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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Isn't that how the cinemas make most of their money?

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Fact checking and adding context: always value-added, and worth doing, although especially with AI slop

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

When I'm not in the Netherlands, I feel like this book must feel: I'm not preposterously large, everything else is unreasonably small!

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How does wrestling with AI to write poetry teach us about AI in Education? Good question! I spent more time trying to figure that out this year than I should have. But I sure am happy with the results. (What do you think?) mindwise-groningen.nl/experimentin...

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Experimenting with AI and poetry | Mindwise

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I just made a donation to the Cummings Center for the History of Psychology. Will you join me in supporting one of the discipline's gems? #HistPsych www.uakron.edu/chp/support/

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Support the Center

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The 50th anniversary of Hofstadter's GEB (Gödel, Escher, Bach) is coming up in 2029. Has anyone started planning any events, books, or special issues?

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Fantastic! I would have been there too, but for a joint History of Education and History of Psychology meeting that accidentally got scheduled at exactly the same time

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

As for research methods, there are also four: A practical introduction to research methods, Introduction to psychological theories and research methods, a higher theory and ethics course, and Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods. Qual is an elective but it exists. (We have grad Qual too.)

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sure! In the psych bachelor at @rug.nl, we have worked hard to provide a curriculum that is both broad and deep. So in addition to four Stats courses, we also have History of Psychology, Theory of Science, Philosophy of Psychology, and Brain, Consciousness, and Society (my STS-influenced capstone).

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Sometimes I disagree with my colleagues that our students need evermore training in quantitative methods. Because I think there are valuable insights to be had from basic exposure to history, theory, and qualitative methods too. But okay: everyone begins with "correlation does not imply causation."

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I've had great support from @harvardlibrary.bsky.social over the years, going all the way back to grad school. Also more recently from MIT and Yale. It's truly wonderful to receive random packages of secrets that I couldn't otherwise gain access to. (Who else does similarly?)

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Archival research is such fun. And it's so valuable. But travelling to the archives themselves, and staying in a hotel, can be extremely expensive. As budgets are being cut, this becomes evermore difficult to manage. So I thought I would ask: which archives do you know provide digitization services?

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

When I worked at the Jean Piaget Archives in the University of Geneva, the family donated the intellectual contents of his home. Fortunately, my supervisor decided to retain the locations of the papers. Because Piaget's own "filing system" was to add new desks and shelves when the old ones filled up

Jean Piaget sits in his home-office in Pinchat, near Geneva, where he is surrounded by stacks of papers

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They had to switch the hand that was holding the cup on a string

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I used the word "moreover" in my history of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology as seen from the perspective of his American patron: the Rockefeller Foundation. That was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. I also used it in my PhD, my MA, and my HonBSc theses research.rug.nl/en/publicati...

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Been chatting with colleagues about AI's use of water. It seems mainly to be a problem where water is scarce: if humans have to compete for drinking water, then contracts might conceivably cause serious problems. So where is water scarce? See this: "England 2055" www.surrey.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is great! I'd like to encourage you to share it via the Division 26 poster program at the American Psychological Association convention in Washington, DC. Obviously we'd love to meet you. But there's the possibility for a Virtual Poster Session too. convention.apa.org/proposals/di...

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APA Convention Call for Proposals | Division Posters

Present your poster at the APA 2026 convention, either in-person in Washington, DC, or virtually.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Important #archive news: "750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs and evidence exhibits from across the total of 13 cases, which between 1945 and 1949 were brought against Nazi military and political leaders held responsible for atrocities against humanity" #history www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Nuremberg trial records made available online after painstaking 25-year project

Launch of digitisation project marks 80th anniversary of start of legal effort to bring Nazi leaders to justice

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Als het om esthetiek gaat, kunnen we de hele dag discussiëren. Maar niet als er iemand gewond kan raken door vallend beton.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Ik twijfel er niet aan dat het beton aan het rotten is. Dat zien we. Maar ik kan me voorstellen dat iemand die dit zegt uiteindelijk charmant wordt: onze eigen versie van Romeinse ruïnes. Dus de veiligheidskwestie lijkt relevant.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Ik kan de veiligheid niet beoordelen. Ik ben geen ingenieur. Maar dat lijkt me wel een belangrijke vraag voor degenen die verantwoordelijk zijn voor de openbare veiligheid.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Zijn de pijlers veilig? Soms degradeert beton en valt het naar beneden, waardoor overhangende delen gerenoveerd moeten worden in plaats van te blijven staan.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

One of my students "mispronounced" the name of @anthropic.com's LLM today, and it sounded so right that I immediately wondered if it wasn't exactly what they intended all along. What do you think? "Cloud"

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Yes, I failed to hear the capitals on "Scientific Revolution." But never once have I ever claimed that 1543–1687 was my period. (I think I was only a year or two out of my master....)

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Pay attention to red flags. Don't ignore them because of "an opportunity." It's very rarely worth it. And when you are able to hire your own assistant, don't "kick down." Lift them up, instead, as almost everyone else I've worked with has done. Actively.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Dear reader, this is someone I respected. I was happy for having had the invitation, and felt playful, but then was also really hurt by the rebuke. With that start, I should never have agreed to work for them. I eventually regretted it.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

A prof I liked in another department once invited me to TA for their course on "the scientific revolution." Delighted, I laughed and said, "which one?" Their reply has haunted me for nearly twenty years: "That's cute. But it only goes to show that you don't know as much as I thought you did."

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In last night's vivid dream, I was at SNL pitching a skit for Antony Starr: Homelander is interviewing Vought staff about their loyalty, and tells one of them to eat a basketball. I then demonstrate. First by deflating it. Then by nibbling at the seams. All the producers look horrified: "Yes!"

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a man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a cross with his arms outstretched ..

Alt: A man in a superhero costume is standing in front of a cross with his arms outstretched, and flies over an adoring crowd

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Jonathan Basile @jonothingeb.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Conference title: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin, and image of Lewontin in Black and White with intense expression in front of a chalkboard holding up a fist,
When and Where
Friday, October 10, 2025 11:30 am to Sunday, October 12, 2025 2:00 pm
Music Room (218)
Goldring Student Centre
150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 | and online via Zoom

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

On Friday, I asked a question at LinkedIn about what everyone is doing with their writing assignments to respond to the crisis of AI in education. By yesterday afternoon, it was a fully worked-out invitation to share anchored in my own experiences. What say you? mindwise-groningen.nl/inviting-tho...

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Inviting thoughts about AI in education | Mindwise

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Germany's far-right "remigration" movement is probably giving a preview of future Republican rhetoric in the US. For those with an interest in such things, this report is worth watching. It's from the German public state-owned international broadcaster: Deutsche Welle (DW). youtu.be/MOrTIB8JVe8?...

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The dilemma that could test the AfD's rising popularity | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I am not ready for it to be September. I am, however, ready for it to be July. Who do I speak to about this inconsistency?

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

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Cornell University, Society for the Humanities

Job #AJO30301, WDR-00046364 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Technology Studies, AY 2026-2028, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Once, when I lived in Toronto, a pair of police officers knocked on my apartment door. I was so surprised to see them that I just blurted out the first thought that entered my head: I invited them in for tea. They decided I wasn't who they were looking for, thanked me for the offer, and left.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The archive where I'm working for the next two weeks has the largest single collection I've ever heard of: 15 shelf-kms! That's almost 50,000 linear feet!! (It's the complete property records going back to the 1820s for the entire province of Noord-Holland, which includes Amsterdam.)

A light skinned man with white hair and beard, and glasses, studies intently without realising that he has accidentally taken his own picture while putting down his phone

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I'm part of an enclave of historians who work inside a Psychology Institute, which is part of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. It's fantastic. We even have a grad programme. Please send me your weird, interesting, thinky students. (We have a lot of fun!) www.rug.nl/masters/theo...

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Now I don't feel so inadequate for being unable to manage meal prep, etc, as a person who lives and eats alone. "Cooking" every day is impossible. But I can put yogurt and fruit and nuts in a bowl for breakfast. And I can add protein to a boxed salad for dinner. With coffee throughout the day.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The meaning of "presidential" has been so debased from what Jed Bartett preached that this now sounds like folksy charm

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Yep: do it now or wait until 2029. Same if you think you're gonna want an abortion 🤔

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

When I lived in the middle of nowhere, and the electricity would fail regularly and often (sometimes for many hours), I just went and got a back-up power supply. But how do you do the equivalent with these pseudo-cognitive tools that people are starting to rely on? www.forbes.com/sites/callum...

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ChatGPT Went Down—And The Internet Freaked Out

ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, suffered an outage earlier today—and that sent social media into a whirlwind of worried action.

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Brepols @brepols.net · 30/06/2025

𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝘀𝘆𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝟭𝟬 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰) 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 More info: bit.ly/3Gcfe3b #History #Psychology #Science #Medicine #Historysky #Psychologsky

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Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The first ever "Three Societies Meeting" has ended. It was wonderful to bring together so many scholars and friends to discuss the history of psychology, the history of the behavioral and social sciences, and the history of the human sciences. Let's not wait another sixty years to do it again!

In what felt like record-setting heat, The representatives from the Three Societies (ESHHS, Cheiron, and SHP) open the proceedings at the American Church in Paris

Thoughts, reminiscences, and thank yous at the dinner

Dr Jeremy Trevelyan Burman, president of the Society for the History of Psychology (Division 26 of the American Psychological Association), speaks about AI and education—and his research in digital history that spans the gap between them

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