generating strings of words based on probabilistic calculations will show you nothing about meaning or significance, even if you limit the dataset to “words produced by humans within this date range”

This week's #itfc blog - on something unforgivable bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/p/speechless

There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions re: this hybrid interdisciplinary conference on Archives and Ethics! [email protected] or DM will do!

If you're interested in loneliness and epistemic injustice, I'm giving a talk about my book project next week! All the way back and all the way down: epistemic injustice and the history of loneliness 30/03/2026, 1pm - 2:15pm. epistemicinjusticeinhealthcare.org/epic-seminar...

Most of what a university can offer that students can’t get elsewhere is stuff they don’t know to “demand” ahead of time precisely *because* it isn’t available elsewhere. Judging the value of a university program by how much it appeals to people who’ve by definition not encountered it is backwards.

All I'm going to say that: If I had never done a thing, I wouldn't be so quick to jump into discussions about whether "AI" can do the thing.

On top of everything else this screed is just so paint-by-numbers, with the same old points rehashed in dire prose, with not a single half-interesting though in it

at least ghosts won't harvest my data for the surveillance state 🤷🏾‍♂️

I’m a bit late to this but where to start with that report that says “universities must engage across the political spectrum” or risk their legitimacy - why does this demand never seem too apply to, I dunno, for example, the police?

Went back to Sec 6 of Stochastic Parrots today (in the context of answering a query from a journalist) and was reminded how thoroughly we grounded that part in a discussion of language use -- y'know as communication between people.

This course looks incredible and also potentially of interest to @katemcal993.bsky.social who is currently a BA postdoc here at Sheffield researching the history of chronic pain.

"I’m very worried about what is being destroyed. We’re all extremely worried, because what we’re seeing is the ad hoc closure and drastic cutting of many, many departments across the country." Historian Lyndal Roper in today's THE: bit.ly/4sqsfJ2 #Skystorians 1/2

Latest blog on public mental health messaging and the British Film Institute’s archive #history #healthhumanities #mentalhealth #vaccines #publichealth torch.ox.ac.uk/article/the-...

This is a link (I hope) to eprint of my essay review 'Teenage Rampage' in Journal of Contemporary History journals.sagepub.com/share/Y57PPG...

would read this for sure

Oh my god it is actually out - like actually now. Over a week early! They snuck it out without telling me! lol. Well, here it is people, and you can download the whole thing for free - thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social Fill your boots: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

The book is finally finished. It comes out 25th April 2026. It’s about historians’ “personal experiences”, how these might relate (critically and analytically) to their histories. It is called _The Politics of Personal Experience: Writing a History of Munchausen Syndromes_

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.

Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine! History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University Apply by March 31st niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h... #envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist

❗Applications open for new editor for History of the Human Sciences (HHS) online blog (histhum.com) and HHS social media. Honorarium. Deadline: 9 March 2026 Please circulate www.histhum.com/applications...

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine & Medical Humanities to begin 7/1/2026. For more info & to apply: hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026/03/06/j... Deadline to apply is April 5th.