Guyda Armstrong

Another brilliant team also in this HAVI cohort! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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

Researchers from the University of Manchester in partnership with the University of Oxford have been awarded funding from Schmidt Sciences for their project Envisioning Print with AI Computer Vision. The Envisioning Print project brings together an expert team of textual scholars, book historians, computer scientists, library data experts, and research software engineers from the University of Man...

Learn more about our award and tremendous team here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... @manchester.ac.uk

Behold our stellar computer vision luminaries: @manchester.ac.uk Caroline Jay (Computer Science), Ian Gifford +Tom Higgins,both @uomlibrary.bsky.social, partnering w/ Giles Bergel @chapbookpro.bsky.social, Andrew Zisserman+ Prasanna Sridhar at Oxford's Visual Geometry Group @oxford-vgg.bsky.social

Amazing news! I'm completely thrilled that our Envisioning Print project has been selected for a 2025 @schmidtsciences HAVI award, + honoured to be part of this cohort of humanities teams advancing AI-driven approaches to understanding human histories and cultures.

It is a brilliant chapter, and it's been equally brilliant working with you over such a long period of time!

It was incredible; the music of the spheres, imho.

Very pleased to report that the MBV lights also pretty much blew out the sensor on my phone as well.

View of MBV lights in Loveless pink.

Closer view of the band with blue lights.

MBV versus Aviva Studio's power supply last night: MBV victorious (, obviously).

Come and see our legendary Head of Imaging Jamie introduce an eighth wonder of the world this Friday lunchtime @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !!

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is unlocking - Manchester University Press Manchester University Press and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library are delighted to announce that from spring 2025 the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library will publish Open Access. This ...

The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive!

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...

IGGY POP!!!

Actually, they should show reruns on Friday nights on BBC4 when they get to the end of TOTP. MAKE IT HAPPEN!!

YES.

That goes without saying!!

Differently loud, I would say.

Watching this on SNUB TV at my friend's house when I should have been at orchestra practice literally changed the course of my life. Thanks, guys!

Amazing, and AMAZINGLY LOUD Dinosaur Jr gig at the Albert Hall last night; as it should be done.

We are very happy to announce the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page', at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 29-30 May 2025.

For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM

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

Conference: Envisioning Dante: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page Join us for the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante' taking place over 2 days 29 & 30 May.

And Day 2 link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

Conference: Envisioning Dante: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page Join us for the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante' taking place over 2 days 29 & 30 May.

Programme and Day 1 link here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conference...

Picture of a page from Dante's Divine Comedy with the different parts of of the page marked up.

It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️

WE ARE LEEDS WE ARE LEEDS! (very impressed to see this, as a Leeds graduate lcsleeds.bluesky.social; I hope everyone else follows).

Incredible intensive language course learning to read, speak, and transcribe two indigenous languages at the Newberry Library in Summer 2025; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Awesome spelling of vynil as well. Analogue media for the win!

12 new postdoc opportunities in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Just visited the JRRIL Imaging Team, now properly installed in their fantastic new imaging suite! With all the curtained cubicles and trollies it is basically GOTH CASUALTY (HT Jamie).

Our fantastic Envisioning Dante postdoc Dr Rebecca Bowen is giving a paper in London (and to remote viewers) 16th Jan 2025! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

I'm a shadow of my former self these days, so always wear earplugs! (It was still excellently loud, though.)