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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

More Codeberg lately. Less GitHub. At home here, recovering some old FLOSS roots in academic computing. More to do and say and write than ever! codeberg.org

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

One of the best, most coherent explanations of #AI MCP agents I’ve yet seen (finally, b/c we needed this). TLDR: please be safe, learn the ways of docker, and containerize your #MCP agents! dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Model Context Protocol (MCP): Landscape, Security Threats, and Future Research Directions

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Anyone else migrating from GitHub to Codeberg? How's it going? For those teaching students to git, are you having them start out on Codeberg now? Is it better to give students a choice (in case GH still better for their networking) , or just start everyone clean on Codeberg? dev.to/alanwest/how...

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How to Actually Migrate from GitHub to Codeberg Without Losing Your Mind

A practical, step-by-step guide to migrating your repositories from GitHub to Codeberg without breaking everything or burning a weekend.

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DARIAH-EU @dariaheu.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

📢 DARIAH is hiring a Data Steward & Community Manager! 🌟 The role is part of STARDAST - a European Commission-funded project on stewardship and recognition for data science talent, led by European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) 🔜 Deadline: 12 June 2026 ➡️ More: www.dariah.eu/2026/05/20/j...

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The quantity and variety of projects in this list demonstrate a rich field of dignified labor with practical consequences. AI resistance work could make smaller, efficient, far less predatory and destructive AI. Vive la resistance!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Taught Invisible XML today to my undergrads for the first time. Fun to write a deliberate grammar instead of grabbing at patterns haphazardly with ad hoc regular expressions! Well, both are fun, but ixml makes you feel like a serious wielder of Unicode lore. Or a Cheshire Cat. invisiblexml.org

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Invisible XML

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work. bit.ly/dhsi-xpath

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Instructors: Elisa Beshero-Bondar and David J. Birnbaum

a repository for materials related to teaching and writing on technologies of up-conversion and project development with the XML family of languages, featuring regex, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, and Schematr...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2026

This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Ready to go for the #MLA26 Session 1 tomorrow morning! I'm part of the DHSI workshop panel, talking about our course for June 2026 Week 2, + WHY we care about processing TEI / XML in the age of AI, too. @teiconsortium.bsky.social @digitalhumanities.bsky.social slides.com/elisabeshero...

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DHSI Processing XML Feature

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Here's an article for our students! I remember when the WWW, hypertext links, + browsers were new, but to my students it's always been there...The article tells of the web's origins in context w/ the era of Big Tech's AI. That context is urgent for us all just now. web.archive.org/web/20251001...

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Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.

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Patricia O'Connor @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

💻The #EpiDoc maintainers will be hosting a monthly online drop-in session (1 hour per month). 📨 Please feel free to come with questions, encoding difficulties, or just to listen in on the conversation. 📅The next session is Wednesday, October 22: 17:00 BST = 18:00 CEST = 19:00 EEST = 12:00 EDT

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social

Joey Takeda introduces the TEI 2026 Conference in Vancouver !

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

At #TEI2025 the opening keynote Jadwiga Kita-Huber emphasizes the need for universities in Poland to recognize digital scholarly editions as research for the faculty and scholarly community! This is serious research—and this needs to be respected!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the @teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!

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Bluesky

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Lol...😅🎶🤣

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

On 2025-08-15, The #TEI released TEI Guidelines version 4.10.0, "The Olinguito Release” + version 7.59.0 of the TEI Stylesheets. Release notes: www.tei-c.org/release/doc/... On olinguitos: www.si.edu/stories/olin... mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/13/1101oling... @teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Locations for next ADHO conferences: 2026 : Daejeon, South Korea 2027: Galway, Ireland 2028: Capetown, South Africa ! dh2026.adho.org #dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

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DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides! 1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25 2. bit.ly/xslt-2025

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DIGIT AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance

A presentation about a small explainable AI project to fine-tune a language model with a graph RAG built with the TEI Guidelines.

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

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Carnegie Mellon University Department of English @cmuenglish.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The first doctoral program of its kind, our new Ph.D. in Computational Cultural Studies trains students to combine historical, theoretical, and cultural scholarship with computational methodologies. To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies

Computational cultural studies hero image, showing data mapping along with images of writers and scholars whose work will be examined in the program

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Right now, I would implore everyone to start generally thinking about readiness and situational awareness in major cities. Link up with neighbors. Who are your trusteds? If you travel-- what is your plan for international travel/return to the states?

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Here's a substack I composed on the road last week somewhere between a campsite and a moving car in pretty wobbly internet, while reflecting on cobblestones reflecting (yes that, and a bit more): open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero... #poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition

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"Rolled round in earth's diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees"

On writing where AI isn't

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence

I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Dining and coding and teaching (did I get that in the wrong order?) at DHSI in Montreal has been lots of fun this week! #dhsi2025 #dhsi25

Greg Bondar and I in foreground, David Birnbaum (my wise co-instructor) and Juliette Paul from our class at a Korean barbecue place near U. Montreal campus.

Ethiopian food from Queen of Sheba restaurant to be shared 4 ways with hungry DHSI folks from Penn State!

David Birnbaum working on a plan for auto tagging some complex transcription data with one of our students.

A splendid dessert, anticipating my birthday next week!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

At DHSI, in Montreal and not Victoria this year! It’s the 24th anniversary and Ray Siemens is honored with a special T-shirt reading “A Ray of Sunshine” for his founding and care of our DHSI institute and community all these years! #dhsi2025

Me and my co-instructor David Birnbaum, for the “Processing Your XML” class.

Ray Siemens being honored for founding and hosting DHSI

First DHSI lecture being delivered by Ichiro Fujinaga. Title slide reads “On the Virtues of Lazy Machinrs: Rethinking Efficiency, Effort, and Intelligence”

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Our Digit students hold their project showcase today (projects on their way to completion next week). Check out the slate, join over Zoom, feedback welcome! digit-psb.github.io/DIGIT-Works/... #digitalhumanities #digitalarts

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DIGIT Works

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Raff Viglianti @raffazizzidh.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Hey, I've got a new chapter out with the edgy title: "Against Infrastructure" with @gimenadelr.bsky.social. It's in this new open access book, check it out: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/... #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalpublishing #scholarlyediting #textualscholarship #infrastructuestudies

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Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century | Scottish Universities Press

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Finally published! Our article on revising sex and gender in the TEI Guidelines, with some literary encoding experimental examples from V. Woolf’s Orlando and cast lists from early modern drama!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

These days, besides dismay and distress every morning and night in encountering news and news of my friends and colleagues, I feel visceral irony about even everyday university stuff. I can't help but see what we *used to* know and understand 2 yrs / 5 yrs ago. You feeling it too? Examples...?

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I mean, if Trump is seeking to boot people who are “too slow” and not keeping up, it’s not the Fed chief who ought to go first…

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an essential force for good. Rare Book School affirms the vital importance of @nehgov.bsky.social in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.

A close-up photo of a person’s hands paging through an old book. Several slips of paper are tucked at intervals into the pages. Overlaid on top of this is a block of white text on a dark red background, which reads, “The NEH is an essential force for good, helping individuals and communities understand our past, engage the present, and provide a vision for a better tomorrow.  RBS affirms the vital importance of the NEH in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.”

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

TEI Community calls are a new thing this year! Working on TEI project and have questions? Come join and meet some good people!

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Check out/sign up for our DHSI course, Processing Your XML/TEI with the XML Family of Languages, at DHSI Week 1 (May 26-30) in Montreal! ebeshero.github.io/UpTransform Early bird registration ends March 31! bit.ly/2025-dhsireg @teiconsortium.bsky.social

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This paper’s up on arxiv now so here’s an explainer thread from my perspective (I’m just one contributor and this is my own take, take it with a grain of salt) 🧵

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Elisa Beshero-Bondar @epyllia.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Some days, the word "unconscionable" needs to be applied in multiple sentences. It's a word worth practicing, to hear it resonate. Unconscionable!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Keep in mind training was mandatory!

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