Peter T. Evans

absolute gem!

once again, i feel compelled to remind academics that when you use theories, methods, and epistemologies of the marginalized but treat your marginalized colleagues and students like shit: you are the problem. and yeah, we see you.

So I'm considering doing a semi-open review for rough chapters of my new writing project. I don't want to put the whole thing online for reasons. Instead, I am thinking of asking for volunteers to read individual chapters and provide structured feedback through a questionnaire.

What do you think?

@vanlinduist.bsky.social, this made me think of you.

Oh great! I can't wait to listen to it once it's released. Hopefully you'll share a link here when it comes out?

Oh wonderful! Yes, I thought you might know one another. I've used his work in some of my research (sadly, I only "discovered" you after it was submitted! ☹️). I'd noticed the distinction in your lines of work, but that makes the contributions all the richer.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game.

Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era.

The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Do you engage at all with the work of Marius Dorobantu in Amsterdam? Seems like the two of you could have some great conversations.

Herzlichen Dank!

This is a big ask:

I'm the author of popular Python books and currently writing a book on AI and learning to program. Is anyone willing to export their ChatGPT etc accounts so I can see the raw prompts they give? All privacy and judgement-free accommodation given. DM me.

Screen shot of title page of a preprint. Title: Should generative AI be used in reflexive qualitative research? Authors: Elida Izani Ibrahim, Laura K. Nelson, and Andrea Voyer

Recent publications arguing against the use of genAI in reflexive qual research inspired us (Elida Ibrahim and @andreavoyer.bsky.social) to write our own perspective. Not to convince anyone to use genAI but for those who might be interested and are looking for guidance.

osf.io/preprints/so...

This sounds like an excellent contribution! I'm saving the paper to read in a couple of weeks (by which point I *should have* turned in my thesis). Thanks for sharing this with us.

Thumbs pressed!

Any doctoral student or early career scholar want to give an online guest lecture on Marcion (preferably) or second century Christianity (but not gnosticism) more broadly?

I think I can offer you a $100 stipend for a 45 minute talk. Needs to be MWF 10-1050.

Just checked a paragraph from my thesis and glad to confirm that it was "100% human generated" 😅. I sometimes worry because I am a prolific em-dash user (carryover from being a history minor in undergrad)

[embarrassed to say I'd never heard of this, but will use it regularly from now on. thanks!]

I followed the link and read some of the longer piece and see what you mean (honestly, it felt like a lot of the more recent LinkedIn posts I see when I get on LI). Good reminder to regularly read my favourite authors and imitate *their* style.

Hey math friends: is the name of Richard Kadison (prominent operator algebra theorist beginning in the 1950s), or any of the things named after him, still well-known?

Do you think the screenshot you posted is AI-generated text? How do/don't you know? [this is an honest question; I don't spend a ton of time engaging with AI-chatbots to have a feel for their output]

Consider submitting a paper to the session I am organizing at ASA this year on “Comparative-Historical Sociology and Computational Social Science.” The submission deadline is February 25.

I would absolutely become a subscriber to that

Yes please! I would love to read this.

very nice! (although I admit that sometimes I wish I'd know you back in your digital humanities days...)

@mariaa.bsky.social and I have been building a custom client that we'd like to make public in the near-term BUT we want to make sure we've gotten the security right. Anyone with some expertise open to helping us out a bit?

I think a little piece just died inside of me…

if you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Dr. Who", or "Transformers.”

Thought you might appreciate her. You’ve got this!

If you’re in Iceland today, you have to stop by Harpa for UTmessan!

The real magic is happening upstairs with the universities—we’re talking VR, 3D scanners, and interactive sims.The tech companies downstairs could honestly take some notes! Definitely don’t miss the @mshl-cdha.bsky.social stand.

@jmiers230.bsky.social , this made me think of you and how you use your voice. Maybe this can an encouragement to you.