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Head of Library at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen. Passionate about open science and supporting research. | #photography | thomasgerdes.de
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Integrating Choices in Open Standards: CC Signals and the RSL Standard

#CreativeCommons #CCSignals

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Integrating Choices in Open Standards: CC Signals and the RSL Standard - Creative Commons
Creative Commons is partnering with RSL to integrate attribution and reciprocity into the new 's RSL 1.0 standard.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:31 AM
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Konzerthaus der Superlative – Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires

#Argentina #TeatroColon

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Konzerthaus der Superlative - Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires/Argentinien
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January 20, 2026 at 5:48 AM
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Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period?

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Why Are We Still So Afraid of Using the Grumpy Old Period?
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January 19, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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Er wäre gern einer der Guten. Wenige warnen so klar vor den Gefahren der KI wie Dario Amodei. Und doch führt seine Firma Anthropic im Rennen um eine Superintelligenz. Was, wenn die sie einmal austrickst?

#AI

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Dario Amodei: Er wäre gern einer der Guten
Wenige warnen so klar vor KI-Folgen wie Dario Amodei. Und doch entwickelt seine Firma Anthropic eine Superintelligenz. Was, wenn sie ihn einmal austrickst?
www.zeit.de
January 18, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Flower designs on 8,000-year-old pots show “mathematical knowledge,” archaeologists say

#science

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This ancient pottery holds the earliest evidence of humans doing math
Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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America’s gunboat capitalism will make the world poorer

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America’s gunboat capitalism will make the world poorer
And Donald Trump’s use of companies as a tool of state will make it no safer
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January 16, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Nahezu alle betonen, dass #Nullresultate der Wissenschaft nützen. Doch nur wenige versuchen, überhaupt welche zu veröffentlichen.

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Auch negative Resultate bringen die Forschung voran
Schon lange hat man erkannt, dass auch negative Resultate die Forschung voranbringen. Doch laut einer Umfrage versuchen nur wenige, ihre Nullresultate zu publizieren.
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January 14, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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'The Cinema', Warren Street (1920) by William Patrick Roberts

(Tate Britain)
January 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Six books for understanding polarisation

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Six books for understanding polarisation - LSE Review of Books
Kevin Wilson picks six books that explore polarisation – from debates on academic freedom to the impacts of social media – and offer ideas for bridging divides.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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#BookLog: Wie konnte das geschehen? Deutschland 1933 bis 1945 by Götz Aly

#AmReading #booksky

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Wie konnte das geschehen? Deutschland 1933 bis 1945
Götz Aly zählt zu den bekanntesten Autoren zur Geschich…
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January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Agatha Christie: Die Königin des Krimis

#history #literature

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Agatha Christie: die Königin des Krimis ging nie zur Schule und wurde trotzdem weltberühmt
Miss Marple und Hercule Poirot: Ihre legendären Detektiv-Figuren machten Agatha Christie weltberühmt. Dabei ging die britische Schriftstellerin nie zur Schule.
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January 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data

#OpenScience #OpenData

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Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data
When governments collect sensitive data about private individuals, personal privacy and governmental transparency come into conflict. How should we resolve this tension?
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January 11, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Examining the costs of library leadership turnover

#library

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January 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

#ScholarlyPublishing

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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Jawbones and other remains found in a Moroccan cave were dated to 773,000 years. They help close a gap in Africa’s fossil record of human origins. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/s... #Evolution #HumanHistory #Anthropology @nytimes.com @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
Moroccan Cave Fossils Yield a Possible Missing Link in Human Evolution
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January 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Hauptausschuss der DFG ermöglicht unter Rahmenbedingungen künftig die Nutzung von KI in der Begutachtung

#AI

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Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung
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January 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Snow in front of our library – lunch break is used to mould a new colleague – like the rest of the team, slightly punkish.
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Schnee vor unserer Bibliothek - da wird die Mittagspause genutzt, um einen neuen Kollegen zu formen - wie der Rest des Teams leicht punkig.
@mpifg.bsky.social #library
Schneemann vor Gebäude Mpifg
January 7, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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'The London Underground'
(from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek
January 5, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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New job: I’ve just started as a Senior Researcher at the @mpimmg.bsky.social (new name and focus on politics & society coming). I will lead a research area on “Social and Political Conflicts”, looking at the social bases of political divides, class politics, climate and more. Get in touch if...
Linus Westheuser
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January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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I am happy to welcome our new colleague and director at @mpimmg.bsky.social Ursula Daxecker from the University of Amsterdam. She will chair the new department „Political Institutions and Conflict“.
mpimmg.bsky.social MaxPlanckInstitute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity @mpimmg.bsky.social · 14d
As part of our realignment, focusing on #inequality, #migration & the stability of #democracy, the @maxplanck.de has appointed the political scientist Prof. Dr. Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam) as Director. She will establish a new department focusing on #PoliticalInstitutions & #Conflict.
January 6, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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Christmas Lectures 2025 with Maggie Aderin-Pocock at @rigb.org

#science

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Destination Moon - Christmas Lectures 2025 with Maggie Aderin-Pocock 1/3
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
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January 6, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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The Year in #Neanderthals: They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins continued to make news.

#history

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The Year in Neanderthals
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January 6, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse. It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say.

#OpenScience

doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse
It’s hard to measure social and economic impacts of making papers and data free, researchers say
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of AI Policies in Academic Peer Review

#AI #PeerReview

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A Cross‐Disciplinary Analysis of AI Policies in Academic Peer Review
Rapid advances of artificial intelligence (AI) have substantially impacted the field of academic publishing. This study examines AI integration in peer review by analysing policies from 439 high- and...
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Happy New Year! Saturday marks 163 years since the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, opened between Paddington and Farringdon.

So this week's theme is the London Underground!
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'Paddington Station at Night'
1992
Doreen Fletcher
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January 5, 2026 at 7:50 AM