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The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
(2022) Norberg, Jakob
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are probably history’s most famous folklorists. Their collection of folk tales – the Children’s and Household Tales – is one of the world’s most translated literary works. Living in a time of upheaval and war, the Grimm brothers were also passionate German nationalists. They insisted that Germans must reject alien regimes and only accept rulers who spoke their language and cherished their traditions. Jakob Norberg’s The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism is the first book-length study of the Grimms’ political attitudes and ideas. It shows how the Grimms believed that their groundbreaking philological knowledge of grammar and folk narratives allowed them to disentangle cultural and linguistic groups from each other, criticize imperial rule, and even counsel kings and princes. The brothers sought to revive a neglected Germanic culture for a contemporary audience, but they also wished to provide the traditional political elite with an understanding of the resurgent national collective. Through a series of case studies of their nationalist interventions, Norberg reconstructs how the Grimms wished to mediate between culture and politics as well as between sovereigns and peoples.
Acoustic signature of plastic marine debris mimics the prey items of deep-diving cetaceans
(Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024-12) Merrill, Greg B; Swaim, ZT; Benaka, IG; Bishop, AL; Kaney, NA; Kuhlman, S; Matheson, JC; Menini, E; Goh, S; Lei, S; Nowacek, DP
‘Feedbackpacking’
: mapping the journey towards independent L2 student feedback literacy
(Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education) Davies, Joseph Arthur
Navigating the Social Media Landscape
(2024-05-01) Blanding, Erin
How does the TikTok algorithm know what you are thinking before you even search it up? How do influencers rise to popularity? What does it take to capture a digital audience's attention in a saturated online atmosphere? Given the trajectory of artificial intelligence and its proliferation online, will there be any way to distinguish what is “real” and what is “fake”?
Navigating the current social media landscape for creators and brands alike is a constantly evolving game of attempting to work with the algorithm instead of against it. TikTok’s “for you” feed revolutionized social media by prioritizing predictions of what users would want to see, rather than curating content they have already expressed an interest in. This has changed the way many popular social media platforms have organized their content. In combination with recommendations backed by unthinkable amounts of data, users are inundated with a never ending stream of addicting media that can have consequences socially and financially. This thesis delves into the relationship between content, data and data privacy concerns, artificial intelligence, and digital strategy as it relates to both individuals and companies in an ever changing, deeply interconnected digital environment.
Natural history of manta rays in the Bird's Head Seascape, Indonesia, with an analysis of the demography and spatial ecology of Mobula alfredi (Elasmobranchii: Mobulidae)
(Journal of Ocean Science Foundation, 2020-12-28) Setyawan, Edy; Erdmann, Mark V; Lewis, Sarah; Mambrasar, Ronald; Hasan, Abdi; Templeton, Sabine; Beale, Calvin; Sianipar, Abraham; Shidqi, Rafid; Heusckhel, Hendrik; Ambafen, Orgenes; Muhamad, Izuan; Prasetia, Mohammad Fakhri; Hidayati, Azizah; Hidayat, Ismu; Pada, Defy; Muljadi, Andreas; Pilkington-Vincett, Rebecca; Dharmadi, Dharmadi; Cerutti, Pereyra
The Bird’s Head Seascape (BHS) in West Papua, Indonesia, is widely recognized as the global epicenter of coral reef biodiversity and is protected by an extensive network of 20 marine protected areas (MPAs) totaling over 4.7 million ha. It is home to large populations of both the reef manta ray Mobula alfredi (Krefft, 1868) and the oceanic manta Mobula birostris (Walbaum, 1792). We document the natural history of manta rays in the BHS and describe the demographics and spatial ecology of Mobula alfredi using underwater and aerial observations, a comprehensive photo-ID database, and passive acoustic telemetry. Manta rays were recorded from 127 sites across the BHS, including 70 aggregation sites (cleaning stations and routine feeding aggregations), with the largest feeding aggregation recorded consisting of 112 M. alfredi in the Dampier Strait in the Raja Ampat archipelago. We recorded 4,052 photographically identified M. alfredi sightings of 1,375 individuals between November 2004 and December 2019, with a biased female-to-male sex ratio of 1.58 to 1.0 and 67.4% exhibiting the chevron color morph vs. 32.6% melanistic. Over 85% of sightings came from the two large MPAs (>330,000 ha) of South East Misool and Dampier Strait. Importantly, 16 photo-IDs of somersault-feeding individuals were obtained using a drone, apparently the first report of UAVs used for manta photo-IDs. We resighted 642 individuals (46.7%) at least once during the period, with the two most-resighted individuals registering 67 and 66 resightings over periods of about 12 years. We observed 217 females pregnant at least once, with one having 4 consecutive pregnancies from 2013–16 (and a total of 5 pregnancies in 7 years) and 15 with at least two consecutive-year pregnancies. Four nursery sites were identified with a consistent presence of numerous young-of-the-year (YoY; i.e. ≤2 m disc width) over 3–14 years of observations: we recorded 65 YoYfrom Raja Ampat. The Raja Ampat population is best described as a metapopulation composed of 4–7 subpopulations inhabiting island groups separated by over-water distances of only 20–40 km, but which nonetheless exhibit limited exchange of individuals. We recorded 309 movement events among 7 hypothesized manta subpopulations in Raja Ampat based on photo-IDs between 2004 and 2019 and passive acoustic telemetry between 2013 and 2019, with the longest movement we recorded 296 km minimum distance through water. Importantly, 115 of the identified manta ray sites (90.5%) are distributed within 13 of the 20 BHS MPAs, and 95.9% of sightings (3,887 of 4,052), 89.5% of individuals (1,231 of 1,375) and all 4 identified nursery areas were from within MPAs in Raja Ampat, indicating the Raja Ampat MPA network, and the broader BHS MPA network within which it is nested, are critical for the conservation of manta rays in West Papua.