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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Luulis, että tänä Data Economy:n kulta-aikana tajuaisivat kaikki, että miten saa kaiken mahdollisen tiedon ihmisistä, mutta ei! Pitää ihan tuputtaa tätä dataa… 😅

Huomasin tosiaan vasta vastausta kirjoittaessani, että olis ollu parempi jos olis voinu sanoo myös miten pitkälle on päässy koilliseen, kaakkoon, jne…koska nyt mää en pääse sanoon että oon myös asunu Egyptissä ja käyny Taipeissa, ja monet kerrat ollu Singaporessa, ja ja ja ja… 😅

Furthest I’ve been:
N: Kilpisjärvi, Finland
E: Hobbiton (movie set near Hamilton), New Zealand
S: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
W: Honolulu, Hawai’i, USA

(But to the NW I’ve been to Vancouver, Canada)

Had the pleasure & privilege of having Prof J. Stephen Downie (School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois) present to us yesterday on “Creating Data for Open Cultural Analysis Activities: The TORCHLITE Project and Extracted Features 2.5”. Excellent speaker, even better colleague!

“Other work in the field includes (citation et al)….”

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It did mean there were two songs with Finnish words in them in Eurovision this year!!

Swedish-speaking Finns 😄

Some nerdy types may also be interested to know that it has a SPARQL endpoint www.getty.edu/databases-to... 🤓

Anyone else having trouble with the #DHconvalidator tool for #DH2025? Trying to use it is a struggle for me each time, I admit! I’m sure there’s a simple enough solution but I can’t remember any of my hacks to fix it from previous years.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first few moments of every first lecture of a DH course have to be a tech debacle. Still, pretty cool to be able to troubleshoot several issues (some tech, some institutional policy) on a bunch of different machines 😊 Definitely tell the students

An elk-headed axe in a case

I love these animal headed objects from Finland! This one is an elk-headed axe, of quartzite, from Kuusamo. Photo: Tiina Kokko/YLE. #FindsFriday

“The discussion was always about how adults were teaching children,” says Izzy Wisher, an archaeologist at Aarhus University who led the new study. “This panel shows children were also doing their own thing.”

The female with a bow painted with red ochre

The female with a bow from the Stone Age rock painting from Astuvansalmi in Mikkeli. Photo: Ismo Luukkonen. #FrescoFriday

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Students Decipher 2,000-Year-Old Herculaneum Scrolls

Read how NEH-supported AI technologies at Univ of Kentucky are helping to crack one of archaeology’s most famous mysteries:

www.neh.gov/news/student...

Please spread the word! Terrific article about the NEH-funded Herculaneum Scrolls Project at UKentucky that is getting massive media coverage (though they rarely mention NEH). We're trying to emphasize the role and importance of humanities research funding!

Mind blown to only learn about this now. I will make an effort to be conscious this whenever I chair sessions.

3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage

Now open for booking: Summer School in 3D Imaging and Modelling for Cultural Heritage (July 1–5, 2024, @ics.bsky.social, London). Co-taught by the wonderful Vera Moitinho de Almeida. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/3d-im...

Planning on attending DH2024 in person and need a letter of invitation to start your visa application process? Email dh2024@gmu.edu to request a letter at any time.

a post from dr damien williams: “The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?” above another post from dr brooke magnanti: “Pronouncing Luddites so it rhymes with crudités”

the two types of doctor on bluesky

HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Skills Summer School 2024 | ARDC You're invited to join us for the 2024 HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Skills Summer School in Naarm/Melbourne.

HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Skills Summer School 2024: ardc.edu.au/event/hass-a...

…this thing we started(?) *

*in 2023 with the best of intentions of finishing by the end of last year but here we are

100% earworm 😂

International Fellowships 2024 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

We are offering International Fellowships to enable early career researchers from around the world to come to the UK for two years to undertake original research in the humanities or social sciences. Please spread the word!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

We're finally here! Follow us for all things DH in the Australasian region and beyond. We have a new committee, a new website & will be launching our 2024 conference CFP soon! aadh.au/about/

Reminder! Nominations are due February 1, 2024.

Congratulations! 🎉