ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
time.com/7295195/ai-c...
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A safety manual for academics visiting America - Research Professional News
Petra Boynton looks at what advice UK universities should give US-bound researchers and students
"UK academics...need guidance on how to avoid bringing US-based colleagues unwanted attention, risk or danger. Even tagging people in social media comments, or careless comments in text messages or emails, could make them unsafe." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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The illustration is from French engineer Leopold Bourdin's "universal umbrella project" meant for the Universal Exposition in 1900.
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This Friday I, megalomanically, am speaking to the world through the medium of Zoom.
If piqued, one can register here: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLS...
Hope to see some familiar faces!
21.04.2025 12:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.
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14 of my publications -- basically everything I've ever thought or written-- went into AI training datasets without my consent or knowledge
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Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris by David H. Pinkney
A classic history of the creation of modern Paris by Napoleon III and Haussmann.
David H. Pinkney's Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris is now available in a new edition.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Detail from a map of the A23a iceberg's progress since being calved in 1986; after 30 years stuck on the seafloor it made rapid progress in 2022-2023 but rotated on a water column for 8 months and has now run aground off South Georgia. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d1xp6046o
typical book project timeline
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Reading Hsuan Hsu’s wonderful AIR CONDITIONING (2024). Hsu poses an interesting rewrite of Descartes: ‘I THINK IN A STOVE-HEATED ROOM, THEREFORE I AM’ / ‘I THINK MY MIND IS INDISTINCT, THEREFORE I AM IN A CLIMATE-CONTROLLED ROOM.’
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The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is a professional society of scholars from around the globe. #INCSA |
CNCSI Partner | https://linktr.ee/IN_CSA
Tutor in French at the University of Warwick. Environmental approaches to Franco-Italian cultural connections - esp. Naples / Paris. Writing a book on Matilde Serao and Emile Zola. Planning a project on urban disasters.
English Prof. Oil (Bloomsbury, Object Lessons series), Oil! (Penguin), The Physics of Possibility (U of Virginia)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/oil-9781501386626/
Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol (UK). #envhums
https://environmentalhumanities.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Aarhus University-based research center dedicated to understanding the influence of artificial intelligence on text culture. Learn more here: https://arts.au.dk/en/text.
Writer and former English professor. Author of *The Ecological Plot: How Stories Gave Rise to a Science* (Virginia 2024). Death positive. Interested in animals, environments, and all things Victorian.
C.Y. Frostholm. Author, artist, 🌳🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚 Træmuseet (2018), Til den ven jeg aldrig har kendt (2023), The Laurel Dialogues (2025)
www.cyf.dk
Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
art, architecture, and media historian
incoming postdoc @ Lauder Center, Met
incoming Asst Prof @ Hunter College, CUNY
thinking about modernism, ecology, queer surrealism
http://aleksazivkovic.com
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦; lives in York
Housed by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, at Oxford University.
Webpage: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/environmental-humanities-research-hub?filter-4-event%20type-4780496=2s
Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology
Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Director of UTSC Institute for Environment &
Sustainability in Toronto. Energy Transition, Energy Humanities, Social Change. Author most recently of *Futures of the Sun*
International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany.
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/
Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/
Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New book: Scarcity with Carl Wennerlind (Harvard 2023). Next: Britain's fossil transition 1760-1870 and, with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
