Kalle Westerling

Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...

Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/

tag yourself, I'm "it's a dick" 🐳

Hello, I’d love to be on the list too :)

Hey! Am I on it? :) otherwise, I’d love to be!

Can we take a moment to admire the extraordinary attention to detail in the costuming for #WolfHall from the incredible designer Joanna Eatwell? A flawless interpretation of Jane Seymour’s bonnet and gown from the Whitehall Mural 🙌

Upcoming MapReader Community Calls for fall and winter are all posted on the docs!

This month (on Oct 31 🎃), we'll be focusing on issues around annotation:
- what tools for annotating maps?
- what standards?
- human vs synthetic training data?

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IIIF Community Call: Recogito Studio. Wednesday, September 11, 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 5:00pm BST

Join us for the next #IIIF Community call on Sept. 11, with the team behind Recogito Studio will present. Recogito Studio, a new annotation platform which facilitates annotation for education & research.

To join, use the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community

Autumn Data/Culture Workshop This workshop aims to bring together historians and others with an interest in using big, digitised historical map and newspaper collections as primary sourc

🗃️ Applications now open for the final 2024 Data/Culture workshop on big historical newspaper & maps data + tools.

Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.

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For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!

The next MapReader Community Call will be Sept 5 (4pm UK) - sign up here!

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Full-time permanent post @ucc.bsky.social

Lecturer in Literature and Empire

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Our last newspapers & MapReader workshop of 2024! Taught by @danielwilson.bsky.social, @kallewesterling.bsky.social, Rosie Wood (Turing), Tim Hobson (Turing), & yours truly. With guest appearances from @fedenanni.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen (SAS) & Jon Lawrence (Exeter)! 🗃️

Who is Data/Culture? We are: @pieterfrancois.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social @andrepiza.bsky.social @davidbeavan.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social + Rosie Wood, Tim Hobson, Ed Chalstrey.

Spring Data/Culture Workshop: Search inside maps with MapReader MapReader, which received the 2023 Roy Rosenweig Prize for Inno

We're now accepting applications for the 1st of 3 workshops introducing historians 🗃️ (& other historically-minded researchers) to tools & data created on Living w/Machines - first up, 2 days w/MapReader.

April 30-May 1 in London @ the Turing

Bursaries available!

www.turing.ac.uk/events/sprin...

I have five invite codes for BlueSky in case anyone needs one?

How exciting!!!! 👏👏👏

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

There wasn’t really an option for me though, and I think that’s the really sad thing…!

👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 yes, indeed, almost two years ago now (!!) like others in this thread though, I was discouraged from doing a “fullblown” digital diss and ended up doubling up on the work, with a “companion” to my PDF 🙄

since the DH world is here: Who else has a full-blown "DH dissertation" that was finished *after* 2017 (aka after me, @walshbr.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social, @amandalicastro.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, etc finished our PhD programs)

As part of Open Access Week, Ben Tiven (from Library Stack) and Amy Ballmer (from Pratt Libraries) and I are talking about open access + knowledge sharing — and discussing our new collab OA project, my Reparative Redaction booklet — this Thursday at 3pm ET on Zoom! pratt.libcal.com/event/11454430

So excited to have been working on this project — check out MapReader via the link below! I never won any real big prizes for my DH projects before so this is a big one for me 🎉🎉🎉

Call for Papers: Special Issue, "On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly ... Abstract submission deadline: December 15th 2023When we think of scholarly communication, we're usually thinking of something that can be shared independent of its creator(s). A book, a journal articl...

CFP! Inkcap is collaborating w/ the Journal of Electronic Publishing for a special issue, titled "On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Comms and Publishing." Abstracts due Dec 15. Please submit & share widely! Creative & collaborative submissions most welcome.

A chart indicating the relative transparency of different models. Llama 2 tops the list at 54%, GPT-4 is at 48%, Claude 2 at 36%.

How transparent are foundation models that claim to be "open"? A group centered at Stanford and led by Rishi Bommasani has released a paper proposing a transparency index. crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/fmti.pdf 🧪 #MLSky

Just returned to my dissertation for the first time since my defense/viva in January 2022, as I'm preparing one chapter for potential publication, and it is both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. Monstrous feelings!

Microsoft Research has two new applied scientist positions to work with Hanna Wallach's team on identifying, measuring, and mitigating potential harms caused by generative AI systems:

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Cover image of Tudor Networks of Power

Mini-thread! It’s publication day for Tudor Networks of Power, which I co-wrote with Sebastian Ahnert. We are really proud of this book, which brings methods from network science to the study of 130k early modern letters But it’s not just a book! global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/8