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Sebastian Egholm Lund
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junior research fellow, university of oxford; researches solar energy and the british empire; writing CLIMATE CONTROL AND THE FICTION OF THE FIN DE SIÈCLE. https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-sebastian-egholm-lund
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'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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"UK academics...need guidance on how to avoid bringing US-based colleagues unwanted attention, risk or danger. Even tagging people in social media comments, or careless comments in text messages or emails, could make them unsafe." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News
Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This Friday I, megalomanically, am speaking to the world through the medium of Zoom.

If piqued, one can register here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...

Hope to see some familiar faces!
April 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
March 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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14 of my publications -- basically everything I've ever thought or written-- went into AI training datasets without my consent or knowledge
March 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A classic history of the creation of modern Paris by Napoleon III and Haussmann.

David H. Pinkney's Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris is now available in a new edition.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
March 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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typical book project timeline
March 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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No shit Watson!
"Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for cities."
theconversation.com/cycling-is-t...
Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities
Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.
theconversation.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reading Hsuan Hsu’s wonderful AIR CONDITIONING (2024). Hsu poses an interesting rewrite of Descartes: ‘I THINK IN A STOVE-HEATED ROOM, THEREFORE I AM’ / ‘I THINK MY MIND IS INDISTINCT, THEREFORE I AM IN A CLIMATE-CONTROLLED ROOM.’
February 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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February 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Project MUSE - The Climate of Utopia: Victorian Hothouses and H. G. Wells
muse.jhu.edu
January 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM