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profserious @profserious.bsky.social · 3d

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

10 AI Prompts for Academics

making those hard jobs a little easier ...

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · 18d

Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience

A Review of “Elusive Cures: Why Neuroscience Hasn’t Solved Brain Disorders—and How We Can Change That” by Nicole C. Rust ( @nicolecrust.bsky.social )

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/rewriting-...

Rewriting the Grand Plan of Clinical Neuroscience

A Review of “Elusive Cures” by Nicole C. Rust

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 20d

Fab to see another article available as part of our SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social! Check out: Dina Freeman, ‘The Counter-Hegemonic Internationalism of Josué de Castro: A Radical Brazilian in the Mid-Twentieth Century World Government Movement’, doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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Chris Giza @griz1.bsky.social · 25d

We shared research about things affecting us all: addiction, autism, brain injury, dementia, mental illness. This work has been arbitrarily cut or delayed.
Thats a human brain on cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts. @sfn.org @standupforscience.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Yes, that’s a human brain on a cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts under Trump

UCLA's researchers go low-tech to plead their case to the public with poster boards and props. The Trump administration has suspended more than $500 million in research grants to the university.

www.latimes.com

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ICEHO @iceho.bsky.social · 25d

American Society for Environmental History - @aseh.bsky.social - has opened the application process for the 2026 ASEH Fellows Program to provide funding for full-time faculty as they pursue initiatives in #envhist related to research, teaching, and community engagement.

aseh.org/Fellows-Prog...

ASEH Fellow Program Open Call : ASEH FELLOWS PROGRAM

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Taylor C Sherman @taylorcsherman.bsky.social · 27d

Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths is now out in paperback and it has an evocative new cover! To me, it brings to mind some of René Magritte's paintings from the 1950s and 60s. Thanks to Princeton University Press for the new design.

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Taylor C Sherman @taylorcsherman.bsky.social · Sep 8

You might already be familiar with it, but Partha Chatterjee's A Princely Imposter comes to mind. More of a narrative than theory.

Imposters to the Russian throne were common, particularly in times of instability, so you might find something looking at Russian Imperial history.

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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · Sep 8

Help! I'm looking for scholarship on "the impostor" in social history. Not spies, not those who used pseudonyms, but figures who embellished their records to gain social status, entry into certain circles, or credentials among socialists, revolutionaries, or anarchists.

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Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social · Aug 30

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Lost in Extraterrestrial Translation

The University celebrates the success of area studies alumni, all the while erasing the programs that made those careers possible.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Aug 31

Postdoc Opportunity!

Aarhus University - 2 Postdoctoral Positions in Environmental Histories with a focus on Denmark/Mexico

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69029/a...

Aarhus University - 2 Postdoctoral Positions in Environmental Histories with a focus on Denmark/Mexico | H-Net

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Tjeerd Boonstra @tjeerdwboonstra.bsky.social · Aug 19

‘What if it’s just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary?’

Great read on the current status of genAI and how it may further develop and affect our near future

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · Jul 8

Something to celebrate! A push for on-demand gene-editing cures for children with severe genetic diseases, supported by @cziscience.bsky.social.

What warms my heart: family advocates inspired this, and individuals who had the power to do so made it happen.

chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/cen...

Advancing Cures for Rare Diseases

With the launch of the new center, we're one step closer to making personalized CRISPR cures a reality for children born with rare genetic diseases.

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Dinyar Patel @dinyarpatel.bsky.social · Jun 27

Prashant Kidambi writes about Jim Masselos, the historian who spent six decades detailing so many aspects of Bombay's history, who passed away this week: scroll.in/article/1083...

For historian Jim Masselos (1940-2025), Mumbai was a city that was both his archive and his muse

Masselos wrote about the world of the urban mohalla, crowds and popular culture, and the changing rhythms of everyday life in the city.

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Anika Löwe @anikaloewe.bsky.social · Jun 27

Super happy to see our latest work out in @plosbiology.org : N2 sleep during short naps increased the likelihood of insight in a decision task. The steepness of the spectral slope best predicted insight, beyond sleep stages alone. With dream team @maritpetzka.bsky.social @nicoschuck.bsky.social

PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jun 27

That "Aha!" moment... Can sleep facilitate memory reorganization? @nicoschuck.bsky.social @anikaloewe.bsky.social @maritpetzka.bsky.social &co reveal that N2 #sleep (but not N1) increases likelihood of having an 'aha' moment about a previous #DecisionMaking task @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k8F2v3

A single illuminated light bulb among many unlit ones. Image credit: Pixabay user ColiN00B.

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 27

It's out! Such a wonderful evening celebrating the launch of A TRICK OF THE MIND at Pushkin House. So lovely to see so many, and to be able to thank everybody who made my first book happen. Thank you!

Available in all good bookshops now!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/451515...

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Jehad Abusalim @jehadabusalim.bsky.social · Dec 29

I wrote this piece exploring rare Palestinian anti-Nazi political art from the 1940s, highlighting a forgotten chapter of Palestine’s antifascist tradition during WWII.

open.substack.com/pub/jehadabu...

Inside Palestinian Anti-Nazi Political Art of the 1940s - Part 1

Rare political art from a 1940s Palestinian newspaper reveal a lost antifascist and anti-Nazi expressions during WWII. Part 1 of a series on Palestine’s antifascist tradition.

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · Jan 5

Lecturer = assistant professor. And yes, I agree with Sonja....

Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social · Jan 3

Check out this continuing Lecturer opportunity in HPS at USyd (and come hang out with the Sydney STS folks!)

Focus: History of science or medicine in Asia/Pacific

#histstm #histsci #STS

Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science

Full time, continuing position. Located at the Faculty of Science on the Camperdown Campus Exciting opportunity for a Lecturer to join the School of History and Philosophy of Science Base Salary Level...

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Bhumi Purohit @bhumi.bsky.social · Dec 23

from the other site: "The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, invites applications for a research capacity building workshop for SC/ST scholars to be held between 24 February and 8 March 2025. For Details, Click www.csds.in/research_wor...

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Milan Vaishnav @milanv.bsky.social · Dec 21

It's been a busy week at #GrandTamasha. Two episodes out this week:

Populism in South Asia with/ @dnaseemullah.bsky.social & Pradeep Chhibber: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/pop...

Best Books of 2024: grand-tamasha.simplecast.com/episodes/gra...

We will be back in mid-Jan with new episodes

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Dec 20

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)

A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.

www.nytimes.com

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Laura Brueck @humanprof.bsky.social · Dec 6

Postdoctoral position in critical caste studies at the university of Chicago- still accepting applications!

apply.interfolio.com/157701

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Dec 6

Music helps attentional focus. I hope so. I'm not going to stop listening to music when I work.
Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#neuroscience

Rapid modulation in music supports attention in listeners with attentional difficulties - Communications Biology

Rapid temporal modulation added to music affects attentional performance and brain activity; parametric manipulation of this added modulation reveals rates that differentially affect individuals with ...

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · Dec 4

glad that proofing day is over and this is sent off to the press

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Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social · Dec 4

Call for papers for a workshop on "Travels of Expertise in Modern South Asia and Beyond" at South Asian Studies at Yale
on May 8-9, 2025. Proposals due Jan 6. Link Below

macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/wo...

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