mia ridge
@miaout.bsky.social
Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol at British Library. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access + UX for digital heritage, AI/machine learning and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage / GLAM / digital humanities. She, they. More at https://www.miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
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mia ridge
@miaout.bsky.social
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If you've messaged me on Bluesky, I won't see it! You can contact me with personal requests via www.miaridge.com/contact/ or at work digitalresearch@bl.uk
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#dhist Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 20 Jan midday GMT (on Zoom) for @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social on 'Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography'. Details ⬇️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
Tuesday 20 January 2026 - Thomas Smits and Melvin Wevers (Amsterdam): Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography - Digital History Seminar
This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/98599080376 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: Alexandra Ortolja-Baird Abstract: This talk explores how digita...
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 9:28 AM
#dhist Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 20 Jan midday GMT (on Zoom) for @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social on 'Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography'. Details ⬇️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
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The Science Museum Group is looking for a Systems and E-Resources Librarian, FT permanent post based at one of our sites in #Bradford #London #Manchester #Wroughton (nr Swindon) or #York #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...
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January 2, 2026 at 10:59 AM
The Science Museum Group is looking for a Systems and E-Resources Librarian, FT permanent post based at one of our sites in #Bradford #London #Manchester #Wroughton (nr Swindon) or #York #LISjobs #LibraryJobs #MuseumJobs ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...
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'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
Fantastic Futures 2025 at the British Library
All recorded papers and Q&A sessions from AI4LAM's 2025 Fantastic Futures Conference, hosted by the British Library.
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
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Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Happy to share my glowing review of the 100Ballads.org site, which has just been published in Early Modern Digital Review: jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/em...
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
It's a fantastic site for anyone interested in early modern English ballads. Check it out!
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If you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things
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Want a better quality of life? Use your library!
Libraries Make Life Better — And Now We Have the Data to Prove It
Want a better quality of life? Use your library!
buff.ly
December 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Want a better quality of life? Use your library!
If you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things
December 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
If you're seeing family and friends over Christmas, offer to unsubscribe them from any marketing messages that bother them. It's the kind of thing people never get around to doing, but it makes a difference! Less noise and fewer pings makes room for nicer things
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
Fantastic Futures 2025 at the British Library
All recorded papers and Q&A sessions from AI4LAM's 2025 Fantastic Futures Conference, hosted by the British Library.
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:52 AM
'Twas the night before Christmas
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
And all through the house
Not a creature was stirring -
Not even a mouse...
Because everyone was watching talks from the 2025 Fantastic Futures #FF2025 conference! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Two days of talks on AI and machine learning in GLAMS #AI4LAM #FF2025
'you can’t get enough of what you don’t need'
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...
Frank Chimero · Beyond the Machine
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
frankchimero.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:30 PM
'you can’t get enough of what you don’t need'
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...
'Beyond the Machine: Creative agency in the AI landscape' is about AI, but that line struck me in the lead-up to Christmas frankchimero.com/blog/2025/be...
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"We risk inheriting a future in which institutions answer to synthetic publics rather than real ones" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
Research Radar: Synthetic Data Is Redefining Representation
As governments experiment with AI to simulate public opinion, new questions are emerging about who these systems truly represent. This Research Radar examines the Collective Intelligence Project’s Dig...
rebootdemocracy.ai
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"We risk inheriting a future in which institutions answer to synthetic publics rather than real ones" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
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Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy
"We risk inheriting a future in which institutions answer to synthetic publics rather than real ones" rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/researc...
Research Radar: Synthetic Data Is Redefining Representation
As governments experiment with AI to simulate public opinion, new questions are emerging about who these systems truly represent. This Research Radar examines the Collective Intelligence Project’s Dig...
rebootdemocracy.ai
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy
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Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist
Organ-tuning books in English churches provide notes on a warming climate
Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Music, materials, weather and climate - a great story about a set of organ record books from the 1960s to now. Are there older ones? When did recording temperature and humidity become a common part of the tuner's practice? www.theguardian.com/environment/... #histSTM #envhist
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Trying this free tool for MacOS: 'iPhoto and its successor Photos are astonishing apps, but some people find them too controlling. They have their own ideas about where your files should go... Growly Photo does not import your photo files, it just remembers where they are.'
growlybird.com/photo/
growlybird.com/photo/
Growly Photo
Photo organizer
growlybird.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Trying this free tool for MacOS: 'iPhoto and its successor Photos are astonishing apps, but some people find them too controlling. They have their own ideas about where your files should go... Growly Photo does not import your photo files, it just remembers where they are.'
growlybird.com/photo/
growlybird.com/photo/
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The death of Dr Paul Ayris is huge loss to UCL, to @uclpress.bsky.social and to the open access/scholarly communications community more broadly.
His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2
His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2
Thomas Cranmer’s Register
Discover Thomas Cranmer’s Register (1533–1553), a pivotal Reformation document revealing England’s break from Rome and the rise of Protestantism. This open access book offers unprecedented access with...
uclpress.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The death of Dr Paul Ayris is huge loss to UCL, to @uclpress.bsky.social and to the open access/scholarly communications community more broadly.
His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2
His open access Thomas Cranmer’s Register
A record of archiepiscopal administration in diocese and province is published by the Press in January. 1/2
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Happy Friday! Recordings and slides are now available from Open and Engaged Conference 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" Here is the link to the collection of fantastic talks and presentations. #OpenEngaged doi.org/10.22020/dgz...
Open and Engaged Conference 2025 - Who owns our knowledge? // British Library
This year’s Open and Engaged Conference aligns with the Open Access Week 2025 theme, “Who Owns Our Knowledge?”, by exploring the power, ethics, and responsibility embedded in how cultural heritage is…
doi.org
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Happy Friday! Recordings and slides are now available from Open and Engaged Conference 2025: "Who Owns Our Knowledge?" Here is the link to the collection of fantastic talks and presentations. #OpenEngaged doi.org/10.22020/dgz...
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#MuseumDocumentation 📢!
The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation
The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation
Explore the collection | Paintings | National Gallery, London
Our collection contains more than 2,400 paintings and other works of art.
www.nationalgallery.org.uk
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#MuseumDocumentation 📢!
The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation
The National Gallery's online collections now enable filtering by date made, date of acquisition, medium, support, and artist www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/ex... - hat tip to the Creative and IS teams for UX design and implementation
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BookReconciler is designed as an extension of OpenRefine, so anybody can use it. No computational experience required.
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
BookReconciler is designed as an extension of OpenRefine, so anybody can use it. No computational experience required.
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
It currently connects to Library of Congress, Google Books, Wikidata, HathiTrust, OCLC, VIAF, & Open Library.
Tool: github.com/Post45-Data-...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
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Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler!
You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work."
Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work."
Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler!
You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work."
Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work."
Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
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The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
‘I heard 40, 50 shots’: Witnesses fled Bondi Beach as gunmen targeted Jewish event
Gunshots ripped through a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, killing at least 12 people
www.irishtimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.
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Courage comes in many forms. The bystander at Bondi beach is one example. This piece recounts an extraordinary different kind, where by having a conversation and listening, Nathan Newby talked Mohammad Farooq down from setting off a bomb. Recommend
www.ft.com/content/cd59...
www.ft.com/content/cd59...
‘It’s just a bomb’
The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage
www.ft.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Courage comes in many forms. The bystander at Bondi beach is one example. This piece recounts an extraordinary different kind, where by having a conversation and listening, Nathan Newby talked Mohammad Farooq down from setting off a bomb. Recommend
www.ft.com/content/cd59...
www.ft.com/content/cd59...
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2. COVID now adds to disease burden in an unpredictable, perennial way.
3. We maddeningly restrict access to vaccines without considering the wider and long-term costs of disease.
4. Nothing has been done nationally to improve indoor air quality.
5. Vaccines and NPIs synergise.
3. We maddeningly restrict access to vaccines without considering the wider and long-term costs of disease.
4. Nothing has been done nationally to improve indoor air quality.
5. Vaccines and NPIs synergise.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
2. COVID now adds to disease burden in an unpredictable, perennial way.
3. We maddeningly restrict access to vaccines without considering the wider and long-term costs of disease.
4. Nothing has been done nationally to improve indoor air quality.
5. Vaccines and NPIs synergise.
3. We maddeningly restrict access to vaccines without considering the wider and long-term costs of disease.
4. Nothing has been done nationally to improve indoor air quality.
5. Vaccines and NPIs synergise.
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So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
So, to those who say "masks don't work", cite the flawed Cochrane report, insist upon an unfeasible RCT, accuse folks of panic, and undermine public health on social and mainstream media during a flu/RSV epidemic...
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
1. Seasonal viruses may be "normal", but they do immense harm.
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🚨 LAST DAY! #DH2026 submissions close Dec 15
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CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
🚨 LAST DAY! #DH2026 submissions close Dec 15
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