A little late on this, but this is an excellent review of Nationalizing History by @smunozar.bsky.social, who put me in conversation with María de los Ángeles Picone (@mapicone.bsky.social), Heather Roller, John Soluri, Juliet Wiersema, and Jeffrey Erbig.
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“Vision Language Models don’t just make transcription faster or cheaper - they will (hopefully) expand the kinds of sources we can access and work with”
Very good post by @cblevins.bsky.social that perfectly captures my own experience.
A NASA editou as imagens sim, mas são duas imagens diferentes, com abertura e velocidade de obturador diferentes. Parece que a intenção da fotografa/astronauta, Christina Koch, era fazer uma com as luzes noturnas urbanas em destaque e a outra clareada.
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I am certain it does, and beautifully. Can’t wait to read it.
Book cover shows an alleyway in a Rio favela, the black and white photo has been given a bluish tinge; my name is upper left, the title of the book "Poverty of the Imagination" is at lower left and at right, in reddish text is the subtitle "The Cold War and the Social Science of Development in Latin America"
Your humble servant has a written a book about the social science of poverty in Cold War Latin America and the contexts that shaped its creation, from international sources like the Ford Foundation to dictatorships across the region. The book is in production and will be ready at the end of 2026
I needed this book, thank you for writing it.
A picture underneath a circular brick structure with a blue sky on the background.
Dorothea Dix, Raleigh.
Uma das coisas que desenvolvi migrando da lusofonia para a anglofonia foi uma alergia à voz passiva. O texto desse menino quase me causou um choque anafilático.
Secret tricks to get much better results out of the very dreadful 'Google search' these days, plus other search engines for specific things. Statospherically useful for researchers. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
Santa Cruz, CA
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:
"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...
#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
Paddington in The Secret Agent (2025)
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1817
Oh yes.
Look it up OAS and FTAA. They are not a EU version for the Americas, but their complicated history show how hard it t would be to implement such a thing.
You are probably right about the effect of the pandemic.
Source: transparencia.metrosp.com.br/sites/defaul...
The São Paulo metro area, the largest in the Americas, went from 269 transit rides per capita in 2017 to 216 in 2023, a decline primarily due to the growing use of ride sharing options, despite solid subway and bus line growth in the period.
If you care about nature in urban areas, you'll want to read this new roundtable at @tnoc.bsky.social on how we can "give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning", which has essays from 22 contributors (incl me) from 18 cities around the world! Come join the conversation.
Brazil has named açaí a national fruit to push back against biopiracy.
The move is mostly symbolic, but aims to reinforce açaí as part of Brazil’s biodiversity heritage and make it harder for foreign companies to claim exclusive rights as global demand grows.
It actually originated with the Spanish crackdown to the Cuban independence movement in 1896, a few years before the British set up their own camps in South Africa.
We had an incredible time at the "Envisioning Urban Futures" event at Hunt Library!
Dr. Matthew Booker spoke on the intersection of history, food production, and ecology in our cities. Dr. Tate Paulette gave a crowd-favorite expo presentation. Dr. Fred Freitas joined the fun!
O bico do carcará muda de cor conforme o estado de espírito. Quanto mais calmo, mais amarelo. Quanto mais irritado ou estressado, mais chega perto do vermelho.
Esse aí tá claramente irritado vendo como carioca dirige.
gah look at this! Look at the photos! and then read the interview because it's also amazing: globalvoices.org/2026/01/08/w...
“No vemos ningún intento, ni siquiera un tema de debate, el desmantelamiento de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana. Esto sería una tarea mucho más difícil para Estados Unidos. Realmente parece que Trump solo quería atrapar a una persona, Maduro,” le digo a @eldiario.es
You only revise twice
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
A Review to a Kill
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Isso é nome de dupla sertaneja.
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