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@bocadelperro.bsky.social
Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
Posts mostly in English, occasionally in German or Spanish.
All typos are due to the demon Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
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For #CyberMonday, @hopkinspress.bsky.social has made all of its books 50% off (on orders over $50). That includes Revolutionary Networks, my examination of news and printing during the American Revolution. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Revolutionary Networks
The Business and Politics of Printing the News, 1763–1789
www.press.jhu.edu
December 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
For #CyberMonday, @hopkinspress.bsky.social has made all of its books 50% off (on orders over $50). That includes Revolutionary Networks, my examination of news and printing during the American Revolution. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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83% of academic scholarship is the careful, precise, disciplined maintenance of decades-long grudges.
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
83% of academic scholarship is the careful, precise, disciplined maintenance of decades-long grudges.
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
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This is HUGE news, that was reported right before Thanksgiving. I just looked online and, sure enough, all the grants that our PhD students normally apply for are not accepting applications this cycle. Maybe they will come back, maybe they won't. But right now, this is a devastating set back.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is HUGE news, that was reported right before Thanksgiving. I just looked online and, sure enough, all the grants that our PhD students normally apply for are not accepting applications this cycle. Maybe they will come back, maybe they won't. But right now, this is a devastating set back.
It's a very good feeling to be halfway done with my to do list before noon
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's a very good feeling to be halfway done with my to do list before noon
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We are hiring at the University of Arizona libraries for a Data Science Specialist/Librarian. Expertise/experience in Python is a must. Not on the search committee, will be your colleague. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Data Science Specialist/Librarian (Assistant or Associate)
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIESData
Science Outreach and ServicesDevelop and lead training opportunities in tools and
resources such as data visualization, data...
arizona.csod.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We are hiring at the University of Arizona libraries for a Data Science Specialist/Librarian. Expertise/experience in Python is a must. Not on the search committee, will be your colleague. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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I am ready to cyber that Monday
December 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I am ready to cyber that Monday
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Advent calendar history:
A C19th creation, perhaps by a ''Munich housewife...tired of having to answer endlessly when Xmas would come''!
Commercial ones came along early C20th...they've evolved a LOT since then!!
Potted history by good ole @britannica.com
www.britannica.com/topic/Advent...
A C19th creation, perhaps by a ''Munich housewife...tired of having to answer endlessly when Xmas would come''!
Commercial ones came along early C20th...they've evolved a LOT since then!!
Potted history by good ole @britannica.com
www.britannica.com/topic/Advent...
December 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Advent calendar history:
A C19th creation, perhaps by a ''Munich housewife...tired of having to answer endlessly when Xmas would come''!
Commercial ones came along early C20th...they've evolved a LOT since then!!
Potted history by good ole @britannica.com
www.britannica.com/topic/Advent...
A C19th creation, perhaps by a ''Munich housewife...tired of having to answer endlessly when Xmas would come''!
Commercial ones came along early C20th...they've evolved a LOT since then!!
Potted history by good ole @britannica.com
www.britannica.com/topic/Advent...
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some folks will do anything to sound well read except for reading any books
December 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
some folks will do anything to sound well read except for reading any books
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Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment is seeming more and more quaint with every job lost and CO2-producing electrical grid strained by AI.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Searle’s Chinese Room thought experiment is seeming more and more quaint with every job lost and CO2-producing electrical grid strained by AI.
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Every time Patriarch Bart sees Leo now, he's gonna ask "Are you wearing that stole I gave you?"
#SartorialTheology
#SartorialTheology
December 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Every time Patriarch Bart sees Leo now, he's gonna ask "Are you wearing that stole I gave you?"
#SartorialTheology
#SartorialTheology
For some reason Instagram has plugged me into an algorithm full of easy meals made entirely in a rice cooker and I'm not mad at all
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
For some reason Instagram has plugged me into an algorithm full of easy meals made entirely in a rice cooker and I'm not mad at all
I have one comment: I do appreciate someone who treats "data" as a plural noun.
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I have one comment: I do appreciate someone who treats "data" as a plural noun.
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
Introduce Yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Sea Otter
Humpback Whale
Leatherback turtle
Bighorn Sheep
Puma/mountain lion
Sea Otter
Humpback Whale
Leatherback turtle
Bighorn Sheep
Puma/mountain lion
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Tufted puffin
Mangrove cuckoo
Flamingos
Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles
Manatees
Tufted puffin
Mangrove cuckoo
Flamingos
Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles
Manatees
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Leatherback sea turtle
Japanese serow
Japanese giant flying squirrel
Mountain lion
Three-toed sloth
Leatherback sea turtle
Japanese serow
Japanese giant flying squirrel
Mountain lion
Three-toed sloth
December 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Introduce Yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Sea Otter
Humpback Whale
Leatherback turtle
Bighorn Sheep
Puma/mountain lion
Sea Otter
Humpback Whale
Leatherback turtle
Bighorn Sheep
Puma/mountain lion
Significantly less furious than usual about his (long overdue) bath.
November 30, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Significantly less furious than usual about his (long overdue) bath.
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it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
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Fragment of painted glass depicting a red carnation on a stalk.
Netherlands, 17th century.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Netherlands, 17th century.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fragment of painted glass depicting a red carnation on a stalk.
Netherlands, 17th century.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
Netherlands, 17th century.
(Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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Oh this is just gorgeous!
Japanese pattern book, early 19th c, cataloguing stencil patterns that could be printed onto fabric for a kimono
November 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Oh this is just gorgeous!
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There is a whole mini-youth subculture that reads one Wikipedia post a day and share the obscure things that they learn with each other. Often, it ends up on them going down a weird research rabbit hole, which is pretty neat.
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
There is a whole mini-youth subculture that reads one Wikipedia post a day and share the obscure things that they learn with each other. Often, it ends up on them going down a weird research rabbit hole, which is pretty neat.
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Incompetent administrators think ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis machines can replace teachers & human-authored books.
"A massive government experiment in South Korean to roll out 76 AI-generated textbooks has ended just four months in, after the program proved to be a catastrophe."
Or kickbacks?
"A massive government experiment in South Korean to roll out 76 AI-generated textbooks has ended just four months in, after the program proved to be a catastrophe."
Or kickbacks?
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Incompetent administrators think ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis machines can replace teachers & human-authored books.
"A massive government experiment in South Korean to roll out 76 AI-generated textbooks has ended just four months in, after the program proved to be a catastrophe."
Or kickbacks?
"A massive government experiment in South Korean to roll out 76 AI-generated textbooks has ended just four months in, after the program proved to be a catastrophe."
Or kickbacks?
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do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created, Charlie Brown?
I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me, Charlie Brown.
Choose Life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance. Choose fixed interest mortgage repayments, Charlie Brown.
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he has created, Charlie Brown?
@profanity.accountant am I as sweary as I used to be?
November 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
@profanity.accountant am I as sweary as I used to be?