@alexbrey.bsky.social
Job opportunity: @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social is hiring a director of Garden and Landscape Studies. This is a five-year term position. Requirements include a PhD and a minimum of ten years’ experience in an academic setting, including administrative duties.
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Director of Garden and Landscape Studies
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June 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Job opportunity: @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social is hiring a director of Garden and Landscape Studies. This is a five-year term position. Requirements include a PhD and a minimum of ten years’ experience in an academic setting, including administrative duties.
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New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +
Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of period prose does not pro...
arxiv.org
May 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +
Reposted
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
This dataset of annotated Arabic calligraphic inscriptions seems like it could be useful for digital art historians at some point down the road: github.com/ARBML/Calliar
GitHub - ARBML/Calliar: A dataset for online Arabic calligraphy. A collection of 2500 annotated calligraphic styles.
A dataset for online Arabic calligraphy. A collection of 2500 annotated calligraphic styles. - GitHub - ARBML/Calliar: A dataset for online Arabic calligraphy. A collection of 2500 annotated calli...
github.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This dataset of annotated Arabic calligraphic inscriptions seems like it could be useful for digital art historians at some point down the road: github.com/ARBML/Calliar
The looting of the National Museum of Sudan is catastrophic for cultural heritage there and around the world. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/01/h...
‘We are crying’: heritage authorities express sorrow after Sudan National Museum looted and ransacked
The museum, which houses artefacts dating back millennia, has been caught in the crossfire of the civil war raging in the North African country
www.theartnewspaper.com
April 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The looting of the National Museum of Sudan is catastrophic for cultural heritage there and around the world. www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/01/h...
I'm dredging up forgotten lessons from my organic chemistry days as I dig into the solubility of carthamin in preparation for my new seminar on the Art of Science in the Islamic World next semester. Meet the material that literally give us "red tape": cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Safflower
Safflower - CAMEO
cameo.mfa.org
December 14, 2024 at 3:22 PM
I'm dredging up forgotten lessons from my organic chemistry days as I dig into the solubility of carthamin in preparation for my new seminar on the Art of Science in the Islamic World next semester. Meet the material that literally give us "red tape": cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Safflower
Reposted
And it’s OPEN ACCESS! Thanks to @nancyum.bsky.social @devinfitz.bsky.social @yaelrice.bsky.social and all our 47 contributors!
New volume edited by the brilliant @periodeye.bsky.social A set of incredible chapters that are bound to delight and, as intended, be VERY useful for teaching.
Want a quick intro to global print technologies in the 17th century for your classes? My chapter tries to do that.
tinyurl.com/bdep26ew
Want a quick intro to global print technologies in the 17th century for your classes? My chapter tries to do that.
tinyurl.com/bdep26ew
January 11, 2024 at 7:54 PM
And it’s OPEN ACCESS! Thanks to @nancyum.bsky.social @devinfitz.bsky.social @yaelrice.bsky.social and all our 47 contributors!