Joschka Meier
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Joschka Meier
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Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & communal resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.

Knowledge commons: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Just received the news that I'll be at the #IMC2026, where I'll be able to talk about the bit of my research that I probably like the most: How villagers tried to care for their animals - including stuff ranging from bizarre to cute and genuinely touching.

Details and abstract below ⬇️
#envhist
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
One of the first visitors at my bird feeder this winter: A very fancy woodpecker
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Got my copy of 'Wasser als Ressource' - well worth a read for lots of interesting environmental history (in German) centered around water & Tyrol!

My chapter about the Alps, environmental adaptation & the rural population is OA: works.hcommons.org/records/yypn...

#envhist #medievalsky #earlymodern
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Darf ich vorstellen: Meine Haustür und Badzimmerwand - veredelt durch meine Freundin
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Hab mir Europa Universalis 5 angeschaut und war positiv überrascht von vielen neuen Nuancen & Details zu Geschichte, rekrutierte einen General und das Ganze gab dem den Namen...Fritzli Franz von Bern.

... irgendwie gibt's auch so was wie *zu* authentisch
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
...ab und zu denk ich wieder, dass irgendjemand mal ein Grundsatzwerk dazu schreiben muss, wie & wieso Teile von Heiligenverehrung frühe Form von Fetischcontent waren.

Mit Grüssen an den heiligen Bernard und Maria, Treffsicher auf jede Distanz
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Gibt nicht nur Silben über das Thema, sondern ganze Zeilen und Absätze in dem Artikel - ist also nicht zu übersehen, wenn man das liest. Das unten ⬇️sind nur zwei Ausschnitte von mehreren möglichen aus dem Artikel.
October 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Got stuck writing a chapter and instead rearranged my office space at home (+tidied up a bit in general) - not for the first time.

Does anyone else have a go-to activity to try and pry loose stuck mental gears?
Or a better kind of justification for procrastination I guess!
October 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Some passages from the article - according to the study changes in land use is (up until now) the main cause for this kind of biodiversity loss rather than global warming.

It also shows, once again, how important environmental history is! Study wouldn't have been possible without historical data
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Merci merci! Finde die Quellen auch nett (evtl. bisschen zu sehr), wie meine Datenbank zeigt ⬇️Habe auf jeden Fall genug Material für meine Diss...und für einige Artikel oder Projekte mehr

Bei Bedarf nach Kuriositäten aus dem Alpenraum oder Landleben gerne fragen, hab dafür sogar eigene Tags :-P
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The whole thing was supervised by 7 men, who then swore, that the victims clothes hadn't changed at all or shown any signs during this process ("das sich die gwand nutz geendertt hab") - and because of that the suspect was acquitted!
SSRQ GR B II/2, Nr. 170, 20.11.1461.
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I *think* that I've seen it...but I was so little, that I don't remember it.
But there are fortunately also other nice astronomical clocks that I can personally recommend, like the one in Strasbourg or the one near me in Bern ;-)

Sometimes even with steampunk monsters⬇️ bsky.app/profile/joss...
September 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Bitte bitte, Isch ja würk ä schöne Bitz vor Wäut!
September 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Jo klar, bitte gärn gscheh! Ha säuber veiechli Bärgweh gha, wöui zwar sogar drzue forsche, aber scho lang nümme ha chönne ga - teile d Fröid dran deshaub noso gärn!
September 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
And some other curious cute animals
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
! Marmot sighted!
September 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Schono so!
September 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Today's rigorous research into alpine and transportation history (I. e. hiking trip): Val Beverin.
From mist shrouded meadows mountains in the early morning to a trip through a sunny valley now
September 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Inn in Grisons this morning going all out to look nice
September 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Busy with field research about alpine history (also known as hiking)
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Discovered neolithic hobbit dwellings (also known as crot, a traditional kind of temperature controlled room for storing milk)
September 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Results so far: e different sorts of edible mushrooms, a lot more that are very nice to look lol at and the cute little fella below
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Getting distracted by looking for mushrooms in the mountains of Grisons
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
aaaaaand it is down again! Now the error message explicitly says that the reason is a DDoS, which would be quite...something.

Anyway, the Knowledge Commons Works-part is still functioning fine! Which I know because I spent far too long uploading and trying out stuff, like the fancy embed function:
September 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM