Christian Callisen
@ctcallisen.bsky.social
Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
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A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians.
The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.
The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.
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Skakad!
Läst regeringens förslag om att riva upp permanenta uppehållstillstånd retroaktivt och har, under mitt halvsekel på jorden, aldrig mått så dåligt över ett politiskt förslag i det här landet. Aldrig!
90-talets SD-nazister kunde inte ens drömma om att uppnå något liknande.
Läst regeringens förslag om att riva upp permanenta uppehållstillstånd retroaktivt och har, under mitt halvsekel på jorden, aldrig mått så dåligt över ett politiskt förslag i det här landet. Aldrig!
90-talets SD-nazister kunde inte ens drömma om att uppnå något liknande.
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Skakad!
Läst regeringens förslag om att riva upp permanenta uppehållstillstånd retroaktivt och har, under mitt halvsekel på jorden, aldrig mått så dåligt över ett politiskt förslag i det här landet. Aldrig!
90-talets SD-nazister kunde inte ens drömma om att uppnå något liknande.
Läst regeringens förslag om att riva upp permanenta uppehållstillstånd retroaktivt och har, under mitt halvsekel på jorden, aldrig mått så dåligt över ett politiskt förslag i det här landet. Aldrig!
90-talets SD-nazister kunde inte ens drömma om att uppnå något liknande.
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🇱🇺 Here are the most sung words by Luxembourg at #Eurovision since 1971!
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
🇱🇺 Here are the most sung words by Luxembourg at #Eurovision since 1971!
#CfP: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History. Saint Louis University, 8-10 June 2026
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#CfP: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History. Saint Louis University, 8-10 June 2026
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
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3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
3-year postdoc position in medieval studies The Department of Culture and Language invites applications for a 3-year postdoc position in Dominican studies within the CODICUM project. The position is e...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
3-year postdoc with CODICUM project for a medievalist placed in Odense, Denmark!
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
Special focus on Latin, palaeography & Dominican text and book history 📖😍🕵️
tinyurl.com/yrt4x8y3
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#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
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✨Out now!
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...
#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...
#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
✨Out now!
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...
#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory
Federico Barbierato’s english translation and revised edition of his seminal work on magical texts and culture in Early Modern Venice, published in EMoDiR’s Routledge series.
🔗 www.routledge.com/In-the-Room-...
#EarlyModern #BookRelease #MagicStudies #ReligiousHistory
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for the potato fears not death
December 31, 2024 at 1:55 PM
for the potato fears not death
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Så här ser två förlorare ut. Två förlorare som desperat försöker utnyttja rasism för att väljare ska glömma deras inkompetens, impotens och korruption.
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Så här ser två förlorare ut. Två förlorare som desperat försöker utnyttja rasism för att väljare ska glömma deras inkompetens, impotens och korruption.
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Konf: The Strained Empire: Resources, Conflict, and Collapse in the Premodern Empire
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158622
Hannover, 15.04.2026-17.04.2026, Dr. Matthisa Berlandi, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158622
Hannover, 15.04.2026-17.04.2026, Dr. Matthisa Berlandi, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026
www.hsozkult.de
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Konf: The Strained Empire: Resources, Conflict, and Collapse in the Premodern Empire
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158622
Hannover, 15.04.2026-17.04.2026, Dr. Matthisa Berlandi, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158622
Hannover, 15.04.2026-17.04.2026, Dr. Matthisa Berlandi, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.01.2026
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Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
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7 lawsuits against Open AI claim "that OpenAI knowingly released GPT-4o prematurely, despite internal warnings that it was dangerously sycophantic and psychologically manipulative. Four of the victims died by suicide."
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OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
7 lawsuits against Open AI claim "that OpenAI knowingly released GPT-4o prematurely, despite internal warnings that it was dangerously sycophantic and psychologically manipulative. Four of the victims died by suicide."
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If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you liked that chart you may like this cartoon
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Jösses
Avslöjande: Medan andra regeringschefer är i Brasilien på FN-toppmöte om den globala klimatkrisen, har Ulf Kristersson valt att resa till Tallin på Timbro-konferens under ledning av PR-byrån Bellbirds vd Anders Kempe och PR-byrån Kreabs vice ordförande Carl Bildt
November 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Jösses
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Yes! My ranty take: "Something without a brain scrabbled around and found stuff that looks like content but isn’t, because it wasn’t chosen, analyzed, and written by a person. Frankenstein’s monster copy-paste jobs from a bunch of different places? That’s not a summary. That’s word salad."
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
June 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Yes! My ranty take: "Something without a brain scrabbled around and found stuff that looks like content but isn’t, because it wasn’t chosen, analyzed, and written by a person. Frankenstein’s monster copy-paste jobs from a bunch of different places? That’s not a summary. That’s word salad."
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Regeringen har valt skuldbeläggning framför lösningar, skriver debattörerna.
Att straffa arbetslösa skapar inga jobb
Det är en myt att det skulle vara bekvämt att leva på bidrag.
www.etc.se
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Regeringen har valt skuldbeläggning framför lösningar, skriver debattörerna.
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My contributor copy arrived!
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
My contributor copy arrived!
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Staten stänger flera servicekontor - minst tolv i utsatta områden. Det är faktiskt en så dum politik att man har svårt att hitta ord. Eller är det inte dumhet utan ren ondska som ligger bakom? En politik som strävar till att göra det så djävligt som möjligt för vissa människor?
Hög arbetslöshet – då väljer regeringen bort utsatta områden: ”Just nu prioriterar vi annat”
Civilministern: ”Kan vända sig till digitala tjänster.”
arbetet.se
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Staten stänger flera servicekontor - minst tolv i utsatta områden. Det är faktiskt en så dum politik att man har svårt att hitta ord. Eller är det inte dumhet utan ren ondska som ligger bakom? En politik som strävar till att göra det så djävligt som möjligt för vissa människor?
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Thand-Ringqvist kan bli den första partiledaren vars officiella förkortning består enbart av emojis:
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November 4, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thand-Ringqvist kan bli den första partiledaren vars officiella förkortning består enbart av emojis:
🦷💍🌿
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The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History at University of Oxford
Searching for an academic job? Explore this The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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I rashly promised to bring in a "fun" primary source for our optional extra class on my first-year Early Modern World module tomorrow.
I've got a couple ideas but what's your favorite #EarlyModern source to throw at first-years? Max 1-2 pages. Any topic! 🗃️
I've got a couple ideas but what's your favorite #EarlyModern source to throw at first-years? Max 1-2 pages. Any topic! 🗃️
November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I rashly promised to bring in a "fun" primary source for our optional extra class on my first-year Early Modern World module tomorrow.
I've got a couple ideas but what's your favorite #EarlyModern source to throw at first-years? Max 1-2 pages. Any topic! 🗃️
I've got a couple ideas but what's your favorite #EarlyModern source to throw at first-years? Max 1-2 pages. Any topic! 🗃️
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what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.