AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start What it looks like when the AI search conversation and understanding gets serious

[Blogged] AI academic search needs better frameworks for understanding and evaluation. These three librarian projects are a start open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

That’s remarkable! I think is not common that a culture develops such quality of attribution, in the case of your community : sometimes citing specifically to the game design/gameplay reused. I think it expresses a healthy, open and confident culture. And it takes inspiring models to show the way.

Do you think the culture at Hampshire influenced the way your TTRPGs cited other TTRPGs?
Before your «generation», TTPRG were citing mostly for hommage or inspiration. Since 90/2000s I think it’s for acknowledging, thanking, building from, supporting, signalling a community, etc. like in academia.

Classifying things isn't the same as understanding them, but it's a necessary first step. In this book chapter I establish a classification for cultural phenomena, and apply it to some southeast Asian traditions ... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

Fullstack Refereeing A framework for thinking about refereeing as Backend, Frontend, and Runtime, so you can diagnose play problems instead of solving the wrong ones.

Resurrected an old draft of mine to prove that I'm still blogging about ttrpgs.

I tried my best to explain it, so you don't have to be a software sicko like me!

elmc.at/fullstack-re...

Strongly correlated to the cooling effect of Minnie Riperton´s Loving you (Jan 1975)

Dans ses illustrations d’astronomie, Lucien Rudaux (1874-1947) mettait magnifiquement en scène les paysages de l’espace. Ici, un coucher de Terre vu de la Lune, à comparer aux récentes photos de la Nasa !
🌚 Sur les autres mondes, 1937 c.bnf.fr/X6d
@julien-bobroff.bsky.social @ericlagadec.bsky.social

Poke @wellerstein.bsky.social

I Spent 10 Years Calculating How Bored the Knights Were on the Quest for the Holy Grail One day, while reading The Quest for the Holy Grail, I came across a statement by Sir Gawain that made me chuckle: I have slain more than ten knights already, the worst of whom was more than adequa…

This is the longest joke I've ever worked on. ⚔️🏰
scottmanning.com/content/10-y...

#medievalsky
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Games are a unique art form. They are direct instructions, with an audience primed to follow them. They are unlike music. Unlike graphic arts. Unlike fiction.

Game design is about how instructions focus us, inspire us, outrage us, motivate us, reveal us, help us connect to each other.

AI needs historians as much as historians need AI Digital history did not fail in isolation—it failed just before the world discovered how much it needed it.

AI’s hardest problems — retrieval, ground truth, alignment — aren’t just technical. They’re historical.

The future of trustworthy AI may depend on historical methods.
computationalhistory.substack.com/p/ai-needs-h...

Zotero 9. Nouvelle version du logiciel de gestion bibliographique... et bien plus :-)
Un outil Indispensable pour les enseignants, chercheurs, doctorants, étudiants...
#Zotero
www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-9

The General Problem of Indexicality in Larp Design | Nordic Larp When things are done “for real” there is always some confusion on how real is real, as there are numerous different levels of simulation, representation, and performance.

A few years ago we discussed the general problem of indexicality in larp, and it would be so great to be in the room to see where digital games (and especially VR) are going with indexicality. www.nordiclarp.org/2024/06/27/t...

Une thèse en #archéologie avec plein d'éléments sur la gestion des #données : Q. Verriez. "Rationaliser les pratiques numériques en archéologie : l'exemple des chantiers de fouilles de Bibracte" 2023 theses.hal.science/tel-04546650v2
#shs #researchdata #archeology #FAIRdata #digitalscholarship #DMP

Front page of Transactions article: 'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy', by Sean Heath. Full abstract: 'Although Louis XIV’s sponsorship of a French Jesuit presence in China is well known, his attitude to the major dispute over the Chinese rites which engulfed the mission has been barely explored. This article shows that, as the Chinese Rites Controversy reached its peak in Paris and Rome in the years around 1700, Louis XIV’s response was surprisingly inconsistent, reflecting the fact that the two groups of missionaries whose work in east Asia he had supported – the Missions étrangères de Paris (MEP) and the French Jesuits – were pitted against one another. Furthermore, the king’s somewhat contradictory interventions were due to the opposing directions in which his chief advisers on ecclesiastical matters pushed him: his confessor La Chaise towards support of the Jesuits, and his wife Madame de Maintenon and Archbishop Noailles of Paris towards helping the MEP. In the end, Louis decided not to wield his influence in Rome in favour of one side or the other, but to leave the decision to the Holy See while prohibiting publication on the ‘Chinese affair’ in France. In doing so, the article offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King.'

New article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'.

'Louis XIV’s Attitude to the Chinese Rites Controversy': bit.ly/47NYgmk

Dr Sean Heath offers an exploration of ecclesiastical policy in the making under the Sun King. Sean's article is now freely available Open Access #Skystorians 1/2

Transporter l'enfance par le jeu : la fabrique du monde dans les je... "En nous transportant dans ces régions tropiques et transocéaniques qui si souvent déjà occupaient notre imagination, les jolies images de ce jeu peuvent mettre sous nos yeux, pour ainsi dire, réal...

Appel à contribution pour le prochain numéro de la revue Strenae, intitulé « Transporter l'enfance par le jeu : la fabrique du monde dans les jeux de société, XIXe-XXIe siècles », dirigé par Hélène Valance.

Propositions à remettre avant le 8 juin 2026.

journals.openedition.org/strenae/12610

I would suggest philpapers.org/go.pl?id=NGU... by C Thi Nuguyen.

Green Graphic with text: "Unwritten Histories" "Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice" "When we continue to cite these same sources over and over again, we reinforce these texts and authors as part of our 'canon,' and therefore reproduce and institutionalize inequality within the the academy." "ANDREA EIDINGER ActiveHistory.ca"

In this revisited Unwritten Histories post, Andrea Eidinger explores every historian's favourite practice, citations!

Read it here: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

One of my favorites paper got published 🤓 It covers a lot of ground and it’s the best summary of my views on misinformation and what to do about it. Give it a read :)

🔓 osf.io/preprints/ps...
👉 doi.org/10.1177/1461...

Lewis Carroll DATE 1919 FROM Alice in Wonderland Photograph of a manuscript of the book written in shorthand with the white rabbit illustrated

Happy Easter! Just a reminder that we extended the call for papers for the Games and Archaeological Play workshop at FDG till April 12th!

gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

#archaeogaming #archaeology #gamedev #hci

Suggestion for @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social : adding this database as tertiary resource www.zotero.org/groups/446523 or as a browsable page at pmartinolli.github.io/academicTTRPG
This kind of open infrastructure for our niche hobby study could help trace scholarship.

Rabea Rogge, die erste deutsche Frau im All, hat einfach einen W20 mit rauf genommen. #PNPDE #Spaaace

Early Collaborative Games of Fantasy and Imagination Collaborative storytelling games, early roleplaying games, Surrealist games, and parlor games throughout history, but especially in the 19th Century

Yup — this is @wobbupalooza.bsky.social & Evan Torner’s beat (I just follow along)

With enough sacrifices with commas and italics the gods et al. will be APAeased!

when a reviewer asks you to cite their work in your revised submission and so you grudgingly insert a footnote but in no way discuss their ideas in your work, so that it’s there and you can’t be dinged for ignoring it, but also you did nothing to address it… this is called a “sightation”

Aussi à la tv, pour chaque nouvelle il y a un camembert diagramme en coin qui indique les causes ou le contexte en % de l’événement en cours.

Les politiques ont des vestes comme le nascar avec tous leurs sponsors (idée pas de moi)

Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 ye...

phys.org/news/2026-03...
The earliest known dice in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12,000 years ago.

Pour un soutien massif des bibliothèques de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche aux projets #Wikimédia - par Jean-Baptiste Monat dans le BBF de l'@enssib.bsky.social #ESR bbf.enssib.fr/matieres-a-p... @wikimediafoundation.org