Finola Finn

The submission deadline for #CHR2025 is fast approaching! Authors, you have until Friday, 18 July, to submit your short and long papers, lightning talk abstracts, and workshop ideas.

⚠️ Please note: there will be NO extension of this deadline.

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Promotional image. Text reads: The people's dispensary digitised archive

Check out #ThePeoplesDispensary – our free new online resource about charitable medicine in Edinburgh. It includes a fully transcribed and digitised archive of over 10,000 pages of Georgian patient case notes from the Edinburgh Public Dispensary

👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/peoplesdispe...

Alongside the fairground rides, an additional highlight was presenting my research on uses of the soul-body relationship in 17thC accounts of melancholy in this gorgeous pub! A delightful juxtaposition. Many thanks to everyone who squeezed into the lounge room to hear our panel

What a brilliant conference! Feeling very lucky to have heard fascinating papers and met so many new faces within the atmospheric surrounds of the Black Country Living Museum! Inspired more than ever by the breadth and depth of social histories #SHSConf2025 @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Such a great evening!

Highlights for me included @myra.bsky.social et al’s work on measuring and understanding public perceptions of AI through crowdsourced metaphors, and Prakhar Ganesh et al’s tutorial on the implications of multiplicity for fairness and explainability in algorithmic decision-making (plus much more!)

So glad to be at #FAccT25! Fantastic first day soaking up the latest cross-disciplinary research on fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems

Public history for contested and conflicting past(s) International Public History online seminar. For student - by students.

This Thursday, seminar online organised by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History at @uni.lu with @c2dh.uni.lu
Presentations by students from all around the world
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even... #PublicHistory #student #history

Silicon Islands and War Exhibition In the framework of the European Month of Photography (EMoP), this exhibition discusses how in an era of unprecedented AI development, the nature of

The video itself also seeks to challenge “the vastness of digital memory and its overwhelming flood of images” through the use of the oral traditions of poetry and song. More about these thought-provoking works here: www.uni.lu/life-en/even...

… reminding us that “the production chain of images is becoming an increasingly complex web of resource supply, energy consumption, and cutting-edge chip manufacturing” - shaped and driven by geopolitics, especially between China, the U.S, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Such an engaging guided tour by the artist Daphné Le Sergent this afternoon of her exhibition ‘Silicon Islands and War’, hosted by @uni.lu as part of EMoP. Her video essay “invites us to explore an alternative history of photography in relation to the semiconductor industry” ->

Engaging the many-hands problem of generative-AI outputs: a framework for attributing credit - AI and Ethics The recent wave of generative AI (GenAI) systems like Stable Diffusion or ChatGPT that can produce images, text and code from human prompts raises controversial issues about creatorship, originality, ...

Our full article on the CCC framework was published in AI & Ethics last year, and is available here:
doi.org/10.1007/s436...

We were excited to see many other teams also working to address the moral, legal and regulatory uncertainties that surround GenAI use – and it was fantastic to discuss these issues at such an interdisciplinary and vibrant event!

Our presentation outlined the Collective-Centered Creation framework (developed by Donal Khosrowi, Elinor Bell-Clark, and me), which provides an approach for tracking and assessing the significance of different contributions, by humans and machines, to the creation of GenAI images.

It was great to share our work on attributing credit and responsibility for generative AI outputs at the ‘Ethics and Aesthetics of Artificial Images’ conference at Venice International University last month ->

Less than a week till our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on early modern war narratives! Sign up here to attend in person or online! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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The conference was full of thought-provoking and motivating reflections on what British history can do for the present - and I’m really glad to have been a part of it!

I argued that, in the media and PR, such parallels are often used to reductively normalise the adoption of AI by suggesting historical precedent – but that historians can (and should) contribute more nuanced, insightful comparisons to the discussions.

It was such a pleasure to be part of the British History Today conference at Queen Mary University London earlier this month, presenting my work on the use of historical analogies in public discourse on AI.

Image generated by dall-e-3. Prompt: “A water colour drawing of language and historical bias in large language models (LLMs)”.

New blog post! In their article “LLM Biases: Expected and Unexpected Model Design Effects in Historical Newspaper Article Extraction on the Messina Earthquake”, Johanna Mauermann and Sarah Oberbichler (@SarahOberbichler) look at the fact that LLMs are a powerful […]

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Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

Our Digital Research Fellowship call is also currently open: £7,500 for a 3 month project exploring our data: data.nls.uk/projects/dig...

Painting: Claude Lorrain: Port de mer avec la villa Médicis, oil on canvas 1637. Uffizi Gallery, 1096.

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900.
The CfP for the event is now open.
www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
#earlymodern #history 🗃️

The Bodleian Conveyor News about medieval manuscripts, rare books and other special collections from the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford

This is such an interesting blog on Archival Silences. A must read for librarians, archivists, historians, anti-colonialists, educators and anyone interested in sociopolitics: blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/

😄 wonderful, thank you!

Konf: Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-151421

Marburg, 12.12.2024-13.12.2024, Leibniz-Forschungsverbund „Wert der Vergangenheit“, Lab 1.3. Digitale Heuristik und Historik
Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie (LEIZA), Mainz
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I'd be grateful to be added if there is still space! Many thanks for putting these together

This is one of my favourite papers and I am delighted that someone else liked reading it 😊