Daniel Bellingradt

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The terminology of “low using items”, for scientific books on a shelf, is a stupid crime.

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Activating the #libsky

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#bookhistory

Dr. Jessica Lepler@jlepler.bsky.social

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Just ask at your local, regional or national library how many books they discard every year, that's sobering. As a book using humanity, we are and have been discarding and destroying books on a regular basis.

niche-canada.org(Ant)icolonial Figures: Characterizing Ants in 16th Century New SpainSixteenth-century colonial accounts viewed ants as destructive pests, while Indigenous perspectives saw them as environmental guides and therapeutic agents.

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Discarding 300.000 books is a statement.

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NiCHE Canada

@nichecanada.bsky.social

"(Ant)icolonial Figures: Characterizing Ants in 16th Century New Spain" by Elise Milburn is part of a series about “uncharismatic” species in environmental history Spanish sources viewed ants as destructive pests; Indigenous sources framed them as guides. niche-canada.org/2026/10/23/p... #envhist

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⬅️ this human in the loop is irritated by such a nonsense decision.

Springer Nature@springernature.com

How can AI support researchers in peer review? Springer Nature and Google DeepMind are partnering to co-design an AI peer review assistant that helps reviewers navigate manuscripts and focus on where their scientific judgement matters most. Learn more: spklr.io/63320EVgT8

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Must be something in the water in Cham.

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

britishmuseum.orgprint | British MuseumThe Large Cat; a crouching cat to right and a terrified mouse at the tail end before a grill Engraving

And here is, at the end of this thread, a link to a digital copy of the print made in #earlymodern #Amsterdam around 1650 by Cornelis Visscher and Claes Jansz. Visscher: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#catsofbluesky

I've got this feeling Somebody dance with me Somebody dance with me

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*pause for thought*

(this last post was inspired by DJ Bobo).

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Lisa Fagin Davis

@lisafdavis.bsky.social

Reading about the Blue Qur'an today, and...just...wow. Gold Kufic script (likely gold leaf, not shell!) on indigo-dyed parchment (technique uncertain! Brushed? Dipped? Pressed? No one knows!). Written in the early ʿAbbāsid period (ca. 800), place uncertain. 2024 research suggests Cairo or Baghdad.

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

Every story has two sides.

And if you are into #bookhistory, there are two references to the publisher and engraver of the image included. The "excudit" reference means "printed it" and identifies a publisher/printer; and the "fecit" means "has made it" and is a hint to the one engraving the copperplate. #skystorians

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

* It'll be fun going out they said *

Change your perspective from time to time, and you’ll have a different story to tell. The cat and the mouse do remind us.

This cat was sleeping in the 1650s. #catcontent

And this mouse was terrified in the 1650s.

What should I do with my extra hour today?

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social

*pause for thought*

Did I water my own personal peer review ai assistant lately?

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social

*pause for thought*

Diving into a book (interpreted by a flying fish in 1575).

“This appears to be a long document ... save time by reading a summary.” “Thanks. But my flying fish is already working on it.”

#skystorians

Diving into a book (interpreted by a flying fish in 1575).

“Ich habe den Text nur überflogen” (I just skimmed through the text)

Merchant Adventurers’ Hall

Long before AI-tools asked you to skim through large files for you, flying fishes did this job in the bookish worlds of the past. That’s historically accurate.

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As Halloween is round the corner we thought we’d share some medieval bats. A thread… 🧵 🦇

Diving into a book (interpreted by a flying fish in 1575).

Reading like diving into deep water!

When #fishsky and #bookhistory meet.

In 1575, this fish was catching up on the reading, and maybe wanted to eat a few German words.

Ein Fisch hat meine Hausaufgaben gefressen.

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In 1575, this fish was catching up on the reading, and maybe wanted to eat a few German words.

A second later, and this book had a few vowels less.

“A fish ate my homework”, was maybe used for the first time around 1575 in a German school. #edusky

In 1575, this fish was catching up on the reading, and maybe wanted to eat a few German words.

@enniusredloeb.bsky.social

She or he is clearly going for the vowels and approaching “nit one”

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vor400 (1626)

@vor400.bsky.social

Paris, 22. Okt. 1626 Venedigs Botschafter Simon Contarini: Vorfall in Den Haag ... Die Kutschen der Botschafter Frankreichs und Englands trafen an einer Stelle aufeinander, an der zwei Straßen zusammenlaufen, und jede Partei wollte den Vorrang beanspruchen. Drei niederländische Hauptleute zogen 1/4

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Ennius

Flaming snail 🐌🔥 BL Royal MS 12 C III; Filippo Alberici, Hieroglyphica and emblematic inscriptions; c.1507 CE; France (Paris); f.9v @blmedieval.bsky.social

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Jess Goodman

@goodmanjess.bsky.social

It exists! With MANY thanks to Graham @themhra.bsky.social, 'Doing Things With Literature: A Toolkit' is out in record time @mroussill.bsky.social @gemmatidman.bsky.social Emma Herdman & I will be launching it into the world @mfoxford.bsky.social on 30/10 at 5.30pm.

I see you all googleing what PHP stands for! Wrong answers only

Falls jemand fragt: Nein, ich will nicht mit einer Nazi-Kartei chatten. #spiegel

“Haben Sie Anregungen zur Nazi-Kartei, die Ihnen der Chatbot nicht beantwortet? Dann schreiben Sie uns an nazikartei@spiegel.de”

spiegel.deNSDAP-Kartei: Sie wollen mit der Nazi-Kartei chatten? Probieren Sie es hier ausUnser KI-Chatbot durchforstet Millionen Mitgliedskarten der NSDAP, Hunderttausende Daten zu SS und Waffen-SS und das SPIEGEL-Archiv. Bei ChatGPT oder Claude beantwortet er Ihre Fragen.

Wer kommt bitte auf solche Ideen? www.spiegel.de/geschichte/n...

Falls jemand fragt: Nein, ich will nicht mit einer Nazi-Kartei chatten. #spiegel

“Die KI hilft so nicht nur, Dokumente aufzuspüren, sondern auch dabei, die Funde historisch einzuordnen.” Der Witz ist gut.

“Allerdings macht auch diese Anbindung an Chatbots die KI nicht unfehlbar: Sowohl bei der automatisierten Erfassung der historischen Karteikarten als auch bei ihrer Interpretation durch Sprachmodelle können Fehler entstehen” Ach, wie jetzt? Fehler?

Falls jemand fragt: Nein, ich will nicht mit einer Nazi-Kartei chatten. #spiegel