Half way done teaching Intro to Python for humanities - been great! Anyone have ideas for public datasets focused on culture for students to work on for final projects? @mellymeldubs.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @mariaa.bsky.social
This info just came over the (highly recommended) #geohumanities mailing list: The working papers from the very productive #OpenMapsMeeting hosted in 2024 by @TUDelftLibrary at the National Archives in The Hague is online. Documenting innovative work with #historical #maps using #IIIF Hopefully [β¦]
Sign up if you're a student thinking about PhD work in #DigitalHumanities, or if you're a past or current DH PhD student willing to share experience with future students, or if you supervise or manage DH PGRs. This is a general discussion about the discipline, not promoting any one programme.
What is a Digital Humanities PhD?
Monday 9th March 2026, 16:30β18:00 GMT. Online only. Discussion with Jonathan Blaney & Ryan Heuser (Cambridge), Lucia Michielin (Edinburgh), Luca Scholtz (Manchester) & myself (@dh-researchhub.bsky.social).
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines".
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...
There are a few more #SunoikisisDC sessions coming this semester (and then a whole new programme organised by @monica-berti.bsky.social and @sealygirl.bsky.social in the summer term). All live on Youtube with supporting materials, readings and exercises in the Github session page.
Planning for a postdoc in Classics using digital methods but don't know where to start? Join our training workshop in Durham!
Small bursaries are available, but applications are due soon!
#DigitalHumanities #digitalclassics
digitalhumanities.webspace.durham.ac.uk/events/
Applications are open until March 9th for the ATRIUM Summer School 2026 "From Maps to Data and Data to Maps: Exploring Spatial Histories", taking place in Athens, Greece from June 29βJuly 2, hosted by Athens University of Economics & Business π¬π·
πΈ Find out more: atrium-research.eu/news/call-fo...
Being interdisciplinary mostly means everyone agrees your work is interesting but not for their journal.
I am so happy to see this finally come to light! Digital Classicists are making enormous progress towards a better understanding of Pausanias, which was sorely needed for so long.
Exciting work @charlespletcher.org!
May you βrekindle hearts in a world that grows chillβ β CΓrdan
Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMsβ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including usersβ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025
Currently at the Swedish Institute in Athens for the soft launch of www.periegesis.org/en/, which provides raw data of Pausanias's places, objects, people and events; side-by-side enriched texts in ancient Greek and English; maps and network graphs; and links to global authorities, e.g. Wikidata
Oh hey, it's me!
Very excited to finally launch this project in partnership with @wikimediauk.bsky.social, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.
If you produce or work with cultural heritage 3D data in UK I'd love to speak with you! Links in thread π
By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
JOB!!!! π£
Cultural Heritage experts / Antiquists, consider applying for the exec directorship at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology at Berkeley.
An impressive programme for Linked Pasts 11 this year, all remote. Sign up for these really exciting sessions!
We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
π₯ PhD applications are now open!
π Study across the whole spectrum of Classics: literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, digital humanities, classics education, reception, public policy...
π Learn more here: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6
ποΈ Departmental research strengths: tinyurl.com/32yavda6
It's OUT!! Our chapter in Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics, edited by Anna Foka and Clelia LaMonica. In very good company among the best scholars in the field. www.routledge.com/Evolving-Per...
I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'
We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!
π₯ Submit your manuscript!
π©π« Dr Chiara Palladino is one of the editors of the new collection 'From bits of history to bytes of data: AI and the study of the ancient Near East β Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications'
π Learn more here: www.nature.com/collections/...
Also, if you are a scholar of the Ancient Near East, consider sending us your stuff! It will be published in our edited collection for Nature:
www.nature.com/collections/...
Second week of travel of a busy September, I am at the great Bytes&Bygones conference as a complete intruder, but with good friends.
Incredible organization and such an honour to be here.
www.bab.ugent.be
We just released IMMARKUS 1.0 - our first full release!
An open-source tool for semantic image annotation: multi-image workbench, AI-powered selection tools, ontology builder, knowledge graph, #IIIF support.
Runs fully localβno login, no-signups, no data sent to the cloud!
π immarkus.xmarkus.org
I have officially arrived at the office π
W00t!
Three fantastic people, who now make @durhamclassics.bsky.social one of the premier centres for digital classics in the world.
#DigiClass
Almost forgot!
There are some news...
Five rescaled maps of Minnesota on a Mercator projection map, covering 1) a large part of northern Greenland, 2) a large part of northern Scandinavia, 3) a part of central Europe, 4) a region of southern India, 5) a region of southeastern Australia.
A website that lets you select a country or state and move it around a Mercator projection map to yield better size comparisons.
thetruesize.com, created by James Talmage and Damon Maneice
Join us why don't you :-)
