Michael A. Innes

Yamabushi. Historian. Mad scientist. Mindful of law. RT = ambivalent peripherals.

Director: @KCL_CRU

MD: @CKS_Actual

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

Also, I might be an AI gremlin. https://t.co/JqlTCbupRp says its creators are Jeremy and Eric Ries. Nary a Mike Innes in sight...

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

@strickvl @jeremyphoward Hah. Not me. For what it's worth, "Mike Innes" is a bit like "John Smith" (in northeast Scotland, at any rate)

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

@strickvl @jeremyphoward Hah. Not me. For what it's worth, "Mike Innes" is a bit like "John Smith" (in northeast Scotland, at any rate)

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Ancient Greek thinkers like Socrates and Plato hated democratic elections.

They saw democracy as part of an endless cycle of regimes — destined to slip into mob rule.

But Polybius knew how to break the cycle... (thread) 🧵

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

TO: Korea, Malaya, Greece, Philippines

See below. Any thoughts?

Warm regards,

Dougie

Cc @jmichael424 @CLibiseller

[MLN @Tootsleeve]

@svd415 @buccocapital FWD: To: Syria, Libya, Pakistan, Korea

Hey can you guys chill the fuck out? My boss is really on my ass.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

ChatGPT generates fake references to papers that don't exist.

So, researchers at Stanford built Storm.

It's an AI-powered app that generates well-researched articles with references to published sources.

Here's how to use it:

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

This

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

ChatGPT will die.

Claude will die.

Gemini will die.

But your research skills won't.

Because the fundamentals stay constant:

→ Finding relevant research papers
→ Synthesizing knowledge
→ Designing experiments

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

Sure. That and, ermmm, ethics committees... peer reviewers... departmental politics... knowledge transfer...
https://t.co/nIaWGE4CFM

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

— Galileo Galilei

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

WOTD: "hydropunk" == > Dutch terraforming and water management + some sort of awkward retro coolness

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

The Netherlands is one of the most sci-fi places on earth

The Dutch deserve a new word: hydropunk

Over centuries, they have created & maintained one of the most advanced water management systems on the planet

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

@NC_Renic Zotero beckons...

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

Seconded

[Alessio Patalano @alessionaval]

Ministers should stop using the ‘after years of chaos’ every other tweet for 3 core reasons:
1. Elections are done, so campaigning styled slogans aren’t relevant anymore;
2. Since the overwhelming perception is one NOT of years of chaos, by repeating it you puzzle int. audiences;

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

@Nature 's on a roll, between this and its piece on the Royal Society's 200-year archive of peer reviews https://t.co/nIaWGE4CFM

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academic ironies

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

It's been a while. I'd assumed twitter (gasp) - sorry, X - being the dumpster fire that it is, had gone up in smoke. Apparently not.

Anyone still using this?

cc @warmatters

[Matthew Ford @warmatters]

If you're interested in military innovation, connectivity and changing patterns of participation in war then maybe give my Open Access article in @IAJournal_CH a go.

"From innovation to participation: connectivity and the conduct of contemporary warfare"

https://t.co/PuasI5voS6

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

This @HelfontSamuel piece on #Iraq's #archival inheritance is excellent - and includes some discussion of the now defunct Conflict Records Research Centre. #appliedhistory Cc @KCL_CRU

[Engelsberg Ideas @EngelsbergIdeas]

During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the American military seized millions of pages of secret documents from Saddam Hussein's regime, setting off an ongoing battle for the control of Iraqi history. | @HelfontSamuel

https://t.co/latlXuro3J

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

lurking

[Lyon Court @LyonCourt]

On #InternationalArchivesDay we celebrate the Public Register of Armorial Bearings in Scotland containing every coat of arms in legal use in Scotland since 1672, as well as countless older documents, pedigrees and birth brieves. A glorious part of our national patrimony.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

british partroopers jumping into normandy in 2024 have to....go through customs
(thanks, brexit)

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

It's been a minute...

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

@MaraRevkin @NSF @levy_gabriella @roya_talibova @DukeLaw Congratulations! Well done.

[Michael A. Innes @Michael_A_Innes]

Happy birthday to me - my wife knows me too well. I've been looking forward to reading this.

Another one to add to what's turning into a @RoryStewartUK shelf in the Innes House library...