Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Joined Nov 2022
**From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life**
🔗 https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/07/from-ancient-globes-to-cosmic-shrouds-the-stories-maps-tell/.
#Maps #Cartography #Maine #Library #Archive
#Image attribution: Adam Bernaert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Bernaert_-_%22Vanitas%22_Still_Life_-_Walters_37682.jpg.
🖥️ **Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’**
"_Farid says that he now counsels students to not go into AI research, because of the “frenzy” in the field and the large volume of low-quality work being put out by people hoping to better their career prospects._"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers.
#News #Press #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia
#Image attribution: Gre123gr, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Backlit_Laptop_Keyboard.jpg.
🖥️ **Expert Comment: What should we do about chatbots?**
"_He argues that we must educate users to see these systems not as new members of the human community, but as tools that risk reducing both therapy and relationships to one-dimensional, instrumental exchanges."_
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-12-05-expert-comment-what-should-we-do-about-chatbots.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Technology #Tech #Ethics
#Image attribution: piqsels, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piqsels.com-id-zbxec.jpg.
🇩🇰 📖 🔭 **The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe**
"_The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lord-of-uraniborg/06D94F2184A543176965B1D026B41D31.
#History #Denmark #Science #Astronomy #HistSci #Nonfiction #Biography #TychoBrahe #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_de_Gheyn_Ii_-_Portrait_of_Tycho_Brahe,_astronomer_(without_a_hat)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg.
🌡️ 🌍 **New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a global rise in infectious diseases**
"_Participants reported that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create an escalating health crisis that could become a ‘creeping catastrophe’ if left unaddressed._"
#News #Research #Study #Science #Epidemiology #Health #Medicine #Climate #ClimateChange
#Image attribution: James Gathany, USCDCP, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosquito_on_human_skin.jpg.
**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.
🖥️ **Bosses think AI will boost productivity — but it's actually deskilling workers, a professor says**
_"It's one thing for a senior coder to use AI," she said. "But the junior people are useless because they cannot help themselves from using it."_
_Because they lean on AI from day one, Berg said, they never build the foundational knowledge required to understand what the AI is doing — let alone verify or correct it._
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are-deskilling-workers-philosophy-professor-2025-11.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Careers #Jobs #Productivity #Deskilling
#Image attribution: Openbiblio, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Science_hybride_V1.jpg.
📚 **Why is BookTok so obsessed with reading goals?**
"_Not only can many people not afford to purchase hundreds of books a year (or a Kindle to do so on) but if you are not a full-time BookTok influencer you likely spend most of your day at school or work, and therefore would not have the time in the day to read so much even if you wanted to._"
🔗 https://nouse.co.uk/articles/2025/11/28/why-is-booktok-so-obsessed-with-reading-goals.
#Reading #Books #SocialMedia #BookTok #Booktube
#Image attribution: freestocks.org from Olsztyn, Poland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_pile_of_books_(29767858348).jpg.
📚 📻 **Books We Love: NPR staffers' favorite nonfiction books of 2025**
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_03.JPG.
📖 **Why the World Keeps Making New Joans of Arc and Why that Matters**
"_The Joans of Arc phenomenon is ultimately a story about how we use the medieval past to tell modern stories about gender, heroism, race, and nationhood._"
#Nonfiction #Medieval #History #Books
#Image attribution: Paul Dubois, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeanne_d%27Arc_Paris_Paul_Dubois.jpg.
🇳🇿 **Why does New Zealand keep disappearing from world maps?**
_Cooper-Jones points out that even a New Zealand government 404 error page once displayed a world map missing the country entirely, with a cheeky message: "We’re sorry, something’s missing…"_
🔗 https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/why-does-new-zealand-keep-disappearing-from-world-maps.
#NewZealand #NZ #Maps #Cartography
#Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. #Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:(1899)_MAP_OF_NEW_ZEALAND_-_comp._by_Irvine.jpg.
📚 🇬🇧 **MPs launch inquiry amid warning of ‘generational shift’ in reading for pleasure**
"_It comes after the National Literacy Trust found earlier this year only one in three (33%) of young people aged eight to 18 say they read in their spare time._
_This has fallen from 51% in 2005 – which translates to a 36% fall – and is the lowest level seen in 20 years._"
#Literacy #Reading #Books #UK #UnitedKingdom
#Image attribution: freestocks.org from Olsztyn, Poland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Girl_reading_a_book_(31986460391).jpg.
**Map: Central Europe, 919-1125**
#History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartopgraphy
#Image attribution: William R. Shepherd (died 1934), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Europe,_919-1125.jpg.
**Frankish Dominions (486-768)**
#History #Histodons #Europe #Maps #Cartography
#Image attribution: Alexander Keith Johnston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C._768_Frankish_Dominions_(486-768).jpg.
🧠 **Scrolling TikTok can actually cause 'brain rot' according to surprising new study**
"_The findings were hard to ignore: heavier short-form consumption was consistently associated with poorer cognitive performance, particularly when it comes to attention and inhibitory control, the skills that help us stay focused and resist distractions._"
🔗 https://www.indy100.com/news/tiktok-brain-rot-cause-study.
#News #TikTok #Videos #Shorts #BrainRot #Cognition #Psychology
#Image attribution: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1265489, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone-mobile-hand-technology-internet-finger.jpg.
**Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records**
"_The library’s collection, the most complete set of Nuremberg Trials documents outside that of the United States National Archives, offers more than 750,000 pages of transcripts, briefs, and evidence exhibits from the 13 cases brought against Nazi military and political leaders from 1945 to 1949._"
#History #Histodon #NurembergTrials #Nazis #Harvard #Archives #Library #Digital #Documents
#Image attribution: English: Work of the United States Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defendants_in_the_dock_at_the_Nuremberg_Trials.jpg.
🏴 **Medieval peasants enjoyed a surprising range of sick, annual and bereavement leave benefits**
"_By comparison – as our new paper shows – peasants on the estate of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire, England, were entitled to up to a year and a day of leave from working on the lord’s lands if they were sick. Meanwhile widows were granted leave upon the death of their husbands and workers enjoyed plenty of religious feast days and festivals every year._"
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Peasants #England
#Image attribution: See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medievalplowingwoodcut.jpg.
🇺🇸 ⚖️ **Reintroducing Justice Robert Jackson**
"_More than seventy years after Jackson issued it, his Youngstown concurrence remains the most authoritative statement of the scope of executive power under the Constitution._"
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/11/reintroducing-justice-robert-jackson/.
#History #Histodons #Legal #SCOTUS #USA #US
#Image attribution: Harris & Ewing, photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Service-pnp-hec-21600-21656v_(cropped).jpg.
**‘Parasocial’ is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025**
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/parasocial-is-cambridge-dictionary-word-of-the-year-2025
#News #Words #Language #Linguistics
#Image attribution: https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1265489, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smartphone-mobile-hand-technology-internet-finger.jpg.
** Pepin of Herstal after the battle of Tertry in 687**
#Image attribution: Jean-Michel Moreau, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean_Michel_Moreau_-_Pepin_of_Herstal_after_the_battle_of_Tertry_in_687.jpg.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
