Yuliya Komska
@ykomska.bsky.social
writer & German Studies prof w/ a heart in Eastern Europe 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2025: Art & Politics of the High Wire • next: where Curious George came from; future of stained glass in the age of disaster • brooch enthusiast • 🐰,🍄,🪡
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They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
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Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/
Brandenburger Tor, jetzt
December 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Brandenburger Tor, jetzt
Maximally auratic and somewhat reproducible: Walter Benjamin’s original notes on what aura is on San Pellegrino paper (1936-9)
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Maximally auratic and somewhat reproducible: Walter Benjamin’s original notes on what aura is on San Pellegrino paper (1936-9)
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It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.
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What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
December 5, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
As usual, faculty was not asked
December 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
As usual, faculty was not asked
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Mit einem „Walter-Lübcke-Memorial-Park“ konfrontiert das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit die CDU. Es warnt zudem vor einer Annäherung an die AfD.
Mahnung an die CDU: Walter-Lübcke-Denkmal vor die Tür gestellt
Mit einem „Walter-Lübcke-Memorial-Park“ konfrontiert das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit die CDU. Es warnt zudem vor einer Annäherung an die AfD.
taz.de
December 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Mit einem „Walter-Lübcke-Memorial-Park“ konfrontiert das Zentrum für Politische Schönheit die CDU. Es warnt zudem vor einer Annäherung an die AfD.
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This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
2025 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our longest yearly book list ever! Thirty six books by contingent historians for you to read, gift, and request for purchase at your library!
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Die israelische Regierung gibt zu, zahlreiche Artikel in deutschen Medien im Rahmen ihrer PR-Kampagne gefördert zu haben. Übersetzung aus einem Artikel bei Channel 12 über die diplomatischen Erfolge Israels in Deutschland www.mako.co.il/news-world/2...
December 2, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Die israelische Regierung gibt zu, zahlreiche Artikel in deutschen Medien im Rahmen ihrer PR-Kampagne gefördert zu haben. Übersetzung aus einem Artikel bei Channel 12 über die diplomatischen Erfolge Israels in Deutschland www.mako.co.il/news-world/2...
Me, getting börek for 20 students and faculty at Leylak
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Me, getting börek for 20 students and faculty at Leylak
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
Long line of Turkish-German people waiting patiently behind me, with noticeable approval: “Du musst eine echt große Familie haben”
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Sehr zu empfehlen: Dauerausstellung
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Sehr zu empfehlen: Dauerausstellung
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
Koloniale Kontinuitäten – Postkolonialer Rundgang durch den Botanischen Garten Potsdam @unipotsdam.bsky.social
www.uni-potsdam.de/de/botanisch...
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
December 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
Today was the first time when I, confronted w/ questions about my ostensibly “unaccented” German, said that it comes from practicing for hours in front of a mirror & erasing my own self b/c neither Germans nor Germanists can deal with Slavic accents, & that it’s nothing I’m proud of. Satisfying!
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Today was the first time when I, confronted w/ questions about my ostensibly “unaccented” German, said that it comes from practicing for hours in front of a mirror & erasing my own self b/c neither Germans nor Germanists can deal with Slavic accents, & that it’s nothing I’m proud of. Satisfying!
“Never losing the thick, deliberate accent of his origins, even though he never spoke Czech.” What a life! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
Sir Tom Stoppard obituary
One of Britain’s most outstanding playwrights famed for the ‘hypnotised brilliance’ of his prose and dialogue
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“Never losing the thick, deliberate accent of his origins, even though he never spoke Czech.” What a life! www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...
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Ein wirklich schöner Erfolg der bürgerlichen liberal-konservativen Antifa. ✊️
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
Unternehmerverband distanziert sich von der AfD
Nach Austritten von Unternehmen wie Rossmann und Fritz-Kola hat der Verband der Familienunternehmer seine Position korrigiert. Der Verband will sich künftig klar gegen die AfD positionieren.
www.faz.net
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ein wirklich schöner Erfolg der bürgerlichen liberal-konservativen Antifa. ✊️
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
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CFP: Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
www.hsozkult.de
November 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
CFP: Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159070
Fribourg, 11.06.2026-12.06.2026, Departement für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Freiburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 28.02.2026 Citizenship and National Socialist Persecution
An atlas of river stones, collected over 50 years and arranged by shape. Just incredible mossandfog.com/luigi-lineri...
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
An atlas of river stones, collected over 50 years and arranged by shape. Just incredible mossandfog.com/luigi-lineri...
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"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Trying to picture Adorno in a peep show bar thediasporist.de/from-auschwi...
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trying to picture Adorno in a peep show bar thediasporist.de/from-auschwi...
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If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
With for-profit academic platforms and virtual databases/links, students no longer identify authors or original publishers (even if you ask them). Everything becomes "image #1/#2/#3" or "article on Wiley, another article on Wiley." Death of the author is too fucking real & not as Barthes envisioned
November 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
With for-profit academic platforms and virtual databases/links, students no longer identify authors or original publishers (even if you ask them). Everything becomes "image #1/#2/#3" or "article on Wiley, another article on Wiley." Death of the author is too fucking real & not as Barthes envisioned
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Netanyahu has requested a pardon from Israeli President Herzog. Netanyahu hasn’t been convicted yet and his trial is ongoing. We have to assume a pressure campaign on Herzog will follow and that Netanyahu will demand a pardon without admission of responsibility.
November 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Netanyahu has requested a pardon from Israeli President Herzog. Netanyahu hasn’t been convicted yet and his trial is ongoing. We have to assume a pressure campaign on Herzog will follow and that Netanyahu will demand a pardon without admission of responsibility.