My take on Claude’s unbearable, condescending tone lucaspoy.substack.com/p/claude-is-...

Claude is a snob and I often wish it had a face so I could punch it

Talking to Claude feels like a peculiar combination of speaking to the most annoying person at an academic conference and attending a workshop led by a coach your employer has hired to help everyone “...

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𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 is getting close to 3,000 downloads in less than six months! (open access via @uclpress.bsky.social) We present it on Tuesday at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you are in Amsterdam or around, come by!

𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 is getting close to 3,000 downloads in less than six months! (open access via @uclpress.bsky.social) We present it on Tuesday at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social. If you are in Amsterdam or around, come by!

En mayo llegan dos actividades al IISG de Ámsterdam y ambas protagonizadas por mi amigo Lucas Poy. La primera, un diálogo sobre la relación entre Cuba y EEUU. La segunda, la presentación de su libro sobre resistencias de inquilinos en la Historia.

Save the date! 12 May at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social in Amsterdam. Hannes Rolf, Bart van der Steen and I will present Rent Strikes: A History of Collective Tenant Actions Across the World together with Sharon Houkema's exhibition on 1930s Amsterdam. Free entry.

And also historians have a lot to say lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention

AI and the deskilling of academic labour

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Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Since so much of the AI job debate is among economists, they miss that as jobs are disrupted, professions will compete over new boundaries Abbot's System of Professions is a good read on what happens historically. Here is a short cartoon summary by a lizard painted in the style of Egon Schiele

Eric Hobsbawm on E.P. Thompson (published in International Labor and Working-Class History, vol. 46, 1994)

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention

AI and the deskilling of academic labour

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Another really good piece, asking the hard questions right now, exactly because he acknowledges the usefulness of these tools. By @lucaspoy.bsky.social

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention

AI and the deskilling of academic labour

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Great, accessible overview of how deskilling works generally and what it means for academic labor specifically

Lucas Poy@lucaspoy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

Very careful, thought-provoking piece on AI and academic (historical) labour, from the coal-face @lucaspoy.bsky.social

Lucas Poy@lucaspoy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

Generative AI has forced me to think a lot more concretely about all the discrete components of doing historical work - and where the value of those different pieces lie

Lucas Poy@lucaspoy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

A new post on my Substack with some thoughts on the impact of generative AI on academic labour lucaspoy.substack.com/p/if-you-are...

If you are not worried, you are not paying attention

AI and the deskilling of academic labour

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📢 Call for papers in English, Spanish and Portuguese: “Work, Inequality and Democracy”, a special dossier for the Revista Brasileira de História, one of Latin America's leading history journals. Submissions open June 1–19, 2026 (1/5)

Adjusting course manuals for the spring period in times of AI

Thrilled to be in a sunny, snow-blanketed Boston to present my research tomorrow at the Global History Seminar, hosted by Harvard University's @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social Looking forward to a great discussion!

Thrilled to be in a sunny, snow-blanketed Boston to present my research tomorrow at the Global History Seminar, hosted by Harvard University's @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social Looking forward to a great discussion!

Just published in the International Review of Social History @irsh-iisg.bsky.social ! Our article examines the “peripheral inter-nationalism” of Argentine socialism and its relationship with the Internationals between 1889 and the Second World War. In open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

The take-home essay is indeed a thing of the past, we must accept it. lucaspoy.substack.com/p/the-last-d...

The last days of the take-home essay as we knew it

“Not to laugh, not to weep, but to understand”.

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Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 6mo ago

If you haven't yet changed how you teach and evaluate thanks to AI, you probably need to. This is not something that educators asked to happen, but it is worth noting what is out there - in this case an OpenClaw tool designed to cheat.

The call for papers for the European Social Science History Conference is out! It will take place in Lyon on 21-24 April 2027. It is organised by @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social, with thousands of colleagues and lively exchange in many small groups. More info here: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

And Fiona Lane reviews @lucaspoy.bsky.social and @hannesrolf.bsky.social edited book, Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Activism across the World (UCL Press, 2025), doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Considering a History MA in English for next year? Come to Amsterdam and study with us the history of social movements and protest! www.instagram.com/p/DUtMjOlDW2r/

Thanks to Fiona Lane for this generous review of “Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Actions across the World” (co-edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social and edited by @uclpress.bsky.social). The book can be downloaded open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... (more than 2.1k downloads already🤯)

Thanks to Fiona Lane for this generous review of “Rent Strikes: A History of Tenant Actions across the World” (co-edited with @hannesrolf.bsky.social and edited by @uclpress.bsky.social). The book can be downloaded open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... (more than 2.1k downloads already🤯)

Looking for a Master's with a global focus? 🌍 Join us at VU Amsterdam! Our renewed, English-taught, MA History program offers four tracks tackling today's challenges. A repost to help prospective students find this opportunity is much appreciated! 🔄 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #StudyAbroad #History

Just published in the International Review of Social History @irsh-iisg.bsky.social ! Our article examines the “peripheral inter-nationalism” of Argentine socialism and its relationship with the Internationals between 1889 and the Second World War. In open access: doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Looking for a Master's with a global focus? 🌍 Join us at VU Amsterdam! Our renewed, English-taught, MA History program offers four tracks tackling today's challenges. A repost to help prospective students find this opportunity is much appreciated! 🔄 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #StudyAbroad #History

Zo kan het niet langer. Het is niet onze taak als docenten om studenten te vervolgen of te discussiëren over procedures bij de Raad van State (!) We moeten erkennen dat het thuis schrijven van essays niet meer voldoet als bewijs van vaardigheid Ik schreef hierover: www.historici.nl/de-tijd-van-...

NRC@nrc.nl · 7mo ago

Generatieve AI-systemen hebben razendsnel hun weg gevonden in het hoger onderwijs. Universiteiten en hogescholen worstelen met de gevolgen: wat is een diploma waard als je niet zeker weet of het werk van de student zelf komt?

-10° C real feel here in Amsterdam and treacherously slippery, but managed to make the weekly 10 km in a beautifully snowy Vondelpark

The latest issue of Revista Latinoamericana de Trabajo y Trabajadores is out! It includes a special issue on how coloniality has shaped labour relations in the Andean world from the 17th century to the present. All articles in open access, as usual! revista.redlatt.org/issue/view/1...