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_bydbach_

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PostDoc researcher in #Literature and #CulturalStudies, specialising in #WelshWritingInEnglish, #history & #heritage of #Wales in the long C19. Frequently working on #TravelWriting, #Tourism and #Coastal topics.
Working for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales.
Toots in #English, #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.

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SteveMcCarty , to academicsunite
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30th year and I've never cussed online, but there's a technical term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

Let me count some ways that Academia Edu has declined in its zeal to monetize. The latest is that no URLs in articles that I've seen are active links anymore!

Before, non-members could scroll down to read articles, but now they have to provide personal info.

As a free member I'm usually hit with a pop-up on arrival. They flatter users by citing a large but false number of mentions to get them to become paying members. One Indian professor was boasting on FB thousands of citations, but I found only 27 for him on Google Scholar. When I pointed that out, he blocked me.

There were Academia Letters and then journals, first free and then pay to publish (like $2,000).

Academia Edu can amplify our works if they want, with nearly 300 million users signed up. That's the attraction to us, but their temptation to exploit. Comments?

@academicchatter @academicsunite

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@SteveMcCarty @pluralistic @academicchatter @academicsunite added bonus for those of us without an institutional profile page, hcommons allows its Users to create one and so become findable.

juergen_hubert , to folklore
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Getting naked on Christmas Eve is a quick way of discovering your future lover!

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/finding-love-85821250

_bydbach_ ,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore and why not?!

_bydbach_ , to folklore
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While @academicchatter and @folklore are so horrendously overrun with spam, I'm going to unfollow them. I don't want to spend most of my time here only reporting and blocking, but engaging with genuine content. Are there any recommended hashtags I could be following instead?

socprof , to academicchatter
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Looks like the @academicchatter is being spammed. Block and report.

_bydbach_ ,
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@socprof @academicchatter same goes for @folklore

kjhealy , to random
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I continue to think academics should on the whole be weirdos off doing their own weird thing, or people who occasionally say "That's obviously crap" in public and go back to doing their own weird thing. The idea of “impact” is mostly poisonous.

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@brian_gettler @prachisrivas @kjhealy @academicchatter Ha. I have a habit of working on visitors' books. That veiled threat is very real. I have receipts in people's own handwriting that I can pull out decades and decades after their death

paulcowdell , to folklore
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Delighted that this is now published (open access) in TFH: The Journal of Folklore and History. It started life as a 90th birthday present for the great Jacqueline Simpson, and hopefully hasn't lost too much of the spirit that motivated it in the first place.

https://journals.psu.edu/folklorehistorian/article/view/17/17

@folklore

_bydbach_ ,
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls @raymccarthy @pdcawley @paulcowdell @folklore Just take out anything about Iolo Morganwg and the Gorsedd of the Bards, etc. Pre-Victorian, but a major culprit. Also an excellent poet who fooled experts for a good century and a half

juergen_hubert , to folklore
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The Devil sometimes tries to do some landscape gardening. But things rarely work out as he wants.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/devils-stones-2-66710527

_bydbach_ ,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore interesting. Here in just below Cader Idris are some shapely boulders that are said to have been three pebbles in one of the giant Idris's shoes. They hindered him walking so he shook the out and there they lie to this day.

TheConversationUS , to academicchatter
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1957: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, and there's concern of the U.S.' shortage of Russian speakers to monitor Soviet activity

1958: Congress authorizes funding to strengthen education in foreign language

2023: A new report shows the study of languages other than English experienced an unprecedented drop of 16.6% since 2016

“This creates greater risks for national security,” explains a professor:
https://theconversation.com/fewer-u-s-college-students-are-studying-a-foreign-language-and-that-spells-trouble-for-national-security-198135

@academicchatter

_bydbach_ ,
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@EricLawton @TheConversationUS @academicchatter in the UK there is a very similar utilitarian view towards modern languages. It's always presented as a way to improve trade relations or gain the upper hand in politics. At no point is it mentioned that in order to achieve that, you will also be required to study culture, history and literature in order to understand another non-English-speaking county's point of view. And this total lack of genuine curiosity for other peoples outside of exerting economic and political dominance is one of the main reasons why Brexit happened.

sebastianschroeder , to histodons German
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  1. November 1820 - Geburtstag von in heute @wuppertal
    @histodons
_bydbach_ ,
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@sebastianschroeder

Noch immer eine meiner Lieblingsanekdoten über Engels:

"An einem wunderbaren Tage am Menaikanal in Bangor wurde [Friedrich Engels] sentimental und stimmte plötzlich mit seiner scharfen Diskantstimme in den falschesten Tönen "Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten" an. Wir stürzten entsetzt mit dem Ruf meines Freundes "Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch," auf ihn zu und brachten ihn mit einer über seinen dicken Schnauzbart von hinten geworfenen Serviette zum Schweigen."

http://etw.bangor.ac.uk/accounts/friedrich-von-eynern-ein-bergisches-lebensbild-zugleich-ein-beitrag-zur-geschichte-der-stad

@wuppertal @histodons

_bydbach_ , to academicchatter
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PSA:

You cannot register as a new user with the British Newspaper Archive when your email ends in .wales or .cymru. They will invariably tell you, you don't have a legitimate email address.

You're welcome!

PS. Down with paywalled content!

@academicchatter

janinefunke , (edited ) to histodons German
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Hallo liebe Geschichts-Gemeinde: ich habe mal wieder eine Frage an euch.

Kennt ihr Wissenschaftler*innen, die sich mit Brauchtumsforschung auskennen, gern auch außerhalb unseres Kulturraumes. Gern auch jemand Junges.

Ich weiß, es ist eher ein sperriges Thema, aber vielleicht habt ihr wen im Kopf. Ganz konkret geht es um Jahres-End-Feiern.

@histodons

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@janinefunke @histodons Wenn es um Brauchtum in Wales gehen sollte, dann kann @DrDaveH was über Mari Llwyds beisteuern.

juergen_hubert , to folklore
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Some ships are lost at sea.

But "lost" does not always mean "gone".

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/terror-of-sea-50181475

_bydbach_ ,
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@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore "Not all those who wander are lost," eh?

eugenia_diegoli , to academicchatter
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I’ve recently received a peer review overall positive and very informative, but critising precisely my use of the verbs “to try” and “to attempt” because, according to the reviewer, “not adequate in academic writing”. Here’s a reminder of why we should value transparency and why framing our methods in terms of attempts and intentions can actually be a good thing.
@linguistics @academicchatter

https://linguisticswithacorpus.wordpress.com/2023/10/31/i-tried-transparency-in-reporting-methods/

_bydbach_ , (edited )
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@eugenia_diegoli @linguistics @academicchatter This also applies to other disciplines. spontaneously History and Literature spring to mind. The bias of historical records or merely regarding what gets/got published is strong and should remind all of us that we will never have access to the full range of the human experience. At our very best, though, we can and should always try.

Tinido , (edited ) to histodons German
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Durch die Auswertung alter, jetzt freigegebener Spionage-Satellitaufnahmen entsteht ein neues Bild davon, wie das Imperium Romanum seine Grenze im Mittleren Osten gemanaged hat & das war wohl deutlich anders als bisher gedacht.
@histodons
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/26/cold-war-satellite-images-hundreds-unknown-roman-forts

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@Tinido @histodons And the direct link to the original paper:

https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.153

Jesse Casana, David D. Goodman
and Carolin Ferwerda: "A wall or a road? A remote sensing-based investigation of fortifications on Rome's eastern frontier"

Abstract
During a pioneering aerial survey of the Near East in the 1920s, Father Antoine Poidebard recorded hundreds of fortified military buildings that traced the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. Based on their distribution, Poidebard proposed that these forts represented a line of defence against incursions from the east. Utilising declassified images from the CORONA and HEXAGON spy satellite programmes, the authors report on the identification of a further 396 forts widely distributed across the northern Fertile Crescent. The addition of these forts questions Poidebard's defensive frontier thesis and suggests instead that the structures played a role in facilitating the movement of people and goods across the Syrian steppe.

_bydbach_ ,
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@Tinido @histodons Added perk: it's an paper, so nobody has to break through a paywall.

eugenia_diegoli , to academicchatter Japanese
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In 2022 I was invited to contribute to an edited collection that was supposed to come out within the year. That obv didn’t happen, and I still don’t have a prospective publication date. I feel so frustrated and I regret not sending the piece to a journal. Anyone else with a similar experience? @academicchatter

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@eugenia_diegoli @academicchatter I have recently been in this situation as a guest editor on a special issue for a journal. From start to finish, it took us seven years to get our articles published. The delay wasn't a malicious plot, but a series of accidents, such as changes in funding support, changes in the journal staff, changes in people's employment situation, a pandemic, several pregnancies all around, software changes, format changes, just to name a few. Life happens and I am extremely proud of all my contributors who stuck it out till publication day.

_bydbach_ ,
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@eugenia_diegoli @academicchatter yeah, breakdowns of communication are never good.

tiago , (edited ) to academicchatter
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It seems like Mastodon is losing its mindshare to among many academics.

I can't help but think this has to do with the self-imposed limitations of Mastodon — lack of quotes, ordered timeline, etc. Makes it less interesting to use, for no real advantage.

Sad, because the underlying decentralization is much more robust.

@academicchatter

_bydbach_ ,
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@tiago @crecente @asayakkara @boud @LukasBrausch @academicchatter But you already can quote through the backdoor by taking a screenshot and sharing a link to the original toot? If this function is so important to you, why don't you just do that?

_bydbach_ ,
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@tiago @crecente @asayakkara @boud @LukasBrausch @academicchatter I did read the whole thread.

_bydbach_ , (edited ) to academicchatter
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What's this? What's this?! A new page on the website presenting our growing list of names and some info on the project?

If you fancy writing a short biographical article about any of the people included in the list, or would like to suggest new additions, please get in touch!

@academicchatter

https://biography.wales/amrywedd

_bydbach_ OP ,
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@LutherBlissett13 @academicchatter Thanks, Luther! We wrote this in good faith according to the guidelines of "people first". Will correct this accordingly.

_bydbach_ OP ,
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@StephanieMoore @LutherBlissett13 @academicchatter
That's what I learned in accessibility workshops: use "people first" language, because we're centering the person. But I can understand the reason behind switching it back to adjective+person. If that's what is the standard use in Wales these days, then I simply use that.

dbellingradt , to histodons German
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Spot the difference: on the left, the copperplate print is hand-coloured after the print run, and on the right no extra work is done. Colouring prints was a thing in Europe. Guess which version was more expensive - and sold better?

You see the frontispieces with a star map from the 1742 "Atlas Novus Coelestis", Nuremberg, from J.G. Doppelmayr (1677-1750). Bonus details: , , and discussing things.
@histodons

frontispiecve from Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel: Atlas Novus Coelestis: In Quo Mundus Spectabilis Et In Eodem Tam Errantium Quam Inerrantium Stellarvm Phoenomena Notabilia… Nürnberg, Homannsche Erben, 1742 . Source: https://pic.sub.uni-hamburg.de/kitodo/PPN822197634/00000001.tif

_bydbach_ ,
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@dbellingradt @histodons Als "Malen nach Zahlen" verpackt, wären die Drucke sicher zum Verkaufsschlager geworden. Es ist alles nur eine Frage der richtigen Werbekampagne.

hgott , to academicchatter
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Look what was just published:

The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution: The Making of Humanitarianism. by Dr David de Boer (Oxford University Press; Sept. 28, 2023)

The book is available as Open Access:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-early-modern-dutch-press-in-an-age-of-religious-persecution-9780198876809?cc=nl&lang=en&#

@academicchatter

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@raymccarthy @hgott @academicchatter The PDF is freely available. Just hover your pointer over the orange Open Access logo and the download window will pop up like shown in the attached screenshot.

_bydbach_ , to academicchatter
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Sunday afternoon and what do I do? Honour writing commitments that I promised to deliver in a weak moment a few months back. The deadline, you ask?

Tomorrow.

@academicchatter

_bydbach_ , to histodons
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The possibly by far most unexpected find in my search for new names to add to our list of new articles for the is probably the Reverend Peter Jones, or by his birth name KahkewAquonaby. He was born in 1831 to a Mississauga Ojibwe woman and a Welsh father. Following his conversion to Methodism, he became a missionary, preaching in Ojibwe and English.

So, long story short: are there and @histodons of , in here on Mastodon who feel like writing up this man's biography for inclusion in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography?

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KahkewAquonA_by_Peter_Jones_(4674169).jpg

Further info: https://www.huronresearch.ca/confrontingcolonialism/upper-canada-from-primary-sources/an-analysis-of-peter-jones-a-history-of-the-ojebway-indians-with-especial-reference-to-their-conversion-to-christianity-1861/

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_bydbach_ ,
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@SimonRoyHughes @raymccarthy @folklore @folklorethursday Could you split it into three? Even a 450-page volume would be a bit of a pain to handle, 300 a little less so.

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_bydbach_ ,
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@starbreaker @ExcessivelyDiverting I may not agree 100% with Jefferey Davies where classic novels are concerned, but kudos for suggesting close enough alternatives that centre around the same motifs but are predominantly written by women. Recognition where recognition is due!

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@starbreaker @ExcessivelyDiverting A valid point!!!

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@starbreaker @ExcessivelyDiverting Ooh. Reading fodder. Thank you

gkbhambra , to sociology
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Brilliant article by Alka Raman demonstrating that it was 'recognition of British spinners' lack of adequate spinning skills [that] motivated the move to mechanization, in order to match the quality of cotton products created & perfected over centuries by anonymous & highly skilled Indian artisans'

@histodons
@sociology

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/903970

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@gkbhambra @vanderZwan @histodons @sociology Reminds me of this article about Dhaka muslin. Usual strategy of British Empire: if you can't compete with it, destroy it.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210316-the-legendary-fabric-that-no-one-knows-how-to-make

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@SimonRoyHughes @folklore @folklorethursday @bookstodon Interestingly a Welsh-language version of the story has the goats cross the bridge to eat better grass on the other side. This must clearly be a translation/adaptation from an English version since historically especially in Welsh upland farming there was also the concept of the "hafod", the summer house located higher up in the mountains. The hafod was inhabited only in summer by the farm hands who tended to the lifestock on the upland summer meadows before herding them down to the main farm in the valley for the winter.

_bydbach_ , to histodons
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Hey, - und studies folks who also read -- have you seen this 66 (!) volumes monograph series? It is 🔥.

@histodons

https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/mf

_bydbach_ , to histodons
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Nicholas Radburn— "If you think about locations transformed by the transatlantic slave trade, you’ll likely recall American plantations or former slaving forts on the coast of West Africa. You are less likely to think of the English countryside. Nowhere is this truer than Lakeland, a rural area of northwest England that has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its cultural importance and natural beauty, which is seemingly unmarred by industry and commerce. [...] Lakeland thus captures the appealing essence of rural England: comforting, unchanging, and insulated from the outside world.

Despite its carefully cultivated appearance of timeless pastoralism, Lakeland was nonetheless intimately connected to the Atlantic World through the manufacturing of gunpowder for the slave trade. "

@histodons

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2023/07/24/the-lake-district-and-atlantic-slavery/

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