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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎙️ ahem, some news... my first book Wonder Foods has been made into an audiobook 😱

And I'm *very* lucky that it's been read by the wonderful Margaret Wakeley, a pop singer, cabaret artist & voice actor, whose warm tone & humor I instantly fell in love with.

www.audible.co.uk/pd/Wonder-Fo...

Audible.com | Listen and Escape the Everyday

Try Audible free for 30 days! Start listening to best-selling audiobooks, exclusive Originals, and free podcasts with the Audible app.

www.audible.co.uk

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 2d

⏰ PhD position ⏰ on the history of blockades in the interwar period with my wonderful colleague Samuël Kruizinga in the ERC-funded Synergy program BLOCKADE:
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD position - Benign Blockades? Blockades and sanctions, 1919-1939

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years, 1.0ft). This position is part of the ERC Synergy-funded research programme BLOCKADE, wh...

werkenbij.uva.nl

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations @nursingclio.bsky.social !! 🎉🥳🍾

Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 29d

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 4d

Happy cinnamon bun day to all those who celebrate! I certainly do.

Let the wintering begin.

#kanelbullensdag

Seen from above on a table, a lilac coloured notebook and a pen top left, top right a cup of coffee and small hug of milk on the side, bottom right a cinnamon bun, bottom left the book cover of Wintering by Katherine May

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 8d

Nothing to see here only a #foodhistory dream job at the Smithsonian... 🥦🍎🍾
trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

Museum Curator (Food & Wine History), IS-1015-13

Job Opening: Museum Curator (Food & Wine History), IS-1015-13 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

trustcareers.si.edu

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 27d

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11d

"available data shows that ICE arrested 674 potential U.S. citizens, detained 121, and deported 70 ... true number may be even higher....neither ICE nor U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) maintain good enough records to determine just how many people the agencies arrested or deported in error"

ICE May Have Deported as Many as 70 US Citizens In the Last Five Years - American Immigration Council

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps making an inexcusable error: it has been deporting U.S. citizens by mistake.

www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12d

Anyway, @tabouchadi.bsky.social is great on all of this, and I wish political leaders and the liberal / Democratic consultant class would listen. Or at least acknowledge that what they are propagating as “common sense” or "without alternative" in fact goes against all empirical evidence we have.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 12d

A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes.

An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 14d

“Many women … will now be burdened with unsubstantiated concerns about how their choices might endanger their pregnancy. Whatever they choose, there is a pathway for them to be blamed.”

I’m thankful the ever insightful @katewomersley.com has weighed in on this.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pregnant women deserve so much better than Trump’s theatre of scaremongering and shame | Kate Womersley

There is no credible evidence linking autism with maternal paracetamol use. But the US president’s ‘tough it out’ message could harm mothers and babies, says doctor Kate Womersley

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 18d

“High technology is often as socially regressive as it is technically revolutionary or progressive.”

Referencing the wonderful @histoftech.bsky.social, this critical piece on the uncritical adoption of AI in universities pulls no punches.

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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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 19d

So helpful!

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 19d

f you’ve ever wondered whether your project needs a theoretical, analytical or conceptual framework — the answer is: yes, but not in the same way. I show you how to tell them apart in my post.

www.raulpacheco.org/2018/09/writ...

#RPVSky

Writing theoretical frameworks, analytical frameworks and conceptual frameworks

Three of the most challenging concepts for me to explain are the interrelated ideas of

www.raulpacheco.org

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

Oh you must be right! Very useful still for my peace of mind, if not the cabinet ☺️

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

Next time I need to build a similar atrocity I’ll ask the Bluesky hivemind first - stellar work everybody 🙏

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

Sunday greetings. I’m in hell.

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

I certainly reached a point where I thought I might hear voices

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

You are an artist 🙌

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

Hahaha glad I’m not the only one - this thing made IKEA instructions look like a piece of cake

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 24d

Sunday greetings. I’m in hell.

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Vast ten overvloede, maar bij deze FYI @lizetkruyff.bsky.social

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Sep 5

Explore an Online Archive of 12,700 Vintage Cookbooks

“Early cookbooks were fit for kings,” writes Henry Notaker at The Atlantic. “The oldest published recipe collections” in the 15th and 16th centuries in Western Europe “emanated from the palaces of mon...

www.openculture.com

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Florian Aigner @florianaigner.at · Sep 3

"40h pro Woche arbeiten. Das ist doch weniger als ein Viertel! Da geht doch mehr!"
Man hört das Argument von Wirtschaftstreibenden, jetzt auch vom deutschen Kanzler. Das Missverständnis dahinter: Viel arbeiten ist in erster Linie ein Privileg - das für viele einfach außer Reichweite liegt (Thread)

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Aug 30

And you Anne! Though way too short, more next time indeed ❤️

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Aug 30

Aw thanks 🙏

Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Aug 29

What a phenomenal conference. Fascinating papers and keynotes, lovely friends, excellent food and a dream location. Huge thanks to @doravargha.bsky.social and the #EAHMH25 team for their stellar organization. Can’t wait for Prague 2027.

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · Aug 29

“…my friends say…”

Still from the movie Emma showing Juliet Stevenson as Mrs Elton

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European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social · Aug 28

Julia Cummiskey on 'Ugandan Virus Researchers and the Localities of Global Health' at #eahmh25

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