Peter Schoppert
@psmedia.asia
Running a university press in Singapore at https://nuspress.nus.edu.sg. Tracking the legal uncertainty around AI training since October 2022 at https://aicopyright.substack.com. Other stuff at https://psmedia.asia.
Reposted by Peter Schoppert
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
@nuspress.bsky.social is hiring in Singapore. We're looking for a marketing and comms person to join our small team. See our LinkedIn page for details - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
NUS Press hiring Marketing and Communications Manager in Singapore | LinkedIn
Posted 3:11:38 AM. NUS Press, the university press publishing arm of the National University of Singapore, seeks a…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
@nuspress.bsky.social is hiring in Singapore. We're looking for a marketing and comms person to join our small team. See our LinkedIn page for details - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...
Reposted by Peter Schoppert
NUS Press mourns the passing of our author John Miksic, renowned archaeologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at NUS.
Read more: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/blogs/news/i...
Read more: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/blogs/news/i...
October 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
NUS Press mourns the passing of our author John Miksic, renowned archaeologist and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at NUS.
Read more: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/blogs/news/i...
Read more: nuspress.nus.edu.sg/blogs/news/i...
On my way to the annual conference of @shothisttech.bsky.social, on the train to Luxembourg. Feeling with the train announcer (very kindly in English), I am at your disponsible !
October 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
On my way to the annual conference of @shothisttech.bsky.social, on the train to Luxembourg. Feeling with the train announcer (very kindly in English), I am at your disponsible !
Rephrasing is a great synthetic data strategy, but it doesn't solve AI's copyright problem. And I spend some time with the writing is just fossil fuel for AIs metaphor. The latest substack.
Synthetic data is derivative data
or why we are all fracked
open.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Rephrasing is a great synthetic data strategy, but it doesn't solve AI's copyright problem. And I spend some time with the writing is just fossil fuel for AIs metaphor. The latest substack.
For a great jargon-free walkthrough of how STS (Science and Technology Studies) approaches help us understand how to think about new technology, see David Runciman's interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social on "The history of bad ideas: value-free tech".
The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech
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July 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
For a great jargon-free walkthrough of how STS (Science and Technology Studies) approaches help us understand how to think about new technology, see David Runciman's interview of @shannonvallor.bsky.social on "The history of bad ideas: value-free tech".
Chewing on the recent court decisions on copyright and AI training in the latest newsletter. Some bitterness, but much that is very tasty indeed... good to see the collective intelligence of the legal system beginning to operate here...
This inapt analogy...
...is not a basis for blowing off the most important factor in the fair use analysis
open.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Chewing on the recent court decisions on copyright and AI training in the latest newsletter. Some bitterness, but much that is very tasty indeed... good to see the collective intelligence of the legal system beginning to operate here...
Do you want a great 15-minute update on infectious disease outbreaks around the world? Concise, no nonsense? And paired with a discussion w/ experts (& @nuspress.bsky.social authors) Daniel Bausch and Kishore Mahbubani on prospects for global public health? It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05El...
Outbreaks: Updates and Analyses – The Changing Global Health Architecture
YouTube video by NUS Medicine
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June 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Do you want a great 15-minute update on infectious disease outbreaks around the world? Concise, no nonsense? And paired with a discussion w/ experts (& @nuspress.bsky.social authors) Daniel Bausch and Kishore Mahbubani on prospects for global public health? It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=05El...
So sorry not to be attending AAS-in-Asia this year in person... missing plenty of @nuspress.bsky.social authors...
Day 3 of @asianstudies.org #AASInAsia2025 features authors including Elliott Prasse-Freeman (@epf.bsky.social) and Hsiu-hua Shen on a variety of panels!
Find their books and more at 20% off in our conference book list. Browse now: buff.ly/uZN466v 📚
#asianstudies #myanmar #laos #thailand #singapore
Find their books and more at 20% off in our conference book list. Browse now: buff.ly/uZN466v 📚
#asianstudies #myanmar #laos #thailand #singapore
June 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
So sorry not to be attending AAS-in-Asia this year in person... missing plenty of @nuspress.bsky.social authors...
Was very glad to be able to spend time at the Gongs-Smoke-B lood-Earth show at Ateneo Art Gallery. It is an extension of the Tiw-Tiwong Uncyclopedia which @nuspress.bsky.social distributes ex-Philippines. Enjoyed meeting these Ateneo student looking at the book & discussing their work.
May 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Was very glad to be able to spend time at the Gongs-Smoke-B lood-Earth show at Ateneo Art Gallery. It is an extension of the Tiw-Tiwong Uncyclopedia which @nuspress.bsky.social distributes ex-Philippines. Enjoyed meeting these Ateneo student looking at the book & discussing their work.
Full house for the first panel on “regionalist and other decolonising perspectives: honouring T.K. Sabapathy…” at #ForArtHistory2025 @forarthistory.org.uk
April 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Full house for the first panel on “regionalist and other decolonising perspectives: honouring T.K. Sabapathy…” at #ForArtHistory2025 @forarthistory.org.uk
We just launched a nifty new map-based interface for the @nuspress.bsky.social #openaccess repository of Southeast Asian archaeological site reports. (Yes, it was vibe-coded…)
March 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We just launched a nifty new map-based interface for the @nuspress.bsky.social #openaccess repository of Southeast Asian archaeological site reports. (Yes, it was vibe-coded…)
You go @alexreisner.bsky.social ! ‘Worse, generative-AI chatbots are presented as oracles that have “learned” from their training data … This decontextualizes knowledge… and makes it harder for writers and researchers to build a reputation and engage in healthy intellectual debate.’
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
You go @alexreisner.bsky.social ! ‘Worse, generative-AI chatbots are presented as oracles that have “learned” from their training data … This decontextualizes knowledge… and makes it harder for writers and researchers to build a reputation and engage in healthy intellectual debate.’
Ida Pfeiffer is much less known in the anglophone world than she should be... a pioneering woman traveller. Alfred Wallace followed in her footsteps in travelling throught the Malay Archipelago. Learn more about Ida in the BBC's Human Intelligence with @nuspress.bsky.social author John van Wyhe.
BBC Radio 4 - Human Intelligence, Travellers: Ida Pfeiffer
A 19th-century solo female traveller who opened up the idea of travel for everyone.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Ida Pfeiffer is much less known in the anglophone world than she should be... a pioneering woman traveller. Alfred Wallace followed in her footsteps in travelling throught the Malay Archipelago. Learn more about Ida in the BBC's Human Intelligence with @nuspress.bsky.social author John van Wyhe.
The journey to #AAS2025 starts soon! ... if anyone attending would like to have a chat about manuscripts, books, publishing ideas, digital humanities projects, etc, find a time here, or look for me at @nuspress.bsky.social Booth 318.
Association for Asian Studies - 2025 Annual Meeting - Peter Schoppert
Hi - if you'd like to schedule a meeting to chat with Peter Schoppert, Director of NUS Press, please book a meeting here.
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March 8, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The journey to #AAS2025 starts soon! ... if anyone attending would like to have a chat about manuscripts, books, publishing ideas, digital humanities projects, etc, find a time here, or look for me at @nuspress.bsky.social Booth 318.
Spent some time using Perplexity Pro's Deep Research function today. Handling my first query reasonably well, with links to sources, but it hallucinated like mad on my follow up question, confidently presenting gov't programmes that didn't exist, BCG reports and AWS White Papers never published etc
February 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Spent some time using Perplexity Pro's Deep Research function today. Handling my first query reasonably well, with links to sources, but it hallucinated like mad on my follow up question, confidently presenting gov't programmes that didn't exist, BCG reports and AWS White Papers never published etc
Relevance of The Nutmeg’s Curse from @amitav.bsky.social just seems to be growing four years after publication…
February 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Relevance of The Nutmeg’s Curse from @amitav.bsky.social just seems to be growing four years after publication…
The AI culture wars: @deepseek.bsky.social says Kimchi is a Chinese thing in Chinese, and was a Korean invention in Korean. I would bet this is a straight-up reflection of its training data rather than a result of post-training, but here we go…
Kimchi row sparks claims Chinese AI app DeepSeek swayed to not upset Beijing or Seoul
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has also accused DeepSeek of ‘excessively’ collecting personal data
www.standard.co.uk
February 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The AI culture wars: @deepseek.bsky.social says Kimchi is a Chinese thing in Chinese, and was a Korean invention in Korean. I would bet this is a straight-up reflection of its training data rather than a result of post-training, but here we go…
“More than a compilation of knowledge, this is a road map to the future…” Sylvie Briand at launch of Infectious Disease Emergencies.
February 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“More than a compilation of knowledge, this is a road map to the future…” Sylvie Briand at launch of Infectious Disease Emergencies.
I totally disagreed with @archive.org’s digital library land grab, but totally understand that the current crisis shows how important is their effort to archive websites, like those of the US government…
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I totally disagreed with @archive.org’s digital library land grab, but totally understand that the current crisis shows how important is their effort to archive websites, like those of the US government…
I have tried to avoid it but I too have thoughts on DeepSeek...
Φασαρία on the road to Paris
In which I find that while DeepSeek is super-optimised and amazing to use, it also seems to rely — sigh! — on a million pirated books...
open.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have tried to avoid it but I too have thoughts on DeepSeek...
The review by @profdevisridhar.bsky.social of Infectious Disease Emergencies in @thelancet.bsky.social makes clear that the toughest issues are societal: "infectious disease preparedness and response are increasingly both technical and social and ethical issues." How best to address the latter two?
Preparing for the next pandemic
In a clinic in Guinea, a community health worker is puzzled by the number of people
in a village becoming severely ill and reports this to their superior, who notifies
the Ministry of Health about the...
www.thelancet.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The review by @profdevisridhar.bsky.social of Infectious Disease Emergencies in @thelancet.bsky.social makes clear that the toughest issues are societal: "infectious disease preparedness and response are increasingly both technical and social and ethical issues." How best to address the latter two?
"Crucial reading for people at all career stages in public health as well as policy makers" The review of our Infectious Disease Emergencies textbook/handbook in Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (free w/ registration).
Preparing for the next pandemic
In a clinic in Guinea, a community health worker is puzzled by the number of people
in a village becoming severely ill and reports this to their superior, who notifies
the Ministry of Health about the...
www.thelancet.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"Crucial reading for people at all career stages in public health as well as policy makers" The review of our Infectious Disease Emergencies textbook/handbook in Lancet (www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... (free w/ registration).
This webinar series was an informational lifeline during the COVID-19 outbreak. When @nuspress.bsky.social Press got the chance to work with this team as publisher, we jumped at it. Now rebranded as "Outbreaks: Updates and Analyses". Check out the first episode of season three.
Outbreaks: Updates and Analyses - MPox, COVID, and more
YouTube video by NUS Medicine
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
This webinar series was an informational lifeline during the COVID-19 outbreak. When @nuspress.bsky.social Press got the chance to work with this team as publisher, we jumped at it. Now rebranded as "Outbreaks: Updates and Analyses". Check out the first episode of season three.