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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m very happy to share that my project ‘Exploring Creative Histories through Student-led Outreach and Contemporary Arts’ has been selected for funding by the Education Innovation Fund at the University of Luxembourg! 🎊

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📣 New paper in the ACM #FAccT2026 proceedings! Available here: doi.org/10.1145/3805... Looking forward to presenting this collaborative work today in Montreal – if you’re attending, please do join the ‘Documentation Frameworks, Recommender Systems, and AI Archives’ session at 10:45!

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Shaping History, Responsibly: Seven Principles to Guide the Design of Archival AI Assistants for Cultural Heritage Collections | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and...

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

AI complicates questions around artistic authorship: Are studio assistants and AI tools facilitators of an artist’s vision, or do they deserve a place on the museum label, too? Where does support end and creative intervention begin? These are the questions that artist Mona Young-eun Kim explores:

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Thrilled to see our article “AI assistants in the archive and the lure of ‘instant history’" out in Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society! It is open access and available here: doi.org/10.1017/cfc....

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AI assistants in the archive and the lure of “instant history” | Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society | Cambridge Core

AI assistants in the archive and the lure of “instant history” - Volume 2

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“We need to teach skepticism and critical thinking as philosophical responses to machine intelligence. Instead of just changing our assignments, we must do something more provocative and arguably far more challenging. We must reflect on how we think and find value in thinking.”

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Working with AI is more Mindset than Skill

We need to teach skepticism and critical thinking as philosophical responses to machine intelligence.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

You see a page from the past with a lasting impression: this manuscript page from the 1490s is made of parchment, and an #astrolabe that was included into the binding of the manuscript left this shadow of the astronomical instrument behind. 1/2

A page from the so-called Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch (UB Heidelberg Cod. Pal. germ. 832) showing clearly the traces an astrolabe left.

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES25) was an enriching few days, providing a great forum for engaging with the latest research on the ethical challenges of AI. (1/4)

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Very much enjoyed the lively discussions at our interactive roundtable ‘Artificial Intelligence in Teaching History of Technology’ at the SHOT 2025 Annual Meeting!

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Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Un livre écrit par deux historien.nes, @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social et @artificialmemory.bsky.social , qui parlent d'une manière intelligente du numérique parce qu'ils le pratiquent depuis longtemps et qu'ils l'approchent comme un 'bête' sujet de sciences humaines #paniquesmoralessabstenir

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The submission deadline for #CHR2025 is fast approaching! Authors, you have until Friday, 18 July, to submit your short and long papers, lightning talk abstracts, and workshop ideas. ⚠️ Please note: there will be NO extension of this deadline. 🔗 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

Promotional image. Text reads: The people's dispensary digitised archive

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

What a brilliant conference! Feeling very lucky to have heard fascinating papers and met so many new faces within the atmospheric surrounds of the Black Country Living Museum! Inspired more than ever by the breadth and depth of social histories #SHSConf2025 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

So glad to be at #FAccT25! Fantastic first day soaking up the latest cross-disciplinary research on fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems

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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This Thursday, seminar online organised by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History at @uni.lu with @c2dh.uni.lu Presentations by students from all around the world www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #PublicHistory #student #history

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Public history for contested and conflicting past(s)

International Public History online seminar. For student - by students.

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Such an engaging guided tour by the artist Daphné Le Sergent this afternoon of her exhibition ‘Silicon Islands and War’, hosted by @uni.lu as part of EMoP. Her video essay “invites us to explore an alternative history of photography in relation to the semiconductor industry” ->

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It was great to share our work on attributing credit and responsibility for generative AI outputs at the ‘Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images’ conference at Venice International University last month ->

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

It was such a pleasure to be part of the British History Today conference at Queen Mary University London earlier this month, presenting my work on the use of historical analogies in public discourse on AI.

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DH Lab IEG @dhlab-ieg.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2025

New blog post! In their article “LLM Biases: Expected and Unexpected Model Design Effects in Historical Newspaper Article Extraction on the Messina Earthquake”, Johanna Mauermann and Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) look at the fact that LLMs are a powerful […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Image generated by dall-e-3. Prompt: “A water colour drawing of language and historical bias in large language models (LLMs)”.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

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JISCMail - EMEW-R List at WWW.JISCMAIL.AC.UK

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Sarah Ames @semames.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Our Digital Research Fellowship call is also currently open: £7,500 for a 3 month project exploring our data: data.nls.uk/projects/dig...

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The National Library of Scotland Fellowship in Digital Research 2025-26 – Data Foundry

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900. The CfP for the event is now open. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Painting: Claude Lorrain: Port de mer avec la villa Médicis, oil on canvas 1637. Uffizi Gallery, 1096.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 02/12/2024

This is such an interesting blog on Archival Silences. A must read for librarians, archivists, historians, anti-colonialists, educators and anyone interested in sociopolitics: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/

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The Bodleian Conveyor

News about medieval manuscripts, rare books and other special collections from the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Konf: Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1514… Marburg, 12.12.2024-13.12.2024, Leibniz-Forschungsverbund „Wert der Vergangenheit“, Lab 1.3. Digitale Heuristik und Historik Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Mainz Herder-Institut für …

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Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections

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Katherine Furman @furmank.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is one of my favourite papers and I am delighted that someone else liked reading it 😊

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