Lit review chapter or

from this day forth I vow to never take an unrestrained cat in a motor vehicle

Celebrating the Ides of March with the kids by printing 23 knives on our printer which we have named “Czar Printy” 🔪🗡️#justhistorythings #histodons

@NBarreyre We are in this battle together, trying to find our way through. My state is presently considering 3 bills directed at higher Ed: ban CRT, ban DE&I, end tenure.

Sitting in the tower won’t be enough and you and I both see this.

@NBarreyre as historians, we are stuck divided between social science and humanities. Some historians would prefer us as a social science field and that means we would need to accept a zero-bias perspective, one that does not lend itself to narrative very well. Beyond even the problem with meeting a validity/falsifiability standard, we also struggle against an inherent bias in sources and archives that crafts what counts as fact.

@NBarreyre I agree that it is a methodology or maybe better described as a particular form of discourse, but one of our problems is the obsession with our veracity. We all know, internally, the truth of that problem. Interpretive decisions are the swords we wield. Scope, focus, lens. Narrative centering and de-centering. It all changes the output. It’s not just defending the profession, it’s so much more than that.

Attended a conference this past week of fellow historians. The program content was very good, the conversation so much fun, and the ideas are flowing. I am infinitely grateful we historians are part of a broad community that includes many ideas and approaches. It really does bring so much to the experience the potential for exciting new work and collaborations. #histodons @histodons

#InternationalWomensDay

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth

@NBarreyre as historians, we are stuck divided between social science and humanities. Some historians would prefer us as a social science field and that means we would need to accept a zero-bias perspective, one that does not lend itself to narrative very well. Beyond even the problem with meeting a validity/falsifiability standard, we also struggle against an inherent bias in sources and archives that crafts what counts as fact.

@NBarreyre I agree that it is a methodology or maybe better described as a particular form of discourse, but one of our problems is the obsession with our veracity. We all know, internally, the truth of that problem. Interpretive decisions are the swords we wield. Scope, focus, lens. Narrative centering and de-centering. It all changes the output. It’s not just defending the profession, it’s so much more than that.

Funny story, I wrote a paper on trains as violence (anti-modernity in late 19th/early 20th cent) in fall 2020 and had no clue it would become so prescient. #trainderailment #histodons

"Has ChatGPT ever generated the following response? [paste text]"

#histodons

This is how they arrive on Earth.

I vacillate between the thought that, perhaps, those of us whose work/words have been sampled to teach ChatGPT should have some sort of powerful tort claim (not about the money, about the aggregation of scholarly information without attribution) and a sneaking historical haunt of all the ways we have previously aired change anxiety that turned out to be mostly unfounded. #histodons 2/2

I find myself torn between the ChatGPT de-centers ableist writing skills thoughts and the real concern that my professional life has been constructed through my unique style of written word, so it’s inherently valuable to me. 1/2
#histodons @histodons

Historians are librarians of ideas and arguments. #histodons

I confess myself a bit baffled by people who act like "how to interact with ChatGPT" is a useful classroom skill. It's not a word processor or a spreadsheet; it doesn't have documented, well-defined, reproducible behaviors. No, it's not remotely analogous to a calculator. Calculators are built to be *right*, not to sound convincing. It's a bullshit fountain. Stop acting like you're a waterbender making emotive shapes by expressing your will in the medium of liquid bullshit. The lesson one needs about a bullshit fountain is *not to swim in it*.

Just like the journalists who came crawling back to the BirdSite after Musk booted their colleagues, I see academics are now groveling for continued access to the Twitter API for research.

Guys, how about a little dignity.