Reminder to regularly back-up your @zotero.org data, as their online sync are hosted on Amazon Web Services.
“Nullius in Weba” (have no confidence in any web service)
#ESR #zotero #dataRescue #librarian #academia #digitalScholarship
A few months ago I realized my rare and valuable skill—writing code as a historian—was still valuable but no longer rare. Now I'm thinking about what it means when the technical barriers to digital history drop away.
How much does it pay to publish an open access academic book? Read this thread for my story and 💲💰 amounts. 🧵
www.routledge.com/9781032908724
Barbie driving down the road singing, text reads "downloading data for reuse. bottom panel: barbie and Ken screaming with text reading "there's no README"
It's important for the public to be able to reuse #RescuedData, but the context a README or similar documentation provides is necessary for understanding.
Be like Barbie. Help yourself have a great day every day, and on this #MemeMonday, remember to document your data.
Interface Web pour mettre en ligne un tableau CSV.
#Rappel “csv2www” : un petit programme en #Perl pour mettre en ligne dynamiquement vos tableaux #CSV (très utilisés en #SHS). Disponible sur : github.com/spouyllau/cs...
Jenni Makahnouk explores the structure of the Indian Act by framing it as Wendigo.
This post is part of the Indian Act 150 series, make sure to check out the entire series!
New publication,
"Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild: Developing Personal Bonds with Characters Improves Players’ Self-Concepts"
with @joelbillieux.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Delete your socks, people.
"We show that large language models can be used to perform
at-scale deanonymization...at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator."
We presented on our tool for enriching and clustering book data at Code4Lib today. Check it out, and let us know what you think!
data.post45.org/our-tools.html
Huge thanks to @thisismattmiller.com for leading development on this project.
#code4lib #c4l26
La programmation du colloque « Liberté et contrôle de l'AÉDDHUM est enfin là !
Vous êtes invité-es à venir assister aux séances qui se dérouleront les 17, 18 et 19 mars. Tous les détails sont là :
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And at GV 1469.6 in the Library of Congress classification system 😉
The long-term concern here, to be clear, is not just about researchers, but about enclosure of the knowledge commons.
Schools are paying tech companies for tools that were trained on their own books—while tying their own hands to prevent internal development of similar tools. It's self-destructive.
I played a bit with it pmartinolli.github.io/blog/2026/pr... and I think it could be better if we can frame/influence the hypothesis. In DH text mining only 1 or 2 on 10 are interesting.
A screenshot of a footnote 'this was once revealed to me in a dream'
I'll never get tired of using this example, it's just perfect.
OA preprint here "AI Arms and Influence: Frontier Models Exhibit Sophisticated Reasoning in Simulated Nuclear Crises" arxiv.org/abs/2602.147...
Dépôts de données de recherche en histoire
pmartinolli.github.io/blog/2026/de...
Où l’on explore des voies et des pratiques pour diffuser des données de recherche pour les disciplines de l’histoire, illustrées par de nombreux exemples. #ESR #skystorian #DH #histoire #history #GDR #DMP #PGD
J’aurai aimé des chansons, plus de chansons.
poke @wellerstein.bsky.social
History: who the fuck?
Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?
🚀Projet qui a mis du temps à sortir… Je pousse en ligne, sur GitLab, les notebooks #Python “PipeP“ pour le traitement du texte et des données #SHS. Ce travail a été élaboré au sein du HN Lab avec A. Silvestre de Sacy avec l'aide de Maestria Innovation gitlab.huma-num.fr/hnlab-public... #IA #TDM
Grid explaining how users of several statistics applications/programming languages see one another
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
[Exposition] Jeux de rôle : 50 ans d’histoireS
Passage éclair à la bibliothèque universitaire de Paris Nanterre.
24 panneaux et deux vitrines qui se (re)découvrent avec plaisir. Entrée libre. Quelques photos.
une petite introduction au rasoir d'occam, avec une photo de Guillaume de Baskerville et Adso de Melk dans Le nom de la Rose, de JJ Annaud (1986)
Petit article sur le rasoir d'Occam dans le Travailleur Alpin de mars, sous la plume d'Alain Allosio
I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.
If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.
If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.
Dans sa chronique de samedi dernier, l’auteur et journaliste Michel Jean présente sa lecture du livre Ne rejette pas nos paroles de notre professeur Mathieu Arsenault.
www.lapresse.ca/arts/chroniq...
The system acts as near-permanent archival storage for backup of critical data.
It stores 4.8 terabytes, the equivalent of around 2 million printed books
Data survives for 10,000 years at a temperature of 290ºC and much longer at room temperature.
🧪🦠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I recently received “The Bomber Mafia” as a birthday gift (heh). It was bad, so bad that I believe it cannot be read as a reliable account of strategic bombing in World War II. In so many ways, it demonstrates the worst tendencies of the “pop history” genre. My review (and latest)⬇️
A historical Board Game collection of around the XIXth century, photographed, sorted and classified in a database: corpus-invisu.inha.fr/s/jeux_1789-....
It was made possible by a partnership between the collector, InVisu, and INHA. May updates are coming as well!
#boardgames #gamestudies
