Nanna B Thylstrup
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
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A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
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New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 AM
New working paper with Thomas Delcey and Alexandre Truc:
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
“One Sentence at a Time: A Quantitative History of Rationality in Economic Thought”
▶️ osf.io/preprints/so...
We study how rationality changes in economics over the long 20th century using ~290000 journal articles (1900–2009)
#rstats #EconSky
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When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.
February 8, 2026 at 2:41 AM
When you're editor of stuff you get to see the chaos of your colleagues' file-naming conventions, and what a gift that is.
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@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
February 7, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Steph Brown [@stephjayb.bsky.social] has just won the 2025 Surveillance Studies Book Prize for Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905–1924. This is an incredible book that everyone should read. Congrats, Steph!!
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
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When most people think of AI in education they probably don't think of scientific journals old enough to exist online as black and white photocopies. Here's a cover from the first volume of the Journal of AI in Education 1989/90. It contains a really signficant paper...
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
When most people think of AI in education they probably don't think of scientific journals old enough to exist online as black and white photocopies. Here's a cover from the first volume of the Journal of AI in Education 1989/90. It contains a really signficant paper...
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.
In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
actionnetwork.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
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🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!
✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
AI & Archives
AI & Archives
www.cambridge.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:38 PM
🚀 Big news!! The first papers from our AI & Archives SI are up!!!
✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
AI & Archives
AI & Archives
www.cambridge.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:28 PM
✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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18/ crabs are Turing-complete
November 20, 2024 at 7:03 AM
18/ crabs are Turing-complete
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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 8:41 PM
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
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MIT study: the technology that our professors have been working on for 50 years isn’t working 🫠
“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”
AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst
AI may or may not excel at a lot of things, but from an economic standpoint, it's definitely not making us more productive.
futurism.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:40 AM
MIT study: the technology that our professors have been working on for 50 years isn’t working 🫠
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Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)
Good diplomatic reasons for Europeans to try to appeal for calm and work it out behind the scenes with the US.
But just this morning Trump posted pictures of him putting the flag on Greenland, and presenting his conquests of Greenland and Canada to European leaders.
But just this morning Trump posted pictures of him putting the flag on Greenland, and presenting his conquests of Greenland and Canada to European leaders.
January 20, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Ok the world may be going down, but at least the visual politics classes are flourishing (where they are still allowed to be taught)
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Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Yay! The hard copies of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities arrived today. It was a pleasure to write a chapter in this about pirate infrastructures and shadow libraries.
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I've seen a lot of upset over the NASA library being closed.
But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else.
Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?
But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else.
Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?
January 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
I've seen a lot of upset over the NASA library being closed.
But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else.
Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?
But, I haven't seen any plan to: intervene, file a lawsuit, corral members of Congress, get irate citizens to reach out to elected officials, have a bake sale, or anything else.
Does anyone know of a plan to stop or ameliorate this?
Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !
But this also ties in with the sustainability efforts of shadow libraries, as I was writing about the other day. eve.gd/2026/01/01/t...
The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
Shadow libraries, that is, illegal massive repositories of books of all kinds, are of course prone to takedowns by police and disappearance from the internet...
eve.gd
January 5, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !
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this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
"Memory Safety for Skeptics," published in the ACM Queue.
Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.
Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.
Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
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"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.
Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY
This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...
link.springer.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.
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"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked.
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked.
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.