James Cummings

Call for Hosts for TEI 2027 @teiconsortium.bsky.social

tei-c.org/news/2025/08...

#TEI #DH #TextEncoding

Yup, that's where we are.

Anyone thinking the Arts and Humanities (or SHAPE more generally) are somehow less important or less practical than STEM should not be in any position of responsibility for academic budgets or political governance.

Also, if you are single, I'd recommend not dating them.🚩

Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets, Audio Enhancement System

If you have the time then I recommend @marjoleinrobertson.bsky.social show 'lein' (you don't need to have seen the previous 'marj' or 'o' shows, though they were great and might be online).

www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

Staff at UK’s top AI institute complain to watchdog about its internal culture Whistleblowing complaint warns Alan Turing Institute is in danger of collapse due to government threats over funds

As an ex-Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute I could express opinions about this, but what would be the point.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Oops. @marjoleinrobertson.bsky.social somehow missed her account. Well worth seeing.

Two days at the #EdFringe and we managed to fit in: @larrydean.bsky.social, #BBC live recording www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b..., @josielong.bsky.social, marjoleinrobertson.com, @thejazzemu.bsky.social, @rialina.com, www.rocknrolga.com, www.desireeburch.com, and www.abeckettking.com before leaving.

BBC at Edinburgh Fringe wrist band.

BBC Breaking the News set

Enjoying the #EdFringe. About to see #BBC #BTN live recording. Hopefully with jokes by @lucimcummings.bsky.social

🌟DH2026 is heading to Daejeon, South Korea! Website & socials are now live: dh2026.adho.org. Follow for more updates:
x.com/DH2026_Daejeon
bsky.app/profile/dh20...
mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon

#DH2026 #digitalhumanities

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

Alice! Top work @hagenilda.bsky.social @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social et al!

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

The downside to running a university like a business is that it will act like a business and simply adapt to government pressure rather than stand up to it.

A lot of the Google and Apple educators and edtech fans of the 2018 era are now staunch edtech governance advocates. The rose tinted glasses have fallen off,

So there is hope for those of us in schools full of ai hype.

Congrats!

30 years since I did my MA there. Eeep!

Some interesting thoughts about the issues of sustainability at scale and the Constellate platform.

Yeah, we were told that at one point and yet, the metrics and targets and Workload Allocation Model all seem to remain the same.

Those in charge don't get how devastating this kind of thing is. In a normal attrition rate people can adapt to Fred now doing Gladys' role, but true decimation (1/10) leaves an institution truly vulnerable because many processes just break. Nevermind the cybersecurity issues.

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

It is a great, useful, and fabulous skill to break things. I, once upon a time, used to be very good at breaking things. Still do occasionally, it is just people aren't asking me to!

We're visiting for 2 days/1 night in early August for the edFringe to see lots of standup and a live recording of Breaking the News. I'd wave hi but we'll mostly be running from one venue to another through far too thick of a crowd! 😂

The revolution will not be televised.

A great piece of flash!
#FlashFiction

So I did this.

I let it have my email address and a very poor scan of part of my face (one eye and a bit of the side) but that seemed to be good enough.

I don't trust #KWS i.e #EpicGames to hold this data securely.

I'm still mulling over that choice. I don't care about adult content but are DMs worth giving up government ID or banking info....

That doesn't mean this is the right choice of company to implement it.

I mean, Epic Games?!

It isn't like they have a history of keeping their users' data safe...

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs is the law Opinion: Getting carded is one thing. A full strip search? Welcome to Britain

Wait?! To use direct messaging on #bsky I have to go through #AgeVerification and give all my personal data and gov ID to a multi-national *Games* company that assumes I'm a parent?!

I'm all for keeping children safe, but this seems poorly thought out.

www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/o...

“Pretrained” has to be in “GPT” forever so future generations will appreciate the majestic discovery of transfer learning — just as we pause to appreciate hypertext and carbon paper every time we write http:// in a message that we’re cc-ing.

Photo of Yorkshire Tea, decaf, which sometime will think makes it worse or weak, but doesn't because Yorkshire Tea is the strongest tea around so even the decaf version kicks arse.

I'm honoured to be part of the family - thank you @trashcatlit.bsky.social!

I'm really looking forward to discovering my fellow writers' treasures in this anthology in aid of @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social.

In 15th century England, bookbinding wasn’t just functional—it was an art form with a dark and often mythic edge.

Meet the 'Demon Binder' and the 'Dragon Binder' #ontheblog
blogs.ncl.ac.uk/speccoll/2025/07/21/the-demon-binder-and-the-dragon-binder #bookhistory #rarebooks

Hearing my wife's instructor repeatedly say that they don't need to understand the results of a LLM to use it just check it against a different one and you can be confident the answer is correct drives me into a rage because of this.