Guyda Armstrong
@guyda.bsky.social
Books, things, languages, analogue, digital, sound. Shoegazer.
Another brilliant team also in this HAVI cohort! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Another brilliant team also in this HAVI cohort! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
Delighted to be funded under this programme with @guyda.bsky.social and other brilliant colleagues, working on differentiating print with computer vision!
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Delighted to be funded under this programme with @guyda.bsky.social and other brilliant colleagues, working on differentiating print with computer vision!
Learn more about our award and tremendous team here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... @manchester.ac.uk
Researchers from the University of Manchester in partnership with the University of Oxford have been awarded funding from Schmidt Sciences for their project Envisioning Print with AI Computer Vision.
The Envisioning Print project brings together an expert team of textual scholars, book historians, computer scientists, library data experts, and research software engineers from the University of Man...
www.manchester.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Learn more about our award and tremendous team here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... @manchester.ac.uk
Amazing news! I'm completely thrilled that our Envisioning Print project has been selected for a 2025 @schmidtsciences HAVI award, + honoured to be part of this cohort of humanities teams advancing AI-driven approaches to understanding human histories and cultures.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Amazing news! I'm completely thrilled that our Envisioning Print project has been selected for a 2025 @schmidtsciences HAVI award, + honoured to be part of this cohort of humanities teams advancing AI-driven approaches to understanding human histories and cultures.
Very pleased to report that the MBV lights also pretty much blew out the sensor on my phone as well.
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Very pleased to report that the MBV lights also pretty much blew out the sensor on my phone as well.
MBV versus Aviva Studio's power supply last night: MBV victorious (, obviously).
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
MBV versus Aviva Studio's power supply last night: MBV victorious (, obviously).
Come and see our legendary Head of Imaging Jamie introduce an eighth wonder of the world this Friday lunchtime @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !!
This Friday 11th July from 12pm I will be introducing a newly produced full size reproduction of the stunning world map from 1546 we have been busy with at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Come explore the world seen through the eyes of a French renaissance king!
Come explore the world seen through the eyes of a French renaissance king!
July 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Come and see our legendary Head of Imaging Jamie introduce an eighth wonder of the world this Friday lunchtime @thejohnrylands.bsky.social !!
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is unlocking - Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library are delighted to announce that from spring 2025 the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library will publish Open Access. This ...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
June 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The Bulletin of the John Rylands University is going to be #openaccess from tomorrow! Including the substantial back archive!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/05...
Watching this on SNUB TV at my friend's house when I should have been at orchestra practice literally changed the course of my life. Thanks, guys!
The day Dinosaur Jr filmed the video for Freak Scene in my back garden louderthanwar.com/the-day-dino... via @louderthanwar
The day Dinosaur Jr filmed the video for Freak Scene in my back garden
Way back in the late eighties my band the Membranes were signed to Homestead Records with Dinoaurs Jnr............
louderthanwar.com
May 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Watching this on SNUB TV at my friend's house when I should have been at orchestra practice literally changed the course of my life. Thanks, guys!
Amazing, and AMAZINGLY LOUD Dinosaur Jr gig at the Albert Hall last night; as it should be done.
May 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Amazing, and AMAZINGLY LOUD Dinosaur Jr gig at the Albert Hall last night; as it should be done.
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
We are very happy to announce the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page', at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 29-30 May 2025.
For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM
For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM
May 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We are very happy to announce the concluding conference of the AHRC-funded project 'Envisioning Dante, c. 1472-c. 1630: Seeing and Reading the Early Printed Page', at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, 29-30 May 2025.
For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM
For more info, see: ow.ly/EZJN50VPUUM
Reposted by Guyda Armstrong
A conference presenting the brilliant work of many people over many years.. most immediately myself, colleagues at @oxford-vgg.bsky.social, @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and elsewhere. Come for the computer vision stay for the incunables, or vice versa
It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A conference presenting the brilliant work of many people over many years.. most immediately myself, colleagues at @oxford-vgg.bsky.social, @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and elsewhere. Come for the computer vision stay for the incunables, or vice versa
It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It is exactly 725 years ago tonight that Dante went into the selva oscura, so when better to announce our FREE 2-day ENVISIONING DANTE conference, 29-30 May 2025, @thejohnrylands.bluesky.social ? Register for each day separately, links below ⬇️⬇️
WE ARE LEEDS WE ARE LEEDS! (very impressed to see this, as a Leeds graduate lcsleeds.bluesky.social; I hope everyone else follows).
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
WE ARE LEEDS WE ARE LEEDS! (very impressed to see this, as a Leeds graduate lcsleeds.bluesky.social; I hope everyone else follows).
Incredible intensive language course learning to read, speak, and transcribe two indigenous languages at the Newberry Library in Summer 2025; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
The Newberry Library is hosting a 1-week Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat this summer (Jul 21–Aug 01, 2025). Applications due March 15: www.newberry.org/calendar/cen...
Intensive Language Study in Nahuatl/Nawat
Learn to read, speak, and transcribe two Indigenous languages: Nahuatl and Nawat.
www.newberry.org
January 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Incredible intensive language course learning to read, speak, and transcribe two indigenous languages at the Newberry Library in Summer 2025; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
12 new postdoc opportunities in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Call for 12 Bicentenary Postdoc Research Fellowships (3-years) at UoM. Fellows will need a mentor and address the Faculty of Humanities priority research themes of Digital Futures; Sustainable Futures; Creativity; Global Inequalities; and Adaptive Societies. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
January 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
12 new postdoc opportunities in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Manchester; details below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Just visited the JRRIL Imaging Team, now properly installed in their fantastic new imaging suite! With all the curtained cubicles and trollies it is basically GOTH CASUALTY (HT Jamie).
January 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Just visited the JRRIL Imaging Team, now properly installed in their fantastic new imaging suite! With all the curtained cubicles and trollies it is basically GOTH CASUALTY (HT Jamie).
Our fantastic Envisioning Dante postdoc Dr Rebecca Bowen is giving a paper in London (and to remote viewers) 16th Jan 2025! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
Seminar alert: Rebecca Bowen will speak on 'Figures of Love: Imagining Amore in the Early Italian Tradition', 16 Jan, in person IHR London and also via Zoom, register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/figur.... All welcome! Please share.
Figures of Love: Imagining Amore in the Early Italian Tradition
www.history.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our fantastic Envisioning Dante postdoc Dr Rebecca Bowen is giving a paper in London (and to remote viewers) 16th Jan 2025! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
IMMENSE show last night at the Academy; like gigs used to be!
January 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
IMMENSE show last night at the Academy; like gigs used to be!
The Valley is currently flooding so the AIRCOOLED/RRRAPID-KOOL show is cancelled, and will be rescheduled. Please don't travel in, and stay safe.
CANCELLED: We've had to cancel tonight's AIRCOOLED show due to flooding in Hebden Bridge. We'll be contacting all ticket holders and will be rescheduling the show for Jan/Feb. Please don't travel into Hebden if you can avoid it. Thank you.
November 23, 2024 at 2:55 PM
The Valley is currently flooding so the AIRCOOLED/RRRAPID-KOOL show is cancelled, and will be rescheduled. Please don't travel in, and stay safe.
New RRRapid-Kool single on Bandcamp; get yrrr old-timey garrrage rrrock w/ handclaps here! Also playing @thetradesclub.bsky.social with Aircooled this Saturday! Tix: thetradesclub.com/events/airco...
Can you believe it? We've got even morrre new music forrr you! Check out ourrr Bandcamp!!
rrrapidkool.bandcamp.com/album/summer...
rrrapidkool.bandcamp.com/album/summer...
Summer Hit, by RRRapid-Kool
2 track album
rrrapidkool.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 PM
New RRRapid-Kool single on Bandcamp; get yrrr old-timey garrrage rrrock w/ handclaps here! Also playing @thetradesclub.bsky.social with Aircooled this Saturday! Tix: thetradesclub.com/events/airco...
Me and the Raphaels in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
November 18, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Me and the Raphaels in the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Our excellent seminar room for the workshop last week, the Alte Kapelle at the University of Vienna. The frescos were greatly appreciated.
November 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Our excellent seminar room for the workshop last week, the Alte Kapelle at the University of Vienna. The frescos were greatly appreciated.
More travel geometries: Munich airport, which I now know very well, having missed my connection home twice in a week.
November 18, 2024 at 4:24 PM
More travel geometries: Munich airport, which I now know very well, having missed my connection home twice in a week.