Linsey Hunter
@linseyhunter.bsky.social
Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own.
Until Chat GPT pays my salary, this is not happening.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Until Chat GPT pays my salary, this is not happening.
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Heads up research nerds; JSTOR is running a survey that includes questions about AI use in research and your perspective about the JSTOR database.
Now would be a good time to let them know what you think about AI inclusion in teaching and research
#academic #history #JSTOR #AI
Now would be a good time to let them know what you think about AI inclusion in teaching and research
#academic #history #JSTOR #AI
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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Sign and share to support! STOP THE CUTS!
We had our first strike day yesterday to challenge staff cuts at @thinkuhi.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who joined our picket line and came to support us 💜
Here are the other ways you can help 👇
➡️ sign & share our #MegaphoneUK petition www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save-uhi-stop-the-cuts
Thanks to everyone who joined our picket line and came to support us 💜
Here are the other ways you can help 👇
➡️ sign & share our #MegaphoneUK petition www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save-uhi-stop-the-cuts
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sign and share to support! STOP THE CUTS!
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(Also @profgabriele.com and I wrote about other aspects of this trend last January and I'm glad Matt pushed me to write this with him as it's proved useful to me as a way to link disparate manifestations)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Every Era Has Its Own Way of Thinking About the Middle Ages. Here’s 2025’s.
Tapestries, stone walls, chain mail, crossbows. This era’s medieval mashup has it all.
slate.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
(Also @profgabriele.com and I wrote about other aspects of this trend last January and I'm glad Matt pushed me to write this with him as it's proved useful to me as a way to link disparate manifestations)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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wtf
The tech right is at once obsessed with Tolkien and utterly unable to comprehend what his books are actually about
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
wtf
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There is a LOOOOOOOOONG history of fascism’s love affair with Tolkien!
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
There is a LOOOOOOOOONG history of fascism’s love affair with Tolkien!
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Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Ghent, JPGM, Ms. Ludwig XIII 5, vol. 1, f. 55
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Ghent, JPGM, Ms. Ludwig XIII 5, vol. 1, f. 55
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It’s not simply this: I think universities will pivot back to valuing the arts and humanities in a way where they’ll be grabbing for painful excuses as to why that infrastructure is currently being destroyed.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It’s not simply this: I think universities will pivot back to valuing the arts and humanities in a way where they’ll be grabbing for painful excuses as to why that infrastructure is currently being destroyed.
Medievalismsists well positioned to contribute to scholarly dialogues around this.
Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Medievalismsists well positioned to contribute to scholarly dialogues around this.
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Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future
How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
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I'm sorry, but no. You cannot blame the existential threat on international students. The existential threat is because you made your country's public good wholly dependent on international students.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm sorry, but no. You cannot blame the existential threat on international students. The existential threat is because you made your country's public good wholly dependent on international students.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
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As the @thinkuhi.bsky.social graduations season continues, we would like to send huge congratulations to all our students celebrating their achievements! Our Dr @linseyhunter.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Dean had the great privilege to be part of the celebrations at UHI Perth yesterday 🎓🎉 #UHIGrad
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 PM
As the @thinkuhi.bsky.social graduations season continues, we would like to send huge congratulations to all our students celebrating their achievements! Our Dr @linseyhunter.bsky.social & Dr Lucy Dean had the great privilege to be part of the celebrations at UHI Perth yesterday 🎓🎉 #UHIGrad
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Start by NOT standing down their REF team at the end of each assessment cycle. Current practice reduces analysis of abundant data that REF generates & leads to the loss of granular knowledge about what worked/didn't work when the next cycle gears up. Also increases the miasma of REF misinformation.
Senior leader laments UKRI’s ‘limited analytical capability’.
Research council leader Stian Westlake has said that UKRI needs to make more of the data at its disposal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Research council leader Stian Westlake has said that UKRI needs to make more of the data at its disposal.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Senior leader laments UKRI’s ‘limited analytical capability’ - Research Professional News
Research council executive chair says funder must harness its data to make better decisions
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 3, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Start by NOT standing down their REF team at the end of each assessment cycle. Current practice reduces analysis of abundant data that REF generates & leads to the loss of granular knowledge about what worked/didn't work when the next cycle gears up. Also increases the miasma of REF misinformation.
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📣Save the date!📣
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
October 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣Save the date!📣
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
@uhihistory.bsky.social is celebrating the publication of two new books by our staff Dr Lucy Dean and Dr Nicola Martin. For further details on the event, bit.ly/4nXKDX4
📅Monday 27 October 2025
⏰ 7-8pm
📍Online bit.ly/4pOGKWk
#ThinkUHI
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When we train people to use AI, we're "training people to explain away the inconsistencies of Large Language Models, and to assume individual responsibility for what is an innate flaw in how large language models work." Fantastic essay: www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
When we train people to use AI, we're "training people to explain away the inconsistencies of Large Language Models, and to assume individual responsibility for what is an innate flaw in how large language models work." Fantastic essay: www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
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This is a problem.
September 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM
This is a problem.
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I’ve been struck by how the British far right is using deepfake technology — less to deceive about specific events, more to tap into fascistic affects & desires. This is really frightening.
My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’ve been struck by how the British far right is using deepfake technology — less to deceive about specific events, more to tap into fascistic affects & desires. This is really frightening.
My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for @lrb.co.uk online.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
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We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
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September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Coming very soon. Please sign up! We can only do this together.
We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
www.thenerve.news
We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
www.thenerve.news
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Scottish Funding Council's reports on financial sustainability of universities.
Financial sustainability reports launched - Scottish Funding Council
The Scottish Funding Council has today published two reports that provide an aggregate picture of the financial health of Scotland’s colleges and universities .
www.sfc.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Scottish Funding Council's reports on financial sustainability of universities.
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This is repugnant.
May I also add that no one’s place in history is ‘settled.’ History is not settled.
May I also add that no one’s place in history is ‘settled.’ History is not settled.
The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.
September 26, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is repugnant.
May I also add that no one’s place in history is ‘settled.’ History is not settled.
May I also add that no one’s place in history is ‘settled.’ History is not settled.
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Smile like you mean it, says the skeleton from a 1493 medical broadside from Nuremberg. #bookhistory #skystorians
September 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Smile like you mean it, says the skeleton from a 1493 medical broadside from Nuremberg. #bookhistory #skystorians
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Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 1
Of all published articles, the following were the most read.
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September 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern