Devyn Gwynne
@devyngwynne.bsky.social
PhD student
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." This was my rationale for saying no GenAI in our MA; others disagreed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." This was my rationale for saying no GenAI in our MA; others disagreed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking
Infectitious Disease Histories - CSMBR
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking
Just me vs “feasibility”
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just me vs “feasibility”
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They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
You’ll take lists from my cold dead hands
Thinking of banning list-of-three-things thesis statements.
December 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
You’ll take lists from my cold dead hands
Reading marxist epistemology and I fear I may have been a secret marxist all along
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reading marxist epistemology and I fear I may have been a secret marxist all along
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
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"iT's BegiNNning To LoOk a LOt LikE ChRistMAs..."
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"iT's BegiNNning To LoOk a LOt LikE ChRistMAs..."
This will come to canadian institutions if we don’t denounce this stuff
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This will come to canadian institutions if we don’t denounce this stuff
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oh if you're deciding if you need to use AI for your project, heres a handy graph:
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
oh if you're deciding if you need to use AI for your project, heres a handy graph:
But it is so much funnier if you do
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
But it is so much funnier if you do
Fiers d’été icitte
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Fiers d’été icitte
Ever since I was a kid I knew I wanted to drink irish cream on ice
November 29, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Ever since I was a kid I knew I wanted to drink irish cream on ice
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Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Useful ideas for teaching students how to read history.
Smoking that Methodological Horrors OG
I’m methodologically smoking
November 28, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Smoking that Methodological Horrors OG
Any amount of 9/11s as a quantifier is hilarious to me
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Any amount of 9/11s as a quantifier is hilarious to me
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RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
I’m methodologically smoking
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I’m methodologically smoking
I firmly believe that if you as an institution pay your phds they should get an office. This should be a requirement.
And here’s my office where I am losing my sanity in
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I firmly believe that if you as an institution pay your phds they should get an office. This should be a requirement.
I have to get “it’s joever” out of my lexicon
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I have to get “it’s joever” out of my lexicon
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Giambologna, Turkey, 1567, Museo Nazionale del Bargello #gobblegobble
November 23, 2023 at 1:21 PM
Giambologna, Turkey, 1567, Museo Nazionale del Bargello #gobblegobble
People: you owe your phds an office
And here’s my office where I am losing my sanity in
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
People: you owe your phds an office
And here’s my office where I am losing my sanity in
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And here’s my office where I am losing my sanity in
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As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As a college professor, AI has made my life—and the lives of all educators—unimaginably worse.
Procrastination level: I am making a post-its board of my primary authors/sources
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Procrastination level: I am making a post-its board of my primary authors/sources