iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 10h

Only one month to go until Green Libraries Week💚 This year we'll be hosting free events and activities for all ages - from creative writing workshops and readings to screenings and historical lectures 21 - 28 October - see you there? Full programme here link.bl.uk/bid #GreenLibrariesWeek

Photograph of the British Library from the outside. Image is taken amongst the greenery in the piazza outside the Library, showing the Anthony Gormley sculptures, the Library's iconic clock tower and entrance.

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 1h

Cataloging and digital collections bluesky: Anyone migrated special collections into Bibframe yet? I'm interested in looking at the underlying LOD.

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 2h

You: "OCR is a solved problem" Me:

A screenshot of a page from The New Hampshire gazette, September 23, 1800, with text going in every possible direction, and brackets, and numbers

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 19h

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An updated version of Scott Enderle's Topic Modeling Tool is now available here: github.com/mimno/topic-... Beta testers welcome!

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Release v2.0.0 · mimno/topic-modeling-tool

Full Changelog: https://github.com/mimno/topic-modeling-tool/commits/v2.0.0

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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

@hadro.bsky.social built this tool that quickly "flips" through the contents of a work like a flipbook. Works w/ IIIF manifests, or plain item link from Internet Archive, Library of Congress, The Getty, & other sites. (FWIW, Josh churns out great things from his experiments. You should follow him!)

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Flipbook

Flip through centuries of digitized books by wiggling your mouse. Paste any IIIF manifest. Make GIFs.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Absolutely everyone using muse is now become Michael Waltz, adder of Jeffrey Goldberg to the war crimes Signal chat. bsky.app/profile/evac...

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Senior Research Software Engineer wanted to join the amazing team at King's Digital Lab 👇

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kudos to my former colleague @jtonra.bsky.social for explaining why universities need to diversify assessment types to address the challenges of AI. And why students need to develop their own critical thinking skills more than ever.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Museums Association @museumsassociation.org · 18/09/2026

News | New funding to help museums explore health and the planetary emergency Natural History Museum, London and Tate launch programmes as Julie's Bicycle founder steps down - our round-up of the latest climate action news

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New funding to help museums explore health and the planetary emergency - Museums Association

NHM and Tate launch programmes as Julie's Bicycle founder steps down - our round-up of the latest climate action news

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/

a cartoon of three fieldworkers. One has a small trans flag. The logos of the university of leeds, research england, and canopy robin are shown, as well as the URL: InclusiveFieldwork (dot) Leeds (dot) AC (dot) UK (slash) trans

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oh, gross, an ilands dot app 'AI agent' posting on a professional mailing list. At least this one declared being an AI agent in the first message, which wasted slightly less time than when they've pretended to be human at first

ilands.app

https://ilands.app

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Luke McKernan @lukemckernan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some thoughts on acting (after a fashion) at what survives of London's Elizabethan theatre @roseplayhouse.bsky.social lukemckernan.com/2026/09/25/p...

Cutaway illustration of the original Rose playhouse in Elizabethan London

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’d like to see posters with symptoms lists on the back of public toilet doors and in doctors’ surgeries.

OVARIAN CANCER
SYMPTOMS
→ Tummy pain
→ Bloating
→ Feeling full
→ Needing to pee more
Ovarian cancer symptoms can also include indigestion, back pain, changes in bowel habits, post-menopausal vaginal bleeding, and extreme tiredness.
ovarian.org.uk

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICYMI, ace work from @thisisaaronland.bsky.social on shared vector embeddings for images as 'an exercise in practicing agency in our work [,] in producing tangible and reusable artifacts which have a longer shelf life' www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...

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shared vector embeddings (fantastic futures '26)

Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A beautiful moment from Ruth Adams' funeral yesterday. Ruth was one of the coolest people I've ever met. As a eulogy said, she didn't break the mould, she was never in the factory in the first place Joshua Idehen - Learn To Swim (part II) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmx...

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots and found that three produced full summaries of news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets with links and quotes. www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/a...

euronews.com

AI serves up content from Russia's sanctioned state outlets, RSF finds

Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots by requesting news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets, and found that three produced full summaries with links and quotes, somet...

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Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Season 1 of the Bad Service Podcast comes to an end today. In episode 13, we talk about the statement we often use: Service design is 10% design, 90% creating the conditions for design to happen. good.services/badservicesp...

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Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Scholar at risk short term fellowship offered at the @c2dh.uni.lu at @uni.lu Thanks for sharing The Centre previously welcomed Dr. Hanan Alawna who works on digital testimonies from Palestine and Ezzeldin Hajjaj from Sudan who works on museums, heritage and reconciliation www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

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Scholar at risk fellowship 2027

The C²DH offers one short-term fellowship (two months) for a scholar at risk in 2027. The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is

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Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Bake Off lineup is delightful (including @nigella.bsky.social of course). Very good contestant casting. A proper antidote to the idiots who want to stamp out the brilliant, mad, diversity of this daft nation.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.

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Dr Francesca Benatti @rhymesontheroad.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Digital Archives and Feminist Art History: Recovering Marginalized Documentation from 1960s New York. Open Access article on how Digital Humanities can question exclusion by my former student Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen. doi.org/10.1017/alj....

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Digital archives and feminist art history: recovering marginalized documentation from 1970s New York | Art Libraries Journal | Cambridge Core

Digital archives and feminist art history: recovering marginalized documentation from 1970s New York - Volume 51 Issue 1

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert @adi-keinan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#GreenLibraries Week 2026 is one month away! Look at this incredibly rich programme coordinated by Head of Sustainability, Catherine Ross @britishlibrary.bsky.social lnkd.in/eqSjUiF4 I'm contributing to a session on setting up a staff sustainability network: lnkd.in/efEMPV83 -- free registration!

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Aaron Straup Cope @thisisaaronland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"If you happen to be the recipient of juicy subsidies from a frontier lab to tokenmaxx your collections or have secured a fat cheque from an extra-national organization to build a niche data center, that’s great ... but those projects, alone, are not enough." – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...

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shared vector embeddings (fantastic futures '26)

Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At the #RLUKspace workshop this morning, just introduced the Senate House MakerSpace (managed by @dh-researchhub.bsky.social but in collaboration with many many partners) www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...

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MakerSpace

The Senate House MakerSpace facilitates knowledge exchange, capacity building and training.

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS), formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups! Find out more, join, at our work in progress site: had-uk.github.io

had-uk.github.io

Humanities and data science

An independent research group advancing computational approaches in humanities scholarship. Building on the legacy of the Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science special interest group.

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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities

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Announcement: New CIGs | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times! You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-lives...

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Linked Lives: Film, Poetry, and Portraits with the National Gallery – Colonial Networks

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Wish I'd seen this sooner but if you're an eligible organisation and can turn applications around quickly, this programme - Design Museum/Futures Observatory + @ukri.org - is delivering tremendous design-led research. futureobservatory.org/research/str...

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Design Generators research

Design Generators funds design-led research projects tackling real-world sustainability. Apply for funding to co-develop creative green transition solutions

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📢New issue of Catalogue & Index! 📰 Sept 2026 issue (216) features papers from the MDG Conference 2026 #Metafutures, held at Engineers’ House, Bristol. Further papers will be published in the December issue (217). journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #metadata #cataloguing #journal

Catalogue & Index
Periodical of the Metadata & Discovery Group, a
Special Interest Group of CILIP, the Library and
Information Association ISSN 2399-9667
September 2026, Issue 216
Editorial, The Editors
More time needed, James T. Clark and Getaneh Alemu
Authentic and artificial cataloguing, Hannes Lowagie
Can AI or Python help us catalogue books we can’t read? Adam Swann and Sally Bell
"All our wisdom is stored in the trees" Helen K. R. Williams
The Metadata Team and institutional research visibility, Helen K. R. Williams
Metadata as cultural stewardship, Bláithín Hurley
Unlocking Southeast Asia’s digital heritage, Chuin Peng Sim and Gandhimathy Durairaj
Linked data and OCLC Meridian, Sarah Glaccum
Collaborative cataloguing now!, Amy Staniforth
Metadata in motion, Fran Frenzel
Book Review: Information Science, Sergio Alonso Mislata
Minutes of the 230th MDG Committee Meeting 12 March 2026

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

"What is uniquely African about the African AI landscape? Is it because those working on it are from/based in the African continent? Because it focuses on African languages/datasets? Or does it adhere to distinctly African values?" @hellinanigatu.bsky.social aial.ie/blog/worksho...

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An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape: An organizer’s reflection

Key takeaways from “An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape” workshop at the 9th inaugural Deep Learning Indaba

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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Helsinki DH seminar continues today with Ángela Gómez (KU Leuven): Tracing PROGRESS: A diachronic lexical semantic approach to conceptual change in eighteenth-century Britain. For the Autumn seminar see: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...

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Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki

Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What shapes teaching beyond the classroom? In 'Embedded Pedagogies', Brandon Walsh explores how university structures, policies & values influence pedagogy—& how educators can challenge these to build more equitable & hopeful institutions. Read free: buff.ly/kQau5oV #DigitalHumanities #HigherEd

The book in hardback against text that says:

Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change by Brandon Walsh

This volume offers a timely and incisive exploration of teaching in an era of institutional instability and political pressure. Drawing on extensive experience as a digital humanities practitioner and administrator, Walsh argues that teaching does not occur solely in the classroom but is deeply shaped by the policies, structures, and values embedded within universities themselves.

The book reveals how institutional norms, such as claims to neutrality, intellectualism, and future-orientation, quietly shape what and how educators can teach. Walsh combines theory with practical insight, using case studies, digital projects, and firsthand reflections to demonstrate how these forces operate and how they can be challenged. This volume offers guidance for educators seeking to navigate and transform hostile or resource-constrained environments, advocating for pedagogies grounded in transparency, collective care, and social justice.

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Association of Performing Arts Collections @apac-ssn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The @britishlibrary.bsky.social Sustainable Collecting Group is hosting a webinar as part of Green Libraries Week. Sustainable Collecting at the British Library will be held on 23 Oct at 2pm. The event is free & tickets can be booked here: events.bl.uk/events/susta...

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Sustainable Collecting at the British Library | British Library

This webinar from the Library’s Sustainable Collecting Group will explore the collection lifecycle and how sustainability can be considered at each stage.

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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The accuracy of LLM models varies depending on how many questions were asked a time? Structure your prompts wrong and even 'good' models fail? 😬

kevinmd.com

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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Looking for some light lunch reading? Rachel Rich and I wrote a bit about how 18th c British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful. theconversation.com/british-food... #HistFood @uclpress.bsky.social +

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British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think

The King’s table was full of flavours from the British empire and beyond.

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