#Humanities

Geoff Anders

geoffanders

OpenAI’s GPT-3 API automatically generates shockingly high quality text. Here are some samples: https://read-the-samples.netlify.app/ What are the societal ramifications once automatic text generators are widely available? Big list o

Christoforos Nikolaou

guilderstern

Just logged in to a (5-hour!!!) webinar aimed to help in "outreach to funders and policy-makers". Obviously *not* my thing but was advised to join. Follow this thread for a

Michael Muthukrishna

mmuthukrishna

New paper on "Psychology as a historical science" w/ @JoHenrich & @slingerland20 in Annual Review of Psychology. Catalyzing the field of "historical psychology" by reviewing work on: origins of psychology

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candacefaber

Listen, since we’re figuring out now how to build a better world from whatever wreckage is to come, I might as well share a reminder of how much power we

punkacademic

punk_academic

Academic freedom can't be defined by the state. If the state gets involved, then academic freedom does not exist.Reality of course is it actually doesn't exist - the state uses

Rebecca L. Spang

RebeccaSpang

How do revolutions--periods of great political, social, cultural uncertainty + possibility--happen? I have been thinking a lot lately abouthistorical contingency (chance)central role of aggressive resistance to change (sometimes mistakenly

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

We are living through a terrible time in many ways, but it is a Golden Age for public-facing history. No major pundit, as far as I’m aware, has as consistently

Veshalini Naidu

VeshaNaidu

Malaysian Indians & A Labour Movement - A Quick Summary [thread] In 1947, Tamil labourers peacefully protested against the British that lead one of the deadliest clashes in Msian history

#SaveUEL

saveUEL

Hey you! Do you mayhaps agree #studentsdeservebetter than what UK higher education is handing them? Look no further: @uel_news has it all. Racist and sexist firings of lecturers, union busting

Vinod Sharma

vsharma0430

How do communists, secular and #liberals destroy society?Answer: Using subversionSubversion means:- Aggressive and destructive activity towards enemy country- Destroying the power and authority of a system.(1/21) Four stages of subversionFi

Natalie Thurlby

StatalieT

We just discussed @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mcmillan_majora and (sch)@mmitchell_ai s Stochastic Parrots paper at #DataEthicsClub. I'm going to attempt to summarise our discussion, but I'd love for the other attendees (or

Mitchell Baldridge

baldridgecpa

One of the best opportunities out there in the tax code is the tax credit.Rather than a deduction that saves you tax at your marginal rate, a credit is a

Alex Heliophobe Bush, Bernie-Circumcellion 🌹📚⚒

alexhudginsbush

i get asked sometimes why i went from academia to labor organizing & there are a few answers. maybe they are useful so i will share them! the tl;dr version

Rube

RubyNicholson99

Seeing lots of uni students (understandably) freaking out on my tl about difficulty focusing on coursework/revision during a pandemic. Here is a thread of some techniques that help(ed) me as

jessamyn

jessamyn

I mentioned earlier the problems with whiteness in librarianship (DM me for reading packet or pointers) but here's a very short thread about problems with whiteness in Vermont. I like

Zohar Atkins

ZoharAtkins

Leo Strauss was one of the greatest and most influential thinkers of the 20th century and deserves a @threadapalooza. His thought is both controversial and poorly understood. He argued for

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