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Theory and Philosophy of History @ University of São Paulo - USP (Brazil) Interested in narrative, trust, and epistemic dependence.
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Today in two weeks, Ádám Takács will give the talk "The Historical Present as a Philosophical Problem. A Genealogical Approach". For the abstract and the Zoom-link, please see here: www.oulu.fi/en/events/hi.... All welcome!

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CFA"include contributions from multiple disciplines including (but not limited to) genetics, history, #anthropology, psychology and #biology; and to include lived experiences to illustrate the many negative impacts of scientific racism." #HPS #STS

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This is really good and important, and a model we can point to for what it would mean for the social sciences and humanities to guide AI. A crude version of the argument is: existing approaches to “cultural AI” will model stereotypes (knowing-about-groups) not the sense-making power of culture.

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“[T]he very phenomenon being investigated may be changed by the inquiry itself. It is as if there were a principle of human indeterminacy at work.” “Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.” #PhilSci #HistSTM 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧪🗃️🧠

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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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I will not be taking any questions.

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I rinsed/preheated my v60 and only noticed I didn't throw the water off after brewing my last 30g of coffee. Where's the button to "skip to the next day"?

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This. (otoh, I hated homework, but kinda like to read and sometimes write?)

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Excellent!

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Science is political. It wouldn't necessarily have to be partisan. But when one party is opposed to science-based policy, scientists have a choice between saying "you're right, thoughts and prayers are probably as effective as reducing carbon emissions" or saying "fuck that."

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Many such cases.

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Why is it that I have so many locks without keys AND keys without locks?

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Congratulations to Aviezer Tucker on the publication of "Historiographic Reasoning" his new title in the @cambUP_History Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series--our first publication for the new year. 10.1017/9781009324489.

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We wrote a few words about the theme issue we edited for @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social - History & ethics! The intro is now live on the journal's blog, "One More Thing..."

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We wrote a few words about the theme issue we edited for @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social - History & ethics! The intro is now live on the journal's blog, "One More Thing..."

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Have a PhD in the area of global indigeneity? Consider applying to this postdoctoral fellowship in the Queen's University History Department. www.queensu.ca/history/abou... Please repost.

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Reposting just to see the world burn.

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Plus d'informations ici : gtw.hypotheses.org/29482

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Let's Play reorganizing Zotero for the nth time instead of just reading the damn pdfs.

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I wouldn't be surprised if, given enough resources (tokens in context, sources, good fine-tuning, etc), these models could be pretty impressive assistants for historical work. We can't possibly match the erudition of these things. This line of criticism is bound to fail sooner or later. However.../2

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I hate it when I vaguely remember having read something somewhere but then can't find the text. I went through my notes and nothing. Maybe I'm doing notes wrong.

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Very interesting thread for historians and philosophers of history.

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Today I will give a short presentation during a workshop on Trust in Science @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, commenting on exciting new work by @edouardmachery.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome to attend! www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...

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