robertsuits.bsky.social
Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; writing a book on American migrant workers circa 1900. Digital humanities projects on energy history. Also novelist, musician.
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I've gotten this pushback occasionally before -- I think it's absolutely fine either way, but if it's a nontechnical audience explaining why you've chosen houselessness over homelessness seems like a good idea! In my book, I opted for "homeless" in the end just for readability by the general public.
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each page as its own separate download
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that was absolutely one of my plan Bs at various points but for now I offer these thoughts for free!
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oh so you want the copyright page and the title page as separate documents is what you're saying
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100% -- living in a "temperate" area is seen as inherently sensible (hence the name!) but anywhere else is supposed to be a luxury.
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I always find this super unnerving
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The number of times otherwise-smart people have said “oh but the debt, it’s not worth it” to justify keeping kids out of university (other people’s kids, natch), as if debt was some natural rule of the universe and not a reversible political choice.
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If it doesn't exist already, I'd love to start a database that aggregates the LLM stance of various academic publishers!
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devastating!
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surprise! all governments are right wing now!!
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Another event on 21 May with Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Carl Wennerlind and @robertsuits.bsky.social talking about scarcity. The details are below:
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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oh my godddddd I feel this in my bones
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I might add -- are there enough qualified welders to *build* those pipelines on any kind of accelerated timescale? Individual long distance pipelines employ a surprisingly large proportion of that workforce.
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"have it read and write your emails" funnily enough I once had a colleague who told me they used chatgpt to write emails for them and summarize them, too -- in the same conversation where they said they didn't remember scheduling a meeting with me which we'd emailed about earlier that day
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Though that said, every use case people have brought up with me has been pretty dodgy. So far the most convincing one is to deal with administrative scutwork which no one actually reads. Fair enough, but we could just eliminate those tasks.
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Honestly it doesn't need to get more complex than this.
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To finish up the spring trifecta, a position in Eastern/Central European History after 1800. Transnational/global work especially encouraged. Do feel free to DM me with any questions about the department!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT327/l...
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To finish up the spring trifecta, a position in Eastern/Central European History after 1800. Transnational/global work especially encouraged. Do feel free to DM me with any questions about the department!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT327/l...
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or read the ingredients list on candy, like almost literally any candy