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New blog post from me on what AI is and isn't, and why we all have a democratic duty to do some myth busting before the dreaded management sci-fi comes to get us www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

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Want to contribute to open source software used by libraries and galleries all around the world? Our next community sprints will be kicking off May 7, June 10, and July 1! Our focus for these three sprints is...

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🔊 Just one month left to nominate your work - or work you love - for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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Don't miss the April issue of #ReviewsInDH: Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Preservation, edited by Madeleine Kraft. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n4

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📣 How can #DigitalHumanities help in times of crisis? Join us in less than 1 week for @roopikarisam.bsky.social's public lecture, with introductions by @stuartdunn.bsky.social @s-tanner.bsky.social 📍Hybrid event (KCL & online) 🗓️ 1 May 2025 🍷 Drinks after! 🔗 Register: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...

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How do I become a volunteer on Zooniverse - the world’s largest and most popular people-powered research platform? Do I need to register? Can I get a certificate for school or community service hours? All your questions answered in this short video! Plus, do not hesitate to ask us in the comments

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let’s be clear that personalisation amounts to determining a person’s future based on recurring patterns of the past. if you belong to a groups that society has not been kind to in the past (black & brown, LGBTQI, poor, disabled, etc), AI personalisation ensures your future encodes past injustice

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Received a very kind & thoughtful note from a local administrator about a grant proposal we worked very hard on together last fall that will now never even be reviewed. It was genuinely quite meaningful to read—if you can let folks know you recognize what’s being taken right now, let them know

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Thinking about the huge Park & Ride sites that circle cities like York (UK). Assuming the generation figure below is accurate, at peak, solar covering could supply every home in the city with cheap, clean energy - twice over. Why aren't we doing this everywhere?

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Did you know that we give away free credits to students who want to use Transkribus for their Bachelor, Master or PhD thesis? Lean more about our Transkribus Scholarships 👇 www.transkribus.org/scholarship

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If you’re admiring the chirping birds this Earth Day, you may have Rachel Carson to thank. A brilliant biologist, Carson led the charge against harmful pesticides in the 1960s and helped launch the modern environmental movement. Read more here ⤵️

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Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Remember my free idea that there should be a website where you can enter a disease/condition/procedure and see the NIH grants that saved your/your loved ones’ lives? @nihildev.bsky.social picked it up and ran with it and now IT EXISTS! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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How should the humanities leverage LLMs? ▶️Domain-specific pretraining! Pretraining models can be a research tool, it's cheaper than LoRA, and allows studying 💠grammatical change 💠emergent word senses 💠who knows what more… Train on your data with our pipeline or use ours! #AI #LLM 🤖📈

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A Must Read: How to read a paper that involves the use of #AI in clinical settings? What types of AI are being used? Ethical principles? Publication guidelines? Plus 10 Questions to ask of a paper on AI based decision support. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/... @CILIPHLG #CriticalAppraisal

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if you change the name on a CV from a man to a woman's name, recruiters immediately rate it as 18% less competent. they don't stop to check gametes/wombs. pretending all sexism is rooted in a particular biology leaves us with no way to talk about systemic bias against female intellect & ambition.

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They’re so worthless that their product wouldn’t work without them. But this is nothing new: corporations always try to pretend the value of labor is worthless so they can maximize their profits when they lay claim to that labor by coercion, force, or theft.

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For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about Meta's defense of training its AI on millions of pirated books, including: they didn't read the pirated copies, it would be annoying to license them, and they don't think the books are individually worth anything to them, anyway. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

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SXSW is coming to London from 2-7th June, and its exactly as you might expect: Expensive, AI, NFTs. I propose FKFJ: The exact opposite of SXSW, on the same dates. An distributed affordable community thing across London, about technology, music, and art. No central org. Just put on an event. Yes?

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The wait is over! The DH2025 academic program is out now. 🎉 Check out all the sessions and speakers here: 📚✨ www.conftool.pro/dh2025/sessi...

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A conference presenting the brilliant work of many people over many years.. most immediately myself, colleagues at @oxford-vgg.bsky.social, @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and elsewhere. Come for the computer vision stay for the incunables, or vice versa

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Can we ban the phrase “no one knows about X”? Bc it must means you didn’t know. If someone wrote a book about it, I promise plenty of people know. Just say you recently learned about it, and let’s be proud of our curiosity.

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Sustainable Databases in the Humanities: scientoconference.com/sdh-2025/cfa/

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Everyone should be allowed to live and present however they please and society ought to have a duty to accommodate us all without discrimination, marginalisation or bullying. But instead a shit load of privileged, wealthy white folks have once again decided "fuck that".

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Just a little update for the busy, from the world of science: 1) There's no life on K2-18b 2) Vaccines cause adults 3) They are not Dire Wolves Carry on.

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Not having usable toilets is a way to stop people being out in public. I hope this ruling will be appealed, but until it is, hope buildings will make their toilets gender neutral. I'm already starting to see this, with "Cubicles/Urinal" signage.

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"When right-wing extremists come after public education...They are coming after your ability to consume information, to read books that speak to your identity, to develop empathy for your peers, to think critically about the world around you." Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/studen...

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Here's the video they reposted without credit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Br...

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We've added some answers to Frequently Asked Questions to the #AI4LAM #FF2025 Fantastic Futures 2025 conference page sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/... Keep them coming so we can keep answering them!

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Do you know about The Interview Questions Repository? The Interview Questions Repository is a Google sheet with questions that have been asked on more than 600 library or LIS interviews over the last decade.

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This is another great and short read from @inesmontani.bsky.social at spaCy. It has a lot of implications for those who work in the humanities and industry. explosion.ai/blog/modular... #MachineLearning

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GLAM tech / metadata folk (but mostly probably Archives folk in practice), some help with a vibe check - if I say 'records in context', what's your response? #AI4LAM #GLAMtech #RecordsInContext #archives

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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Ellie Wiesel, 2009 National Humanities Medalist Good night, humanities friends. Tomorrow, there’ll be more of us.

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This post beautifully sums up me trying to get Node and Python and everything else playing nicely on Monday anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-... 😆

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As a citizen of an imperial nation, that, with Brexit, had its own unforced implosion: I think the thing that will hurt Americans most in the end isn’t the mockery, it’s the indifference as people move on from you. “We are the world’s laughing stock!” “No. They’re not even thinking about us.”

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Are you a PhD student? Interested in working with @britishlibrary.bsky.social collections? Take a look at the next Doctoral Open Day, which is on the Library's digital collections. I'll be talking about the Digital Research Team @bldigischol.bsky.social! Friday 23 May events.bl.uk/events/not-j...

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Can anyone in The Hague help me source some scrap metal strips? It's for a volunteer greenhouse project. I can explain in more detail in a message. #DenHaag #ZuidHolland #TheHague

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Excited to see Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice featured by Project MUSE today. Open access was funded by a PSC-CUNY Research Award through the CUNY Research Foundation & Maastricht Library's Open Book fund.

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