mia ridge
@miaout.bsky.social
Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol British Library and Head of Museum Data Service. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access to digital heritage via AI /machine learning, crowdsourcing, digital humanities. She, they. openobjects.org.uk, miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
Oh, gross, an ilands dot app 'AI agent' posting on a professional mailing list. At least this one declared being an AI agent in the first message, which wasted slightly less time than when they've pretended to be human at first
https://ilands.app
ilands.app
Some thoughts on acting (after a fashion) at what survives of London's Elizabethan theatre @roseplayhouse.bsky.social lukemckernan.com/2026/09/25/p...
calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it
I’d like to see posters with symptoms lists on the back of public toilet doors and in doctors’ surgeries.
ICYMI, ace work from @thisisaaronland.bsky.social on shared vector embeddings for images as 'an exercise in practicing agency in our work [,] in producing tangible and reusable artifacts which have a longer shelf life' www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...
shared vector embeddings (fantastic futures '26)
Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.
aaronland.info
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
A beautiful moment from Ruth Adams' funeral yesterday. Ruth was one of the coolest people I've ever met. As a eulogy said, she didn't break the mould, she was never in the factory in the first place Joshua Idehen - Learn To Swim (part II) www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNmx...
Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots and found that three produced full summaries of news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets with links and quotes. www.euronews.com/2026/09/23/a...
AI serves up content from Russia's sanctioned state outlets, RSF finds
Reporters Without Borders tested six AI chatbots by requesting news from RT, Sputnik, and other EU-sanctioned Russian outlets, and found that three produced full summaries with links and quotes, somet...
euronews.com
Season 1 of the Bad Service Podcast comes to an end today. In episode 13, we talk about the statement we often use: Service design is 10% design, 90% creating the conditions for design to happen. good.services/badservicesp...
Scholar at risk short term fellowship offered at the @c2dh.uni.lu at @uni.lu Thanks for sharing The Centre previously welcomed Dr. Hanan Alawna who works on digital testimonies from Palestine and Ezzeldin Hajjaj from Sudan who works on museums, heritage and reconciliation www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...
Scholar at risk fellowship 2027
The C²DH offers one short-term fellowship (two months) for a scholar at risk in 2027. The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is
uni.lu
Bake Off lineup is delightful (including @nigella.bsky.social of course). Very good contestant casting. A proper antidote to the idiots who want to stamp out the brilliant, mad, diversity of this daft nation.
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · 6d agoI think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
Digital Archives and Feminist Art History: Recovering Marginalized Documentation from 1960s New York. Open Access article on how Digital Humanities can question exclusion by my former student Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen. doi.org/10.1017/alj....
Digital archives and feminist art history: recovering marginalized documentation from 1970s New York | Art Libraries Journal | Cambridge Core
Digital archives and feminist art history: recovering marginalized documentation from 1970s New York - Volume 51 Issue 1
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In this case, it’s the always brilliant @thisisaaronland.bsky.social making a great argument for shared vector embeddings: www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...
shared vector embeddings (fantastic futures '26)
Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.
aaronland.info
#GreenLibraries Week 2026 is one month away! Look at this incredibly rich programme coordinated by Head of Sustainability, Catherine Ross @britishlibrary.bsky.social lnkd.in/eqSjUiF4 I'm contributing to a session on setting up a staff sustainability network: lnkd.in/efEMPV83 -- free registration!
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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"If you happen to be the recipient of juicy subsidies from a frontier lab to tokenmaxx your collections or have secured a fat cheque from an extra-national organization to build a niche data center, that’s great ... but those projects, alone, are not enough." – www.aaronland.info/weblog/2026/...
shared vector embeddings (fantastic futures '26)
Shared vector embeddings simply makes it possible to do something similar at a smaller, more targeted, scale with fewer resources and less coordination.
aaronland.info
At the #RLUKspace workshop this morning, just introduced the Senate House MakerSpace (managed by @dh-researchhub.bsky.social but in collaboration with many many partners) www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/ins...
MakerSpace
The Senate House MakerSpace facilitates knowledge exchange, capacity building and training.
sas.ac.uk
The Humanities and Data Science (HaDS, or H&DS), formerly known as Turing's Humanities and Data Science group, is delighted to be among the new UK-IE DH groups! Find out more, join, at our work in progress site: had-uk.github.io
Humanities and data science
An independent research group advancing computational approaches in humanities scholarship. Building on the legacy of the Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science special interest group.
had-uk.github.io
UK-Ireland DH Association@ukiedh.bsky.social · 7d ago🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities
🎉 We're excited to welcome 6 new Community Interest Groups to the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association! From #webarchives, #pedagogy, and #openknowledge, our CIG network now includes 10 active groups. 🔗 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/09/21/2... #DH #DigitalHumanities
Announcement: New CIGs | UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association
digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org
Guidance on Using #CreativeCommons Licenses in an #AI Ecosystem creativecommons.org/2026/09/03/g...
Guidance on Using CC Licenses in an AI Ecosystem - Creative Commons
Creative Commons publishes guidance on sharing openly using CC licenses and tools to meet your goals in the age of AI.
creativecommons.org
@drhanwill.bsky.social is far too modest to share this, but it's so brilliant to see her and Meredith Martin's work on @colnet.bsky.social featured in the NY Times! You can watch their film with Madeleine Le Cesne at www.colonialnetworks.org/linked-lives...
Linked Lives: Film, Poetry, and Portraits with the National Gallery – Colonial Networks
colonialnetworks.org
NY Times@nytimes-news.bsky.social · last wk.Portrait of a Rich Boy
Wish I'd seen this sooner but if you're an eligible organisation and can turn applications around quickly, this programme - Design Museum/Futures Observatory + @ukri.org - is delivering tremendous design-led research. futureobservatory.org/research/str...
Design Generators research
Design Generators funds design-led research projects tackling real-world sustainability. Apply for funding to co-develop creative green transition solutions
futureobservatory.org
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
📢New issue of Catalogue & Index! 📰 Sept 2026 issue (216) features papers from the MDG Conference 2026 #Metafutures, held at Engineers’ House, Bristol. Further papers will be published in the December issue (217). journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #metadata #cataloguing #journal
"What is uniquely African about the African AI landscape? Is it because those working on it are from/based in the African continent? Because it focuses on African languages/datasets? Or does it adhere to distinctly African values?" @hellinanigatu.bsky.social aial.ie/blog/worksho...
An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape: An organizer’s reflection
Key takeaways from “An Introspective Look at the African AI Landscape” workshop at the 9th inaugural Deep Learning Indaba
aial.ie
Helsinki DH seminar continues today with Ángela Gómez (KU Leuven): Tracing PROGRESS: A diachronic lexical semantic approach to conceptual change in eighteenth-century Britain. For the Autumn seminar see: www.helsinki.fi/en/digital-h...
Digital Humanities Research Seminar | Digital Humanities | University of Helsinki
Information about Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar
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