Daniel Bellingradt
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
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This looks to be a very promising resource. Researchers in computational humanities at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social have created CoMMA, a large corpus of more than 32000 manuscripts from ca. 800 to 1600. www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
#medievalsky #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities
#medievalsky #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities
CoMMA: thousands of medieval manuscripts finally transcribed
Transcribing thousands of medieval manuscripts by hand would be a monumental undertaking. Fortunately, researchers in computational humanities at the Inria Paris Centre have been able to automate the ...
www.inria.fr
January 28, 2026 at 8:26 PM
This looks to be a very promising resource. Researchers in computational humanities at @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social have created CoMMA, a large corpus of more than 32000 manuscripts from ca. 800 to 1600. www.inria.fr/en/comma-med...
#medievalsky #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities
#medievalsky #earlymodern #dh #digitalhumanities
Do you see the person with the flower head holding it all together in this book decorating ornament?
January 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Do you see the person with the flower head holding it all together in this book decorating ornament?
„An den Begierigen Leser.“ ist aber auch eine einfach zeitlos coole Eröffnung.
January 30, 2026 at 8:38 AM
„An den Begierigen Leser.“ ist aber auch eine einfach zeitlos coole Eröffnung.
Freshly produced old looking printed books are a regular thing in all kinds of movie productions. It has to look historic, so add a bit of dirt... #bookhistory #skystorians
Also a great nugget for all book historians, professional vintagers worked in revolutionary America to ensure that pamphlets were stained and foxed immediately after printing to look real and „old“. They probably did this in Boston with tea.
January 30, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Freshly produced old looking printed books are a regular thing in all kinds of movie productions. It has to look historic, so add a bit of dirt... #bookhistory #skystorians
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Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.
January 29, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.
„Your AI tutor …“. A three-legged horror story.
Just found this tacked up at the college at which I teach, which has recently signed a deal with Anthropic, which stole 6 of my books and books by 131 colleagues.
January 29, 2026 at 6:55 PM
„Your AI tutor …“. A three-legged horror story.
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My favorite
Piravano, 1920
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
Piravano, 1920
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 PM
My favorite
Piravano, 1920
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
Piravano, 1920
Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
early Wi-Fi activity: you see the activated human devices (flame on head means: it's on) networking and exchanging data, while the Internet access is granted through a contemporary router (positioned on the ceiling).
January 29, 2026 at 3:27 PM
early Wi-Fi activity: you see the activated human devices (flame on head means: it's on) networking and exchanging data, while the Internet access is granted through a contemporary router (positioned on the ceiling).
I have no opinion about this to offer but I like the job branding „cake scientist“!
Cake Scientists Say This Is the Healthiest Way to Eat an Entire Cake Off a Cake Stand, Top Down, in One Sitting (Sponsored by the Remaindered Cake Association) [SATIRE] www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cak...
Cake Scientists Say This Is the Healthiest Way to Eat an Entire Cake Off a Cake Stand, Top Down, in One Sitting (Sponsored by the Remaindered Cake Association)
Take your time.
You have to eat the whole cake, but you don’t have to eat it all in thirty seconds. A sitting can take as long as you need. Pacing...
www.mcsweeneys.net
January 29, 2026 at 1:21 PM
I have no opinion about this to offer but I like the job branding „cake scientist“!
#onmydesktoday: a book about books and the love for books, #bibliophily. This German book by the bookish prof. Ernst Fischer comprises aspects of past, present and future bibliophily, filling c. 600 pages with lots of images. Recommended. Written with much devotion for #bookhistory
January 29, 2026 at 11:31 AM
#onmydesktoday: a book about books and the love for books, #bibliophily. This German book by the bookish prof. Ernst Fischer comprises aspects of past, present and future bibliophily, filling c. 600 pages with lots of images. Recommended. Written with much devotion for #bookhistory
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'Step inside the British Library: here is paradise.'
Well, before it was hacked, yes.
Well, before it was hacked, yes.
Reading the rooms: London’s British Library decoded
Novelist Charlotte Mendelson explores an institution that holds the history of humanity — and, on any given day, a curious cross-section of the capital itself
www.ft.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:58 AM
'Step inside the British Library: here is paradise.'
Well, before it was hacked, yes.
Well, before it was hacked, yes.
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Just giant dabbers flying around while people are dancing. I am unsure what they are celebrating, but giant ink-balls were used in #earlymodern printing offices in the last step before printing. Such dabbers consist of pieces of leather filled with wool or hair and a wooden handle. #bookhistory
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Just giant dabbers flying around while people are dancing. I am unsure what they are celebrating, but giant ink-balls were used in #earlymodern printing offices in the last step before printing. Such dabbers consist of pieces of leather filled with wool or hair and a wooden handle. #bookhistory
You see hands inscribed with meaning: these are pages from an #earlymodern blockbook of the 1480s about #chiromancy, the art of fortune-telling by looking at your hand. Every wrinkle and line counts. #skystorians
January 28, 2026 at 2:41 PM
You see hands inscribed with meaning: these are pages from an #earlymodern blockbook of the 1480s about #chiromancy, the art of fortune-telling by looking at your hand. Every wrinkle and line counts. #skystorians
Well, that's an angry plant with a biting animal-head as part of a decorated covering page within an #earlymodern book about music.
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Well, that's an angry plant with a biting animal-head as part of a decorated covering page within an #earlymodern book about music.
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Important thoughts on the problems of feeding AI with historical documents (that capture my reservations about this possibilities better than I could ever have put in words). Thanks, @dbellingradt.bsky.social !
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
January 28, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Important thoughts on the problems of feeding AI with historical documents (that capture my reservations about this possibilities better than I could ever have put in words). Thanks, @dbellingradt.bsky.social !
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A 🧵 about data traps, present AI, and future historiography.
Historian focusing on early modern book culture here. I am not sure that feeding a private company with all our past handwritings from archives is a solution or a way forward. Google‘s AI studio is a data trap. #skystorians
Gemini’s ability to read handwritten archival documents has importance beyond the humanities. It opens new frontiers for scientific research and collaboration with the humanities.
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
foundhistory.org/seeing-old-s...
#ClimateScience #DataScience #Agriculture #Archives #Research #LandGrant #AI
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A 🧵 about data traps, present AI, and future historiography.
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A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
A little stop motion video I made of an almanac in the University of Rochester collection to try and give viewers an idea of how it functions 😊
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
(Video of RCL cod. a.1, a late 14th century folding almanac from England, likely Oxford)
Das waren noch Trendforschungen: mit CD-Rom im Papierbuch.
January 27, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Das waren noch Trendforschungen: mit CD-Rom im Papierbuch.
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My dream job would be to be sat in a candlelit workshop, pouring over nautical charts, sketching out incredibly detailed maps, but just to take the piss I'd start adding fictional islands and cities and sitting back in glee as chaos takes the world
And here is the map from 1657 in full glory, including the highlighted barbaric part with the lions, the ghost island "Frisland", and the Dutch fighting the Spanish on the sea. Lots to see and zoom, enjoy #skystorians
January 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
My dream job would be to be sat in a candlelit workshop, pouring over nautical charts, sketching out incredibly detailed maps, but just to take the piss I'd start adding fictional islands and cities and sitting back in glee as chaos takes the world
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Dudes rock
Building a Functional LEGO Typewriter
YouTube video by Koenkun Bricks
youtu.be
January 27, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Dudes rock
I too feel that social media posting and consumption will come eventually to an end. And this will one day include the blue skies. We are not there yet, and you might disagree of course, but the day will come.
January 27, 2026 at 9:47 AM
I too feel that social media posting and consumption will come eventually to an end. And this will one day include the blue skies. We are not there yet, and you might disagree of course, but the day will come.
What did you say? I am reading ...
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 AM
What did you say? I am reading ...
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I love that in Nederlandish ' fris' means ' a bit cold'.
Here is the non-existent phantom island next to Iceland: "Frisland". A couple of years after this map was printed, the island finally got erased from maps. But lots of maps of the North Atlantic from the 1560s through the 1660s do have this island.
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
I love that in Nederlandish ' fris' means ' a bit cold'.