Does anybody know anything about deduplication at the #internetarchive? Quite frequently people upload the same files as independent items, which could be prevent by checking against hashes. See, for example, https://archive.org/details/Om-Alqura, which seems to be an exact copy of […]

Thersites’ Body: Description, Characterization, and Physiognomy in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/04/t...

Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB... @julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social @lrbrody.bsky.social

#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?

New Blog post #HistDay25 Up the Lycabettus – lovely sunset: Amy Maud Hicks’ diary to Greece Dr Rosario Rovira Guardiola explores a diary by Amy Maud Hicks, a well-known suffragette, during a trip to Greece in 1902 showcasing her early career as a Classicist & archaeologist: shorturl.at/W2i6Q

If you have any ideas for Rainer, please do get in touch. You'll help me feel less guilty. I fear that my enthusiasm for annotation may be one (if not the) cause of his headache...

This is definitely me.

"There has been some debate over what Zeus’ “plan” is at the beginning of the poem...The process of refinement we witness in books 1-8 ... is a rewriting of the first nine years of the Trojan War to center Achilles’ rage as the pivotal point." sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/11/02/r...

#ISAW invites submissions for the graduate student conference: Reimagining Body and Space in the Ancient World held March 5-6th. Submissions are due by December 19th and should be emailed to [email protected]. For more info: isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-gr...

Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!

"Prophet of evils, you've never said anything good for me! It's always dear to your thoughts to prophesy wicked things-- you never utter or complete any kind of noble word!" sententiaeantiquae.com/2025/10/28/p...

My pleasure to be speaking to the U. of London's DH Research Hub on November 25th on 5:00PM. "Deep Time and Global Scope in a Digital Project: The example of the Human Figure" www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma... . Hybrid so all very, very welcome.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

Does anyone have a dataset of 1,000 + pages of handwritten text on Transkribus that they want to use for finetuning a VLM? If so, please let me know. This would be for any language and any script.

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...

The first book of the Iliad is often a surprise to readers who come to it from general knowledge of myth. It not really about the Trojan War. It is a narrative set in a Trojan War sententiaeantiquae.com/painful-sign...

Calling all #DH #LOD #GLAM folks! Please consider answering & sharing this survey on linked data: tinyurl.com/LOD-Ecosystem The focus: your experience of linked data, the tools & standards you use, & your ideas about future directions for linked data for the humanities & cultural heritage sector.

#TEIFriday (3): We're going to run a short workshop in December to get people to help improve the recommendations for encoding SNAP:DRGN style interoperability person-data in TEI XML (Personography module), which I started talking about under this hashtag a few weeks ago. We need your expertise!

Giving everyone in the relevant field an equal share of grant funding with no peer review would deliver as much as they need. A moderate amount of resources in the UK, and a high amount of resources in the US and the Netherlands. Before we consider the money and time saved in application and review.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

We’re improving accessibility in the Recogito Text Annotator, our open source text annotation library. Keyboard support is solid, but highlights aren’t directly tied to the text. They're a floating layer above it, breaking screen reader access. If you’ve faced similar a11y issues, I’d love to chat!

I wrote up a talk I did recently: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-a... #AI4LAM #MuseTech #GLAMTech

In her great talk hosted by @pelagios.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social mentioned the AI4LAM project, which has this awesome "Awesome List" of AI resources for the GLAM sector sites.google.com/view/ai4lam/...

No Kings Day message to Trump: Other than your coterie of ass-kissers, nobody likes you.

“Keep these things in mind, bribe-swallowing #kings: whoever wrongs another also wrongs himself; an evil plan is most evil for the one who makes it.” δωροφάγοι, σκολιέων δὲ δικέων ἐπὶ πάγχυ λάθεσθε. οἷ αὐτῷ κακὰ τεύχει ἀνὴρ ἄλλῳ κακὰ τεύχων, ἡ δὲ κακὴ βουλὴ τῷ βουλεύσαντι κακίστη. #Hesiod

Upcoming Research Training: Introduction to Digital Classics Approaches Weds 29 Oct 2-3pm This seminar will give an overview of current digital methods, technologies & tools used in the study of the ancient world, languages, texts, history, objects, cultural heritage & reception: shorturl.at/U6pc0

Join me at two events at the British Library later this month: On 20 October, the British Library joins forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on open knowledge and the wider information landscape. In-person only! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

Provost Joel P. Christensen (@sentantiq.bsky.social) explains what Odysseus’s violent homecoming reveals about autocracy, memory, and the impossibility of resolution neoskosmos.com/en/2025/10/0...

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

Sing, O Muse! Chthonic Visions is officially here! Featuring 38 amazing artists depicting figures from the spookier side of Greek mythology. You can obtain a digital copy for free or, for a limited time, a print copy through the link in our bio!

Goodbye, Disney+!

The sold-out Brian Eno-curated Together For Palestine charity concert on September 17 will be livestreamed togetherforpalestine.org

Watch Brian Eno's Together For Palestine benefit w/ Damon Albarn, Portishead, Sampha, Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry, Paul Weller & more www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-brian-...

EpiDoc office hours currentepigraphy.org/2025/09/15/e... One hour a month will be set aside for anyone and everyone to drop in with questions about epigraphic/papyrological encoding, or any other aspect of #EpiDoc. No booking or advance notice required, just join the zoom link and say hi.

Work is coming together. The GitHub repo is being populated. Follow along here github.com/pelagios/llm...

In Leiden right now we've just begun a weeklong workshop on exploring the transformative potential of combining Large Language Models (LLMs) & Linked Open Data (LOD) to enrich cultural heritage metadata in ways that foster FAIR usage www.lorentzcenter.nl/enriching-di... Watch this space for outcomes

"He doesn't see the irony in pleading to Trump that 𝘸𝘦 have a problem." Why is Farage is begging America - a country at odds with democracy - to help bring the UK back from the brink of its so-called ‘free speech problem’? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

In case this is of interest @kermodemovie.bsky.social @kermodeandmayo.bsky.social

NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.” UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza. The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes. (🎥 BBC News)

Pleiades Co-Working Day (16 September 2025) More info and to register: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga... #ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #HGIS #gazetteers please boost

Last week the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 9 new and 294 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 5 people. Get all the details on the blog at: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...

"London lives rent free in their heads as it's living proof of how completely wrong their politics is - they 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 to lie about it!" As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.

Following our earlier investigation into the effectiveness of LLMs for geolocation, we've tested some of the latest LLM updates to see if they're even better. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

(7/7): The insights from this survey will help guide our approach to the evolving landscape of AI and publishing. Many thanks to all who shared their perspectives. Read the full report by Press Director Amy Brand and co-authors at @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social:

On Saturday, 86-year-old Jacob travelled from Norfolk to join hundreds in Parliament Square who opposed the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. They gathered calmly and peacefully to commit a criminal act. Read about this rare moment in British history ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

The "LOD People" activity of the @pelagios.bsky.social Network (pelagios.org/activities/p...) has been collecting samples of data from digital datasets that record historical persons (whether in LOD, TEI XML, CSV, or any other open format. (Do you have any such data we could look at?)