I’ve been invited to give a keynote at RetroEval 2026. 🤩 Loving the conference title. We all need some retro evaluation in the age of LLM-generated benchmarks.

Saad Mahamood@saad.me.uk · 3mo ago

I am happy to announce that registration for RetroEval 2026 (retroeval.github.io) is now open! Additionally, the program is now available including keynote speakers and accepted papers: retroeval.github.io/_pages/progr... Looking forward to seeing you at the @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social in June!

Great to see this project recognised. Thank you Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society Anyone interested in transcribing Scottish Gaelic stories and making this data more accessible through Tobar an Dualchais, please check out the Opening the Well tool … www.linkedin.com/posts/will-l...

I am surprised and delighted that Opening the Well / Fosgladh an Tobair (https://lnkd.in/eKuC_bjA) has won joint 1st prize for 'Best novel use of a digital method' at the 2026 CDCS Digital Research… |...

I am surprised and delighted that Opening the Well / Fosgladh an Tobair (https://lnkd.in/eKuC_bjA) has won joint 1st prize for 'Best novel use of a digital method' at the 2026 CDCS Digital Research Pr...

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Anyone thinking Weightwatchers when seeing mentions of the Academic Size & Shape project?

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 6mo ago

My goodness.

This tech, called “AI“ in the article, is already being used in some NHS trusts. Called Transpara and is a convolutional neural network trained on 1mio images to classify the likelihood of breast cancer in each new new mammography. Boffins made it 😉 www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #WhenTheySayAI

I mean, if Downdetector is down, it must be bad. :-)

OpenAI updates its terms of service for ChatGPT: can’t use the service for “tailored advice that requires a license, such as legal or medical advice, without appropriate involvement by a licensed professional.” www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

ChatGPT users can’t use service for tailored legal and medical advice, OpenAI says

OpenAI dispelled suggestions that it’s changing its terms around legal and medical advice.

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Happy 10th Anniversary to the JOHD: openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com. It's wonderful to celebrate open access to humanities data as supported by this journal. And thank you for inviting me to speak about our work www.hiddenheritages.ai where we provide access to digitised Irish and Gaelic folktales.

Decoding Hidden Heritages

Explore the shared linguistic and cultural heritage of Ireland and Scotland

hiddenheritages.ai

#Edinburgh folks: free hackathon for 15-18 year olds on Sat 27th Sept. Build a project in a day. Free, beginner-friendly, and open to secondary students. Food, drinks, snacks, and swag are provided. At @codebasetech.bsky.social, Castle Terrace. Sign up at: lochdin-edinburgh.netlify.app Please share!

Interesting stats from EMNLP: This year, we received 8174 submissions and accepted 22.16% of the submissions as Main papers and 17.35% as Findings. … 82 papers were desk-rejected because at least one of their authors had been identified as an irresponsible reviewer 2025.emnlp.org/desk-rejecti...

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Hidden Heritages - a great resource providing access to digitised Gaelic and Irish folktales. The transcription was done automatically using @transkribus.bsky.social or crowdsourcing. A great example of the use of AI and NLP for the benefits of research and society.

Melissa Terras@melissaterras.bsky.social · last yr.

Newly launched- the Decoding Hidden Heritages project brings together over 5,500 Gaelic folktales from Ireland & Scotland, transcribed & made searchable using advanced AI. Congrats to Will Lamb, Bea Alex and wider team!

Published today! 🗞️🗞️🗞️ Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health? Eleojo O. Abubakar, A. Grivas, B. Guthrie, C. Zheng, C. Grover, C. Llewellyn, C. MacRae, R. Tobin, B. Alex, C. Dibben, J. Pearce and A. Marshall doi.org/10.1111/gean...

Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health?

Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low-level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are im...

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Cuts to the the Women’s Health Initiative “will lead to incalculable losses to scientific discovery and human health.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding

The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.

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Spaces still available! Join us in two days for this beginner-level online lesson where we’ll teach you how to create a digital gazetteer from historical texts, using the Linked Places Delimited (LP-TSV) format. No programming skills needed! 📅Thur 17 April 🔗 edin.ac/3FBtHoy

Wonderful to see all the hard work of my PhD student Sarah Immel of the CDT for Designing Responsible NLP exhibited at the Edinburgh Science Festival. Today at the Edinburgh Futures Institute!

Lucy Havens, Benjamin Bach, Melissa Terras, Beatrice Alex Investigating the Capabilities and Limitations of Machine Learning for Identifying Bias in English Language Data with Information and Heritage Professionals https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00860

Simple but impactful chart shows the leading cause of death throughout the lifecycle.

Spaces still available to join our two-class course on Bayesian Statistics! We'll cover the fundamentals and provide hands-on practice with Bayesian models in R. 📆 Wed 25 Mar & 2 Apr, 14:00 – 16:00 🔗 edin.ac/42XeZ54

Curious about Machine Learning? Join us for our next Digital Methods of the Month session where we'll break down the basics and discuss some of its real world applications. No prior knowledge needed - this session is beginner friendly! 📆 Mon 7 April, 13:00 - 14:00 edin.ac/3DwwC1f

Are you a CAHSS researcher with an excellent data-led project? Nominate your work (or someone else's!) for a CDCS Digital Research Prize - there's £250 towards research costs up for grabs! Deadline for nominations NOW EXTENDED: 14th March 2025

The @EdiClinicalNLP group is now on Bluesky for further announcements: bsky.app/profile/edin...

Come join us for the Edinburgh Winter School on Teaching Programming across Disciplines! 📍 Where: University of Edinburgh and online 📅 When: Wed 8th January, 9am-5pm GMT 💲 Cost: FREE 📋 More info: pairprogramming.ed.ac.uk/winter-schoo... 👍 Registration: forms.office.com/e/d3WABzje3n #Edusky

Council of Europe also calls for more support for Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland

Council of Europe also calls for more support for Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic

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A fantastic dataset to analyse

Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 2y ago

In our latest blog post Dr Beatrice Alex shows how the marked up text underlying our digital edition can be used as a dataset. Have a look at the initial results of her computational text analysis. #DH #DigitalHumanities thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...