🪦 #3D printing of an ancient votive inscription! The level of detail is astonishing! Check it out: youtube.com/shorts/LEsWF... How about using models like these in the #classroom? #history #ancienthistory #digitalhumanities #3dscanning #3dprinting #3dmodel #digitalhistory #inscriptions #education

History you can hold in your hand! 🏺✨ 🔥 The AIncient Studies Lab at the University of Zurich just got an upgrade: A 3D scanner from @creality3dofficial.bsky.social 🩻 and a 3D printer from @bambulabglobal.bsky.social 🖨️. Check out our first prints: 👸 The iconic bust of Nofretete ... 1/🧵

Can we find all the maps in (out of copyright) literature? @axel-bax.bsky.social presents his work at #CHR3025!

Zeroshot translation with LLM of Homer align more with Lattimore's translation, apparently a canonical one in the English speaking world? #chr2025 doi.org/10.63744/Xcj...

Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026. CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc

How can we better understand the ancient Greek 'mind' 🏛️ ? Is it through translations? How can LLMs help 🤖 ? Felix Maier and I from the University of Zurich will present preliminary findings on that at #CHR2025 in beautiful #Luxembourg.

Felix Maier und ich freuen uns darauf, am IDA-Workshop zu den digitalen Altertumswissenschaften teilzunehmen und die Universität Zürich dort vertreten zu dürfen! Danke an die Berner Kolleg:innen für die Einladung! #digitalhumanities #digitalclassics #digitalhistory #history #workshop

Ich durfte kürzlich im Podcast des Deutschen Fotorats zu Gast sein – gemeinsam mit Jürgen Scriba und Boris Eldagsen habe ich über unser Projekt Re-Experiencing History gesprochen. 🏛️✨ 👉 Hier geht’s zur Folge: youtube.com/watch?v=kDHCBi4pOWk

🏛️ Our project “Re-Experiencing History” (funded by @dizh.bsky.social) featured in @forbes.com Read the full story here 👇 www.forbes.com/sites/leslie... 1/🧵

Auf dem Weg nach Augsburg zu "Prompted Pasts?" 🚂 Freue mich auf spannende Projekte und Diskussionen! #history #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ai #images

Ich darf im kommenden Semester an der UZH im Kolloquium der Reihe "Geschichte in der Praxis" einen Einführungskurs in Python für Geschichtsstudierende geben (bit.ly/47VdlDe). 🎓 🔢 🏺 Das Ziel ist es, den Lernenden Python direkt an geschichtlichen Gegenständen beizubringen. 🪙

Attention Palaeographers! 🖋️✨ I'm happy to share the Corpus Litterarum: a new dataset of annotated Latin manuscript characters from the St. Gall codices CSG 11 & 70 (Winithar). The dataset is freely available on Zenodo: 👉 zenodo.org/records/1699... 🔎 2,152 line images 1/🧵

Our project "Re-Experiencing History" is featured in the UZH news. Thanks for having us 🙏. www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/... The project team (Felix K. Maier, Raphael Müller, Nicola Steger, Eva Willi, and I) is pleased to have had the opportunity to work on this. 1/🧵

Zejie Guo and I were honoured to be nominated! Congratulations to Francisco for winning the Fortier Prize!

Please join us in congratulating the nominees for the Paul Fortier Prize. Be sure to attend the Closing Ceremony on Friday, 19th July, when the winner will be announced—don’t miss it! @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social

Zejie Guo' Fortier Prize-nominated work at #DH2025: "Enhancing Text-to-Image Alignment with RAG GPT for Historical Event Reconstruction: Evaluating with Multimodal LLMs"-a very heady mix of LLMs correcting LLM-created prompts for genAI images, evaluated by LLMs w/ LLM-generated questions. 🤯

Interested in early modern letters 📜 & the Reformation period ⛪? The Bullinger correspondence ✒️ is now also linked in #correspsearch -> correspsearch.net/de/suche.htm... This connects Bullinger with plenty of other reformers! Have fun exploring! #correspondence #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

The #DH2025 in Lisbon 🇵🇹 finally begins (unfortunately, in a broadcast room 🥲). I'm looking forward to an exciting & inspirational conference. Zejie, Felix, & I will present a paper in Session LP10. Looking forward to discussing with you. #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #ancienthistory

Wie sah der Alltag im antiken Rom wirklich aus? 🤔🏛️ Unser Projekt "Re-Experiencing History" nutzt KI 🤖, um historisch fundiertere Bilder der Antike zu erstellen. Schluss mit KI-Fehlern wie Legionären mit Sneakers! 👟❌ 1/🧵

The UZH Digital Society Initiative Community Digital Humanities finally has a face! We’re thrilled to announce that our brand-new webpage is officially live. 🎉 digitalhumanities.dsi.uzh.ch

🌊⚡️ New Episode Alert! ⚡️🌊 Listen now! 👉 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... Or here 👉 t.uzh.ch/1Nv Dive into the mystery of the Bronze God of Artemision! 🏺 Is it Poseidon, the sea god? 🔱 Or Zeus, king of the gods? 🌩️ We unravel the heated debate! 🤯

The #DHd2025 has officially started! Looking forward to interesting 3 days! #digitalhumanities #conference

🎙️ NEW EPISODE! 🎧 Listen here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv Or here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... Our AI hosts are "cracking open" the Cyrus Cylinder! 🏺 This ancient Babylonian artifact isn't just a dusty relic – it's Cyrus the Great's personal PR campaign! 👑

At the #ArCHeoM #workshop in beautiful #Rome, discussing #AI in #archaeology. 🏛🏺📜 #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

Sign : #Initiative Fakten statt Falschinformationen: Für einen starken Wissenschaftsjournalismus! www.openpetition.eu/ch/%21scienc... #Petition #Wissenschaft #Journalismus #Wirtschaftsjournalismus

This week's talking points of our AI hosts: 🔥Humanity rebels against the sun god Re! ☀️ Hathor, the "Sun Eye," unleashes divine wrath! 😠🍺 Rivers of red beer flow! 🎧 t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎶 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 🩸 The Myth of the Heavenly Cow 🐮: a tale of cosmic disruption,

🎉 Get ready for the Dionysiac Mysteries with the AISL Podcast! 🍇 We're exploring these wild ancient Greek rituals dedicated to the god of wine, ecstasy, and transformation. 🤯 Think secret initiations, ecstatic dances, and mystery! Listen: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...

🗣️ Podcast Alert 🗣️ 📢 Step back in time with me to ancient Rome! 🏛️ Join our two AI 🤖 hosts who discover the Fratres Arvales, a mysterious priesthood of 12 men 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 from the senatorial class, devoted to the goddess Dea Dia. 🌳 Listen here: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 1/🧵

Get ready to sail back in time! ⛵️ Dive into the fascinating world of the ancient Mediterranean, where the Greeks 🇬🇷 and Phoenicians 🇱🇧 were the ultimate power players! 💥 Listen to the newest AI-generated podcast episode: 🎙️ t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎙️ 🎙️ creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 🎙️ 1/🧵

The deed is done! More than 2100 pieces later, our office has a new decorative object: the #Akropolis by #BlueBrixx. It was a nice build! And what a nice way to learn something about #AncientHistory, too! #buildingbricks #klemmbausteine #notlego

Overtime at the office, but of a different kind 🤣 #buildingbricks #notlego #bluebrixx #officedecoration #klemmbausteine

📢🎧 New Podcast Episode Alert! 🎧📢 Journey back to the Iron Age! 🤯 Discover the secrets of the Heuneburg 🏰, Germany's "oldest city north of the Alps"! ⛰️🇩🇪 Tune in to explore the rise and fall of this fascinating urban center! 🎧➡️ Here: t.uzh.ch/1Nv Or on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain...

✨🎙️ Podcast alert: First episode in 2025 🎙️✨ ▶️ Explore the Temple of Poseidon's innovative architecture, connection to Athenian naval power, and the stories it whispers from the past. 🤫 🎧 Listen here: ⁠https://t.uzh.ch/1Nv 🎧 Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 1/🧵 ...

Just donated CHF 50 to @wikipedia.bsky.social because Elon Musk tells people not to (see nypost.com/2024/12/25/b...). If you also want to contribute: donate.wikimedia.org. #donation #Wikipedia #DonationForWikipedia #HelpWikipedia

✨ Immerse yourself in the world of Byzantine art! ✨ Our latest AI-generated podcast episode delves into the intricate mosaics of San Vitale. ⛪ 🎧 Listen here: www.tiny.uzh.ch/1Lr⁠ or on Spotify: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/aincient-studies-lab/episodes/10-The-Mosaics-of-San-Vitale-e2sopvf

✨ 🎄 Christmas Special AISL Podcast Episode 🎄✨ 🎙️ For more information, go to ⁠www.tiny.uzh.ch/1Lr⁠ 🎧 Or listen to it on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... From ancient roots to global celebrations, Christmas is a tapestry of traditions! 🧵 Our new AI-generated podcast episode ... 1/3

Just started @holland-tom.bsky.social's "Rubicon": app.thestorygraph.com/books/58dc02... @thestorygraph.com It's rare that I've been captivated by a non-fiction book right from the start! #history #ancienthistory #reading #book #rome #romanrepublic

Versetzt euch zurück in die Vergangenheit! 🏛️✨ 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnk... Am Abend der offenen Tür des ZAZH @UZH am 21. November haben Felix Maier und ich unser Projekt "Re-Experiencing History" vorgestellt. Mittels #KI erwecken wir historische Texte zum Leben und machen ... 1/🧵

📢 New Podcast Episode! 🏛️ Journey back to 6th century Constantinople and witness the birth of a legal masterpiece: The Corpus Juris Civilis! 🤯 Listen now! www.tiny.uzh.ch/1Lr Also on Spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... 1/🧵

Here is in exclusivity the first demo of Pleias knowledge retrieval model: SPQR·LLM. The first ever LLM stuck in the antiquity, using only Latin and Greek sources written from 450 bc to 400 ad.

🗃️ In today's post, So Miyagwa introduces the PNM database and how it uses Linked Open Data to map connections in ancient Egyptian society. 📜🔍 #Egyptology #AncientHistory #HistoryTech #digitalhumanities #history #ancientegypt #datamap #digitaltools digitalorientalist.com/2024/12/03/d...

A vast electronic archive of historical sources for the German Middle Ages, updated. #digitalhumanities #medieval

The Catalog of Distinctive Type, a visual catalog of distinctive and damaged printing type originating in books published in England from 1660 to 1700

Me when starting to read this book review: "Why would any sane person want to read a whole book about principal component analysis" Me after finishing this excellent book review: "WTF inject it right into my veins" loreley.one/2024-09-pca/

Congratulations to Dr. @tannonk.bsky.social, who just successfully defended his thesis on "Leveraging Data, Decoding, and Context for Controlling Text Generation from Pretrained Language Models". Special thanks to the external examiner @feralvam.bsky.social!

Poster session @comphumresearch.bsky.social 2024 was a blast! Thanks for the many interesting discussions! #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

Uncover the secrets of the twin desert complexes of Qasr al-Hayr East & West 🏰 in Syria in our newest episode of the AISL Podcast 🎙️ to explore their mysteries! Go to: tiny.uzh.ch/1Lr Or on spotify: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ain... These architectural enigmas blend ... 1/🧵

Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article: "As AI continues to evolve, our work suggests that while it holds promise for enhancing historical visualisation and understanding, it requires careful human oversight and interpretation." From: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/pap...

And so it begins :-) #CHR2024 @comphumresearch.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory

If you're attending #CHR2024 or if you want to follow along at home, you can pin this feed to your home page. Currently just looks for the hashtag, lmk if I should match to anything else.