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That feeling of efficiency when it’s 9.30am and you’ve already delivered a keynote lecture and Q&A!

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Upping this one final time - applications close this Sunday (25th May).

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Yes! Hallucinations and sycophancy are not some unintended consequence of AI. They are features, not bugs. If we want to improve things, we need changes in design, governance and incentives, not end-of-pipe fixes.

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🗞️ Just released a Parquet version of the Newspaper Navigator dataset on @hf.co! - 3M+ visual elements from historic US newspapers — photos, maps, cartoons, OCR + metadata. - Parquet = fast filters, easier analysis. - Great for ML + cultural research. 👉 huggingface.co/datasets/big...

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A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

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New from @englishassociation.bsky.social! English opens doors: fliers with info on skills and careers for English students, teachers, parents now available to download. englishassociation.ac.uk/english-open...

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Big news: the UK universities sector that does all of the research is in financial freefall and there are No F***ing Jobs for the people already here. We honestly live in the stupidest timeline

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🎉Our Special Issue “When Data Turns into Archives: Making Digital Records More Accessible with AI”, a key output of the AHRC-funded LUSTRE project, is now published in AI & Society! 📚 link.springer.com/collections/... 🙌Thanks to all contributors! #AI #Archives

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Ben shows that if you've been paying taxes since NEH's founding in 1965, your total lifetime tax contributions to the only agency dedicated to funding the humanities in the United States could instead have covered a single tank of gas in your car. Ben was NEH's data scientist until last month.

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✨✨Maps & newspaper research from LwM & MRM teams (@danielwilson.bsky.social @joshrhodes.bsky.social @jonhistorian61.bsky.social @nottinauta.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social + more) featured in @pnas.org this week! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Grateful to Steven Gunn for such a thoughtful and detailed engagement.

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Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century This collection offers a range of perspectives on the present and future of digital editing and publishing. Available open access and in print: doi.org/10.62637/sup... #digitalhumanities #openaccess #digitaleditions #digitalpublishing

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My university employs more than 6000 people. Even if you simply don’t care about the 2,800 academics, there are far more administrative staff, technical staff, security guards, caterers, cleaners who would lose their jobs if we went under.

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

LLMs are nothing more than models of the distribution of the word forms in their training data, with weights modified by post-training to produce somewhat different distributions. Unless your use case requires a model of a distribution of word forms in text, indeed, they suck and aren't useful.

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Please sign and share 🙏 This letter is a perfectly written breakdown of where we currently stand and Falkners abuse of both position and ruling. With frontbenchers who could be receptive let's throw as much weight behind it as possible

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A couple of months ago, the minister dismissed a question about what European models of funding she was looking at for inspiration for #UKHE by claiming she had no time for that. Grateful to @wonkhe.bsky.social for doing her work for her. The market isn’t sacrosanct. In fact, it is very reductive.

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Sneak peak: MapReader data created by @kirstylilley.bsky.social for vegetation & more on historical OS map sheets in @peakdistrict.bsky.social & @southdownsnp.bsky.social for the "Landscape Change & Conservation with MapReader" project w/@natlibscot.bsky.social @dataculture.bsky.social & both parks

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The 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History celebrates the best of digital history internationally. You have until 30 May to nominate your work or work you love. Please consider doing so. ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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One of my favourite ever collaborators and co-authors.

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👋 I'm a Federal Chief Data Officer seeking my next opportunity: ideally guiding an organization to thrive amidst changing technological and financial realities. If you know of anything for a senior leader who cares deeply and broadly, please reach out to [email protected].

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

Exciting funding opportunity over at Schmidt Sciences for people working at the interface of humanities + AI. EOIs due 4 April. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

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Im often frustrated by my lack of time, and resentful of how much busywork I have to do in my job, but reviewing is never a "wasted workday". Im often late with them, but reviewing is about respect, reciprocity and being part of a community of scholars--those who review my work are similarly busy.

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 77 days ago • 61 comments

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

submitted 78 days ago • 22 comments

Crucial reading.

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Already a time capsule, but back in January a bunch of us working at the intersection of the humanities and AI/ML came together to sketch out eight provocations from the humanities for genAI research. Here's a 🧵 1/ arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190

submitted 80 days ago • 5 comments

Call for participants: focus group on responsible AI training provision for the cultural heritage community. #responsibleAI #HeritageSector

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Friends and colleagues: if you have work that has previously been made available via #PubMed or other federal infrastructure, please find other ways to share it. For instance: KC Works is a non-profit, community-governed repository (built on top of CERN's InvenioRDM). works.hcommons.org

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Sick and tired of trying to make people understand that UK universities have never had less money to teach students with, in real terms, than they do now.

submitted 86 days ago • 3 comments

From your friends at #ReviewsInDH: "We firmly believe that the integrity of knowledge production depends on a commitment to championing a broad range of perspectives, voices, and stories, and we will continue to honor our commitment."

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Reviews in DH doing the just thing by committing to continuing its just design+mission, fully aware how it reduces potential sources of funding. 👏 Such a model initiative:

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment