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Melissa Terras

@melissaterras.bsky.social
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Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 16h
Finishing up a few days in #London with the super interesting Digital Leaders event at Parliament, and fab chats after, including hanging out with the Father of the House (the UK’s longest serving MP), Edward Leigh.
Ifor Samuel, Edward Leigh and me in front of Parliament at night
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Our UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing is open to applications for studentships starting in September 2027 for our Designing Responsible NLP integrated PhD training programme: www.responsiblenlp.org/2027-student...
Designing Responsible NLP is now open to applications for 2027 studentships
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This tracks in the UK academic context too. The bullshit I have seen, and the contortions institutions and funders will get into to placate badly behaved men. Yet the only people I’ve seen forced out of posts have been women.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Living the dream!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A hotel employee was in the lift and allowed us a peek at the roof terrace (now closed for the season) 😻 #London
St Pancras and King’s Cross from above, London
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I hope the diagnosis helps you understand the condition and plan around it - be kind to yourself, rest, and all the best in managing the condition.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
View from a hotel room, #London #academicglamour Here to talk HAVI, Humanities and AI…
View of St Pancras and telephone tower
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Super interesting. Altho I find my own biases coming into play against the power held by organised Christian religion…!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Perfect!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good news, copyright friends. Google now thinks 2031 is in the past....
screenshot showing google thinks dec 31st 2031 has already happened when querying copyright status of Hilda Doolittle
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is mic dropping...
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 09/10/2026
After three brilliant years, @beckierutherford.bsky.social's fellowship is coming to an end. A historian of health, gender, and activism in modern Britain, Beckie has edited a selection of incredible articles focused on the experiences and ideas of disabled people.
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Radical Object: The Radar Key
The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So glad. One less thing to worry about 🤞
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Love it (the infodumping) - my Dad got carded recently. He's in his 70s!!!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hear the kids these days have Minimus, but they don't know what they are missing! www.minimuslatin.co.uk
minimuslatin.co.uk
Minimus - Minimus Latin
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Flavia cantare sub arborem! etched in my brain! enjoy!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry to hear this. Our local MP is good on this kind of thing - may be an option to reach out to yours for help...?
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More of this kind of thing, please. Amazing. 👏
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026
Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...
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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit
Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Home again home again jiggedy jig. And after 3 weeks on the road I now have 8 nights here in a row! Luxury! 🏠🐈🍜
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Final stop in #Madrid before the journey home, and my natural habitat… #fleamarket! #lasramblas
Lamp made out of manuscript?Scary flower eyed doll and junk Spanish junk! Love it
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#madrid botanical garden
Ferns Path and palms Cacti Glass houses and vines
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Neither it is but what they gonna do about it…
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We went on Saturday afternoon so aye… but glad you got some time with it at a quieter spell. Loving Madrid, what a great city.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Guernica. Almost unbearable in real life, so confronting. Crowd in reverence #Madrid #Picasso #Art
Crowd in front of Guernica by Picasso in Madrid
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
By the time we got to Bosch they were all 10 people deep. Next time I’ll get the early ticket and run there first!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s a fab painting!!! Loved seeing it today… younger you had good taste!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
First in line this morning at the Prado with pre booked ticket, and a quick dash to see Las Meninas before the crowds… #winning #madrid
Las meninas in the Prado
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No it’s because the Christians assimilated representations of Pan and the old gods to make them look evil… (and I think the bible goes on about obedient sheep and rebellious goats somewhere too). I love the film Maleficent - far more clever than you’d think it would be.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How excited am I to find these Halloween Malificent horns in Madrid! 10 euros well spent 😊
Halloween headdress horns like malificent
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
View from a hotel room, #Madrid. Here for funsies!!! #academicglamour
Old building, new building, blue sky #madrid
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thought experiment. If an institution communicates something (obviously contentious) in such a way it gets misrepresented in the press, and misunderstood by most people, who is to blame? The press for covering? The people for misunderstanding? Or the institution itself for poorly communicating?
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Facebook, and reddit, are your friends here! There's snarky ones, feminist ones, and NSFW ones.... a joy. Enjoy! www.facebook.com/groups/snark...
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Facebook
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A pic of this above mine! (credit to www.reddit.com/r/CrossStitc...)
You cannot kill me in a way that matters cross stitch from https://www.reddit.com/r/CrossStitch/comments/1oea41x/fo_you_cannot_kill_me_in_a_way_that_matters/?i=0
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Janet Jackson: All About Control
Alt: Janet Jackson: All About Control
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alack I cannot credit the designer as no-one knows, but this just got posted on a snarky embroidery group looking for them, and I was like - ding ding ding.
cross stitch saying despite all my rage and featuring a rat in a cage
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another thought experiment. If I caused huge disrepute to an employer, including international news coverage and massive reputational damage, I would expect there to be consequences. Would "Stop being mean to me" be an appropriate defence?
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
😬
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this may also apply to many humanities graduates who are now politicians beating the STEM ONLY drum…
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Still it’s good to see the Dignity and Respect policy applies to someone in a university. Because things it lists - Transparency! Communication! Responsiveness! Have been very short in supply the past few years. Weaponising it is exactly the tone deafness that is making us all rage. 🧐
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s an interesting thought experiment, isn’t it? Can an employee bully the most senior of senior managers? Doesn’t the power differential preclude this? Perhaps they did not pay attention when taught the only effective protest - or comedy - is when you punch up? 🎭 Or they didn’t do an arts subject.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I haven’t said anything about the strikes yet (I am so ANGRY but despite all my rage I’m still just a rat in a cage etc etc). So it can’t be me the carefully worded HR email is about, telling us all to be nice to everyone (implying SMT?) including on socials, on threat of disciplinary action?
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m so sorry, look after yourself, big hugs.
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Infinity Eccch @infinity-eccch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
INFINITY is building open AI tools & Multidimensional Knowledge Graphs for the European Cultural Heritage Cloud. Join our Stakeholder Network to get early updates, test our tools, and join our upcoming workshops: infinity-eccch.eu/stakeholders/ #InfinityEccch #CulturalHeritageCloud #EchoesEccch
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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Archivist Daylon Orr was visiting a bookseller friend in Virginia this summer when, in the back corner of his friend’s warehouse, he noticed a giant stack of boxes. loom.ly/8Mnuwoc
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A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.
The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But aye. Database design issues. Data check issues. All processes that can have better workflows and checks and balances…!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In their defence they said it was a crash c section emergency (true) so just wanted them on the system before they went to intensive care baby unit. (3 weeks in there and they were fine). It was all a little… intense at the time. & some names weren’t a priority in data entry. Then couldn’t change!
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