Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
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#ArchiveEmotion: my eighteenth century telenovela
In a previous post, I mentioned the slow-pace of working with archives. Reading through metres of paper is however anything but boring. Besides finding material for our research we often find extremel...
www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl
Hi! I'm a book historian working on what I call the reading spaces model for my dissertation. I'm developing it by focusing on 18th New Spain #EarlyModern #BookHistory Here's a fun post on archival research related to signatures. I also work at an #STS centre on #CitizenScience & #ResearchIntegrity
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I finally cut a clip of what multiple people told me was their favorite joke from this set.
December 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I finally cut a clip of what multiple people told me was their favorite joke from this set.
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This is terribly sad. Between the disappearances because of the "war on drugs" and the impunity that has long prevailed, the people that work for their communities are under constant attack.
Fieldwork carries real risk in rural Mexico.
That context matters in the disappearance of biologist Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca, kidnapped in Veracruz in Nov 2025 after a “request for dialogue.”
His family says he was taken alive and is calling for visibility.
That context matters in the disappearance of biologist Miguel Ángel de la Torre Loranca, kidnapped in Veracruz in Nov 2025 after a “request for dialogue.”
His family says he was taken alive and is calling for visibility.
Biologist kidnapped in Mexico
In the mountains of central Veracruz, scientific work is rarely abstract. It means walking narrow paths through cloud forest, speaking patiently with communities, and learning to read landscapes that…
news.mongabay.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
This is terribly sad. Between the disappearances because of the "war on drugs" and the impunity that has long prevailed, the people that work for their communities are under constant attack.
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claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...
Munby Fellowship in Bibliography 2026 - 2027 at University of Cambridge
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January 5, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Llevo 8 libros y probablemente acabe el noveno para mañana pero ni a golpes llego a los 10 🥲. Pero bueno, empecé bastante tarde, me enfermé y tesis.
¿Cómo van sus lecturas? #GuadalupeReinas2025
¿Cómo van sus lecturas? #GuadalupeReinas2025
8vo libro de #GuadalupeReinas2025: Pétalos y Otras Historias Incómodas de Guadalupe Nettel. Una colección de historias que en efecto, son incómodas 😂
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Llevo 8 libros y probablemente acabe el noveno para mañana pero ni a golpes llego a los 10 🥲. Pero bueno, empecé bastante tarde, me enfermé y tesis.
¿Cómo van sus lecturas? #GuadalupeReinas2025
¿Cómo van sus lecturas? #GuadalupeReinas2025
#ResistAI folks, has anybody seen this?
Over the weekend someone here in an AI discussion responded with a table of language - left column from 2015 with the names of a dozen different algorithmic processes, and on the right the 2025 column, in which every term has been replaced by the term 'AI'. Anyone help track this down? Thanks!
January 5, 2026 at 7:12 PM
#ResistAI folks, has anybody seen this?
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First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread!
We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!
EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.
[1/16] 📜 💙📚
We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!
EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.
[1/16] 📜 💙📚
January 5, 2026 at 11:12 AM
First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread!
We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!
EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.
[1/16] 📜 💙📚
We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on!
EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2.
[1/16] 📜 💙📚
Vermogensreus BlackRock jaagt op kortetermijnwinst – ten koste van klimaat, natuur en mensenrechten ☠️
Onze pensioenen dragen hieraan bij 😠 want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock 👎.
📢 ABP #BreekMetBlackRock – ✍️ teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
Onze pensioenen dragen hieraan bij 😠 want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock 👎.
📢 ABP #BreekMetBlackRock – ✍️ teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
ABP, breek met BlackRock!
Vermogensreus BlackRock jaagt op kortetermijnwinst – ten koste van klimaat, natuur en mensenrechten. Jouw pensioen draagt hieraan bij. Pensioenfonds ABP laat namelijk geld beheren door BlackRock. Roep...
www.breekmetblackrock.nl
January 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Vermogensreus BlackRock jaagt op kortetermijnwinst – ten koste van klimaat, natuur en mensenrechten ☠️
Onze pensioenen dragen hieraan bij 😠 want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock 👎.
📢 ABP #BreekMetBlackRock – ✍️ teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
Onze pensioenen dragen hieraan bij 😠 want pensioenfonds ABP laat geld beheren door BlackRock 👎.
📢 ABP #BreekMetBlackRock – ✍️ teken de petitie! www.breekmetblackrock.nl
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🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up!
Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom
Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians
Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom
Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians
January 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up!
Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom
Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians
Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom
Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians
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Happy new year! Sharing a couple of CFPs for 2026 conferences that are closing soon. First up, the 2nd International CIRCE Conference taking place at @usaloficial.bsky.social and online 24-26 June. CFP closes Thursday 15 January. #CIRCE #Shakespeare #EarlyModern circe.uv.es/congress-4-cfp
CIRCE | Early Modern Theatre on Audiovisual Communication
Project CIRCE: Early Modern Theatre on Screen
circe.uv.es
January 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Happy new year! Sharing a couple of CFPs for 2026 conferences that are closing soon. First up, the 2nd International CIRCE Conference taking place at @usaloficial.bsky.social and online 24-26 June. CFP closes Thursday 15 January. #CIRCE #Shakespeare #EarlyModern circe.uv.es/congress-4-cfp
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
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I find the idea that technology “evolves” via some sort of passive internal force of history extremely pernicious. The idea that things simply improve rather than very specific choices and efforts being made in targeted areas that then require new infrastructures to maintain is really dangerous.
January 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
I find the idea that technology “evolves” via some sort of passive internal force of history extremely pernicious. The idea that things simply improve rather than very specific choices and efforts being made in targeted areas that then require new infrastructures to maintain is really dangerous.
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
lol, LMAO even
Les Etats-Unis entendent «diriger» le #Venezuela jusqu’à ce qu’une transition soit possible, refusant de confier le pouvoir au camp de la Nobel de la paix María Corina Machado, qu’ils avaient pourtant soutenu.
Lire 👇
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Après l’offensive au Venezuela, Donald Trump désavoue l’opposition à Maduro
Les Etats-Unis entendent «diriger» le pays jusqu’à ce qu’une transition soit possible, refusant de confier le pouvoir au camp de la Nobel de la paix María Corina Machado, qu’ils avaient pourtant soutenu.
www.liberation.fr
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
lol, LMAO even
Historians of the Spanish empire: I'm pretty sure that is not what a viceroy does 🤔
A former staffer said that U.S. officials would not be performing a formal occupation like in Iraq. “We’re going to tell them: ‘Hey, this is what you have to do in order for there not to be another strike. That’s what [Trump] sees as running the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Rubio takes on most challenging role yet: Viceroy of Venezuela
The top U.S. diplomat has pushed for regime change for over a decade. Now the hard part begins.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Historians of the Spanish empire: I'm pretty sure that is not what a viceroy does 🤔
🌟 "Publishers remain competitive by hiring and training real people to do real people jobs that support real people authors and real people readers. (...) Remember, the AI is fed with the work of actual humans. Why do you think that is, exactly?"
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
My Open Letter To That Open Letter About AI In Writing And Publishing
The tl;dr before you get into this post is this: the SFWA came out, said that some AI usage was okay enough in books for the authors of those books to not to be disqualified from winning a Nebula a…
terribleminds.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
🌟 "Publishers remain competitive by hiring and training real people to do real people jobs that support real people authors and real people readers. (...) Remember, the AI is fed with the work of actual humans. Why do you think that is, exactly?"
Good post. I'd add that if you as a student care for the lives of other (human & non-human) animals and ecosystems, you definitely should not use genAI. The damage goes beyond energy, chips, and water consumption. It is an infrastructure that once cemented will negatively affect the lives of many.
Many critical AI resources are written for teachers, rather than students. I wrote this for undergrad students dealing with “AI literacy” in the humanities, hoping to raise more fundamental questions about what it means to write. People have added it to syllabi, so maybe you’ll find it useful, too.
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. That you should know what to type into prompt windo...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Good post. I'd add that if you as a student care for the lives of other (human & non-human) animals and ecosystems, you definitely should not use genAI. The damage goes beyond energy, chips, and water consumption. It is an infrastructure that once cemented will negatively affect the lives of many.
And we are back to the "Donroe document" 🫠
I still haven't got past Fukuyama's 1992 end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.
January 4, 2026 at 8:43 AM
And we are back to the "Donroe document" 🫠
There was a shop, popular in the early 2000s (name was something like toopeka?), with several vendots. One of them had a shiny trophy that was for doing nothing. Kinda early SA humour. I always wanted that trophy.
January 3, 2026 at 9:49 PM
There was a shop, popular in the early 2000s (name was something like toopeka?), with several vendots. One of them had a shiny trophy that was for doing nothing. Kinda early SA humour. I always wanted that trophy.
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Like I said, they're running this like a hostile takeover by a private equity firm.
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Like I said, they're running this like a hostile takeover by a private equity firm.
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No. 2 story at the #FoxNews homepage. Not sure how a captured head of state fits, but here are some points from FM 6-27 on what you can’t do to POWs: (more)
January 3, 2026 at 7:34 PM
No. 2 story at the #FoxNews homepage. Not sure how a captured head of state fits, but here are some points from FM 6-27 on what you can’t do to POWs: (more)
Most EU officials and pundits will celebrate what is happening cause "Maduro bad." They will never think of the black and brown bodies that will be killed and who will suffer on what is to come, because they have never dealt with their (neo)colonialism beyond some empty slogans about human rights.
My mother was a refugee of the Salvadoran civil war. The Americans backed the fascists that took over the country. Now Salvador is run by a pro yankee crypto dictator who has built the largest concentration camp in the western hemisphere. That, is American intervention.
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Most EU officials and pundits will celebrate what is happening cause "Maduro bad." They will never think of the black and brown bodies that will be killed and who will suffer on what is to come, because they have never dealt with their (neo)colonialism beyond some empty slogans about human rights.
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Un ataque militar unilateral para vulnerar la soberanía de un país es injustificable, sea en Palestina, Ucrania o Venezuela. Hay que volver urgentemente al derecho internacional y a un mundo basado en reglas, diálogo y cooperación.
January 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Un ataque militar unilateral para vulnerar la soberanía de un país es injustificable, sea en Palestina, Ucrania o Venezuela. Hay que volver urgentemente al derecho internacional y a un mundo basado en reglas, diálogo y cooperación.