An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

When science makes headlines — for all the wrong reasons Extra, extra! Read all about it… maybe? thevarsity.ca/2026/01/25/w...

"This is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for. It is now time to go." 💪

CfP/Appel à communication: «Le jeu de rôles à l'ère de ses mutations : économie, productions et usages» FPJS U Sorbonne Paris Nord : jeudi 18 juin et vendredi 19 juin 2026 jeuderole-fpjs.sciencesconf.org #JDR #scholarlyTTRPG

KULA Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... #citationaljustice #academia

"We’re speeding on the way towards that Dark Future right now. [The] color of your skin, or the money in your bank account are not going to spare you. It’s time to wake up; to face down the people who want in the end, to enslave all of us." cyberpunkculture.com/cpcc20/program-friday/§30-evan-torner/

Article 👍 sur les CAQDAS & GT ➡️ "L’impact des logiciels sur la recherche dépasse la simple assistance technique : ces outils participent à la structuration des étapes analytiques, influençant la manière dont les données sont segmentées, codées ou théorisées" journals.openedition.org/revuehn/5284

Reaching a consensus about where you and your friends should eat on Friday night is not the same as reaching a scientific consensus. Scientific consensus takes a lot of time and effort, and not every subject currently has one. Learn more here👇 scienceupfirst.com/science-101/... #ScienceUpFirst

Bibliographic battle: Marie Curie vs. Paul Otlet. Score tied at 0–0.

Je suis très heureux de vous annoncer le début d'un projet qui me tient à coeur depuis longtemps : le Réseau Francophone d'Histoire Ludique histoireludique.fr Pour être tenu au courant de nos activités, suivez ce compte : bsky.app/profile/hist... Je développe ci-dessous ⤵️

I had a really fun time interviewing Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop RPGs from the Cold War and what they reflect about shifts in Cold War nuclear culture, and the differences between how the games were designed and how they were actually played. doomsdaymachines.net/p/playing-at...

Revenge of the nerds AI models tested on Dungeons techxplore.com/news/2026-01...

Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!! weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...

Fondé par la professeure Dyala Hamzah, l’OSBL Maison Palestine lance son exposition "Des bosquets qui brasillent". 📍Du 15 janvier au 1er mai 2026 Bibliothèque des livres rares et des collections spéciales 3000 Jean-Brillant - Salle 4030

Meet Netha, the Wikipedia editor who quietly debunks medical myths for millions #Wikipedia25

On the hunt for TTRPGs with annotated ludographies/bibliographies in their text. (In other words, not *just* a list of inspirations) (Bonus points for in-line citations or marginal notes that credit other texts/games/people)

spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-de... : Really good case study with a simple R script, showing how newer models bury bugs under the illusion that everything works... #rstudio #vibecoding

[Blogged] The Blank Box Problem: Why It's Harder Than Ever to Know What to Type Into an AI Search Bar - open.substack.com/pub/aarontay... . A bit over written but has some interesting points i think

Le machine-actionable DMP (maDMP)

Bookmarked: CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed | Inria https://www.inria.fr/en/comma-medieval-manuscripts-transcribed #htr Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at […]

Some fields list authors alphabetically. Others use norms like "senior last". Others use order to signify relative contributions. In a new paper with @kevinzollman.com, we model the evolution of these norms, and then look at which type of norm is best for science. doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Help libraries add your game to their collection! Let's talk about ISBNs, MARC records, and CIP blocks! It's more interesting than it sounds: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/game-catal... #libraries #ttrpg #boardgames #publiclibraries

Vous ne saviez pas que vous aviez besoin de ça ce dimanche soir, mais voici 10 minutes d'interview de Travis Oliphant sur la genèse de #numpy, brique fondatrice pour le traitement de données #scientificpython Rappel du lien fort entre université & open source ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xha...

We made a few tweaks to #MachinaEmblematica – our enigmatic guide to the Symbola et Emblemata, a 16th-century encyclopedia. • Improved relevance ranking for image sources • Inline thumbnails when images are explicitly mentioned More UX and behavior tweaks are coming today + next week. Stay tuned!

The flagship journal of the Royal Historical Society has retracted a paper positing that British and Canadian soldiers committed “scores” of prisoner executions against German forces during World War I. The move followed an investigation for plagiarism.

@eclaytopia.bsky.social and I had a fantastic conversation about GMs in #ttrpgs and Ignatian spirituality. You never know when the #jesuits will sneak into your favorite hobbies! soundcloud.com/jesuitconfer...

The Wikimedia community doesn't waver on three standards. Volunteers rely on three core policies to keep Wikipedia articles balanced, sourced, and fact‑based: neutral point of view, verifiability, and no original research. 🧵⬇️ (1/5)

In Dec 2025, I published a short comment on whether the emergence of AI has been as revolutionary as other moments of innovation in our species' history (e.g., emergence of technology or agriculture). On balance, current evidence suggests to me that it isn't. www.isita-org.com/jass/Content...

Le 1er janvier, des œuvres entrent dans le domaine public. Pas un cimetière, mais un commun vivant : à lire, à réutiliser, à transformer. Le célébrer, c’est défendre l’accès, l’usage et le partage contre la privatisation culturelle. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee... #Accèsàlaculture #Communs

Ever wish my Zungeon Manifesto was available in French? Well your wish has come true! ptgptb.fr/manifeste-po...

Marcin Ryczek marcinryczek.com

But it's the history of storygames that I've found so surprising: wobbupalooza.neocities.org ...

Indeed. The purchaseable *product* we call the TTRPG begins in the 1970s with Western Gunfight, Chainmail, and D&D. Yet role-playing "parlor games," simulations, and similar are centuries old and draw from a well that resembles all the positive stuff about D&D. Parlor games were feminized...

Good news - libxml2 now has two volunteer maintainers 🎁 (I’m not one of them so you’re safe) Merry Christmas 🎄 hackaday.com/2025/12/23/l...

Le patolli est un des plus vieux jeux de société d’Amérique. Le premier plateau de patolli en mosaïque jamais trouvé vient de l’être à Naachtun, une cité maya du Peten. Daté du Ve siècle ap. J.-C., il était intégré au sol d’une résidence phys.org/news/2025-11...

“Earthrise." My favorite photo from the Apollo program, taken on December 24, 1968 - 57 years ago today - by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders during the first crewed orbit of the Moon. A print hangs in my office, oriented as shown here as it's the way Bill Anders saw things when he took the picture.

🚨WORTHY ESSAY ALERT🚨 "but i’m more interested in a different question. what happens when a spell becomes cheaper than a worker." The traditional magic=tech worldbuilding question has always bored me. Add class analysis to the mix? I'm in. beeboobubie.substack.com/p/the-infras...

Even when women were the academics doing the documentation! Blanche Trilling was collecting “social games” & “parlor games” in the 19-teens while a professor at the University of Wisconsin, and is basically unknown in the game design world today. ia801509.us.archive.org/25/items/soc...

Citation is easy. It's a couple of lines on your credits page. Citation is encouragement. Every time somebody else acknowledges me this way, I feel like the work is worthwhile. Citation is introspection. You are marking your trajectory, the ports you have called at, as a maker. 1/

The database is openly available on the Harvard Dataverse. It includes the full database + the complete set of original PDF records. doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... I hope this resource is useful to practitioners! Many people to thank for this long-standing project...! 6/6

The knowledge captured in research #software is surprisingly fragile. If the code fails, the science fails. https://www.softwareheritage.org/2025/12/18/software-rot-saving-sciences-digital-legacy/ #OpenScience #softwarerot

It's a big milestone for free knowledge! 🎉 The Wikimedia Foundation spoke at the UN General Assembly Hall, representing Wikipedia’s volunteer community. We showed that the future of the internet and sustainable development depend on protecting public spaces online and the people who build them.

"La transparence méthodologique comme condition du débat démocratique" www.alternatives-economiques.fr/anne-laure-d...

#veilleESR « ChatGPT en 1950 ? — Boris Vian avait tout compris » vds.hypotheses.org/14649 #IA #histoire #ChatGPT #LLM #GPT

Le jeu constitue-t-il une partie importante de la pratique guerrière et diplomatique ? Car il est un fait qu’on le retrouve tapi dans l’ombre derrière les diplomates et les soldats. Et l’actualité ne semble par contredire cette constatation ! 1 article à lire 👇 shs.cairn.info/revue-inflex...

« [research in history] not by sustained archival research of contemporaneous records conducted in full light of recent historical scholarship, but by using ChatGPT to extract information from Georges Lefebvre’s 1932 The Great Fear of 1789, which they then plugged into an epidemiological model. »

Dépolluer la science : responsabilité des institutions ou des lanceurs d’alerte ? (SPS 353) Un article d'Hervé Maisonneuve, librement accessible sur :

Quel bonheur de lire que les descendants de Tolkien financent des associations humanitaires, écologistes, d’aides aux réfugiés… ✊🏼 basta.media/famille-tolk...