Moa Ekbom

Bild på avhandlingen Doubles and Troubles: Dissimulation and Ambiguity in the Writings of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette and Madame de Villedieu. av Sofia Warkander

Imorgon fredag ska jag på disputation för den vackraste avhandlingen i mannaminne!

Alla säger ergonomi men ingen frågar sig quid nomi?

I'm not on here much, but I am so excited to share the cover of my forthcoming Catullus translation, featuring an amazing painting by Eduardo Mata Icasa (called "Nature of Emptiness"). As soon as I saw the painting, I knew no other work of art could more perfectly capture how I think about Catullus.

Den svunna sophögens svårtydda visdomar - Respons Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos, redigerad av regissören Karl Dunér, är ett sällsamt allkonstverk. Det är sällan en fackbok kan läsas på så olika vis, skriver Respons recensent Moa Ekbom.

Har skrivit i Respons om ljuvliga Sophögen i Oxyrhynchos, men även en del om Fragglarna. Det är en bok med fart, fläkt & färg (i vårt Fraggelberg).
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
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We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Varför den är bildsatt m Nicole Kidman i floppfilmen Steglitsan är ett mysterium

THERESE BOHMAN: Här framstår elitism som det sexigaste Donna Tartts kultförklarade ”Den hemliga historien” är föremål för en ny antologi. Therese Bohman fördjupar sig i romanens alla trollbindande aspekter.

Vår antologi fick en UNDERBAR läsning i Expressen!

"Även om jag inte formulerade det då, tänkte mitt tonårsjag att om det finns andra som läst och älskat denna bok, finns det hopp om att även jag skulle kunna bli förstådd och älskad."

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Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra

Mosaic of the God Oceanus in Petra https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/mosaic-of-the-god-oceanus-in-petra-550

Det där med kafferprenumerationer vid kafékedja försvann VÄLDIGT snabbt? Höll inte när man räknade på det? Råvarupriser? Konsumenterna nappade ej?

Ping @ellenbre.bsky.social !!!

Vilken dag som helst kommer min essä "Kaffet i Tartts romaner - mörker, blask och katalysator"

Och om snabbkaffe äter jag det hellre i pulverform, tbh

Eller så flyttar man till ITALIEN och promenerar ner till sin lokala bar för en PERFEKT kopp.

Känner att vi har möjlighet till ett nytt penicillin här?

*tröttma

Satte mokabryggaren på spisen utan vatten i pga tröttna och visserligen blev det liksom en slags trevlig liksom kafferökelse men nu är den för varm att skruva isär och allt är misär

Är inte med i artikeln tyvärr, men vet ALLT om Dark Academia ju!

IDAG!!

Mosaic depicts five warriors. The left-most figure appears to be able to throw a javelin with his shield raised in his other hand. He is seemingly watched by three others who stand ready but not about to throw anything. A fifth figure can be seen about to take action though the nature of the action is not clear.

Hector for #MosaicMonday?

Very little is known about this mosaic including the provenance, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers a tentative date of C1st–C2nd CE and the tantalising hint that this may be part of a Trojan War cycle depicting Hector.

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #TrojanWar

Lullingstone Roman Villa is a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain, situated in Lullingstone near the village of Eynsford in Kent, south-eastern England. The villa is located in the Darent Valley, along with six others, including those at Crofton, Crayford and Dartford. Constructed in the 1st century, perhaps around AD 80–90, the house was repeatedly expanded and occupied until it was destroyed by fire in the 4th or 5th century. The villa was occupied over various periods within the Romano-British period, but after its destruction, it is only thought to have been reoccupied during the medieval period. The occupants were most likely wealthy Romans or native Britons who had adopted Roman customs.

#MosaicMonday

As we move into Winter proper. A final look at summer 👀

Lullingstone floor mosaic depicts the mythical figure of Summer wearing a garland of corn.

#AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Har en rätt strikt en-in-en ut-policy för att inte bli överhopad.

SvD, Essä, Flamman, Etc, 20tal, LRB

Kudos to Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki for having obtained red hats simultaneously from Pope Eugene IV and Antipope Felix V, top work

Den 8 oktober kommer bli episkt!!

Visste ni att Edgar Mannheimer och Kristofer Folkhammar är TVÅ OLIKA PERSONER?

En insikt på denna bokmässan sladdag.

Det enda sättet att hålla isär dagarna på bokmässan är genom de varierande färgerna på Jonas Ellerströms kavajer.

"Malte Persson ersätter" är det nya "Looptroop ersätter"

Den SORTENS människor som går runt med GIGANTISK ryggsäck på det KNÖKADE mässgolvet. Det sanna åsykopat-testet.