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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
🇮🇹 **A Thousand and One Nights in Italy**
"_In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style._"
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/.
#Essay #History #Histodons #Architecture #Orientalism #Art #Culture #Italy
#Image attribution: Vincenzo Paganori, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_by_Vincenzo_Paganori_of_Castello_di_Sammezzano_02.jpg.
**Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2**
"_Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic_"
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic
#Image attribution: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Reindeer_Graze_in_the_Arctic_(27428057380).jpg.
📚 **6 books that inspired IMD professors in 2025**
"_From the systemic roots of corporate scandals to the unseen human cost of AI, plus timely insights from a 50-year-old classic, IMD professors reveal the six books that shaped their thinking in 2025._"
🔗 https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/book-review/6-books-that-inspired-imd-professors-in-2025/.
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_03.JPG.
🗄️ **How to Start a Zettelkasten When You Are Stuck in Theory**
"_This guide is deliberately concise. It is written for people who struggle to get started and get stuck endlessly consuming Zettelkasten theory_"
🔗 https://zettelkasten.de/posts/how-to-start-zettelkasten-when-stuck-in-theory/.
#Studying #Learning #Zettelkasten #Notes #Guide #Tips #Advice
#Image attribution: Thought Catalog thoughtcatalog, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taking_notes_with_a_pencil_(Unsplash).jpg.
🇺🇸 **Religion Holds Steady in America**
"_Recent polling shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults_"
Smith, Gregory. 2025. “Religion Holds Steady in America.” Pew Research Center. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.58094/dkgp-6k90.
#Religion #Data #DataViz #Polls #Polling #USA #UnitedStates
#Image attribution: "Geralt", Pixabay User, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Cross%22_(3).jpg.
🇨🇳 **China is the top import partner for most countries in the world**
#Data #DataViz #Trade #Globalization #Economy #Economics #China
**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.
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
