Daniel Beaumont

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#medieval #earlymodern #womenshistory #skystorians

So excited to be organising this workshop with the @danielbeaumont.bsky.social and Erin Griffey!! We can’t wait to host you at @aucklanduni.bsky.social

Come one, come all! @amforsyth.bsky.social, Erin Griffey and I can't wait to have you at @aucklanduni.bsky.social!

It's an awesome work! Your discussion of digital reading practices and archives was incredibly helpful as I was wrangling my PhD!

CurAIous? (1) Fundamental Objections to AI This is the first of three posts about the use of generative AI, playing out the arguments against using it, at all, with very limited exceptions. So: you’ve heard about this new ‘gener…

New post (1/3) on the “important reasons to reject most commonly discussed uses of AI” for arts and hums.

Scheduled 2nd post is about all the practical things this tech cant do (THINK, KNOW, inspire, summarize, plan, write etc): open to more suggests
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i have seen the theory that Trump is so obsessed with Greenland because he doesn't understand the Mercator projection and i cannot stop laughing. one hundred percent that's what's going on

2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th

A #CFP for the southern hemisphere's premier #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference - what more could you want for Christmas?! Hosted in Melbourne from 3-5 Dec 2025, our website is now open for paper and panel proposal with a deadline of 14 Feb.

conference.anzamems....

Chat GPT may yet have its uses, but, speaking as a historian interested in how young people learn about the past, it utterly terrifies me. It is a bespoke garbage howitzer

Postdoc Opportunity!

The Dept. of History at UT San Antonio, early modern or modern Europe, 2-year appointment.

Seeks expert who builds upon dept. strengths in transnational histories of empire, borderlands, and migration, though all will be considered.

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Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot

Minister of Science, Innovation and Technology Judith Collins today announced the Government has updated the Marsden Fund to focus on core scientific research that helps lift our economic growth and contributes to science with a purpose. “The Government has been clear in its mandate to rebuild our economy. We are focused on a system that supports growth, and a science sector that drives high-tech, high-productivity, high-value businesses and jobs,” Ms Collins says “I have updated the Marsden Fund Investment Plan and Terms of Reference to ensure that future funding is going to science that helps to meet this goal.” The new Investment Plan focuses on supporting research that can be of economic, environmental or health benefit to New Zealand. The new Terms of Reference outline that approximately 50 per cent of funds will go towards supporting proposals with economic benefits to New Zealand. “The Marsden Fund will continue to support blue-skies research, the type that advances new ideas and encourages innovation and creativity and where the benefit may not be immediately apparent. It is important that we support new ideas which lead to developing new technologies and products, boosting economic growth, and enhancing New Zealand's quality of life,” Ms Collins says. “The focus of the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.

In the most direct statement yet that NZ's hard right government is totally opposed to any research that might challenge the social order they support, they have stripped the Humanities & Social Science panels from the largest fund for innovative research in the country.