It’s not too late to book for this summer school course, in London 8-12 June. For anyone who is interested in working with documents from medieval England. #Skystorians #MedievalSky @komldsp.bsky.social
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
It’s summer (allegedly), and all around the country, small vans are driving around residential estates playing music out loud — and people are smiling when they hear it.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/fro...
'Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material'
Useful overview of recent, key projects/developments at the intersection of historic cartography and spatial intelligence.
openmapsmeeting.nl/publications...
A woman wearing a red dress sits in a reading room consulting an open book laid out on a cushion and writes down notes with a pencil.
We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038.
Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)
Amazing creative project using @layersoflondon.bsky.social !
The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky
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Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians
New version of the WP by @patrickwallis.bsky.social @aucointaylor.bsky.social @markhailwood.bsky.social
@justincolson.bsky.social
@jwhittle.bsky.social and David Chilosi! doi.org/10.17863/CAM...
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
Interesting Tim. Like trying to study the original magazines by looking at the collage assembled from them in a child's artwork?
Many medievalists and early modernists have fond memories of the Keele Palaeography Summer School - it lives on! Now in the convenient location of central Birmingham, organised with help from @ies-sas.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social Booking open now!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
One more time: this is not a bug; this is not something that will be fixed in the next version - this is inherently how an LLM works. A technology built as a word guessing machine can get better at guessing words, but never deals in 'facts'
Do you want to improve your knowledge of medieval manuscripts from England? Book now for this summer school course, in person, in London, 8-12 June. 👇☀️📚 #medievalsky please repost!
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
A plate of various cheeses in front of a PowerPoint slide with the words ‘Tasting History’.
Two presenters in front of a PowerPoint slide.
Man looking pensively at a table of cheese bathed in late winter sunshine.
Yesterday, on the first sunny day of the year, @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and I
ran the Tasting History event at Birkbeck. We tasted cheese, had a conversation with a brilliant audience, and hopefully brought to life the history of the trade and the people who made it happen.
Here are some photos from last year’s course: the only summer school group ever known to work through the lunch breaks #MedievalSky #Manuscripts @ies-sas.bsky.social @senatehouselib.bsky.social
🚂 Joy on the Southbank, misery in the Square Mile. Here’s what the City of London’s much vaunted ‘retrofit-first’ policy looks like in reality, as planning permission was granted this week for the £1.2 billion demolition of Liverpool Street Station.
🧵 Scroll down for 8 damning before / after views
Over the next few weeks, the NACBS blog will feature a series of pieces on artificial intelligence. Check out the opening essay by @amywb.bsky.social and stay tuned for more!
www.nacbs.org/post/the-ai-...
We have more Skills Training in Archival Research (STAR) workshops coming up!
Join staff at The London Archives for a hands-on workshop designed to help postgrad students and researchers make the most of archival collections.
📍 The London Archives
📅 1 April + 3 June
🕛️ 1-4:30pm
Boston ("the stump", three square storeys topped with an flyer-buttressed "lantern" octagon), Coventry (the bombed-out church which had been made a cathedral in 1918, four square stories carrying a flyer-buttressed octagon with a spire) and Cirencester (model from Youtube user CotswoldDrone, articulated as three stories, although the middle storey could be argued as two)
W towers of parish churches of Boston (1420s-1510s), St Michael Coventry (1370s-1440s) and Cirencester (1400s-20s).
Latter was built with squinches to take an octagonal stage/spire but was aborted after they had to put massive flyers through the aisles to stop the W side falling apart from thrust.
Network Rail + ACME’s latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The way to combat this is to object by 9th February on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is on the link on our bio. Along with a link to our fundraiser. #SaveLiverpoolStreetStation
For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Presentation I gave for the Warsaw Spatial Humanities Seminar on Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social as an example of applied Deep Mapping is now live on Vimeo vimeo.com/1161792658
I just happened to stumble across this blog from Cory Doctorow from last September that resonated with your final point there: pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e... I'm sure it is true that there is a hell of a lot of room for optimisation of models once the bubble bursts and more is open sourced ...
Tech firms have over-leveraged themselves to the point where AI is "too big to fail" - the only way they can repay their investments is if we all become dependent on LLMs for everything. But it simply isn't suited to most tasks. Don't buy the hype, but DO use AI where it is the right tool! (9/9)
This is a great example of the nature of a Language Model - wonderful at dealing with patterns and the logic of a document - linguistic structure! But it simply doesn't deal with *knowledge* or *facts*, and asking it to do that is intrinsically going against the grain of how it is structured (8/9)
That really highlights what's going on. Internal reasoning within a text, and basic cross referencing (like King's reigns) play to the strengths of an LLM - a Language Model. But asking it show sources highlights the weaknesses - it has, at best, done a traditional search retrospectively! (7/9)
Gemini has even cited our very own @layersoflondon.bsky.social - but that is just as much of a tell that this is all fake as the random Ealing church website! Layers is a great for medieval parishes, but I'm pretty sure that Gemini's visual reasoning can't interpret those complex map overlays (6/9)
Asking Gemini to annotate the transcription also got great results, and certainly showed reasoning. The identification of 'church of St Benedict' as St Benet Sherehog is particularly impressive - so I asked how? The logic is correct. Where it all goes wrong is in the citations ... (5/9)
Inspired by Humphries' blog, we used Gemini Pro 3.5 Preview in Google AI Studio, and began uploading and prompting for transcription into JSON and Markdown formats, with great results! (better than volunteers...) Then we started to try the annotation and reasoning that the blog highlighted (4/9)