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Moa Ekbom
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Jourhavande filolog

Forskare vid KTH Future Humanities Initiative

Här är antologin jag redaktörat:
https://appellforlag.se/bok/oavsett-vad-vi-kallar-skonhet/
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quosego.bsky.social
Har skrivit i Respons om ljuvliga Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos, men även en del om Fragglarna. Det är en bok med fart, fläkt & färg (i vårt Fraggelberg).
tidskriftenrespons.se/artikel/den-...
Den svunna sophögens svårtydda visdomar - Respons
Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos, redigerad av regissören Karl Dunér, är ett sällsamt allkonstverk. Det är sällan en fackbok kan läsas på så olika vis, skriver Respons recensent Moa Ekbom.
tidskriftenrespons.se
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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csmfht.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Vår antologi fick en UNDERBAR läsning i Expressen!

"Även om jag inte formulerade det då, tänkte mitt tonårsjag att om det finns andra som läst och älskat denna bok, finns det hopp om att även jag skulle kunna bli förstådd och älskad."

www.expressen.se/kultur/bocke...
THERESE BOHMAN: Här framstår elitism som det sexigaste
Donna Tartts kultförklarade ”Den hemliga historien” är föremål för en ny antologi. Therese Bohman fördjupar sig i romanens alla trollbindande aspekter.
www.expressen.se
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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byzantinemosaics.bsky.social
Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-the-god-oceanus-in-petra-550
Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Det där med kafferprenumerationer vid kafékedja försvann VÄLDIGT snabbt? Höll inte när man räknade på det? Råvarupriser? Konsumenterna nappade ej?
October 16, 2025 at 7:00 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Ping @ellenbre.bsky.social !!!
finger-post.blog Alison @finger-post.blog · Oct 6
My favourite Jilly Cooper story is recounted in Graham Hoyland's 2013 book Last Hours on Everest. What a trooper.
"We lay in a tent for three days in a blizzard. After the first morning we had each told our life stories, and we lay there gazing at the roof of the tent, wondering what to do next. Luckily Mark had brought a copy of Jilly Cooper's Rivals, a breathily written romance, and Brice had a penknife. We carefully cut it up into three parts. Mark, as owner, was allowed to read it in sequence: A, B, then C. Brice got B, C, then A, but I - as the youngest - was lumbered with C, A, then B, and struggled to comprehend both the plot and the characters. On our return Mark contacted Jilly Cooper and told her the story. She was delighted to have been able to satisfy three large men at once with only one book."
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Satte mokabryggaren på spisen utan vatten i pga tröttna och visserligen blev det liksom en slags trevlig liksom kafferökelse men nu är den för varm att skruva isär och allt är misär
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Är inte med i artikeln tyvärr, men vet ALLT om Dark Academia ju!
readingtheend.bsky.social Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · Oct 9
good morning, Bunny! new from me at the
@nytimes.com, just in time for spooky season: a Dark Academia starter pack, feat. Sofia Samatar, Melina Marchetta, Mona Awad, and unexpectedly, Sarah Rees Brennan, for lo, I am Like This full time.
Dark Academia: A Starter Pack
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
quosego.bsky.social
IDAG!!
quosego.bsky.social Moa Ekbom @quosego.bsky.social · Sep 22
Hurra! Jag ska få prata om Den Hemliga Historien och Dark academia i eminenta Roslagens bokhandel med den lysande @ellen-s-s.bsky.social !
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
Hector for #MosaicMonday?

Very little is known about this mosaic including the provenance, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers a tentative date of C1st–C2nd CE and the tantalising hint that this may be part of a Trojan War cycle depicting Hector.

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #TrojanWar
Mosaic depicts five warriors. The left-most figure appears to be able to throw a javelin with his shield raised in his other hand. He is seemingly watched by three others who stand ready but not about to throw anything. A fifth figure can be seen about to take action though the nature of the action is not clear.
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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archaeohawke.bsky.social
#MosaicMonday

As we move into Winter proper. A final look at summer 👀

Lullingstone floor mosaic depicts the mythical figure of Summer wearing a garland of corn.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History
Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated in Lullingstone near the village of Eynsford in Kent, south-eastern England. The villa is located in the Darent Valley, along with six others, including those at Crofton, Crayford and Dartford. Constructed in the 1st century, perhaps around AD 80–90, the house was repeatedly expanded and occupied until it was destroyed by fire in the 4th or 5th century. The villa was occupied over various periods within the Romano-British period, but after its destruction, it is only thought to have been reoccupied during the medieval period. The occupants were most likely wealthy Romans or native Britons who had adopted Roman customs.
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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drrachelclarke.com
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
October 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Kudos to Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki for having obtained red hats simultaneously from Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V, top work
September 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Den 8 oktober kommer bli episkt!!
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Visste ni att Edgar Mannheimer och Kristofer Folkhammar är TVÅ OLIKA PERSONER?

En insikt på denna bokmässan sladdag.
September 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
quosego.bsky.social
Det enda sättet att hålla isär dagarna på bokmässan är genom de varierande färgerna på Jonas Ellerströms kavajer.
September 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
quosego.bsky.social
Den SORTENS människor som går runt med GIGANTISK ryggsäck på det KNÖKADE mässgolvet. Det sanna åsykopat-testet.
September 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Ok, Aeneid discourse time because the statement below is correct, but also, I think, significantly incomplete in ways that understate how good Vergil is as an author (he is very good).

Aeneas is supposed to be a self-righteous prig because Vergil is deeply ambivalent about the Augustan project.
planetcarnival.bsky.social PlanetCarnival @planetcarnival.bsky.social · Sep 26
Virgil wrote FanFic.

And while parts of his epic are very good, Aeneas himself comes across as a self-righteous prig.

#ISaidWhatISaid
September 27, 2025 at 4:43 AM
quosego.bsky.social
ABSOLUT sista DIREKT FRÅN BOKMÄSSAN: blev så starstuck och knäsvag av att prata med Agneta Rahikainen (Kampen om Edith, en bok som verkligen format mina idéer om reception och sålunda i förlängningen semantik, LÄS DEN) att jag benämnde henne som Agneta Harkonnen. THE SHAME
September 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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carolinehaskins.bsky.social
Impossible to even choose a pull quote in this oral history of DOGE!!!
www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
quosego.bsky.social
Sista DIREKT FRÅN BOKMÄSSAN: fangirlade @signekrantz.swifties.social lite väl, och förklarade för henne att hon verkligen skulle gilla Tartts Den hemliga historien.
September 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
quosego.bsky.social
I övrigt DIREKT FRÅN BOKMÄSSAN: alla slemhinnor i mitt ansikte torkade ut så fort jag satte foten på mässgolvet, vad gör de egentligen med luften (SHOULD BE STUDIED) och Översättarminglet var absolut trevligast.
September 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
quosego.bsky.social
Likaså DIREKT FRÅN BOKMÄSSAN:
lottailonah.bsky.social Lotta Ilona Häyrynen @lottailonah.bsky.social · Sep 25
Min bok finns i världen!
Är du på Bokmässan i Göteborg hittar du den i monter B08:42 (bredvid Axel i KAJ) och bara du frågar så signar jag den på plats fram till söndag.

Är du inte på Bokmässan kan Jag vill inte tänka på döden men tänka på dig köpas/beställas där böcker finns.
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
quosego.bsky.social
DIREKT FRÅN BOKMÄSSAN: efter att ha jagat honom genom flera mingel (bland annat de 9s och svenska litteratursällskapet, det var en utmaning) kan jag avslöja att @maltepersson.bsky.social presenterar sig som bluesky-poet.
September 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM