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Against erasure: Digital witnessing of the Manus Island Detention Centre The Against Erasure project developed a 3D digital reconstruction of the Manus Island Offshore Processing Centre, as a multidisciplinary teaching r...

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar Claire Loughnan explores #digitalhumanities #criminology & #memorial with Against Erasure, a 3D model of #ManusIsland Detention Centre, preserving collective knowledge of a controversial chapter in AU immigration history
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/agains...

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Scientific tools are tracing the evolution of ancient biblical manuscripts In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships. The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament, says a University of Melbourne expert.

In biology, phylogenetics reconstructs evolutionary relationships by analysing how traits are inherited and change over time.

The same technique is revealing the history of the New Testament

📜New research from MDAP's Robert Turnbull!
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/sci...

Man at lectern with a slide in background detailing ATLAS: Analysis and testing of language models for archival systems, with linked discussion on the historical linguistics and socio-cultural uses of the term “harness”

What does it mean to "harness" AI?
"AI is not just technical or futuristic, it has very real human connections into the deep past" @jamessmithies.bsky.social

A man standing at a lectern with a slide in background with testing principles listed

Hearing from Prof @jamessmithies.bsky.social talking H-STRICT principles for rapid software testing (RSTE):
Human
System Targets
Transparent
Reproducible
Iterative
Contextually informed measures and baselines
Tasks workflows & use cases

The ATLAS test harness: Evaluating LLM-RAG systems for humanities research The prevailing discourse on Large Language Models (LLMs) suggests that humanities research, like many other fields, is about to be shaped by intell...

Prof @jamessmithies.bsky.social, ANU & Founding Director @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social presents ATLAS, an open source ‘test harness’ to evaluate AI in historical research, helping researchers ‘look under the hood’ of LLM-based tools.
31 July in-person & Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/the-at...

Dependancy graph showing the syntactic relationship between tokens or ‘parts’ of a sentence, eg words, in this case Greek and Latin

Good news everyone! MDAP's Robert Turnbull has joined the ERC-COG BICROSS project team @KU_Leuven, exploring multilingual manuscripts and cross-language interactions using AI and other digital tools.
Read more go.unimelb.edu.au/u5cp
Rob's site robturnbull.com
BICROSS theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/...

The ATLAS test harness: Evaluating LLM-RAG systems for humanities research The prevailing discourse on Large Language Models (LLMs) suggests that humanities research, like many other fields, is about to be shaped by intell...

Our next seminar is with Prof @jamessmithies.bsky.social of ANU presenting ATLAS, an open source ‘test harness’ to evaluate AI in historical research, and help researchers ‘look under the hood’ of LLM-based tools
Thu 31 July rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/the-at...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? The archaeological space is continuous. Archaeological investigation, as surveys and excavation, is about discretising this space, determining rele...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?
June @wearehades.bsky.social seminar features Sébastien Plutniak presenting on #archeofrag - software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites.
10 June, 2pm - 3pm, Zoom
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Intro to network analysis with R Are you a researcher and would like to explore, measure, and analyse network structures? This workshop is for you if you: Are a HASS or STE...

Intro to network analysis with R
Thu 12 June @melbconnect.bsky.social
Explore igraph and learn how to represent and model relational data with graph objects, calculate key network metrics, visualise networks and cluster a network and detect communities.
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/intro-...

Welcome to Text Mining with R | Text Mining with R A guide to text analysis within the tidy data framework, using the tidytext package and other tidy tools

Learn about #tidytext www.tidytextmining.com - Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach

Text analysis with R Are you a researcher in the Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences (HASS) and would like to analyse your textual data quantitatively with code, but d...

Hands-on workshop for HASS researchers @ Unimelb working with materials like archives, interviews, and social media data. Learn basic preprocessing tasks using tidy text and common textual analysis techniques. Basic R knowledge required.
26 June, register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/text-a...

Learn about #NLTK nltk.org a free, open-source and easy to use platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.

Text analysis with Python Are you a researcher in the Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences (HASS) and would like to analyse your textual data quantitatively with code, but d...

Hands-on workshop for HASS researchers @ Unimelb working with materials like archives, interviews, and social media data. Learn basic preprocessing tasks using NLTK and common textual analysis techniques. Basic Python knowledge required.
11 June, register:
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/text-a...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? The archaeological space is continuous. Archaeological investigation, as surveys and excavation, is about discretising this space, determining rele...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?
Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar, Sébastien Plutniak presents his research and introduces archeofrag, software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites.
10 June, register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Time to consider more than just calcium? The impact on protein, riboflavin, vitamin B12 and iodine intake of replacing cows’ milk with plant-based milk-like drinks—an Australian usual intake dietary m... Purpose Most plant-based milk-like (PBML) drinks sold in Australia are not fortified with riboflavin, vitamin B12 or iodine. Reduced dairy intake is often recommended for planetary health and the 2013...

It's not just about calcium! Most plant milks in Australia aren't fortified with key nutrients like riboflavin and B12.
CI Anita Lawrence & MDAP's Ed Tescari Daniel Russo-Batterham & @kim-doyle.bsky.social examine consumer impacts & rethinking nutrition standards link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Research ethics and data governance: Insights from our intern knowledge sharing session Knowledge sharing sessions are an important part of MDAP’s internship program. Our recent session delved into the topics of research ethics and data governance, highlighting the importance of these co...

📣 New blog post! 📣

Want to gain insights into what our interns learn about during their placements with us? Or maybe you are more interested in the worlds of research ethics and data governance? 🔎

All this is covered in our newest post! Give it a read:
go.unimelb.edu.au/qb8p

Making research visual: Visualisation design for communicating research and research data Visualisations are so much more than decorations Are you a Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences researcher or research support staff wanting...

A few spots left!
Making research visual: Visualisation design for communicating research and research data
Designed for Humanities Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) researchers and research professionals @ UoM
Tue 27 May, in person @melbconnect.bsky.social
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/making...

Draft Project Plans for the ARDC Community Data Lab Now Open for Feedback | ARDC We invite the research community to provide feedback on the ARDC Community Data Lab draft project plans.

📣Share your feedback on ARDC Community Data Lab draft project plans!
The HASS & Indigenous research community is invited to share their feedback and help shape the ARDC Community Data Lab
🔗 bit.ly/cdl-plans
w/ @mdap-unimelb.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social

#HASS #research #data #GLAM

Mammograms are painful and only 2D. CT could be better, but needs high dosage to reduce noise.
Using phase-contrast and AI denoising, MDAP's Rob Turnbull, Simon Mutch & team cut the dose 16× with no loss of image quality. Working towards safe 3D breast cancer screening.
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

Between the space of borders Dr Jonathan Laskovsky will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and acad...

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar w Jonathan Laskovsky on border sites and data use in border surveillance, resistance and transgression. He'll also speak on building data support for research bids and advocating institutional change.
12 May, 2-3pm, Zoom
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Making research visual: Visualisation design for communicating research and research data Visualisations are so much more than decorations Are you a Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences researcher wanting to make visuals to accomp...

That was the initial in person workshop on 29 April - this is an an encore workshop online on 8 May - many spots left :) We'll be emailing the people on the waitlist for the April session shortly about this second workshop :)
May 8 session rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/making...

Between the space of borders Dr Jonathan Laskovsky will focus on two different modalities of borders that intersect his research interests across both his professional and acad...

Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar w Jonathan Laskovsky, sharing research on border sites beyond the cartographic and sociological, and how data is used in relation to border surveillance, resistance and transgression.
Mon 12 May, 2-3pm, via Zoom
Register rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/betwee...

Introducing Potnia - a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way!
Congrats @touremily.bsky.social, Rob and Kabir!
joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

We have officially published Potnia in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🐍👁️👉🏽 doi.org/10.21105/jos.... Potnia is a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way!

A preview of our - Phelps/Keil/Maginn - new edited book, Peripheral Centralities: Instances of Anticipatory Urbanism.

An International collection of visual essays on the definition/character/aesthetics/function/significance of the periphery in making #metro regions.

www.jovis.de/en/book/9783...

Making research visual: Visualisation design for communicating research and research data Visualisations are so much more than decorations Are you a Humanities, Arts, or Social Sciences researcher wanting to make visuals to accomp...

Making Research Visual - Workshop
Transform your data into compelling stories! Perfect for HASS researchers looking to create impactful visuals for articles, websites or presentations. Learn about design, accessibility, interactives, and NTROs
May 8, online:
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/making...

How Australian places are represented on Wikipedia In 2024, the wikihistories team set out to understand how well Wikipedia represents Australian places and what kinds of editing practices drive tho...

Join the next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar with Michael Falk, Heather Ford and Francesca Sidoti speaking about the wikihistories project, where they uncovered an anthropocentric and neo-colonial bias in English Wikipedia's coverage of Australia
14 Apr, 2-3pm, Zoom
Register go.unimelb.edu.au/j6ip

Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG) are recruiting for a continuing academic position (Level B/C) in ML in Omics. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic and supportive environment driving innovative research at the intersection of data science and biology.

Details below. Apps close 1 April