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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When NPR throws shade on you, you’ve hit rock bottom
You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up. n.pr/48NZ9e5
Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?
You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up.
n.pr
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
When NPR throws shade on you, you’ve hit rock bottom
“American blintz” with tvarog in Warsaw. Love Eastern Europe for taking a very Eastern European thing and calling it American. On the other hand, life in the US would be more bearable if one could smother its sorrows with tvarog blintzes with cherry jam
December 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
“American blintz” with tvarog in Warsaw. Love Eastern Europe for taking a very Eastern European thing and calling it American. On the other hand, life in the US would be more bearable if one could smother its sorrows with tvarog blintzes with cherry jam
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NEW! The Shakedown: How Trump's DOJ pressured lawyers to 'find' evidence that UCLA had illegally tolerated antisemitism. by me and @KatherineMangan w/ @chronicle.com
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
NEW! The Shakedown: How Trump's DOJ pressured lawyers to 'find' evidence that UCLA had illegally tolerated antisemitism. by me and @KatherineMangan w/ @chronicle.com
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
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For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin
In the last six months human rights officials at both the Council of Europe and the United Nations have written to the...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
For more than 2 years, police in Berlin - encouraged by city and national politicians - have systematically used excessive violence in an attempt to beat the Palestine solidarity movement into silence.
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
I wrote about this phenomenon for the @lrb.co.uk
A great spotlight on colleague Vero Fuechtner’s research unsettling Thomas Mann’s supposedly quintessential Germanness. fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/12...
Rethinking Thomas Mann: A Global Lens on a German Icon | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
As scholars around the world mark the 150th anniversary of Mann’s birth, professor Veronika Fuechtner has emerged as a leading voice in reinterpreting the literary icon’s legacy.
fas.dartmouth.edu
December 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
A great spotlight on colleague Vero Fuechtner’s research unsettling Thomas Mann’s supposedly quintessential Germanness. fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/12...
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Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
CfP: Trans German Studies: Contours, Critiques, and Emerging Conversations (Workshop), May 21-22, 2026 | H-Net
CfP: Trans German Studies: Contours, Critiques, and Emerging Conversations (Workshop)May 21-22, 2026University of British Columbia and onlineModality: Hybrid (online and in-person)Public keynotes: Emm...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Fantastic comrades are organizing this important workshop at UBC on Trans German Studies with keynotes by Emma Heaney & Kadji Amin. The submission deadline is coming up. Consider submitting a proposal. Would be great to welcome some of you to our campus. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
December 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.
“Encounters in the Rubble. American Interactions with German Children and Youth in Postwar Germany”
Rez: E.J. Lansberg: Encounters in the Rubble
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-156560
E.J. Lansberg: Encounters in the Rubble
https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-156560
E.J. Lansberg: Encounters in the Rubble
www.hsozkult.de
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“Encounters in the Rubble. American Interactions with German Children and Youth in Postwar Germany”
Hard to describe how amazing Klára Hosnedlová’s work is up close—there’s macro and micro in it; the wooly folkloric roughness of tufted flax clashing with the meticulous photonaturalist embroideries is really something
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hard to describe how amazing Klára Hosnedlová’s work is up close—there’s macro and micro in it; the wooly folkloric roughness of tufted flax clashing with the meticulous photonaturalist embroideries is really something
If this is not a very desperate and hairless raccoon, what is it? Spotted by my students just outside our classroom at the Freie Uni
December 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If this is not a very desperate and hairless raccoon, what is it? Spotted by my students just outside our classroom at the Freie Uni
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The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.
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“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”
EXCLUSIVE:
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Mom of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew rejects White House narrative of her ICE arrest
In an interview, Bruna Ferreira, who chose the White House press secretary as her son’s godmother, contested the portrayal of her as a criminal, absentee mom.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“After they broke up, Ferreira said in court records that Michael Leavitt had in the past threatened to try to get her deported.”
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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...