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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓

@burmanphd.bsky.social

Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sometimes I disagree with my colleagues that our students need evermore training in quantitative methods. Because I think there are valuable insights to be had from basic exposure to history, theory, and qualitative methods too. But okay: everyone begins with "correlation does not imply causation."

NPR@npr.org · 3mo ago

Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Archival research is such fun. And it's so valuable. But travelling to the archives themselves, and staying in a hotel, can be extremely expensive. As budgets are being cut, this becomes evermore difficult to manage. So I thought I would ask: which archives do you know provide digitization services?

Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I used the word "moreover" in my history of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology as seen from the perspective of his American patron: the Rockefeller Foundation. That was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. I also used it in my PhD, my MA, and my HonBSc theses research.rug.nl/en/publicati...

Elaine Barlow@thewebrecluse.com · 6mo ago

Matt Prince, an adjunct professor at Chapman University in Southern California, says... “If the word ‘moreover’ shows up in your paper, there is a 99 percent chance that AI has written it.” So first it was the em dash and now it's another perfectly normal word...

Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I gave a presentation yesterday about how we can protect the thesis, in the AI Age, by shifting from a final text to a portfolio; from a product approach to a process approach. And they gave me a quite tasty chocolate bar. Would you like to know more? www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremy...

One of the things I like about doing invited talks at the University of Groningen is that there's always a chocolate treat at the end. Thank you to the Teaching Academy Groningen, University of… |...

One of the things I like about doing invited talks at the University of Groningen is that there's always a chocolate treat at the end. Thank you to the Teaching Academy Groningen, University of Gronin...

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Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10mo ago

"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Important #archive news: "750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs and evidence exhibits from across the total of 13 cases, which between 1945 and 1949 were brought against Nazi military and political leaders held responsible for atrocities against humanity" #history www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project

Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A prof I liked in another department once invited me to TA for their course on "the scientific revolution." Delighted, I laughed and said, "which one?" Their reply has haunted me for nearly twenty years: "That's cute. But it only goes to show that you don't know as much as I thought you did."

Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In last night's vivid dream, I was at SNL pitching a skit for Antony Starr: Homelander is interviewing Vought staff about their loyalty, and tells one of them to eat a basketball. I then demonstrate. First by deflating it. Then by nibbling at the seams. All the producers look horrified: "Yes!"

a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a cross with his arms outstretched ..

Alt: A man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a cross with his arms outstretched, and flies over an adoring crowd

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Alisa Bokulich@alisabokulich.bsky.social · last yr.

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

Cornell University, Society for the Humanities

Job #AJO30301, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · last yr.

The archive where I'm working for the next two weeks has the largest single collection I've ever heard of: 15 shelf-kms! That's almost 50,000 linear feet!! (It's the complete property records going back to the 1820s for the entire province of Noord-Holland, which includes Amsterdam.)

A light skinned man with white hair and beard, and glasses, studies intently without realising that he has accidentally taken his own picture while putting down his phone
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last yr.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · last yr.

When I lived in the middle of nowhere, and the electricity would fail regularly and often (sometimes for many hours), I just went and got a back-up power supply. But how do you do the equivalent with these pseudo-cognitive tools that people are starting to rely on? www.forbes.com/sites/callum...

ChatGPT Went Down—And The Internet Freaked Out

ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, suffered an outage earlier today—and that sent social media into a whirlwind of worried action.

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Christopher Pittard@christopherpittard.bsky.social · last yr.

That Guardian article about AI tanking the graduate job market has an interesting comment from a recruitment consultant saying that the ability to read, write, and form an analysis without using the internet are now "elite skills." Wouldn't it be great if we had degree subjects that teach just that?

Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · last yr.

The first ever "Three Societies Meeting" has ended. It was wonderful to bring together so many scholars and friends to discuss the history of psychology, the history of the behavioral and social sciences, and the history of the human sciences. Let's not wait another sixty years to do it again!

In what felt like record-setting heat, The representatives from the Three Societies (ESHHS, Cheiron, and SHP) open the proceedings at the American Church in ParisThoughts, reminiscences, and thank yous at the dinnerDr Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, president of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association), speaks about AI and education—and his research in digital history that spans the gap between themFriends at the Eiffel Tower
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓@burmanphd.bsky.social · last yr.

Look, this is really getting serious: I need you all to stop publishing such interesting books. I simply can't afford to buy them all. And anyway, I've run out of shelf space. Both at home and at the office. So, please: stop being so clever! (Take a vacation without bringing your laptop!!)