A.N. Hill

Me, at the dentist’s this morning 😬

Not everyone wins the gold

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fyi, i have a podcast and it's really great and fun. and there are a lot of super-smart people who've been on to talk about not just the Middle Ages but how and why it's studied here in the USA. please give it a listen.

AmericanMedieval.com

I hope you and yours stay safe 🕯️

Congratulations and I’m so happy for you. I’ve experienced that quieting and mentally it’s amazing. Would be great if more research about the impact on addictive thoughts and behaviors could be conducted

Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty's New Volume on Mummy Portraits | Getty News This open-access publication brings together global expertise and groundbreaking research to scholars and the public worldwide.

Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty's New Volume on Mummy Portraits | Getty News
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we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

Thank you!

A black and white tuxedo cat lies on his back on beige patio tile near a screen and a blue ceramic barrel. He is wide-eyed and very cute

#Caturday Cassian in a come hither mood

Loved my MIT Poli-Sci course…

Oooh! Nice choice! Is that a hibiscus flower?

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It’s a true pleasure to observe faculty teaching in my current role. Love seeing veteran part-time instructors guiding students to critical thinking, letting them be the experts in the room, facilitating discussion and discovery. Just an amazing day today

a real genius walks among us

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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Abstract painting with a band blue sandwiched between two bands of golden yellow, the top one thick and the bottom one much thinner. The borders between the colors are rough.

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

The 4 books that make up the exhibition ‘Ukraine From Within’ in the Social Science Library.

‘Ukraine From Within’ is a week-long exhibition at the Social Science Library to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The art books on display celebrate Ukraine’s creativity, diversity, & determination. Find out more at tinyurl.com/mr3hbmcf

@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

A brown dog snoozes on a brown dog bed and a black dog snoozes on a gray round dog bed. Both pass gas freely and generously

Been there, smelled that

Boosting for help!

#hatm any advice on undertaking the writing process for a book. Looking for a mentor

Let's try this again 👋

Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA.

I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Zoomin’ through that decade

News notifications on a cell phone screen that says, “Depression causes shutdown of I-4 westbound in Polk County, deputies say”

Oh I-4, if you’d just gone to therapy maybe this wouldn’t have happened

That sucks so much

47 down, 100+ doses in. Still, it’s an incredible feeling

Being human at work isn’t unprofessional How an email from my dean and a forced office move inspired a days-long crying jag and the discovery that I’m autistic.

What a fantastic, vulnerable, important piece by @liznorell.bsky.social. I cant recommend this enough. For autistic folks, sure, but also for anyone who works with human beings. open.substack.com/pub/engagedl...

Yep, and they lost Athens too later, thanks to groups of women and enslaved people