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Finola Finn

@finolafinn.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg

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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Built around a pedagogical collaboration with Charles Rouleau and Filipa Lima at Casino Display gallery, the initiative facilitates MA students to co-create public art exhibitions around historical themes of their choosing – fostering creative, curatorial, and communication skills. Can't wait!
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
ECHOES brings together historical research, contemporary art and public engagement, exploring how artistic practice can trigger fresh approaches to understanding and sharing history.
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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
Part of the brilliant Post-Master programme’s end-of-year exhibition, “Unless I’m mistaken,” curated by Charles Rouleau and Filipa Lima – the works can be seen until the 14th of June. (6/6)
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I was especially fascinated by her takes on of what we term “illusions of creatorship” in our article – and the argument that, sometimes, AI systems do deserve a slice of the credit. (5/6)
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It was such a pleasure to hear Mona discuss her pieces at the opening on Friday, and to learn that the Collective Centred Creation framework for attributing credit in the age of AI, developed by Donal Khosrowi, Elinor Bell-Clark and myself, served as some fruitful inspiration in her process. (4/6)
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Opposite them is the remains of an artwork facing the pressure of contested authorship; while a modified version of the ‘droit d’auteur’ hangs on the wall, shifting focus away from creation and juridical reality to declaration and appearance of creatorship. (3/6)
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In a multichannel video installation, the faces of self-declared “real, true, authentic, actual, legitimate humans” – made with AI – assert the essentiality of their contributions from a witness stand. (2/6)
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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
Many thanks Tom! And would love to hear your thoughts
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Many thanks to the editors of this timely special issue - Katie Mackinnon, Nanna Thylstrup, Tonia Sutherland, Caroline Bassett, Unso Jo, and Louis Ravn - for curating such an exciting mix of interdisciplinary perspectives on how AI-systems and archival practices are reshaping one another.
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Co-authored with Donal Khosrowi, the contribution highlights the limitations of archival RAG-based LLM chatbots for providing answers to historical questions, demonstrating how such ‘instant histories’ skip vital steps of research processes and obscure the many complexities of archival collections.
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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
(4/4) - Iqra Aslam, Rahul Nagshi, and Donal Khosrowi’s critical examination of Machine Unlearning - Bonam Mingole et al.’s work on the value of democratising bias detection and critique of LLMs A lot to take away! All full papers available here: www.aies-conference.com/2025/proceed...
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
(3/4) - Maria Eriksson et al.’s thorough and policy-focused review of current issues in AI benchmarking - Hyo Jin Do and Werner Geyer’s recommendations for how best to present factuality estimates to users in AI-generated answers
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
(2/4) Among the many thought-provoking contributions, I was particularly struck by: - Shreya Chappidi et al.’s “accountability capture”, a framework for understanding the under-considered effects of implementing algorithmic record-keeping on sociotechnical systems
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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
The whiteboards were full with opinions and experiences by the session’s end. Many thanks to the participants and my co-panellists Stefan Esselborn, @cgoetter.bsky.social, and @nescioquid.bsky.social
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We explored such questions as: What new teaching and research methods are becoming possible? What skills should we teach students in the age of AI? What can History of Technology contribute to the discussion?
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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
Alongside the fairground rides, an additional highlight was presenting my research on uses of the soul-body relationship in 17thC accounts of melancholy in this gorgeous pub! A delightful juxtaposition. Many thanks to everyone who squeezed into the lounge room to hear our panel
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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 · 26/06/2025
Such a great evening!
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Highlights for me included @myra.bsky.social et al’s work on measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors, and Prakhar Ganesh et al’s tutorial on the implications of multiplicity for fairness and explainability in algorithmic decision-making (plus much more!)
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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
The video itself also seeks to challenge “the vastness of digital memory and its overwhelming flood of images” through the use of the oral traditions of poetry and song. More about these thought-provoking works here: www.uni.lu/life-en/even...
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Silicon Islands and War Exhibition
In the framework of the European Month of Photography (EMoP), this exhibition discusses how in an era of unprecedented AI development, the nature of
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
… reminding us that “the production chain of images is becoming an increasingly complex web of resource supply, energy consumption, and cutting-edge chip manufacturing” - shaped and driven by geopolitics, especially between China, the U.S, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
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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
Our full article on the CCC framework was published in AI & Ethics last year, and is available here: doi.org/10.1007/s436...
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Engaging the many-hands problem of generative-AI outputs: a framework for attributing credit - AI and Ethics
The recent wave of generative AI (GenAI) systems like Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT that can produce images, text and code from human prompts raises controversial issues about creatorship, originality, ...
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
We were excited to see many other teams also working to address the moral, legal and regulatory uncertainties that surround GenAI use – and it was fantastic to discuss these issues at such an interdisciplinary and vibrant event!
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our presentation outlined the Collective-Centered Creation framework (developed by Donal Khosrowi, Elinor Bell-Clark, and me), which provides an approach for tracking and assessing the significance of different contributions, by humans and machines, to the creation of GenAI images.
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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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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Less than a week till our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives! Sign up here to attend in person or online! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... Please repost! ⚔️
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Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London
This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The conference was full of thought-provoking and motivating reflections on what British history can do for the present - and I’m really glad to have been a part of it!
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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I argued that, in the media and PR, such parallels are often used to reductively normalise the adoption of AI by suggesting historical precedent – but that historians can (and should) contribute more nuanced, insightful comparisons to the discussions.
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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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Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
😄 wonderful, thank you!
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