This workshop for HASS researchers explores practical ways AI can support research. We will look at incorporating AI into workflows, literature discovery, and experiment with approaches to analyse research data. Mon 11 May rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/ai-in-...

For our April HADES seminar, Dr Bill Pascoe leads an open discussion of digital mapping and its relation to humanities theory and critique - focusing on how and why digital maps are especially useful for truth telling about colonial history. 2pm Monday 27 April, via Zoom go.unimelb.edu.au/byt2

HASS researchers: Enhance your data skills and research with the power of web scraping! Learn how to extract data from web pages, including text, images and files. Explore APIs like REST and GraphQL and understand ethical considerations. Wed 22 April rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/web-sc...

2026 Gemini Comp opening panel - interdisciplinary collaboration and impact Speakers will share insights on how collaboration can bring together different domains, methods, and ways of thinking to drive opportunity and impact. Fri 17 April, inc lunch! rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/2603-2...

👩‍💻Are you a #HASS researcher working with #GeospatialData in your research, like the location of people, events, places or maps?🗺️ Join our workshop to codesign a new Geospatial Capability as part of the ARDC Community Data Lab ✍️ ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-c... @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

teiphy (from Joey McCollum, ACU & Robert Turnbull, MDAP) is nominated for Best ‘DH Tool’ in the Digital Humanities Awards 2025 @dhawards.bsky.social 🎉 teiphy is a tool for studying manuscript traditions using phylogenetics. Check out the nominees and cast your vote: dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Join @kateycoleman.bsky.social for the next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar. Kate will explore how arts-based and speculative research methods can disrupt dominant frameworks and open new possibilities for climate learning and systemic change. 2pm, Monday 30 March. go.unimelb.edu.au/aep2

Join us for She leads tech: Women in industry Friday 27 March, via Zoom Register go.unimelb.edu.au/brp2 Speakers from Google DeepMind, Tesla, AKQA, Amazon and MDAP will share strategies on building influence, sponsorship, mentoring and stepping into leadership sustainably.

🌞That’s a wrap on the ARDC Summer School! A big week of digital skills, FAIR + CARE & learning to use national #HASS + Indigenous research data infrastructure. Catch the highlights in the wrap‑up article👇 ardc.edu.au/project/annu... @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social @internetobservatory.org.au #NCRIS

We're hiring! Collaborate to boost HASS, digital humanities & Indigenous research: 👩‍💻Research Software Engineer go.unimelb.edu.au/zta2 🗺️Research Assistant in Digital Humanities go.unimelb.edu.au/qta2 Apps close 8 Dec #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

We're excited that our co-designed Enhanced Analytics project is part of ARDC's Community Data Lab! Our project focuses on tools to support the use and analysis of RO-Crate data and digitised documents and collections! Learn more: go.unimelb.edu.au/kta2

Curious about the #HASS & Indigenous RDC Summer School? Learn what to expect for the 2-day event in Feb 2026, Ballarat. 📅18 Nov, 2pm AEDT, online ✍️ https://ow.ly/kLZy50XmekH USyd Core Research Facilities Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) Australian Internet Observatory (AIO)

The @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social team at @unimelb.bsky.social is fantastic and has some amazing job openings! Please share this with anyone who might be interested. #HASS #RSE #DigitalHumanities #ResearchSoftwareEngineering #UniMelb #JobOpening #Recruiting #Hiring #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

The annual @caa-australasia.bsky.social Digital Archaeology Conference program is out! Keynote 'Visualising Ancestral Futures' by Brett Leavy, Director, Biblie Virtual Labs 2–3 Oct online Free registration events.humanitix.com/caa-australa... Program au.caa-international.org/2025-confere...

As a researcher you likely assist others to learn new skills, from computational tools to data analysis methods 🔟🎓Ten simple rules for training by researchers for researchers in a rapidly evolving workforce Via past MDAP trainer Meirian Lovelace-Tozer @ardc.edu.au journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

While maps may appear an objective narrative, the mapmaker is telling a story through data & design. Join @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social & @wearehades.bsky.social to explore maps made with the same data, the stories they tell & what we can learn from them! rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar looks amaze, featuring MDAP's resident ‪historian, data-nerd, map maker, & cat lover @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social Monday 8 September, 2pm, online, all welcome! Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/same-d...

Although the article does focus on the challenges, there are clear benefits to going overseas as a #latinx #researcher: in my case I found my absolute dream job at @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social, The University of Melbourne www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you considering putting in an EOI to our 2026 Collaboration round? Come along to a collab info session, meet the team, ask questions and chat about your project. Two sessions, 25 August in person, and 28 August online Register: www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap/news/co...

New research from Jo Birch and MDAP's Robert Turnbull describes their new AI-driven tool #Hespi (short for “herbarium specimen sheet pipeline”), which has the potential to revolutionise access to biodiversity data and open up new avenues for research! theconversation.com/botanical-ti...

At our next HASS Taskforce workshop, gain practical experience with user-friendly tools and methods that streamline data management, to make your research data more accessible, reusable, and impactful. 26 Aug, in-person, all day workshop lunch included rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/2318-s...

"Moving overseas is not an easy decision ... Although it offers many career opportunities, such as better salaries and sometimes a higher quality of life, it also comes at a huge cost." MDAP's Dr Mar Quiroga shares perspectives on pursuing science far from home! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar Claire Loughnan explores #digitalhumanities #criminology & #memorial with Against Erasure, a 3D model of #ManusIsland Detention Centre, preserving collective knowledge of a controversial chapter in AU immigration history rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/agains...

Want to see what your research data can do? Collaborate with MDAP in 2026. From research design and data collection, to analysis, AI, and visualisation – work with us to apply creative, innovative and tailored approaches to your data. EOIs close 14 Sep ⬇️ www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap/news/co...

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships by analysing how traits are inherited and change over time. The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament 📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sci...

What does it mean to "harness" AI? "AI is not just technical or futuristic, it has very real human connections into the deep past" @jamessmithies.bsky.social

Hearing from Prof @jamessmithies.bsky.social talking H-STRICT principles for rapid software testing (RSTE): Human System Targets Transparent Reproducible Iterative Contextually informed measures and baselines Tasks workflows & use cases

Prof @jamessmithies.bsky.social, ANU & Founding Director @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social presents ATLAS, an open source ‘test harness’ to evaluate AI in historical research, helping researchers ‘look under the hood’ of LLM-based tools. 31 July in-person & Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/the-at...

Good news everyone! MDAP's Robert Turnbull has joined the ERC-COG BICROSS project team @KU_Leuven, exploring multilingual manuscripts and cross-language interactions using AI and other digital tools. Read more go.unimelb.edu.au/u5cp Rob's site robturnbull.com BICROSS theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

Our next seminar is with Prof @jamessmithies.bsky.social of ANU presenting ATLAS, an open source ‘test harness’ to evaluate AI in historical research, and help researchers ‘look under the hood’ of LLM-based tools Thu 31 July rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/the-at...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? June @wearehades.bsky.social seminar features Sébastien Plutniak presenting on #archeofrag - software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites. 10 June, 2pm - 3pm, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Intro to network analysis with R Thu 12 June @melbconnect.bsky.social Explore igraph and learn how to represent and model relational data with graph objects, calculate key network metrics, visualise networks and cluster a network and detect communities. rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/intro-...

Hands-on workshop for HASS researchers @ Unimelb working with materials like archives, interviews, and social media data. Learn basic preprocessing tasks using tidy text and common textual analysis techniques. Basic R knowledge required. 26 June, register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/text-a...

Hands-on workshop for HASS researchers @ Unimelb working with materials like archives, interviews, and social media data. Learn basic preprocessing tasks using NLTK and common textual analysis techniques. Basic Python knowledge required. 11 June, register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/text-a...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar, Sébastien Plutniak presents his research and introduces archeofrag, software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites. 10 June, register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

It's not just about calcium! Most plant milks in Australia aren't fortified with key nutrients like riboflavin and B12. CI Anita Lawrence & MDAP's Ed Tescari Daniel Russo-Batterham & @kim-doyle.bsky.social examine consumer impacts & rethinking nutrition standards link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 New blog post! 📣 Want to gain insights into what our interns learn about during their placements with us? Or maybe you are more interested in the worlds of research ethics and data governance? 🔎 All this is covered in our newest post! Give it a read: go.unimelb.edu.au/qb8p

A few spots left! Making research visual: Visualisation design for communicating research and research data Designed for Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) researchers and research professionals @ UoM Tue 27 May, in person @melbconnect.bsky.social rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/making...

📣Share your feedback on ARDC Community Data Lab draft project plans! The HASS & Indigenous research community is invited to share their feedback and help shape the ARDC Community Data Lab 🔗 bit.ly/cdl-plans w/ @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social #HASS #research #data #GLAM

Mammograms are painful and only 2D. CT could be better, but needs high dosage to reduce noise. Using phase-contrast and AI denoising, MDAP's Rob Turnbull, Simon Mutch & team cut the dose 16× with no loss of image quality. Working towards safe 3D breast cancer screening. doi.org/10.48550/arX...

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar w Jonathan Laskovsky on border sites and data use in border surveillance, resistance and transgression. He'll also speak on building data support for research bids and advocating institutional change. 12 May, 2-3pm, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar w Jonathan Laskovsky, sharing research on border sites beyond the cartographic and sociological, and how data is used in relation to border surveillance, resistance and transgression. Mon 12 May, 2-3pm, via Zoom Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Introducing Potnia - a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way! Congrats @touremily.bsky.social, Rob and Kabir! joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

We have officially published Potnia in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🐍👁️👉🏽 doi.org/10.21105/jos.... Potnia is a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way!

A preview of our - Phelps/Keil/Maginn - new edited book, Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism. An International collection of visual essays on the definition/character/aesthetics/function/significance of the periphery in making #metro regions. www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

Making Research Visual - Workshop Transform your data into compelling stories! Perfect for HASS researchers looking to create impactful visuals for articles, websites or presentations. Learn about design, accessibility, interactives, and NTROs May 8, online: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/making...

Join the next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar with Michael Falk, Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti speaking about the wikihistories project, where they uncovered an anthropocentric and neo-colonial bias in English Wikipedia's coverage of Australia 14 Apr, 2-3pm, Zoom Register go.unimelb.edu.au/j6ip

Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG) are recruiting for a continuing academic position (Level B/C) in ML in Omics. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and supportive environment driving innovative research at the intersection of data science and biology. Details below. Apps close 1 April

Web scraping with R: Getting data from websites For UoM HASS researchers needing to extract data inc text, images and files, and understand ethical considerations. Ideal for those with basic R knowledge looking to enhance their data skills. Thu 17 Apr: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/web-sc...