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Mina Monier @mmonier.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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Murder. Theft. Tischendorf. Codex Alexandrinus. GA 81. What brings those together? A journey to Alexandria, a trail of manuscripts, and a mystery with more twists than expected, hidden in the story of a grieving library: futureofthepastlab.com/2026/05/27/c...

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Codex Alexandrinus and GA 81: Lessons from a Grieving Library

May 27th, 2026 By Mina Monier The ‘Walled-Up’ Library and GA 81 Mina Monier, MF Norwegian School of Theology In October 2017, less than two months before my PhD defence, I travelled back to Egypt i…

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 22/05/2026

I just updated my Greek Minuscule LLM HTR Benchmark and added the latest frontier models in addition to some open weight and other models. Some spoilers: Gemini is still far ahead for all metrics. Grok and Llama are about as bad as it gets. d-flood.github.io/paleo-bench/

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Paleo Bench | HTR Model Leaderboard

Compare handwritten Greek text recognition performance across LLM vision models with ranking, CER/WER quality, latency, and cost metrics.

Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

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As always, you can check out the source code directly on GitHub, or you can install the latest version easily with pip via pip install teiphy

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

🚨 Job Alert: We’re hiring! The information infrastructure project INF of @sfb1475 currently has two openings for #DigitalHumanities researchers (full time, 3,5 years). We build the central research infrastructure for a collaborative research center comprising researchers working on metaphors in […]

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 24/02/2026

I've just published Paleo-Bench a simple multi-modal bench test for how current frontier models transcribe Greek minuscule manuscripts. d-flood.github.io/paleo-bench/ You can see the human transcribed transcription side by side with the model transcription and with IIIF image viewer.

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Paleo Bench | HTR Model Leaderboard

Compare handwritten Greek text recognition performance across LLM vision models with ranking, CER/WER quality, latency, and cost metrics.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 26/01/2026

Refreshed personal site: davidaflood.com Finally retired the Django version. Not because I've soured on Django (I haven't), but because a static site is basically free forever and it'll never go down.

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David Flood

Portfolio of David Flood, a Software Engineer for Arts & Humanities Research Computing at Harvard and textual critic of the Greek New Testament.

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 26/01/2026

How many other areas will actually get better because those people were _below_ average and now AI is elevating them? I'm still thinking through the implications

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 24/01/2026

We've been talking about how generative AI produces average results. I've been thinking about pastors who use AI to write their sermons. I'd bet that this is an upgrade for a lot of churches. It must be true that for many, this means better sermons because the floor is higher.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 22/01/2026

I'll be joining Michael Kennedy on the @talkpython.fm podcast tomorrow to discuss Python in my corner of the #DigitalHumanities Tune in for the live stream to ask real time questions www.youtube.com/live/ZaI2AxR...

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Python in Digital Humanities - Talk Python Live Stream

YouTube video by Talk Python

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 11/12/2025

I stood up a demo site for my new (work-in-progress) IIIF image viewer d-flood.github.io/triiiceratop... Goal is to be sleek but powerful. Supports IIIF search service and annotation rendering.

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Triiiceratops IIIF Viewer Demo

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 18/11/2025

This CloudFlare outage took down Apatosaurus v2, but not for anyone who installed the PWA from their browser

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 18/11/2025

Wow, thanks to the CloudFlare outage for illustrating why online research platforms should be offline capable PWAs!

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- Notifying the user of their sync status based only on internet access is not sufficient. It might be the case that the server goes down. If so, then the user still needs to be able to do their work but still be notified of the gap in sync.

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- The current offline/online status needs to be clearly communicated to the user. "Clearly" being the keyword because in the case of Apatosaurus, there are multiple databases to sync locally. One per transcription document _and_ one for the other metadata.

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My working working theory for offline capable apps that do work on data: - If the app allows editing data offline, then it had better have a robust mechanism for "catching up" when back online.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 29/01/2025

A short demo of Apatosaurus v2 offline functionality for the TEI compatible transcription editor. #digitalhumanities

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The candidate will work with my team but be dedicated to a single project. Maybe info: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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Senior Software Engineer - Harvard University - Job Details

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 29/01/2025

My team is looking to fill a technical #DH #digitalhumanities 2-year position. This is for a senior full stack software engineer with fluency in modern and literary Chinese, advanced knowledge of ML and gen AI, and academic research experience.

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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Zach Butler has just posted an instructive overview of @davidaflood.com's Apatosaurus app for working with a digital textual apparatus. He even mentioned my open-cbgm software, and it sounds like he's planning to post more about that next! Check out his post below, and keep an eye out for more!

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 31/12/2024

I would guess it's an indexing bug. Maybe you updated the file, which triggered a reindexing, and instead of replacing that index entry, a new one was appended.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 31/12/2024

We (wife and other kids) agreed to play a bit of DnD with my son; he wanted to GM, but none of us had played before. My character's commitment to pacifism kinda threw a wrench into the plans.

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 06/12/2024

I've been using this _super_ simple queue and task consumer for my Django projects for two years and I've finally written a README for it so people other than myself can make sense of it. Now that it has a little test suite I think it's fine to make it public github.com/d-flood/peas...

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GitHub - d-flood/peasy-jobs: An "easy peasy" background worker for Django.

An "easy peasy" background worker for Django. Contribute to d-flood/peasy-jobs development by creating an account on GitHub.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 25/11/2024

This is great! Glad you were able to snag the perfect domain too.

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Jacob W. Peterson @jacobwpeterson.com · 21/11/2024

One of my personal project papyrus46.com is online. It brings together a complete set of the latest digital images and the transcriptions I produced for my doctoral thesis. You can also add images and transcriptions from Kenyon's ed. pr. for comparison. It also contains an extensive bibliography.

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Papyrus 46

Free online images and transcriptions of Papryus 46

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 19/11/2024

I sympathize as I also have to sit out this year.

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 19/11/2024

I'm so jealous of everyone getting ready for #SBLAAR. This is my first year both missing it and not presenting since 2019. This year's travel budget went toward my graduation in Edinburgh. No regrets, but bummed to miss my first year as Dr. Flood. Have fun all! #sblaar24

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 11/06/2024

#PhDone All requirements satisfied, nothing to do now but wait for my degree to be conferred.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 07/06/2024

With the fracturing of my Biblical studies and digital humanities social media communities, I've forgotten about Bsky (I like browsing Mastedon with the Phanpy client more and more lately). So here is my obligatory conference attendance post: I really enjoyed the #iiif annual conference.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 09/01/2024

My team, Arts and Humanities Research Computing at Harvard University is hiring a software engineer to work on digital humanities projects. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

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BIG NEWS: My latest article with Rob Turnbull, "Using Bayesian Phylogenetics to Infer Manuscript Transmission History," is now accessible as an open-access advance article in DSH: academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Title and abstract of our paper (click URL for details)

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 12/12/2023

I was looking for some information on decomposing extended Greek Unicode characters in Python; look who popped up in my search results with the answer: jktauber.com/articles/pyt... @jtauber.com

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Python, Unicode and Ancient Greek

at the intersection of computing, linguistics, philology, and learning science

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 12/12/2023

I've been working with the Arts and Humanities Research Computing team and Harvard University since June. This week I will visit campus for the first time, including a tour of Houghton library's rare book collection! They have a few NT manuscripts I wouldn't mind seeing....

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 16/11/2023

I did it. My SBL presentation will be accompanied by a web page instead of slides. I could run my talk with my phone (I went ahead and made it mobile friendly too)

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 16/11/2023

I think I'm going to use HTML/CSS/JS for my SBL presentation instead of slides

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 16/11/2023

Yikes, SBL is coming way too fast. Since there isn't a scheduled NTTC dinner this year, I hope we still find a way to get together!

Homo Modernus @homomodernus.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

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If you are into historical network research + manuscripts, this special issue of JHNR will be something for you. 📄 Six great papers applying network analysis to manuscripts and textual transmission. jhnr.uni.lu/index.php/jh...

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 25/10/2023

I'm also booked up except for Monday afternoon. Actually, I'm double and triple booked most other sessions, so I'm kicking the decision-can a little further down the road

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 23/10/2023

Reading through my PhD thesis, I'm reminded of this relatable spelling error in a manuscript: ἐξαπατάτω ] εξαπατατατω Which I note is similar to the struggle some experience when spelling "banana" out loud—unless you imagine Gwen Stefani saying it, then you're never wrong.

David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 22/10/2023

Bulk find/replace is so dangerous to run on a 100k word document... Just found "7-eighth" in my *submitted* thesis

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 19/10/2023

I wish I could start thinking about SBL (I'm presenting after all!) but my viva is next week. So, until then, I don't even know what SBL is.

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David A Flood @davidaflood.com · 18/10/2023

Corollary: more snacks and alcohol.