Maximilian Schich

#CulturalAnalysisSitus, because #NetSci, #Topology, #Computation, and #ArtHistory share a common foundation in Leibniz Receipts: archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6347/...

What a picture: young Dawkins looking at that ape sculpture holding a phrenological outside caliper, ready to measure the skull. Meanwhile, wouldn't it be great if more people were less selfish than little Richard, instead taking into account the work of Roughgarden, Jablonka & Lamb, Noble, etc.?

"We invite one-page abstracts across #all areas of network science, and especially work that breaks the field's current boundaries." The main call explicitly includes #cultural, #historical, and #linguistic network analysis and #visualization. The #NetSci community is so awesome! 🎉

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"We realize [...] moving to #OpenAccess changes the dissemination of knowledge with respect to legal and financial aspects." openaccess.mpg.de/Berlin-Decla... 2003 39,95 EUR/article @natureportfolio.nature.com 2026 "That which is most unnatural is still Nature" Huxley cit Goethe @nature.com 1 1869

For everyone who suffered trying to print HTML in the 1990s: here's proof that the original HTML page break was scissors!

The world is split into the realms of Dick's and Frizzle's. While some of us rode the Magic School Bus doing science, the "Nut Country" Republicans prepared their takeover since 1964. It is Nixon's Southern Strategy vs the Enlightenment, all the way down. bsky.app/profile/schi...

It's Philip K. Dick's world; we just have the misfortune to live in it.

Join us Oct 19 @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social: In the Garden of Forking Paths: Mapping and Making Sense of Storytelling at Scale. 17:00-19:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 17.5 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Today I learned that Ms. Frizzle's nom de plume is Philip K. Dizzle, allegedly. 🚌🏳️‍🌈🎉🦑

Every religious, ethnic, national, gender, cultural, etc. essentialist should understand El-Sayed's spot-on message in this conversation.

The new Citroën #2CV concept car slays so hard, it only misses headrests with space buns, a plush unicorn hood ornament, and a rainbow laser that turns LePen-voting gas guzzlers queer. 🦄🦄🏳️‍🌈

zircon is wild

cf. Raphael’s Letter to Pope Leo X

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture with Francis Heylighen (@francisheylighen.coseeker.org) on #Stigmergy and #CollectiveIntelligence: #coordination without #control. 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 3.5 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

"bound by values – democracy, freedom, as well as respect for the rule of law and the dignity of the individual, regardless of their origin, skin colour, creed, gender, sexual orientation, or political views. On the basis of these values, I offer close cooperation" – Angela Merkel (2016-11-09)

Oh no, the #brain works like a #humanities department: "neurons receive slow excitation and fast inhibition from their tangential partners" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8

This is dope!

Posting this for no particular reason. ;)

"A smartphone analogy to explore the origin of animals" by Ruiz-Trillo et al. I got so many questions: 🧽 Where's the sponge function on my phone? 🐙 Will land-octopi scrub themselves with phones in 380m yrs? 🌈 How about superradiant tryptophones? @multicellgenome.bsky.social @ricardsole.bsky.social

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lab encounter with Kaisa Langer et al. – The Humanities Data Lab (HUMAL) of the Estonian Research and Cultural Data Infrastructure @etkad.bsky.social 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+3 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 8 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Posting this @nsousanis.bsky.social mini comic about AI and creative work for no particular reason

'the greater the degree of interdisciplinarity, the lower the probability of being funded." This insight is now 10 years old. 🎉 Fellow "born this way" #multidisciplinaries, who want to survive: Read Anderson's Imagined Communities and Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender (and think "disciplines").

"Nature gives us so much inspiration [...]"

"Es gibt nicht die echten und die unechten Bürger. Es gibt nicht die richtigen und die falschen Familien. Es gibt nicht die normalen und die nicht normalen. Das ist faschistischer Sprech!" 100% was Carolin Emcke sagt.

The future is #analog!

WOW! Heute waren in ganz 🇩🇪 Menschen auf der Straße & machten klar: Es ist Zeit zum Handeln! 👏 Die Wahl in LSA muss eine Zäsur sein, wenn wir die AfD stoppen wollen. Um das zu erreichen, fordern wir: Solidarität mit allen, die vor Ort dafür kämpfen, dass Rechtsextreme nicht 1/3

I do wonder what David Hilbert would think about all this. He was accused of trying to automate mathematics, in the 1920s! The "Hilbert program" failed in an exact sense, because Gödel, but it succeeded by making formal proof systems like Lean possible. And Lean makes the AI-sausage-machine work.

There is a special feeling of excitement and disgust emerging in trained experts when they look into the window of an antiquarian prints & drawings salesman, who sells sheets – obviously cut out of mutilated books. Click "View original page", to recover context, lost in the app, sometimes lost .

Just in case your Navier-Stokes equations blow up or get stolen, rest assured that snails have a mucus for every occasion: fyfluiddynamics.com/2026/09/snai... 🌊🐌

Prior to OpenAI's announcement today that its AI solved one of the seven Millennium Problems, rumors were circulating online among mathematicians over the proof's origins—OpenAI has denied all allegations.

Speak AfD as one word, not Ah-eff-deh, and it sounds like Aphte (mouth ulcer) for Germany.

The Musk-backed AfD is three votes short of an absolute majority in Saxony-Anhalt. In a secret ballot, it may only need three CDU lawmakers to discover their independence. Americans may remember Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.

For Americans reading the German election news this morning, it might help to know that Saxony-Anhalt is like the West Virginia of Germany. Population similar size and age, GDP similar, high out-migration, old dying industry. No less worrying, but good for comparison.

🛎️ Final call: Advanced School on AI Research Practice in Media and Communication. Apply by 15 Sept for VI MeLCi Lab Autumn School on AI research in media & communication. 📅 10–13 Nov. 🌐 Online PhD/postdoc/ECR melcilab.cicant.ulusofona.pt/training/vi-...

Today, extreme-right AFD 💩 won 44% in Sachsen Anhalt 🇩🇪. AFD wants "peace politics with Russia" 🇷🇺, while signalling "Germany First" (as in "America First" 🇺🇸), and "Vision 2026" (as in "Project 2025" 🎃). Center-right CDU already does "Project 2025 light". The German media is tragically unprepared.

45 Prozent haben für Rassismus, Frauenhass, Queerfeindlichkeit, Behindertenfeindlichkeit, Menschenverachtung gestimmt. Das muss uns entsetzen.

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Wunderbare Menschen heute in #magdeburg

Social media is an excitable #medium. It functions like a dynamic #reservoir, taken to #criticality by noise induction, made hypersensitive for external input. The readout is narrow-minded ideas. There is no central control, just game-theoretic #fracking, for profit. #piracy, not conspiracy. 🌊☠️

"Man kann es auch positiv formulieren[...]: Wir brauchen Weltoffenheit, [...] eine Willkommenskultur, [...] Offenheit für alle Geschlechter. Alle sind bei uns willkommen, die Rationalität mitbringen, kritisches Denken, die die Wissenschaft voranbringen wollen und die in diesem Geist zu uns kommen."🔥

Ich wünsche allen Trittbrettfahrern des 🇺🇸🇷🇺 Rechtsrucks in #Deutschland einen heftigen Wahlverlust, und allen anderen ein schönes Wochenende. 🌍🇪🇺🇩🇪 💚 🌼 🎉 Es geht auch ohne #Gier & #Nepotismus, ohne #Xenophobie, #Misogynie, #Queer- & #Transphobie, ohne #Ignoranz der #Wissenschaft und des #Klimawandels!

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Stell dir vor, du arbeitest beim Verfassungsschutz, nimmst das einigermaßen ernst, sammelst Material und erarbeitest Gutachten, die die Einstufung der AfD als gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung untermauern und dann lädt der ÖRR den Fascho-Spitzenkandidaten ins KINDERFERNSEHEN ein.

Just in case you have no plans for the weekend, this year's Ig Nobel cohort is hilarious. 😘 [seriously]

Ich liebe einfach alles daran, wie @ricardalang.eurosky.social den Schaumschläger und peinlichen Selbstvermarkter Poschardt bei Maischberger rasiert. 🔥🥰

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"