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alexbrey.bsky.social @alexbrey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Take 20 minutes to complete this survey on Media & Identity and help advance research on the 2024 U.S. elections, civic engagement, social issues, mental health, media, and self-identity: wellesley.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Elections and Social Issues Study

Social Issues and Election online survey

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alexbrey.bsky.social @alexbrey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Job opportunity: @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social is hiring a director of Garden and Landscape Studies. This is a five-year term position. Requirements include a PhD and a minimum of ten years’ experience in an academic setting, including administrative duties. www.doaks.org/about/employ...

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Director of Garden and Landscape Studies

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/05/2025

New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +

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Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?

Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of period prose does not pro...

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

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alexbrey.bsky.social @alexbrey.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I'm dredging up forgotten lessons from my organic chemistry days as I dig into the solubility of carthamin in preparation for my new seminar on the Art of Science in the Islamic World next semester. Meet the material that literally give us "red tape": cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Safflower

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Safflower - CAMEO

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

And it’s OPEN ACCESS! Thanks to @nancyum.bsky.social @devinfitz.bsky.social @yaelrice.bsky.social and all our 47 contributors!

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