Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

Science Magazine@science.org · 4mo ago

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

Coming to Vancouver for #AAS2026? If travelling light, I highly recommend taking the Skytrain directly from YVR airport to conference site (and nearby hotels). Only $10 CAD, clean, comfortable. Takes only 30 mins and way cheaper than taxi or Uber. 2 zone fare, get off at last stop, 5 min walk.

Two more weeks to apply for this job at my department!

Elke Papelitzky@elkelitzky.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My department is hiring an associate professor in contemporary Chinese politics. Come and join me in Oslo! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

I do not like your AI slop I do not like it, make it stop I do not want an AI house I do not want an AI mouse No AI box. No AI fox— That AI slop can go kick rocks I would not AI here or there I would not AI anywhere No AI car, no AI czar Your AI slop is killing trees I do not like it, let me be!

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:

#PhilJobs #HPS TT Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin AOS: History, Philosophy & Ethics of Science philjobs.org/job/show/30601 Great this job ad explicitly mentions *geosciences* as one of areas of sciences of interest. (I have asked PhilJobs to include a box in this area)

This book is interesting. While it no doubt furthers the case that print had a major impact during the Song dynasty(960 to 1279), when it was adopted by the state and state actors, a couple of areas were completely unexplored. For ex, not a single surviving material text is discussed.

Everyone always proposes this as the answer without understanding that an oral exam requires very different skills than a closely argued research-driven essay. If you want to argue those skills don’t matter, then fine, argue that, but don’t pretend that oral argumentation is identical.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 9mo ago

Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.

My department is hiring an associate professor in contemporary Chinese politics. Come and join me in Oslo! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor of Chinese politics (290742) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor of Chinese politics (290742), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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Do you want to know about experts in Chinese history? How astronomers, artisans, interpreters, servants, sailors, diviners, and surveyors worked? Then check out this special issue edited by Sarah Schneewind and Yang Qiao! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

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A bit more than a week left to apply for this TT job in contemporary Chinese society in Oslo!

Elke Papelitzky@elkelitzky.bsky.social · 12mo ago

My department is hiring! Apply to join me in Oslo :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

Issue 77.1 of @imagomundi.bsky.social is out! I co-edited this issue on Indigenous maps and mapping with Natchee Blu Barnd. Articles cover topics in North America, Africa, and Hawai’i. #newissue #histcart #maphistory #skystorians 🗃️

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Volume 77, Issue 1 of Imago Mundi

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12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).

Planned Research Projects

Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.

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Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182) | University of Oslo

Job title: Tenure-track position in contemporary Chinese society (283182), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, October 27, 2025

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i am going to say something very mean if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem

Wikipedia is hands-down one of the most authoritative, accurate, transparent, & full-cited informational sites in the observable universe, and has been since like 2015. And no, you don’t “use it as a source,” just like you don’t use Google as a “source.” It’s a source of sources. You scroll down…

J H@jpjh88.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Like my college professors on both the undergrad and graduate level, I am not going to take wikipedia as a source. Its no more reliable than asking Chat GPT

Such an excellent book, great to see it out as paperback!

Sara Caputo@saracaputo.bsky.social · last yr.

Paperback day!

Postdoc Opportunity! Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship associated with the ERC-funded project "ECOART" (284675), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

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We just launched the new 7th edition of Wilkinson, this time as a digital-only version but available through Kindle and Apple Books as well as through Pleco. $59.99, or $29.99 if you buy it in Pleco as an upgrade from 5/e or 6/e.

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast emp...

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📣We are delighted to announce that Sara Caputo (@saracaputo.bsky.social) has been appointed as an Editor of The Historical Journal! Caputo is a specialist in maritime history, imperial history and the history of medicine, and we are thrilled that she is lending her expertise to the journal📘

Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2025 ~ Climate cliché alert! "The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study

Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding

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