iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"The affected majors include Classical Civilization, Digital Humanities, German, Russian, and Middle Eastern Studies, among others...no jobs are currently slated for elimination, though teaching assignments and workloads may be affected." bit.ly/47oHkm9

bit.ly

Syracuse University Plans to Cut Nine Humanities Majors | 570 WSYR

Syracuse University plans to cut nine humanities majors due to low enrollment and financial pressures. Current students can finish their degrees, but new enrollments are halted. No job cuts are expect...

65518

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UCL @ucl.ac.uk · 17/03/2026

Thinking about studying at UCL? 👀 Join our Undergraduate Virtual Open Days and learn about admissions, funding, accommodation and student life. 👉 Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/study/prospective-stu… #UCL #OpenDays #London

022

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UCL Arts and Humanities @artshumsucl.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Wishing everyone who is celebrating a Happy Year of the Horse from UCL Arts & Humanities 🏮 Watch messages for the New Year from our Dean, Heads of Departments and students from across our faculty. 新年快乐! buff.ly/bMKyx4b

123

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

'Indeed, the disintegration of geography at the University of Leicester is premised on the pretence that it is possible to keep elements of physical geography and deliver undergraduate geography degrees without any human geographers. This fundamentally misunderstands what geography is'. 2/2

3327

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The death of Dr Paul Ayris is huge loss to UCL, to @uclpress.bsky.social and to the open access/scholarly communications community more broadly. His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2

uclpress.co.uk

Thomas Cranmer’s Register

Discover Thomas Cranmer’s Register (1533–1553), a pivotal Reformation document revealing England’s break from Rome and the rise of Protestantism. This open access book offers unprecedented access with...

32617

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

careful.industries

Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries

AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.

88834

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Free workshop on ‘Using historical census data for research’, 23 October www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

sas.ac.uk

Using historic UK census data for research

033

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

sas.ac.uk

Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research

087

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

London - England & Wales second most populous region, according to Google's AI overview

AI generated text states:

Regional breakdown (for England and Wales)
* South East: 9,278,100 (Most populous region)
* London: 8,799,800 (Second most populous)
* East of England: Saw the highest population growth rate between 2011 and 2021.

020

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🚀 We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue! This updated data catalogue has been designed with user feedback at its core to make finding and working with data faster and easier. 🔗 ukdataservice.ac.uk/2025/10/08/l...

ukdataservice.ac.uk

Launch of the new UK Data Service Data Catalogue — UK Data Service

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new UK Data Service Data Catalogue. This updated data catalogue has been designed with user...

054

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025

Yesterday the Royal Society held a series of panels & keynotes in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Turing Test. The unanimous critical takes on AGI, big tech's power concentration & the call for urgent action left me w hope things might be turning Watch here m.youtube.com/live/GmnBTCK...

27929

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

THREAD: There are a lot of unanswered questions 12 hours after President Trump — who, according to the Constitution, has no final authority over the census — released a social media post calling for unprecedented changes to how the government produces data that forms the foundation of U.S. democracy

npr.org

Trump wants a new U.S. census to exclude people here illegally. It'd be unprecedented

Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results.

12188102

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Can you help with the redevelopment of the Health Survey for England and future collection of population health data? The ONS has re-opened a questionnaire to gather feedback until 25 July: studies.ons.gov.uk/s/Future_HSE/ Find out more about discussions at our recent conference: lnkd.in/eua8-2Bt

043

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The Government have now "commissioned the Office for National Statistics to conduct a mandatory, questionnaire-based, whole-population census of England and Wales in 2031" Yay for fans of censuses! A good time to repost my blog following the recommendation a few weeks ago

120

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Pleased to have the opportunity to talk about user needs at the joint @bspsuk.bsky.social @ukdataservice.bsky.social @celsiusnews.bsky.social ONS meeting on the future of UK Demographic data This slide from Jason Zawadski on the (recommended) 2031 Census as a vital national asset

181

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The Future of the UK Demographic System conference, organised between the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS), Office for National Statistics, the Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support (CeLSIUS) and the UK Data Service, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk, is currently underway.

172

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

How much will the ethnic profile of the UK change from migration and natural change over the next one hundred years? Will 'White British' become a minority? I've tried to have a look at the data on this - and I didn't find what I thought I would. georginasturge.substack.com/p/will-white...

136724

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The @ukdataservice.bsky.social’s Labour Force and Annual Populations User Conference 2025 is now underway, with a packed room of intrigued attendees. The keynote speaker - @heejungchung.bsky.social has been providing fascinating insights into her global research on the impact of remote working.

084

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Well folks, looks like we are having another census 💃🏻 UK Stats Authority is officially endorsing it. Now ministers need to consider the recommendation and decide. Admin data is still the way of the future - but we're not done with the census yet. uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/publication/...

131

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

News about 'the next UK Census' - a blog by me on today's announcements by ONS, NRS and NISRA recommending a full #census in 2031 blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-of-20... @ukdataservice.bsky.social @celsiusnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @bspsuk.bsky.social

Only Connect

A still from the BBC2 quiz show "Only Connect". Quiz host Victoria Coren Mitchell is shown with four clues, teams have to state the connection between the clues.

The clues are:
1) "Battle of Agincourt"
2) "Pocahontas dies"
3) "Peterloo Massacre"
4) "(e.g.) next UK Census"

274

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service Impact @ukdsimpact.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🚨New on the Data Impact blog🚨 The UK Statistics Agency (and their Scottish and Northern Irish counterparts) have made their recommendations to the @ukgovernment.bsky.social about the future of the 2031 #census @oliverdw.bsky.social explores further blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/future-of-20...

111

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

As we approach the end of the UK Data Service's UK Census User Conference 2025, which has been very successful, attendees have enjoyed hearing from inspirational speakers, who work for the Royal British Legion, talking about how they have used Census data to help improve the lives of veterans.

031

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

During the final talks in our research paper sessions, we featured a number of fascinating speakers talking about their work using Census data, including Katrin Metsis, from the University of St Andrews, who spoke about her discoveries around gender inequality in general health among young people.

042

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Momoko Nishikido, from Queen's University Belfast, spoke today about Census findings around ethnicity. Daniel Jones, from the UK Home Office, also spoke about Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO) insights. Plus, Andreas Mastrosavvas, from UCL, explained how they help users with ONS Longitudinal Study.

033

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

On Day 2 of our UK Census User Conference 2025 we have started with two more parallel sessions. John Sanderson, the Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, has been chairing one of the sessions, which featured Alison Sizer, talking about 2021 Census linkages for researchers with a key ONS study.

053

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Our Census experts, Professor Oliver Duke-Williams, Finn Dymond-Green and Vassilis Routsis, have just been updating attendees about their recent work on Census data, highlighting the wide range of practical resources available from the UK Data Service to assist researchers. #census

032

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Mary Gregory, the Director of the Population Statistics Directorate from the Office for National Statistics, has been speaking about the organisation's approach to reporting on population and migration statistics from Census data, which is used by researchers to suggest Government policy changes.

131

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Jen Hampton, the Head of Geospatial Analysis & Innovation at the Office for National Statistics, has been speaking about the organisation's work on Census geographies in the past, present and future, making it easier for researchers to conduct their work with the datasets.

063

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Delighted to introduce @jenitennison.com of @connectedbydata.org as our keynote speaker at the 2025 UK Census User Conference Looking forward to two days of news and latest research using census data

Jeni Tennison speaking at a conference; the PowerPoint slide in view highlights problems that arise if individuals don't engage/ trust govt data - they withdraw data consent, avoid services and object & protest

032

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today is the big day for our UK Census User Conference 2025, held in Manchester and online. At 12.50pm the UK Data Service's Service Director for the Census, Professor Oliver-Duke Williams, will start the conference, followed by Matt Neale from the ESRC and Jeni Tennison from @connectedbydata.org

065

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Alison Hicks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Hey IL folks! If you thought censorship was just impacting school librarians, take a look at my new article in @timeshighered.bsky.social exploring what challenges to intellectual freedom mean for HE teaching librarians, too. How do we shift our work from overload to absence?

11719

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Vanessa Higgins @vanessahiggins.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Come and listen to updates, and have your say, on the the Future of Population Health Surveys - it's so important that the Government hears your views on this. There will also be research papers and updates on many other health data collections. Full programme available next week

034

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

There is much concern among universities about a levy on international student fees: an unexpected part of white paper on which the Treasury will consult. This is cutting across the relief about the government's bark being enormously worse than its bite on international students & post-study work

43613

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Thank you to @oliverdw.bsky.social & others who contributed advice on the data on age + service for this piece bsky.app/profile/sund...

021

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is very useful. I hadn't realised the female % is over 1/10. With gender ratio of 4:1 among the very old, this could makes the balance of surviving veterans among those aged 98+ something like 5000 men (out of 8000-9000 men over 98) and 3500-4000 women (out of 32k-36k women over 98)

121

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Oliver Duke-Williams looked up 2021 census: in March 2021, there were 28,671 people in England and Wales who were aged 95+ and who reported armed forces service. This group was eligible by end WW2, some would have served later Census day was 21st March 2021, 4 years ago bsky.app/profile/oliv...

142

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

📻 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture 📻 🗓️ Date: 22 May 2025 🕕 Time: 6-8pm 📍 Location: @ucl.ac.uk Gustav Tuck Theatre 🔗 tinyurl.com/2p98nbdu Professor Julianne Nyhan explores how digital technologies are reshaping #oralHistory, raising urgent questions about structure, representation, and epistemology.

eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection

UCLDH is delighted to welcome Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, to give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture.

022

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Plans being considered for National Data Library to monetise anonymised public health data, says DSIT Secretary www.techmonitor.ai/digital-econ... 🤑 FT interview with Peter Kyle www.ft.com/content/85d8... (£) #healthdata #datasharing #dataprotection #datapolicy

Kyle suggested it would not be possible to set up the library within this parliament — which is expected to run till 2029 — but said he was "very confident" it could be done by the end of the “decade of national renewal” that Starmer pitched when he was elected.

The government is currently midway through a six-month scoping exercise for the National Data Library, Kyle said.

221

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs on.ft.com/3WSCN6h

on.ft.com

How flawed data is leaving the UK in the dark

Trouble at the Office for National Statistics means policymakers cannot rely on key economic numbers, including on employment

15277126

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UCL Digital Humanities @ucldh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Text Mining with tf-idf 4 April 2025, 2pm-4pm Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

ucl.ac.uk

Text Mining with tf-idf

Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique.

014

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 21/03/2025

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

431130714

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UCL Office for Open Science and Scholarship @uclopenscience.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

📢 Announcement! Save the Date! 📢 We are pleased to announce that in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk library we are launching the first collaborative Open Science & Scholarship Festival in London! Watch this space for more information! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/open-access/...

blogs.ucl.ac.uk

Save the Date! Open Science & Scholarship festival 2025 | UCL Open@UCL Blog

UCL Homepage

0154

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) @bspsuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

British Society for Population Studies statement on the removal of scientific and demographic data from US Government websites: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

21912

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Do you have questions about the UK Data Service Dissertation award? We've put together some key info on who can apply, how to submit your work, who the judges are, and much more in our useful FAQs: tinyurl.com/vbxj8dbn #UKDSDissertations

tinyurl.com

The UK Data Service Dissertation Award – your questions answered — UK Data Service

The UK Data Service Dissertation Award 2025 has now launched! Whether you’re wondering who can apply, how to submit your work or who...

034

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Review of issues currently facing the Office for National Statistics * Poor response rates for the LFS * Big change programme under way * Staff morale etc

020

Oliver Duke-Williams @oliverdw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I'm a johnny-come-lately, and only have the 39 years of listening to this #SistersOfMercy

010

Reposted by Oliver Duke-Williams

Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...

41933481