Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
What could you do with 12 pesos in the 1780s in #NewSpain? Get 4 second-hand volumes of Villega's #FlosSanctorum (Spanish version of #GoldenLegend). If you added 4 reales you could get a blessed shroud. Ofc, if you were dead you couldn't read so the shroud was a better investment. #BookHistory
November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What could you do with 12 pesos in the 1780s in #NewSpain? Get 4 second-hand volumes of Villega's #FlosSanctorum (Spanish version of #GoldenLegend). If you added 4 reales you could get a blessed shroud. Ofc, if you were dead you couldn't read so the shroud was a better investment. #BookHistory
Wjy is it so cold?
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Wjy is it so cold?
Context is *everything*. The inventory of this woman lists 87 books, which sounds like a lot, but if we look at the whole inventory we found there were also 132 visual & tactile objects of knowledge. The books were valued at 2% of the total, while the latter were valued at 27%. #BookHistory
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Context is *everything*. The inventory of this woman lists 87 books, which sounds like a lot, but if we look at the whole inventory we found there were also 132 visual & tactile objects of knowledge. The books were valued at 2% of the total, while the latter were valued at 27%. #BookHistory
I read about the test elsewhere cause the link gives me this. The set has 2,500 "hard, PhD-level questions", right? And that is meant to test reasoning? Please... First of all, 2500 questions to cover all of human knowledge is BS. Which kind of questions, from which disciplines? Plus human knowledge
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I read about the test elsewhere cause the link gives me this. The set has 2,500 "hard, PhD-level questions", right? And that is meant to test reasoning? Please... First of all, 2500 questions to cover all of human knowledge is BS. Which kind of questions, from which disciplines? Plus human knowledge
#WhatIAmReading two zines from @tangledwilderness.bsky.social: Baba Yaga burns Paris to the Ground by Wren Awry and Like Mushrooms after a Rain, the Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok.
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
#WhatIAmReading two zines from @tangledwilderness.bsky.social: Baba Yaga burns Paris to the Ground by Wren Awry and Like Mushrooms after a Rain, the Jewish Anarchists of Bialystok.
Noooooooooooooooooooo
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Noooooooooooooooooooo
#SOSpalaeography Vrijo? Brijo? un tipo de cubeta?
![Handwritten text in Spanish: P un [vrijo] de dos azes antiguo con los quatro tiempos del año](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6iupuzvk2ilkaecemzypj2bd/bafkreic2zde334yh4j5crvtgjrywowpkbwk2owbmzqtrq6jmkutfk7prv4@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#SOSpalaeography Vrijo? Brijo? un tipo de cubeta?
Assistant says enough typing at reading, its scritches time (but I need to finish hate-reading this article).
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Assistant says enough typing at reading, its scritches time (but I need to finish hate-reading this article).
The hosts of CodEX Machina invited me to talk about my crazy research. Curious about reading in New Spain? Literacy? Censorship? The Inquisition? I got you covered (also available in Apple and Pocket Casts). #BookHistory #NewSpain #Reading
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The hosts of CodEX Machina invited me to talk about my crazy research. Curious about reading in New Spain? Literacy? Censorship? The Inquisition? I got you covered (also available in Apple and Pocket Casts). #BookHistory #NewSpain #Reading
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Niet bang zijn! Kijk, die robot ziet zo schattig er uit.
November 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Niet bang zijn! Kijk, die robot ziet zo schattig er uit.
#EarlyModern blogposts against fake books. Nicolás Antonio's Censura de Historias Fabulosas.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
#EarlyModern blogposts against fake books. Nicolás Antonio's Censura de Historias Fabulosas.
My comments in code and books use the same register 😂
![Comment in a jupyter notebook:
# DON"T DO THIS because it does a TUPLE, don't fuck with a TUPLE
#colours.append( ['black', 'white'])
#print(colours)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6iupuzvk2ilkaecemzypj2bd/bafkreibybqydemazltk5nwoi7vgkytyu3wktdtuid7kndbfw5lonyyneoi@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My comments in code and books use the same register 😂
Great idea for a #BookHistory drama that would never sell: on Nicolás Antonio's New Hispanic Library, his struggle to gather the info while almost bankrupt due to his book hoarding, the editions by Manuel Martí y Zaragoza & Francisco Pérez Bayer, how Pérez Bayer bitches about Martí y Zaragoza. FUN!
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Great idea for a #BookHistory drama that would never sell: on Nicolás Antonio's New Hispanic Library, his struggle to gather the info while almost bankrupt due to his book hoarding, the editions by Manuel Martí y Zaragoza & Francisco Pérez Bayer, how Pérez Bayer bitches about Martí y Zaragoza. FUN!
Has somebody done research on the affect of genAI use? From what I've seen: they are usually men who argue that "AI is not a problem but the user," and "you just need to get better at prompting." They get super snowflakey when they hear criticism of genAI cause "it can really help ppl." 🤔
November 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Has somebody done research on the affect of genAI use? From what I've seen: they are usually men who argue that "AI is not a problem but the user," and "you just need to get better at prompting." They get super snowflakey when they hear criticism of genAI cause "it can really help ppl." 🤔
#BookUse no. 5437: as scaffolding for your Día de Muertos altar. #BookHistory
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#BookUse no. 5437: as scaffolding for your Día de Muertos altar. #BookHistory
La masa para el pan de muerto ya esta reposando. Ahora si, ¡a poner el altar!
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
La masa para el pan de muerto ya esta reposando. Ahora si, ¡a poner el altar!
🫠 "the community will come together to explore how Artificial Intelligence is transforming research management: from daily workflows to questions of equity, trust, & widening participation."
I recall the first meeting where concerns on climate & social justice were quickly brushed aside. #ResistAI
I recall the first meeting where concerns on climate & social justice were quickly brushed aside. #ResistAI
October 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🫠 "the community will come together to explore how Artificial Intelligence is transforming research management: from daily workflows to questions of equity, trust, & widening participation."
I recall the first meeting where concerns on climate & social justice were quickly brushed aside. #ResistAI
I recall the first meeting where concerns on climate & social justice were quickly brushed aside. #ResistAI
