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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

My dear colleague Christin gave me a handmade #linocut for my birthday and reminded me of the joy I found making these prints in secondary school. We have agreed to meet up for an #art session soon, and one of my first works will be a Memento Mori, for […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Memento Mori with hour glass, moth, and fading flower in front of a broken window.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Tijdens de Week van de #Wetenschap kunnen bezoekers aan de #UniversiteitMaastricht met mij oude kaarten van onze regio verkennen. Kleinere kinderen kunnen zelfs kaarten van #Limburg kleuren. En aan het eind van de dag kunnen ze nog een leuke UM-verrassing […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Schattenjacht door de tijd: Ontdek oude kaarten

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I have just completed my first introduction day for new #MADigitalCultures students in my new role as program director. My alien Axel and I celebrated with icecream and having our picture taken in the photo booth. @fasosmaastricht

Introduction Day photo with Axel and a cone of mocca icecream.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@stefan_hessbrueggen Es gibt einen Absatz zu Stornierungen durch die Mieter allgemein, aber nichts über besondere Umstände. Deshalb weiß ich nicht, was wir kommunizieren sollen. Wir haben keine Rücktrittsversicherung, nur eine Rechtsschutzversicherung. Ich […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

We avoid long journeys & flights for our #summerholidays & mostly visit nearby places in Germany or Belgium. This year, our holiday destination is affected by the devastating #wildfire in the Belgian #HogeVenen national park. More than 3000 hectares of land […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Area of the Hoge Venen wildfire indicated on Google Maps.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

At #dhbenelux2026, saxophonist Julia Warren is now translating conference presentation topics into jazz music. Our StoryScript demonstration became a swinging piece in F major! 👍🏼 Find out more about Julia's work on saxophoni.ca.

Julia Warren's transcription of our demonstration theme into music.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Rutger Schurgers and I are at #dhbenelux26 and have just set up our demonstration of #StoryScript. Rutger began developing this web engine ten years ago for interactive #fiction, but it can also be used for creating adventure and role-playing #games. In […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Laptop showing code and screen showing web deployment for our adventure game demo.

Tablet showing the StoryScript website and two posters explaining functionalities.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Everything's set up for #dhbenelux26 in Maastricht! The workshops have already started and we are looking forward to welcoming the other participants tomorrow. ☺️

DH Benelux reception at FASoS Maastricht

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Multilingual menu outside a convenience store in Rome. No translation app needed!

Poster with photos of pasta, instant noodles, snacks and soft drinks framed by coloured lights.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

I'm in Rome for the #dariah annual event & a visit to the #Vatican has allowed me to buy an Italian copy of Pope Leo's encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas, which was only officially published this morning. When I entered the book store at 11 am, the shop […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas fresh from the printing press -- and my receipt from a Vatican book seller.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Ik moest vandaag naar #Aken om een nieuwe Duitse passport aan te vragen. De hele stad was prima voorbereid op Nederlandse #Koningsdag vluchtelingen — maar ik heb er bijna geen Nederlanders gezien. De binnenstad was lekker rustig. Toch was het leuk dat de […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Ballonnen met tekst "Hartelijk welkom in Aken"

Oranje ballonnen voor een sierraden winkel

Oranje ballonnen aan de straatverlichting

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

It was nice to give a mini lecture at our #BADigitalSociety Experience Day! The topic which I addressed were the (corroding) boundaries between politics and the tech economy. Why do democracies ideally need a separation of government and business? Why is […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Smart screen with slides in our digital studies lab "The Plant"

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

Just a reminder that #dhbenelux26 takes place at #MaastrichtUniversity next summer! Visit our website & read our call for papers here: 2026.dhbenelux.org Our main theme will be #storytelling --- so we welcome papers, workshops or demonstrations by […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Digital Humanities Benelux 2026, Maastricht, 02-06 June -- still from the promotional animation

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

I am grateful for our lively discussion in my workshop on creating & hosting Open Educational Resources. Across institutions and disciplines, we share the same challenges and experiment with similar solutions. There is no one-fits-all workflow or platform […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Flipchart with a hand-drawn outline of file formats and publication strategies in OER creation

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

Having repurposed Windows machines for #Linux so far, I am now the proud owner of my first Linux-native #Slimbook laptop. The communication with the customer service in Spain was great & delivery was 100% transparent. It takes a while for the team to […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Slimbook EVO backside: "made in China, assembled in Spain with love" 💕

Nice feature: the caffeine timer to schedule the next coffee break

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

With the general elections in the Netherlands coming up, the unions and #WOinActie organise a public event in Utrecht to watch the election debate together and discuss with experts. Bring your family, friends, colleagues and rain gear as the event takes place on the cathedral square in Utrecht.

Vote for education -- join us for our election event on October 27, Domplein Utrecht, 5:30 PM.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

As part of an @AtriumBerlin workshop, my colleague Susan & I are trying to prepare #trainingdata to build a special #HTR model for early 20th-century handwriting from the British Isles in #e-scriptorium. Unfortunately, none of the existing #kraken models […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Preparing a ground truth with e-Scriptorium

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

As academics, we get invitations to contribute to more or less legitimate conferences and journals all the time, and often the proposed topics have nothing to do with our research. Most of the people sending these emails, however, at least get our names […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Email inviting me to an (alleged) engineering conference in China and calling me Dr. Xin.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2025

#Nature is always fascinating --- no matter how often you've seen particular phenomena before. I am currently in Northern #Italy and observing a #thunderstorm at night. Because of the clouds, we cannot see actual flashes, but the light effects are still […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

I have booked one of the new mini cabins on the #Nightjet sleeper #train for the first time and think they're gorgeous! They give you full privacy at a reasonable price. You have a locker for a mid-sized suitcase and more room for smaller bags under your […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

View of the sliding door that closes the mini cabin.

Window and closed connection to the neighbouring cabin.

Inside of the mini cabin photographed from outside

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Starting another #nighttrain adventure today at #Amersfoort Centraal! I am taking the ÖBB #Nightjet to #Munich and will get there by 6 am tomorrow morning. My previous experiences with the Austrian sleeper trains were very good --- both in shared cabins and […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Train announcement at the station of departure

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

The closing session of #dae2025 looks back at the events of the past week and summarizes why thinking about history is important for the present of #digitalhumanities and #ResearchInfrastructures in Europe. A huge team of @dariaheu committee members, local […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Presentation slide Past/Present at #dae2025 highlighting core themes of the event

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2025

Looking forward to the #dae2025 paper by my @fasosmaastricht colleague Arnoud Wils, who will discuss analysing part art historical research with the help of #LLMs. Arnoud is our research engineer at @theplantfasos and supports #digitaltransformation of research and teaching at our faculty.

Paper abstract submitted by Arnoud Wils to #dae2025

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Interesting for us at @fasosmaastricht and everyone else using advertising in research and teaching: a new app called NEWNA to segment and dynamically interact with magazine pages developed and presented by PhD candidates Tobias Kreten and Svend Göke at #dae2025 ⚒️

Tobias Kreten and Svend Göke presenting the NEWNA segmentation app

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

One helpful tool for #histodons (working on German history and culture) is a semi-automated entity linking support for #GND entries developed by colleagues at Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Find the slides with all relevant links in the #dae2025 […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Opening slide of entity linking tool presentation 2025

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2025

Attending the live #demo session for new #tools and services at #dae2025 now. The session also includes a brief demonstration of the new content management system behind the #DariahCampus platform. DARIAH-Campus is the @dariaheu discovery framework and […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Outline of the Dariah Demonstration Session 2025 in ConfTool

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

Need help navigating the national and European #researchinfrastructure landscapes? Maybe this chart shown at #dae2025 does the trick! If you are German-speaking, you can also check out the #nfdi "survival kit": zenodo.org/records/14981549 This kit […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Chart showing research infrastructures from a Humanities point of view on national and European levels, presented at the Dariah Annual Event 2025

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

On my way to Alte Mensa in #Göttingen for the opening panel of #dae2025. I am looking forward to the discussion about research #infrastructures and the collaborations behind them. Navigating the national and European landscapes of infrastructure initiatives […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Screenshot from ConfTool with description of plenary session.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2025

For those who aren't aware: #dariaheu has an #RDM working group who have, among other things, assembled a Zotero bibliography on #datamanagement best practices in the #humanities […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Cover of the Dariah EU publication "Integrating Voices of the Community"

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2025

Presenting my course Machines of Knowledge, which introduces media studies students to #distantreading at the MA Digital Cultures information market today! Apart from technical skills & a basic understanding of #dataanalysis, the course teaches three […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Poster wall and screen presenting methodological and theoretical aspects of the Machines of Knowledge course

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025

I have asked #GPT-4.0 to translate a news report from Dutch to German for me because I wanted to inform my family about current debates in the Netherlands. I was surprised that #ChatGPT started a #deepsearch although I had not actively selected this feature […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Screenshot of dialogue window that opens in ChatGPT when you attempt to cancel a deep search process.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025

Ik wilde even maar bij @nrc_nl bedanken voor de uitstekende mogelijkheid nu een jaar ook #NYTimes artikelen te lezen. Ik ben vooral geïnteresseerd in technologie, economie en wetenschap. Ook de NRC audio app gebruik ik regelmatig voor tech nieuws terwijl […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

#Onderwijs is niet vanzelfsprekend! Voor de #WOinActie staking tegen de bezuinigingen in het #HogerOnderwijs heb ik een "kenniskaart" van Maastricht begonnen: fasos-research.nl/mosahistoria/kenn… Dit […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

#WOinActie protest against budget cuts today in #Maastricht with colleagues from Maastricht University, Hogeschool Zuid and Open University Heerlen.

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2025

Op woensdag staken wij in #Maastricht om tegen de regeringsmaatregelen in het #HogerOnderwijs te demonstreren. In een tijd waar we onder andere onafhankelijker willen worden van de VS economie is het alleen maar cynisch de opleiding van nieuwe experten en […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025

I have been trying to encourage an #amaryllis to #flower for years, following all the advice about intermittently putting it into a dark space etc. What really did the trick for me was to permanently put it into the brightest spot possible (no direct […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Photo of amaryllis with two open flowers and one bud.

Closeup photo of one red amaryllis flower 🌺

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2025

Every now & then, I give #ChatGPT a scan of my handwriting to test its skills in working with #handwrittentexts. Initially, it responded that it could not process the scans or gave me entirely fictional output, but today it got almost everything right […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Near-perfect transcription provided by ChatGPT

Original handwritten page uploaded to ChatGPT

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2025

New #OpenAccess publication: Feminist #DigitalHumanities: Intersections in Practice Our volume edited by Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman is finally out! The collection explores how #feminist theory shapes DH practice, infrastructure, and pedagogy […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Book cover of "Feminist Digital Humanities" (2025)

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

Not a real #FASoS town hall meeting --- but still a topic related to real-world challenges in Dutch #highereducation: Students of our BA #DigitalSociety at Maastricht University presented an academic role-play on cryptocurrency donations as a means to back […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Fictitious poster inviting members of Maastricht University to discuss the future of cryptocurrency donations

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2025

Coming soon! Proud to have contributed to this volume in a chapter with Susan Schreibman on our work in the Irish "Letters 1916-1923" project, in which we faced the challenge of uncovering #women's stories in a male-dominated historical corpus. #DigitalHumanities #FeministDH #history

Cover and publisher's abstract for the edited volume "Feminist Digital Humanities" coming out in April 2025

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2025

🟥 National Strike Schedule Announced 🟥 The dates for nationwide strikes against budget cuts in Dutch #highereducation have been confirmed: * 10 March: Leiden * 11 March: Utrecht * 13 March: Radboud University (with HAN and ArtEZ) * 17 March: Amsterdam […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

WO in Actie email banners with strike dates in March

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Teste heute zum ersten Mal die Wifi-Bestellung im #Bordbistro von #DeutscheBahn. Wer 1. Klasse fährt und mit dem Bord-WiFi verbunden ist, kann digital bestellen. Ich bin gespannt, ob das wirklich klappt. Gutscheine zum Bezahlen habe ich zum Glück auch noch. 😁 #Zugreisen

Bestellbestätigung im ICE Portal der Deutschen Bahn

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

I am super delighted that #Frosch - my favourite German brand for cleaning products - have their own store in #Mainz. Although my suitcase is full, I could not resist buying a small bottle of shampoo that's normally only sold on the Austrian market. #fangirl

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

Zum Ende der #BYODL Tagung mit @hermes_datenkompetenzzentrum hier noch einige zusammenfassende Gedanken für die weitere #OCR Projektplanung zu Hause! Unser Austausch mit Forschenden aus verschiedenen Disziplinen war sehr inspirierend und ich freue mich […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Zentrale Fragen für den OCR Arbeitsprozess vom Scan zur digitalen Textanalyse

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2025

I travelled in a new and very comfortable #DeutscheBahn 1st class #train carriage today. I really liked that I had plenty of space for my laptop and that there's extra storage room for bottles / cups and mobile phones. However, the trains are still as late […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

Photo of interiors in new German 1st class train carriages

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

At the #RMeS Winterschool at #FASoS we are also brainstorming #AI applications that could make society or academia more inclusive. My group came up with a citation checker that flags potential biases in reference lists. We would make the underlying model […] [Original post on akademienl.social]

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025

Another #OpenScience knowledge exchange is bringing members of the Dutch OS community together in Utrecht today. One of our goals for the day was formulating community statements for our local communities and giving each other feedback. Nice snacks for coffee help!

OSCNL flyer "my community is open" with QR code to help people join a local Open Science Community

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