Francois Soyer

DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran).

What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people…

DE26: 13.1%
25: 17.9
24: 19.6
23: 15.0
22: 19.7
21: 17.1
20: 16.0
19: 17.2
18: 16.3
17: 16.7
16: 16.4
15: 14.3
14: 13.6
13: 15.6
12: 12.8

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !

📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1

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The perils of an Australian university campus in the springtime.

Birdlife in Australia is never dull: a discussion in progress at the feeder.

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

Ouch: why pay $440,000 for AI work ("including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.")? Then again, why pay $440,000 for a single report anyway? Universities should take note. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Thank you!

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

Ouch: why pay $440,000 for AI work ("including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.")? Then again, why pay $440,000 for a single report anyway? Universities should take note. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

I am not quite sure how this works, but here's a free open source editable historical map that's pretty decent on medieval Europe.

I was sitting at my desk and had a feeling that someone was watching me.

Thank you!

YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science Swooping season: How to stay safe

Thank you, response sent. :-)
They're fairly large birds with a very sharp beak who seem to have a particular loathing for cyclists in the springtime! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JF...

Springtime in Australia.

Portugal's foremost twentieth-century poet, Fernando Pessoa, opining on Australia (Portuguese: É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá).

Portugal's foremost twentieth-century poet, Fernando Pessoa, opining on Australia (Portuguese: É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá).

Receiving my author’s copies of my latest book: always a wonderful feeling but this time also a bittersweet one.

Beware swooping trees.

Just found the longest word in the English language.

Saw some of my fellow inhabitants of Armidale using surfboards as makeshift sleds this morning! #Australia #Armidale

Certainly have not seen this much snow since I moved there in 2018!

Siberia Down Under. #Australia #Armidale

Snow in Australia will always feel strange to me

Snow Down Under... and it's only getting heavier! #Australia #Armidale

History falling apart: early 17th century Inquisition trial dossier. digitarq.arquivos.pt/documentDeta...

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot

A question for Lusophones. Here is a blasphemous sentence from a inquisitorial trial: “que era puta mui grande e aleivosa farta de cães, gatos e negros." The official meaning of "fartar" is to be "satiated [with food].". Could it have a different (and ruder) meaning?

A question for Lusophones. Here is a blasphemous sentence from a inquisitorial trial: “que era puta mui grande e aleivosa farta de cães, gatos e negros." The official meaning of "fartar" is to be "satiated [with food].". Could it have a different (and ruder) meaning?

Congratulations Una!

Another frosty Antipodean winter morning and another colorful visitor in the garden (Armidale, NSW).

Australian King Parrot (Male).