Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Spent the week introducing northwestern Yucatan lowland #Maya agro-urban landscapes from #archaeology to current #urbanism to ULB #landscapearchitecture using #gis #hgis #urbandata #maps on the #builtenvironment focusing on #landuse patterns. Proud how far they've come. @ulbrecherche.bsky.social

Two weeks ago I started a new job as a distinguished prof in #DigitalHumanities and #AI @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social. It has been a couple of busy weeks! But today I'm visiting #LabNuevoLeon with its amazing collab spaces to take a course on creative visualization with government data 😍

🎉 So glad to share with you our latest article on Handwritten Text Recognition and Machine Learning looking to achieve the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th-century Latin American historical collections! #HTR #ML #AI #DH #Colonial #Mexico www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Estás interesado en colecciones digitales para patrimonio cultural? Vamos a aprender un montón en este evento!! ⬇️⬇️Inscríbete pronto! #HD #patrimonio #cultura #AI #digital #glam

I recently wrote a short blog post for Historica.org. I explore some possibilities about how AI can assist in the exploration and analysis of historical collections. It’s not about replacing traditional methods but expanding our toolkit for understanding the past. I hope you like it! #AI #DH

Qué buena lista. Y aplausos a Gabriela Salas Cabrera que ha conseguido incluir el Náhuatl en Google Translate. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇲🇽

I sometimes paint in my spare time. One of the things I love about it is the feeling of being able to manifest what is in my imagination 🌈 So, this painting is called 'The geographer'. I made it for a friend and colleague that has been my mentor and a great model of what academia should be. Ian, 🙏🏼

Rounding off a fantastic day celebrating the launch of our Human Remains Digital Library with a fascinating session on Storytelling & Outreach! Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers and everyone who joined us online. 🙌🏻📝💡Find HRDL here: hrdl.liverpool.ac.uk

Beautiful sunny day in the north west of England 🌈

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

This is so important...People are not #data. In creating datasets for historical #BigData or large scale analyses we need to do carefully thought data capture design and come back to close reading. #AI #ML #DigitalHumanities

Unveiling a Complex Legacy Hernando de Pizarro & Sebastián de Benalcázar shaped the conquest of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, & more—but their involvement in Indigenous trafficking reveals a darker legacy.

Uuhh this is a good challenge for the holidays! Choose 5 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 5 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #booksky #books #bookchallenge 1 of 5 📚🪐

Postdoctoral fellowship in the field of medieval studies for a period of 12 months (2025/2026). Together with the École française de Rome and the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo. Application deadline 31 January 2025: t1p.de/6nu6q @maxweberstiftung.bsky.social #medievalsky #medievalstudies

What's in an attention head? 🤯 We present an efficient framework – MAPS – for inferring the functionality of attention heads in LLMs ✨directly from their parameters✨ A new preprint with Amit Elhelo 🧵 (1/10)

This just made my morning 🤣

Check out this new CFP for a Special Issue on "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South," guest-edited by @patymurrieta.bsky.social and @dharanpreethi.bsky.social: culturalanalytics.org/post/2820-cf... Abstracts are due January 15, 2025. 💥

Doesn't matter how much companies say they aim to 'adress' biases in LLMs. If data is white, male, middle age, Western, and from the global north, it's impossible to claim generative AI holds solutions for all. How would decolonial technologies look like if we dared to try?

(1/7) For a while we've been working on an ambitious problem: The National Archive of Mexico #AGN holds 58 linear km of documents. Only a drop of this ‘ocean’ has been studied due to many challenges. But great news: we are now unlocking this information! A thread 🧵 (1/8) #HTR #AI #CulturalHeritage

Back in 2021, I collaborated with watercolorist extraordinaire Aaron Alfano to produce this amazing reconstruction of the support area of the Later Classic Maya palace of La Corona, Guatemala. I still love this piece very much. #archaeology #watercolor #ancientmaya #palace #reconstruction

We are hiring! My Research Group: GeoAI, GeoKnowledge Graphs and GeoSemantics at Department of Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg is looking for a talented PhD student to strengthen our team. www.plus.ac.at/personalabte...

Want to learn more about concordances and/or get inspired to new research ideas? Join the Reading Concordances workshop in Erlangen on March 19, 2025! More information here: www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/reading-conc...

No te pierdas la conferencia de @isabelgalina.bsky.social sobre #PatrimonioCultural y #PatrimonioDigital hoy a las 4:00pm #Mexico! #HumanidadesDigitales #DigitalHumanities #CulturalHeritage

#TaNC 's call for action and recommendations to develop #CulturalHeritage strategies are paving the way for the future of #digital #infrastructure. This will be of help well beyond the UK! Download them here zenodo.org/records/1383... #DigitalHumanities #ahrc #tanc #digitalpreservation #AI #CARE

👨‍🎓 Do you want to learn how to use Gephi? 💥 I am happy to share with you a set of tutorials that I have written on Medium. 👉Read here: (medium.com/@vespinozag) #networkscience #datavisualization #MachineLearning #datascience #statistics #neuroscience #NodeXL #bioinformatics #gephi

Just had the most beautiful flashback to my childhood with this amazing @itousa.bsky.social painting 🎨🌈🐻 #happysunday

Policy forum at #TaNC on discussing report launching today. zenodo.org/records/1383... Can use this report to advocate to funders and to our own organisations about the core requirements of building the UK Digital Collection. #unlockingcollections

By the way, this was the best helper, giving me a paw with the conference lanyards.

NEW PAGE 96 - Read our AZTEC EMPIRE webcomic series for FREE & support us on Patreon, thanks!

Interested in machine learning in science? Timo and I recently published a book, and even if you are not a scientist, you'll find useful overviews of topics like causality and robustness. The best part is that you can read it for free: ml-science-book.com

Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....

When you ask what did the Middle Ages ever do for us, remember: in the 830s the monks of Fulda Abbey copied this recipe for an almost-lasagna, Patina Apiciana, from De re coquinaria by Apicius (a signature dish, if you will). Full recipe below! NYAM Vault MS 1

Okayyyy last one! The dearest to my heart, the Spatial Humanities! Do you ask spatial questions to humanities data...or humanities questions to spatial data? Then this Starter Pack is for you! Please help me keep it updated, ask to be added or recommend others I should add. go.bsky.app/QVauYxf

Come hang out and let’s do cool archaeology together! I’m hiring a Post-Doc! #archaeology 🔗 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

“Inical, Initeocal in Huitzilopochtli” The House and Temple of Huitzilopochtli - Commissioned by Trey the Explainer. This is my interpretation of the sanctuary of Huitzilopochtli, one of two magnificent chapels that once crowned the Great Temple of Mexico-Tenochtitlan. 🧵⬇️

📘Statistics for the Social Sciences (Book Open Access) By Bill Pelz 👉(library.achievingthedream.org/herkimerstat...) #Statistics #Datavisualization #MachineLearning #DataScience #programing #Rstudio #ai #rstats #Python #postdoc #socialscience

Meet YubYub Commander, the ultimate squirrel chaser 🐿️, duck-staring champion 🦆, and certified cuddle expert 🐾💖. She's equal parts goofy and gorgeous, with a side of mischief that keeps our life interesting, full of adventures, snacks, naps, and joy! #dog #pet #cavapoo #DogsofBluesky #youcompleteme

Axolotl art

I am so excited for this spaCy update!! I have wanted to see this for years. This allows you to pass a PDF to a spaCy pipeline which means you can do not only layout parsing but also NLP tasks all in a single workflow. On my list to test out this week! #NLP #MachineLearning #DigitalHumanities

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics. Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎 Apply by December 15th!

Hello world!! Finally made the jump from Twitter to Bluesky! 🌟 If you're into #DigitalHumanities, #MachineLearning, #AI, #NLP, #SpatialHumanities, #archaeology, #historicalarchaeology, #Mesoamerica, #ColonialMexico, or just for kicks let's connect! Follow for insights, projects & other stuff✨

CFP Alert! 🚨 @dharanpreethi.bsky.social and I editing a Journal of Cultural Analytics special issue: "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South."Submit your research exploring innovations, challenges, and the richness of local contexts. shorturl.at/TO3AD #DigitalHumanities