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Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books

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Art, design, and architecture books and catalogues are a great way of educating ourselves visually. That's why I collect these artefacts and am creating a website about them (nearly there). You can sign up for my newsletter and a list of items for sale.

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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Photo: Sinta Werner
Sinta Werner
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Piet Mondrian By the Sea 1909
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Stanley Spencer recorded in his 1938 Desk Diary that he began 'Magnolias,' in March of that year. On 5th April 1938, he wrote to his dealer Dudley Tooth saying that the painting was 'as good as anything I have done.'
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
More than any other British artist, Paul Nash revived the English landscape tradition in modern terms. In 'The Rye Marshes, East Sussex,' (1932) he brings his understanding of Cézanne on his search for a satisfying compositional design.
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Architecture @architecture.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Olivetti Technical Centre and Warehouse, Kenzo Tange, Yokohama, Japan, 1970.
Olivetti Technical Centre and Warehouse, Kenzo Tange, Yokohama, Japan, 1970.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Painted in 1919, Santiago Rusiñol's picture depicts the estate of Sa Coma in Valdemosa on Mallorca’s east coast. Rusiñol developed a strand of modernism in Spain which translated into paintings of landscapes, pictures which varied from symbolist to more naturalistic works.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Painted in 1913, Paul Nash gave this picture the ultimate simplicity of a title, 'A Drawing.' The elm trees marked the boundary of his family's home at Wood Lane House, Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. Trees always held a spiritual quality for him.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Eero Järnefelt ( 1863 - 1937 ) Finnish painter "Pine Tree" pencil on paper, c.1887 ( page from the artist's sketchbook ) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Georgia.' (1973) The first major UK exhibition in over 20 years of Euan Uglow's work will be staged at Milton Keynes Gallery in February next year.
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
'Green Fields at Sunset.' Joan Eardley rarely strikes a false note. Although a flair for pictorial construction is evident even in the freest of her sketches, these are deeply felt personal responses, momentary sensations, and what she called 'the notion of landscape inside me.'
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Ryohei Tanaka (1933 - 2019, Japan), Onion Flowers No. 1.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Piet Mondrian - Farm Building with Bridge , ca 1899 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
'Cliffs, South Stack, Anglesey.' The darkness implicit in so many of Kyffin Williams's mountain landscapes was a facet of his own make-up. He recognised in it the Celtic tendency to melancholy and that a certain despair and gloom were the logical sequel to his epileptic seizures.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Anne Skinner (Scottish Artist) "Blue Moon", 2012. Screen Print, 41 × 67 cm. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Franz Marc - Woman in the Wind by the Sea 1907 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Pablo Picasso - Germaine, 1900. Oil on board laid down on cradled panel #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Ignace @hostens.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) “Field with Poppies” 1889
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Oskar Kokoschka @okokoschka.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The Distant Island www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/…
The Distant Island
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Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
See this LinkedIn post from Kaspar Beelen about a report we worked on about small language models: www.linkedin.com/posts/kaspar...
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Another attempt at self-promotion before I shut up till the new year... probably. 🫠 In the age of ChatGPT, do small language models (SLMs) still matter for libraries and humanities research? 🫥… | Ka...
Another attempt at self-promotion before I shut up till the new year... probably. 🫠 In the age of ChatGPT, do small language models (SLMs) still matter for libraries and humanities research? 🫥   Pe...
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Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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OII | Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
Largest systematic review of AI benchmarks highlights need for clearer definitions and stronger scientific standards.
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Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Bridget Riley (b. 1931), The River at Molecey's Mill, 1952–1955. Collection of the artist. © Bridget Riley 2023.
Drawing of trees surrounding a field. Mainly greens yellows.  Bridget Riley (b. 1931), The River at Molecey's Mill, 1952–1955. Collection of the artist. © Bridget Riley 2023.
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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Rare video capture of a Spotted Eagle Ray getting airborne then using its wings to brake. I took this video near St Petersburg, Florida. #nature #amazing #animals #awesome #wildilfe #ocean
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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This is honestly fascinating - dissecting vibes into the incredibly concrete - and people should be using it as a discussion starter in writing classes
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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 2,343 manuscripts in the collection of Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari—the library of the Sidi Yahya Mosque (or Jāmiʻ Sīdī Yaḥyá) in #Timbuktu, Mali, which dates to the 15th century. 
 Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
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2,343 manuscripts from Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari in Tombouctou, Mali, are now available in Reading Room
2,343 manuscripts from Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari in Tombouctou, Mali, are now available in Reading Room page
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Julian D Richards @juliandrichards.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
5000 archives is quite a milestone - and no better way to celebrate it than the publication of the new permanent home for the 'Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi' - a stunning collection of 28,000 images of stained glass - especially for those who thought we were just about holes in the ground.
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The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
For #GenAI, 'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.' www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470
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Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities.…
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20/08/2025
I agree; something I have also been thinking (and saying) in my own off life networks
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
On small, local language models: 'In a world increasingly dominated by massive models and opaque APIs, we believe there’s still room for small, transparent, controllable systems. Models you can fine-tune, understand and run on your own terms' www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
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Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
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UK Data Service @ukdataservice.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
💻 Only one week to go until our Code Anxiety Club! This session will focus on "Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways" To join the session, please follow the link to our livestream: www.youtube.com/live/h45KXR7...
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Code Anxiety Club: Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways
YouTube video by UK DATA SERVICE
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The Scholarly Kitchen @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/19/g...
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Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All - The Scholarly Kitchen
Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholar...
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Dr Beth @drbeth.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out. I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025
PLOS Biology announces agreement to become a MetaROR partner journal - The Official PLOS Blog theplosblog.plos.org/2025/08/plos-b…
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
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LSE Impact @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
💥New: Are newsletters the new academic social media? ✍️ Deirdre Watchorn and Marion Schnelle @degruyterbrill.bsky.social #AcademicSky #ScholComm #newsletters
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Are newsletters the new academic social media? - Impact of Social Sciences
A new reports finds growing interest in more traditional and controlled forms of academic socialisation amongst early career researchers.
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S K Sanderson @mrkarlsanderson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Taken in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall a number of years ago. #London #Bankside #TateModern #BlackAndWhite #monochrome #contrast #HighContrast #LightAndShadow #shadows #silhouette #graphic #window #sunlight #photography #PhotographersUnited
High-contrast black and white photograph showing sunlight projected through narrow vertical windows onto the floor, almost resembling a zebra-crossing or barcode. Standing in one of the beams of light is a small lone figure with an elongated shadow, dwarfed by the surroundings.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 12/08/2025
Join our call for a strong plastics treaty by signing the petition: www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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Let’s end the age of plastic! - Greenpeace International
I support a strong Global Plastics Treaty that cuts plastic production so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. Join me
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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
Gerhard Richter “Art is the highest form of hope.”
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Marlow Moss (British, 1890-1958), Composition in Black and White Number 4, 1949. Oil on canvas, 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. | 63.7 x 63.7 cm. (Source: MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Jean Paul Riopelle - Ecarlate (1962)
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Open Research, University of Sheffield @openresshef.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🔊Four weeks to go until OpenFest 2025! 🥳Join us ONLINE for sessions on building diverse and inclusive research cultures, recognition practices, publishing ecosystems, open research communities, and libraries. Full programme and registration links below:
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
All set up at @durham-university.bsky.social for #DCDC25 Come and say hello 👋 @thoth-metadata.bsky.social @openingthefuture.bsky.social @openbookcollective.bsky.social #openaccess #openinfrastructure
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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Ronchamp - Le Corbusier
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"The Cloud Is Not Above Us" by @designinf.bsky.social PhD student David Mahoney - "When digital systems are abstracted from place, they become invisible. We lose sight of the true cost of their convenience: the emissions... the land consumed... the communities they displace or disadvantage"
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The Cloud Is Not Above Us - Branch
A “place-conscious poetic” web doesn’t mean rejecting scale or technological progress – it means alignment.
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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
🤔 Want to teach with primary sources but need free, #OpenAccess materials? in the latest @jstordaily.bsky.social article, a history instructor shares three in-class activity ideas with links to free #primarysource collections on #JSTOR. Try one out and let us know what you think: bit.ly/40pWBzB
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Lies, Damn Lies, and…Primary Sources? - JSTOR Daily
An instructor shares her approach for teaching students how to evaluate historical materials and claims of veracity made by their originators.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Has #DH2025 inspired you to get more involved in Digital Humanities communities? Sign up for the @adho-org.bsky.social newsletter for updates from our 14 DH organisations and 10 special interest groups (SIGs) adho.org adho.org/newsletter/
Poster encouraging people to sign up to the ADHO newsletter

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) promotes digital research and teaching across the arts and humanities, provides a community-based advisory force, and supports excellence in DH research, publication, collaboration and training.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
If you can't be in Lisbon for #DH2025 you can still learn about the excellent range of posters on display at dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-p...
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Program agenda – DH2025
Copyright © 2024 July 14-18 2025, Lisbon | Portugal
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Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
That is a really great question. I suppose it is understandable that we seek to emulate science/business because we see success there. Adopting the language of success does not necessarily result in actual success of course.
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Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For typography needs out there:
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Anna Hughes @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Looking forward to year three 📆
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