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Pascal
@pascaliensis.bsky.social
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Bayesian librarian & attribution historian
Boolean engineering since 1995
P&RP my own : about citation, information literacy & tabletop role-playing games
«Citez-vous les uns les autres»
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Pascal @pascaliensis.bsky.social · Oct 30
Almost 50 Years of Academic Research on Tabletop Role-Playing Games: Historical Evolution and Bibliometric Analysis
pmartinolli.github.io/JDR50bibliom...
#TTRPG #Quarto #RStudio #Bibliometrics
TTRPG Subject Headings in Peer-Reviewed Articles Distribution
pascaliensis.bsky.social
Babylon 5 by @straczynski.bsky.social is free to watch on YT cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

Like a Kabbalah text, wade through the slow opening to reach the deepest and the most enjoyable historical space-opera experience of the last century!
Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch On YouTube | Cord Cutters News
In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series Babylon 5 to YouTube, providing free access to the show just...
cordcuttersnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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andreloez.bsky.social
Je découvre que le livre d'Etienne Anheim, Le travail de l'histoire, est en ligne sur OpenEd: lecture INDISPENSABLE pour qui fait ce métier ou s'y prépare, à travers la série des verbes le décrivant en pratique, je ne peux le recommander assez chaleureusement !
books.openedition.org/psorbonne/92...
table des matières : s matières Le travail de l’histoire Étienne Anheim Qu’est devenu aujourd’hui le « métier d’historien » dont parlait Marc Bloch ? En suivant le fil d’une expérience individuelle, ce livre s’interroge sur le travail de l’histoire, entendu dans un double sens. C’est d’abord le travail sur l’histoire, comme matériau de recherche, qui pose des questions intellectuelles mais aussi pratiques. Comment devient-on chercheur en histoire ? Que signifie lire, écrire, éditer des textes quand on est historien ? Quels sont les enjeux de l’enseignement de l’hi... Lire plus Note de l’éditeur Ouvrage publié avec le concours de la Commission de la recherche de l’université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Éditeur : Éditions de la Sorbonne Lieu d’édition : Paris Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 9 mars 2022 ISBN numérique : 979-10-351-0720-8 DOI : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.92977 Collection : Itinéraires Année d’édition : 2018 ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 979-10-351-0080-3 Nombre de pages : 256 Dédicace Épigraphe Avant-propos Pour commencer Apprendre Lire, écrire Enseigner Évaluer, être évalué Administrer Projeter Éditer Partir, revenir Intervenir Boucler Pour finir
February 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
If you have access to institutional library money, make sure you acquire a copy of our 2nd edition Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Games, the introduction for everyone approaching the topic with fresh eyes.
(Some of us will even send y'all our own chapters...)

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies
This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in one single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by m...
www.routledge.com
February 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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histoireudem.bsky.social
À lire ! Une entrevue avec notre professeure Meagan Wierda.

nouvelles.umontreal.ca/article/2026...
Quand les chiffres sur l’esclavage mentent… et quand ils libèrent
Une étude met en lumière un activisme noir fondé sur la numératie et montre comment des militants afro-américains ont retourné les statistiques contre l’esclavage au 19ᵉ siècle.
nouvelles.umontreal.ca
February 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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mekka.mekka-tech.com
If you're wondering whether your town was a sundown town?

Check this map.

Shout out to everyone that immediately noticed that most sundown towns were not in the South.
Sundown Town Map | History and Social Justice, inspired by James W. Loewen
A database contributed by people across the nation underlies these maps and the tables you can generate.
justice.tougaloo.edu
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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waltros.bsky.social
Really proud of this work, where we combined traditional archaeological methods and AI simulation to say that yes, this object was more likely than not a game board.

How did we do it? I’ll explain 👇👇

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Ludus Coriovalli: using artificial intelligence-driven simulations to identify rules for an ancient board game - Volume 100 Issue 409
doi.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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bdecourson.bsky.social
🔴 Gallicagram v2, nous voici ! 🔴
Nouvelle interface en react vachement plus stable et rapide, nouveaux corpus (Mediapart, Libé, le Parisien, Le Figaro…), recherche contextuelle, comparaisons inter-corpus, filtre rubrique, bilingue, infinite scrolling... on vous explique tout !

📌 www.gallicagram.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
#superb_owl day contribution : Amicus is the mascot of the Supreme Court of Canada, a D&D owlbear with Santa clothes

Source : www.scc-csc.ca/media-medias...
Amicus , the mascot of the Supreme Court of Canada
February 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
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wikimediafoundation.org
As Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary, professor and former member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Dariusz Jemielniak urges academics to engage with Wikipedia for "Nature" ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A small, fluffy dog smells the Wikipedia logo. Text reads: "Wikipedia is the only major platform on which truth emerges through transparent debate rather than algorithmic opacity", Darius Jemielniak for "Nature"
February 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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andreloez.bsky.social
Moi en 1986: « OK belle image, mais cette histoire de vol inversé dans Top Gun c’est fantaisiste »

Moi en 2026: « donc les pilotes de Spitfire faisaient dévier les V1 allemands en volant côte à côte avant de leur donner un coup d’aile… I see…»

À 38’40 de l’entretien

youtu.be/aTTb4ZXDnG8?...
Top Gun tomcat et « mig » inversés Jean-Christophe Noel expliquant la manoeuvre démente des pilotes GB face aux V1 dans Le fil de l’épée
February 7, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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histoireodyssee.bsky.social
Timelapse de Paris, de l'Antiquité à l'époque moderne :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhK...
PARIS - 3D TIMELAPSE - 300 BCE to 2025
YouTube video by CITY 3D TIMELAPSE
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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stevoisiak.bsky.social
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Google with AI buttons Google without AI buttons
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
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
Screenshot of JCDL paper called BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering
December 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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maxguen.bsky.social
Very happy to share that our new paper, "Interoperability as Equity: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs as a Tool to Shape Inclusive Ontologies" is out! We are discussing linked open data, ontologies, Wikidata and interoperability with CIDOC CRM

doi.org/10.5334/johd...
Interoperability as Equity: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs as a Tool to Shape Inclusive Ontologies | Journal of Open Humanities Data
doi.org
February 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
Solution facile : citer, mentionner, référencer, attribuer, remercier, reconnaître, lier, ...
scienceshumaines.bsky.social Sciences Humaines @scienceshumaines.bsky.social · 17d
✒️ CHRONIQUE – En matière artistique, nous associons systématiquement créativité et originalité. Pourtant, tout écrit, toute parole, et même toute pensée s'inscrit dans la continuité de voix antérieures. https://www.scienceshumaines.com/peut-creer-sans-plagier (en accès libre)
February 1, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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isaacisafraid.bsky.social
I have been writing this blogpost for months to share my personal perspective and insight to the Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene. Check it out!

afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev/afraid-of-co...
Afraid of Communities - Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene & LFG
A look at the Indonesian Tabletop RPG scene
afraidofencounters.bearblog.dev
January 29, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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earlymodjustice.bsky.social
An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:
OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN Dear Editors, We write in reference to a recent article published in the UK online edition of The Guardian on Friday, 23 January 2026, which carried the following misleading headline: "British crown was world's largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals." The article in question, by Chris Osuh, showcases a new book by Dr. Brooke Newman, The Crown's Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy (Harper Collins, 2026). But Newman's book is not the original source of that claim. That claim derives from earlier scholarship, the painstaking archival work of a Black historian of Caribbean heritage: the late Roger Norman Buckley. It is unfortunate that the silencing of his original scholarship appears in the profiling of a book advertised as uncovering silences. While it is great to see public attention brought to the history of the Crown's involvement in slavery through the new book and its profiling in The Guardian, the headline compromises The Guardian's efforts to address the legacies of slavery generally and its own institutional links when it extracts and reframes earlier work by a Black scholar as a revelation new to this book. The relevant passage in The Crown's Silence draws on original scholarship by Roger Norman Buckley in Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (1979). Dr. Brooke Newman repeats Buckley's figures, which she cites (referencing page 55 of Buckley's book, see attached) while changing his "British government" to "Crown." She then converts his careful "perhaps the largest individual buyer" to a more conclusive claim, changing his "British government" to "king" but without citing Buckley for that claim which is on page 56 of his book (see attached) and which, uncited in Newman's book, is the Guardian headline. There is room for popular histories that rely largely on the secondary scholarship of other historians. But other historians have not been silent. Page from Buckley’s 1979 book 2nd page from Buckley’s 1979 book
January 29, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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yvandutil.bsky.social
When science makes headlines — for all the wrong reasons

Extra, extra! Read all about it… maybe?

thevarsity.ca/2026/01/25/w...
When science makes headlines — for all the wrong reasons
Extra, extra! Read all about it… maybe?
thevarsity.ca
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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caulfieldtim.bsky.social
"This is punk rock time, this is what Joe Strummer trained you for.

It is now time to go." 💪
January 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
CfP/Appel à communication:
«Le jeu de rôles à l'ère de ses mutations : économie, productions et usages»
FPJS U Sorbonne Paris Nord : jeudi 18 juin et vendredi 19 juin 2026 jeuderole-fpjs.sciencesconf.org #JDR #scholarlyTTRPG
Journées d'études : Le jeu de rôle à l’ère de ses mutations : économie, production et usages - Sciencesconf.org
Présentation
jeuderole-fpjs.sciencesconf.org
January 26, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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edmondchang.bsky.social
KULA Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... #citationaljustice #academia
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2026): Special Issue: Citational Politics and Justice | KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies
kula.uvic.ca
January 24, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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guyintheblackhat.bsky.social
"We’re speeding on the way towards that Dark Future right now. [The] color of your skin, or the money in your bank account are not going to spare you. It’s time to wake up; to face down the people who want in the end, to enslave all of us."
cyberpunkculture.com/cpcc20/program-friday/§30-evan-torner/
§30: Evan Torner – Cyberpunk Culture
My talk here is about Cyberpunk 2020, and is part of a larger project of game genealogy, in the hope that we might be able to further situate digital games in terms of their analog predecessors and contemporaries.
https://cyberpunkculture.com/cpcc20/program-friday/§30-evan-torner/
January 25, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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emilienschultz.bsky.social
Article 👍 sur les CAQDAS & GT

➡️ "L’impact des logiciels sur la recherche dépasse la simple assistance technique : ces outils participent à la structuration des étapes analytiques, influençant la manière dont les données sont segmentées, codées ou théorisées"

journals.openedition.org/revuehn/5284
De la Grounded Theory aux outils numériques : fidélité, transformat...
Introduction Les approches ethnographiques, issues de l’ethnologie, visent à étudier les cultures humaines de l’intérieur, en s’immergeant dans les communautés pour observer et participer à leur qu...
journals.openedition.org
January 25, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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scienceupfirst.bsky.social
Reaching a consensus about where you and your friends should eat on Friday night is not the same as reaching a scientific consensus.

Scientific consensus takes a lot of time and effort, and not every subject currently has one.

Learn more here👇
scienceupfirst.com/science-101/...

#ScienceUpFirst
What is the scientific consensus? Scientific consensus The collective position experts share after repeatedly testing and reviewing the full body of evidence available. It is not a matter of opinions, preferences, or beliefs.
January 21, 2026 at 4:49 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
Bibliographic battle: Marie Curie vs. Paul Otlet.
Score tied at 0–0.
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 PM