Jo Hedesan
@johedesan.bsky.social
historian of alchemy of early modern world, currently obsessed with applying digital humanities in history of science and intellectual history. Lecturing in Oxford on #histsci and #dh and working in two different #dh projects.
We need to talk about AI, research and greedy academic publishing. According to Springer Nature, “Eventually [academic] papers will all be written by an AI agent and then another AI agent will actually read them, analyse them and produce a summary for humans.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We need to talk about AI, research and greedy academic publishing. According to Springer Nature, “Eventually [academic] papers will all be written by an AI agent and then another AI agent will actually read them, analyse them and produce a summary for humans.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Hopefully KULeuven will also make it available online for the benefit of everyone
Consider me surprised: Vesalius’s Vesalius, which fetched $2,280,000 the other day at @ChristiesBKS, didn’t sell to a private collector after all!
Was purchased by the Belgian Gov’t and KU Leuven. Will be at the university library.
newatlas.com/collectibles...
Was purchased by the Belgian Gov’t and KU Leuven. Will be at the university library.
newatlas.com/collectibles...
Breaking: "bookfind of the century" sells for $2.23 million
In 2007 a Canadian physician paid $14,250 for a well-used copy of "De humani corporis fabrica" (1555) that was covered in latin annotations by an unknown hand. The handwriting turned out to be that of...
newatlas.com
February 5, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Hopefully KULeuven will also make it available online for the benefit of everyone
Excellent article. We know nobody's listening though.
"...this requires people to overcome outdated misconceptions of librarianship...Information science is a feminized field, & archivists are ... underpaid & perceived as ... support staff, not co-creators in the knowledge-production process... archives today maintain vast amounts of digital data. "
How to make data open? Stop overlooking librarians
Digital archivists are already experts at tackling the complex challenges of making research data open and accessible. We can help to smooth the transition. Digital archivists are already experts at t...
www.nature.com
December 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Excellent article. We know nobody's listening though.
The passivity of the gov and media in this matter is shocking. I mean, we are talking about an attack on a national institution, and it's been more than a month. Hopefully they are working behind the scenes, but I don't like the silence and time it's taking to solve this.
So it appears that now they are selling the data stolen from the British Library. thecyberexpress.com/national-bri...
November 21, 2023 at 11:21 PM
The passivity of the gov and media in this matter is shocking. I mean, we are talking about an attack on a national institution, and it's been more than a month. Hopefully they are working behind the scenes, but I don't like the silence and time it's taking to solve this.
This is really good news: you can now search for manuscripts and archives in all of Oxford's libraries: marco.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2023 at 7:13 PM
This is really good news: you can now search for manuscripts and archives in all of Oxford's libraries: marco.ox.ac.uk