I personally met a bike that crossed the Alps on a high wire (with the Traber family, who are part Roma) Johann Traber (pictured) has built an impressive museum of his family’s accomplishments—it’s one of relatively few still-active artiste families that go several hundred years back), even decorating his family’s old circus wagon with stained glass

The most important piece here is that aiding universities must be ready first. People are fleeing, some are trying to figure out if they can stay, and with what risks. Our job is to ready the grounds for them—if not them, to create precedent for those in need in the future.

https://twitter.com/hilahkohen/status/1499054434491539458

People fret too much about having set something up and not being flooded with requests immediately, maybe we should cool off a bit for now, this isn’t about us.

Get some basic emotional literacy.

https://twitter.com/melindaharing/status/1498439817608183811

Her being called out but keeping this tweet up is like my poli sci colleague writing back to me that he hadn’t expected that everyone else would write with feeling when he’d been asked to do his “expert take” for the campus website. Except worse, cause there’s “fun.”

Quick thread on initiating emergency humanitarian admissions for graduate students (from Ukraine, in this case): first step is to get off Twitter. Tagging unis here will get you nowhere--they're run by communications offices. 1/ Build a team quickly--ideally, across various contingents (other students, faculty, administrators would be amazing). Call yourselves something straightforward. 2/

Today’s German word: das Stangenei. After my parents immigrated to Germany, my mom was assigned to work in a school cafeteria, where these would arrive from special long-egg-making facilities. They were her first bit of shared German folklore, and we listened, wide-eyed. My parents ate German school cafeteria leftovers for half a year. Many grams of extra high sodium later, they decided they’d never assimilate and went back to the homey kotlety

Cold War rabbit stamps. Why is the GDR using rabbits on tobacco wares fair promotion? Romanians not being nice to lagomorphs

Dude, I just bought a Kitchenaid, yet these things have existed at least since 1919. theguardian.com/technology/202… It’s crazy that because something exists, these people think everyone is on the brink of adopting it.

Forest by dawn, yellow-footed chanterelles, Neoalbatrellus subcaeruleoporus (edible or not?), forage colors and textures. A beautiful porcino ruin

There's a misconception that Germans have somehow been been successful with getting rid of their "Nazi statues," which has done a great deal to mis-position Germany in the current discussions of memorialization, so I've lost patience & decided to do a thread. 1/

https://twitter.com/ykomska/status/1270718375342178304

For one, if one defines a statue as an identifiable historical male figure on horseback or his two feet, the Nazis did not invest much in this kind of statuary. Many public memorials, even to specific people, were allegories or abstractions. 2/

Great thread, and an occasion to repost J. Osterhammel’s paragraph-long summary of that pandemic’s seemingly unsummarizable spread. In Hamburg, the 1892 epidemic killed ~9,000 & resulted in an entire city quarter being razed. It stood largely empty till the 1920s.

https://twitter.com/rebeccaspang/status/1233950172444602368

Hamburg modernism could sprawl as much as it did because there were these vast areas emptied by the 1892 cholera epidemic. Chilehaus, Sprinkenhof, Ballinhaus (now Meßberghof).