Sarah-Maria Schober

@smschober.bsky.social

early modern historian, following civet cats and other species - humans included - through time and space, animal resources, racialization of hair, multispecies history / assistant professor , University of Lucerne

Wow, isn't this the best lineup you've ever seen?! Don't be jealous! The programme for our workshop, "Hideous, Invasive, Forgotten: Theorising Uncharismatic Species in Environmental History", is now live! Get in touch if you'd like to take part, I'll be very happy to share participation details

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I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been


Jill Walker Rettberg

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Professor @ Center for Digital Narrative, UiB

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Did you know that even prompting an LLM to edit your grammar might alter the semantic meaning of your text and remove your human voice? If you're in Bergen on Friday September 4 you can hear Isadora White and Marwa Abdulhai present their recent paper on this. They took human-written short essays, asked LLMs to revise them and found significant changes well beyond just copyediting. This is a large-scale computational study, but the image shared here shows two examples of how this happens.

We'll also have talks by John Gallagher, whose newsletter on AI and writing I read religiously, and by Rashid Mustafin, a PhD student at NHH, and Pedro Jacobetty. And before these public talks the AI STORIES team gets to spend two days in a workshop with these and other brilliant people - I'm so excited! 

Here is the full program: https://lnkd.in/eeGUywhj

„Ist er tot“? Fragte meine innere Stimme als ich das Zimmer betrat. Wir waren vor ein paar Sekunden in die Wohnung gekommen. Alle waren in großer Sorge, hatten den Notruf gewählt. Mit Vati stimmte etwas nicht. Als ich das Schlafzimmer betrete liegt Vati auf dem Bauch, quer auf dem Kingsizebett >>

Historiker*innen aufgehorcht: CfA 📢 💜 Es gibt kaum leidig Transepochaleres als Femizid: Die Tötung von Frauen, weil sie Frauen sind. Wir von @revue-traverse.bsky.social sind auf der Suche nach Beiträgen.

H-Soz-Kult@hsozkult.bsky.social · 3mo ago

CFA: féminicide/Femizid https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-163112 Bern, 01.09.2026, traverse. Zeitschrift für Geschichte, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.09.2026 féminicide/Femizid (traverse 1/2028)

🚨Just a week to go until the deadline! 🚨 We've received some really exciting proposals already. If you work on the intersection of #earlymodern crime and religion and have something to offer you really don't want to miss these #RenSA27 panels! 🗃️

Jan Machielsen@janmachielsen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27. The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Had a really interesting conversation with other folks who teach our writing requirement at UB and all of us noted this shift in how students are talking about AI. Not to say we don’t see them still sometimes using it, but something really interesting is afoot. This video is cool validation!

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fucking incredible. Play this for every university administrator in the nation. She says AI is the next “industrial revolution” and all the students BOO loudly. And then when she says “a few years ago, AI was not part of our lives” they all CHEER. She is shocked by their reactions. I am not!!!