Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
@altibel.bsky.social
Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity, academic health systems) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
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#ArchiveEmotion: my eighteenth century telenovela
In a previous post, I mentioned the slow-pace of working with archives. Reading through metres of paper is however anything but boring. Besides finding material for our research we often find extremel...
www.leidenartsinsocietyblog.nl
Hi! I'm a book historian working on what I call the reading spaces model for my dissertation. I'm developing it by focusing on 18th New Spain #EarlyModern #BookHistory Here's a fun post on archival research related to signatures. I also work at an #STS centre on #CitizenScience & #ResearchIntegrity
What is shocking is that researchers still think in this year of the lord that 'AI tools' will be objective and neutral.
Also, racist bias built in, even in something as straightforward as interpreting pathology slides:
futurism.com/health-medic...
futurism.com/health-medic...
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What is shocking is that researchers still think in this year of the lord that 'AI tools' will be objective and neutral.
#Skystorians *mic drop*. I was just telling STS colleagues how I was struggling with a puzzle from something I had seen in an Inquisition edict. Keeping it vague cause will write a blog about it. I had a pic of the edict but it was not clear which texts it referred to. Usually they would mention 1/2
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December 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
#Skystorians *mic drop*. I was just telling STS colleagues how I was struggling with a puzzle from something I had seen in an Inquisition edict. Keeping it vague cause will write a blog about it. I had a pic of the edict but it was not clear which texts it referred to. Usually they would mention 1/2
This year I am super delayed with #GuadalupeReinas2025 cause work 🥲, but I think I will manage the 10 books by the 6th of January. 1st one absolutely Fs: Carcoma by Layla Martínez. It has been translated to several languages (the Greek edition is very pretty). In English: Woodworm.
Primer libro de mi #GuadalupeReinas2025: Carcoma de Layla Martínez, edición de Almadía. !Qué librazo! (Y la portada 🤩). Me recordó a un par de personas y casas. El odio y rencor nos atan a los fantasmas 👹
December 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This year I am super delayed with #GuadalupeReinas2025 cause work 🥲, but I think I will manage the 10 books by the 6th of January. 1st one absolutely Fs: Carcoma by Layla Martínez. It has been translated to several languages (the Greek edition is very pretty). In English: Woodworm.
Primer libro de mi #GuadalupeReinas2025: Carcoma de Layla Martínez, edición de Almadía. !Qué librazo! (Y la portada 🤩). Me recordó a un par de personas y casas. El odio y rencor nos atan a los fantasmas 👹
December 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Primer libro de mi #GuadalupeReinas2025: Carcoma de Layla Martínez, edición de Almadía. !Qué librazo! (Y la portada 🤩). Me recordó a un par de personas y casas. El odio y rencor nos atan a los fantasmas 👹
Oh kijk, Nederlandse media bothsideism! Het was een wonder dan een dichter zoals Refaat Alareer kon schrijven midden die fanatieke religieuze mensen, eh? 🤦 Wie heeft Alareer vermord? Wie heeft de bibliotheek van de Islamic Univeristy of Gaza? De schrijver is Palestijns maar die kop kan niet whyter.
Door jarenlange bezetting, religieuze onderwerping en uiteindelijk de totale vernietiging zou je bijna denken dat Gaza nooit een plek voor kunst, muziek, wetenschap en engagement is geweest. Het tegendeel is waar.
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December 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Oh kijk, Nederlandse media bothsideism! Het was een wonder dan een dichter zoals Refaat Alareer kon schrijven midden die fanatieke religieuze mensen, eh? 🤦 Wie heeft Alareer vermord? Wie heeft de bibliotheek van de Islamic Univeristy of Gaza? De schrijver is Palestijns maar die kop kan niet whyter.
An integral part of the writing process is doing the laundry, tackling the sentimental-trinkets drawer, cleaning windows, etc. It takes time, it's hard (invisible) work.
One of the recurring arguments I see made is “Writing is the best part! If you don’t like writing, don’t be a writer!”
Sometimes it is! Sometimes it’s pure unadulterated glee!
And sometimes I clean my house and repot my cactus to avoid it!
Sometimes it is! Sometimes it’s pure unadulterated glee!
And sometimes I clean my house and repot my cactus to avoid it!
December 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
An integral part of the writing process is doing the laundry, tackling the sentimental-trinkets drawer, cleaning windows, etc. It takes time, it's hard (invisible) work.
Is er z'n lijst voor media in het Nederlands? Ik neem aan dat @ftm.nl en @oneworld.nl geen gebruik maken van genAI?
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Is er z'n lijst voor media in het Nederlands? Ik neem aan dat @ftm.nl en @oneworld.nl geen gebruik maken van genAI?
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My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Joaquín García Icazbalceta worked +/-40 years in his Bibliografía mexicana del siglo XVI (published 1886). This was 1st part as he originally wanted to work on a 2nd part. At the end of the intro he says he has no intention to do the 2nd part, he has no strength nor life left for it. #BookHistory
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Joaquín García Icazbalceta worked +/-40 years in his Bibliografía mexicana del siglo XVI (published 1886). This was 1st part as he originally wanted to work on a 2nd part. At the end of the intro he says he has no intention to do the 2nd part, he has no strength nor life left for it. #BookHistory
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The reason CEOs think genAI is so capable of doing everyone's jobs is because literally the only job genAI has been able to do from the get go, and will possibly ever be able to completely do, is a CEOs job.
December 20, 2025 at 6:55 AM
The reason CEOs think genAI is so capable of doing everyone's jobs is because literally the only job genAI has been able to do from the get go, and will possibly ever be able to completely do, is a CEOs job.
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the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
December 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
Barista was like: done with this year, here is your cauliflower cloud. We all are, we all are.
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Barista was like: done with this year, here is your cauliflower cloud. We all are, we all are.
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Hello! Who funds translations of monographs into English? Or is that a matter of batting your eyelashes very sweetly at each national academy to make an exception for an exceptional book somehow? #SkyStorians
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Hello! Who funds translations of monographs into English? Or is that a matter of batting your eyelashes very sweetly at each national academy to make an exception for an exceptional book somehow? #SkyStorians
Are baby grinches vegan meat? Asking for a friend.
MY 4-YEAR OLD: *calmly, while coloring a picture of the Grinch* If baby grinches die, we can eat them. If they’re clean. That’s ok
December 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Are baby grinches vegan meat? Asking for a friend.
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I think my issue with the AI water discourse is how dehumanized it all is--AI pushers do not want to talk about inequity, access, or the people impacted by the growing demands for data centers. Its NOT just an abstract discussion over numbers, and should not be framed like that.
new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI?
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
You’re Thinking About AI and Water All Wrong
Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
www.wired.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I think my issue with the AI water discourse is how dehumanized it all is--AI pushers do not want to talk about inequity, access, or the people impacted by the growing demands for data centers. Its NOT just an abstract discussion over numbers, and should not be framed like that.
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Al meer dan 500 ondertekenaars: openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
Zorgvuldig & Zorgzaam Digitaal
openletter.earth
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Al meer dan 500 ondertekenaars: openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...
Idea for a tv series: The Thick of It or Veep but with editors and marketing folk from a publishing house dealing with American Canto, Pippa Middleton's Xmas, The War on Science. Material for many episodes!
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Idea for a tv series: The Thick of It or Veep but with editors and marketing folk from a publishing house dealing with American Canto, Pippa Middleton's Xmas, The War on Science. Material for many episodes!
This is infuriating because it is a community-led infrastructure.
Related, this post by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social on AI slop from scientific publishers: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Related, this post by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social on AI slop from scientific publishers: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
December 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is infuriating because it is a community-led infrastructure.
Related, this post by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social on AI slop from scientific publishers: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
Related, this post by @irisvanrooij.bsky.social on AI slop from scientific publishers: irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
December 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
So, have any historians here used Retool as a front end for data entry into a PostgreSQL database?
Not sure what the right #DigitalHumanities # are, but perhaps #DigHum #DH 🗃️
Not sure what the right #DigitalHumanities # are, but perhaps #DigHum #DH 🗃️
December 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
*sigh*
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
*sigh*
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Hi friends, in case you missed it, I am offering some writing and editing services in the new year.
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
Writing and Editing
Towards a better future for the humanities.
halperta.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hi friends, in case you missed it, I am offering some writing and editing services in the new year.
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
"The English we were taught was not the fluid, evolving language of modern-day London/California, filled with slang & convenient abbreviations. It was the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator (...)The machine accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire."
I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"The English we were taught was not the fluid, evolving language of modern-day London/California, filled with slang & convenient abbreviations. It was the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator (...)The machine accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire."
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No, 53 per cent in a small sample conducted by Frontiers which represents only a portion of all researchers and research disciplines. There is no excuse for making sweeping headline assertions on such modest, skewed samples.
53% of researchers say they have used AI when peer reviewing articles, according to a survey by Frontiers. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
Policies should reflect the ‘new reality’ of researchers’ increasing reliance on tools that can summarize manuscripts and draft reports.
www.nature.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
No, 53 per cent in a small sample conducted by Frontiers which represents only a portion of all researchers and research disciplines. There is no excuse for making sweeping headline assertions on such modest, skewed samples.