Even great code has some bugs! Be among the first to try out our new Flickr archiving tool Data Lifeboat, and help us find those bugs! Head over to datalifeboat.flickr.org to get started. Original images from US National Archives and State Library of NSW on Flickr Commons.

Tickets for Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025 did go fast! There'll be a wait list, and there are 500 places overall to watch the main conference sessions on Thursday and Friday

Reminder, Typepad users in the UK can nominate #Typepad sites to be archived to the UK Web Archive by emailing [email protected] The UK Web Archive isn't currently able to display saved sites, but they are able to save them For more on the UK Web Archive see www.webarchive.org.uk

In Oxford for the Humanities and Data Science group AGM and public panel: what have the humanities and data science achieved in collaboration? Our last event as an Alan Turing Institute group! digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...

Zhu on AI - true AGI: 'is the ability to reason towards a goal with minimal inputs ... a “small data, big task” approach. AGI [has] qualities such as resourcefulness in novel situations, social and physical intuition, and an understanding of cause and effect.' www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

Registration for @[email protected]'s Fantastic Futures #FF2025 is now! Tickets will go fast, but fret not if you miss out - you can register to watch the full conference online on Thursday and Friday for free! Get tickets www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... Programme www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu...

If you write professionally in the UK, make sure to sign up to ALCS for your fair share of royalties

The latest issue of our OA Journal 'Catalogue & Index' (ISSN 2399-9667) has now been published. Issue 212 (Sept 2025) contains articles on the topic of "Non-MARC Cataloguing and Metadata Practices." Read the full issue at: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #cataloguing #metadata #nonMARC

Reduce the environmental impact of your museum's learning, outreach and public programmes with this handy toolkit www.artfund.org/professional... @artfund.bsky.social @designmuseum.bsky.social @icomuk.bsky.social

Generative AI - Ethical use of mātauranga. Mātauranga Māori is taonga. Highlights (mine): 1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee 2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori 3. Never use or generate tapu data 4. AI use must be acknowledged #GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025

Anyway, someone really needs to do some due diligence on those "5000 new jobs" figures that have been announced, because it sure won't be 5000 people working at data centres

'"When it comes to AI adoption, many companies aren't guided by strategy, but by 'fomo'". For 'companies', read 'universities'.

Catch up with @lselibrary.bsky.social's latest Wikidata project here journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... This time we've been focusing on a unique set of oral history interviews about the British Suffrage Movement.

Come join me on the organising committee for next year's #RSECon. It's a great way to give back and get to know the community, plus we'll cover the cost of your registration at the conference!

Seems like people now broadly understand that data centers use a ton of energy but pols are happy to trade that for "high tech jobs." But just bc it's big computer doesn't means it's big jobs! It's a big storage facility. The jobs are mostly in construction, with a tiny maintenance crew thereafter.

Once again, it was my privilege to chair the judging panel for this, in memory of a much-missed colleague and friend. Those who knew Richard will be able to imagine how delighted he would have been to see the vitality of digital history.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Check the Call for Participation to the 2026 conference of the International Federation for Public History. It will take place in Lison, Portugal (September 2026) ifph.hypotheses.org/6522 #PublicHistory @ncph.bsky.social @sypph.bsky.social

BBC News - Settle Victoria Hall reunited with 100-year-old film posters - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Practical Cataloguing Webinar 1: Introduction to MARC21 Cataloguing is this Wednesday 24th Sept 13:00-14:00 (GMT+1). Free to all. Registration required: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event... #cataloguing #cataloging #metadata #training #event #webinar #libraries

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Nature does not do binaries. Anyone who tells you biology is simple is wrong phys.org/news/2025-09...

Found this piece rather soothing - ‘evolutionary mismatch’ means we shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves for not coping with modern life - we were not designed for it. So give yourself a break www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

All hype about the power of facilitating "human-AI collaboration" aside, we don't quickly implement extremely strong norms of disclosure around AI use, science is cooked. From arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12282, one of many many efforts in this direction.

"hallucinations represent not a temporary engineering challenge, but a mathematical reality" says study from Open AI. This seems like a pretty major problem.

We deserve better AI models: 'the subjectivity of a task or instance negatively affects the performance of a model – an observation that is particularly worrying for humanities research'. From Small Language Models for libraries and computational humanities repository.jisc.ac.uk/10219/1/smal...

Some nice examples in the 'use cases' section of AI for Humanists aiforhumanists.com/guides/useca... - from OCR to annotation to identifying voices and styles

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations @adho-org.bsky.social has a number of positions open - help out with ADHO Awards, Communications or with a Fellowship aimed at improving the website adho.org/jobs/ It's a great way to help the field and support your local DH organisation too

This report was new to me 'Building a pro-worker AI innovation strategy' 'We know from experience that rapid technological advancement only delivers widespread social progress when working people are empowered.' www.tuc.org.uk/research-ana...

🚀 AI is reshaping our industries but how do we make sure it works for workers? Join us Fri 26 Sept, 12.30–13.30 with Adam Cantwell Corn & @prospectunion.bsky.social 📍 Zoom 👩‍💻👨‍💻Free for Tech, IT & Telecoms workers 👉 Register: prospect-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #AI #TechWorkers #FutureOfWork

Support your local library. 📚

We're rethinking on-site digital for SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst. The future is bring-your-own-device based, QR based and extremely data-driven. We can't wait to get started and there's even a blogpost (!) #musetech

Typepad users in the UK can nominate #Typepad sites to be archived to the UK Web Archive by emailing [email protected] The UK Web Archive isn't currently able to display saved sites, but they are able to save them For more on the UK Web Archive and UK legal deposit law, see www.webarchive.org.uk

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives. Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks. Latest in The Lint Trap linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

"There is no point growing the economy if it is not done sustainably and with regeneration at its heart" #design www.dezeen.com/2025/09/16/w...

ADHO is looking for a Deputy Communications Officer and Communications Fellow to shape public presence, communication strategy and highlight diverse voices of the DH community. ⏳ Deadline: 30 September 2025 Visit the link to know more and apply👇: adho.org/2025/09/09/a...

Robert Redford, 1936-2025

I'd had quite a bit of trouble working out why facilitating participation in museums was tricky so I wrote a book about it. @uclpress.bsky.social @fahacs.bsky.social

NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org

@bethgaskell.bsky.social @rs4vp.org might be able to help?

I asked "what is a door, anyway?" after trying to generate "an open door" in a lot of midjourney styles. In my latest newsletter, along with more "door" pics. And the usual AI/games/tools news (and narrative research). arnicas.substack.com/p/titaa-705-...

Good advice generally, but especially at this moment: 'How to avoid seeing disturbing content on social media and protect your peace of mind' theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...

A small community group I volunteer for is looking to migrate off Mailchimp. They currently use it to manage membership and to send newsletters to active members. Do any affordable (even better, free) alternatives come to mind?

Companies shouldn't be allowed to push AI on us until their auto-correct realises that the period in 'e.g.' is not a full stop! The next letter should not be capitalised. #AIwhinge number 342 in a neverending series

This is fascinating. It would be fascinating to hear about some examples of this being used in non-digital projects. mojdigital.blog.gov.uk/2025/09/11/h...

There's so much inspiration in this. And it led me to Former UMD Dean of Libraries Adriene Lim's interview, which was also excellent www.arl.org/blog/parting...

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

@jukes.ie people at a conference this week thought my laptop stickers were really cool, and that's mostly thanks to you. Thanks again for the sticker pack you sent ages ago!