Sarah Bull
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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
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
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
November 11, 2025 at 6:47 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…)
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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
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
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)
November 10, 2025 at 10:36 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 +
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Ours always seem to disappear too!
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I think some of it is probably exhaustion, too. A lot of us are very tired.
November 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Haha, yes — wow, these bicycle illustrations are terrific!
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM