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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Last Two Weeks in the #PleiadesGazetteer (31 August - 14 September 2026): Over the course of the last two weeks, the Pleiades editorial college published 37 new and 197 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Anne Chen […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from the British Isles in the north and the Iberian Peninsula in the west to northern China in the east and the east coast of central Africa in the south.

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Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Call for citations: does your article, chapter, book, etc. cite Pleiades as a data source? If so, we'd like to add a citation to our new "Pleiades in Use" blog section at pleiades.stoa.org/docs/pleiades-in-… . Reply here or drop us an email at pleiades.admin@nyu.edu Boosts […]

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time 1/3

Home page of the Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS), with links to its 3 principal pages, Sandbox, Workbench, Data Explorer

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I move around too much to have a cat, but I take pictures of them all over...Chiang Mai, Istanbul, Oxford, Butrint. #caturday

White cat at orange steps of the Ganesh Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

White and orange cat patiently awaiting morning meal at an Istanbul doorway

Black and white cat on a backyard shed rooftop, Oxford, UK

Three sibling kittens gathered in the shade - on and under a table in Butrint, Albania

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

a Magritte sky on my morning walk in Denver, mourning Nepal and Dolly

quiet morning in a Greenwood Village, CO park, with fluffy clouds and greenery

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some news. Peripleo github.com/britishlibra... is set for a re-boot thanks to the Research Software Maintenance Fund www.software.ac.uk/research-sof.... We're going to rebuild Peripleo as an open, accessible, browser-based map app that can be configured without coding skills or hosting costs 1/2

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Peggy March @rebelgeo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

De Adder

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Wanted: **comprehensive** list or map of temples of #Artemis (and of other deities). #ClassicsBluesky #ancientHistory #ancientReligion please boost for reach

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Very excited that the MapReader team will be collaborating w/ @bertspaan.nl @mradamcox.bsky.social & @openhistoricalmap.org on some infrastructural work linking up MapReader w/OHM & Allmaps! nlnet.nl/project/OHM-...

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NLnet; OpenHistoricalMap + MapReader

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Some teaser screenshots for v0.4 update to Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) platform, releasing in a couple of weeks. Delivers parameterized environmental data profiles ('signatures') for any terrestrial location, w/tools to explore in sandbox and workbench pages. Writing docs now.

home page of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS), with links to Sandbox, Data Explorer, and Workbench pages

Screenshot of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Sandbox page, showing signature-building controls and example for 10c Kaifeng, China

Screenshot of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Sandbox page, showing signature-building controls and example aridity distribution for 10c Northern Song Dynasty

Screenshot of forthcoming Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) Workbench page, experimental exploration of correspondence of cultural practice with environmental settings

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 06/08/2026

"This is how you rebalance the Senate and Electoral College. Minority rights are still protected. You’re not abolishing the Senate or moving to a national popular vote. You’re reforming existing institutions." Not to say these are minor tweaks:

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The HULK SMASH Plan for Fixing America

JVL’s grand scheme for how to build the new American founding.

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Nicole Hennig @nic221.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If you haven’t recently used Claude Code*, you might not understand where AI is at davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-haven… #AI #agents

Yes, one can get bogged down in the semantics of "reasoning" or
"understanding".
". But here I just mean:
for practical purposes. At this point, AI agents are solving real problems for me, and do so in a way that sure looks functionally like reasoning or understanding.
I believe AI will have a massive impact on the world, good and bad. For much of that impact (though not all'), what matters is that it can do these sorts of things, not whether it can "really" reason. I think much of the world isn't taking AI seriously enough, and we can't deal with the challenges if we can't see them coming.
So my goal here is to help convey where Al is currently at, and hint at where it might be going.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am always both smarter and more knowledgeable after a @timothysnyder.bsky.social lecture. If you like hearing what he has to say here and his blog, check out professor mode. It’s first rate.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“I’ve got this thing and it’s […] golden”

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Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

One Who Understands www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/se…

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Calling yourself a democratic socialist invites the shift to 'communist' in GOP messaging and even to 'Nazi' (national socialism), because they can rely on general ignorance of what these labels mean - for MAGA, but across the board. There needs to be a vocabulary-ed meme campaign. #OwnGoal

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Dr. Angry Anarchist (Free 🇵🇸) @archhelmer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Boosting for Indigenous archaeologists 🏺

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Claude-speak is striking sometimes: "...it's the kind of gap that surfaces mid-build, and the sufficiency test after increment 1, which is me trying to give the scope guard teeth rather than a sentiment." "...teeth rather than a sentiment"? Makes perfect sense but no human would ever utter it..

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Messi from the wing for the win. Maybe he needs to stay out there.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? I'd love a contact because hcommons.social/@paregorios/... Boosts for reach/visibility appreciated.

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Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? There's no attribution pages anymore I can find and old http URIs are being incorrectly redirected to URIs beginning with "localhost" p...

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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

A map of Europe with many points shown in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical way-stations

A map of Europe with lines in blue and red of varying opacity representing historical travel routes

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/07/2026

‘Once you acknowledge that most of the Americas were inhabited long before 1492, everything changes, starting with the idea that nature in its ideal state is what they used to call virgin wilderness, in which people don’t belong.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776

In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I should say I love maps so much I've made several dozen of them, with the help of many others....

The Infinite trilogy of atlases of San Francisco, NYC, New Orleans

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 23/06/2026

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Poster for the conference "Critical Artificial Intelligence Studies?" at the University of California, Santa Barbara, October 9&10, 2026. The subtitle says "An interdisciplinary conference on a field in formation."

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I routinely step back from intense engagement with Claude, developing a data instrument service, to consider the nature of that collaboration, its meaning to me and societal implications. This was a valuable read for me, and its framing for evaluation of AI slices along seams sensible to me. Thx.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The 12th Linked Pasts annual symposium will be hosted in-person from 23–25 November 2026 by the Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, University of Porto. Call for participation linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2026/06/23/l...

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Note to Democrats: if you have done things in the past you deeply regret, go seek redemption but do not - I repeat DO NOT- run for public office. Note to Republicans: disregard the above, N/A for you

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Trump has done such a massive disservice to the US football team and American fans with his intervention. He's essentially politicised the team through tainting them with his corruption. The rest of the world is now rooting for Belgium tonight for political reasons. That's not how sport should be.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cabo Verde was heroic. Never to be forgotten

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/07/2026

"America was never perfect; it could never be perfected. But for 240 years, more or less, the arc of our nation’s political history bent toward liberalism." If that has ceased to be the case, what is "America"? Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

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America at 250: We Had a Good Run

It’s not a celebration. It’s a vigil.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Before Croatia entered the Schengen regime it was my goto for staying in Europe without spending my Schengen budget. Several long stays - Zagreb mostly, but the coastal cities too. Very fond of the place, people, and especially its "naive" art tradition. Portugal's okay too 🙃

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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

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Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show

Internal modeling shows the July 4th fireworks display will cause hazardous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy conditions across central D.C.”

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Free online #PleiadesGazetteer training the week of 20 July 2026. Check it out and register: pleiades.stoa.org/events. Boosts appreciated.

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Upcoming Events

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Drove up from Santa Fe last night looking for Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. It was a beautiful moon but you could never tell it from my cell phone shots. With apologies to Ansel Adams…

Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. Ansel Adams (1941)

Searching for Hernandez moonrise with a cell phone camera

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 26/06/2026

Why does using LLMs for coding change your view of them? Bunch of things: 1. Yes, code can be verified, so they can check their work & iterate until they get it right. 2. But also: what makes coding hard is strain on short-term memory. Lots of moving parts. Long context & patience shine here. +

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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I feel like there's a growing gap in perception between people who use LLMs to code or do code-adjacent things and people who only evaluate LLMs on their ability to write prose. This might be a stretched analogy but it reminds me of the different "worlds" of the polarized US media environment.

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!

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David Medeiros @mapbliss.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm not sure how much water that would have otherwise gone to baby seals got used in making this AI animation of an old map monster. But I might be ok with it! 🫣

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The best site on the internets right now is maptap.gg.

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