Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriSimon Gray @protexblue.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“If it should turn out to be true that knowledge and thought have parted company, then we [will have] indeed become … thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is.” Hannah Arendt, predicting the future in 1958 33817
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Like a true interdisciplinary scholar, I've been told "you should send this to a more appropriate journal" by several disciplines 1645
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A paper is finished when the embarrassment of submitting it becomes smaller than the embarrassment of still working on it 630254
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don’t understand people who make stuff up in their research. Isn't that what grant proposals are for? 1386
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriKate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026File under: make the merch you wish to wear in the world. 711217
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The academic process is 10% having ideas and 90% discovering why they won't work 6494
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2026writing tip: when in doubt, read 9471154
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Academia gives you the extraordinary freedom to choose which impossible deadline you are currently missing 29715
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriLeonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."law.berkeley.eduArtificial Intelligence PolicyEffective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […] 231913802
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriSandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026📢CFA - Would you like to join the team "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy" at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento? A 32-month position is now open for a postdoctoral researcher focusing on encounters involving travellers in Trento and Gorizia! isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta...isig.fbk.euFBK is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Early Modern History, with a focus on encounters involving travellers in Trento and GoriziaThis position is offered within the project Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy (TRAVEL), funded by a Consolidator Grant from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS-2023-02909) (PI: Sandra ... 178
Giovanni Zampieri @giozzam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026not even sure that the social scientists are the ones that should be blamed, though -- this just seems the case of very intentional weaponization of plagiarism that speaks nothing of the merit of funding either social sciences or humanities in the US (or the UK...) 1140
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriBuckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998. 251098296
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriNick Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Rare professional post: I am honored beyond words to say that @mayrl.bsky.social and me have received the @asanews.bsky.social Comparative and Historical Section Barrington Moore Award for best book in Comparative Historical Sociology for *After Positivism* (tinyurl.com/442uh3b9). 1/tinyurl.comAfter Positivism | Columbia University PressWhat is the value of comparison for research in historical sociology? Today, social scientists regularly express doubt about the positivist premises that hav... | CUP 2193
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriSocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Someone submitted a paper and said in the acknowledgments: "AI made it possible to explore an unfamiliar academic discipline with a level of linguistic precision and scholarly orientation that would previously have required years of immersion." Fun for the writer, not so good for science. 24812
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriSimone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Really happy to see my new article on far-right politics, touristification and the ‘political economy of taste’ published in @bjsociology.bsky.social (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comHow Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of TasteThis article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and dr... 2169
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriGerardo Martí @gerardomarti.bsky.social · 28/06/2026On the shift from “Christian Nationalism” to “Christian Civilization” NYT 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/b... 043
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026There are only two states of a manuscript: "not ready to submit" and "why did I submit this?" 0202
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriGiovanni Zampieri @giozzam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I know you've always wondered: how were confessionals managed in modern Italy? My latest article, just published in Church History, reconstructs the use, maintenance, and negotiation of confessionals in late eighteenth-century Verona. (SPOILER: Their administration was surprisingly bureaucratic!) 172
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriAnna Skarpelis @akms.bsky.social · 19/06/2026The great Carlo Ginzburg has died. I cannot begin to summarise how much his micro historical method has shaped my way of relating to the past. The journal Sociologica had an entire symposium on his scholarship, to which I contributed an article. 172
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.stanford.eduElon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to ScaleThe first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead. 17603249
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriLaura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 18/06/2026RIP Prof. Ginzburg I've been loving this recent, fantastic symposium on his work: sociologica.unibo.it/article/view... Re-reading the thought-provoking interview with him again today, published in this symposiumsociologica.unibo.it Introduction: The Indiciary Paradigm in Sociology | Sociologica 092
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriMickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...repubblica.itCarlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italianoAveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari 3399298
Giovanni Zampieri @giozzam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026link (but please DM if you don't have access) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgThe Materiality of Salvation: Confessional Booths and Ecclesiastical Governance in Verona, c. 1750–1800 | Church History | Cambridge CoreThe Materiality of Salvation: Confessional Booths and Ecclesiastical Governance in Verona, c. 1750–1800 000
Giovanni Zampieri @giozzam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I know you've always wondered: how were confessionals managed in modern Italy? My latest article, just published in Church History, reconstructs the use, maintenance, and negotiation of confessionals in late eighteenth-century Verona. (SPOILER: Their administration was surprisingly bureaucratic!) 172
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriPeter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 12/06/2026 Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me. 73912204
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026“Was ist Aura?” (What is Aura?), Walter Benjamin’s notes for The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction on San Pellegrino stationary, San Remo, c. 1935. (Walter Benjamin Archive, Akademie der Künste, Berlin) 14910
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriÉtienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 02/06/2026✨ We are hiring @crestumr.bsky.social ✨ Post-doc position, up to 3 years, in a Horizon project. Profile: at the intersection of NLP & Social Sciences. More information here: shorturl.at/TxDLN 🥰 RT appreciated 🥰shorturl.atPost-doctoral Position: Computational Analysis of Judicial Decisions (CREST/CNRS-Ecole polytechnique) – CSS @ IP-ParisSite web de l'axe sciences sociales computationnelles du CREST-CNRS. Cours et tutoriels pour l'analyse des données numériques en sciences sociales. 04149
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end. 22761198
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriLaura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Hi computational social science 1417
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 29/05/2026LOLOL "What stood out most was ꜱᴛʀᴜᴄᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ʙᴀᴄᴋ-ᴇɴᴅ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋɪɴɢ, which feels like the kind of nuance that naturally sparks layered and honest conversation in our group." 2448563
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriHere lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Really interesting that they’re using a Tower of Babel analogy (structure built by humans to concentrate Earthly power) rather than the antichrist, AI backers’ preferred analogy, one that suggests AI is an entity rather than a thing. Almost like the Catholic church has read the Bible. 193
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriGareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap. 5449117
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/05/2026I was thinking the other day that it feels like a revamp of the enclosure movement, but this time the commons they're attempting to enclose is critical thought and personal competence. 412126
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriMichel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026PLEASE SHARE: Serious request for a future scientific collaboration. Do I know any historians/sociologists who works with, or love working with historic ego documents. Diaries, letters, notes, etc. Especially those that describe real, or wished for, romantic partners/interests? email me, DM me! 21326
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriLivio Silva-Muller @liviosilva.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This one has been on the makings for years now, glad to finally see it out there! 172
Reposted by Giovanni Zampieri👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant 84138983541
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 08/04/2026This is a really important piece, which I would commend to anyone interested in the future of creativity under finance capitalism. The pressures on the art world are in some ways distinct from those encroaching on the humanities but there are also plenty of overlaps. doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...doi.orgNew York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art*Abstract. Part of October's “Art Communities at Risk” series, Josh Kline's essay examines key structural problems in the American art industry through the lens of class, tracing their origins back to ... 15322
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriCameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026This is so, so well-articulated. 97107603880
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukKatherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland SharkI am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very... 24941239
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/03/2026if Wikipedia, an org with a shoestring budget and volunteer workforce can ban use of llms, what excuse do large orgs and universities have 7820271
Reposted by Giovanni ZampieriJohn Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Asking ChatGPT to evaluate my research idea 17510