Thiago Krause
@thiagokrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
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Thiago Krause
@thiagokrause.bsky.social
· Dec 22
My chapter with Chris Ebert is finally online! We view the asiento from Salvador da Bahia—the South Atlantic's main commercial hub. Brazil was the largest destination for enslaved Africans, yet it's usually absent from asiento scholarship. We ask: why was Brazil never supplied by foreign slavers?
“in a world of abundant machine intelligence, the most durable advantage will be broad intellectual range. (…) As routine analysis becomes automated, what distinguishes professionals is the ability to synthesize across domains, to see patterns that specialists miss, to exercise judgment.”
Opinion | Why A.I. Can’t Make Thoughtful Decisions
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:22 AM
“in a world of abundant machine intelligence, the most durable advantage will be broad intellectual range. (…) As routine analysis becomes automated, what distinguishes professionals is the ability to synthesize across domains, to see patterns that specialists miss, to exercise judgment.”
A good piece saying that financial conditions and a frozen labor market are the reasons for rising youth unemployment, not the rise of LLMs.
The AI Shift: What millions of job ads reveal about AI displacement
A close inspection suggests all is not what it seems
www.ft.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:01 AM
A good piece saying that financial conditions and a frozen labor market are the reasons for rising youth unemployment, not the rise of LLMs.
Muito bom, sintetizando a tese do @rafaelcariello.bsky.social !
Como São Paulo virou o Estado virou o mais rico do Brasil? - BBC News Brasil
Até meados do século 19, São Paulo era uma província sem grande relevância econômica, política ou demográfica. Para especialistas, a transformação passa por fatores históricos, pela evolução da rede d...
www.bbc.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Muito bom, sintetizando a tese do @rafaelcariello.bsky.social !
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ILL is a miracle and I give thanks for each day it continues to serve.
January 24, 2026 at 12:58 AM
ILL is a miracle and I give thanks for each day it continues to serve.
Horrifying - but less of a problem for history. I still can’t see a LLM-generated manuscript getting past peer-review, except in irrelevant/low-quality journals no one actually reads.
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Peer review has met its match.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Horrifying - but less of a problem for history. I still can’t see a LLM-generated manuscript getting past peer-review, except in irrelevant/low-quality journals no one actually reads.
“Concerns about fractured attention and data security are mounting. Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it”
There may be a lesson in here…
There may be a lesson in here…
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
www.economist.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:27 AM
“Concerns about fractured attention and data security are mounting. Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it”
There may be a lesson in here…
There may be a lesson in here…
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Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 22, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
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One thing I miss about graduate school is theory. Being introduced to big ideas. Being encouraged to reframe the world. That’s the challenge that pushed me through graduate school. I need to recapture that. Any good theory readings to come out in the last decade I may have missed?
January 21, 2026 at 2:17 PM
One thing I miss about graduate school is theory. Being introduced to big ideas. Being encouraged to reframe the world. That’s the challenge that pushed me through graduate school. I need to recapture that. Any good theory readings to come out in the last decade I may have missed?
As this is the first time I've watched most of the movies before the ceremony, here you have my totally irrelevant and biased votes:
Best Picture - Hamnet
Best Director - Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Best Actor - Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Best Actress - Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, obviously)
Best Picture - Hamnet
Best Director - Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Best Actor - Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Best Actress - Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, obviously)
January 22, 2026 at 2:22 PM
As this is the first time I've watched most of the movies before the ceremony, here you have my totally irrelevant and biased votes:
Best Picture - Hamnet
Best Director - Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Best Actor - Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Best Actress - Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, obviously)
Best Picture - Hamnet
Best Director - Ryan Coogler (Sinners)
Best Actor - Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)
Best Actress - Jessie Buckley (Hamnet, obviously)
Can the hive mind suggest anyone in Amsterdam willing to go to the IISH and scan some microfilmed price currents for me? They haven't replied and the website says reproductions are paused... Happy to pay, of course!
@ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social
@ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Can the hive mind suggest anyone in Amsterdam willing to go to the IISH and scan some microfilmed price currents for me? They haven't replied and the website says reproductions are paused... Happy to pay, of course!
@ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social
@ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social
Sometimes you finally read a book you’ve been meaning to read for years, and it is just as good as you anticipated. “The Allure of the Archives” is such a gem! Beautiful read for those of us who love the archives.
January 21, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Sometimes you finally read a book you’ve been meaning to read for years, and it is just as good as you anticipated. “The Allure of the Archives” is such a gem! Beautiful read for those of us who love the archives.
We definitely got to the season where I think “why did I move to a place where the air hurts my face?”
There was also brief moment of despair this morning when my AirPod fell into the ground and I thought I would not be able to find it in the snow (I did, thankfully).
There was also brief moment of despair this morning when my AirPod fell into the ground and I thought I would not be able to find it in the snow (I did, thankfully).
January 21, 2026 at 1:38 PM
We definitely got to the season where I think “why did I move to a place where the air hurts my face?”
There was also brief moment of despair this morning when my AirPod fell into the ground and I thought I would not be able to find it in the snow (I did, thankfully).
There was also brief moment of despair this morning when my AirPod fell into the ground and I thought I would not be able to find it in the snow (I did, thankfully).
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You like Automatic Text Recognition (ATR/OCR/HTR) ?
You like challenges ?
Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script.
📆 20/01 Registration
📆 21/03 Test set released
📆 3/04 Deadline for results
Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr
You like challenges ?
Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script.
📆 20/01 Registration
📆 21/03 Test set released
📆 3/04 Deadline for results
Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr
ICDAR 2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwriting Recognition
ICDAR 2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwriting Recognition The ICDAR 2026 Competition on Multilingual Medieval Handwriting Recognition (CMMHWR26) seeks to evaluate the state of the art in...
cmmhwr26.inria.fr
January 20, 2026 at 9:40 AM
You like Automatic Text Recognition (ATR/OCR/HTR) ?
You like challenges ?
Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script.
📆 20/01 Registration
📆 21/03 Test set released
📆 3/04 Deadline for results
Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr
You like challenges ?
Well, we open a competition for ATR/OCR of medieval manuscripts, in cross-lingual & diachronic settings for the Latin script.
📆 20/01 Registration
📆 21/03 Test set released
📆 3/04 Deadline for results
Link cmmhwr26.inria.fr
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Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project!
I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.
For more information👇
I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.
For more information👇
I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)"
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
King's College
3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29
Deadline: 01/02/26
shorturl.at/KZ6Vh
Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 11:52 AM
Good for historians, I guess.
“I suspect the value of original or elegant theory will become more important. Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable, and original data collection that AI still cannot do.”
“I suspect the value of original or elegant theory will become more important. Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable, and original data collection that AI still cannot do.”
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
hegemon.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Good for historians, I guess.
“I suspect the value of original or elegant theory will become more important. Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable, and original data collection that AI still cannot do.”
“I suspect the value of original or elegant theory will become more important. Good quant work is becoming cheap and plentiful; good theory remains hard. Perhaps ethnographic work will become more valuable, and original data collection that AI still cannot do.”
Lembrei, não sei porque, do Perry Anderson na @lrb.co.uk em 2019: “Dias Toffoli – former legal errand boy of the PT and arguably the most despicable single figure in today’s political landscape”
Cunhado de Vorcaro está por trás de fundo que comprou participação da família Toffoli em resort > https://bit.ly/4b2EJB2
A defesa afirma que Fabiano Zettel deixou o fundo em 2022 e que este foi liquidado em 2025; o ministro Dias Toffoli, seus irmãos e a administração do resort não se manifestaram
A defesa afirma que Fabiano Zettel deixou o fundo em 2022 e que este foi liquidado em 2025; o ministro Dias Toffoli, seus irmãos e a administração do resort não se manifestaram
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Lembrei, não sei porque, do Perry Anderson na @lrb.co.uk em 2019: “Dias Toffoli – former legal errand boy of the PT and arguably the most despicable single figure in today’s political landscape”
The horror.
“A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that advocates for civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age, found that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers said they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI”
“A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that advocates for civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age, found that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers said they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI”
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
www.npr.org
January 16, 2026 at 10:36 AM
The horror.
“A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that advocates for civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age, found that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers said they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI”
“A recent survey from the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that advocates for civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age, found that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers said they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with AI”
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If you know a college student or recent graduate with decent grades who wants to explore women's history in a museum setting, this would be so much fun!
Women's History Internships @ Smithsonian in museum admin; advancement; comms; or digital. $1200/wk stipend+ travel to/from DC. 6/8 - 8/7/26. Apply NOW (deadline = 2/12 OR first 200 applications) Open to U.S. college students/recent college grads, 18 yrs of age or older & have 3.0 or higher GPA.
Internships
Intern with us for an opportunity to contribute to our national effort to share a diversity of women's stories from the past and present.
womenshistory.si.edu
January 13, 2026 at 3:11 AM
If you know a college student or recent graduate with decent grades who wants to explore women's history in a museum setting, this would be so much fun!
I'm listing resources available to students to do research on slavery and the trade in enslaved Africans in the Atlantic. Some people might find it useful, so I'm linking it here, in the hope that people will point be towards others. English is prefered, but any language is acceptable
#skystorians
#skystorians
www.dropbox.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I'm listing resources available to students to do research on slavery and the trade in enslaved Africans in the Atlantic. Some people might find it useful, so I'm linking it here, in the hope that people will point be towards others. English is prefered, but any language is acceptable
#skystorians
#skystorians
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Texto sobre nosso projeto com o Modern Endangered Archives Program/UCLA. Ajudem na divulgação, precisamos ter uma base Parker-Gallman para o Brasil!
January 10, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Texto sobre nosso projeto com o Modern Endangered Archives Program/UCLA. Ajudem na divulgação, precisamos ter uma base Parker-Gallman para o Brasil!
refine.ink‘s preview gave me feedback that read like an economist/editor armed with careful attention to detail but no specialized knowedge. Better than ChatGPT, but not gamechanging and nowhere close to peer-review. Seems crazy expensive - $40 for one review, $200 for 10. Has anyone ever used it?
Refine - AI-Powered Research Assistant
Refine helps researchers analyze papers, collaborate with teams, and streamline their research workflow with AI-powered tools.
refine.ink
January 10, 2026 at 10:02 AM
refine.ink‘s preview gave me feedback that read like an economist/editor armed with careful attention to detail but no specialized knowedge. Better than ChatGPT, but not gamechanging and nowhere close to peer-review. Seems crazy expensive - $40 for one review, $200 for 10. Has anyone ever used it?
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The Black Studies Department at Providence College invites applications for a full-time open-rank, tenure-track, faculty position, with consideration for appointment with tenure, beginning August 2026.
www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...
www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...
Providence College Job Opportunities | CAREER PAGE
www.schooljobs.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:26 AM
The Black Studies Department at Providence College invites applications for a full-time open-rank, tenure-track, faculty position, with consideration for appointment with tenure, beginning August 2026.
www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...
www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...
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'“We received a total of 32,763 manuscripts, mostly in Old French and Latin, which we transcribed in four months”, explains Thibault Clérice - infinitely quicker than it would have taken to complete such a task manually.'
CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed
Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...
www.inria.fr
January 8, 2026 at 9:48 AM
'“We received a total of 32,763 manuscripts, mostly in Old French and Latin, which we transcribed in four months”, explains Thibault Clérice - infinitely quicker than it would have taken to complete such a task manually.'
Very much worth listening to.
NEW ODD LOTS:
What Maduro's capture means for the oil market.
We talked to the great @gbrew24.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
What Maduro's capture means for the oil market.
We talked to the great @gbrew24.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
This Is What Maduro's Arrest Means for the Oil Market
Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 01/07/2026 · 47m
podcasts.apple.com
January 7, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Very much worth listening to.
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Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...