@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialthey really are!
@pastpresentsoc.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social2/3 Chris' wife Prof. Leslie Brubaker, his family, and friends, have asked that memorial donations are made to a fund to establishment "Chris Wickham Doctoral Scholarships"
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialjust when you think ebooks can't get any worse
@ef-rome.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social👁️🗨️𝑯𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒂̀ 𝑪𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑾𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒉𝒂𝒎 (1950-2026) rédigé par Laurent Feller sur le #CarnetEFR
Le parcours exceptionnel de l’un des plus grands historiens du Moyen Âge européen, l’originalité de sa démarche et l’ampleur de son œuvre scientifique ➡️ https://efrome.hypotheses.org/13390
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialA new set of studies of 10th-c. Europe just dropped, open access....
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialIncluding details of the fund in his memory "to support PhD scholarships in the social history or material culture of Byzantine Studies (preferably) or early medieval history".
@hagenilda.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialWOOHOO! My copies arrived! You can read it all straightaway, for free, here!
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social"The book currently holds an Amazon ranking of #920,847 in Books. That means a reader would have to read 920,846 other books before reaching yours. Jeez!, that's a long Way!" Steady on, AI-Marketing Spam Emailer!
@kenanmalik.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialIran’s use of mass executions to instil fear of any dissent. The latest case is that of Najmeh Amini, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for taking part in the January protests, and now facing the death sentence for blasphemy: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialLooks super interesting...
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialQuite apart from politics, I'm unsure how current forms of education assessment can handle this.
@helengittos.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialThe apse of the large stone church lurking amidst the forest on the hill.
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialSo many implications, and most of them very bad.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialPas si méconnu, quand même...?
@jimclifford.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialHere is an article looking at this in fiction “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books” arxiv.org/abs/2607.20349
@calthalas.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialHey, come and study history, the explanation of the difference between past(s), records, and history happens already in the first semester! You will be delighted to hear how important crafting the record and forgetting is!
@rlspang.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialIt’s been 12-15 years since I bought anything via Amazon and boy does this thread make me feel even better about that decision
@anneapplebaum.wsocial.euReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialIf Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
@thomashendrickson.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialI saw that one of my students just made a (doctored) L&S-style entry (formatted as if found on @logeiongklat.bsky.social ) for an invented Latin word. What a delight. Behold: flamamammama!
@adapalmer.bsky.socialReposted by @pseudo-isidore.bsky.socialI’m especially frustrated by the piece uncritically repeating Pangram’s “no false positives” claim when I know writer friends who have run their own work through & had it flag their 100% human-written sentences as machine-generated. We must doubt any company’s claim about its product having 0 fails.
