Dr C Weissenberg

Die erste Biografie von Fred Stein: Fotograf, Exilant und Chronist des 20. Jahrhunderts

Interested in the history of photography, the challenges of exile, political dreams, and networks of friendship? Then my latest book, a biography of the German-Jewish photographer Fred Stein (1909-1967), might be of interest to you. Published today! www.aufbau-verlage.de/ch-links-ver...

That’s such a great idea!

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whether global warming is speeding up. A new study says it has the answer | CNN Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for years. A new paper says it has the answer, and it’s not good news.

Global warming has accelerated “significantly” over the past 10 years, meaning the world may barrel through crucial global warming limits faster than expected, according to the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

"The UK’s most significant institution dedicated to the study of the Holocaust, has announced the appointment of two co-directors.

Christine Schmidt and Barbara Warnock have been named as the institution’s new leadership, the first women to take the helm at the library in its near 100-year history"

@ceschmidt.bsky.social

Congratulations 🥂 👏🏻 👏🏻 🤗

Continues to baffle me that ‘environment’ is so low down the list of voter concerns.

It has such an impact on everything else they ‘are’ bothered about… 🤷🏻‍♀️

a disgrace

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

10.03.1943|The second transport of Dutch Jews departed from the Westerbork transit camp to SS-Sonderkommando #Sobibor. The deportees included 440 men and 665 women, 13 of them survived the #Holocaust.

Precision without Ruth

Publication day! 🥳 #TheLongDeathOfAdolfHitler is officially out now! Thank you so much to the amazing team @yalebooks.bsky.social for making this possible, to everyone who has read drafts & offered feedback along the way, and to all those who are currently buying/reading it!

Bit of a call out to fellow historians!

Anyone with suitable interest/expertise available on Monday and up for recording a podcast with me on "Rat Lines" - the post-war efforts to help Nazi's escape to South America and elsewhere?

Unfortunately my planned guest had to drop out #skystorians

Lived in Nederland for about a year (ESA) and loved our time there.

Also, so much of this rings true 😂

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn Monitors admit they are struggling to keep track of the environmental disasters arising from widening war

Bombing of Iran’s oil infrastructure to have major environmental fallout, experts warn

Middle East war strengthens case for renewables, say clean energy experts Oil and gas price shocks triggered by conflict reignite discussion about building defences to volatile fuel costs

Iran war strengthens case for #renewables - “Wind and solar as, as part of that mix, is a huge benefit from the standpoint of price stability, because once you install it you have more certainty around what that actual cost profile looks like” www.ft.com/content/001a... via @FT #ActOnClimate

US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people were killed, expert video analysis shows.

Here is the story on the BBC News website.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dubai-Influencer fliehen vor Iran-Krieg und lassen Haustiere zurück - Tierheime „von Anrufen überschwemmt“ Um dem Konflikt im Nahen Osten zu entgehen, verlassen Auswanderer in Dubai das Land. Ihre Haustiere setzen viele einfach aus.

„Ein Kaninchen im Käfig, daneben ein voller Futtersack – einfach auf der Straße zurückgelassen. Katzenbabys in Pappschachteln, Hunde an Laternenpfählen angebunden, manche sogar in der Wüste ausgesetzt“
#Dubai
#Influencer

Sie haben sie sooo schrecklich gerne.

www.merkur.de/welt/dubai-i...

😢

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

For sure.

He could get bored in a week.

Kind of have to hope so on this one - for everyone’s sake.

And yes - of course there are more serious aspects to this - loss of life, catastrophic environmental effects, political turmoil.

But these constant shocks to everyday lives and planning are not nothing either.

We’re seeing our pension plummet, for sure - again 🙁

Discussing this morning that we’re probably going to have to postpone our house move, which was meant to make life easier given age-related health issues 😢

See where things are in two weeks.

If your energy needs are met from solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear sources, backed by copious battery storage, you're far less vulnerable to sudden crazy oil and gas price spikes.

Trump's war on Iran is the best possible ad for accelerating the greening of the economy.

Wildlife and the environment be damned, along with people and infrastructure

This is what ecocide looks like.

Wildlife and the environment be damned, along with people and infrastructure

If they do drop the 82nd and 101st into Iran then I guess we get to find out how MARKET GARDEN would have gone if everything was much stupider.

On #internationalwomensday this is my wife 👇 and also my International Woman for the last 30 years, I'm doing this Jurassic Trek in June to raise funds for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social who help us so much every week. 🙏

Must have been … annoying … to have had to put something like this together only to have had to destroy it a few weeks later.