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Dr. Edward A S Ross (he/him)
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| teaching fellow . university of reading |
| #classics . #buddhism . #centralasia . #criticalAI |
| Reading (PhD), HKU (MBuddhStud), and McGill (BA) alumnus |

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Dr. Edward A S Ross (he/him) @edwardasross.bsky.social · May 24
📜Just Published!📜 Providing #ancientlanguage and #classics staff and students with ethics tutorials on #genAI helps them make informed judgements about using #AI without misplaced faith or excessive fear. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Treading water: new data on the impact of AI ethics information sessions in classics and ancient language pedagogy | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
Treading water: new data on the impact of AI ethics information sessions in classics and ancient language pedagogy
https://cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/treading-water-new-data-on-the-impact-of-ai-ethics-information-sessions-in-classics-and-ancient-language-pedagogy/7EC62BAA5E593C81DB991897729D16DF#article…
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uorclassics.bsky.social
We have a new blog! Several of our Classics staff were recently nominated and awarded for their teaching, research, and outreach work. We are thrilled to celebrate them.

Read more here:
blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-...
Classics Staff awarded for Teaching, Research, and Outreach
As we come to the end of the 2024-2025 academic year, we would like to take a moment to celebrate the recent successes of UoR Classics staff for their teaching, research, and outreach work.   …
blogs.reading.ac.uk
July 11, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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There is one week left to register for in-person attendance to #iGAIAS2025 @uniofreading.bsky.social.

Registration: www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-...

#digitalhumanities #classics #ancienthistory #genimageAI #Latin #Greek #Chinese #Tibetan #AIethics #sustainability @uorclassics.bsky.social
(Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - June 25-26, 2025 - Hybrid Conference - University of Reading - Keynote Speech: Environmentally (un)sustainable AI: rethinking responsibilities for Ancient World Studies? - Prof. Federica Lucivero (Ethox Centre, University of Oxford). This event is supported by the Department of Classics at the University of Reading, the Bristol Digital Game Lab, and the Institute of Classical Studies.
June 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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digitalorientalist.bsky.social
🗃️What can a marble foot fragment from Aï Khanoum tell us about #AI? 📜

@edwardasross.bsky.social‬ puts Deep Research models to the test in Part 3 of his series on generative AI and #Hellenistic Central Asia 🤖🏺
#digitalhumanities #history #llm

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May 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Thrilled that my third piece as a contributor for @digitalorientalist.bsky.social was just posted.

Have a look to see how #DeepResearch AI models identify the #AiKhanoum foot.

digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/27/h...

#AI #AgenticAI #AIBias #ancienthistory #centralasia #hellenistichistory #classics
Hellenistic Central Asia through the Eyes of GenAI – Part 3: Deep Research
This is part three of a three-part series on the biases about Hellenistic Central Asia in generative artificial intelligence (AI) datasets. In this final part, I planned to discuss how Hellenistic …
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May 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Had a wonderful time at Università degli Studi di Parma speaking at the Intensive ENCODE Spring School on #generativeAI #ethics and #teaching #AncientLanguages! It was fantastic to discuss digital competencies for ancient writing cultures to so many brilliant students and scholars.
An open air garden in the middle of a yellow building with arched porticos. There is a large tree in the middle. A blue tote bag laying on a table. The tote bag has the words "UNIVERSITA DI PARMA" on the front in while lettering. There is also a logo with the Latin phrase "ALMA . UNIVERSITAS . STUDIORUM . PERMENSIS". A light blue powerpoint slide with digitally manipulated ionic columns on either side of the screen. The text reads: "Ethics and Efficacy: Teaching and Learning Ancient Greek and Latin with Generative AI - Edward A. S. Ross - University of Reading - May 19, 2025 - Intensive ENCODE Spring School - Parma, Italy".
May 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Very happy to share that the programme and registration for #iGAIAS2025 @uorclassics.bsky.social is now available.

Our keynote speaker, Federica Lucivero (@ethoxcentre.bsky.social), will discuss "Environmentally (un)sustainable AI: rethinking responsibilities for Ancient World Studies?".
(Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - June 25-26, 2025 - Hybrid Conference - University of Reading - Keynote Speech: Environmentally (un)sustainable AI: rethinking responsibilities for Ancient World Studies? - Prof. Federica Lucivero (Ethox Centre, University of Oxford). This event is supported by the Department of Classics at the University of Reading, the Bristol Digital Game Lab, and the Institute of Classical Studies.
April 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Absolutely thrilled that the iGAIAS project has won the 2025 University of Reading Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning.

Looking forward to continuing our work promoting #AIethics, #AIliteracy, and exploring #AI's impact @uorclassics.bsky.social!
Three images spliced together. The top left image is of four people standing behind a poster for the "Distorted History: AI's Skewed Visions of the Ancient World" exhibit at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology. The bottom left image shows a red trophy with the University of Reading logo on it. Next to the trophy is the text: "WINNER: University Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning". The image on the right side depicts a sword split in half across the blade. The words GLADIVS ANCEPS are on the left and right side of the sword.
April 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Had a great time presenting at the Southampton Branch of the Classical Association about our work on #GenAI in #AncientGreek and #Latin learning and #GenImageAI yesterday! It was lovely to see some @uorclassics.bsky.social students and alumni as well!
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March 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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🚨FINAL #CFP: (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the #AncientWorld Conference - June 25-26, 2025, @uniofreading.bsky.social.

Abstracts Due: February 7, 2025

Full Details: edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/gener...

#AI #Classics #Teaching
@ics.bsky.social @classicsforall.bsky.social
Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - Interdisciplinary Conference - June 25-26, 2025 - Hybrid - Department of Classics, University of Reading - Call for Papers - Discussion Streams - 1. The Double-edged Sword: Reconciling the Ethics of Using GenAI in Ancient World T&L - 2. Learning by Example: Case Studies of Good Practice - 3. Under Construction: Developing AI Models for Supporting Ancient World T&L - 4. Skewed Visions: GenAI in Public Ancient History and Reception - Submit an abstract, bio, and CV to iGAIAS@reading.ac.uk by February 7, 2025. Full Details Here: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/ Text of the Call for Papers Available at: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/cfp-generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/ Text of the Call for Papers Available at: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/cfp-generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/
February 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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digitalorientalist.bsky.social
🗃️ Part 2 of @edwardasross.bsky.social's series on 🌍 Hellenistic Central Asia and AI 🤖 explores how generative #AI tools represent ancient music 🎵
#DigitalHumanities #ArtificialIntelligence #HellenisticHistory #CentralAsia

digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/28/h...
January 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Come see our exhibit while it is still open! If you can't, there is an online version here:

collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/e...
January 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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mcbazacophd.bsky.social
If you have a professor/teacher who impacted you in a positive way, send them a short email and let them know and tell them what you’re doing these days.

Teaching can be a thankless and exhausting job but one note can energize an educator for a year.
January 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Yes, this is what some people told me defensively, and its the most ridiculous thing ever. No, the AI industry's environmental toll is not something we can look past. And no, we shouldn't be allowing our students to train the machines for trillionaire techbros instead of getting an education.
thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Jan 17
Detecting a shift in the higher-ed dicourse on GenAI; an emergent line of argument seems to be "we already use a lot of other tools with shitty data privacy, and AI isn't the only thing w energy concerns, so choosing not to use it is basically meaningless." Which feels like "oberying in advance" tbh
January 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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opietasanimi.com
I may be a millennial who needs three types of liquids simultaneously but even I drink less water than AI when writing an email
January 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Quick reminder that there are 3 weeks left to submit an abstract for (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and #Teaching the #AncientWorld!

Check out the full #CFP here: edwardasross.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/c...

#GenAI #AI #classics #buddhism #history @ics.bsky.social @uorclassics.bsky.social
Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - Interdisciplinary Conference - June 25-26, 2025 - Hybrid - Department of Classics, University of Reading - Call for Papers - Discussion Streams - 1. The Double-edged Sword: Reconciling the Ethics of Using GenAI in Ancient World T&L - 2. Learning by Example: Case Studies of Good Practice - 3. Under Construction: Developing AI Models for Supporting Ancient World T&L - 4. Skewed Visions: GenAI in Public Ancient History and Reception - Submit an abstract, bio, and CV to iGAIAS@reading.ac.uk by February 7, 2025. Full Details Here: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/
January 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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#CFP (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - June 25-26, 2025 - hybrid/University of Reading UK - edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/gener... Due by Feb 7
(GENERATIVE) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND TEACHING THE ANCIENT WORLD
Above: Image generated by ChatGPT-4o (22 November 2024 version) on 26 November 2024. Prompt: “An ancient Indian statue with intricate carvings and a serene expression, seamlessly blended with advan…
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January 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
edwardasross.bsky.social
Looking forward to Jackie Baines and my presentation at #AIASCS2025 on #GenAI images and the #AncientWorld!

Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!
8:00am-10:30am EST, Salon K (Hybrid) - SCS-40: HYBRID: Opening Up Classics with AI (organized by the Digital Classics Association) - Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Organizer - 1. Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, SUNY - Introduction - 2. Samuel Huskey, University of Oklahoma - Opening Up Bottlenecks in Digital Classics Workflows with Human-in-the-Loop AI - 3. Patrick Burns, New York University - Prompt Engineering for Latin Teachers - 4. Edward Ross, University of Reading, and Jackie Baines, University of Reading - Generative Image AI and Teaching Classics: A Case of Exaggeration - 5. Gregory Crane, Tufts University - AI, Machine Actionable Publication and Assigning Credit - 6. Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, and Pramit Chaudhuri, University of Texas at Austin - Benchmarking Generative AI Models for Classical Literary Criticism
January 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
edwardasross.bsky.social
2024 #Academic Year-in-Review:
✅ #PhD Complete
✅ 4 grants received
✍️ 2 articles published
🏦 1 museum exhibit opened
❌ 17 fellowship/grant rejections
📜 8 conference presentations
📚 65 seminar classes taught

#ecr #AcademicChatter #classics #GenAI #buddhism #NormalizeRejection #AncientBluesky
December 17, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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#CFP: (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and #Teaching the #AncientWorld Conference - June 25-26, 2025, @uorclassics.bsky.social.

Abstract Submissions Due: February 7, 2025

Further Details: edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/gener...

#AI #GenAI #Classics #Edusky #AIinEdu #AncientBluesky
Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - Interdisciplinary Conference - June 25-26, 2025 - Hybrid - Department of Classics, University of Reading - Call for Papers - Discussion Streams - 1. The Double-edged Sword: Reconciling the Ethics of Using GenAI in Ancient World T&L - 2. Learning by Example: Case Studies of Good Practice - 3. Under Construction: Developing AI Models for Supporting Ancient World T&L - 4. Skewed Visions: GenAI in Public Ancient History and Reception - Submit an abstract, bio, and CV to iGAIAS@reading.ac.uk by February 7, 2025. Full Details Here: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/ Text of the Call for Papers Available at: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/cfp-generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/ Text of the Call for Papers Available at: https://edwardasross.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/cfp-generative-artificial-intelligence-and-teaching-the-ancient-world/
December 4, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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opietasanimi.com
heady mix of labor retaliation and divestment from humanities, with a jubilant redirection of resources towards AI. futures of meaningful and critical work replaced with water and energy devouring artificial intelligences www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs
The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:08 PM
edwardasross.bsky.social
Noticed that I was blocked by academics I was excited to follow during their migration and have discovered that I'm on an #AI apologist #blocklist.

To be clear, my work is solely #CriticalAI studies related to the #ancientworld. I hope this reaches those that blocked me through this list. #edusky
The Great AI/NFT/Crypto Cull by rayday.bsky.social includes @edwardasross.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
edwardasross.bsky.social
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) fine-tuned AI tutors for Ancient Greek, Latin, and hieroglyphs
2) receptions of Chapter 23 of the Lotus Sutra in China
paularcurtis.bsky.social Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · Nov 14
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) a book on metal caster artisan organizations in medieval Japan
2) public historical engagement through random rock art
jonathanhsy.bsky.social Jonathan Hsy 許維成 @jonathanhsy.bsky.social · Nov 14
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.

1) book on life writing by medieval disabled authors & disability justice today
2) a global literary history of dumplings
November 14, 2024 at 3:43 PM
edwardasross.bsky.social
Join us for the last #GenAI and #AncientWorld Studies talk
at Reading Classics by Dr. Thea Sommerschield (Nottingham) on "Between Machines and Stones: 15 years of AI for Epigraphy, from statistical methods to the Generative Turn" Nov. 13 from 4-5:30 PM (GMT).
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November 11, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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What a great day for @beinghumanfest.bsky.social at
the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology! It was brilliant to speak to so many people about #GenAI ethics and #ancientworld bias.

Enjoy a couple highlights from our participants' generations:
Midjourney, Midjourney 6.1, 23 October 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of Heracles defeating the Nemean Lion in the style of high-quality digital art. Make sure that the hero has a French baguette and butter.” Generating these images used approximately 0.04 kilowatt-hours of energy. That is about the same as charging a smart phone from 0% to 100% 4 times! OpenAI, DALL-E 3, 8 August 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in the style of pop-art. Make sure that the temple has the processional way and an Assyrian lion.” Midjourney, Midjourney 6.1, 23 October 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of Cyrus’ conquest of Babylon in the style of pop-art. Make sure that the temple has the processional way and an Assyrian lion.” Generating these images used approximately 0.05 kilowatt-hours of energy. That is about the same as charging a smart phone from 0% to 100% 5 times! OpenAI, DALL-E 3, 8 August 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of an Ancient Greek temple in the style of an early 20th-century painting. Make sure that the temple has lots of ancient statues.” Midjourney, Midjourney 6.1, 23 October 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of an Ancient Greek temple in the style of a Picasso painting. Make sure that the temple has lots of ancient statues.” Generating these images used approximately 0.05 kilowatt-hours of energy. That is about the same as charging a smart phone from 0% to 100% 5 times! OpenAI, DALL-E 3, 8 August 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of an Ancient Roman house in the style of photo-realism. Make sure that the house has modern technology, a UFO, and an alien.” Midjourney, Midjourney 6.1, 23 October 2024 version, personal communication, generated on 7 November 2024. Prompt: “Create an image of an Ancient Roman house in the style of photo-realism. Make sure that the house has modern technology, a UFO, and an alien.” Generating these images used approximately 0.05 kilowatt-hours of energy. That is about the same as charging a smart phone from 0% to 100% 5 times!
November 7, 2024 at 10:57 PM
edwardasross.bsky.social
And so it begins!

@beinghumanfest.bsky.social

#classics #ancientworld #genai #aiimages #classicsbluesky
An image of a poster with an arrow and a poster of “Painting with Prompts: GenAI and Creating Art, Being Human Festival 2024” on a glass door.
November 7, 2024 at 11:07 AM