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Daniel Beaumont
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Phd @aucklanduni.bsky.social. Medical, gender, emotions history in 18th c. England. My thesis examined melancholy in women's writing across 5 genres. Public history at earlymedwomen.auckland.ac.nz.
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April 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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amforsyth.bsky.social
So excited to be organising this workshop with the @danielbeaumont.bsky.social and Erin Griffey!! We can’t wait to host you at @aucklanduni.bsky.social
anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · Apr 3
ANZAMEMS Seminar: Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
CPF for Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women seminar, hosted by ANZAMEMS. For text details, see our website: https://www.anzamems.org/?p=13593
April 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Come one, come all! @amforsyth.bsky.social, Erin Griffey and I can't wait to have you at @aucklanduni.bsky.social!
anzamems.bsky.social ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · Apr 3
ANZAMEMS Seminar: Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...
CPF for Documenting Medieval and Early Modern Women seminar, hosted by ANZAMEMS. For text details, see our website: https://www.anzamems.org/?p=13593
April 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
New post (1/3) on the “important reasons to reject most commonly discussed uses of AI” for arts and hums.

Scheduled 2nd post is about all the practical things this tech cant do (THINK, KNOW, inspire, summarize, plan, write etc): open to more suggests
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CurAIous? (1) Fundamental Objections to AI
This is the first of three posts about the use of generative AI, playing out the arguments against using it, at all, with very limited exceptions. So: you’ve heard about this new ‘gener…
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January 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on
January 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
We are seeking a post-doctoral research fellow to work on a Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project is a collaboration between Prof Chl...
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December 17, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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anzamems.bsky.social
A #CFP for the southern hemisphere's premier #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference - what more could you want for Christmas?! Hosted in Melbourne from 3-5 Dec 2025, our website is now open for paper and panel proposal with a deadline of 14 Feb.

conference.anzamems....
December 16, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Chat GPT may yet have its uses, but, speaking as a historian interested in how young people learn about the past, it utterly terrifies me. It is a bespoke garbage howitzer
spavel.bsky.social Pavel* @spavel.bsky.social · Jul 6
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. 8 135 3.8K 97K ... stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood 5 760 3.2K 82K stillorangecrushed @stilloranged. 7h ... it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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drdanielletw.bsky.social
Postdoc Opportunity!

The Dept. of History at UT San Antonio, early modern or modern Europe, 2-year appointment.

Seeks expert who builds upon dept. strengths in transnational histories of empire, borderlands, and migration, though all will be considered.

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December 11, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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infinitescream.bsky.social
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December 8, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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sannewman.bsky.social
Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot
December 2, 2024 at 7:59 PM
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nihilcurtis.bsky.social
In the most direct statement yet that NZ's hard right government is totally opposed to any research that might challenge the social order they support, they have stripped the Humanities & Social Science panels from the largest fund for innovative research in the country.
Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and contributes to science with a purpose. “The Government has been clear in its mandate to rebuild our economy. We are focused on a system that supports growth, and a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs,” Ms Collins says “I have updated the Marsden Fund Investment Plan and Terms of Reference to ensure that future funding is going to science that helps to meet this goal.” The new Investment Plan focuses on supporting research that can be of economic, environmental or health benefit to New Zealand. The new Terms of Reference outline that approximately 50 per cent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic benefits to New Zealand. “The Marsden Fund will continue to support blue-skies research, the type that advances new ideas and encourages innovation and creativity and where the benefit may not be immediately apparent. It is important that we support new ideas which lead to developing new technologies and products, boosting economic growth, and enhancing New Zealand's quality of life,” Ms Collins says. “The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.
December 4, 2024 at 1:14 AM