Giles Bergel

@guyda.bsky.social, you can sleep next to the internet!!

Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage — CPHC Call for papers

Don't forget the deadline is looming for submitting proposals for the PrintNetworks/CPHC annual conference which this year is in Cornwall. The theme is Print, Printing and Industrial Heritage (surfboards welcome!) www.cphc.org.uk/updates/2025...

Further automation of collation, following on from prior work - see www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/softwar...

Delighted to be funded under this programme with @guyda.bsky.social and other brilliant colleagues, working on differentiating print with computer vision!

The (partial) return of Bodleian Ballads - bibsoc.org.uk/councils-cho...

Anyone But England Anyone But England is a timely and entertaining exploration of the bonds which the English cricket to the English nation as both face apparently inexorable decline.Mike Marqusee, an American who has l...

An essential primer - www.versobooks.com/products/146...

Not I think a ballad, at least not one I've seen, and unfortunately our visual search engine's offline at the moment. I'll give it a go once it's back up. It's great, though!

Hello Bluesky, in September I'll be out of contract and would be grateful to hear of any potential teaching (early modern lit) or research (with archives, rare books, humanities data) work. I'm based in SW England. Thank you!

Albeit this is on the basis of the public records in SOLO: I know the Bodleian has a lot of provenance information held elsewhere

My impression (would be interested in yours) is that Oxford college-owned books often have much more CSI than Bodleian books?

I saw The Breeders last year. Rarely or never have I seen a room explode with as much joy as when they started to play that song..

I never knew it was originally an early-modern tune

YouTube video by CasaAzul65 Pixies - Gigantic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJnc...

Solidarity to all the friends and colleagues in this list (and elsewhere) who have had their amazing work impeded by MAGA's cancel-culture.

If you'd like to see all the canceled NEH grants at variance with agency priorities that allegedly will fail to inspire your confidence in use of taxpayer funds, go explore impact.ach.org. Then contact your representatives about this outrageous cull.

Are you working with #digitalhumanities or curious about what DH can do for you?

Gale has partnered with DH Oxford @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social to host a *free* in-person event @jesusoxford.bsky.social on Tuesday 13th May, combining a DH workshop with inspiring talks.

Register: t.co/nT134gv5Se

A conference presenting the brilliant work of many people over many years.. most immediately myself, colleagues at @oxford-vgg.bsky.social, @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and elsewhere. Come for the computer vision stay for the incunables, or vice versa

Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...

On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

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This year, enhance your knowledge of #digitalhumanities tools, techniques and research methods at #DHOxSS2025.

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Just missed out on My Bloody Valentine, but my kid and their parents get to see Chappell Roan at the Reading Festival

A close-up photo of a person’s hands paging through an old book. Several slips of paper are tucked at intervals into the pages. Overlaid on top of this is a block of white text on a dark red background, which reads, “The NEH is an essential force for good, helping individuals and communities understand our past, engage the present, and provide a vision for a better tomorrow.  RBS affirms the vital importance of the NEH in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.”

The National Endowment for the Humanities is an essential force for good. Rare Book School affirms the vital importance of @nehgov.bsky.social in supporting programs and grants that enrich the cultural understandings of our citizens, our communities, and our nation.

Now they are coming for book history – and why wouldn't they? They think that books only belong on shelves.

This is devastating. Ending such an amazing initiative is just stupid and cruel. Love and solidarity to all Booklab staff, students and affiliates.

The former, because the AI has not been trained on all the questions to which the answer could be "I don't know".

They are also incapable of saying "I don't know" in response to a prompt - also an essential skill.

Us too - see you there!

Registration for #DHOxSS2025 is now open!
From beginner to advanced courses, led by experts, it’s the perfect opportunity to upskill and connect in a supportive, world-class environment.

Join us this summer in Oxford, or online!
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it would be better if they'd considered taking over the old Debenhams or one of the corner locations on Carfax. More passing trade from tourists and more of a boost to the rest of the city centre.

One month until our Digital Research Fellowship call closes: £7,500 for a three month project exploring datasets on our Data Foundry, this year with a theme around the application of AI tools to the collections. More information:

data.nls.uk/projects/dig...

It's because everyone's going to have extra fingers