Will Tullett

tfw you buy Nice Bread from your local Turkish supermarket but then you have to eat all of the Nice Bread and now your body is approximately 50% Nice Bread.

It’s a wonderful thought for a Tuesday morning.

All the boasts in that piece about how little time it took ‘authors’ and ‘researchers’ to produce ‘publishable‘ papers using AI reveals the real reason people are using it to write their work: sheer laziness and lack of imagination, creativity, or the capacity for intellectual hard work.

Per the below, if it’s ‘prejudice’ to believe that academic work should be written by the academic and not generative AI then fine call me prejudiced. If people think AI can produce social science or humanities work better than that they could create themselves then they should quit or be sacked.

In five years we'll still be laughing at this dumbass-take...

preach big E

I had to delete a few posts about how tone deaf this was because I didn’t want to seem intemperate but I am glad other people are pointing this out. Special pleading over a situation that is happening throughout the sector isn’t a good look.

Have deleted my posts because I worried they seemed intemperate or unsympathetic but I can’t help but feel that it is a special type of myopia specific to that individual institution.

So it turns out it’s a whole special section… so if anybody has access and can send all of the articles I’d be very, very, grateful!! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jsh/issu...

Wake Up and Smell the Ammonia: A Gendered History of Smelling Salts in Sport Anders handed me a deteriorating plastic bag with a glass jar nestled inside. I could feel a faint slime on the outside of the bag that, combined with my tired fingers from a prior workout, made it di...

Ooooh this looks great - anybody got access to the .pdf and happy to send me? scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jsh/arti...

Have seen all the jokes re "Operation epic fury" but they are murdering children. Murdering. Children.

*reconstruction

yeah it's really odd (and that experience is definitely at odds with the published discussion, which tends to be pretty critical) - but I wonder whether the smell in particular attracts more negativity than other aspects of the restriction perhaps?

Lotta people today going to need an explainer again on how it’s possible to dislike a regime but also quite like international law actually thank you very much.

sorry this is too hot a take for me.

(3/3) Without sounding like a massive self-plugging git, I am genuinely looking forward to my research article on Jorvik’s smells coming out in August this year in The Public Historian. Hoping it will shift the conversation a bit.

(2/3) Jorvik did something pioneering (as this piece notes) and interesting with smell, that was in fact based on research, and has been received in nuanced ways by audiences. But all academics ever do is describe it quite pejoratively (as in this piece) as theatrical atmospherics.

T rex breath and Queen Elizabeth’s car: scientists creating ‘time machine for the nose’ Researchers are recreating ancient odours for museumgoers as interest in the archaeology of smell grows

(1/3) Interesting piece here on Barbara Huber and Cecilia Bembibre‘s fantastic work from Nicola Davis - who has been great at covering smelly research. However, I do feel a bit sorry for Jorvik as the rhetorical whipping boy for both supporters and opponents of the use of smell in museums.

Some of you may be celebrating the Green by-election win. But spare a thought for the PM’s son, who is now going to be forced to do a lot of drugs.

Everybody will say old books but let’s be honest the smell (unless you’re in the Borthwick) is more likely to be off-gassing carpets, cleaning fluids, somebody’s lunch, and undergraduate-deadline-induced fear sweat.

but how many cups?

Ikr 😂

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(2/2)... textiles died with such dyes (e.g mauveine) did not smell either because the dye itself did not smell thanks to the reactions involved that turned aniline into the dye or subsequent washing of the fabric before turning it into clothing etc. Anybody think this is right?

(1/2) Textiles historians... I am trying to think through what textiles dyed with aniline dyes in the second half of the nineteenth century would have smelled like. Despite aniline's fishy smell in its raw form my reading so far would seem to indicate (by absence of refs to smell)...

That feeling when you're trying to follow up a claim in a book by an academic and you're pretty sure they've cadged it from wikipedia or similar because you can't find any reference to it in the source it's supposed to be from...

A bit galling, to say the least...

Thanks! Think somebody else has managed hopefully but appreciate you trying!

thank you!!!!!!