Andrea Kocsis

@andreakocsis.bsky.social

Researcher by day, writer by night. Heritage, data, full stack. Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship at the National Library of Scotland. Ex cantab, ex EHESS.

Missing from the coverage of redundancies at Edinburgh: this was done in such a haphazard, uncoordinated way, there are now core teams who have gone from 5 people to 1 with no change in workload or pressure and huge loss in knowledge of institutional process. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2576321...

Hundreds of staff leave Edinburgh University amid cuts drive

According to the university, 345 of these departures were the result of a targeted voluntary severance (VS) scheme run by the institution in 2025.

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I'm organising this panel discussion for the (ex)Turing Humanities and Data Sciences group. Successful project owners will discuss the past and future of merging STEM and SHAPE disciplines. Book via the link to join us either in-person in Oxford (the Bodleian is quite a venue tbh) or online.

Digital Scholarship at Oxford@discoxford.bsky.social · 11mo ago

On 25th Sept, the Humanities & Data Science Turing special interest group will discuss their work and showcase new pathways for collaboration. Find out more about this hybrid event, hosted by the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/networ...

Today at 11:30 👩🏻‍🏫Keynote by Dr. Andrea Kocsis, Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics and National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland, contributing to making the UK Web Archive’s collections more accessible to wider audiences!

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries@dhnb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Keynotes #DHNB2025 Maciej Eder: Text Analysis Is Easy, Unless It Is Not: Reliability Issues in Measuring Textual Similarities Andrea Kocsis: Can digital humanities rewrite concepts from non-digital heritage studies? Meelis Kull: Humans and AI: similarities, differences, and why it matters