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Melissa Terras
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Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.

Melissa Mhairi Terras is a British scholar of Digital Humanities. Since 2017, she has been Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, and director of its Centre for Digital Scholarship. She previously taught at University College London, where she was Professor of Digital Humanities and served as director of its Centre for Digital Humanities from 2012 to 2017: she remains an honorary professor. She has a wide ranging academic background: she has an undergraduate degree in art history and English literature, then took a Master of Science (MSc) degree in computer science, before undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree at the University of Oxford in engineering. .. more

Computer science 34%
Art 23%

If there was I didn’t see one. I wonder how much they are paying for AI/consultants rather than paying for academic labour.

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UKRI is using AI for grant reviewing. Alternatively, they could have modernised the grant review process by paying human reviewers for their labour, ensuring a wider pool and speedy turnaround. Using AI here is likely a race to the bottom: uniqueness is at risk of being ironed out. What a world.

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Look after yourself. Big virtual hug.
- Honestly my dear grandchildren, you’ll never believe how low rates were in the 2010s.
- at least you built a load of infrastructure when borrowing costs were so low grandad? Right? Right?

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"And then, finally, and perhaps most importantly, Silicon Valley executives may love over-optimizing their lives and running chatbots like a team of tireless assistants, but I’m just not convinced the general public wants to be a manager."

Am I too boring to need an AI agent?

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Noa & Una’s Marginalia 📜 Soapwort

In the Middle Ages, soap wasn’t something that could be mass-produced like it is today. So what if you wanted to wash your hands but felt that water alone wasn’t enough? That’s where “soapwort” came in!

full article below!
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Wending home soon… one of the things I love about travelling are the random things that catch your eye, the cultural differences, and the quirks that make you smile #bavaria #germany #passau
Exceptional Postdoc here in Law @uoe-sps.bsky.social Edinburgh:

"how do we wish to live with and alongside algorithmic technologies?"

I love the phrasing.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate
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Finishing up the @transkribus.bsky.social user conference. I’ve been working on this for over 13 years now and I am so, so proud of the infrastructure, community, and team delivering our ATR and information extraction tools, cooperatively. A strong sense of community here! 🦾

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L'automne est arrivé au musée !
Dans l'art médiéval, les saisons sont principalement représentées à travers les calendriers des livres d'heures sous la forme des travaux des champs et des signes du zodiaque. Ici, le mois de septembre est illustré par le foulage du raisin et le signe de la Balance. 🍇

Fab impromptu tour of #Passau yesterday from @malterehbein.bsky.social, showing me historical bits and bobs on the way to dinner. The autumnal light was just so! #Germany #Bavaria

Great news!