I'm sorry but if I criticize the promotion of genAl as a surrogate "research assistant" for sidelining non-digitized sources, and for making the process of creating knowledge from them more opaque, and you tell me that's just credentialism, I'm obliged to ask if you read and understood the criticism

R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

"The students who cannot read a 20-pg article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow." The most important argument against AI in education is that it's incompatible with a free society. www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

Mark Sealy has distinguished himself as a curator and author, advocating for the the promotion of marginalized voices within the field of international photography. He is the Artistic Director of the Triennale of Photography Hamburg 2026. 👉 🎧 youtu.be/WAFe7LwpS7Y

The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end.

And then I found myself unexpectedly going on a weeklong field trip with students to Berlin.

On y va

Did you know that #EarlyModern #LowCountries women owned property, & their parents never paid dowries? Check out my *free* article, "Low Countries Women as Funders of Art and Architecture: Gender, Property Rights, & the Financing of the Flemish Baroque." emlc-journal.org/article/view...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

👀 @erikagaffney.bsky.social is launching a new book series: this time it's BRILL* 🥁 'Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures', with Allison Levy as the series editor rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Pope Leo is 🔥: "So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships...nor do they have a moral conscience... a form of statistical adaptation...does not imply inner growth."

I love it when a fellow nerd takes hold of a vast institution and its communication channels.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Just finished reading A.S. Byatt’s Possession (1990). What a wonderful book! #books #booksky

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

So many esteemed colleagues posting like this right now. I took VS aged 56 precisely because the mortgage was paid off and my youngest was finishing A-levels, and too many of my colleagues with mortgages and kids in school had fewer publications to offer the REF gods... 1/

De woonlasten van huurders zijn nog altijd hoger dan die van kopers. Laten we niet doen alsof die minder de eindjes aan elkaar moeten knopen. nos.nl/l/2615208

We’re buzzed that it’s World Bee Day today! 🐝 In the ancient city of Ephesus, the bee was so important it appeared on their coins. Ephesus was home to the Temple of Artemis, goddess of hunting and wild nature.

So @devinfitz.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce a new program through @gettymuseum.bsky.social Connecting Art Histories initiative: “Prints across the Pacific, 1565-1815." (en español también)(1/7)

Wie is Wes Streeting? Correspondent Patrick van IJzendoorn van de @volkskrant.nl vindt het geen probleem om in zijn antwoord Wikipedia bijna woord voor woord over te schrijven. www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/w...

It’s not just padding citations, it’s literally plagiarizing them. If you didn’t read it, you can’t cite it.

In 1990, billionaire wealth was 2.5% of global GDP. Their wealth is now 14.1% of GDP. In the UK, it's now 22% of their GDP We absolutely have to get inequality under control. It's the extreme level of inequality that's causing so many of our problems. We need to tax wealth + transactions and do UBI

Here’s some broadcaster dissent for #Eurovision 2027 starting early. bsky.app/profile/escd... 🇧🇪 rotates its participation between French- and Flemish- speaking broadcasters: French-speaking RTBF staged this year’s entry. Flemish-speaking VRT very unlikely to send one next year as things stand.

🇪🇸 RTVE has shared the following message as the #Eurovision 2026 grand final began. The Spanish broadcaster has boycotted this year's edition and is not broadcasting tonight's show. More: www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

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Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

A "chain-link" column on the south portal of the western facade of the church of Saint-Lazare D'Avallon, in north-central #France. c.1160. #architecture #art #History #medieval

We're looking for a Lecturer in Global Medieval History (ongoing) to join us in the vibrant School of History @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Deadline 1 June. Full details jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy #medievalsky #history

Check out this spolia in Kaleiçi! You see it in so many buildings here. We also have bits of Roman columns in our hotel garden… along with some later cannon balls! Antalya Old Town, Türkiye. #AncientBluesky

Not watching #ESC26 and not missing it.

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

Susanna van Steenwijk (c. 1601- 1664), Dutch painter of architectural exteriors active in Leiden and Amsterdam #WomensArt

Welkom bij de uitreiking van de Libris Literatuur Prijs 2026! 📚 De shortlist is weer gelezen, het oordeel geveld. Ik begin met wat huishoudelijke mededelingen en algemene observaties.

I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.

France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Nu wilde ik ICT net even bellen om te vragen of er een tijdsindicatie is wanneer ik mijn mail en zo weer in kan, maar ik kan Teams ook niet in en de vaste telefoon is van de week weggehaald, want we bellen voortaan met Teams. Zucht.

Interesting stuff happening at work… really curious what’s happening atm…

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

De mensen die structureel niet gehoord worden tijdens het "asieldebat" in tegenstelling tot de relschoppende, bedreigende en rechtsextremistische haatzaaiers.

Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

Op 3 april 1946 publiceerde historicus Jan Romein een column op de voorpagina van Het Parool. Hij beschrijft het dagboek van een Joods meisje. Naar aanleiding van deze column besloot uitgeverij Contact Het Achterhuis uit te geven. De tekst grijpt nog steeds aan. resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=...

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

when I was in undergrad I felt that professors who ran discussion-based classes were lazy. but now that I’m a professor I realize it’s much harder to facilitate a generative discussion than to lecture.

Mulling the editorial direction of Renaissance Studies, and thinking it might be time to open the journal up to articles by humanities scholars who have a very shaky grasp of how science works but fancy having a go

And here's a piece I published in 2021 on why computer scientists, engineers, and tech firms are *actually* interested in these kinds of applications. *hint it has nothing to do with actual historical research theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...