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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ok, look, what's been particularly infuriating about the redundancies at Exeter (and Nottingham and Newcastle and and and) is this weird idea that it only affects those individuals and institutions. It harms us all because we are so closely interconnected.

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Half way done teaching Intro to Python for humanities - been great! Anyone have ideas for public datasets focused on culture for students to work on for final projects? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @mariaa.bsky.social

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Niklas Alt @oshistory.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

This info just came over the (highly recommended) #geohumanities mailing list: The working papers from the very productive #OpenMapsMeeting hosted in 2024 by @TUDelftLibrary at the National Archives in The Hague is online. Documenting innovative work with #historical #maps using #IIIF Hopefully […]

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sign up if you're a student thinking about PhD work in #DigitalHumanities, or if you're a past or current DH PhD student willing to share experience with future students, or if you supervise or manage DH PGRs. This is a general discussion about the discipline, not promoting any one programme.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

What is a Digital Humanities PhD? Monday 9th March 2026, 16:30–18:00 GMT. Online only. Discussion with Jonathan Blaney & Ryan Heuser (Cambridge), Lucia Michielin (Edinburgh), Luca Scholtz (Manchester) & myself (@dh-researchhub.bsky.social). www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

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What is a Digital Humanities PhD?

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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 26/02/2026

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines". www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

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Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology

Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

There are a few more #SunoikisisDC sessions coming this semester (and then a whole new programme organised by @monica-berti.bsky.social and @sealygirl.bsky.social in the summer term). All live on Youtube with supporting materials, readings and exercises in the Github session page.

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Planning for a postdoc in Classics using digital methods but don't know where to start? Join our training workshop in Durham! Small bursaries are available, but applications are due soon! #DigitalHumanities #digitalclassics digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/

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ATRIUM Research @atrium-eu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Applications are open until March 9th for the ATRIUM Summer School 2026 "From Maps to Data and Data to Maps: Exploring Spatial Histories", taking place in Athens, Greece from June 29–July 2, hosted by Athens University of Economics & Business 🇬🇷 🔸 Find out more: atrium-research.eu/news/call-fo...

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I am so happy to see this finally come to light! Digital Classicists are making enormous progress towards a better understanding of Pausanias, which was sorely needed for so long. Exciting work @charlespletcher.org!

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 14/12/2025

May you “rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill“ — Círdan

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Bohyun Kim @bohyunkim.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025

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Comment ça marche

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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Currently at the Swedish Institute in Athens for the soft launch of www.periegesis.org/en/, which provides raw data of Pausanias's places, objects, people and events; side-by-side enriched texts in ancient Greek and English; maps and network graphs; and links to global authorities, e.g. Wikidata

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Digital Periegesis of Pausanias Description of Greece - Periegesis Hellados

Visualization in maps and downloadable tables of places, events and persons mentioned in Pausanias’ Description of Greece

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Thomas Flynn @nebulousflynn.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Oh hey, it's me! Very excited to finally launch this project in partnership with @wikimediauk.bsky.social, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. If you produce or work with cultural heritage 3D data in UK I'd love to speak with you! Links in thread 👇

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The Map Center @mapcenter.com · 21/11/2025

By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me) 1. Best anthology "All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

JOB!!!! 📣 Cultural Heritage experts / Antiquists, consider applying for the exec directorship at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley.

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

An impressive programme for Linked Pasts 11 this year, all remote. Sign up for these really exciting sessions!

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

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COP websites emit 10 times more carbon than average webpages - Energy Live News

COP conference websites emit more carbon per page view than typical webpages

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

💥 PhD applications are now open! 📚 Study across the whole spectrum of Classics: literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, digital humanities, classics education, reception, public policy... 👉 Learn more here: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6 🏛️ Departmental research strengths: tinyurl.com/32yavda6

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's OUT!! Our chapter in Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics, edited by Anna Foka and Clelia LaMonica. In very good company among the best scholars in the field. www.routledge.com/Evolving-Per...

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.' We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

💥 Submit your manuscript! 👩🏫 Dr Chiara Palladino is one of the editors of the new collection 'From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East – Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications' 👉 Learn more here: www.nature.com/collections/...

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Second week of travel of a busy September, I am at the great Bytes&Bygones conference as a complete intruder, but with good friends. Incredible organization and such an honour to be here. www.bab.ugent.be

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From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East

This Collection aims at examining the computational and digital study of “greater Western Asia” and its epistemological implications.

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

We just released IMMARKUS 1.0 - our first full release! An open-source tool for semantic image annotation: multi-image workbench, AI-powered selection tools, ontology builder, knowledge graph, #IIIF support. Runs fully local–no login, no-signups, no data sent to the cloud! 👉 immarkus.xmarkus.org

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IMMARKUS

An image annotation environment for the MARKUS platform. Developed by Prof. Dr. Hilde De Weerdt, Dr. Rainer Simon, Dr. Lee Sunkyu, Dr. Iva Stojević, Meret Meister, and Xi Wangzhi with funding from the...

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I have officially arrived at the office 😆

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

W00t! Three fantastic people, who now make @durhamclassics.bsky.social one of the premier centres for digital classics in the world. #DigiClass

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Almost forgot! There are some news...

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Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons. thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice

Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.

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Gil Shalit @dh-dev.com · 30/08/2025

Join us why don't you :-)

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

#TEIFriday I've been looking at recommendations for the most interchangeable way to encode interoperability data from person datasets in TEI XML (which in some contexts is more useful and feasible than using RDF). Starting with first couple lines of code in this thread.

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Over the weekend I drew these two subway maps for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and shared them. A lot of you asked about purchasing them, and now you can! You can buy one or both (as digital files or as prints) at my brand new Etsy shop: surprisedeelmaps.etsy.com

Subway-style map of the itinerary in The Hobbit. The main journey is show in three different lines: red (Hobbiton to Goblin Town); green (Goblin Town to the Elvenking's Halls); and blue (Elvenking's Halls to Erebor). There are multiple stops on these lines. There is a yellow line going back from Erebor to Hobbiton, making stops at Beorn's Hall, Rivendell, and the Troll's Lair. There is an orange line directly from the Iron Hills on the map's right side to Erebor, and a purple line from Gundabad directly to Erebor.

The map's title reads: "Hobbit Transit Map" and there are directions for both There and Back Again listing the lines and transfer points. Between them, in the middle of the page, is a dragon drawn to resemble the dragon on Thror's Map from The Hobbit.

A key shows the names of each colored line:
Red: Western Lands Line
Green: Mountains and Forests Line
Blue: Barrel Line
Yellow: Gandalf Express
Orange: Iron Hills Business Line
Purple: Orc and Goblin Reserve Line

Text at the bottom right reads Surprised Eel Maps, 2025

Subway style map to go with The Lord of the Rings, showing the different pathways of various parties throughout the book. The title reads: "Lord of the Rings Transit Map: One Does Not Simply Walk Ino Mordor When One Can Ride." The map takes up the middle part of the page, and there are two keys. The one on the left is titles "Standard Service Lines, and has color keys matched to the subway lines on the map. Lines are named:
"Shire-Bree Commuter Line
Old Forrest Crescent
Wildland Scenic Line
Fellowship Line
Gollum / Sméagol Line
Uruk Hai Express
Three Hunters Line
Fangorn Slow Service
Rohan to Gondor Business Line
Black Ships Ferry Service
Oliphant Direct Line
Army of the West Line
Gandalf Express

A smaller key on the right side of the map is labeled: "Limited Service Lines" and has color keys matched to the following names lines:
"Eagle Express
Paths of the Dead Line
Nazgûl Search & Resuce
Valinor Ltd."

Two notes at the bottom read:
"* Mount Doom station only accepts Rings of Power in payment. Plan accordingly.
+ Transfer voucher for ferry service at Grey Havens station is for outbound tafle only."

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Tom @alas-not-me.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

For all students and scholars facing a deadline, you are not alone. Tolkien wrote to his son, Michael, on 1 March 1939: "I am going off to Scotland on Monday night or Tuesday morning, & have not written the infernal lecture yet. Not much bed for me between then and now, I fear"

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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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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This is super important. In several instances at #DH2025, I've heard colleagues say that newer releases of ChatGPT have gained domain expertise in their subfield—probably because OpenAI scraped and absorbed open data refined and curated by specialists from GitHub and HuggingFace. No credits given.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Matt Gold on ethics & complicity of OA publishing: encouraging students to publish openly their work that may (or will) be monetized and capitalized by the AI industry. Citation: "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons." doi.org/10.48550/arX... #DH2025

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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons

General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we conduct the first, ...

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

'Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI' :: a eye-poppingly important and panel with @medievalben.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @filipa-calado.bsky.social Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit #DH2025

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Impressive how complementary conversations are going on at two different panels at the same time.... #DH2025

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

@tolonen.bsky.social at open language data panel at #DH2025: researchers have to prioritize the research questions. Scalability, expressed as interoperability, standards, data sharing are infrastructure tasks. Data publications, data releases should not be byproducts but actual outputs.

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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We're now on Mastodon! You can find the official account for DH2026 Daejeon at the link below. Please give us a follow for the latest news and updates. We look forward to connecting with you there! #DH2026 mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Oh! Cool talk and important task, but in this case, it turned out that all general LLMs performed better than the fine-tuned, task-specific, language-specific LLMs for NER in Urdu, in this talk at #DH2025 on "Leveraging LLMs for NER Task on Historical Literary Data in Urdu as a Low-Resource […]

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Rachele Sprugnoli @rsprugnoli.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Perspectivism can be an interesting option to explore: pdai.info

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

CVS prints tiny posters… but we are here! #DH2025 @aboutgeo.bsky.social working in the background to make the chatbot available soon… More at machina.rainersimon.io

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Sabine Lang @sabinelang.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Great talk by Marcela Isuster presenting on the challenge of open data 🤩 #dh2025

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Coming up at the poster session later today...... #DH2025

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