Dr Milica Prokic

The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...

Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿

Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.

www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...

"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.

This Day in Labor History: September 14, 1889. Black guano workers on Navassa Island rose up and killed five white bosses in an act of desperation in revolt against a racist work regime. Let's talk about conditions of radicalized labor on this American owned island!

Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

This (once) astonishing story signals the extent to which the far right fascist culture of organised violence has been fostered, emboldened and extended by MAGA politics. Disgusting and frightening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaza Global Sumud flotilla attacked again in Tunisia Gaza Flotilla reports another drone attack in Tunisia, on separate vessel to one that was attacked the previous night.

Does anyone think the BBC will report that a ship flying a UK flag was attacked by an unidentified drone last night?
aje.io/e4f7v5?updat...

Bravo the Italian dock workers.
Heroes wear all different kinds of helmets.

Archaeologists digging at Govan Old

Archaeologists digging at Govan Old

Archaeologists digging at Govan Old

⛏️ Digging our 1,500-year-old churchyard!

THIS WEEKEND, University of Glasgow Archaeology and Clyde Archaeology excavate one of the most exciting early medieval sites in Europe, as part of this University of Glasgow field school!

📷 Thanks to Clyde Archaeology for the photographs

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:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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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‘People sleeping while walking’: inside Manston asylum centre in Kent Six staff members speak of new arrivals’ exhaustion and ill-health and colleagues’ indifference to their plight

Shameful. The existence of Manston - and the policies that enable people to be held there - degrade us all.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The Rachel Carson Center just published a virtual exhibition on dunes and coastlines! @envhist @envhum

View upwards in a church towards a row of five beige coloured circular objects of unclear nature, mounted on poles sticking out from the wall above a gallery rail.

I spent last week in Shropshire, and I'd like to share something I saw in the village of Minsterley, just SW of Shrewsbury: maidens' garlands, aka virgins' crowns, aka virgins' crants.

I'd never seen anything like it, and I'd wager many other people haven't either.

Friends! Friends!

It's the THOUSANDS OF WORMS!!!

Look at them!

The Myth of a Wilderness Without Humans For over a century, conflicting views of wild nature created a rift between indigenous people and misguided conservationists.

"They all knew better, the portrayers of wilderness; [Ansel] Adams assiduously avoided photographing any of the local Miwok who were rarely out of his sight as he worked Yosemite Valley. He filled thousands of human-free negatives with land he knew the Miwok had tended for at least 4,000 years."

Working on #EnvironmentalJustice topics in Central and Eastern Europe? Then you might want to send an abstract for the conference 'The Greyzone of the Green Transition' that I'm co-organizing with my colleagues from Sibiu next year in Romania (18-19 May 2026).
Participation is free of charge!

Amid Trump's calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another 7 economists praise Francesca Albanese's report on the Economics of Genocide - ZETEO - Yanis... Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, Nassim Taleb, Jayati Gosh, Michael Hudson,  Giuseppe Mastruzzo, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Robert H. Wade, Christopher Cramer and Nidhi Srinivas co-sign the open letter bel...

Amid Trump’s calls to remove her as UN special rapporteur on Palestine, Varoufakis, Piketty, Gosh & another 7 economists praise Francesca Albanese’s report on the Economics of Genocide www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/07/08/a...

Fantastic topic- would any of the talks be available online?

A poster advertising the event 'Green at Home, Harm Abroad' that will be held on Wed 18 June at the University of Bonn main building from 18-19.30.

I'm very excited to co-host this event by @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social and Christliche Initiative Romero e.V. on Wednesday next week in Bonn at the main @unibonn.bsky.social building. 'Green At Home, Harm Abroad:
Germany's Role in Global Resource Exploitation'. It starts at 18h so come join us!

Title, authors’ names, and abstract from a paper about characterizing ocean literacy in relation to decision-making process literacy

Since 2000, #OceanLiteracy (OL) has evolved to encompass the complexity of #human-ocean relationships. @emmajmckinley.bsky.social & Fradera suggest an alliance of OL with #ProcessLiteracy, i.e., understanding marine mgmt #decision-making, & explore links with spatial justice doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...

You're very welcome- it's the video by the @oneoceanhub.bsky.social, a research program i'm part of, based on Philile Mbatha's research on Kosi Bay Indigenous fishers' knowledge, really fascinating. Thank you for sharing its not-so-distant cousins from the British Isles, I'd love to learn more!

YouTube video by One Ocean Hub Mapping for Justice - customary rights battle within South Africa's first UNESCO World Heritage Site

that's amazing! do you know how old is this fishing tradition? these Welsh fishtraps remind me of their Souther African conunterparts, used by the fishers in Kosi Bay, South Africa for about 700 years. I wonder how the Welsh ones developed and how long for... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTr0...

looking forward to this!

📢 Public event announcement
Get tickets for Glasgow here👇
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thank you so much Marianna ❤️ it was such a joy working on it!

Milica Prokić and Pavla Simkova (eds), Entire of Itself? Towards an Environmental History of Islands | Environment and History If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.

What a joy it is to scroll through the
@eandhwhp.bsky.social
newest issue and see this wonderful review of our book by Joana Gaspar de Freitas!
@pavlasimkova.bsky.social 🌊🏝️🌊
liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Exactly a month since @oneoceanhub.bsky.social visited KaNyaka 🇲🇿 to speak with the islanders about their long ignored traditional #ocean knowledge. Been thinking about Mozambique its islands and other environments, communities, their struggles and resilience since then ❤️💚🖤💛

Hi! another historian of body and environment here- Did a PhD focusing on transcorporeal relationships between prison islands, prisoners' bodies, and forced labour.

🦋We're looking forward to the Exhibit at the MOTH Festival of Ideas from 12 to 14 March New York University Law School.

Join the conversation with Hub’s Director Elisa Morgera and Dylan McGarry where they will be keynote speakers on the 14 March.

Register here -https://tinyurl.com/35r42y98

Amazing! Miss that place so much. Enjoy!

Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland's Stone Age Settlements In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries

"There is an intimate moment when a digger finds something, when it is just them and the object and the hovering ghost of whoever touched it last."
Delighted to write about @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social. Pictures by Kieran Dodds. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/disc...