I will grant that the addition of a cat would make it even better. But still. Come. On.

“Women who defied the patriarchy and the Church of England to declare their truths to the world come to vivid life in Voices of Thunder” Very happy with this great review! unreachableshelf.weebly.com/on-the-shelf...

Tech sociopaths promise that their ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis radioactive waste machines. These probs either aren't problems at all, or have existing solutions that are a million times better, like pay teachers, fund schools, respect people who have expertise/training/talent, and don't steal.

Child Drawing or Writing, Harmen ter Borch, 1649 Harmen made this drawing ‘naet leve’ (from life) on 23 Dec 1649 – at just 11 years old. The sitter is probably his younger brother Moses, who rests his feet on a foot stove while writing or drawing. (Rijksmuseum)

CfA 📢Explore the short-term research fellowships in Reformation Studies - especially Calvinism - offered by the H. Henry Meeter Center 🌍Calvin University, Michigan ⏰Deadline: 1 January 2026 🔗 calvin.edu/meeter-cente... #ReformationStudies #Calvinism #EarlyModern #Fellowship #CallForApplications

Here's a 🧵 on how I came to write the article I'm working on right now, and you can decide for yourself whether AI was ever going to go in this direction:

(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮 scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)

Sista öppetdagen innan jul! Uppsala Gjutjärn har fyllt på hyllorna med blivande julklappar! Jämsides stekpannor och grytor hittar ni konstglas, keramik, porslin och andra vintageföremål. Allt återbrukat, allt väl utvalt.

"Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Never Bloody Forget.

Das war eine Überraschung! Ich habe dieses deutsche 5-Buchstaben Wort in 1/6 Versuch erraten. 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Also, the idea that transcribing documents “locked in” libraries is too resource intensive but the AI machine that we need to burn up lakes to operate is good ROI for … CLIMATE SCIENCE 🫠

Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians

En sexåring med digital fotboja... "Lilla Ahmed (för det är alltid invandrare som det riktas till) var på väg in i kriminalitet, det såg vi under lekstunden när han ryckte åt sig stackars Simons Duplo".

Ah, så vi är tillbaka i kalla kriget igen.

NEW FIND–Fragments of manuscript used as binder’s waste! Early printing in Europe often used scraps from manuscripts for bookbinding. Scraps can still be identified–ideas? Share! https://bit.ly/anitii-manlii-catalog #ManuscriptMonday #MedievalMonday #MedievalManuscript #16thC #Bookbinding #RareBooks

Notre Dame Australia has advertised a new scholarship for postgraduate studies in Jewish history valued at over AU$56,000 per annum. They are particularly interested in students who want to focus on medieval Jewish philosophy or intellectual history. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #skystorians

🇳🇱 BREAKING: Netherlands withdraws from #Eurovision 2026, following the results of the EBU General Assembly today.

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social har utannonserat en tjänst som universitetslektor i religionshistoria! Tjänsten är deltid (50%) och tidsbegränsad till 31 december 2026. Sista ansökningsdagen 12 december 2025. #AcademicSky #jobs #skystorians

On 7 December 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET, @mrfw17thc.bsky.social is speaking on "Time Apart in the Early English East India Company" as part of @movedapart.bsky.social's Gendering Global History seminar series. Contact [email protected] for the Zoom link. #EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians

Min första publikation på svenska har givits ut! I senaste numret av Historisk tidskrift recenserar jag Johanna Ilmakunnas bok Flitiga och sysslolösa. Ta en titt! #EarlyModern #18thC

@hfuppsala.bsky.social's Christmas meeting is finally here! Come and revisit the vikings with Neil Price 😊 Free entry, no registration required. 17:15pm on 11 December 2025 in Humanistiska teatern at @uu.se's Engelska park campus. Register by 8 December for the Christmas smörgåsbord afterwards.

Just submitted the Final Report for BretPal, and it's all very bittersweet. 🥲 Bitter because the project is over, but sweet because the research I did during the project led to WAY more questions than I ever anticipated. So stay tuned for more Breton Palaeography!

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

A periodic reminder to reconsider your use of Meta's products (Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Instagram...) and to encourage others to do the same.

Book sale alert! 🚨📖🤓 Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle is not only now available in paperback, it is 20% off as part of @routledgebooks.bsky.social #BlackFriday sale! #skystorians #EarlyModern #Renaissance #quattrocento #16thC #17thC

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I'm happy with this result 😊

Sem: Error, Falsehood and Forgery in Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158976 Speinshart, 05.07.2026-10.07.2026, Dana Jalobeanu / Rodolfo Garau, UTN; Daniel Garber, Princeton, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026

Color me entirely unsurprised

Det jag avskyr mest med den akademiska världen är murarna mellan den som är inne och den som är ute. Är du inne: tillgång till bibliotek, databaser, info om seminarier (dvs deltagande i forskarvärlden), hjälp av administration med ansökningar etc.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

This is all fine and don't worry AI will definitely serve the betterment of humanity rather than the corporations and billionaires who own the algorithms

I am starting to see the “sharing gork screenshots is bad” takes emerge and I’m just gonna say it is good to show with real examples just how easily these LLMs can be manipulated and if you think ChatGPT is somehow different in that regard I have a bridge to sell you

An informative article about this issue. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Du är ute och simmar. Plötsligt dyker nå't större djur upp, säg en späckhuggare. Fångar dig. Nu är du kört! tänker du. Men nej! Din ståtliga hållning har imponerat på den. Allt den vill är att handgripligen tillfredsställa dig innan den låter dig simma vidare. Chockad. Förvirrad.

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

"Jag vet att jag med några skrivna motioner till det första årsmötet jag deltog på påverkade falupolitiken mer än jag hade lyckats göra under fem års ideellt engagemang ... . Ens agens är större på insidan än utsidan. Och insidans dörrar står öppna och välkomnande."

En av frågorna Jimmie Åkesson tog upp i sitt tal var återvandring. Jag tror detta kommer bli en av nästa mandatperiods viktigaste frågor för SD. Och det är en tidsfråga innan ordet ”frivillig” stryks. En spaning från SD:s landsdagar i Örebro www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/a/gka...

Den här mannen har överhuvudtaget ingen moral: Statsministern bevistade idag SD:s pågående landsdagar i Örebro och berömde och tackade partiet för dess insatser och detta bara några år efter att Kristersson lovade Hédi Fried att han aldrig skulle inleda ett samarbete med SD.

Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive. www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...

Om den här får fjorton likes prankar jag ställningsföretaget med en bortskänkes mot avhämtning-annons

“I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life” - Jane Goodall

Pretty blown away by this #review from Templer Award winner Kevin Linch,who put me on his list for the Society of Army Historical Research Annual Book list. #History #books #Blackhistory

CFP: Yale graduate student conference "Ephemera & Place in the Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Worlds," April 17, 2026. This event will investigate how pre-modern art and architecture shaped and was shaped by ephemeral activities. Deadline Jan 9.

Job Klaxon: Assistant or Associate Professorship in Public History with a specialisation in Modern History at Aarhus.

The world’s first fully-automatic photographic machine debuted in New York City in 1925. Anatol Josepho's "Photomaton" was so popular that people lined up for hours to try it out. At the time, photo strips cost 25¢ and took eight minutes to process and print. www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

Jag föreslår inte att vi ska försämra föräldraförsäkringen. Dagens nivåer innebär att befolkningen minskar. Det är bra. Och det vi behöver jobba med är hur ekonomin ska fungera bra när befolkningen minskar.

I would super love it if every time I google a female historian (a daily if not hourly task), google didn’t offer “Is [female historian name] married?” as a “people also ask” option. 🤬