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Andrea Reyes E (she/her)

@altibel.bsky.social

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Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hi! I'm a book historian working on what I call the reading spaces model for my dissertation. I'm developing it by focusing on 18th New Spain #EarlyModern #BookHistory Here's a fun post on archival research related to signatures. I also work at an #STS centre on #CitizenScience & #ResearchIntegrity

#ArchiveEmotion: my eighteenth century telenovela

In a previous post, I mentioned the slow-pace of working with archives. Reading through metres of paper is however anything but boring. Besides finding material for our research we often find extremel...

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Oscar Kocken @oscarkocken.bsky.social · 5h

Als de woorden worst en burger al zo verwarrend zijn voor de mensen, waarom maakt de Europese Unie zich dan niet druk over partijen die vrijheid of democratie ten onrechte in hun naam hebben staan?

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 4h

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Beyond the outrageous use of water and energy, some ppl trust these things can give them truthful answers 😫. I know of neighbours who ask LLMs issues about the municipality (like permits), or researchers who think they can assess humanities research with them. #ResistAI

Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder how much potable water this used.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah. I'm personally of the opinion that this is a strong case of "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." I think it would be best to provide a summary afterwards.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 16h

Thx!

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

This would be a discussion about politics and education in NL, in Dutch (related to the elections). But not everybody who works in academia speaks Dutch, tho kost likely those who don't cannot vote but this way they could stay "informed."

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

Thx! I am defo not an AI enthusiast (see our position paper here bsky.app/profile/oliv...). I've heard some ppl (not from any community) argue for its use in certain cases cause it's better than nothing and it would help certain communities. I would like to hear from the communities themselves.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Chris Julien @chrisjulien.bsky.social · 1d

Dit soort passages gaan zonder kanttekening mee in het frame dat zorg een commerciële activiteit is ipv een publieke voorziening.

Probleemloos wordt de eigen blik voor lief genomen bij NOS. Giselle van Cann verwoordde deze naïviteit als geen ander: 'alles dat relevant is, is nieuws voor ons'

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm talking about a debate organised by activists, so money is an issue.

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

Q: AI translation is heralded as great cause it can help with inclusivity but ofc it's far from good, takes job of translators, ÷ feeds the hype. On live interpreting events, some argue against but others say it's better than nothing. How does the community feel about this?
#DisabilitySky #CripSky

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

#EarñyModern

Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 1d

I’m speaking at Fordham University at 6pm on Thursday for people in NYC! Lincoln Center campus, the talk will be on Indigenous tobacco epistemologies and poetics in the long 18th century.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 1d

These are great

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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Kittie @kittiepeters.com · 1d

delete chatgpt and stop using generative AI 🖤🤍

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Those who are so inclined to immediately dismiss all the seemingly grandiose reports of torture and abuse in the Israeli prison system should read this report from B'Tselem entitled: "Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps"

In some cases, witnesses described other IPS personnel being present during attacks by the IRF. They stood idly by and did nothing to protect the victims, their presence essentially lending legitimacy to the actions. The presence of IPS officers and the participation of dozens of IPS guards in the assaults indicates that these were not isolated incidents or the work of a rogue guard.
On 9 November 2023, at around 2:00 P.M., a force of 20 masked officers from the IRF and DU arrived with a dog. They opened the cell door and attacked
Some of the
us with batons. Two of them grabbed me forces filmed
and hit me in the back with batons. One of us with cell
them grabbed my head while I was on the phones and
floor and hit me in the face with a baton.
cameras. I
My face and right eye started bleeding. I heard the
told them in Hebrew, "I'm going to die," and officer tell
one of them said that he wanted me to die.
the others in
Others told me to shut up.
Hebrew: "We're
After they beat us up for about 10 minutes, they tied our hands behind our backs with
loresee wins
zip ties. They fastened them so tight that I felt them cutting into my hands. The beating continued, and members of the forces stepped on my chest and head. There were also two officers in the cell, and one of them ordered them to beat us. The members of the forces laughed among themselves. They took some clothes away from inmates. They dragged some of us on the floor and forced others to kiss one of the officer's shoes.
I saw them grab some inmates by the testicles, and the inmates screamed and cried. The officers also pressed their batons against

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Welcome to Hell
the genitals of some inmates. The stream of insults didn't stop: "motherfuckers," "sons
None of us could move,
of bitches," "dogs," "ISIS." Some of the forces
not even to
filmed us with cell phones and cameras. I go to the
heard the officer tell the others in Hebrew:
bathroom.
"We're livestreaming for Ben Gvir."
We were all
The attack lasted a long time, more than half dizzy and lost
an hour of nonstop beating. It looked like they balance.
wanted to cause as much damage as possible.
My right eye
When it was over, I felt I was going to pass swelled up,
out. Afterwards, we lay on the floor for hours.
and I was
None of us could move, not even to go to the afraid I'd lose
bathroom. We were all dizzy and lost balance.
my sight. We
My right eye swelled up, and I was afraid I'd were in a very
lose my sight. We were in a very bad state. One bad state.
prisoner said in tears that they'd raped him
One prisoner
with a stick.
said in tears that they'd
After that incident, we lived in constant fear.
raped him
Also, we were shocked by the screams of with a stick.
inmates being beaten in other cells. We were
afraid all the time, day and night, that the forces would attack us again.
From the testimony of Firas Hassan
50, a father of four and resident of Hindaza in Bethlehem District, who was held in the Negev Prison (Ketziot) | Full testimony

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 3d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Dr. Marthe Wens @marthewens.bsky.social · 3d

#RodeLijn

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 3d

like why is my skyline filled with shit like “LLMs could be conscious! do we even know what consciousnesses is?” when communities filled with PEOPLE are being destroyed so that techbros can have the fantasy of enslaving machines? cause that’s what they are fucking talking about

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 3d

Yo después de tacos al pastor, champiqueso y nopalitos asados en Por Siempre Vegana.

Un tlacuache con la barriga llena por haber comido muchos panes dulces, acostado sobre una caja con panes dulces

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 3d

It's a chutzpah that some scientists (mostly betas) say/think us humanities scholars are making stuff up cause they confuse speculation & interpretation (which is grounded in archives & domain knowledge) with not being rigorous. Especially since they claim to be enamoured with "hard data."

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 4d

This. I find it baffling that there are studies and polls based on fabricated data instead of human respondents. Imagine if a historian would do that with archives!

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

Now, we tackle in turn the issues we outlined in the abstract:

First, the displacement of human participants, tracing the history of technologies to recruit real people, we end up forgetting the whole point: gathering — not fabricating! — human data. More at section 3: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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3 Displacement of Participants
Many technological solutions to recruiting and managing participants have been proposed: from original pen and paper sign
up sheets and physical bulletin boards to computer systems like
SONA, which digitised and automated some of these processes,
and then furthermore to platforms like Amazon’s Mechanical
Turk (MTurk), which allows participants to be outsourced to
sweatshops (e.g. C. A. Anderson et al., 2019; Douglas et al., 2023;
Gamblin et al., 2017; Gray & Suri, 2019; Hauser & Schwarz, 2016;
Wagner et al., 2022). It may be the case that systems like MTurk,
which is named after the infamous pseudo-automaton which
beat Napoleon at chess (Manninger, 2024), indeed have clear
pros and cons, and are perhaps not inherently abusive. However,
they are clearly open to abuse (C. A. Anderson et al., 2019; Guest,
2024; Newman, 2019; Pettit, 2024c; Stephens, 2023). MTurk’s
namesake, the original Mechanical Turk, was a device that comprised a cupboard with a chess board on top and which across
the player sat an orientalist puppet. However much it may have
seemed the puppet played chess, it was instead a hidden human
who moved the pieces.

In the present, sweatshops based on Amazon’s MTurk technology undergird all modern AI products (Alba, 2023; Bansal,
2025; Equidem, 2025; Gershgorn, 2017; Gray & Suri, 2019; Manninger, 2024; Perrigo, 2023; Stephens, 2023; Streitfeld, 2025; Suri,
2019; Yang et al., 2020). This human-in-the-loop technique has
had applications in the 2010s with deep artificial neural networks
that performed what is claimed to be human-like vision, and
in the 2020s with reinforcement learning from human feedback
(e.g. Birhane et al., 2023; Guest & Martin, 2025b; Kirk et al., 2023;
Manninger, 2024; Prabhu & Birhane, 2020; Suri, 2019).
The next iteration of this is to completely obfuscate the
human-in-the-loop (Guest, 2025; Guest & Martin, 2025a;
Shiffrin & Mitchell, 2023) and present AI products, such as those
powered by large language models (LLMs), as able to stand in
for, displace, human participants or their data (cf. Crockett &
Messeri, 2023; Dillion et al., 2023; Jamieson et al., 2023; Rilla et
al., 2025; Rossi et al., 2024; Schröder et al., 2025). This is problematic for many reasons (viz. Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van Rooij
& Guest, 2025), but some lesser discussed angles are that the AI
products cannot replace human participants but are merely a)
returning unethically sourced (pre-existing) human data (Alba,
2023; Bansal, 2025; Equidem, 2025; Guest, 2025; Perrigo, 2023).
And as such, b) these data have statistically unfavourable properties according to what are stated norms of the field, such as comprising double dipping (Y. Liu et al., 2024; Villalobos et al., 2024;

What is most disparaging if we continue down this route, is
not only that it leads to data fabrication on steroids but that also
we will depend on a machine that, for lack of a less anthropomorphic term, lies, and lies about lying by design (Bender & Hanna,
2025; Bender et al., 2021; DeVrio et al., 2025; Edwards, 2023b;
Hicks et al., 2024; Metz, 2023; Xu et al., 2025; Zhao et al., 2025).
It deceives through the Eliza effect, the cognitive bias towards assigning human-like traits to chatbots (Borau, 2025; Dillon, 2020;
Koike & Loughnan, 2021; Weizenbaum, 1966), and the BarnumForer effect, the phenomenon where one thinks generic person

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 5d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 5d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

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Asha @ashatenbroeke.bsky.social · 5d

Trots op mijn stad. Vandaag hangt er aan de Wilhelminabrug in Deventer dit sterke en confronterende spandoek van bijna 50 meter: ‘Wat deed jij toen een volk werd uitgeroeid?’

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 6d

If the Guardian hadn't put itself in the pocket of Big AI, a more accurate headline might be "AI not able to definitively confirm identity of man named by his own family as perpetrator"...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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