“We need to teach skepticism and critical thinking as philosophical responses to machine intelligence. Instead of just changing our assignments, we must do something more provocative and arguably far more challenging. We must reflect on how we think and find value in thinking.”

You see a page from the past with a lasting impression: this manuscript page from the 1490s is made of parchment, and an #astrolabe that was included into the binding of the manuscript left this shadow of the astronomical instrument behind. 1/2

The AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES25) was an enriching few days, providing a great forum for engaging with the latest research on the ethical challenges of AI. (1/4)

Very much enjoyed the lively discussions at our interactive roundtable ‘Artificial Intelligence in Teaching History of Technology’ at the SHOT 2025 Annual Meeting!

Un livre écrit par deux historien.nes, @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social et @artificialmemory.bsky.social , qui parlent d'une manière intelligente du numérique parce qu'ils le pratiquent depuis longtemps et qu'ils l'approchent comme un 'bête' sujet de sciences humaines #paniquesmoralessabstenir

The submission deadline for #CHR2025 is fast approaching! Authors, you have until Friday, 18 July, to submit your short and long papers, lightning talk abstracts, and workshop ideas. ⚠️ Please note: there will be NO extension of this deadline. 🔗 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

What a brilliant conference! Feeling very lucky to have heard fascinating papers and met so many new faces within the atmospheric surrounds of the Black Country Living Museum! Inspired more than ever by the breadth and depth of social histories #SHSConf2025 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

So glad to be at #FAccT25! Fantastic first day soaking up the latest cross-disciplinary research on fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems

This Thursday, seminar online organised by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History at @uni.lu with @c2dh.uni.lu Presentations by students from all around the world www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #PublicHistory #student #history

Such an engaging guided tour by the artist Daphné Le Sergent this afternoon of her exhibition ‘Silicon Islands and War’, hosted by @uni.lu as part of EMoP. Her video essay “invites us to explore an alternative history of photography in relation to the semiconductor industry” ->

It was great to share our work on attributing credit and responsibility for generative AI outputs at the ‘Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images’ conference at Venice International University last month ->

Less than a week till our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives! Sign up here to attend in person or online! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr... Please repost! ⚔️

It was such a pleasure to be part of the British History Today conference at Queen Mary University London earlier this month, presenting my work on the use of historical analogies in public discourse on AI.

New blog post! In their article “LLM Biases: Expected and Unexpected Model Design Effects in Historical Newspaper Article Extraction on the Messina Earthquake”, Johanna Mauermann and Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) look at the fact that LLMs are a powerful […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Our Digital Research Fellowship call is also currently open: £7,500 for a 3 month project exploring our data: data.nls.uk/projects/dig...

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900. The CfP for the event is now open. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

This is such an interesting blog on Archival Silences. A must read for librarians, archivists, historians, anti-colonialists, educators and anyone interested in sociopolitics: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/

Konf: Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-151421 Marburg, 12.12.2024-13.12.2024, Leibniz-Forschungsverbund „Wert der Vergangenheit“, Lab 1.3. Digitale Heuristik und Historik Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Mainz Herder-Institut für …

This is one of my favourite papers and I am delighted that someone else liked reading it 😊