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This project has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid - Spain) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M (BADDO-CM-UC3M)

PI: @nereavsk.bsky.social and Patricia Callejo Pinardo

https://baddo-cm.uc3m.es/
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Our project, inspired by the Visigothic queen Baddo, will generate a context-based LLM with secondary sources produced by historians who research one of the excision of Christianism: Arianism. This includes data from both Spanish and abroad historians from the twentieth century to the present.
AI and the understanding of historical past.

With the advent of artificial intelligence historians have implemented machine learning tools that enable them to advance more quickly in historical research.
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Playing the deer

Halloween night is the scariest night of the year, a time when people take the opportunity to go out dressed up as monsters, nightmarish creatures and, curiously, animals too.
October 31, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Rediscovering Queen Baddo: Another 19th-Century Painting

In a previous post, we discussed Degrain's depiction of Queen Baddo in his painting "Conversión de Recaredo" (1888).
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The Creed of Toledo: Reccared and the
Unification of Hispania

Dear history and Artificial Intelligence enthusiasts, today we bring you a challenge.

As many of you know, Google's AI, Gemini, is capable of creating a storybook on any topic you request.
October 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Baddo and Theodora:

In previous publications, we discussed Queen Baddo's signature on the minutes of the Third Council of Toledo. We used Degrain's painting "Conversión de Recaredo" (1888) to illustrate this. Today, we will examine how this relates to Empress Theodora.
September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Being polite with Artificial Intelligence

From an early age, we have been taught to be polite when talking to other people, but should we also be polite to Artificial Intelligence?
September 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by BADDO
Here’s the official press release. It’s rife with typical (AI generated?) vague corporate double speak on “collaboration”, “ethical and safe use” and so on. One wonders about the unstated financial terms driving this.
Oxford becomes first UK university to offer ChatGPT Edu to all staff
OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5 model will be provided across the University and Oxford Colleges through ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and
www.ox.ac.uk
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Reposted by BADDO
Just out & FREE to read for 2 weeks!! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition
Cambridge Core - History of Religion - The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The signature of a queen

As we have already mentioned in another publication, Queen Baddo was the first and only Visigoth queen to sign in a council, specifically in Council III of Toledo (589).
September 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Queen Goiswintha: A stubborn Arian?

Today we are going to look at one of the great female figures of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo and of the 6th century in general: Queen Goiswintha. #visigoths #arianism #Goiswintha
September 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
More Artificial Intelligence and less human intelligence?
Recent news about the "cognitive costs" of using artificial intelligence, highlighted in a study by Kosmyna et al., at MIT, has generated significant debate. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 @nataliyakosmyna.bsky.social @mit.edu
August 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Now that the warm weather has arrived, some annoying little animals like moths and mice come to us. What can we do with them? Well, of course, worship them. Or at least that is what Martin of Braga says that the rustics in the Suebi kingdom of Gallaecia in the 6th century did.
July 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Learn more about our team!

Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social

Co-PI of the project. Postdoctoral researcher with an interest in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (UC3M). Member of the Department of Telematic Engineering and the Institute of Historiography "Julio Caro Baroja".
July 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Beyond Antiquity, before the Middle Ages: The Late Antiquity.

Dear history buffs. As many of you already know, the year 476, with the the gradual destructuring of the Western Roman Empire, has traditionally been set as the end of the Antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages.
July 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A fascinating new research that challenges what we know about the numerical notations on the Visigothic slates. Today we highlight the article by our co-PI @nereavsk.bsky.social "Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach".
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach
This paper analyzes the numbers engraved on Visigothic slates. Results suggest that written slates worked as an asynchronous code to facilitate dual communication, while numerical slates could be use...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Our co-PI of BADDO Project, Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social , participated last Friday 13th June in the International Congress “La Antigüedad modernizada: modelos clásicos para sociedades en transformación” held on 10-13 June.
June 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Today we are going to recommend a publication of special interest to scholars and enthusiasts of Medieval History and digital humanities: "La Edad Media en un clic: Acercamientos al mundo medieval desde el universo digital".
#GerardoFRodríguez #LidiaRaquelMiranda #SEEM
June 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hacia una revisión de los paradigmas historiográficos mediante el uso de la Inteligencia Artificial: el proyecto BADDO y el estudio del arrianismo.

You can watch the poster presentation by Dr. Nerea Fernández Cadenas between minutes 8:26:00 and 8:31:21. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqH...
June 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the BADDO project! 🤖
Our PI, Nerea Fernández Cadenas @nereavsk.bsky.social , will present this Thursday, May 29th, a fascinating poster entitled:
May 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Crown of Neurons👑🧠

Today we return to share with you the image that represents our project, Queen Baddo, a key figure in Visigothic history as we saw in previous publications. But what we are going to talk about is her “crown of neurons”.
May 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Interested in the relationship between historiography and artificial intelligence?? 🧐 "Ethics for Artificial Historians" is a must-read!.
doi.org/10.1111/hith...
ETHICS FOR ARTIFICIAL HISTORIANS
Artificial historians do not need to have intentions to complete actions or to solve problems. Consequently, a revised approach to the ethics of history is needed. An approach to ethics for artificia...
doi.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Artificial intelligence and research progress
May 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ethics and AI
The application of Artificial Intelligence within the domain of historiographical research necessitates a rigorous consideration of fundamental ethical frameworks, such as those established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
April 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Why BADDO (Bringing AI to the Discovery of Historiographical Data To Overcome Traditional Barriers)?
April 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM