Languages and Cultures Reading on Instagram: "Please join us on Tuesday, 24 March for a talk by Dr Frederic Ponten (University of Regensburg) on the publication of his new book Enemy Literature: How A... 5 likes, 0 comments - dlc_reading on March 16, 2026: "Please join us on Tuesday, 24 March for a talk by Dr Frederic Ponten (University of Regensburg) on the publication of his new book Enemy Literatur...

Looking forward to Tuesday!

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Working in the trenches, most professors, especially in the humanities, probably didn’t need formal research to tell them what those studies found, when they could easily intuit it by interacting with their pupils. Michael Clune, a literature professor and novelist, lamented to The Guardian that many students are now “incapable of reading and analyzing, synthesizing data, all kinds of skills.” Clune’s school, Ohio State University, recently required all students to enroll in “AI fluency” courses “across every major,” ostensibly to prepare them for a world that is dominated by the tech. Clune was critical of the push. “No one knows what that means,” he told newspaper. “In my case, as a literature professor, these tools actually seem to mitigate against the educational goals I have for my students.”

It is because I see the harm gAI use/misuse is doing to students in my classrooms that I am so critical of the enterprise.

And Im not alone, either.

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So clever of US, UK and European universities, with ample encouragement from their governments, to have been closing down Area Studies, History, Languages and Politics & International Relations programmes, so clearly irrelevant to the world in the second half of the 21st century.

The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.

Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.

History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.

Apply for a History of Biology internship at the APS!

Interns will conduct research using the rich archival collections at both the APS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. www.amphilsoc.org/grants/apscshl-undergrad...

#internship #history #undergraduates

Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary

"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Poster of Gillian Rose: history, Marxism, and the Turn to Law. 3 December 2025, University of Warwick. With Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'kane, Nadia Bou Ali and the organiser, Rosie Woodhouse.

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

...and really the dehumanisation of women, which is central to all this.

Still thinking about (digesting?) last week's fantastic Association for German Studies annual conference. Many thanks to the organisers!

Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

Buchcover, roter Rand unten und links, Titel falsch geschrieben mit einem Korrekturzeichen vor dem R zum Einfügen eines weiteren Zeichens DE GRUYTER luditha Balint, Janneke Eggert (Hg.) KORIGIEREN EINE KULTURTECHNIK Korrekturzeichen und R

Das Buch zu diesem tollen Cover ist nun OA erschienen, d.h. es kann heruntergeladen & gelesen werden. Korrigieren begreifen wir darin als Kulturtechnik, die Produktionsverhältnissen unterliegt, aber auch selbst zur Produktion & Veränderung von Texten beiträgt.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you

CALL FOR SUPPORT: Secure the Future of BHL
Following the Smithsonian Institution’s decision to conclude its long-standing role as BHL’s host on 1 January 2026.
#HistSTM #HistSci #Biodiversity #Ecology #EnvHist #NatHist #EnvironmentalStudies
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Francesca Bellazzi, The Metaphysics of Pregnancy - PhilPapers Pregnancy is a one of the most complex phenomena of life and is essential to the life cycle of mammals. Pregnancy is also a crucial aspect of humans’ life and experience. ...

My article for #PhilosophyCompass on the Metaphysics of Pregnancy has been accepted for publication! It has been the result of some years of teaching and I think it’s such a cool topic. 🎉 Here is the link to the AAM version: philpapers.org/rec/BELTMO-20
@assemblinglife.bsky.social 🦋

If you are able and willing to do so, could you please add your voice to our wall of support at the Save Cardiff Modern Languages website: www.savecardifflanguages.org
The more voices we have on there from across the world, the better! Thanks and love to all.

A fossil ammonite carved into a face during the Late Iron Age or Roman period

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell

A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩

📷 Feb 2022

Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

The Deadly Double Organised fun in east London.

Is the 'deadly double' – living in Clapham, working in Canary Wharf – the most depressing life a Londoner can lead?

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so much of teaching is teaching students that they are worth taking seriously, that they should take themselves seriously, that the world is in their hands, that they are up to its challenges

(this will be my only contribution to the current discourse about ai in the classroom)

The closure of humanities & social science departments is very short-sighted, and we will come to regret it, but the closure of an English department at an English university is incomprehensible to me. I just tried to picture a German university closing down German Studies or a French one French...

Screenshot from the website for Utrecht Summer Schools with a short discription of the Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society. The describing text is "This Spring School addresses differences between scientific and other forms of knowledge, the relation between science, pseudoscience, and non-science, and challenges of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production from philosophical and historical perspectives."

📣Great opportunity for students in #HistSci & #PhilSci: Spring School on Forms of Knowledge and Values in Science and Society at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social next April! 🤓 Find all information here: utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/huma...
Deadline for application: 13/12/24
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Greetings colleagues-friends. What a dream to open this app and see lots of lovely people and also that I’ve been followed by the Hebbel-Gesellschaft. 🤝