#University Of Silesia

[yellowmanula]

The University of Silesia has once again awarded me a scholarship for a research trip. Firstly I traveled to Berlin and met amazing musicians such as Maciej Śledziecki, Marcin Pietruszewski and Francesco Corvi. On Rave Fm Youtube channel you can easily find vlogs and thoughts and insights on Algomystica and Aggregate Festival!!! Also some interviews about experimental electronic music will soon see the sunlight.

But this time, I will attend the International Conference on Live Coding 2025 in Barcelona ❤. I plan to actively engage with the discussions and insights shared at the conference, preparing myself to contribute as a speaker next year. The Recruitment Committee has granted me funding within the project "jUŚt transition – The Potential of the University of Silesia as the Foundation for a Just Transition of the Region." Thank you so much. Love my uni, and my supervisor Prof. Ania Malinowska ❤

So happy, and check International Conference on Live Coding and what they do!

[madelinetess]

Autism creature spotted in the Wild

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11 / 100 days of productivity

I had a heuristics class in the morning (I still don't fully get what the word means) and went home. I'm bummed that I forgot my book abt the middle ages at dorms but oh well. also I was in trains for five hours and I'm at my parents house which means passive dissociation, I just pray I'll have something productive to show you during the weekend tbh

photos:

1) diary writing setup

2) stuff from the heuristics class about values through which we define a cultural monument

3) pic from the train

4) I love the industrial part of my college city so so much

[kajenus]

Lynka and Hanik in a modern AU :3

[alabohaterka]

Edit: First of all, thank you all for your participation ❤️ You managed to gather over 100 responses during the last 12 hours. I did not expect such a great turnout but as always the fan communities on Tumblr did not let me down, thank you once again.

Due to the number of responses, I have to close the survey sooner than I expected.

I wish you all the best and I hope that the good vibes you gave me come back to you ❤️

Hi, I'm looking for people willing to participate in my BA research. It is a survey about how being in fandom influences motivation towards learning English.

If you have some time to spare, English is not your first language but you are more or less actively involved in any fan activities in English, please take a moment to help me (I would also appreciate it if you shared the link with your friends that could help 😉)

[minetteskvareninova]

One think that has always bugged me about the Harry Potter universe is the fact that Transsylvania has its own quidditch team, instead of there being a unified Romanian team. Today, at last (because what, do you imagine this is something I've spent significant brainpower on for the past fifteen years?!) I found an explanation. Basically, if Transsylvania's quidditch team has been inherited from the times of Habsburg monarchy, which also means that Wallachia has its own team as well. Jury's still out if Moldovan team also includes Ukrainian nationals from former Bessarabia, or if it's even called Moldovan and not Bessarabian. This would ALSO imply teams such as Dalmatian and Istrian instead of Croatian, separate teams for Morava and Silesia, and the existence of Slovak team being in question, as Slovakia did not exist even as a historical region before the creation of Czechoslovakia (although there were projects of delineating Slovak-majority parts of Hungary as a separate political entity as far back as 1792). In this essay on political geography of the Harry Potter universe I will-

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

@/polblr a question!

My friend and I came up with a dragon breed for the Temeraire universe, it's a small courier-sized breed used by coal miners in Czech and Polish Silesia. So far its English name is the Silesian Coalwing, in Czech it'd be known as Slezský uhelák, and I'd like to ask for help with its Polish name 👉👈

[lost-neurons]

hola :]

i decided to become an active part of studyblr, so let's get to know each other, right?

nikolaj, he/him, 21

central europe, silesia

second year of applied linguistics (eng+esp)

favourite subject? phonetics, duh!

i don't have any socials but: my goodreads, main tumblr

and i have a traditional blog as well!

f1, monke, cyberpunk, stoicism, fight club enjoyer

goals for the future: finish university, find stable job, publish my works, visit every balkan and slavic country (trans-syberian railway!!), remain swag af

og posts with #study journal tag. also, asks and dms are always open! ˙ ͜ʟ˙

[mariacallous]

Although considered a relatively minor ballot, Czechia’s upcoming regional elections will set the clock ticking for the next parliamentary elections scheduled in a year.

“Vineyards are a symbol of hard work. And that’s exactly what awaits us after the regional elections, if we win,” mused ANO vice-president Alena Schillerova as the main opposition party kicked off its campaign in the wine country of South Moravia, where she hails from.

Hard work perhaps, but from a strong position, as the latest polls put her ANO party led by the former prime minister Andrej Babis ahead of any those of the ruling coalition, just months after Babis’s movement emerged victorious from the European Parliament elections.

“All national polls show ANO as the strongest party by far, with very stable voting preferences of around one-third of the electorate,” confirms Martin Buchtik, director of the STEM polling agency.

An expected win?

Four years after the last ballot, Czechs will once more head to the polls on Friday and Saturday to elect the 675 members of the country’s 13 regional councils – except for Prague – who will then elect their governor based on post-election negotiations and alliances.

Despite receiving the most votes in 10 out of 13 regions in 2020, ANO only managed to take control of the three governorships of Usti nad Labem, Zlin and Moravia-Silesia.

This year’s ballot might not prove all that different, with Babis himself suggesting that replicating the results of four years ago would be considered a “success”, while hinting that one or two extra seats of governors would be welcome after three years in opposition to an unpopular government.

But due to the intermingling of regional issues with national politics, the importance of individual personalities – some of them well established – and of local dynamics, nation-wide electoral preferences, or lack thereof, do not automatically translate to the level of regional councils.

“In the Czech conditions, post-elections negotiations matter a lot, and in the past, it often happened that other parties agreed without ANO,” explains Lubomir Kopecek from Masaryk University in Brno, hinting at Babis’s own “personality and populism” as a red line keeping many potential partners away.

“It very much depends on how significant ANO victories will be in specific regions,” he tells BIRN. “In general, however, it is not the case that victory automatically means ANO will rule in the regions.”

More than 8,000 candidates hailing from over 80 political parties and movements are vying for regional council posts this year. And the patchwork of local alliances, ad-hoc cooperations or coalition red-lines may look very different region to region, making it sometimes “even quite difficult for voters to understand what’s going on”, according to STEM’s Buchtik.

‘Racist’ billboards

The far-right SPD party of Tomio Okamura, for instance, has confirmed its cooperation with the Trikolora movement in three regions, while both parties will also campaign alongside the PRO party of rabble-rouser Jindrich Rajchl in six other constituencies, and Svobodni in four of them.

The SPD’s widening network of alliances with extra-parliamentary parties – like PRO – it was bluntly attacking just a few months ago testifies to Okamura’s movement weakening following disappointing EU election results as well as its further radicalisation, analysts believe.

Hence the SPD’s attempt to be even “more extreme, more shocking”, according to Karel Kominek from the Institute of Political Marketing, exemplified by its provocative billboard campaign which has caused shock and outrage across Prague.

On one of the posters, a dark-skinned man with a bloodied knife and clothing is shown with the caption: “The shortcomings in the healthcare sector cannot be solved by imported surgeons”, quickly leading to accusations of racism and disinformation. A criminal complaint has been filed against Okamura’s party, which – presumably unbothered by the extra publicity – focused on the technological merits of their campaign.

“The SPD is the first Czech party that uses the most modern technologies,” Okamura proudly declared as he confirmed the visuals were created with the help of artificial intelligence.

“I think this is really a typical example of how controversial and polarised the upcoming parliamentary campaign will be, which has already technically started with the upcoming regional and Senate elections,” Pavel Havlicek, an analyst at the Association for International Affairs, told Czech Radio.

“This is a good example of how most of the limits of the past are now broken, and most things will unfortunately be possible to say in the public space,” he added.

Nonetheless, Buchtik from the STEM agency does not expect a strong rise of support for extremist parties like the SPD “that traditionally do not fare too well in regional elections” and currently hold a total of 35 seats in nine different regions. “It’s not going to be like in Germany”, he predicts in reference to the regional gains of the far-right AfD party a few weeks ago just across the border.

Polarisation ahead

True to form, the main opposition parties – including Babis’s ANO and Okamura’s SPD – have resorted to turning the upcoming ballot into a referendum on the current five-party coalition of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, which remains unpopular 12 months before the end of its term.

“The main topic of the campaign is whether you’re for or against the government,” Buchtik tells BIRN, nonetheless adding that regional considerations also come into play.

Socio-economic problems are high on the agenda in the poorer regions of Usti nad Labem or Karlovy Vary, he says, fertile ground for ANO and other opposition parties, while analysts expect regions that are better off – like Central Bohemia and South Moravia – to remain in the current centre-right government’s fold.

“Suggesting this is some kind of referendum on the government simply does not work,” Interior Minister Vit Rakusan argued. “This is a referendum on life in individual regions, whether governors have proven themselves or not. Our people are not stupid, they will not be deceived or fooled.”

While the opposition tries to capitalise on low public trust in the ruling coalition and their tainted track-record at the national level, government parties in turn put the “emphasis on regional issues and typically also take advantage of the fact that they have filled most of the positions of governors,” analyses Kopecek from Masaryk University

Coalition-backed governors, on the other hand, are aware of the need to distance themselves from national party affiliation, often choosing to personalise their election bid, like South Bohemia governor Martin Kuba who has launched his campaign without the ruling ODS or SPOLU branding.

Considering the unpopularity of the government, “it makes sense for him to build the campaign around himself”, assesses Otto Eibl from Masaryk University in Brno, while ANO, on the other hand, has proven much less shy in giving centre stage to its national leadership in order to give a boost to the campaign of sometimes lesser-known local figures.

In general, however, many Czechs express little interest in regional elections – the last turnout in 2020 stood at just 38 per cent – and a similarly low level of awareness as to who their governor is or what kind of competence regional councils have in terms of policymaking.

“People identify more with mayors, who often deal with them directly, or with national politicians who appear daily on television,” assessed Milan Skolnik, a political scientist from the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.

At the same time as regional councils, Czechs will go to the polls to elect a third of the 81-member Senate, currently dominated by the five-party government coalition.

“No big changes are expected,” Buchtik tells BIRN, nevertheless adding that the performance of ANO, which has never fared too well in senatorial elections, is worth keeping an eye on.

“It will also be interesting to see whether Prisaha leader Robert Slachta will manage to win a seat in the Senate,” he adds, as his potential victory or defeat could be instrumental in determining the future or unravelling of the Prisaha-Motorista coalition – the surprise breakthrough of June’s European ballot – ahead of the 2025 legislative elections.

Another example showing that while neither regional nor senatorial elections are expected to bring dramatic changes to Czechia’s political landscape, both will be indicative of the 12 months that lie ahead, giving a picture of where voter preferences lie, how public debate will be shaped over the coming year, and whether political alliances – old and new – will hold in an increasingly polarised climate.

[xenopoem]

Clinical report by neuroscientist Germán Sierra: Zak Ferguson vs. Kenji Siratori is the transcript of a communication attempt between digitrashed humans and the anthroporuined algorithm; a language-production system resulting from the compulsion of posthuman entities — fleshy, machinic, or any combination of both — to probe each other through synthetic metamanipulations, or by exchanging esoterically-coded glitchstructions and exploring the two-way xenoerotics of technoparaphilia. "Amid the demise of narrative forms, there comes a piece of glitch stoicism. Delivered as a technological fable and device overload hypo-text, it weaves a tale of media fantasies to augur the quantum karma of data skin and the genericness of human language" - Ania Malinowska, Ania Malinowska, PhD, Professor in Media and Cultural Studies Center for Critical Technology Studies, University of Silesia, Poland All linguists. Messenger's hungry brain. We are progressing. Call the code down. Talk in praise of acid. Parallel conductors exist. Undermine affinity. Appearance and content are always with mental stabilizers. Assassination is not necessarily the existence of life. It is because it permeates that degradation is dizziness, the beginning of habit and economic game... It is rather a humor challenging the virtual of a deep period of devotion that is close to privilege. Celebrities write that they want it. My hollow's local and precise perception sought technology. Circles contact actual millipede data, and the course searches for it, captured gravity is poetic stench and dark people, let them talk, and present Daddy's future order. Many cosmologies in the dunes are not born. Words that force beliefs. Understand that whoever caused the watchmaker to rise is intended, impossible concept. Laughing machinery swirls in the soil. Limitations of intergalactic invisibility. Time. Human things. What you executed.

[oneofusglobal]

Say hello to Ama!

Image Credits: @ClearMiller

Image Transcript:

"Aleksandra lives in the mountainous area of Southern Poland - representing the Slavic part of the world, she's happy to be part of the One of Us Foundation on behalf of secluded villages, where golden kids want to spread their wings. Aleksandra is set to receive her Game Design and English Philology diploma from the University of Silesia this summer, and is preparing to pursue her masters in Narrative Design. Hopeful to one day catch her own dreams, she hopes to support others in the meantime."

[kajenus]

Here's uhhh a sketch of something I'm definitely not going to finish, but I like it the way it is

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS (aka Edith Stein) The Carmelite Nun with Jewish Blood and the Patron of World Youth Day and Converted Jews Feast Day: August 9

"The world doesn't need what women have, it needs what women are."

Edith Stein, known as Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, is a martyr of Auschwitz. She was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, Prussia (now Wrocław, Poland) from a observant and religious Jewish family on October 12, 1891. She was youngest of 11 children, and was born on the holiest day of the Hebrew calendar - Yom Kippur. Edith was a very gifted child who enjoyed learning, in a home where her mother encouraged critical thinking, and she greatly admired her mother's strong religious faith. By her teenage years, however, Stein had become an agnostic, despite her religious background.

Stein arrived at the University of Göttingen in April 1913 in order to study for the summer semester with Edmund Husserl, a German mathematican and philosopher. By the end of the summer, she had decided to pursue her doctoral degree in philosophy under Husserl and chose empathy as her thesis topic. Because of the outbreak of World War I, her studies were interrupted in July 1914. She then served as a volunteer wartime Red Cross nurse in an infectious diseases hospital at Mährisch Weißkirchen in 1915. In 1916, Stein moved to the University of Freiburg in order to complete her dissertation on Empathy. Shortly before receiving her degree from Freiburg she agreed to become Husserl's assistant there. Her dissertation was awarded a doctorate in philosophy with the summa cum laude honor. She then became a member of the faculty at Freiburg, where she worked until 1918 as a teaching assistant to Husserl, who had transferred to that institution.

During this period she also lectures on women's education and vocation and on education in general to very large audiences and to great acclaim. In these lectures, published in ESGA 13 and ESGA 16, she works out for herself the important questions concerning social type and essence, which find a fuller development in The Structure of the Human Person.

She was converted to Christianity in 1921, after reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Ávila, during summer holidays in Bad Bergzabern, that prompted her conversion and eventually the desire to seek the life of a Discalced Carmelite. Baptized on New Year's Day 1922, and dissuaded by her spiritual advisers from immediately seeking entry to the enclosed and hidden life of a Carmelite nun, Stein obtained a position to teach at the Dominican nuns' school in Speyer from 1923 to 1931. She studied Catholic philosophers and theologians, in particular, Thomas Aquinas, and familiarized herself with Catholic philosophy in general and tried to bridge the phenomenology of her former teacher, Husserl, to Thomism. She visited Husserl and Heidegger at Freiburg in April 1929, the same month that Heidegger gave a speech to Husserl on his 70th birthday. In 1932, she became a lecturer at the Catholic Church-affiliated Institute for Scientific Pedagogy in Münster, but anti-semitic legislation passed by the Nazi government forced her to resign the post in 1933. In a letter to Pope Pius XI, she denounced the Nazi regime and asked the Pope to openly denounce the regime 'to put a stop to this abuse of Christ's name.'

Meanwhile, as the Nazi government imposed antisemitic laws, she wrote a letter in 1933 to Pius XI, asking the Pope to openly denounce Adolf Hitler's regime. Edith entered the Discalced Carmelite monastery St. Maria vom Frieden (Our Lady of Peace) in Cologne-Lindenthal in October 1933, and took the name of Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Teresia Benedicta a Cruce). In order to avoid the growing Nazi threat, the Order transferred Edith and her sister, Rosa, who was also a convert and an extern sister of the Carmel, to the Discalced Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands. There she wrote Studie über Joannes a Cruce: Kreuzeswissenschaft ('Studies on John of the Cross: The Science of the Cross').

Ultimately, she would not be safe in the Netherlands. The Dutch Bishops' Conference had a public statement read in all churches across the nation on July 20, 1942 condemning Nazi racism. In a retaliatory response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskommissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts who had previously been spared. Along with two hundred and forty-three baptized Jews living in the Netherlands, Edith and her sister were arrested by the SS (Schutzstaffel) in the monastery on August 2, 1942. She and her sister Rosa were imprisoned at the concentration camps of Amersfoort and Westerbork before being deported to Auschwitz. A Dutch official at Westerbork was so impressed by her sense of faith and calm, he offered her an escape plan. Stein vehemently refused his assistance, stating: 'If somebody intervened at this point and took away [her] chance to share in the fate of [her] brothers and sisters, that would be utter annihilation.'

Early in the morning on August 7, 1942, 987 Jews were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was probably on August 9th that Edith, her sister Rosa, and many more Jews were killed in a gas chamber. Edith was 50 years old when she received the crown of martyrdom.

Beatified on May 1, 1987 in Cologne, Germany and canonized eleven years later on October 11, 1998 by St. John Paul II in the Vatican, Edith Stein is one of the six patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia, Cyril and Methodius, Bridget of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena. Her feast day was officially added to the Episcopal Church liturgical calendar with a feast day to this day in 2022.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.10 (before 1900)

428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). 1407 – Deshin Shekpa, 5th Karmapa Lama visits the Ming dynasty capital at Nanjing and is awarded the title "Great Treasure Prince of Dharma". 1500 – Ludovico Sforza is captured by Swiss troops at Novara and is handed over to the French. 1545 – The settlement of Villa Imperial de Carlos V (now the city of Potosí) in Bolivia is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area. 1606 – The Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America. 1710 – The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain. 1717 – Robert Walpole resigns from the British government, commencing the Whig Split which lasts until 1720. 1724 – Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen, BWV 66, his first cantata composed for Easter in Leipzig. 1741 – War of the Austrian Succession: Prussia gains control of Silesia at the Battle of Mollwitz. 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: The War of the Fifth Coalition begins when forces of the Austrian Empire invade Bavaria. 1815 – The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years. 1816 – The Federal government of the United States approves the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. 1821 – Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople is hanged by the Ottoman government from the main gate of the Patriarchate and his body is thrown into the Bosphorus. 1821 – Greek War of Independence: the island of Psara joins the Greek struggle for independence. 1826 – The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town of Missolonghi begin leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive. 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14.5 tonnes (32,000 lb) bell for the Palace of Westminster, had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13.76 tonnes (30,300 lb) bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry. 1864 – Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico. 1865 – American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time. 1866 – The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York City by Henry Bergh. 1868 – At Arogee in Abyssinia, British and Indian forces defeat an army of Emperor Tewodros II. While 700 Ethiopians are killed and many more injured, only two British/Indian troops die. 1872 – The first Arbor Day is celebrated in Nebraska. 1875 – India: Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform. 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America. 1896 – 1896 Summer Olympics: The Olympic marathon is run ending with the victory of Greek athlete Spyridon Louis.

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Confs: Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies at the Age of AI

The Professional Committee of Translation and Interpreting of CACSEC, in cooperation with the Translation Research and Teaching journal and the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, invites scholars and professionals to an international conference in Katowice, Poland. The aim of the conference is to: - serve as a vehicle for enhancing the global influence of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese (CACSEC) in these fields; - foster the exchange of academi http://dlvr.it/TJp3P1

[mbbsblogsblog]

MBBS in Poland: A Complete Guide for Indian Students on Living Costs, Education, and Opportunities

Poland is a fantastic destination for students interested for studying MBBS. If you wish to study MBBS in Poland beyond its academic prospective understanding the cost of living in Poland, accommodation and food facilities are required for you.

This article discusses the living expenditures you'll experience as an Indian student in Poland, including everything from housing to transport, university options to tuition fees, and daily expenses. Let us break down the major things to consider. But why can Poland be your one-stop destination for higher education? Let us find out.

 Key Highlights:

Living Expenses: ₹33,000 to ₹64,000 per month

Tuition Fees: ₹1,80,000 to ₹7,20,000 per year

Top Universities:

Jagiellonian University

University of Warsaw

Medical University of Silesia

Nicholas Copernicus Medical University

University of Wroclaw

Affordable Courses: Computer Science, Mathematics, and Management

Scholarships:

Polish Government Scholarship Programme

Lukasiewicz Scholarship Programme

MBBS in Poland: Why Choose Poland?

·         Study MBBS at the top-notch medical university in Poland at affordable costs.

·         Cost of living in Poland is budget-friendly

·         A European degree is a wonderful addition to your resume. The universities in Poland provide you with unique teaching-learning opportunities that can offer you in-depth theoretical and practical knowledge.

  Studying in Poland will provide you with top-tier knowledge and abilities, giving you an advantage in a competitive employment market.

 By experiencing a multicultural environment Indian students can cultivate multi-cultural understanding.

 Cost of Living in Poland for International Students:

Cost of living in Poland is affordable.

 Accommodation:

While choosing an accommodation option choose an option that is good to stay and also food facilities are available. For Indian students university dormitories are cost-effective. University dormitories range from Rs. 9000 to Rs. 13000.  Dorms also provide a social atmosphere, allowing students to meet fellow students from Poland and around the world.

Shared flats

·       More privacy: A shared flat provides greater privacy and independence than dormitories.

·       Rental fees for a shared flat vary based on location, amenities, and the number of flatmates. Expect to pay between ₹1,800 and ₹6,800 per person, excluding shared costs.

·       Travel and Transportation Expenses

·       Travelling across Poland will not break the bank! Here's why. Affordable Public Transportation

·       Poland has a well-developed public transport network, making it simple and economical to travel between cities.

·       Buses, trams, and metros are easily accessible and, more significantly, student-friendly:

·       Monthly passes are the best option for regular travel. The prices vary from ₹1,100 to ₹1,300, making commuting quite reasonable.

·       You may easily manage your living expenses in Poland while enjoying everything that student life has to offer by carefully arranging your budget and implementing certain money-saving habits.

Here’s a breakdown to help you plan for these extras:

Food: ₹9,000–₹13,300

Eating Out: ₹4,500–₹6,700

Phone & Internet: ₹1,100–₹1,800

Entertainment: ₹4,500–₹9,000 (varies)

Ria Overseas is readily available with all possible supports and information to accelerate your plan for studying MBBS overseas.

Thus dear MBBS aspirants enjoy your journey towards successful MBBS career.