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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 14d

My mum, partner and I hiked a wonderful stretch of the Wales Coast Path today, in memory of my dad who wanted to complete it. Hopefully one day we will.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 23d

Just my sort of Christmas! 🤪

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 28d

Ha. This feels so predictable somehow...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/b...

U.S.-U.K. Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Block

www.nytimes.com

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 11

Very pleased that we got to publish this Comment in the TRHS! And many thanks @chriscampbell1.bsky.social for pitching it.

Further reflections on this and other subjects are certainly welcome. 😊

🗃️

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Dec 11

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

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."

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Dec 11

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

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 11

If anyone is wondering what the right time is to put up a Christmas tree, the Vatican is still busy putting up theirs.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 9

They have been there for a while but they did work on them ahead of the jubilee!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 9

Another public transport strike so I just had to walk to work today. 😋

(It's all going to be over by the end of next week so just let me be. 😅)

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 8

The Milvian bridge just now. No crosses in the sky unfortunately.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 8

This feels very Amazon: the type of payment that doesn't cost anything.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 7

Boo!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 7

Jerome translating the Bible by Hendrick van Somer in the Palazzo Barberini. As the sign says, "the challenge of the text becomes hands-on combat".

One for @tntwining.bsky.social 😊

#earlymodern

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 7

Saint Luke healing a child, while painting the Virgin and experiencing some sort of ecstasy. Who says that men can't multitask? 🤪

By Giovanni Lanfranco, in the Palazzo Barberini

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 7

Lorenzo Lotto's Mystica marriage of St Catherine... Love How Jerome is reading through the thing and that he brought his lion!

#earlymodern

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 7

Hilariously insane. I'm going to follow this account from now on.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 6

Glückwünsche!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 4

Turkey in time for Christmas! 😜

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Dec 1

I think this is more standard in the US where the first monograph is key to getting tenure. Others will know more!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 30

😋

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 30

Hell, to paraphrase Sartre, is other tourists.

View of St Peter from the crowded Garden of Oranges near dusk.

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 26

I can't help but feel really curious about Christ's genitalia now. 🤪

A statue by Michelangelo in the Domine, Quo Vadis.

#earlymodern

Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · Nov 26

The @royalhistsoc.org is running a charitable donation campaign to fund the research of historians who lack support. The number of applications we're seeing is way up. I've been very lucky to have a career as a historian, I've donated, and I think this Christmas you should too. Pay it forward.

royalhistoricalsociety2.beaconforms.com

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 20

I try to usually, but not today. Still frantically writing my lecture!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 20

All the details are on the poster!

Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Nov 20

Went to see the altar of Joseph of Copertino in the Santissimi Apostoli today. If you want hear more about him and his flights, come to my talk at Sapienza tomorrow at 10am. 😊

#earlymodern