NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty.
"People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.”
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Poster for New Researchers in Maritime History Conference CFP
BCMH New Researchers is Maritime History conference will be in Southampton on 17/18 April this year -CFP now open - details and submission link here www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... #maritimehistory
It was also not super common yet to represent run-of-the-mill voyages as tracks on maps, and few charts have survived, so your best bet is probably looking at textual accounts.
Coming back North required a different route, due to the trade winds. A classic study discussing this is John Law, 'Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion', in Bijker et al., The Social Construction of Technological Systems (MIT Press, 2012).
The book Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo lying on the back of a sailing boat, in the background the sea, some Islands, blue sky and the sun low on the horizon.
@saracaputo.bsky.social I saw your book and thought, that would be an excellent read for our sailing trip in Croatia. Was not disappointed, great book!
Oh, thank you! A really lovely picture and a very flattering comment, especially coming from someone with the sky-high standards of Granny Weatherwax.
We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too
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"Ocean routes’ complicated beginnings."
Today's book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @saracaputo.bsky.social & @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
Thank you! I don't think any book *could* ever truly explain this, but Tracks does certainly grapple with the hugely mind-blowing nature of voyaging, and how people have tried to make sense of it, or indeed wield it.
Thank you!
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Thank you, Elke!
Cover of book 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel'. Ship and map on blue background.
Paperback day!
Thank you! More writing about maps is always a good thing, and the more paths leading to it the merrier. I'm delighted you are enjoying the book.
A sign by a restaurant that says, "DO NOT BE AFRAID OF OVERFEEDING: Seagulls are dainty eaters." In the background you can see the Puget Sound and two people feeding seagulls.
The other side of the sign reads: "SEAGULLS WELCOME: Seagull lovers are welcome to feed seagulls in need. Please do not feed pidgeons." -Ivar's Pier 54 Fish Bar
Did a seagull write these
first page of the article
So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
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Hooray!! Huge congratulations, Elaine!
Thank you!
Are you looking for a publisher for your manuscript in cultural history or heritage studies? We are setting up a new book series with Bloomsbury, titled Cultural History and Historical Culture.
People don't seem to know that anyone can buy an interrail pass which makes European train travel much cheaper. Please tell them!
www.interrail.eu/en
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
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Excited to be giving the keynote address for this on Thursday afternoon, entitled 'Making and Unmaking the World of the Early English East India Company'. The talk involves a lot of drinking, multilingual cursing, and things going up in flames. And that's if it goes well!
#earlymodern #skystorians
