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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

We need to talk about AI, research and greedy academic publishing. According to Springer Nature, “Eventually [academic] papers will all be written by an AI agent and then another AI agent will actually read them, analyse them and produce a summary for humans.” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

theguardian.com

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Hopefully KULeuven will also make it available online for the benefit of everyone

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Sure, but but there was no difference between alchemy and chemistry up to 1750...same matter theories, same approaches, same people. Some prefer the term chymistry, but practical work in alchemy is as long as its history. Separating alchemy and chemistry is 19th C, new scholarship has shown this

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Great to hear this, but Fludd was not a chemist. Chemistry wasn't born yet for another 100 years+...

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

Excellent article. We know nobody's listening though.

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 30/12/2023

The message is that it's always the woman's fault when men turn out bad.

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

Interesting theory. Celsus does mean high, lofty, elevated. But para- ? Usually above or near... It would fit the habit of latinizing one's name in the epoch. It took me a while to figure they called him 'the Hermit' because he was from Einsiedeln, known for the monastery and its hermit patron...

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

The passivity of the gov and media in this matter is shocking. I mean, we are talking about an attack on a national institution, and it's been more than a month. Hopefully they are working behind the scenes, but I don't like the silence and time it's taking to solve this.

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

For me it's the Paracelsian obsession of using skulls for medicine - distilling skulls, using skull moss for the weapon salve...

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

This is really good news: you can now search for manuscripts and archives in all of Oxford's libraries: marco.ox.ac.uk

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Napier seemed ok to me. But I don't know him that well to be fair. But seemed very open minded - certainly he kind of adopted this German guy Gravius/ Graw and left him in charge of his parish. Graw was one of the luckier émigrés I think.

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Hmmm ... I think this was a thing. Van Helmont did it too. Part of the Hippocratic medical ethos I guess ('prognosis'), mixed in with astrology and divination... Interesting topic!

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Oh, nice!!! Don't know much about Boydell and Brewer, are they expensive etc?

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

TG had an a beautiful handwriting, didn't he? I presume you know Will Poole's article. I am fascinated by Graw's alchemy and its mixture of Paracelsus and Severinus (acquired at Marburg, no doubt in my mind), plus a good dose of Jacob Boehme on top. He's going spiritual and practical alchemy at once

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Next year coming out, presumably? I look forward to the announcement!

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Onomantic divination sounds fascinating, and I don't know the first thing about it. Some link to Kabbalah or not?

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Jo Hedesan @johedesan.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

What is this book about? Is there any mention of Theodoricus Gravius in there? I'm currently having a bit of a weird obsession with him...

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