WTF?! Who thinks AIs are virgins? Has the fetishization of chastity returned to such a degree that we've forgotten what virginity is? And also, ewwww. Whoever wrote that blurb (AI or human) needs their psyche cleansed.

Did you know our collections of poetry books and archives span nearly 400 years, from the 17thC to the present day? Here are two pages from a 1656 poetry collection by William Drummond. Find the whole book on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... #NationalPoetryDay

When police reports talk about terrorists it inflames things more when they specify ethnic background. To say that the terrorist is a "British citizen of Syrian descent" is an attempt to shift blame by othering him. He was a British citizen, full-stop. This provokes more RW extremist 'retribution'.

I'm taking a break from my latest "impossible" jigsaw to read the stories again in print. Thanks again to @therelphian.bsky.social for working so hard to get this fantastic anthology out! Get yours at: mybook.to/WhatComesToL... #shortfiction

REED is turning 50 next year! We want to hear from you about our impact in the classroom. Do you use REED collections (print or digital) as part of your teaching? If so, how?

Students always like this. I like to think that when teaching digital editing and TEI XML, when I get to the point when I explain that a Microsoft Word .DocX file is really just a renamed .zip file with some (horribly-designed) XML inside, that they are also as interested. I *like* to think that.

My story in this anthology (Happy Birthday, You Geriatric POS) will change your life, and the other 26 are somehow MORE vital. Even if you hate yourself, it's for charity... do you hate animals? Why? Get it at mybook.to/WhatComesToL...

You need this anthology because: 1) The stories are great. (Yes I wrote one of them but I've read them all.) 2) Your local wildlife will love you for it. 3) It's a distraction from all the other stuff. #writingcommunity @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social #shortfiction

It was a fun night out and we even entered a raffle to win this artwork of Dr Frank-N-Furter. I will now think of that nearby village as the Village of the Damned!

Of course, the problem with changing editions to a single one more accessible to these undergraduate students on this course is that you have to go through and change _all_ the line numbers on every slide, and do new screenshots of every quotation.

Having studied #digitalID in depth for my PhD and written a book about this way before anyone had even flagged it as a problem - this a TERRIBLE idea. We have been warning the UK government about the dangers of digital ID for years. No one listened. #digitalidentity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The majority of UK driving instructors are now teaching in automatic cars rather than manuals, as electric cars become the norm. The Driving Instructors Association said ‘Well it was about time we got our arses into Drive’. #jokes

Experts at Abertay University have created healthy breakfast muffins using spent grain from the beer making process. It took the scientists three months to perfect the recipe, and about two years for their livers to recover. #jokes

Nigel Farage has announced that Reform would cancel all Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK, replacing it with a more stringent work visa. ILR holders lose their status if they remain outside the UK for 2 years or more, a rule which Clacton is considering applying to its MP. #jokes

EpiDoc is an excellent example of a subset #TEI community. I often use it as an example of a group of people with differing but related interests taking a general framework and making it their own. All projects and groups should customise the TEI. (And join the consortium members.tei-c.org/join !)

Had time to pop into the fab @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Treasure exhibition. The “problematic” case was eye opening. I hadn’t heard of this truly awful bible - the parallels today re what power is doing in the name of Christianity shows exactly why we need libraries, historians, & humanities scholars now.

So they could write off this debt and still have £510bn profit. Unbelievable.

Why can't Office 365 Calendar have multiple reminders for the same event? One can set multiple email reminders, but who wants to set that up for each event instance? I just want to be reminded 2 hours before _and_ 15 minutes before, and for some events also a day or two before.

Check out the webpage for our upcoming print anthology. We have added story teases from our twenty-seven amazing contributors to tantalise your readerly appetites🦝💜 trashcatlit.com/what-comes-t...

There are some great stories here. I can heartily recommend (and not just because I'm in it...)

Instead of university-preferred MS #PowerPoint I use #GoogleSlides for my lectures. Although some products have Google Slides 'add-ons' for things like Live Polls, live Word Clouds, etc. and Google Slides itself does Q&A, the preferred product from my institution doesn't work with Google Slides. 😞

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

My institution has a great web tool called 'roomfinder' which shows you where rooms are, what they look like, their AV provision and that sort of thing. However, it also has a link on every room page to report a defect to Estate Services. Reader, the link to report defects, is itself, defective.

...was unfortunately unable to attend in person because the UK Home Office hadn't issued her visa in time. Megan had prerecorded her talk about the 3D-image capture of ogham. Dr Patricia O Connor @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social (Maynooth @ceilteachomn.bsky.social) enlightened the audience with... /4

#TEIFriday Today's TEI-related musing brought by EpiDoc Guidelines local practice documentation and concordance (via the ogham.glasgow.ac.uk project). What if a letter is incomplete and could therefore be read as any of several potential letters?

...her unsurpassable expertise in TEI XML and EpiDoc encoding of ogham. I didn't get a chance of taking a photo of myself, so here's the profile picture of my presentation about progress in the analysis of the inscriptions themselves, exemplified with stones from @nmireland.bsky.social. /5

Wonderful welcome for the @teiconsortium.bsky.social and #TEI community from the local organising committee of the #tei2025 conference and our incredible hosts @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social:

The @teiconsortium.bsky.social is a membership org supporting the ongoing development and maintenance of the #TEI Guidelines and tools. Membership enables the technical council volunteers to gather to solve community issues. If your project uses the TEI, consider joining! members.tei-c.org/join

Diane Jakacki, Chair of the #TEI Board, and @epyllia.bsky.social, Chair of the Technical Council of the @teiconsortium.bsky.social, thanking the indefatigable local organising committee and @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social for hosting both the Technical Council meeting and the #tei2025 conference.

"Who Are We Encoding For? Foregrounding Text Analysis in Digital Scholarly Editing" – @djakacki.bsky.social spot-on at #TEI2025

Do you use TEI by Example (www.teibyexample.org)? Please fill this survey to help the TEI Consortium know what to do with it going forward. forms.office.com/e/HeB5mWpAwU #tei2025

Introducing ArDraCor -Argentine Drama Corpus- at the TEI 2025 conference 💚 @dracor.org staging.dracor.org/ar

And then this, my favourite line of all. Never change, humans

Dr Oskar Jensen, has been awarded £2m in funding to research the history of song. Developing an understanding of our shared histories and practices across boundaries of age, class, geography, and time. 🎶⬇ https://bit.ly/3VnQrgv #WeAreNCL #History #Music #Culture

What would you do on a gloriously sunny Saturday in Kraków? In my case, I'm in a lightly air conditioned university building, using their power and eduroam to catch up on work. Still lots of conferences going on, so wearing my lanyard so people will just assume that I'm at a different conference.

Text Encoding is an ongoing Initiative and our annual conference is for all of us who care about “yesterday’s information tomorrow.”—now including born-digital media! Join us as a member! And come to the 2026 TEI Conference in Vancouver! #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social @joeytakeda.bsky.social

Join the TEI, they said. (For me? My research certainly became more worldly wise.) We are the TEI, indeed—we have a keynote about that coming up. www.tei-c.org

We digital humanities people know the TEI as a “scholarly technology” with enormous thanks to @juliaflanders.bsky.social and our community working together intelligently, cooperatively, and imaginatively over the years. We are the #TEI!

Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.

At #TEI2025 the venue for #TEI2026 is announced as Vancouver, both UBC and SFU to take place 10-16 August 2026. Watch this space. @teiconsortium.bsky.social

Congrats to all on the LEAF-Writer team for winning the #TEI @teiconsortium.bsky.social Rahtz Prize for TEI ingenuity. And also the Endings Project for winning the Community Prize!

Congrats to @demigrigo.bsky.social (Dimitra Grigoriou) being elected to #TEI Board! Congrats to Helena Bermúdez Sabel, Elli Bleeker and Patricia O'Connor for re-election to the TEI Technical Council! @trishaoconnor88.bsky.social Very good elections for @teiconsortium.bsky.social at #TEI2025

Gave a paper at #TEI2025 on developments in LEAF-Writer to enable #TEI project-specific named entity authority lookups (instead of just directly to WikiData/VIAF/GND etc). doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17140869

Just cut a story down from 830 words to 294 words.

#TEI people on the city tour of Kraków this evening.

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme. Applications are now open! Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

Wait.... what?! With them now doing partial randomisation granting trials doesn't that have... ya know, problems?!

At #TEI2025 in Kraków listening to keynote by Sebastian Winkler of the #ERC explaining how to navigate creating an ERC proposal, especially SH5 (Texts and Concepts) @teiconsortium.bsky.social

Diane Jakacki and Elisa Beshero Bondar with Jan Rybicki introducing the #TEI Conference.

Here, @djakacki.bsky.social and I collaborate in a big thank you statement to the hosts and supporters of #digitalhumanities at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social from the @teiconsortium.bsky.social . We love being here in Kraków for TEI 2025!