!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

#DH2025 @mcollardanuy.bsky.social presented on HTR for Late Middle Ages Catalan notarial manuscripts www.bsc.es/research-dev... Discusses open question of expanding abbreviations directly in the text, future work on layout detection and segmentation

Our amazing keynote speakers: Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge) Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social

📢 #BSCSeminar: Computational research in the Humanities: current state and future potential 🗣 Hector Orengo Romeu, BSC ICREA 📅 30 April ➡ www.bsc.es/ZFs @sommalliance.bsky.social

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🚨 Calling all who care about digital research! 🚨 Share examples of the impact Research Software Engineering or RSEs have had on (your) research. Help us build an evidence base and a bright future for the field. Deadline: Fri, 14 Feb ⏰. Share & spread the word! 🙌 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Save the date! The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School will take place at St Anne's College from 4-8 August 2025. Stay updated here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/digital-huma... #digitalhumanities #DHOxSS2025