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Christian Callisen

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Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️‍🌈

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 2d

A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians.

The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 11h

Man, even if they achieve their apparent goal of replacing every single artist, writer, musician, and now sex worker on earth, the amount of money being spent on those industries would be a mere fraction of what it takes to run their colossal server loads.

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Timlagor @timlagor.bsky.social · 12h

Hey hey hey!

That's not just a machine learning mass theft plagiarism algorithm!

That's a water-guzzling biosphere-burning fascist-enabling ponzi-scheme machine learning mass theft plagiarism algorithm!

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 46m

And WTF are "age-gating" and "usage-maxxing"? Is it really so difficult to use words and grammar that already exist in the English language - and that people understand - to express oneself?

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 48m

"Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues" - I am a staunch advocate of NOT conflating mental ill-health and suicide, but there are clearly points of connection, and didn't ChatGPT recently assist someone to end their life? Glad that's sorted then...

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 56m

Hela min uppväxt i Australien kändes det som det var alltid någon story om nya ubåtar som skulle byggas för tio- eller hundratals miljarder dollar. Och som oundvikligt blev dyrare och dyrare fram tills planerna slängdes i soptunnan och det kungjordes nya planer för nya ubåtar. Sverige med, tydligen

Ubåtarna blir tre gånger så dyra: ”Var en glädjekalkyl”

Inledningsvis skulle försvarets nya ubåtar kosta knappt nio miljarder kronor. Nu visar det sig att slutsumman stannar runt 25 miljarder kronor – en höjning med 190 procent. – Det är en avsevärd kostna...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 19h

If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇

All welcome (not just postdocs!).

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 20h

Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.

They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻

Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

A poster with a white background and black text, with a blue border at the top of the poster, and photographs of manuscripts. The title of the poster reads Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB METHODOLOGIES SERIES. Online Meeting: Weds 22 October at 5pm
DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE: Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting. With Harry Smith and Emily Vine of the Material Culture of Wills, 1540-1790 project at the University of Exeter.

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 16h

Tagging @rmidura.bsky.social in case she can add you 😊

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 22h

Registered!

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 22h

Final reminder about Lyndal Roper's talk on Thursday at the @ihrscb.bsky.social on 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'.

Register here for in-person or online attendance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Professor Lyndal Roper will speak on ‘Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6’. She holds the Regius Chair of History at the University of Oxford. Her most recent publications include Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War (2025), Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy (2021) and Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (2012).

Lyndal Roper’s talk will be preceded by a brief session marking Michael Hunter’s retirement from active involvement with the seminar. This will commemorate Michael’s inauguration of the seminar in 1979 in conjunction with the late Bob Scribner and its continuous existence since its revival in 1987, when one of its co-founders was Lyndal Roper.

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 23h

We need, somehow, to undo decades of government rhetoric and convince the public that unis aren’t (or aren’t only) about preparing people for jobs and certainly aren’t able to magically create jobs (that’s government’s role, with that whole ‘managing the economy’ thing they’re supposed to do).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23h

'A “challenging” graduate labour market in the UK could further erode trust in the higher education sector, with the “bad times” showing little sign of ending.'

All the more reason to have a serious, nationwide discussion of what universities do and what they are for.

Faith in universities ‘at new low’ as graduate jobs dry up

Challenging economic conditions may have led to bump in student recruitment numbers this year but experts fear long-term damage after institutions pegged futures to employability agenda

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Angus Main @angusmain.bsky.social · May 12

A lesson from history about AI:

Ada Lovelace nailed the limitations and hype of generative AI when she wrote about the 1st computer - The Analytical Engine - 180 yrs ago

“It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas…[It] has no pretensions whatever to *originate* anything”

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, se-condly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable.
The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect primarily and chiefly of course, through its executive faculties; but it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal infiuence on science itself in another manner.

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Wolfgang Behr / 畢鶚 (氒/厥/攸) @behrwolf.bsky.social · 15d

12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).

Planned Research Projects

Here you can find an overview of all research projects and the corresponding job vacancies in the Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster of Excellence.

www.lmu.de

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 1d

Today the #ChurchofEngland commemorates Edward the Confessor, who died (memorably) in 1066. 🕯️ And do I have manuscripts for you! #medievalsky 🧵

Here's William of Malmesbury, my historian boyfriend, relating Edward's accession in 1042, in the late-12th-c. manuscript BNF lat. 6047.

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

I have never been a wait-in-line-because-the-restaurant's-just-so-good person. If it's that bloody good, they can take bookings! Pisses me off, to be honest 🤣

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC

Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

😡 Cease-fire or not, the reasons for which people have objected to Israel's participation in Eurovision remain

Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

#EarlyModern #18thC

Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

I Australien finns det en "do not call register". Det finns visserligen undantag för välgörande organisationer och politiska partier men åtminstone kan man anmäla företag som ringa en trots att ens nummer står på listan. Finns det något liknande här?

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

Would you believe that @bsky.app tagged these images as "self-harm"? Offensive on so many levels 😖

Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

Did you hug the tree? It looks like it could do with a hug 🥺

Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry Hanna, it's full 😥 But I'll take a note of your name in case I get enough interest to start a second one 😊

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

Tagging @brianjulrich.bsky.social to see if he can add you 😊

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 1d

Tagging @emodir.bsky.social to see if they can add you 😊

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Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social · 1d

When applications say they want x number of pages, what do they mean?

I'm never sure if it's single/double spacing? size 10/12/56? Times New Roman? Arial? Wingdings!?

I get word counts can create Wetbewerbsvorteile for certain languages, but I'm genuinely never sure how to go about formatting

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks Dave 😊