kan du förtydliga dig?” Reagerar man på annat sätt så triggas ”detvarintesåjagmende”-dansen.

7/9/2025, 12:28:47 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ (@olivia.science) reposted

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
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Profile picture Ben Williamson (@benpatrickwill.bsky.social) reposted

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"... hänen kannattaisi ehdottomasti perehtyä Indonesian historiaan. Maailman neljänneksi suurinta valtiota ei olisi syntynyt ilman teini-ikäisten ja parikymppisten nuorten tukea." (Revolusi: Indonesia ja modernin maailman synty)

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"Maassa pelätään tyytymättömän nuorison kapinan laajenevan." David Van Reybrouck kirjoittaa hienossa tiiliskivessään Revolusi (Siltala 2023) nuorison merkityksestä Indonesian itsenäistymisessä siirtomaavallasta 1945. "Jos nykypäivänä joku erehtyy luulemaan, ettei nuorilla ole merkitystä..." (s. 16)

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Kiinnostavia uutisia Indonesiasta. Mielenosoituksilla on vaikutusta. yle.fi/a/74-20181484

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Profile picture History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage (@ottomanhistory.bsky.social) reposted

📜 Handwritten Note on a Page of an Old Book, 18th Century: ✏️ "Seeking knowledge is better than seeking gold."

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Tulin ajatelleeksi isoisääni, joka ehti jatkosotaan mukaan, mutta josta tuli Suomen kansalainen vasta 1980-1990-luvun vaihteessa.

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Profile picture Bram De Ridder (@bramderidder.bsky.social) reposted

"[Mr. Rahman] said history as a topic was a reliable driver of online traffic. Other creators appear to agree. The BBC has seen step-by-step instructional videos on how popular AI models could be used to generate continuous fake history images and text." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Profile picture Bram De Ridder (@bramderidder.bsky.social) reposted

"In recent months, AI spammers have posted fake images purporting to be from inside the camp, such as a prisoner playing a violin or lovers meeting at the boundaries of fences - attracting tens of thousands of likes and shares."

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Profile picture Isaac Samuel (@rhaplord.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

According to the archaeologist Roderick McIntosh and art historian Alisa Lagamma, the Senegambia megaliths and similar structures from Mali were built by mobile herders www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-ancien...

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Profile picture The Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunter.net) reposted reply parent

It sank.

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Profile picture The Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunter.net) reposted

Just reminding you of these meme's I made that you're free to plaster all over the internet ;)

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Profile picture Ilmari Käihkö (@kaihko.bsky.social) reposted

(Tuleva kustantajani) Tammi on tehnyt suuren kulttuuriteon tukemalla ukrainalaista kirjallisuutta ja sarjakuvaa - ja tuottoja ohjaamalla myös ukrainalaisia lapsia. Tästä suuri hatunnosto. @ainosutinen.bsky.social kirjoitti ukrainalaisesta sarjakuvasta Sarjainfossa: sarjakuvaseura.fi/nayteartikke...

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Profile picture Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ (@ashleylynch.bsky.social) reposted

The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.

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Profile picture The Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunter.net) reposted reply parent

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Profile picture The Fake History Hunter (@fakehistoryhunter.net) reposted

What is wrong with the term "dark ages"? Here's a thread with a bunch of links that (some better than others) try to explain why so many historians get a rash when they hear that term. Let me know if you find good articles/threads that should be added (or removed). 🧵🧵🧵

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

TACK!!! Fantastiskt, och vilken bra sajt med bilder och allt!

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Wow, helt otroligt 🤯🤩 Du är en klippa!

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Kan någon hjälpa mig identifiera runstenen på det gamla fotot? Obs.! Det går inte att läsa runorna, eftersom fotot är oskarpt. Obs.!! Jag känner redan till raa.se. Klicka på bilden för att läsa ALT-texten - det är all information jag har. #runsten

Stenen verkar ha ett kors i mitten och runorna är ristade i ett band som snörklar sig utåt i ändarna. Ingen aning var bilden togs - någonstans i Småland ca 1987-88?
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Profile picture Paris Marx (@parismarx.com) reposted

fellow authors, it’s our duty to financially ruin the AI industry

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Profile picture Jarkko Lauspalo (@lauspalo.com) reposted reply parent

Toki media on puhunut aiemmin esim. Saksan tilanteesta. Mutta tämä että sitä ei nivota yhteen ja kontekstoida Suomen ehdotettua velkajarrua vaikka siihen mitä se on tehnyt Saksassa, on mikä minulla tympii valtamediassa. Asioiden kontekstointi, isomman kuvan muodostus, se on hyvin puutteellista.

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Profile picture Oliver Nachtwey (@onachtwey.bsky.social) reposted

Geflüchteten nach Deutschland sind genauso demokratisch und im Grunde in ihren Einstellungen gleichberechtigter und egalitärer als die deutsche Bevölkerung (Quelle: FAS).

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Profile picture Antiquity Journal (@antiquity.ac.uk) reposted

The last known inscription made in #Egyptian hieroglyphs was carved #OnThisDay in AD 394 🏺 #Archaeology The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom depicts the god Mandulis, accompanied with a text hoping the inscription will last forever. It seems the engraver got their wish 1/2 📷Olaf Tausch / CC BY-SA 3.0

Brick wall engraved with a humanoid figure accompanied by hieroglyphs.
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Profile picture Matthew Facciani (@matthewfacciani.bsky.social) reposted

New study finds that teaching people to think in a more actively open-minded way made them less likely to believe conspiracies, better at telling real from fake news, and more careful about what they shared. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Profile picture Joel S. (@joelhs.bsky.social) reposted

"Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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Profile picture Go Green (@ecowarriorss.bsky.social) reposted

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere have risen an extra 15 parts per million since 1960 due to the declining ability of the land and sea to soak up excess CO2 It will be a death sentence for us all as more carbon remains in atmosphere trapping heat www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"... vaikka hän olisi mitä hyvänsä vaatinut." Ote kirja-arviosta "Kertomuksia Ihmiskunnan historiasta. Gruben mukaan, toinen osa." Maiden ja merien takaa 1865:7, s. 55-56. Muutamia vuosikymmeniä myöhemmin innostus laantui ja monet suomalaiset alkoivat luopua uskosta hunnien sukulaisuuteen. (8/8)

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"Erinomaisella huolella ja halulla onkin tekijä kuvaellut kuinka samat Romalaiset, jotka vielä vähäistä ennen olivat olleet maailman mahtavinna kansana, matelivat Attilan, suomensukuisten Hunnein kuninkaan, jalkain juuressa ja kuinka nöyrästi he tottelivat hänen käskyjään" ... (7/8)

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

Näin kirjoitettiin Yrjö Koskisen kansainvaellusajan tutkimuksista vuonna 1865: "Koko tämä aikakausi on meille Suomalaisille erittäin viehättävä, sillä se on ainoa, jona joku suomensukuinen kansa on edes vähän aikaa ollut päättämässä maailman menosta." (6/8)

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"Näiden kansain historia on Suomen-suvun yhä uudistuva yritys valloittaa siansa keskellä Euroopan Arjalaisia kansoja, ja Attilan nero on heille tien viitannut ja tehtävän osoittanut." (5/8) #hunnit #yrjökoskinen www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5...

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"minkä hän tahtoo kohottaa edellisen kurittajaksi ja herraksi. Tosin Attilan valta hajoo kohta Attilan kuollessa, ja itse Hunnien kansa näyttää häviävän tietämättömiin. Mutta Bulgarit, Avarit, vihdoinpa Unkarilaiset ilmaantuvat heidän perillisikseen samoilla aloilla ja samoilla tarkoituksilla."(4/8)

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"ja Romalaisesta sivistyksestä vallan erillensä, kuitenkin niin, että tämä sivistys olisi heille veron ja käskyn alaisena. Tämän mieliteon saattaa heille Attila toimeen, asettaen vastapäätä Romalaista maailmaa toisen barbarilaisen maailman" ... (3/8) #hunnit #yrjökoskinen

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social) reply parent

"Tämän viran toimittavat Göthit, Wandalit ja Radagaison laumat, taikka ylipäänsä Germanilaiset kansat, joiden mieli hehkuu asettumaan kukistuvaisen sivistyksen raunioille. Sitä vastoin Hunnien mieliteko on perustaa valtansa ominaiselle kannalle" ... (2/8) #hunnit #yrjökoskinen

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Profile picture Ainur Elmgren (@aelmgren.bsky.social)

Yrjö Koskinen (synt. Forsman) hunneista väitöskirjassaan Tiedot Suomen-suvun muinaisuudesta (1862): "Mutta merkittäväksi tahdon mieleen juohtaa, että tämä sama kansa, josta hävityksen kauhistus silminnähtävästi saapi alkunsa, kuitenkin itse niin ylen vähän ryhtyy hävitystyöhön." (1/8) #hunnit

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