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
#BookHistory #EarlyModern folk. Does anybody have experience with #Rescribe? Will it work with large files? I am working with BIBLIOTHECA VETERIS HISPANÆ, the scanned copies that have the volumes separately are incomplete, and the complete one is chunky and badly OCRed.
latinocr.org
latinocr.org
Latin OCR
latinocr.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
#BookHistory #EarlyModern folk. Does anybody have experience with #Rescribe? Will it work with large files? I am working with BIBLIOTHECA VETERIS HISPANÆ, the scanned copies that have the volumes separately are incomplete, and the complete one is chunky and badly OCRed.
latinocr.org
latinocr.org
Using algorithms to detect fraud 🤦. In the Netherlands they targeted racialised & poor families. The accusations were BS, ppl were ruined, some committed suicide.
See - What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire doi.org/10.1177/0261...
See - What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire doi.org/10.1177/0261...
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Using algorithms to detect fraud 🤦. In the Netherlands they targeted racialised & poor families. The accusations were BS, ppl were ruined, some committed suicide.
See - What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire doi.org/10.1177/0261...
See - What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire doi.org/10.1177/0261...
A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
Stop overhyping AI, scientists tell von der Leyen | Euractiv
Open letter criticises the Commission President for remarks earlier this year – when she anticipated AI would “approach human reasoning” in 2026
www.euractiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A group of scientists has called on EC president Ursula von der Leyen to retract a statement she made suggesting A.I. would soon reach parity with human intelligence. Her statements were based on marketing statements from US Tech firms not empirical evidence or real proof. #ResistAI
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And thank you @adolfont.github.io for this!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RAx... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RAx... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social @altibel.bsky.social @felienne.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social
Contra a Adoção Acrítica de Tecnologias de 'IA' na Academia
YouTube video by Adolfo Neto
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Moskee Emmeloord bedreigd: verscheurde korans en dode vogel op deurmat - nos.nl/l/2589848
Als dit om een synagoge zou gaan was de wereld te klein.
Als dit om een synagoge zou gaan was de wereld te klein.
Moskee Emmeloord bedreigd: verscheurde korans en dode vogel op deurmat
Vanochtend is bij de ingang een tas met versnipperde korans aangetroffen, met daarop teksten als "stop islamisering" en "geen moskee in onze straat".
nos.nl
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Moskee Emmeloord bedreigd: verscheurde korans en dode vogel op deurmat - nos.nl/l/2589848
Als dit om een synagoge zou gaan was de wereld te klein.
Als dit om een synagoge zou gaan was de wereld te klein.
This and parent post are interesting for the discussion "history is not political." Extra interesting is how this involves a national history which touches upon other national histories, & how some parties in NL are trying to redress this. You can guess which parties are against (the fashos).
Eleven of the parties in the provincial parliament of Limburg have now requested the Limburg government to look into the possibility of creating a (temporary) memorial for our Black American liberators in cooperation with Eijsden-Margraten (where the cemetery is located).
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Limburgse Statenleden willen tijdelijke herdenkingsplek voor zwarte bevrijders
Statenleden willen een gedenkteken voor zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders nu hun informatiepanelen in Margraten zijn verwijderd
www.nrc.nl
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
This and parent post are interesting for the discussion "history is not political." Extra interesting is how this involves a national history which touches upon other national histories, & how some parties in NL are trying to redress this. You can guess which parties are against (the fashos).
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"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Ik lees dat in NRC @tamardewaal.bsky.social en @leoniedejonge.bsky.social samen met René Cuperus (met Josse de Voogd van de Atlas van Afgehaakt Nederland) duiden wat de verkiezingsuitslag betekent voor uiterst rechts.
Cuperus, niet op Bluesky, duidt dat niet, maar úit dat zelf.
Mijn motivatie: 🧵
Cuperus, niet op Bluesky, duidt dat niet, maar úit dat zelf.
Mijn motivatie: 🧵
Cuperus duidt niet, maar schrijft zelf een uiterst rechts tekst.
Zie rode kader, waarbij de alinea's ervoor de opmaat vormen.
Het is dit nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultuur...,
de theorie van Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray e.a., omarmd ook door Duk en mensen als Esther van Fenema
het is gevaarlijke kul
Zie rode kader, waarbij de alinea's ervoor de opmaat vormen.
Het is dit nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultuur...,
de theorie van Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray e.a., omarmd ook door Duk en mensen als Esther van Fenema
het is gevaarlijke kul
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Ik lees dat in NRC @tamardewaal.bsky.social en @leoniedejonge.bsky.social samen met René Cuperus (met Josse de Voogd van de Atlas van Afgehaakt Nederland) duiden wat de verkiezingsuitslag betekent voor uiterst rechts.
Cuperus, niet op Bluesky, duidt dat niet, maar úit dat zelf.
Mijn motivatie: 🧵
Cuperus, niet op Bluesky, duidt dat niet, maar úit dat zelf.
Mijn motivatie: 🧵
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I must see an advert for CoPilot / AI / LLM bollocks every single day, and its always for such mundane things; ‘AI can help you write your shopping list!!’ ‘AI can help you think of birthday presents for your spouse!’ - who needs that? This bubble had better burst soon, just so needless / lazy
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I must see an advert for CoPilot / AI / LLM bollocks every single day, and its always for such mundane things; ‘AI can help you write your shopping list!!’ ‘AI can help you think of birthday presents for your spouse!’ - who needs that? This bubble had better burst soon, just so needless / lazy
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the laugh i let out. OF COURSE he's german.
a GERMAN CHRISTIAN who sounds like he enjoys modern judeo bolchevik conspiracies dictates what is and isn't antisemitism.
amazing. beyond parody. lol. lmao even.
a GERMAN CHRISTIAN who sounds like he enjoys modern judeo bolchevik conspiracies dictates what is and isn't antisemitism.
amazing. beyond parody. lol. lmao even.
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
the laugh i let out. OF COURSE he's german.
a GERMAN CHRISTIAN who sounds like he enjoys modern judeo bolchevik conspiracies dictates what is and isn't antisemitism.
amazing. beyond parody. lol. lmao even.
a GERMAN CHRISTIAN who sounds like he enjoys modern judeo bolchevik conspiracies dictates what is and isn't antisemitism.
amazing. beyond parody. lol. lmao even.
#EarlyModern blogposts against fake books. Nicolás Antonio's Censura de Historias Fabulosas.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#EarlyModern blogposts against fake books. Nicolás Antonio's Censura de Historias Fabulosas.
My comments in code and books use the same register 😂
![Comment in a jupyter notebook:
# DON"T DO THIS because it does a TUPLE, don't fuck with a TUPLE
#colours.append( ['black', 'white'])
#print(colours)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6iupuzvk2ilkaecemzypj2bd/bafkreibybqydemazltk5nwoi7vgkytyu3wktdtuid7kndbfw5lonyyneoi@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My comments in code and books use the same register 😂
Wij hadden al meerdere keren gezegd dat de beveiliging etnisch profileerde. Geracialiseerde studenten en medewerkers werden stelselmatig gevold en gefotografeerd. Onze bestuurders hebben deze signalen genegeerd, echt leiderschap 🙄 Daarom vind ik Wijnhaven een onprettige campus.
BREEK: Een verdwaalde, Arabisch sprekende man leidde tot forse beveiligingsmaatregelen in het Wijnhavengebouw, onthullen WOO-documenten
Hoe de beveiliging op tilt sloeg vanwege één Arabisch sprekende man: ‘Er broeit iets’
Waarom werd het Wijnhavengebouw twee jaar geleden gesloten en is sindsdien de universitaire beveiliging tot op heden flink opgeschroefd? Uit nieuwe WOO-stukken blijkt dat politie en universiteit tota...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Wij hadden al meerdere keren gezegd dat de beveiliging etnisch profileerde. Geracialiseerde studenten en medewerkers werden stelselmatig gevold en gefotografeerd. Onze bestuurders hebben deze signalen genegeerd, echt leiderschap 🙄 Daarom vind ik Wijnhaven een onprettige campus.
Great idea for a #BookHistory drama that would never sell: on Nicolás Antonio's New Hispanic Library, his struggle to gather the info while almost bankrupt due to his book hoarding, the editions by Manuel Martí y Zaragoza & Francisco Pérez Bayer, how Pérez Bayer bitches about Martí y Zaragoza. FUN!
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Great idea for a #BookHistory drama that would never sell: on Nicolás Antonio's New Hispanic Library, his struggle to gather the info while almost bankrupt due to his book hoarding, the editions by Manuel Martí y Zaragoza & Francisco Pérez Bayer, how Pérez Bayer bitches about Martí y Zaragoza. FUN!
How my writing week is going
pachnelephalosaurus statue, public park, route 40, dinosaur, colorado, 1991
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
How my writing week is going
I raised this argument at the recent ethical deliberation I attended (check my TL). I specifically mentioned translators & at that moment most attendees sighed + rolled their eyes as in: uf, translators are cry babies. TWF love that many in academia do not value other professions 🙄
Even if you were willing to buy that an LLM/Gen AI tool has human-like intellect, you’re still left with the fact that an LLM doesn’t NEED a job to remain alive under capitalism, but a human does.
morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
morality-wise, surely many would agree that humans should thus be given priority for jobs due to need
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I raised this argument at the recent ethical deliberation I attended (check my TL). I specifically mentioned translators & at that moment most attendees sighed + rolled their eyes as in: uf, translators are cry babies. TWF love that many in academia do not value other professions 🙄
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Lezersreacties: Mijn chatbot deelt de zorgen over AI in het onderwijs
Lezersreacties: Mijn chatbot deelt de zorgen over AI in het onderwijs
www.trouw.nl
November 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Has somebody done research on the affect of genAI use? From what I've seen: they are usually men who argue that "AI is not a problem but the user," and "you just need to get better at prompting." They get super snowflakey when they hear criticism of genAI cause "it can really help ppl." 🤔
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Has somebody done research on the affect of genAI use? From what I've seen: they are usually men who argue that "AI is not a problem but the user," and "you just need to get better at prompting." They get super snowflakey when they hear criticism of genAI cause "it can really help ppl." 🤔
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"Todo esto claramente se trata de política estatal de ambos lados del océano y no de los pueblos originarios que una vez más son tratados como entidades sin agencia cuyas voces pueden ser una y otra vez suplantadas, una y otra vez utilizadas por la política oficial de México y de España."
Sin mujeres indígenas
Los pueblos originarios una vez más son tratados como entidades sin agencia cuyas voces pueden ser una y otra vez suplantadas por la política oficial de México y de España
elpais.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"Todo esto claramente se trata de política estatal de ambos lados del océano y no de los pueblos originarios que una vez más son tratados como entidades sin agencia cuyas voces pueden ser una y otra vez suplantadas, una y otra vez utilizadas por la política oficial de México y de España."
This is a concern for all universities. In the Netherlands they've been cutting funding expecting universities to attract more international students, or to get funding from private companies (*cough* Shell co-funding "energy transition" projects). This is ofc at odds with #AcademicFreedom.
"further inquiries suggested the university was “explicitly trading my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market,” Murphy said, which was “really shocking” 👀
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is a concern for all universities. In the Netherlands they've been cutting funding expecting universities to attract more international students, or to get funding from private companies (*cough* Shell co-funding "energy transition" projects). This is ofc at odds with #AcademicFreedom.
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My blog post about personae as historical research method is now available in English. If you were not able to attend a live presentation, this is your second best option. #SpeculativeMethods #ResearchMethods #BookHistory #ReadingHistory
Personae as a Historical Research Method
The writing of history is a continuous process. Speculative methods like personae can aid us in enriching our understanding of history with the stories of the peoples without history, and allow us to ...
www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl
October 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
My blog post about personae as historical research method is now available in English. If you were not able to attend a live presentation, this is your second best option. #SpeculativeMethods #ResearchMethods #BookHistory #ReadingHistory
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Waarom kijk je naar de splinter in het oog van je broeder of zuster, terwijl je de balk in je eigen oog niet opmerkt?
Hoe Amerika een land werd waarin leugens niet meer worden achterhaald door de waarheid
Hoe Amerika een land werd waarin leugens niet meer worden achterhaald door de waarheid
www.volkskrant.nl
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Waarom kijk je naar de splinter in het oog van je broeder of zuster, terwijl je de balk in je eigen oog niet opmerkt?
Monday 3 Nov, 8 pm CET 👇🏽
On Monday, I'll be talking with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher magazine about why it's more important than ever to resist AI, and how we can develop a convivial technopolitics. Register for free at www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Monday 3 Nov, 8 pm CET 👇🏽