Eric Michael Burke
@emburke.bsky.social
Historian. Bibliophile. Naturalist. Antiquarian.
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The first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia to publish.
What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia
Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia ...
arxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia to publish.
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Great insights here from @stephenharrison.com!
Elon Musk Has His Own Encyclopedia Now. Well, We Read Some of the Entries …
He tried to buy Wikipedia. When that didn’t work, he made his own version—and it’s a mess.
slate.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Great insights here from @stephenharrison.com!
Today I discovered that the newly minted Grokipedia cites my work multiple times in several relevant articles. At no point do these citations relate whatsoever to any argument actually made within the portions of my work which are explicitly cited. In fact, usually the opposite.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today I discovered that the newly minted Grokipedia cites my work multiple times in several relevant articles. At no point do these citations relate whatsoever to any argument actually made within the portions of my work which are explicitly cited. In fact, usually the opposite.
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The practice of building a new encyclopedia by directly pulling entire articles from extant competitors is by no means novel (Wikipedia originally did the same with the 11th edition of Britannica). #Grokipedia may, however, be the first encyclopedia in centuries to include zero cross-referencing.
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The practice of building a new encyclopedia by directly pulling entire articles from extant competitors is by no means novel (Wikipedia originally did the same with the 11th edition of Britannica). #Grokipedia may, however, be the first encyclopedia in centuries to include zero cross-referencing.
Can’t get enough of this girl of mine.
😍❤️🥰
😍❤️🥰
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Can’t get enough of this girl of mine.
😍❤️🥰
😍❤️🥰
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall
October 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall
Although buried in the news cycle, this may be one of the most significant biological discoveries of our lifetimes. If the radical interpretation of the authors holds... I truly am speechless on this one.
Multispecies superorganisms, anyone? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multispecies superorganisms, anyone? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature
In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Although buried in the news cycle, this may be one of the most significant biological discoveries of our lifetimes. If the radical interpretation of the authors holds... I truly am speechless on this one.
Multispecies superorganisms, anyone? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Multispecies superorganisms, anyone? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really enjoyed sitting down with The Civil War Monitor’s new podcast to discuss some surprising ways the war connected with other contemporaneous conflicts as well as fielding several questions about 19C soldiering from the magazine’s subscribers! www.civilwarmonitor.com/podcast/epis...
Episode 5: Soldiering and Weaponry
Historian Eric Michael Burke answers questions about the lives of Civil War soldiers and the weapons they used.
www.civilwarmonitor.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Really enjoyed sitting down with The Civil War Monitor’s new podcast to discuss some surprising ways the war connected with other contemporaneous conflicts as well as fielding several questions about 19C soldiering from the magazine’s subscribers! www.civilwarmonitor.com/podcast/epis...
Worth paying attention to, but it’s vital to emphasize that, as with all technology, it’s not the technology itself that poses problems: it’s how we use it. AI is a tool; just like the internet; just like a hammer. Use it as a tool. With purpose and intent, without letting it use you instead.
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Worth paying attention to, but it’s vital to emphasize that, as with all technology, it’s not the technology itself that poses problems: it’s how we use it. AI is a tool; just like the internet; just like a hammer. Use it as a tool. With purpose and intent, without letting it use you instead.
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Iraqis rn.
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media.tenor.com
June 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Iraqis rn.
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Unfortunately I already had to leave (you probably saw me given how close the planes are flying over the #CEI-Iscte institute but my last service for #MHC2025 in Lisbon is telling you where a terrific closing panel will take place tonight:
👉C2 02👈
👉C2 02👈
June 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Unfortunately I already had to leave (you probably saw me given how close the planes are flying over the #CEI-Iscte institute but my last service for #MHC2025 in Lisbon is telling you where a terrific closing panel will take place tonight:
👉C2 02👈
👉C2 02👈
Very excited to be here in Lisbon at the Military History Consortium annual conference for a second year! I’ll be giving my talk on military encyclopedism in the Deutscher Bund on Friday afternoon.
June 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Very excited to be here in Lisbon at the Military History Consortium annual conference for a second year! I’ll be giving my talk on military encyclopedism in the Deutscher Bund on Friday afternoon.
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend wandering aimlessly through southern Europe with your incredible wife who doubles as your best friend. 🇫🇷❤️
May 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
If you ever get the chance, I highly recommend wandering aimlessly through southern Europe with your incredible wife who doubles as your best friend. 🇫🇷❤️
This weekend I found that the Great War isn’t really so far away.
April 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
This weekend I found that the Great War isn’t really so far away.
Enjoyed Eamonn’s presentation on this fascinating research here at #SMH2025 and it’s well worth your time!
My new Historical Journal article, "British Military Music and the Legacy of the Napoleonic Wars", is now available to read online: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Enjoyed Eamonn’s presentation on this fascinating research here at #SMH2025 and it’s well worth your time!
This is cool on so many levels!
The Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid
The Vatican Digitizes a 1,600-Year-Old Illuminated Manuscript of the Aeneid
It’s fair to say that every period which has celebrated the literature of antiquity has held epic Roman poet Virgil in extremely high regard, and that was never more the case than during the early Chr...
www.openculture.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is cool on so many levels!
I have arrived in deep-fried Rebeldom for #SMH2025. First impressions are that the Gulf of America looks disappointingly similar to the Gulf of Mexico.
March 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I have arrived in deep-fried Rebeldom for #SMH2025. First impressions are that the Gulf of America looks disappointingly similar to the Gulf of Mexico.
And for yet another year our #SMH2025 conference posts will compete in social media search results with the legions merely shaking their heads at current events.
March 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
And for yet another year our #SMH2025 conference posts will compete in social media search results with the legions merely shaking their heads at current events.
Apropos of nothing at all, I just want to observe that the P-47 was officially redesigned the F-47 in 1947. It remained in service until 1953.
So what we are really talking about is an F-47 II.
So what we are really talking about is an F-47 II.
March 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Apropos of nothing at all, I just want to observe that the P-47 was officially redesigned the F-47 in 1947. It remained in service until 1953.
So what we are really talking about is an F-47 II.
So what we are really talking about is an F-47 II.
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Delighted to share that I have signed with Yale University Press for my fourth book. The working title is 'Forging Armageddon: The British Army and the Global War for Empire, 1835-1914'. I'm investigating the role of knowledge networks in British Army development up to the First World War.
November 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Delighted to share that I have signed with Yale University Press for my fourth book. The working title is 'Forging Armageddon: The British Army and the Global War for Empire, 1835-1914'. I'm investigating the role of knowledge networks in British Army development up to the First World War.
My amazing wife is not named in this excellent essay, but I’m too proud of her not to acknowledge the major success that this testimonial represents. The tireless work she puts in each and every day on every single manuscript deserves every bit of the praise given here. And it’s a great book, too!
March 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
My amazing wife is not named in this excellent essay, but I’m too proud of her not to acknowledge the major success that this testimonial represents. The tireless work she puts in each and every day on every single manuscript deserves every bit of the praise given here. And it’s a great book, too!
I don’t know how it possibly could have been fifteen years since I last saw you boys, but I’ve missed you every day since.
Rest well, brothers.
Rest well, brothers.
February 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I don’t know how it possibly could have been fifteen years since I last saw you boys, but I’ve missed you every day since.
Rest well, brothers.
Rest well, brothers.