Eduardo Fernández
@apocalypsisnova.bsky.social
historian working on early modern prophecies, belief and reading practices | «Τὸ 'χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά' δοκῶ μοι εἰδέναι».
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9864-8734
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New wine into new wineskins! Joining the conversation on late medieval / early modern religious history, book history and cultural history with a strong philological focus. Currently looking at the intellectual collaboration between Ethiopians & Europeans in the 16th c.
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Am about to lift the following from a thread I did once in the Olim Bird Place, but if I leave a legacy behind, please let it be the legacy of coining the term The Chortlemuffin effect. The Chortlemuffin Effect describes a citational chain leading to bullshit. /1
October 1, 2023 at 10:27 PM
Am about to lift the following from a thread I did once in the Olim Bird Place, but if I leave a legacy behind, please let it be the legacy of coining the term The Chortlemuffin effect. The Chortlemuffin Effect describes a citational chain leading to bullshit. /1
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@labhd-ilc.bsky.social ⬇️☃️🎄
For #TBT, we’re revisiting “Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts” by Zach Butler. Zach demonstrates how to use simple Python code and Jupyter Notebooks to analyze New Testament Greek manuscripts stored in XML-TEI format.
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/12/u...
🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2024/01/12/u...
December 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
@labhd-ilc.bsky.social ⬇️☃️🎄
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Bookings are open for Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts.
Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.
Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.
Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts - 2026
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December 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Bookings are open for Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts.
Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.
Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.
Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.
Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
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To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:
If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:
Stumbled upon this book about Andalusian architecture and what a trove.
December 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Stumbled upon this book about Andalusian architecture and what a trove.
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From all of us at TeTra, happy holidays and a wonderful end to what has been an amazing 2025!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
TeTra | Text and Transmission Research Seminar
Roman Gundacker (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Vienna)Manetho’s Aegyptiaca: A Long, Crooked, And Rocky Path from Egyptian Sources to Byzantine Manuscripts
tetra.univie.ac.at
December 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
From all of us at TeTra, happy holidays and a wonderful end to what has been an amazing 2025!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
Our little Christmas gift to you is the preliminary programme for 2026, now available on our website: tetra.univie.ac.at. See you next year!
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The CfP for the 20th Graduate Conference on European History is open!
Ruptures in European History: Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty,
15-17 April 2026 @ox.ac.uk
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
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Ruptures in European History: Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty,
15-17 April 2026 @ox.ac.uk
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
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2026graceh.wixsite.com/home/call-fo...
December 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The CfP for the 20th Graduate Conference on European History is open!
Ruptures in European History: Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty,
15-17 April 2026 @ox.ac.uk
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
⬇️⬇️⬇️
2026graceh.wixsite.com/home/call-fo...
Ruptures in European History: Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty,
15-17 April 2026 @ox.ac.uk
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
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2026graceh.wixsite.com/home/call-fo...
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Give it two more years, and being able to exclude false references from your research will be about as important a skill as including real references is today.
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Give it two more years, and being able to exclude false references from your research will be about as important a skill as including real references is today.
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If you have some time, please help PhD student Marta Guidotti with this survey on reading comfort.
You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts.
The test takes about 10 minutes at most.
comfortread.framer.ai
You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts.
The test takes about 10 minutes at most.
comfortread.framer.ai
December 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you have some time, please help PhD student Marta Guidotti with this survey on reading comfort.
You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts.
The test takes about 10 minutes at most.
comfortread.framer.ai
You'll be asked to adjust different parameters for texts in languages you can and cannot read to improve reading comfort of texts.
The test takes about 10 minutes at most.
comfortread.framer.ai
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Reminder that we are hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting this February (and it's also a third "birthday" for the pipelines!)...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reminder that we are hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting this February (and it's also a third "birthday" for the pipelines!)...
Today!
I’ll be presenting my new postdoc project at UCL's Early Modern Exchanges seminar on December 10, join if you’re still around! The brilliant Carlos Cañete will also be discussing his recent article about early modern Jesuit evangelization in Iberia and Ethiopia.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
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Ethiopian Christianity, Islam and European Perceptions of Religious Sameness and Difference
A UCL Early Modern Exchanges seminar with Eduardo Fernández Guerrero (The Warburg Institute) and Carlos Cañete Jiménez (CSIC)
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today!
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Hi #medievalsky, can you please suggest websites with Latin documents/manuscripts which also provide transcripts in Latin?
I began palaeography in my degree & want to refresh my knowledge. However, some sites I use just have digitised versions - beautiful but without the text to view afterwards.
I began palaeography in my degree & want to refresh my knowledge. However, some sites I use just have digitised versions - beautiful but without the text to view afterwards.
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hi #medievalsky, can you please suggest websites with Latin documents/manuscripts which also provide transcripts in Latin?
I began palaeography in my degree & want to refresh my knowledge. However, some sites I use just have digitised versions - beautiful but without the text to view afterwards.
I began palaeography in my degree & want to refresh my knowledge. However, some sites I use just have digitised versions - beautiful but without the text to view afterwards.
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New for 2026, we’re running an intensive short course on Arabic manuscripts! Ideal for those wanting to get to grips with Arabic sources. In person, in London. 📖👇 @ies-sas.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @soaslibrary.bsky.social
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Unlocking the Islamic Literary Heritage: An Intensive Practical Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
Unlocking the Islamic Literary Heritage: An Intensive Practical Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts
ies.sas.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New for 2026, we’re running an intensive short course on Arabic manuscripts! Ideal for those wanting to get to grips with Arabic sources. In person, in London. 📖👇 @ies-sas.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social @soaslibrary.bsky.social
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
The main problem of generative AI for HTR (from a different article): "61% of its errors involve making changes to the transcription which are more statistically probable than what was on the original page, according to the patterns it learned from its training data."
The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
A New Lens into the Archive
You are in an archive. You find a document in a language you don't understand. You take a photo, input it into Gemini 3 Pro. 60 seconds later you have a transcription, transliteration, and translation
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December 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The main problem of generative AI for HTR (from a different article): "61% of its errors involve making changes to the transcription which are more statistically probable than what was on the original page, according to the patterns it learned from its training data."
The εἰρωνεία of calling it collusus
1. EXCLUSIVE
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The εἰρωνεία of calling it collusus
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Three Christmases later and I stand by this.
December 19, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Three Christmases later and I stand by this.
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How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
The whole OU thing reminds me of when I took (at @univmalaga.bsky.social) Intro to Metaphysics and the textbook, written by the Opus Dei professor in charge of the course, read:
"With the irruption of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity into human history..."
"With the irruption of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity into human history..."
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The whole OU thing reminds me of when I took (at @univmalaga.bsky.social) Intro to Metaphysics and the textbook, written by the Opus Dei professor in charge of the course, read:
"With the irruption of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity into human history..."
"With the irruption of the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity into human history..."
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Dialectic of Anti-Enlightenment
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Dialectic of Anti-Enlightenment
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This is grim: ‘Professor Deborah Prentice revealed that counterparts at Russell Group universities had been "meeting with key people from Reform" and that "we've had people" doing the same, according to leaked comments made last week.’ VCs are already trying to please the far-right.
Then they came for the universities - Farage takes his lead from Trump. It’s all so utterly depressing isn’t it?
November 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is grim: ‘Professor Deborah Prentice revealed that counterparts at Russell Group universities had been "meeting with key people from Reform" and that "we've had people" doing the same, according to leaked comments made last week.’ VCs are already trying to please the far-right.
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Ank: The Obsession with Purity. Blood, Faith and Social Order in the Ibero-Atlantic World (15th–17th Centuries)
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158995
Mainz, 02.12.2025, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158995
Mainz, 02.12.2025, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz
www.hsozkult.de
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Ank: The Obsession with Purity. Blood, Faith and Social Order in the Ibero-Atlantic World (15th–17th Centuries)
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158995
Mainz, 02.12.2025, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158995
Mainz, 02.12.2025, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) Mainz
I met my first Phillipps ms., and visited for the first time what I think might be the nicest manuscript reading room I have ever been too (after a slight detour)
November 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I met my first Phillipps ms., and visited for the first time what I think might be the nicest manuscript reading room I have ever been too (after a slight detour)
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“No habrá paz para quienes nos asfixian: clase a clase, departamento a departamento, facultad a facultad, vamos a construir una huelga que haga temblar a quienes maltratan el derecho a la Universidad Pública”. La huelga universitaria en Madrid, explicada en cuatro gráficos social.elpais.com/_zrpo6
La huelga universitaria en Madrid, explicada en cuatro gráficos: “No habrá paz para quienes nos asfixian”
Los convocantes quieren presionar al Gobierno de Isabel Díaz Ayuso antes de que se voten los Presupuestos de 2026 para que aumente la insuficiente partida
social.elpais.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“No habrá paz para quienes nos asfixian: clase a clase, departamento a departamento, facultad a facultad, vamos a construir una huelga que haga temblar a quienes maltratan el derecho a la Universidad Pública”. La huelga universitaria en Madrid, explicada en cuatro gráficos social.elpais.com/_zrpo6
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Coming soon -- early 2026: Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. I have a chapter in here called "Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures".
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Coming soon -- early 2026: Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities. I have a chapter in here called "Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures".
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
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Three 2-year postdoctoral positions in COLIBRI, the ERC project based at Sapienza on the reconstruction and study of Hernando Colón's library!
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Deadline 12 Dec
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Deadline 12 Dec
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Three 2-year postdoctoral positions in COLIBRI, the ERC project based at Sapienza on the reconstruction and study of Hernando Colón's library!
web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/...
web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/...
web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/...
Deadline 12 Dec
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Deadline 12 Dec