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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
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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 · 12d
✒️ 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
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romainvincent.bsky.social
Je suis très heureux de vous annoncer le début d'un projet qui me tient à coeur depuis longtemps : le Réseau Francophone d'Histoire Ludique histoireludique.fr

Pour être tenu au courant de nos activités, suivez ce compte : bsky.app/profile/hist...

Je développe ci-dessous ⤵️
Bannière du site du Réseau Francophone d'Histoire Ludique
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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wellerstein.bsky.social
I had a really fun time interviewing Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop RPGs from the Cold War and what they reflect about shifts in Cold War nuclear culture, and the differences between how the games were designed and how they were actually played. doomsdaymachines.net/p/playing-at...
Playing at the End of the World
An interview with historian and game designer Malcolm Craig about post-apocalyptic tabletop role playing games in the Cold War
doomsdaymachines.net
January 22, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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yvandutil.bsky.social
Revenge of the nerds

AI models tested on Dungeons
techxplore.com/news/2026-01...
AI models tested on Dungeons & Dragons to assess long-term decision-making
Large Language Models, like ChatGPT, are learning to play Dungeons & Dragons. The reason? Simulating and playing the popular tabletop role-playing game provides a good testing ground for AI agents tha...
techxplore.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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weirdmedieval.bsky.social
Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!!

weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...
January 20, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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histoireudem.bsky.social
Fondé par la professeure Dyala Hamzah, l’OSBL Maison Palestine lance son exposition "Des bosquets qui brasillent".

📍Du 15 janvier au 1er mai 2026
Bibliothèque des livres rares et des collections spéciales
3000 Jean-Brillant - Salle 4030
January 20, 2026 at 8:33 PM