Franziska Heimburger
@franziska.fr
French historian with British & German nationalities. Cultural history of coalition warfare, 1850-1918. Exploring and teaching history and languages as MCF
at Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université. https://www.franziska.fr/
at Faculté des Lettres, Sorbonne Université. https://www.franziska.fr/
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Franziska Heimburger
@franziska.fr
· Oct 3
#helloESR
Je travaille à l'intersection des langues et de l'histoire sur les échanges, la communication, les transferts en contexte guerrier, Première Guerre mondiale, mais aussi de plus en plus fin XIXe. #coalitions
Enseignement d'histoire britannique et de choses numériques et/ou quantitatives.
Je travaille à l'intersection des langues et de l'histoire sur les échanges, la communication, les transferts en contexte guerrier, Première Guerre mondiale, mais aussi de plus en plus fin XIXe. #coalitions
Enseignement d'histoire britannique et de choses numériques et/ou quantitatives.
Not a comment on the state of the world then...
(I learnt a new word meaning in French today)
(I learnt a new word meaning in French today)
January 24, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Not a comment on the state of the world then...
(I learnt a new word meaning in French today)
(I learnt a new word meaning in French today)
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Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
www.zotero.org
January 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
Delighted to see the knitters are mobilising again. Might have to knit myself a Norwegian protest hat. This historian loves the back story www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Melt the ICE Hat pattern by YarnCultMN
n the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal ...
www.ravelry.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Delighted to see the knitters are mobilising again. Might have to knit myself a Norwegian protest hat. This historian loves the back story www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Je regarde un peu mon agenda et je constate que des génies ont réunis en une semaine :
- la première semaine de cours du S2
- les jurys du S1
- la journée portes ouvertes de licence
C'est pour nous achever dès le début du semestre ?
- la première semaine de cours du S2
- les jurys du S1
- la journée portes ouvertes de licence
C'est pour nous achever dès le début du semestre ?
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Je regarde un peu mon agenda et je constate que des génies ont réunis en une semaine :
- la première semaine de cours du S2
- les jurys du S1
- la journée portes ouvertes de licence
C'est pour nous achever dès le début du semestre ?
- la première semaine de cours du S2
- les jurys du S1
- la journée portes ouvertes de licence
C'est pour nous achever dès le début du semestre ?
Est-ce que je connais des gens qui ont passé relativement récemment l'agreg d'allemand ? Je cause dans une journée d'étude sur le programme de civi et j'aurais voulu en savoir plus sur le format de l'épreuve. Sans aller lire tout le rapport du jury, si possible.
January 18, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Est-ce que je connais des gens qui ont passé relativement récemment l'agreg d'allemand ? Je cause dans une journée d'étude sur le programme de civi et j'aurais voulu en savoir plus sur le format de l'épreuve. Sans aller lire tout le rapport du jury, si possible.
I am not sure if anyone apart from @vandawilcox.bsky.social shares the intersection of love for Liberty fabrics and the First World War with me, but you need to know about this special edition shop.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
January 14, 2026 at 12:45 PM
I am not sure if anyone apart from @vandawilcox.bsky.social shares the intersection of love for Liberty fabrics and the First World War with me, but you need to know about this special edition shop.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
One sad toddler learnt about snow melting today...
January 8, 2026 at 8:37 PM
One sad toddler learnt about snow melting today...
*Soupir* de rentrée. L'université française n'a plus de sous, il manque du monde partout et chez moi il se trouve quand même une administration qui a fait une erreur en conseillant une étudiante et qui revient maintenant quand c'est trop tard sur sa réponse, mettant en péril sa réussite ?
a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . ''
ALT: a woman is making a funny face and saying `` i just wanna . ''
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:54 PM
*Soupir* de rentrée. L'université française n'a plus de sous, il manque du monde partout et chez moi il se trouve quand même une administration qui a fait une erreur en conseillant une étudiante et qui revient maintenant quand c'est trop tard sur sa réponse, mettant en péril sa réussite ?
I don't go to the festering pit that used to be Twitter anymore, but I found myself randomly wondering this morning (yes, I should be marking...) what would happen if lots of bots pitched up asking Grok to undress pictures of the evil overlord of the platform? Still freedom of expression?
a man in a pink hat is covering his mouth with his hand .
ALT: a man in a pink hat is covering his mouth with his hand .
media.tenor.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I don't go to the festering pit that used to be Twitter anymore, but I found myself randomly wondering this morning (yes, I should be marking...) what would happen if lots of bots pitched up asking Grok to undress pictures of the evil overlord of the platform? Still freedom of expression?
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Reposted by Franziska Heimburger
Depuis une soutenance d'HDR, je vous conjure de prendre une bonne résolution facile pour 2026: ne dites plus la littérature 'anglo-saxonne' ou n'importe quoi 'anglo-saxon' (monde, etc.).
C'est anglophone que vous voulez dire en fait. Pour le reste, voir la synthèse de @richardmonvoisin.bsky.social
C'est anglophone que vous voulez dire en fait. Pour le reste, voir la synthèse de @richardmonvoisin.bsky.social
Je n'utiliserai plus le terme "Anglo-saxons" - www.monvoisin.xyz
Dans la série « je n’ai pas honte de m’être planté et suis fier de me corriger » : j’ai parfois utilisé dans mes enseignements le terme « anglo-saxon » pour désigner (je crois) la communau...
www.monvoisin.xyz
January 6, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Depuis une soutenance d'HDR, je vous conjure de prendre une bonne résolution facile pour 2026: ne dites plus la littérature 'anglo-saxonne' ou n'importe quoi 'anglo-saxon' (monde, etc.).
C'est anglophone que vous voulez dire en fait. Pour le reste, voir la synthèse de @richardmonvoisin.bsky.social
C'est anglophone que vous voulez dire en fait. Pour le reste, voir la synthèse de @richardmonvoisin.bsky.social
Le français est quand même difficile à apprendre.
Ma presque 2,5 ans vient de me raconter une longue histoire avec des narbres, des nécureuils et des narcs-en-ciel.
Forcément, quand on entend surtout des articles indéfinis devant les mots qui commencent avec une voyelle...
Ma presque 2,5 ans vient de me raconter une longue histoire avec des narbres, des nécureuils et des narcs-en-ciel.
Forcément, quand on entend surtout des articles indéfinis devant les mots qui commencent avec une voyelle...
January 4, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Le français est quand même difficile à apprendre.
Ma presque 2,5 ans vient de me raconter une longue histoire avec des narbres, des nécureuils et des narcs-en-ciel.
Forcément, quand on entend surtout des articles indéfinis devant les mots qui commencent avec une voyelle...
Ma presque 2,5 ans vient de me raconter une longue histoire avec des narbres, des nécureuils et des narcs-en-ciel.
Forcément, quand on entend surtout des articles indéfinis devant les mots qui commencent avec une voyelle...
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Hé Bluesky, j'ai créé un petit jeu. Il s'appelle Fausse Commune, et il va mettre à l'épreuve ta connaissance des régions françaises.
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
January 2, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Hé Bluesky, j'ai créé un petit jeu. Il s'appelle Fausse Commune, et il va mettre à l'épreuve ta connaissance des régions françaises.
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
C'est gratuit, c'est absurde, c'est rapide, ça marche sur téléphone ou ordi.
C'est là : faussecommune.fr
A fun one for those raising mini-bilinguals. My English-French raised toddler has been learning how to use these rhyming puzzle pieces
December 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A fun one for those raising mini-bilinguals. My English-French raised toddler has been learning how to use these rhyming puzzle pieces
Offering up a palette cleanser from my 2,5-year-old's Christmas!
December 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Offering up a palette cleanser from my 2,5-year-old's Christmas!
Countless renditions of Mog over the course of Christmas and I have only just noticed the Thomas's seem to have made a cup of tea for the burglar?
December 27, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Countless renditions of Mog over the course of Christmas and I have only just noticed the Thomas's seem to have made a cup of tea for the burglar?
Might have to be the time when - during a nearly 40°C heatwave - I was told the (perfectly decent) strappy top I was wearing was not appropriate for the French military archives.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Might have to be the time when - during a nearly 40°C heatwave - I was told the (perfectly decent) strappy top I was wearing was not appropriate for the French military archives.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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I think everything in this thread is spot on, but the thing that most non-specialists miss is that individual historians are also the ones who decide there's even something to investigate! Based on their deep reading and expertise, they frame new questions to create new knowledge we didn't have!
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I think everything in this thread is spot on, but the thing that most non-specialists miss is that individual historians are also the ones who decide there's even something to investigate! Based on their deep reading and expertise, they frame new questions to create new knowledge we didn't have!
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What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
December 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.
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I have my students write three-sentence summaries of articles and then read them aloud in class, to see how different summaries are depending on the things that most interest you. We map overlaps and differences to help them understand why trusting a supposed summary machine short-circuits thinking.
December 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have my students write three-sentence summaries of articles and then read them aloud in class, to see how different summaries are depending on the things that most interest you. We map overlaps and differences to help them understand why trusting a supposed summary machine short-circuits thinking.
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Amazing how many of these papers are about “ethical use of AI in education.” It’s harsh, I know, but I do think if you incorporate a hallucinated reference it should be incredibly damning for you. There should be professional penalties.
(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)
scholar.google.com.vn
December 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Amazing how many of these papers are about “ethical use of AI in education.” It’s harsh, I know, but I do think if you incorporate a hallucinated reference it should be incredibly damning for you. There should be professional penalties.
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Anyway we’ll be requiring undergrads’ Zotero libraries to contain a copy of everything they cite next quarter, which I guess is one very labor-intensive way to check.
December 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Anyway we’ll be requiring undergrads’ Zotero libraries to contain a copy of everything they cite next quarter, which I guess is one very labor-intensive way to check.
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Die PDFs von "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe", Band 1-7: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Die PDFs von "Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe", Band 1-7: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Fascinating visit to the Völklingen Ironworks today en route to our Christmas quarters. Well worth a visit should you find yourself near Saarbrücken.
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Fascinating visit to the Völklingen Ironworks today en route to our Christmas quarters. Well worth a visit should you find yourself near Saarbrücken.