Olga Byrska
@obyrska.bsky.social
PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her 📍Paris/Warsaw/elsewhere
Yet another argument against AI-optimists, painting this technology as curing the cancer. If the Nobel Prize is not enough to avoid dismantling a team in the name of "changing the strategy", what else is left?
Google DeepMind dismantles Nobel-winning AlphaFold team in strategy shift
Landmark project that solved protein folding gives way to a wider race to build AI systems for scientific discovery
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Don’t wanna talk about it more than sharing this post, just pointing out ridiculousness of it all.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last wk.Some people act like a giant blockbuster film that cost a quarter billion and will make more than that is a tiny injured puppy we are not allowed to criticize because having dissenting cultural interpretations is just like kicking that tiny puppy.
And another bitter layer of this tragic event: the victim was Polish. It doesn't make this death any more or less important, but it does make me even sadder, as we Poles still don't enjoy even the most basic rights in our home country.
Olga Byrska@obyrska.bsky.social · last wk.My two cents on #Berlin.
Senior colleagues, apply for the position of a Chair in Intellectual History at my alma mater!
EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2w ago📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
I will also gladly talk to people personally touched by those changes, especially outside of Europe/UK and the US.
Olga Byrska@obyrska.bsky.social · 3w agoDear colleagues in academia, I am preparing to write a long op-ed on the apocalypse in the job cuts of the sector, would you point me to the non-Anglophone and non-Francophone case studies? I am well too-aware of (and impacted by) those cases. My Polish editors and readers will be very grateful!
Curious to see if the cause of death was "cardiac arrest"
Affaire Epstein : Daniel Siad, rabatteur présumé du pédocriminel américain, retrouvé mort chez lui près de Paris
L’homme, âgé de 69 ans, a été retrouvé mort à son domicile de Colombes, dans les Hauts-de-Seine. Visé par plusieurs plaintes, notamment pour viols, ce recruteur de mannequins faisait l’objet d’une enq...
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Senior colleagues, apply for the position of a Chair in Intellectual History at my alma mater!
EUI Department of History@eui-history.bsky.social · 2w ago📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history
Ah, the coolness of the National Library of France (both in the sense of its AC and excellent working conditions) @labnf.bsky.social
Friends and colleagues, will be visiting Brussels for a couple of days at the end of the month. Want to meet up around coffee? Let me know!
Dangerous disiformation campaign targeting Poland and inciting anti-Ukrainian sentiments. The timing is important, as the recent Polish-Ukrainian historical tensions came up once again, and a wave of violence towards Ukrainian citizens - a symptom of how prone to the said propaganda Poles are.
Sven-Erik Volberg@volberg.bsky.social · 2w agoA russian-linked disinformation campaign titled "Voice of Polish Soldiers" (Głos Wojska) is using 100% AI-generated videos of fake troops to spread anti-Ukrainian & anti-EU propaganda on YouTube and TikTok, racking up over 470k views 🧵 1/3 konkret24.tvn24.pl/polska/glos-...
Waking up tomorrow morning I’m expecting to hear on new tariffs put on Spain
Never heard Parisians celebrating the team that isn’t theirs. Well done, Spain!
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
Muppets x Chinese choreo x Seven Nations Army? WHOSE ACOD TRIP IS THIS
Dear colleagues in academia, I am preparing to write a long op-ed on the apocalypse in the job cuts of the sector, would you point me to the non-Anglophone and non-Francophone case studies? I am well too-aware of (and impacted by) those cases. My Polish editors and readers will be very grateful!
Dear colleagues in academia, I am preparing to write a long op-ed on the apocalypse in the job cuts of the sector, would you point me to the non-Anglophone and non-Francophone case studies? I am well too-aware of (and impacted by) those cases. My Polish editors and readers will be very grateful!
