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Paul Franke

@paulfrahistory.bsky.social

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Historian Philipps University Marburg | Interested in (il)legal Economies, Art & Antiquities Market, Gambling and Gamblers, Napoleon | Probably looking for a Coffee right now

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · Jan 16

If you are into urban history, history of consumption, or gambling, check out my book "Feeling Lucky - The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas"! A story about casinos, capitalism, and consumers in the 19th and 20th century link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

The cover and first page of my book Feeling Lucky - The Production of Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas. The cover shows a stylized Hand holding the Ace of Hearts.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 8h

University administration:
"We need you to complete 26 hours of lab safety training 🧪 each year so that everyone is safe and responsible."

Also university administration:

Stolen from the Internet, a sign that says "If Elevator does not move do a small jump it should move after", and a dirty-white freight elevator wall and aged elevator controls with only floors 1 and 2."

I have no idea where this really is, I just stole it off Wikimedia.

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Wasbishergeschah.at @wasbishergeschah.bsky.social · 1d

Die Piraten der Mani verbreiten im Mittelmeer über Jahrhunderte Angst und Schrecken. Entlang der Levante-Handelsroute bei Südgriechenland kapern sie Schiffe, verkaufen deren Crews an Sklavenhändler – und lassen sich sogar von fremden Mächten für Überfälle anheuern. 1/5

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.
 CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.
 But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 1d

Berliner Kapitalanlage. 💁🏻‍♀️

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 1d

SEMESTERBEGINN!!!!1111

Elefant, auf dem Menschen reiten und in Trompeten blasen

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 2d

New on the GHIL #Podcast!

Coinciding with tonight's #ThyssenLecture, our latest episode is a recording of the fifth lecture in our series in collaboration with the Fritz Thyssen Foundation on 'Science, Knowledge, and the Legacy of Empire', given by Gudrun Krämer (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social)
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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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SACHGRUNDAKTIVISMUS - der Promotionspodcast @sachgrundpod.bsky.social · 7d

In einer neuen Bonus-Folge von Sachgrundaktivismus spreche ich über Beständigkeit. Kritisches Thema im Wissenschaftsbetrieb, I know 😅 Hören könnt ihr die Folge bei Steady und Ko-fi:

ko-fi.com/sachgrundakt...

#sachgrundpod #IchBinHanna #podcast

Sachgrundaktivismus

WissKom-Podcast rund um die Promotion und das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem

steady.page

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 8d

Man kann prekäre Arbeitsbedingungen nicht wegberaten. #IchBinHanna

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Bernd Hüttner @berndhuettner.bsky.social · 13d

Die Ausschreibung für den Thomas- Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 ist da. Er wird von der German Labour History Association "für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour History" verliehen.
Details: www.germanlabourhistory.de/2025/09/25/t...

Thomas-Welskopp-Dissertationspreis 2026 - German Labour History Association

Die German Labour History Association (GLHA) schreibt zum vierten Mal den Thomas-Welskopp-Preis für eine inhaltlich, methodisch und theoretisch innovative Dissertation auf dem Gebiet der Labour Histor...

www.germanlabourhistory.de

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Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) @kwi-essen.bsky.social · 14d

📣 The @erc.europa.eu project “Cultures of the Cryosphere” is hiring: Apply for a postdoctoral position by November 17!

📍KWI Essen| @unidue.bsky.social
👉Detailed information: tinyurl.com/w4uhe9zs

#ERCSyG #PostDoc #History #Culture #Technology

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Stadt Wien-Büchereien @buechereienwien.bsky.social · 16d

Powerpoint-Präsentationen sind die Dia-Shows von heute: alle hassen sie, nach der 2. Folie sind 90% eingeschlafen, das einzige woran man sich nachher erinnert, ist der Kampf der Vortragenden mit der Technik.

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 16d

Steinhauer wrote about similar developments in his book. I wonder werenit connects to Memory and cultures of nostalgia.

Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 16d

I see a lot of influencers stating, that AI slob reshapes expectations, and outlooks even though ppl know the content is fake. Insta and tiktok are full of obviously fake houses, but ppl nonetheless expect houses to fit certin aesthetics. Maybe something similar is happening here?

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 17d

Edited down this chapter by 5k words!*

*Let's not talk about how many of those words ended up in the footnotes. Hush - you're safe there, my preccccious, my ccccccitations!

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Kerstin Pannhorst @pankerstin.bsky.social · 20d

“A circa 1900 Chinese carved hardwood five-panel screen, reputedly from Peking Palace" really says it all... #boxerloot

Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 20d

A brazen posting of what appears to be a looted Chinese five-panel screen up for sale imminently at an auction house in Buckinghamshire, England. Not uncommon to see such an item but with more information, “provenance”, than usual - more details on my blog - chinarhyming.com/2025/09/25/q...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 20d

Hey historians of science - do any of you know what happened to digital collection of Francis Galton's archive? I can no longer find it online. Has it been removed? Is this Google's AI messing up my searches?

a cat holding a sign that says help

ALT: a cat holding a sign that says help

media.tenor.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

www.youtube.com

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21d

I see a lot of utility for AI, but I’ve stopped using it entirely. It gets things wrong. It’s glib. And AI sorts information and people into preset hierarchies. It’s this latter point that’s giving me the most pause. The current iteration of AI is also a social engineering project.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 11

It's amazing how many people are out there bragging publicly about how they now use ChatGPT to perform pretty much all of their tasks at their well-paid corporate job, and have yet to connect the dots on "if you're making your utility value identical to ChatGPT, why would they keep paying you?"

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Aug 11

I am starting to believe that the AI craze actually has, for once, created a genuinely useful way to test someone's intelligence:

are they unquestionably on board with using corporate AI tools for everything, or are they going "whoa, hey, wait a second"?

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Becca Lewis @beccalew.bsky.social · 21d

Does anyone have any good recs on literature about the rise of celebrity CEOs as a cultural and/or economic phenomenon?

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 21d

Vielleicht habe ich es in den FAQ überlesen, aber gibt es schon ein grobes Zeichenlimit für die einzelnen Überblickskapitel?

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 21d

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 21d

I do not. I usually put it on the slides of my presentations at conferences though.

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 24d

Academic career symbolized in a picture.
#Ichbinhannah #postdocchatter

Staircase leading into a wall / into nothing.

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Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social · 23d

Also die Uni Bielefeld wurde ja schon mit vielem Verglichen, aber Hogwarts wäre neu 😉

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