Daniel Bellingradt
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
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#protip for your next CV update: insert a sentence along the lines of “my intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields…”
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
#protip for your next CV update: insert a sentence along the lines of “my intelligence ranks among the top 10 minds in history, rivaling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton through transformative innovations in multiple fields…”
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 AM
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
Let’s talk about unfinished parts in medieval and early modern manuscripts. Why would you chose to not finish, for example, a figure on an illuminated manuscript page? The lower body part of the man on the left is only drawn, no colours at all… #bookhistory
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Let’s talk about unfinished parts in medieval and early modern manuscripts. Why would you chose to not finish, for example, a figure on an illuminated manuscript page? The lower body part of the man on the left is only drawn, no colours at all… #bookhistory
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When you printed a glorious knight late at night in 1489, and woke up to notice that you forgot the lance ...
#earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading
#earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading
![A page from the incunable "Der f°uszpfadt tz°u der ewigen seligkeyt/ diß Büchlein genant ist", from 1489 Heidelberg [GW 10429]. An armed knight sits on a horse. The missing lance has been drwan into the print by a later owner or user of the book.
Source: http://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/fusspfad1494/0057](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreiayj5lv2bft7gdaplhscup2ppgojwtub23usjhfqtoehwpuxaf2du@jpeg)
January 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
When you printed a glorious knight late at night in 1489, and woke up to notice that you forgot the lance ...
#earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading
#earlymodern #bookhistory #proofreading
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My favorite ever letter of recommendation is one Ficino wrote in the late 1500s, recommending a pupil for a secretary job with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, in which he says the young man is “the reincarnation of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”
It’s letter-of-recommendation season again, when universities ask me to rate a 21 year old student’s ability to “see the big picture of life” while I eat leftover pasta in a Tupperware…
a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters
ALT: a man with a mustache says but why in yellow letters
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November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My favorite ever letter of recommendation is one Ficino wrote in the late 1500s, recommending a pupil for a secretary job with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, in which he says the young man is “the reincarnation of Saint Thomas Aquinas.”
What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
What kind of #earlymodern knee pad would you choose to look fancy around the year 1500? I would totally be wearing number 7 or 10. #skystorians
Gangnam Style 1493.
November 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Gangnam Style 1493.
I am yet unsure about the meaning of this #earlymodern image of Vulcanus, the god of fire (of volcanoes) and metalworking, sitting absolutely relaxed holding a blacksmith's hammer, but he looks like he's enjoying himself, doesn't he? #vulcano
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I am yet unsure about the meaning of this #earlymodern image of Vulcanus, the god of fire (of volcanoes) and metalworking, sitting absolutely relaxed holding a blacksmith's hammer, but he looks like he's enjoying himself, doesn't he? #vulcano
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Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Best Fake Books—Made Real
At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are bound, scuffed, and shelved.
www.newyorker.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Also, we had the terrific Reid Byers come up and talk to us yesterday about his imaginary books as a form of reading what you can't actually read. Maine is really a very good place for to be doing bookish things www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
And here is the page with the dragon in full glory:
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
And here is the page with the dragon in full glory:
Ich freue mich auf einen Thread, in dem die schlechtesten Marketingideen von deutschen Universitäten aufgelistet sind. Bewohner:innen des deutschsprachigen Internets, bitte hier aktiv werden:
November 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ich freue mich auf einen Thread, in dem die schlechtesten Marketingideen von deutschen Universitäten aufgelistet sind. Bewohner:innen des deutschsprachigen Internets, bitte hier aktiv werden:
Mich hat interessiert, wie schnell (und ob) die Uni Kiel nun reagiert auf die Kritik. Dann habe ich zuerst die Bluesky-Seite der Uni geöffnet, und da feiert man Exzellenzanträge… Tja.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Mich hat interessiert, wie schnell (und ob) die Uni Kiel nun reagiert auf die Kritik. Dann habe ich zuerst die Bluesky-Seite der Uni geöffnet, und da feiert man Exzellenzanträge… Tja.
I can't help myself but this video has strong historical reenactment vibes.
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I can't help myself but this video has strong historical reenactment vibes.
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Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept www.der-postillon.com/2019/11/pizz...
Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept
Zwei Jahrzehnte lang galt die sogenannte Himmelsscheibe von Nebra als älteste bisher bekannte Himmelsdarstellung. Nun haben Wissenschaftler des Landesmuseums für Vorgeschichte in Halle festgestellt,…
www.der-postillon.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Forscher irrten jahrelang: "Himmelsscheibe" von Nebra ist offenbar ein Pizza-Rezept www.der-postillon.com/2019/11/pizz...
That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft” #bookhistory #skystorians
November 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
That’s a book from 1756 you won’t find in the catalogues. It’s art from Hito Steyerl, and featured this weekend in the German SZ Magazin. The real Codex Maximilianeus Bavaricus Civilis exists, but without #AI robots on the title page next to an entry about “Leibeigenschaft” #bookhistory #skystorians
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"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
November 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Der Buchpreis der Stabi HamburgLesen 2025 geht an Carsten Gensing: «Morgen wird nicht gedruckt. Papier ist alle.»
Herzlichen Glückwunsch: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41234
Herzlichen Glückwunsch: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41234
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Der Buchpreis der Stabi HamburgLesen 2025 geht an Carsten Gensing: «Morgen wird nicht gedruckt. Papier ist alle.»
Herzlichen Glückwunsch: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41234
Herzlichen Glückwunsch: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=41234
Why not talk to dead people for decades (or forever)? This AI nonsense is not only experimented with when it comes to historic figures, but now it’s your relatives and friends. I don’t like it. #skystorians #digitalheritage #AI
November 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Why not talk to dead people for decades (or forever)? This AI nonsense is not only experimented with when it comes to historic figures, but now it’s your relatives and friends. I don’t like it. #skystorians #digitalheritage #AI
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My hat's off to World-Renowned Engineer Mustaphato Salicio (X), the Time Renegade, one of 1686's greatest visionaries, dreaming a ballistic dream that military engineers continue to dream today!
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
My hat's off to World-Renowned Engineer Mustaphato Salicio (X), the Time Renegade, one of 1686's greatest visionaries, dreaming a ballistic dream that military engineers continue to dream today!
What could possibly go wrong, the 1680s edition.
Dear #skystorians, here is a cool story of a very big cannon experiment of the 1680s in Europe. A 🧵 about the idea of transporting people in cannon balls ...
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What could possibly go wrong, the 1680s edition.
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Activating the urban core with a vibrant brand of cannonball transit.
Dear #skystorians, here is a cool story of a very big cannon experiment of the 1680s in Europe. A 🧵 about the idea of transporting people in cannon balls ...
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Activating the urban core with a vibrant brand of cannonball transit.
Dear #skystorians, here is a cool story of a very big cannon experiment of the 1680s in Europe. A 🧵 about the idea of transporting people in cannon balls ...
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Dear #skystorians, here is a cool story of a very big cannon experiment of the 1680s in Europe. A 🧵 about the idea of transporting people in cannon balls ...
Reposted by Daniel Bellingradt
It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.
Die finden mich nie, summte die frohlockende #Großkatze nahe Kalenborn.
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Die finden mich nie, summte die frohlockende #Großkatze nahe Kalenborn.