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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 9h

Very good explanation on how to use LLMs for serious research.

Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not sure I buy the larger argument, but a) LLM-agent coordination is impressive. Seeing it spinning hundreds of agents to index millions of pages of transcriptions was great. 2) dot seems to be really useful. It is organizing my transcriptions; also caught mistakes like double-booked meetings.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting description of using an LLM agent to do one of the most boring tasks ever: populating Canvas. I did it this semester, but in a simpler way - I wrote the syllabi and prepared the folders with the readings, rubrics, primary sources, then an agent upload and organize everything.

computationalhistory.substack.com

How AI Saved One Professor from Drudgery

Implications for Administrators

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Part of how A.I. is making us dumber,” says Dr. Adam Green, a cognitive neuroscientist at Georgetown University, is “undercutting the development of learning how to think in younger people that now have an alternative.”

nytimes.com

Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy? Here’s What the New Research Actually Shows.

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're hiring a TT position in U.S. History (open field) at Texas A&M University-Victoria! We're looking for those willing to teach applied history. Review of apps begins 10/24. Not on the search committee but can answer any questions as dept chair. tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMUV_...

tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Assistant Professor - History

Job TitleAssistant Professor - History Agency Texas A&M University - Victoria Department College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Proposed Minimum SalaryCommensurate Job LocationVictoria, Tex...

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Man, this sounds extraordinarily cool.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s probably the most interesting politician interview I’ve ever listened to. Abdul is really smart and does sound like an authentic human being with whom I’d like to have a beer with.

open.spotify.com

What Does Abdul El-Sayed Believe?

The Ezra Klein Show · Episode

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@resobscura.bsky.social's posts are always interesting and nuanced, but the title seems a bit glib - as he acknowledges, History is much less conducive to big breakthroughs or widely-acknowledged problems with easily acceptable answers, so why would an LLM "lab" throw money at it?

resobscura.substack.com

AI labs need to start funding historical research

Using GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

apnews.com

https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Does anyone use the Google Cloud Platform? I got a $1000 in GCP credits from my university, but I found it so user-unfriendly that I'm just telling Claude Code to use it for me... (And man, transcription is so damn cheap - half a cent per page) @tedunderwood.com @jimclifford.bsky.social

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The median voter is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe. They are uninformed, make major decisions based on gut feeling, and are often impervious to evidence - including from their own eyes. They therefore become utterly indecipherable for those of us who follow politics obsessively.

nytimes.com

Trump Won Their Votes. Now His Trade War Is Dividing Them.

The president’s standoff with Canada has drawn criticism from voters in some of the border states and industrial states that could decide control of the Senate in the midterms.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OpenAI seems to subsidize users at a vastly higher rate than Anthropic and to be in a more precarious position. I’m no LLM skeptic, but I really do not understand how it’s going to become profitable unless it really gobbles up the whole economy. That does not sound sustainable.

ft.com

OpenAI expects to burn $280bn by 2030

AI start-up has projected deeply negative cash flows as it invests in infrastructure and faces price pressures

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That’s a very interesting piece, but it still feels like it’s own kind of doomerism.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a very good - and disheartening- essay. I disdained exams and in-class writing for my first 12 years of teaching, but now I’m forced to resort to them, particularly in GenEd classes. I still assign take-home research essays in advanced classes for History majors/minors, though.

insidehighered.com

The Cures for AI Are Killing the Humanities (opinion)

The retreat from take-home essays jeopardizes the future of the humanities.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Excellent oped in @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social by my @harvard.edu colleague Jill Lepore. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

But of course, the machine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. Not to mention, supervising student researchers is our job.

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Friends, if you've ever worked in the Dutch National Archives, consider signing this petition. Its administrators want to completely shut down its public educational programs and turn it into a repository of exclusively government records. #skystorians 🗃️

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“Perhaps that difficulty is part of how a colonial order works: Over time, even a reality saturated with violence, fear and destruction can begin to look unchangeable and inevitable. Our task was to make it visible again as something made, not given.“

nytimes.com

Opinion | Israel’s Elimination Project (Gift Article)

Two languages. Two realities.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Very good piece that reminded me of @patrickwyman.bsky.social ‘s classic take down of American gentry (which the authors should get inspiration from, to think more deeply about local politics and inequality).

theatlantic.com

Americans Don’t Understand Who’s Rich

The small-business owners with curiously large fortunes

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

networks.h-net.org

Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net

1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 12/09/2026

"For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. [...] But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts."

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Very good by @teorth.bsky.social: “We are witnessing a general threat to intellectual work, with misalignment between the outcome of the use of AI and its initial purpose. In many fields and activities, years of training have traditionally served not only to produce a final answer or product,

mathandai.org

Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Toffoli se esforça pra dar razão à avaliação que o Perry Anderson fez dele (e olha que a competição é braba): “former legal errand boy of the PT and arguably the most despicable single figure in today's political landscape.”

piaui.uol.com.br

O ministro, o banqueiro e o fundo

Polícia Federal suspeita que Toffoli tenha dinheiro de Vorcaro em paraíso fiscal

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm fielding requests from prospective Ph.D. students, and maybe you are too. Over the summer, I wrote this guide for students in History: including 1) don't do it; 2) if you must do it, this is how the process works and how to prepare your application patrickiber.org/2026/06/24/a...

patrickiber.org

A guide to preparing a Ph.D. application in History

Applying to graduate school is something that likely only happens once in a lifetime, and so almost no one doing it has experience in the process. The goal of this post is to help demystify the pro…

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Honoured to be chairing the Hakluyt Society essay prize committee for the second time, do consider submitting an essay and/or advertise to your PhD students/ECR colleagues. 🗃️ #earlymodern included!

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pretty interesting discussion about open vs. closed models - which strongly suggests that LLMs are here to stay and advances will continue even if the bubble pops.

ft.com

How big is the open-model threat to AI hyperscalers?

Games without frontiers

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Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Berkeley History is hiring in African History. Please help us spread the word😎 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05494?app...

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

Assistant Professor – African History - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Applications for the 2026-2027 OI Coffeehouses are officially open. ☕️ These virtual tables provide a supportive space for scholars to discuss methodology, share work in progress, and build community. 📅 Apply by Sep 11, 2026. Seats are strictly limited. 🔗 bit.ly/4r1TFFh

oieahc.wm.edu

New OI Coffeehouse Tables!

Connecting Vast Early America

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This story is nuts. OpenAI noted that solving this problem required using considerably more computing power than it had previously spent on solving mathematical problems. The amount required cost “in the millions of dollars,” said Mark Chen, head of research at OpenAI.

wired.com

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Beautiful interview with the late, great Natalie Zemon Davis, from a few years ago. I wonder if there other podcast episodes with her so I can keep hearing her infectious enthusiasm (even at 91!). @onslies.bsky.social

open.spotify.com

‘One of Our Greatest Living Historians’

Dan Snow's History Hit · Episode

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is awful when you have classes to prep and deadlines to meet but then you find out while procrastinating that a random archive has a bunch of potentially interesting stuff online...

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Confiança baixa não significa descarte: significa que a hipótese permanece aberta e sob observação, e que qualquer uso externo seria prematuro." O mais surreal dessa briga interna do STF é que o documento usado pelo Moraes contra o Mendonça parece ter sido escrito pelo ChatGPT…

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Brava to 🎉 @csschmitt.bsky.social 🎉 and the other two great finalists! 🗃️

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Looking forward to discussion my paper (a chapter of my book manuscript) at the @oieahc.bsky.social colloquia February 11! Now I just have to finish writing the paper...

oieahc.wm.edu

Colloquia - OIEAHC

Apply by May 15 to present at next year's OI colloquium series.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As someone who is now using an orchestrator Sol agent spawning a host of subagents to check their own work (going through hundreds of thousands of pages of HTR transcriptions of Dutch records to find relevant stuff for my research), this story is WILD. Hard not to be alarmed about the takeover.

dwarkesh.com

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Really good MIT report on LLMs and education, which I read because @biblioracle.bsky.social recommended it. I wish my institution would do something like that, adapted to our different resource constraints and situation.

aiandeducation.mit.edu

Report – AI and Education

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Perhaps the most important contributions of a humanities education is the capacity to question an apparently convincing account, to understand where information comes from and what it leaves out, and to recognise that several plausible interpretations can coexist.“

lucaspoy.substack.com

The AI conversation should be with students, not about them

Image: Cuban literacy campaign 1960-61Thanks for reading Tomorrow Never Knows!

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“When people let a chatbot do their writing—even if they’re guiding and carefully reviewing its work—they might not realize that it’s doing some of their thinking too”

theatlantic.com

A Turning Point in AI Writing

The Wall Street Journal is defending an op-ed written by a chatbot.

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Over the past five months, I've been using Codex to go through hundreds of thousands of archival images in half a dozen languages searching for relevant sources for my research. It found thousands of documents, some extremely interesting, others just unexpected.

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