Ruth Ahnert

Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

I'm excited to be a co author on this new paper, "Computational Hermeneutics," with a bunch of other great scholars from the humanities + computer science. In it, we lay out concepts for evaluating gen AI's capacity for interpretation esp ambiguity, context, etc. www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

A ton of great people are on this paper; just who I am aware is on Bluesky: @ruthahnert.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social @mmvty.bsky.social @tedunderwood.com @hoytlong.bsky.social @ryanheuser.com @mattwilkens.bsky.social Sorry for missing others! And thanks to Cody Kommers + Drew Hemment for leading!

What might stop authors from wanting to publish an experimental book?

@emmagallon.bsky.social says often it’s a widespread lack of awareness of what can be done. What are the possibilities for publishing your research in different ways? Publishers need to show ppl what’s possible.
#CopimConference

Thanks so much!

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

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- Museums and Patronage by Scott Anthony, @byrnealice.bsky.social & Harry Parker

- Living with Machines by @ruthahnert.bsky.social, Emma Griffin, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social and the Living with Machines Team!

We can't wait for all of these books to be out in the world! Follow us for updates.

Very cool, well done @rmidura.bsky.social!

Very cool, well done @rmidura.bsky.social!

Thank you for this terrific article - I will now deploy the terms derived, enhanced and aggregated to think about the various modalities of the datasets that I am wrestling with!

This is a fantastic description of the problem of historical data fragmentation and enclosure, with actionable suggestions. I would add: sources should be findable and accessible by eg Claude Code. It has never been easier to build custom views and analytics, the sources are the limiting factor.

I’m glad you found it helpful!

I always enjoy you being provocative!

We are way overdue! And I’d love to see your slides if you don’t mind sharing xx

Ah I’m so happy to hear that Heather! I’m glad this is chiming with various people we admire and respect in this space. (Also, hi, how are you?)

Thanks so much Richard! Glad it struck a chord.

Really good position paper on a legitimately urgent question - how humanists/historians can actively participate in, shape & organize the explosion of digitized historical data across commercial + public contexts. We can't sit this one out. The call for standards & norms is esp well taken + crucial.

An important new article on #DigitalHistory infrastructure (and #OpenAccess too):

Show Me the Data: New Practices for Historical Sources

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#History

“The fantasy of completely accessible and searchable digital past obviously remains a mirage, even if it’s one that is still tempting.” On the great new piece on historians as data curators in TRHS by @kmcdono.bsky.social and others

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Thanks so much for your reading and for taking time to respond!

Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture Welcome to Cambridge Core

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)

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Just in time for reading week, in the Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org: historians and our uses of data; sources, GLAM collections, newspapers, access and more...

#dh 🗃️

A pleasure thinking and writing with @ruthahnert.bsky.social and @kmcdono.bsky.social

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Last summer, I got super into plotting addresses of nineteenth-century British pornographers that I'd collected as part of a project using the National Library of Scotland's Georeferenced Maps. Collecting the data was a painstaking process, as was plotting it as many of these addresses no longer +

New article for my pinned thread: bsky.app/profile/ruth...

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM (A MORPHSS Project Report) Conceptual frameworks of 'Open Science' and their implementation by funders, journals, institutions and other organisations have been criticised on the grounds that they are tailored primarily to quan...

One for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (SHAPE) researchers interested in open science, and hot off the press (as well as, naturally, open access).

I’m a little disappointed by some of the responses to this (not Matt’s, which I take to be plain wit). But there is obviously a long tradition of studying low culture, mass culture, kitsch, & etc., and we ignore this latest aesthetic category at our peril. To pretend otherwise is anti-intellectual.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus January 2026

Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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