Steffen Pielström

built an ai tool for etymology nerds: deconstructor. live rn. the goal was to analyze the origins of english words, but it ended up having a ton of amazing emergent properties (see below)

With Kriegsspiel getting 200 this year, @CoSimG's Pia Henning and Jorit Wintjes ran two short Kriegsspiel workshops as part of 14. Forum Zukunftsorientierte Steuerung at @FueAkBwHH. The two nearly identical scenarios took only 90 minutes to produce two very different outcomes.

Heute Abend bringt eine Rakete den Würzburger Nanosatelliten SONATE-2 in den Orbit. 🚀🛰️Entwicklet und gebaut hat ihn ein Team um Prof. Hakan Kayal. Zum Start bietet @JMUSpace einen Live Stream. Alle Infos hier: #c1103427" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/aerospaceinfo/…

#Stellenausschreibung: Wir suchen eine*n Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in für wissenschaftliches Publikationsmanagement am @EXC2020 nach Möglichkeit mit Verlagserfahrung. - Bewerbungen sind bis zum 19.02.2024 willkommen! Mehr unter: temporal-communities.de/calls/position… #WeAreHiring #AcademicTwitter

NEW PAPER: Ever wondered why insects fly in all sorts of crazy patterns around lights at night? So did we! We set about recording flying insects to work out what's going on. I'll summarise what we found in this 🧵. Spoiler: We don't think they confuse lights with the moon.

The due date for submissions to the conference + journal track of #JCLS has been postponed to Jan. 25, 2024! One more week to submit your paper on computational literary studies and present your work at #CCLS2024 in Vienna in June! #CfP: jcls.io/site/cfp/ – Please RT!

#Ants recognise when wounds of their conspecifics become infected and then initiate #antibiotic treatment. Paper @NatureComms, Erik Frank @ETF1989 @Uni_WUE & Laurent Keller @unil ➡️uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-ev…

+++ Reminder: Bis zum 08.01.24 können Bewerbungen für die 2 Stellen als Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in in der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit und/oder Wissenschaftskommunikation eingereicht werden! 💥 Apply now 👉 temporal-communities.de/calls/position…

Our account has lost over 7,000 followers in December. We continue to ask for your engagement. You create this incredible community and help us keep the memory alive. Support @AuschwitzMuseum and amplify our voice.

Out now - finally! - is @CoSimG's main educational wargame, Pluie de Balles: buchshop.bod.de/pluie-de-balle… For a brief description see here: analoggamestudies.org/2018/09/pluie-… Additional information including token samples soon on the @CoSiömG website.

Apply now for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to study the European Master in Lexicography @emlexmundus! emlex.eu.usc.gal/applications/

Out now: "'They got it all wrong!' - Victorian War Fiction and the First World War" bjmh.gold.ac.uk/index.php/bjmh… Thanks to @BritJnlMilHist for publishing what is a more than only slightly eclectic topic. Oh, and a small spoiler: In fact, they didn't...

PdB winter season is about to kick off with a big game at @HSUHamburg - involving gaming materials which could be called copious...

Have you submitted your proposal to #DH2024 yet? Consider submitting soon! The deadline is three weeks from today. dh2024.adho.org/cfp/

Today, Occasional Papers Series No 2 was published. No 3 is just around the corner and will hopefully see the light around the end of the year - the rules for Pluie de Balles. They have been in private circulation for nearly a decade now, as these four different copies show.

A new publication by @CoSimG is out as of today: an introduction to using the 1867 Tschischwitz rules for the Battle of Königgrätz. To be used in conjunction with an edition of the rules, the booklet is in German. Available here: buchshop.bod.de/der-krieg-von-… Soon also on Amazon.

Over the course of 3 days scientists pumped 10 tons of cement into an abandoned ant hill. After weeks of digging, the colony’s intricate & impressive structure is revealed. This one [From: Ants! Natures Secret Power] t.co/G71KrCYafP

With a slight delay - @CoSimG's @JoritWintjes talked on the Preble Hall podcast about the Prussian Kriegsspiel getting its feet wet in the 1870s. Thanks to @cgberube for this opportunity! naval-history-lyceum.simplecast.com/episodes/germa…

Just arrived from the printer: pre-print copies of @CoSimG's brief quickstarter guide to the Prussian Kriegsspiel. Available soon!

New podcast episode from literatureandhistory.com on Boethius (c. 476-524) and 'The Consolation of Philosophy.' 02:23:00, soundtracked, full of historical context, and free! Spotify: tinyurl.com/4va8c6nj. Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/3s68xshb.