Can anyone out there recommend a good article for students on how to annotate readings?
Thiago Krause
@thiagokrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
“I continued to meet with the stream of A.I. vendors, all promising their tools would be game changers. Collectively, the hordes introduced chaos into teams already stretched thin.” Good piece on the messiness and hype of AI implementation.
Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. The A.I. Revolution Is a Hot Mess.
The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.
nytimes.com
Here @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social hits even harder. She’s mostly on point, but also asks too much of a middlebrow movie.
A Trojan Horse Is Supposed to Have Humans Inside It
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is full of contradictions about deceit and violence.
theatlantic.com
The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.
John Carter Brown Library@jcblibrary.bsky.social · 2d agoCall For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Clearly AI is proving useful in advanced mathematics. But to what degree and of what import remains hazy to me. This article provides a nice entry point into the latest developments.
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2d agoOn Saturday, OpenAI announced solutions to three Erdős problems. These solutions, along with May’s high-profile counterexample to the “unit distance” problem, are quickly changing how mathematicians approach their work. @kkakaes.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-lege...
I have one last slot for the 2026-2027 NNI Scholars Seminar - it's in October. Any historians, art historians, literature folks, etc., have anything Dutch Atlantic that they want feedback on?
Dear hivemind, can anyone with access to Dutch Pamphlets Online get me a copy of this one? Knuttel 6475. Copie translaet uyt het Portogijs, waerin verhaelt wort de Vrede dewelcke ghemaeckt is tusschen de onderdanen vanden koningh van Hispanien... (1649) www.degruyterbrill.com/database/dup...
Reporters use AI to search through thousands or tens of thousands of relatively similar documents: SEC actions, diary entries, emails. Clearly relevant to some historical research, but less so for teaching undergraduates, whom we first must train to understand even individual sources.
Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · 2d agoEight Pulitzer Prize awardees — 5 winners and 3 finalists — acknowledged using AI in their reporting process this year. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...
"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)
Pretty interesting piece on the current traits of LLM-generated text, including how it (mostly) evolved from its addiction to em-dashes.
How to spot AI writing
Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?
economist.com
Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
arxiv.org
To the risk of being cancelled here on Bluesky, I'm sharing an interview with @leotranscribes.bsky.social on using LLMs in historical research. I hope to have sufficiently highlighted the necessary precautions. Glad to read your thoughts on the matter!
Thiago Krause on HTR, AI Agents and Archival Discovery
A historian working across 100+ archives on how HTR and AI agents surface documents no catalogue indexes — and why he now reads more manuscripts, not fewer.
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"Mis libros (que no saben que yo existo) son tan parte de mi como este rostro de sienes grises y de grises ojos que vanamente busco en los cristales y que recorro con la mano cóncava. No sin alguna lógica amargura pienso que las palabras esenciales que me expresan están en esas hojas ...
This has been one of the weirdest parts of the Democratic Senate primary here. Granted, I'm not a native English speaker nor a Michigander, but Stevens doesn't have a particularly pronounced accent, nor basically any Michigander I've ever met? Or my ears are just not attuned to these differences?
How Haley Stevens’s Accent Became a Flashpoint in Michigan’s Senate Race
How the politics of raised a’s and disappearing g’s briefly came to dominate the Michigan Senate race.
nytimes.com
very interesting from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com - cross-over in graph on left coincides precisely with Global Financial Crisis www.ft.com/content/6a35...
Very well-written and with wonderfully vivid quotations, @carriegibson.bsky.social ! Congrats. Just asked my library to buy it so I can recommend it to students.
The fundamental, delicious paradox of studying history is that: 1. These people are radically different from me, and I may never properly understand them. 2. These people are exactly like me.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last wk.one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon
This is absolutely nuts - but it explains why their ads are ubiquitous.
Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune
Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.
fortune.com
“Students seem unable to resist the ease that L.L.M.s provide them to wrestle with and craft the construction of their ideas, and are incapable of tolerating the discomfort of searching for language when language can be produced for them.“ Not just students, but the author has a point here.
Opinion | If You’re Over 40, You’re Ready to Use A.I. (Gift Article)
A.I. should work like this mystical Jewish practice.
nytimes.com
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
lrb.co.uk
It is extraordinary how much better Sol is than Terra. One of my Codex tasks is visual triage - let Codex trawl through hundreds of thousands of manuscript images I`d never have time to go through looking for the needles in haystacks - and Sol goes on forever, while Terra needs constant nudging.
"I've got a great campaign written, I just can't get a group together" is the peak D&D experience.
IGN@ign.com · 2w agoDungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves co-director Jonathan Goldstein says the script for a sequel already exists, but he's not expecting it to see the light of day any time soon. https://bit.ly/4bIsrNA #SDCC
“The challenge today is to grasp that the wolf of truly radical change is actually arriving, in a new and comprehensive sense.” - @adamtooze.bsky.social
Chartbook 461: Polycrisis & nostalgia for lost futures.
There are few things that generate nostalgia quite like a lost future.
adamtooze.substack.com
French and British historians: coucou! novice q! Was there significant discourse about the urgent importance of domestic economic integration (within the UK and within l'Hexagone), circa 1840s-1870s? Trying to compare to their colonial policy. 🗃️ any leads welcome. 🙏
I’m reading the English updated edition of Alencastro’s “The Trade in the Living,” and it is fascinating how he thoroughly updated a book that was already of the best works of Colonial Brazilian history ever. I first read it in my first year of college, and have reread it many times since, but…
Excellent interview! @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social is very eloquent both about how difficult translation actually is (which resonates with me, even though my only experience is translating my own work!) and as an analysis of Homeric poem and its relation to the movie.
What Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey'
Plain English with Derek Thompson · Episode
open.spotify.com
Extraordinarily interesting story about “shadow libraries.”
The race to collect every book ever written
When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution
ft.com
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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