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sccarlson.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Biblical and Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University (Ph.D. Duke, New Testament, 2012). Många bäckar små gör en stor å.
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And it's out! Congratulations to the editors and participants. It was my first paper after my career break.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

What's taking so long? How hard is it to take the backups you have and host the images? I don't care if the interface is fancy or not.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I'm be at NAPS in Chicago, talking about pseudonymity. See you there.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The "author fuction" has been incredibly generative beyond what I suspect the discourse initiator ever contemplated. But Foucault's status doesn't come from being first: I am now reading a fifth-century monk who's made the same points but didn't manage to initiate a discourse.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Coming to an HTR near you

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Rufinus of Aquileia was a productive translator from Greek into Latin in late antiquity. Here is a nice bifolium from a MS of his Latin version of Eusebius' Historia ecclesiastica recycled as book cover. (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, 9/1473) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to this issue!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Playing around with Copilot. It can: 1. Bring up the Vulgate text by chapter-verse citation. 2. Parse simple Latin. 3. Learn a new grammatical subcategory I defined and apply to a text. 4. Read a PDF in a modern language and summarize it. 5. Identify errors and correct a proposed translation. >

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Prompting to AI to produce foreseeable disruptions to academia, I asked for a list of potential growth and shrinkage areas. Growth: increased enrolment; cost savings; new revenue streams; and enhanced research funding. Shrinkage: jobs cut, more competition, infrastructure costs, tuition pressure.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Further to this topic, I asked Copilot for 3-5 ways AIs will significantly disrupt academia in the humanities. This thread is what it answered (respondes lightly edited for length). >

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

If AI will reduce the demand for graduate students, what will happen to graduate education in the academy? Will it contract to just the Ivies and flagship state universities? Thinking in a humantities context...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

How will AI transform academia? I had a long chat with a colleague about it yesterday. Some ideas: 1. AI agents can do the work of TAs (grading, providing individualized instruction), allowing professors to teach many more students with less human support. 2. AI agents can do the work of RAs, >

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Very excited to present at the BECs global seminar this year! Thank you for the invitation @sccarlson.bsky.social !

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The 2025 Seminar 1 schedule for the BECS Global Seminar Series is now available with contributions from Sarah Corrigan, Stephen Carlson, Bronwen Neil, Sabrina Inowlocki, and David Woods.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Harsh critic!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Passing along this little piece of good news.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: upgrading from 7 billion parameters to 14 billion made it smart enough to parse the verb! (Not sure what the random Chinese is doing though...)

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Trying to get DeepSeek to parse Latin. It is really thick: (No, "erat" is not a conditional, second-person present.)

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments