Sarah Bull
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in histories of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches
Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE
Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE
I am also finishing an article that is hopefully not garbage, but your brilliant book is cited in it!
November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I am also finishing an article that is hopefully not garbage, but your brilliant book is cited in it!
Reposted by Sarah Bull
As I wrote this, I was like what sort of fucking historian are you, GO AND FIND OUT (even if it from the lies people tell in local newspapers)
ALLEGEDLY, it is so named because a thief hid some liquor in a pond there (!) and thus escaped EXECUTION
ALLEGEDLY, it is so named because a thief hid some liquor in a pond there (!) and thus escaped EXECUTION
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
As I wrote this, I was like what sort of fucking historian are you, GO AND FIND OUT (even if it from the lies people tell in local newspapers)
ALLEGEDLY, it is so named because a thief hid some liquor in a pond there (!) and thus escaped EXECUTION
ALLEGEDLY, it is so named because a thief hid some liquor in a pond there (!) and thus escaped EXECUTION
Yeah, I’m perfectly fine with no drinking, but the tone is, uh, something.
(This is new - like, we’ve always had expense guidelines but someone new appears to be writing them this year…)
(This is new - like, we’ve always had expense guidelines but someone new appears to be writing them this year…)
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yeah, I’m perfectly fine with no drinking, but the tone is, uh, something.
(This is new - like, we’ve always had expense guidelines but someone new appears to be writing them this year…)
(This is new - like, we’ve always had expense guidelines but someone new appears to be writing them this year…)
Whoever is writing these policies lately really has it in for fun, or the appearance of fun, even if it’s free.
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Whoever is writing these policies lately really has it in for fun, or the appearance of fun, even if it’s free.
But long-term habituation to one user's perspective could also, uh, make them vulnerable to believing in the user's false beliefs, no?
November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
But long-term habituation to one user's perspective could also, uh, make them vulnerable to believing in the user's false beliefs, no?
context from interactions with the user, I would think — not a short window like a single chat.
(It would be neat if this also isn't a problem after all — hmm)
(It would be neat if this also isn't a problem after all — hmm)
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 PM
context from interactions with the user, I would think — not a short window like a single chat.
(It would be neat if this also isn't a problem after all — hmm)
(It would be neat if this also isn't a problem after all — hmm)
This opens up all kinds of questions about models and expertise and what trust means in a scientific context for me — e.g. the bigger challenge, I think, would be for a model to distinguish between someone with false beliefs and someone with access to more facts than they have. It would need a lot +
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This opens up all kinds of questions about models and expertise and what trust means in a scientific context for me — e.g. the bigger challenge, I think, would be for a model to distinguish between someone with false beliefs and someone with access to more facts than they have. It would need a lot +
Ours always seem to disappear too!
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Ours always seem to disappear too!
I think some of it is probably exhaustion, too. A lot of us are very tired.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think some of it is probably exhaustion, too. A lot of us are very tired.
Haha, yes — wow, these bicycle illustrations are terrific!
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Haha, yes — wow, these bicycle illustrations are terrific!