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Richard Palmer

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Tech Lead in Digital Media at the V&A, but not speaking for them. Waiting for the return of Usenet but until then testing out all the social media platforms to find the least worst.

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Postdoc (18 months) at Inria Paris! Let's go back together to the manuscripts behind Dees' Atlas of Old French, with CATMuS & CoMMA, and measure how editors shaped our dialect maps. Skills: Old French, palaeography, TEI. Latin a +. Deadline 30/11 recrutement.inria.fr/public/class... #digimed #DH
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Post-Doctoral Research Visit F/M Postdoctoral Researcher in Medieval French Philology in the ROMAM2 Project
Offre d'emploi Inria
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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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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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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Want to play with corpora of the French 3rd Republic ? Want to join a nice team ? Want to do something else than LLM and have fun with smaller models as well ? Want to work with people in the humanities and the digital humanities ? Well, this might be for you 😄: jobs.inria.fr/public/class...
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NLP Post-doc / Engineer for Information Mining in Historical Data (French 3rd Republic)
Offre d'emploi Inria
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's European Day of Languages, so here are some of our favourite untranslatable and wonderfully-specific words from across Europe that we wish we had in English ✨
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 25/09/2026
Python devs! Come work on the National Data Library - £64k to £81k - Bristol, London or Manchester - let me know if you have any questions www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026
Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.
Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our 1st deliverable from @infinity-eccch.bsky.social on data ethics! A practical workflow for developers to ensure they can identify, engage with and mitigate ethical risks specific to digital cultural heritage, with @suzannerblack.bsky.social & @andreakocsis.bsky.social: zenodo.org/records/2187...
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INFINITY Guidelines on data ethics (D8.1)
Ethical considerations are at the heart of heritage practices: to attempt to understand, preserve and safeguard aspects of tangible and intangible heritage for the benefit of current and future indivi...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our project on Mapping AI Safety needs a research assistant for six months. Please do pass on to anyone you think would be interested www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Experimental baking of filled madeleine cubes in my free power hour. I apologise to the people of France.
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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 19/09/2026
UK friends, next Tuesday we will Europe-launch our book at King's College: 9/2, 4L30pm, KCL Macadam Building MAC 106. Panel w/ @joannazylinska.bsky.social, @dchavezheras.bsky.social & @mrsbunz.bsky.social hosted by the Creative AI Lab. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
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Select tickets – Creative AI presents: 'Vector Media' Book Launch 📚🌐 – Macadam, Surrey St - King's College London
Creative AI presents: 'Vector Media' Book Launch 📚🌐 – Macadam, Surrey St - King's College London, Tue 22 Sep 2026 - We would like to invite you to attend our book launch celebrating Vector Media with ...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You asked for a citation, so the AI uploaded the material to the internet so it could cite it! This is how we destroy our information ecosystem openai.com/index/model-...
4. Uploading files to the internet in order to cite them. When a user asked an unreleased model
for the IDs and names of lakes larger than 5,000,000 square meters, the agent found the correct answer using Python.
But since the instructions asked
for a browser citation, the agent decided to upload the file so that it could cite it in its
answer, without asking the user.
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Job opening: Digital Collections Specialist @ LoC Closing Date: 10/5/26; $70,623.00-$91,815.00 (GS-12) Located in Digital Collections Mgmt & Services Division, Digital Services Directorate, Discovery & Preservation Services w/in the Library Collection & Services Group at the Library of Congress.
usajobs.gov
Digital Collections Specialist
The Library of Congress shares its vast collections of books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, audiovisual materials, and priceless artifacts to cultivate curiosity and spark imagination. We engage, in...
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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Event Announcement: Computational Methods and Curious Looking: Integrating AI into Art History www.cdh.cam.a...
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Computational Methods and Curious Looking: Integrating AI into Art History - CDH
Speaker Dr Kathryn Brown, Reader in Art Histories, Markets, and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University Kathryn Brown is Reader in Art Histories, Markets, and Digital Heritage at Loughborough University. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse’s Poets (2017), ed. Digital Humanities and Art History (2020), Henri Matisse (2021), Dialogues with Degas
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The story of Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle in De Gaulle: Resistance film was totally new to me, it almost seemed like a separate film for a long time before the parts came (tragically) together.
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cool new large grant opportunity from MacArthur Foundation on community-led AI, with one target area in the humanities + arts. Significant funding for projects that are trying to have real impact on human-centered and community centered AI development and use. humanityai.ai/open-call/?u...
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Open Call for Proposals - Humanity AI
Open Call for Proposals: Communities Leading on AI $10M Investment in U.S.-Based Community-Led AI Initiatives Humanity AI, an initiative spearheaded […]
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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Early medievalists may be happy to know that Simon Keynes’s collection of maps of Anglo-Saxon England has now been made freely available via @trincolllibcam.bsky.social These were commissioned by Simon and drawn (by hand) by Reg Piggott between 1991 and 2012. archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/ma...
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Maps of Anglo-Saxon England - archives.trin.cam.ac.uk
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Museums Computer Group @ukmcg.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Some exciting news! We've teamed up with Art Fund to offer bursaries for Early Career Professionals to attend Museums+Tech 2026 this November. If you're new to the UK museums and heritage sector, or know someone who is, find out more here: museumscomputergroup.org.uk/art-funds-ea... #MuseTech2026
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Art Fund's Early Career Professional bursaries for MuseTech26 - Museums Computer Group
Applications are open to Early Career Professionals currently working in the museums and heritage sector within the UK and will cover tickets to this year's Museums + Tech conference for up to 10 part...
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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇦🇱 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time 1/3
Home page of the Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS), with links to its 3 principal pages, Sandbox, Workbench, Data Explorer
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 09/09/2026
From 11-13 September, the Bodleian will open up spaces and show off collections not usually accessible to the public, for #OxfordOpenDoors 2026! Enjoy tours, storytelling, a Victorian printing press, and MUCH more. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oxfor… We can't wait to see you!
An open gateway at the Bodleian Library with a silhouette walking through it
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Merisa Martinez @merisamartinez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tonight the truly brilliant folks in the Baskerville Small Performances project are introducing the new Baskerville Punch font, based on the imaging, RTI, and archaeometallurgic research carried out over the past two years in this project. The type designers are Riccardo Olocco and Michele Patane.
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities: Methods & Resources / @jebarr.bsky.social Nicole Budrovich David Saunders www.getty.edu/publications... #openaccess @gettymuseum.bsky.social
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Provenance Research for Mediterranean Antiquities
This practical open-access volume is the first to gather resources specific to the provenance of Mediterranean antiquities in an accessible, comprehensive guidebook.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 08/09/2026
The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard University: “Binoc is a command-line tool and library that, given two snapshots of a dataset, efficiently summarizes the differences between the two snapshots in a human-readable changelog.” lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/07...
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Binoc: A Field Guide | Library Innovation Lab
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📢 Calling all colleagues working with digital collections and collections systems! We’re calling GLAM professionals and digital collections colleagues to respond to our surveys to help us shape a future national research infrastructure for the UK. To take part please head to tinyurl.com/3e2ewr9u
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Barbican’s chief operating officer says if there’s one thing she could have on her headstone it would be ‘She solved wayfinding at the Barbican’ Lovely piece by @grindrod.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6c42...
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What happens when the future gets old?
A modernist icon, London’s Barbican Conservatory is in need of renovation
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'I now sense that creative hallucination is fundamental to [AI chatbot technology] design. It is, after all, called “generative AI,” not “analytic” or “bibliographic AI.”' AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine — History News Network www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 03/09/2026
Interop 2027 is open for proposals! Is there a well-tested feature that you'd like to see cross-browser focus on next year? Submit it here: github.com/web-platform...
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interop/proposal_guide.md at main · web-platform-tests/interop
web-platform-tests Interop project. Contribute to web-platform-tests/interop development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A 15.9M-parameter specialist OCR model outperforms many VLMs hundreds of times larger. On a 2,165-page historical eval dataset, Kraken PP-OCRv6 ranks #4 on reading CER and #1 when long-s, ligatures and case are preserved. huggingface.co/spaces/fineb...
Plot showing parameters vs performance. Kraken is top left.
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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
For the past few days, I'm seeing 100+ #IIIF annotation rooms created daily on liiive.now w/ images from Texas A&M - but no one's annotating! Totally fine (obviously!) but I'm super curious what's going on. Know anything? DM me - I'd love to hear what folks are trying to do & see if I can help!
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Job Posting: Information Technology Specialist (Web site administrator) @Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino. Apply now: posting closes after first 250 applications received. Salary $85,447 - $111,087 per year(GS 11)
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Information Technology Specialist
The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in organizationally in Information Technology,...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Our wonderful small grants scheme is open again offering up to £10k to humanities and social sciences researchers. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 mont...
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are hiring! Permanent position for a University Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. The application period is open and closes on 3 October 2026: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please read the job description carefully and feel free to spread the word widely.
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University Lecturer in Digital Humanities
University Lecturer in Digital Humanities
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Latest Library of Congress blog post about their sandbox approach to experimenting with AI to help with processing collections. See "AI Sandbox Series: A Secure Environment to Explore Artificial Intelligence at the Library," August 31, 2026 by Leah Weinryb-Grohsgal
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Finally something new for museum digital maps, Inception view!
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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Thomas Flynn @nebulousflynn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I am proud to share the UK 3D Heritage Data at Risk project final report with you! 🔗 Link at the end of this thread.
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Borrowing from @melissaterras.bsky.social #academicglamour (I'm claiming academic adjacentness, although not on a work trip) The most unexpectedly entertaining hotel room view, in Derby, looking out onto the skate park.
View of an indoor skate park at night with a lone skater
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Was very happy to get the AD122 bus to Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum (the AD has apparently been dropped, but signage still has it). The bus to Auckland Palace (and great Spanish art gallery) from Durham does not yet have a fun number, I'm sure the Auckland Project team are working on it.
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A brief video explaining Named Entity Recognition and how it can be used to connect historical documents. From the Smithsonian's Office of Digital and Innovation.
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What is Named Entity Recognition? Connecting Historical Documents with AI
YouTube video by Inside Smithsonian Digital
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Richard Palmer @rd-palmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Antediluvian Alliance - In a world driven mad by generative AI content, this GLAM group strives to keep human generated content alive. It might not be complete, it might not be correct, but ... [add some explosions, quips, losing battles, funny but a bit sad ending]. It literally writes itself.
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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Searching for a middle ground between open access and walled gardens for cultural heritage collections: CC Signals
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Open Heritage in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Creative Commons
Creative Commons shares how the rise of generative artificial intelligence has affected cultural heritage institutions and open sharing.
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National Heritage Science Forum @nhsf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
📢 Coming in September: Heritage Science for Museum Professionals Conference! A guide to #HeritageScience for museum pros: 💡 10 September 2026, 10am - 4:30pm 💡 University of Liverpool School of Architecture 💡 Register for free: buff.ly/prF8pgw @liverpooluni.bsky.social @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social
liverpool.ac.uk
Heritage Science for Museum Professionals Conference | Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology | University of Liverpool
Heritage Science for Museum Professionals is a new initiative funded by the National Museums Liverpool Collaboration Fund. The project aims to make analytical science more accessible to museum and…
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Richard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a really cool study, not sure I've seen anything like it: researchers interview 17 digital painters over 5 years, to track their changing uptake/reception to generative AI in their work. They find shifting attitudes from resistance to ->integration to ->reflection. arxiv.org/abs/2511.03117
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Tracing Generative AI in Digital Art: A Longitudinal Study of Chinese Painters' Attitudes, Practices, and Identity Negotiation
This study presents a five-year longitudinal mixed-methods study of 17 Chinese digital painters, examining how their attitudes and practices evolved in response to generative AI. Our findings reveal a...
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
AI4LAM @AI4LAM@glammr.us's Fantastic Futures 2026 conference programme is looking great! So many topics and speakers packed into a couple of days: www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... Check it out for a sense of where #AI #MachineLearning #OpenGLAM work is now
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https://www.conftool.org/fantastic-futures-2026/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_date=2026-09-17&mode=grid&presentations=hide
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“It is a misconception to think that museums are catalogues of objects … they should be seen as active epistemological agents where knowledge is created, contested, and circulated… It is striking how rarely museums appear in current critical debates on AI.” — from Jose-Carlos Mariátegui
link.springer.com
Museums: critical knowledge infrastructure in the age of AI - AI & SOCIETY
AI & SOCIETY -
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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · 05/08/2026
New in the International Journal for Digital Art History: @evisualyn.bsky.social traces the evolution of authenticity infrastructures from documentary film to AI-era content credentials, exploring provenance, visual verification, OSINT, and the future of trust in digital images. #DigitalArtHistory
ahnp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de
A Brief History of Authenticity Infrastructures, 1994 to 2024 | International Journal for Digital Art History
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