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5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.

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VIS4DH is back at @ieeevis.bsky.social, November 2025 in Vienna! Find the Call for Papers here, focusing on the Visualization of Conflict and Peace: vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/

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What fun from @zooniverse.bsky.social and @archive.org - Picturing Children's Stories, asking volunteers to describe children’s book illustrations to develop AI that can better understand the visual history of storytelling. Altho I will warn that pre 1920s kids lit can have "interesting" morals...!

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Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'

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Prague is pure hoaching

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View from a hotel room… #prague 😍 here for fun not work but #academicglamour nevertheless

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Glazing my pots tonight… let’s see how they turn out!

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Electronic Legal Deposit materials are back online in 5 legal deposit reading rooms after the British Library cyberattack! Hurrah. But not in London yet. ICYDK, this encompasses vast swathes of modern digital texts including journal papers & books, & other media. Great to see it back!

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Such fun to put this together, both to celebrate 5 years of operating commercially as a coop, & in tribute to Günter Mühlberger, who has just completed his term as chair of the board. Thanks to the community for their hard work, & to Günter for leading the way to cooperative & responsible AI.

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A bit of Edinburgh #histmed that's new to me

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"... tricky place names such as Milngavie and Achnasheen are inputted phonetically as "Mill-guy" and "Akna-sheen" to help the software avoid embarrassing mistakes". small voice if your purported scotbot pronounces "ch" as "k" that _is_ an embarrassing mistake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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View from a hotel, #Durham #academicglamour. It is v posh actually! Being put up after a workshop on HPC infrastructure design for the Arts & Humanities, for www.ccpahc.ac.uk

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Absolutely delighted that "Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children's Literature" is one of the 12 most downloaded Cambridge University Press Element books, as they publish their 2000th one! It was a joy to research and put together. www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Are you a member of EADH/one of our AOs? Do you want to shape how we support our community, how we lobby for DH research funding, how we distribute grants, how we publish? Then pls nominate yourself to serve on Executive Committee by 28 May! We encourage both new and experienced members to nominate!

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Getting to know #Edinburgh shortcuts 😍

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31 years of seeing Kristin Hersh live, and I finally got to see her rock out with the Throwing Muses. Joyous! She’s always so happy making big, syncopated noise!

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Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de 2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities ‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI ‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space ⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025 www.fau.eu/people/worki... @fauphil.bsky.social

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The convergence of heritage digitisation plus a fully digital production pipeline in the creative industries mean we’ll see more of this, which requires careful governance & data protection to avoid unethical use, or the creation of misinformation. Are we in the heritage sector ready…?

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TW - assault. Just done @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's mandatory new training on sexual harassment. The most important thing to remember - when being sexually assaulted in the workplace - is to REMAIN POLITE. That will lead to Success!!! jfc 🫠

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Bloody hell. So much access to shared heritage - which digitisation allows, and supports - just cut off at the knees, day after day after day... (do read the thread: and, organise and download whatever datasets you can, right now).

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AI, Authenticity, & the Future of 3D Cultural Heritage: Challenges and opportunities for GLAM in a world of AI-generated content - essential reading from @nebulousflynn.bsky.social

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Exploring today… down to Granton, and the sea front 🌞🏖️ #edinburgh

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Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef

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Proof reading your book index in the mid 2020s be like...

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All set up for primary school sports day #parklife #edinburgh

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Creative Tech Scotland Gathering 2025 – June 20 Scotland's creative communities are set to converge at the Creative Tech Scotland Gathering 2025, a one-day event dedicated to exploring the dynamic intersection of creativity and technology. Hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the gathering…

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Gorse yellow 😍 #edinburgh

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Seeking PhD student to work on '“Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism'. AHRC-funded @sgsah.bsky.social & supervised by Paul Gooding, @melissaterras.bsky.social , @semames.bsky.social and me. Please share! melissaterras.org/2025/05/06/s...

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Very pleased to say Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social and I are looking for a PhD student, funded by AHRC @sgsah.bsky.social. Topic: '“Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism'. Closing 5pm, Friday 30th May 2025. Please share!

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This looks familiar, as my PhD was on this 25 years ago! but great new approaches are being developed: AHRC PhD studentship - Decoding the Vindolanda tablets: Generative AI to reassemble, read and restore Roman handwritten texts, with The British Museum jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

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I love being Scottish. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 😂

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