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arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190 we're still tinkering, but couldn't wait to share.

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs. I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share. I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project. www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals. Read more👇 www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

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My team have been working hard to improve the way we communicate about all the good things they're doing. Here's my colleague Matt Phillips on the business of reprocessing twenty years' worth of OCR. library.soton.ac.uk/digital-scho...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

📢 Closing Monday! Our Digital Research Fellowship call closes this Monday, 17th February. The Fellowship offers £7,500 for a 3 month, remote-working project exploring our data. Find out more and apply on our website > data.nls.uk/projects/dig...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Call for book chapter proposals: Critical Approaches to Automated Text Recognition. Edited by me, Paul Gooding, @semames.bsky.social & @jnockels.bsky.social. Proposals on any critical topic relating to automated and advanced text recognition (including OCR, HTR, etc) are welcome by 31st March 25.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

What does it mean for the UK to follow the US and not sign the French AI Summit Statement? Blog post on the descent of global AI policy in to WWE-style showmanship, and where that leaves the UK.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

I am thrilled to announce that we're offering a funded collaborative PhD studentship between the University of Leeds and Ripon Musuems Trust! The project explores the history of the gaol and police station in the 19th/20th C alongside contemporary representations of policing (e.g. in periodicals):

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Yes - I’ve found the ‘responsible’ discourse around AI uncomfortable and problematic. This looks a great PhD opportunity ->

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The new interactive maps of Scotland's census data were released this week. They are fascinating! I have already spent hours exploring them, and there is so much more to look at! www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/atlas/

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Developer creates infinite maze that traps AI training bots 🔗 www.404media.co/developer-cr...

submitted 47 days ago • 72 comments

I was asked to write an Op Ed piece by @resprofnews.bsky.social on universities cancelling journal Big Deals: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v... I was keen to stress that at least some of any savings must be used to support new, fairer models

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

The chair of the anti monopolies watchdog has been sacked and replaced with a former Amazon boss, just as it starts to investigate tech companies. But it's not Trump, it's the Labour Party. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 49 days ago • 26 comments

Cringing before the tech giants is no way to make Britain an AI superpower www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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UK Ministry of Defence enlists sci-fi writers to prepare for dystopian futures

submitted 51 days ago • 31 comments

Pleased that @writerscentre.bsky.social are working with @suffolklibraries.bsky.social on Bound/Unbound, a new programme for emerging poets in Suffolk! All details: www.suffolklibraries.co.uk/vacancies/bo...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

One month until our Digital Research Fellowship call closes: £7,500 for a three month project exploring datasets on our Data Foundry, this year with a theme around the application of AI tools to the collections. More information: data.nls.uk/projects/dig...

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Two full-time, permanent Curator jobs (Industrial Era and Early Modern Era) available at National Library of Scotland in the Department of Published Collections: nls.current-vacancies.com/Careers/nls-...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Applications are open for our Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellowship with @iashedinburgh.bsky.social! Don't miss the opportunity to join a dynamic scholarly community at the UoE, collaborate with CDCS and take part in IASH interdisciplinary events. Apply by 25 Apr, 5pm GMT: edin.ac/3CFWKpK

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Craig Callender just described this as the "dream team of agnotology": @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, and other stars not on bsky. UCSD Disinformation Summer Institute applications due Jan 31! tinyurl.com/5n8ndkxb

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

Love this scheme! Take note lovely DH friends, that it is a VIRTUAL fellowship.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Save the date for the 'Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism' conference on 10 and 11 April 2025, online and in person at Cambridge University. More info and registration details in January!

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to get this new dataset on Data Foundry over the finish line before the break: the Scottish Book Trade Index, which includes names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850. doi.org/10.34812/p9y...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

submitted 85 days ago • 200 comments

Way More Than Very Happy to announce this book, co-edited with the incomparable Isabel Galina, and co-authored with 70+ amazing folks from 5 continents: "The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities" www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... Tell your librarian!

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

Sharing my 2016 Library of Congress keynote on collections as data. I’ve spent a decade working with friends all over the world on collections as data. I’m thankful to learn from them and thankful that they have been willing to endure my terrible puns. thomaspadilla.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

"The University will not renew its 'big deal' subscription to Elsevier, which expires on 31 December 2024." Well done Sheffield! Here's hoping others follow suit next year... www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news...

submitted 90 days ago • 9 comments

THERE ARE SO MANY OF THEM 🎉 www.software.ac.uk/news/introdu...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Found this tucked away on Ipswich station, a little bit of archaeology for the commuter audience. I love how connected to the continent East Anglia had been in the past (but now it’s stuffed with little englanders)

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

A 'must read' on the history of early nineteenth century English radicalism. The journal '19' has brought together an eloquent series of essays on education & C19 culture. Open Access at www.19.bbk.ac.uk. Loved it. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social @luisacale.bsky.social

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

📜Fellowship in Digital Research 2025-26 | National Library of Scotland This year, the Fellowship’s theme relates to Artificial Intelligence/machine learning applied to Heritage Data. 📆 Deadline: 17 February 2025 ➡️ Duration: 3 months 🔗To apply: tinyurl.com/4fydt8r6 #digitalhumanities #medievalsky

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schism in how Americans see the world." - @alicetiara.bsky.social

submitted 97 days ago • 10 comments

And we have the LiDAR data of this ‘void’ area to boot, thanks to a collaboration with Asad Khan and @melissaterras.bsky.social doi.org/10.34812/6ch...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

And new up: Collections Consultation Data. This is anonymised data about reading room consultations of physical items. It's not the full picture (no eresources, maps, moving image/sound, serials, archives/MSS) but the start of wider work to release this info: doi.org/10.34812/yqq... #DayofDH2024

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The call for our annual fellowship is now open: £7,500 for a 3-month project exploring Data Foundry collections (data.nls.uk). Remote working welcome. What happens at the intersection of cultural heritage and new technologies? More information here: data.nls.uk/projects/dig... #DayofDH2024

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

These slides are so great. Loads of cool projects referenced here to follow up on, plus a kind mention of one of our Radical OA pamphlets on guerrilla open access.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Time is running fast🏃‍♂️… and the deadline was extended! ⏰ Don't miss the opportunity to submit your proposal to @adho Digital Humanities 2025, in NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal). The CFP is open until December 8th. + info: dh2025.adho.org/call-for-pro...

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

My work features prominently in a Nature editorial today. Great to see digital preservation being taken seriously. "Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, [...] was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 105 days ago • 14 comments

Visited the new Tusitala exhibition at NLS yesterday & was immediately transported to a previous life, in which I spent a lot of time with RLS-related collections. The Remediating Stevenson project is doing important work reassessing his legacy & impact in the Pacific: blogs.ed.ac.uk/remediating-...

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

This, a thousand times this

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