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Glenn Roe

@glennroe.bsky.social
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Professor of Digital Scholarship & French Literature, University of Oxford; Co-director of the Voltaire Lab.

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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Digital Correspondence CIG - transhistorical perspectives on language, materials and corpora - welcomes attendance at and contributions to a free, online event about immigrant and/or emigrant correspondence, 14.01.2027, 10am-1pm (GMT). More info: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/community-in... #DH
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Digital Correspondence: transhistorical perspectives on language, materials and corpora | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2026
If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it
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Benoît Melançon @benoitmelancon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
XVIIIe siècle : bibliographie • 711e livraison • 3 juillet 2026 • benoitmelancon.quebec/xviii/biblio... • #lumières #bibliographie • cc @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @csecsscedhs.bsky.social @alexandreklein.bsky.social @msonnet.bsky.social
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Numéro 711, 3 juillet 2026
XVIIIe siecle : bibliographie (ISSN : 1207-7461) est un site bibliographique consacre au Siecle des lumieres. Il est gere par Benoit Melancon, professeur emerite, Departement des litteratures de langu...
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/06/2026
Charlton Heston as Moses carrying the tablets with commandments
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Sorbonne Université @sorbonne-universite.fr · 02/06/2026
🎭 Faire une pièce de théâtre avec l'IA ne veut pas dire se passer d'expertise humaine, bien au contraire ! 👉 Costumes, décors, peintures : découvrez les métiers et savoir-faire ancestraux qui ont donné vie à la pièce "L'Astrologue ou les Faux présages" : swll.to/0ckcnF
La troupe du Théâtre Molière Sorbonne en costume sur la scène de l'Opéra Royal de Versailles.
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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...
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BSECS Annual Conference
BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
☀️ Today's the day! We're welcoming about 60 participants on-site and 50 joining online for #CCLS2026, while Potsdam is showing off its full summer charm, with a sunny sky and just the right breeze for #CLS discussions. ... and did we mention the view from the #rooftop terrace? See you in a bit!
View from rooftop terrace of the conference venue.
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Issue 3 of Digital Enlightenment Studies out today! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/6/info/
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Digital Enlightenment Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(3) (2026)
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
”Computational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?”, published in Digital Enlightenment Studies: digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/64/
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Computational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?
This article argues that figures like David Hume (1711–1776) should be studied in the age of AI not despite computation but through it. Drawing on Enlightenment studies and computational history, I sk...
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Whether people like it or not, use of AI in historical research is coming, and will have a big impact. The transcription process described here produces something quite new, and is scaleable. open.substack.com/pub/generati...
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When Models Disagree...Transcription Accuracy Improves Significantly
Cross-LLM verification catches 76% of transcription errors, but it only works if we build systems that augment human abilities rather than replace them.
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Alexandre Gefen @alexandregefen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Extrait | « Humanités numériques » (Hermann) « Sans peur de détruire les humanités philologiques, mais sans espoir démesuré de les sauver par le recours à un numérique qui peut être considéré, à tort, comme leur dépassement. » Plaidoyer pour une philologie hybride.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/05/2026
If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do. There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +
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Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field?
Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org ‘Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice: Making Oxford University Voltaire’ - free to read and download for the next few weeks! cup.org/3Qw6YQp @voltaire.ox.ac.uk
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Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice
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Dr. Flora Amann @floraamann.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Cagnotte terminée pour le volume en hommage à @benoitmelancon.bsky.social. Objectif atteint et même dépassé. Merci @glennroe.bsky.social @mariedmartel.bsky.social @marcandea.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy @msonnet.bsky.social et les autres ! #lumières #québec
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 05/03/2026
New on the blog! @zenothankyou.bsky.social on Enlightenment in Upper Hungary: Notes from the library of the Sárospataki Református Kollégium voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/e...
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Enlightenment in Upper Hungary: Notes from the library of the Sárospataki Református Kollégium
View of Sárospatak from the castle. Image by the author. In November I travelled to Hungary to go digging around the archives of the Sárospatak Reformed College (Sárospataki Református Kollégium). …
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Interested in applying for a Gale Digital Humanities fellowship for 2026/27 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - join our online informational session on Wednesday! www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/gale-f...
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Gale Fellowships information session - 2026/27
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Very much looking forward to @kategibson.bsky.social speaking about 'Fostering in 18th Century Britain' to @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social on Wednesday. All welcome either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Fostering in eighteenth-century Britain
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Interdisciplinary research ftw…!
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/11/2025
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
So pleased to have officially joined the Fellowship of @jesusoxford.bsky.social today - a vibrant academic community at the @ox.ac.uk since 1571.
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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Ce livre est une merveille Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social
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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
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CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems)
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems to join the Institute for Design Informatics, Edinburgh College of Art.
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Phillip Carter @phillipcarter.dev · 16/06/2025
Great paper showing how far text embedding models have to go in capturing the semantics of phrases arxiv.org/abs/2506.08354
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Text Embeddings Should Capture Implicit Semantics, Not Just Surface Meaning
This position paper argues that the text embedding research community should move beyond surface meaning and embrace implicit semantics as a central modeling goal. Text embedding models have become fo...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 16/06/2025
Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins... H/t @naitian.org for the link
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institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!
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Global Majority Fellowships 2025-2026
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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱 🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻 You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r... #JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics
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4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Krakow 2025
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf...
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Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History
YouTube video by Voltaire Foundation Oxford
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Lynn Cherny @arnicas.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Victor Hugo's artwork was amazing. Icymi, I wrote up a blog post about an exhibition in London at the Royal Academy with a ton of pics. ghostweather.com/blog/posts/2... #museums
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
You can still register for onlince access to Prof Leah Price's 2025 Lyell Lectures @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social, 'Victorian Books and their Servants', though we are fully booked in person ... visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lyell-lectur...
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The Lyell Lectures 2025
The 2025 Lyell Lectures, hosted by the Bodleian Libraries and delivered by Professor Leah Price
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 12/03/2025
📆 Save the date! 📆 Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies! 9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00. More information: tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
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Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies: Mikko Tolonen on Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to Eighteenth-Century Book and Intellectual History
9 May 2025 Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00 Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki) Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A…
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
CFP: LLMs and DH, Paris, July 3-4 2025 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
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DH@LLM: Grands modèles de langage et humanités numériques
DH@LLM: Grands modèles de langage et humanités numériquesColloque organisé par Alexandre Gefen (CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Glenn Roe (Sorbonne-Université), Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal) e...
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
CFP conference+journal track of the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS). The 4rd annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies CCLS2025 will take place from July 3-4, 2025, in Krakow, Poland. Deadline Jan 30! jcls.io/site/cfp/
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 12/12/2024
New on the blog! We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...
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Introducing ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk’: The Latest Special Collection from MLO
We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available…
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Glenn Roe @glennroe.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Just in time for the holidays, a new volume of #digitalenlightenmentstudies - text reuse ; revolutionary digital corpora ; Voltaire’s manuscripts, and more! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/5/info/ #digitizingenlightenment #lumieres #digital18c
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Digital Enlightenment Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(2) (2024) Janeway-Logo-Final
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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A pair of interesting and helpful new accounts of studying C18 French text reuse from @glennroe.bsky.social and Dario Maria Nicolosi digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/22/ digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/23/
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Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling intertextual networks through data-driven research (ModERN)
The European Research Council's ModERN project (Modelling Enlightenment: reassembling networks of modernity through data-driven research) is a pioneering five-year research initiative. This programme ...
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Thierry Poibeau @tpoibeau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #CHR2024
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BookNLP-fr, the French Versant of BookNLP. A Tailored Pipeline for 19th and 20th Century French Literature
This paper presents BookNLP-fr: the adaptation to French of BookNLP, an existing NLP pipeline tailored for literary texts in English. We provide an overview of the challenges involved in the adaptatio...
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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Further articles in 'L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix' include work by Robert Morrissey and @glennroe.bsky.social, ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Questions sur l’Encyclopédie in the Nineteenth Century’. Read it #OA on MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Roe-Morrissey. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @tomofwynnland.bsky.social
"L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: Essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk," published on MLO. The left side of the image has a blue background with the title in white text and the subtitle, "A Special Collection from Modern Languages Open," below. The right side of the image features a collage of handwritten manuscript excerpts and sketches of Voltaire, alongside a circular icon of his silhouette.
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 28/11/2024
Many thanks to Lea Ypi for a fascinating paper on Kant’s approach to colonialism and to the large, interdisciplinary audience at this term’s Enlightenment Workshop! Next session: Colin Jones on Robespierre, 29 Jan, 5pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/11/2024
I'm sure I. A. Richards would interpret this as evidence that we need more and better teaching of poetry. That interpretation remains open!
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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Releasing two trillion tokens in the open. huggingface.co/blog/Pclangl...
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hi new followers. 👋🏼 It's probably my sacred duty to highlight that I published this firey volume recently with @dukepress.bsky.social. I just presented it in Martinique this AM. Big hit. Folks are ready for this more radical Césaire.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716. Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
The best of all possible worlds: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German polymath, mathematician, scientist & philosopher, inspired Voltaire's Dr Pangloss; died #OTD 1716.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/11/2024
Schmidt Sciences is outlining the timeline for a new program to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities. Open call for proposals to come Dec 15. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
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Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
The part of this narrative I knew least about is Fei-Fei Li’s creation of the crucial ImageNet dataset. See beginning and end of this nice story for laypersons on the history of neural-network deep learning: arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/h...
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How a stubborn computer scientist accidentally launched the deep learning boom
“You’ve taken this idea way too far,” a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li.
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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
New year, new class. Teaching “Digital Texts in the Humanities” for the first time at Lancaster with lots of inspiration from @zoeleblanc.bsky.social @ryancordell.bsky.social @miriamkp.bsky.social @pfyfe.bsky.social @glennroe.bsky.social + Programming Historian & more! Will share the syllabus soon.
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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 17/01/2024
New year, new lecture series! We are excited to invite you to our brand new Voltaire Foundation Lecture Series in Digital Scholarship 2024 - Digital Enlightenment Studies: Methods and Approaches! The full programme can be found on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/vo...
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Voltaire Foundation Lecture Series in Digital Scholarship
Come join us for our brand new The programme can also be found under this link (pdf). 15 February 2024 Linacre College, Meeting Suite, 17:00–19:00 Tobias Hodel (University of Bern) Handwritten Text�...
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