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Doesn't this make it illegal for women to do wetsuit scuba training in a public pool? All men should be forced to wear two-piece bikinis as well.

Saw hilarious @pierrenovellie.bsky.social at The Stand Newcastle tonight. The reason the people on The Traitors seem so stupid is that they edit it backwards from their roundtable decision. So we don't see any irrelevant clever thoughts, only the idiocy. 😄😉😂 (Sorry, negative, but correct man.)

"This report presents the findings of a research project commissioned by the Heritage Council to examine how community participation can be effectively integrated into landscape-scale management of heritage-rich environments."

ICYMI I shared some ideas for using @dhawards.bsky.social to introduce various ways into the field for students.

In an article on possible ways to use AI for peer review, in a sentence on the inattentive use of AI, the copy-editors have not spotted the obvious typo that even basic spell check would find. AI might find it... though without repeatability or transparency. This seems to undermine the argument.

🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing @zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲 🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc #DigitalHumanities

🥳 My flash, 'Waxing', will be appearing in this year's FlashFlood on 13th June! Come and dip into the fantastic flood of stories as they're published throughout the day at: flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com And if you haven't submitted yet, there's still time 👇👇👇 #FlashFiction #WritingCommunity

Huge thanks to @dhawards.bsky.social // @jamescummings.bsky.social for organizing these awards! Echoing others: it's such an awesome contribution to the community, and a wonderful way to showcase all the great DH work done throughout the year. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Reading great things like this, I occasionally think that I should write an updated version of De Laude Scriptorium (1492) by Johannes Trithemius, but for non-AI writing. It was interesting that he had his treatise printed, precisely what he was arguing against. But I'd not have to use AI, right?

The results for #DH Awards 2025 are now live. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win in this openly nominated, openly voted #DigitalHumanities awareness activity. There's no real prize (winners may use the associated icon), other than everyone seeing the resources. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Explore Queen Mab like never before... In 1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley's radical early work, Queen Mab, imagined a journey through time and space—challenging power, religion, and inequality. Discover it anew in our online #DigitalShowcase: digitalshowcase.ncl.ac.uk/showcases/co...

As with forcing people to standardise (for now) on USB-C for charging phones, making batteries replaceable is excellent and benefits everyone. Give it a couple years and Apple will claim it is their own innovation.

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Pssst. DH Awards 2025 results are out. We really should change the timing of all this so it finishes much earlier in the year, but well, I'm busy.

Imagine the far right GB News distorting the truth, I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you!

I concur. We saw Marj on YouTube, O in Newcastle, and Lein at the Edinburgh Fringe. All bizarre, mythic, and hilarious. Would recommend.

One day left to vote for us! Our Digital Ghosts exhibition at Inspace @designinf.bsky.social has been nominated for the Digital Humanities Awards 2025 in the Best Data Visualisation category! 🥳 👻 If the project resonates with you, we’d be grateful for your vote: forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...

Remember to vote (once) and get others to vote!

The #DH2026 sponsor page has been updated, and the list will continue to grow. Sponsorships are still open. Thank you to our lead sponsors — Daejeon Tourism Organization, Daejeon Metropolitan City, and Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social — and all supporters. dh2026.adho.org/sponsors/

Any medics in my timeline? Just been talking to a female medicine student who wants to go into orthopaedics. Apparently, it's an staunchly male-dominated field in Germany, & male doctors are, as she put it, "very straightforward" about reminding women of this. How does this compare internationally?

AI will skew language evolution because of the models it uses are only being trained on written sources. They already read your chat messages, so how long until big AI companies are listening to your telephone calls or private in-person conversations? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So did another blood donation, my 14th consecutive donation. I look forward to finding out where my pint of sweet O+ has gone when they notify me. Already booked my next appointment for mid-July. #GiveBlood #DonateBlood

Angry writer gets out her frustration with the American President - again... #Satire #Comedy www.newsbiscuit.com/post/trump-c...

The problem, of course, is that it doesn't necessarily kill the anti-vaxxers but the immunocompromised who can't be vaccinated.

Less than a handful of days left to encourage people to vote for your favoured resource...

Some categories are evenly tied between a small number of resources that motivating lots of people to vote. Other categories are fairly evenly matched and a small number of extra votes might swing it to your favoured resource! (N.B.: We've not yet checked for voting irregularities!)

Still time to vote in #DH Awards 2025, the #DigitalHumanities Awards awareness event. Anyone can vote (once) up until 2026-04-17. Anyone? Yes, anyone. Your aunt can vote, your highschool friend can vote, anyone! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... (or secure form directly at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...)

Using Flightradar24 and MarineTraffic apps to track all the vessels in the area where #Artemis2 will splashdown. The number of US government vessels in relative close proximity is fun to discover. All these planes, helicopters, etc in the image below are loitering US air force, marines, NASA, etc.

A comprehensive introduction to working with 17th-century family archives in Scotland vanishedcomforts.org/2025/01/17/h...

April's @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social theme is #EYACrime. These posters seek information relating to the theft of pigeons, hens, coal tar and damage to a farm at North Sheilds. Find more posters from our Broadside Collection on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...

I encourage all those who can to donate blood. I'm donating more of my sweet O+ next Tuesday evening.

Fellow academics, I suggest you also don't attend any conferences in the US under its authoritarian regime. A colleague mentioned recently how they were attending a conference in the US and I was gobsmacked. I thought most of us were of the opinion one shouldn't go there any more.

I'm not sure that the meaning of luddite hasn't already shifted from someone opposing technology that puts people out of work to generalised technophobe. Being opposed to it for its cognitive offloading, environmental harms, and also replacement of skills with worse things needs a different term.

Not sure we still need a field of "cultural AI" if the companies are going to name their products "Mythos." It does, uh, what it says on the label.

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Excellent, as usual. Never fails to make me snort out loud. Congrats to all involved. #Comedy #TopicalComedy www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Happy "We still have all our roof tiles!" to all who celebrate. #StormDave #Comedy

'Libraries are among the most powerful discovery engines available to an author. The person who borrows your book from the library is, far more often than not, a reader who would not have purchased it at all' Discover, borrow and read lots of library books! In many countries, the authors are paid

What does it say that the first thing which I noticed was that two students in a class getting papers published in a 'decent journal' and that this is a 'perfectly ordinary outcome'.

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Cool app! Especially for colourblind users because you can even set your colour vision type. Point it at a colour and it says what it is with details of more specific colours. Save particular colours to local storage to match later. This could solve lots of arguments! whatcoloristhis.one

Super excited to read Heather Pulliam's new book today! @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

I always love witnessing interactions like this. A comedy in three acts: Diane: Statement of fact about how England has always imported food. Random Man: Yes, but I have an OPINION, Did you know... Diane: Have you read my book on this subject... 😂❤️😂

We're hiring: a 2-year postdoc position in digital humanities at Uppsala University, part of my project “Making public property. A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950”. www.uu.se/om-uu/jobba-... Join the project and our fantastic department! Application DL: 12 May.

Some students find it hard to understand the mixture of religion and comedy in medieval drama. Mostly not religious themselves, they assume seeing humour in religious plays would be offensive. So I teach the hilarious York Crucifixion where soldiers try to stretch Christ to the pre-drilled holes.😂

The result of the proliferation of AI plug-ins everywhere. Often they come with no option to turn them off. Extraordinarily bad UX from companies that should know better. I remember predicting this in a talk about forthcoming AI in the pre-pandemic days, but some audience members didn't believe me.

In the lead up to happy bunny chocolate day, @lucimcummings.bsky.social bought us some Gooey Rascals sent from Betty's as a surprise! ❤️😍🤤 Simultaneously, I bought her Swedish Cardamom Buns (Kardemummabullar) and Sunshine Buns (Solbulle) from Midsommar Bakery! We clearly ❤️ carbs!