The lady vanishes by @smellosopher.bsky.social "The overwhelming absence of women in intellectual history is constructed. And we won’t prevent the fading of women from future history simply with an occasional reminder about the existence of a few remarkable individuals" aeon.co/essays/why-a...

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The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

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I am reworking my website. Does the following link work and show you the local game stores near you? www.google.com/maps/search/...

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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

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Au vu du nombre de D6 retrouvés, on peut raisonnablement en déduire que dans l’Antiquité, les jeux de chez Games Workshop étaient fabriqués dans les Vosges. Les spécialistes attendent de trouver des réglettes graduées en pouces pour confirmer l’hypothèse france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/grand-est/vo...

La plus importante collection de dés à jouer de l’Antiquité mise au jour lors de fouilles archéologiques dans les Vosges

Le chantier de fouilles à Grand dans les Vosges a permis une découverte exceptionnelle. Environ 500 dés à jouer qui datent de l'Antiquité. La campagne de fouilles menée à proximité de la basilique con...

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Finally I gave a presentation on this topic in Cambridge as a guest of @viewsproject.bsky.social and you can view it here youtu.be/SRC6QkiKtSo 🧵End/

Piers Kelly: The origins and evolution of writing: a very brief synthesis

YouTube video by Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems

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Test d'extraction de données par reconnaissance d’entités nommées dans OpenRefine : avec spaCy ou avec un LLM (Ollama avec Gemma4 et Qwen3) ? pmartinolli.github.io/blog/2026/op... #NER #LLM #Ollama #Gemma #Qwen #spaCy #OpenRefine

How to Play a Matrix Game – An Introduction (video) This short video on how to play a matrix game was developed by members of the wargaming team at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, HI. https://www.veed.io/view/6671239d-8094-43a2-8ab9-786f099e6525

How to Play a Matrix Game – An Introduction (video)

This short video on how to play a matrix game was developed by members of the wargaming team at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, HI.

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Great news: the talks from Jubensha Con are now available online for FREE! Big thanks to our amazing speakers for agreeing to this, and to Joe Strickland at @chronicinsanity.bsky.social for producing the videos. A lot of much bigger and more expensive conferences don't do this – but we just did.

Jubensha Con 2026 - YouTube

The talks given at JubenshaCon 2026 Find out more about the convention at https://jubenshacon.com Buy jubensha from: https://jubensha.co.uk https://www.suspe...

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Paper available here: scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...

Interesting post from Zzarchov in defence of meta gaming. zzarchov.bearblog.dev/everything-y...

Everything you think about Game Mastering is probably wrong: Part II - How to encourage metagaming

BEHOLD Everything you think about Game Mastering is probably wrong: Part II - How to encourage metagaming In this second installment I will take to t...

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Speaking of #TTRPG creator credits, It's always been our practice to include creators' names on our covers. And did you know one of the authors receiving equal billing on this 1982 RuneQuest box—alongside such luminous names as Stafford, Perrin, & Petersen et al—'Hoffman', was a 12 year old kid?*

​New article!: The Origins and Evolution of Writing www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... 🧵1/

The Origins and Evolution of Writing

For centuries, scholars have debated the etiology and evolution of writing. The most persistent concerns relate to the relationship between writing and social organization, linguistic structure, and c...

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A bit about how even some of the best advice for adventure design can fall apart when it becomes dogma: alldeadgenerations.blogspot.com/2026/07/jaqu...

"Jaquays Your Dungeon" - Another OSR Maxim

Be Cautious of Maxims As I've written before , the "OSR" loved its maxims, short phrases that try to describe shared principles and act as a...

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Did you know Traveller's Marc W. Miller and others designed ~4 or more educational roleplaying games ca. 1972-1974--before D&D? Here's a 🧵 with a few thoughts about this ...

In "How Dungeons & Dragons Changed the Way We Play," @aarontram.bsky.social reveals how popular culture influenced the design of the iconic tabletop game and how the game’s legacy, in turn, influences game design today. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/jLA2ctp

The #GenerationAnalog 2026 recordings are now live! Missed a panel or a talk or the whole conference? We've got you covered. #StayAnalog youtube.com/playlist?lis...

GENERATION ANALOG 2026 "GREEN" - YouTube

Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2026. This year’s conference was on Wednesday & Thursday, July 15 & 16, 2026. GRE...

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Across 121 unfamiliar strategy games, decisions from more than 1,000 participants were closely matched by a one-step-ahead “Intuitive Gamer” model, suggesting people use a few quick simulations to tackle the unknown. doi.org/hcbwfx

Scientists invent new board games to reveal how we tackle the unknown

Playing board games can be fun, challenging, infuriating and a great way to pass the time. They can also help scientists understand how we solve new problems.

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You roll a fair die, hoping to get a 6. If you are successful, did you *intentionally* roll a 6? In a new paper, I explain why people hesitate to call lucky outcomes intentional:🧵 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

If google’s AI is so capable as to outperform programmers, why not use it to fix chrome’s alleged XSLT vulnerabilities instead of breaking every XML website? If google’s so-called AI scientists are so smart, why didn’t they think of that?

.@Zotero can make your image-only PDF book chapters and articles searchable and easier to annotate. https://www.jdavidstark.com/how-to-extract-text-from-image-only-pdfs-with-zotero/ @UBMannheim

OpenAlex just launched OpenAlex Query Language (OQL) in *alpha*. This is a powerful and expressive query language that allows you to run queries you couldn't do before. I think evidence synthesis is definitely one of the big use cases as you see big improvements e.g proximity, nesting and/or etc(1)

vingt ans que marion montaigne est une génie, et ce nouveau post de blog restera dans les annales. à lire et faire lire à TOUT LE MONDE, surtout aux collégien·nes dont les cours de bio sur la reproduction racontent N'IMPORTE QUOI. tumourrasmoinsbete.blogspot.com/2026/07/la-f...

La finale Ovule VS Spermato

Voici une longue note. Avant de me sauter dessus dans les commentaires, prière de jeter un oeil sur la bibliographie, qui a été toute aus...

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Great stuff as usual by @newmadras.bsky.social and @rascal.news www.rascal.news/finland-reco...

Finland recognizes roleplaying as living heritage and culture worth preserving

Tabletop RPGs join pies, puppetry, and playing in the snow.

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My local group has fallen hard for prompt games, the GM-less, deal-a-deck kind. Playing them this spring, I kept circling the designer's question: how does so little do so much? The game that first taught me the shape of an answer is Alex Roberts' (@helloalexroberts.bsky.social) For the Queen. 1/🧵…

For the Queen: a Design Appreciation

On the craft around the prompts, and why Alex Roberts’ little deck seems to run itself. Most summers I give myself a creative project: some corner of game design I want to understand by making someth...

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[Veille] MOOC « Automatiser la reconnaissance de texte pour les SHS » : introduction à la reconnaissance automatique d’écriture appliquée aux documents historiques by @biblissima.bsky.social ; #CIHAMUMR5648 inside ! 25images.msh-lse.fr/portails/moo... #ATR #HTR #deeplearning #mooc #digitalhumanities

Je vous remercie de partager la lien au page d'accuil pour Tire-toi une bûche ici: www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag... /fin

Coming soon: Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche

A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.

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Heureuse de partager ma thèse : Étude et classification des contextes de citation pour une construction d’indicateurs relationnels sémantiques.Merci aux membres du jury pour leur évaluation rigoureuse.#Bibliometrics #CitationContext #IST #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication hal.science/tel-05687014

How do we calculate loss of written works? A depressing but important new study notes that "the loss was far greater than scholars once thought. Researchers estimate that up to 60% of medieval literary works and more than 95% of the manuscripts that once carried them have disappeared over time." 📜🖋️

Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds | Archaeology News Online Magazine

A new study estimates 60% of medieval texts and over 95% of manuscripts were lost through centuries of copying and destruction.

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Out now in American Journal of Play, our latest article resulting from @gametablenetwork.bsky.social which discussed rule variation in different traditional games in Azerbaijan. Open Access!!

Est-ce que UndermindAI est adapté pour la recherche de documents en histoire ? Retour d'expériences et tests de la version Enterprise à pmartinolli.github.io/blog/2026/un... #skystorian #IAgen #history #undermind Thanks to @aarontay.bsky.social