My latest for @mcgilloss.bsky.social is a weighty tome: the hallmarks of pseudoscience. I'm very proud of it. Lots to chew on. W/ help from the amazing @nbtiller.bsky.social @mrmmarsh.bsky.social @caulfieldtim.bsky.social & Dr. Alice Howarth of @skepticswithak.org. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Bookmarked: CLLG — Corpus Liberatum Linguae Graecae https://cllg-project.github.io/ #digital_editions #digital_humanities #griechisch An open-science initiative for freely accessible ancient Greek texts via a complete pipeline from scanned editions to structured TEI XML.

Projet de recherche sur la mesure de radon, cherche de volontaires. www.canada.ca/fr/sante-can...

📄 Discover the latest publication by Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher (@katrohrbacher.bsky.social). openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

The #AHR’s new #AHRSyllabus project, Authoritarianism 101: A Global History, features 30 teaching modules on authoritarianism across global history, with primary sources, historical context, and teaching resources. Start exploring today.

REPLAY - Comment distinguer la science de ce qui se fait passer pour elle ? Existe-t-il une ligne de démarcation nette entre théories pseudoscientifiques et théories rationnelles ? Ou bien faut-il en finir avec la notion de pseudosciences ? Avec la Stéphanie Debray. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwR1...

U of Iowa law professor uses M:tG to teach the complexities of rules and legal rulings. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/05/22/u...

In his new encylical Pope Leo quotes Gandalf in Return of the King. It is fitting that he uses Tolkien in a work condemning AI given the terrible misuse of Tolkien's works by tech bros. As well as of course his Catholicism. Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

Based on how Tolkien is cited in the encyclical vs how Tolkien is used by tech companies, it’s fair to say that Pope Leo understands LOTR better than Silicon Valley does

From the brilliant mind of Magnolia Keep comes a high-octane retrospective on the way of the Samurai! D&D has had a "Samurai" in some form every edition, and they're all just a bit funky. https://magnoliakeep.blogspot.com/2026/05/every-single-samurai-in-dungeons-and.html?m=1

behold the library of leng, a searchable archive of 175,000 articles and posts about Magic: the Gathering

Je parlais hier au Meetup Open Science @insee.fr organisé par Goran Sekulowski sur les notebooks computationnels dans l'analyse de données et les enjeux de reproductibilité La présentation complète emilienschultz.github.io/presentation... #openscience #reproductibilité #notebooks

Pour mes amis français! theconversation.com/au-moyen-age...

Our book on Automated/Handwritten Text Recognition is out and it is open access :). bielefelduniversitypress.de/publikatione... #htr #atr #digitalhumanities

Today in "there's a word for it" I have learned about the Woozle effect > The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility.

You can obfuscate an email address and other information on your websites spencermortensen.com/articles/ema...

#gafam #IA « Si Google produisait des marteaux, on devrait s'inquiéter de voir des marteaux partout, de voir que tout sera martelé et on devrait craindre la disparition du monde par martèlement. » nouveau billet Marcello Vitali-Rosati blog.sens-public.org/marcellovita...

New post: Tagging my blog with BERTopic and LLMs. I suspect as token costs increase, we'll see more blended traditional ML/LLM systems. And, in general, they work really well! vickiboykis.com/2026/05/18/t...

‼️ Hear, hear! 👇 How teaching the history of science can help equip students to face polarized times theconversation.com/how-teaching... "...we now face situations where some ill-intentioned people or anti-democratic agitators sow distrust in society, sometimes related to science..."

Having a hard time comprehending that this is really & truly happening, but...there are would-be academics out there who are claiming that verifying your citations by checking to make sure they aren't hallucinations & then reading them to make sure they say what you claim they say is too much work.

"OpenAlex operates on a shoestring, with institutional memberships at $5,000/year. Retraction Watch is a nonprofit that depends on donations. ORCID is sustained by member organizations. These are [the chronically underfunded] foundations on which the credibility of AI-generated science depends..."

Marcello, avec qui je travaille, je précise, écrit « Rechercher une information pourrait se faire […], avec des requêtes sparql sur des bases de connaissance (comme wikidata)... cela aurait un coup computationnel pratiquement égal à 0 et donnerait la bonne réponse » ok. 1/

By far my favorite digital preservation fact: Toy Story 2 was completely deleted by accident, the back ups failed and the only reason they were able to recover it was that the tech director had recently had a baby and had gotten permission to have a copy at home: thenextweb.com/news/how-pix...

Having just finished another free public library game design workshop, I have a lot of thoughts about how to make it even better in the future. Here are a few of my ideas: omnes.exeunt.press/p/next-works... #publiclibraries #libraries #ttrpg #boardgames #gamedesign

Nouvelle leçon ! ✨ Une nouvelle traduction de la leçon de Nicolás Vaughan : 🔗 doi.org/10.46430/phfr0040 Nous remercions Maritza Beatriz García Rodríguez pour sa traduction. Merci Matthias Gille Levenson + Selma Bensidhoum pour l’évaluation, et merci Alexandre Wauthier pour le suivi éditorial.

This lovely piece on Alarums & Excursions was in the Financial Times and now is free on the author's blog. #ttrpg timharford.com/2026/05/when...

[Cairn] « Pratiques ludiques dans les armées françaises à un moment d’évolution de la conflictualité » shs.cairn.info/revue-marche... #wargame

This is a good thread. The idea of a “general purpose machine” in particular is interesting; it seems close to the idea of a perpetual motion (or, as was sometimes preferred, a “self-mover”) as articulated in the seventeenth century

Two librarian #MayThe4th games for your colleagues (that worked for mine in the past): 1) What is the classification system in the Lucas Research Library at SkyWalker Ranch? Find the answer online with some Google searches. 2) How many Millennium Falcon does it take to move your print collection?

Historians warned against cherry-picking. But now others are making big historical claims at scale—and shaping public debate. We need a response. Critical search. Disciplined selection. computationalhistory.substack.com/p/beyond-che...

[Journée d’étude] «  Le jeu de rôle à l’ère de ses mutations : économie, créations et usages » calenda.org/1395187 #jdr

Tabletop games like D&D act as “drama therapy in the wild” to boost players’ self-concepts

If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do. There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +

From mechanics to topographics: when the map becomes the medium of the conversation zotrpg.blogspot.com/2026/05/from... Inspired by @mockman.bsky.social 's Walkthrough Maps, a family becomes a team of collaborative mappers, creating a nine‑meter‑long campaign on an Ikea paper roll.

Using clickbait to point to my most essay like post yet. Just in time for the map bandwagon. elmc.at/against-maps/

"The wargames market was basically inaccessible to people that were part of the anti-war movement, unless it was couched in a way that wasn’t revisiting the atrocities that people were seeing on TV..." @increment.bsky.social for @asteriskmgzn.bsky.social

🧵 The web is disappearing 🕳️ From Pew: 26% of pages from 2013-2023 are ☠️ A new study in VANISHING CULTURE gives hope: 16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine. 56% are preserved before they disappear. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE free from Internet Archive: archive.org/details/vani... ⬇️

Jeux & Stratégie revient ! Et si on ressuscitait la revue qui a su le mieux parler du Jeu ? Les Anciens savent que, de 1980 à 1990, Jeux & Stratégie a été un magazine d'exception qui a été un des premiers en France à prendre au sérieux le Jeu (la majuscule a de l'importance). ⬇️

🚀 « PipeP : une bibliothèque de notebooks Python pour le traitement du texte en sciences humaines et sciences sociales » hnlab.huma-num.fr/blog/2026/04... — Très heureux de partager un travail qui avait pris un peu de retard mais qui pourra intéresser les doctorant·e·s et chercheur·e·s des #SHS.

Authorship, attribution, and citation are three terms that get thrown around a lot. Here's why they overlap and how they differ. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/21/t... #Authorship #Plagiarism #Citation #Attribution

[Blogged] AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

Classifying things isn't the same as understanding them, but it's a necessary first step. In this book chapter I establish a classification for cultural phenomena, and apply it to some southeast Asian traditions ... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Countdown Standard xkcd.com/3232/

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs. I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me! elmc.at/fullstack-re...

Dans ses illustrations d’astronomie, Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947) mettait magnifiquement en scène les paysages de l’espace. Ici, un coucher de Terre vu de la Lune, à comparer aux récentes photos de la Nasa ! 🌚 Sur les autres mondes, 1937 c.bnf.fr/X6d @julien-bobroff.bsky.social @ericlagadec.bsky.social

This is the longest joke I've ever worked on. ⚔️🏰 scottmanning.com/content/10-y... #medievalsky 🗃️

Games are a unique art form. They are direct instructions, with an audience primed to follow them. They are unlike music. Unlike graphic arts. Unlike fiction. Game design is about how instructions focus us, inspire us, outrage us, motivate us, reveal us, help us connect to each other.

AI’s hardest problems — retrieval, ground truth, alignment — aren’t just technical. They’re historical. The future of trustworthy AI may depend on historical methods. computationalhistory.substack.com/p/ai-needs-h...

Zotero 9. Nouvelle version du logiciel de gestion bibliographique... et bien plus :-) Un outil Indispensable pour les enseignants, chercheurs, doctorants, étudiants... #Zotero www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9