@societyofauthors.bsky.social this is class action stuff, seriously let's be smushing this nightmare fuel. Imagine something similar with "expert published writers" and their names and reputations used to sell this AI product....
expertoptout@superhuman.com, not that it addresses the real issue
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Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
@debssutton.bsky.social sorry i messed up your name above!
How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives?
Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.
I'm sorry, we don't record these sessions!
Definitely solved in some cultural contexts and not others!
My student @historyjacob.bsky.social has shown the new OCR tools work very well with early modern English print text. We use to struggle with the long s and many other issues. This opens up NER on sources that use to be too messy. He also developed a fine tuned NER model for Atlantic commodities.
How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives?
Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.
I don't do drafting in LaTeX templates. I write in word/google docs/etc, and then only put text into the template once it's nearly ready to go & to work on figures/finalize length. Also highly recommend using Overleaf as your interface for LaTeX - LaTeX templates as word documents never works.
Last call for this awesome online seminar on danger in Dartmoor tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e... #envhist #environmentalhistory
Friday morning call for abstracts!
We're looking for chapters for our historical network analysis edited collection, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. See the cfp for more! Email us at interlocked.universe@gmail.com #dh #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis
See you in Lancaster on 18 March 💫
Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
Looking forward to hearing about this & more from @profdanhicks.bsky.social w/@debssutton.bsky.social at the Lancaster History Lecture on March 18th
dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the...
Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.
The article covers newly released discovery in the case.
Here’s what discovery confirmed:
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The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:
"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...
#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
I am also looking to test a new email strategy. Would love to see what ideas are floating around out there!
We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester.
More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
#DH
Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series
#dh #dhist #skystorians
Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:
"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...
#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
Excellent venue for computational humanities work, colocated with ACL in San Diego on July 6. Please share!
Apply to join my team by 3/16!
Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.
$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.
New working paper out: "Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material" led by Vincent Baptist & Jules Schoonman (TU Delft) #dh #maps
openmapsmeeting.nl/publications...
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
American friends! Come listen to our Director, Nicholas Cronk, discussing Voltaire and Slavery on March 26th
@amphilsociety.bsky.social: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ce...
📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
