7 points from 3 games, with one points from an excellent performance at a bogey ground. Much more optimistic now.
James Baker@jwbaker.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is not going well.
James Baker
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Professor of Digital Humanities · University of Southampton · Programming Historian · Historian of various things · Likes watching football and cycling · He/Him · Born at 342 ppm · #COYW
James Baker@jwbaker.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is out today and I've been listening for much of the morning. I don't really know what to say about it that won't come across as dumb, trite, etc. But I saw them this year and knew I wanted to listen to them on record. Have a listen, if you can (CW: sexual violence) noizze.co.uk/piss-you-mad...
PISS - you made me / skin on linen | Album Review - Noizze UK
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90 minute online workshops hosted by Digital Humanities Climate Coalition (DHCC) to shape the future of digital sustainability will be held on 3 November (1:00 PM); 13 November (1:00 PM); 30 November (1:00 PM); 3 December (10:00 AM & 1:00 PM); 17 December (3:00 PM). All times GMT! shorturl.at/TIZh1
Co-producing the Hums & Social Sciences Digital Sustainability Standard
Help shape a new digital sustainability standard for humanities and social sciences research.
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UK-Ireland DH Association@ukiedh.bsky.social · 2w ago📣Calling all researchers, practitioners & cultural heritage professionals! Help shape the future of #digitalsustainability. Join the DHCC online workshops to co-produce the next levels of a new HSS Digital Sustainability Accreditation Standard 🌿 Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-produci... #DH
📣Calling all researchers, practitioners & cultural heritage professionals! Help shape the future of #digitalsustainability. Join the DHCC online workshops to co-produce the next levels of a new HSS Digital Sustainability Accreditation Standard 🌿 Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-produci... #DH
Co-producing the Hums & Social Sciences Digital Sustainability Standard
Help shape a new digital sustainability standard for humanities and social sciences research.
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🎉 I am delighted to announce that the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to to Galey, Forget, Allen, and Viglianti for their work ‘ApertureScience.Com: A Critical Edition’, Scholarly Editing (2025). Full details here ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/10/2026...
2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Alan Galey, Ellen Forget, Brendan Allen, and Raffaele Viglianti for their critical edition ‘ApertureS...
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The #DH2027 CfP is open! Join us in Galway, Ireland, 28 June–3 July 2027, for #DH2027, on the theme "Creativity". 📖 Call for Proposals: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ 📤 Submit via ConfTool starting Oct 7, 00:00 Irish time: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ Deadline: 20 November 2026, 23:59 AoE.
October/November are my favourite gig months, and this year is no exception: Man/Woman/Chainsaw (with Bathing Suits!), Theatre, UGLY, Heartbroken Festival, Anna von Hausswolff, Jesca Hoop.
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Just published! A new lesson by Kiran Mohammadi-Williams: doi.org/10.46430/phen0135 Thanks to @winnieepm.bsky.social and John P.T. Moore for their reviews, and to @semantic-noodles.bsky.social + @alexwermercolan.bsky.social for editing.
Creating and Hosting Basic IIIF Images and Manifests Using GitHub
This lesson demonstrates how to display and share image files on the web using the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and Github Pages. After explaining how to create and host...
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2yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it."
Sarah Elizabeth Cox@oispooky.bsky.social · last mo.It's a Best Drama nomination for #AThousandBlows at the International Emmys! 🥊 www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2...
OBP is 18! We are officially publishing adults! But -- are we sustainable yet...? 🤪 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Open Book Publishers@openbookpublish.bsky.social · last mo.🎉 Open Book Publishers is 18 today! 🎉 To celebrate this milestone & reflect on 18 years of publishing Diamond #OpenAccess books, we share '18 Thoughts for 18 Years' on our experience as an independent, scholar-led #OA press Enjoy & raise a glass of your drink of choice with us! buff.ly/jOJAfYR
Back in 2020 I built this cradledincaricature.com/2020/06/18/m... using GPT2 and cloud compute. simGeorge - as I like to call it - worked, just, sometimes. Today I built simGeorge again on my MacBook Air with a small model and no cloud compute. It is remarkably good. Viva local LLMs!
A machine that writes like Mary Dorothy George
Image: Mary Dorothy George, by Howard Coster, bromide print, © National Portrait Gallery, London, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 In recent years I’ve been researching histories of knowledge organisation. Although…
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On research leave. Going through the "this is all bollocks/futile" phase of non-applied research. Send help* *Amusing duck gifs suffice.
🗣️ Appel à évaluateurs·ices Notre revue francophone recherche des expert·es pour évaluer nos leçons en 2026-2027. En savoir plus : tinyurl.com/aae-2026-info Exprimez votre intérêt : tinyurl.com/fr-ph-evaluation
'Brighton informed its University and College Union (UCU) branch on Monday (14 September) that it intends to terminate its current trade union recognition agreement and all collective agreements on terms and conditions from next June.'
Brighton looks to redraw trade union agreements and close campus
UCU and UNISON warn changes to trade union agreements could lead to unions being derecognised
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This is utterly idiotic. We don't know what skills future workforces will need. We do know that will change & that students perform best if they study something they're actually interested in. And for the pig-ignorant in the back row, fewer than 50% of STEM graduates ever go into STEM employment.
Can you futureproof your career by choosing an AI-resistant degree?
Humans will have to compete with AI-powered virtual employees in the near future. Here are our tips for the last human holdouts
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Yes, newspapers' "Good University" guides are deeply problematic and pernicious. But they're also a real reminder of a key strength of the current UK HE system: the distribution of excellence across the full range of institutions and places.
The Guardian University Guide 2027 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
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Enric Mas reminding us all that he is a very good bike rider (and even attacking) is the feel good story of the summer.
I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...
Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...
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#NowReading New report from UNEP: 'Limiting Overshoot, Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return’ Details ⬇️
UN Environment Programme@unep.org · 2mo agoGlobal warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns. Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.
I hope those attending DH Congress have a good week. I was scheduled to give one of the keynotes, but then withdrew due to the UCU boycott. You can learn more about the boycott here www.ucu.org.uk/article/1453... and donate to @sheffielducu.bsky.social here ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/hardship-fund/.
Global academic boycott imposed on University of Sheffield over job cuts & pay docking
The University of Sheffield has just been hit with the ultimate sanction of a global academic boycott by the biggest higher education union in the UK.
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Germany, 2026. A far-right politician calling for the mass deportation of 20 million people, to loud applause. A clear call for mass violence.
Ann-Katrin Müller@akm0803.bsky.social · 2mo agoAfD-Bundesvorstand Dennis Hohloch sagt zwei bemerkenswerte Sätze: „Partei und Jugend und Vorfeld bilden eine Symbiose“. Und: „Deutschland braucht keine 80 Millionen Menschen, sondern kann auch mit 60 Millionen leben“. Für beides gibt es Applaus, besonders laut für letzteres.
Today I made rice with a rice cooker* for the first time. I now understand why rice cookers are popular. Better late than never etc. *donated to us by a family friend who has moved away.
Attention, #UCU! There's 2 casual vacancy elections underway in which all HE members can vote. Our recommendations are: UK elected rep: Madeleine Moore 1, Tilia Lenz 2 Women's rep (FE): Helen Kelsall 1 More: ucucommons.org/madeleine/ Please vote in all categories on your ballot paper!
Casual NEC vacancies
Casual NEC vacancies UK-elected member (HE) UCU Commons is delighted that our member Madeleine Moore (Loughborough University) is standing for the current casual vacancy (UK-elected membe...
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The Box in Plymouth is just bloody brilliant. Full of sensitive interpretation, curious juxtaposition, clever architectural choices, and urgency. Best museum+ I've been to in ages.
Fascinating and sobering essay by William Davies on NEETs: "The picture that emerges is of a generation that is suffering both social and neurological dysregulation, and struggling to stay in sync with society at large, including education and the labour market". www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?
Those who look for the cause of today’s resurgence of Neets in a more recent global shock, the Covid pandemic, need to...
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Based on the first 25 minutes of this game it seems my feelings whilst watching Fulham season are going to lurch between exhilaration and terror.
James Baker@jwbaker.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Our League" resumes. My beloved Fulham are among those tipped for relegation. Whilst it is only football (not life or death etc) I certainly feel trepidation. In a season of so much churn, with Marco mid-table obscurity would be a fair prediction. Without Marco, who knows.