Some limited travel support available so please hurry up to register and request it - it would be good to have leadership in research data and infrastructure roles represented at the event!

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

I'm lucky to be chairing a great session with lots of brilliant short papers, from 'The Politics of AI Training Data' (with people who critiqued the KB NL in the audience!), vision language models, work with newspapers and more! www.conftool.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2025

In case you missed it yesterday @dchavezheras.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social presented Intelligent Systems for Screen Archives ISSA collaborative project supported by BFI Innovation Challenge Fund in partnership with film archives & @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social github.com/kingsdigital... #ff2025

Wonderful project from @jnockels.bsky.social on improving text recognition in historical Scottish newspapers, in collaboration with the National Library of Scotland. www.dhi.ac.uk/projects/rec...

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Loved hearing about this AI literacy project to support information professionals (as well as the public)! misbehavingmachines.net #FF2025

Fantastically interesting use of many many vlm models to augment metadata of artworks at Harvard Art Museum - Jeff Steward pointing out that AI descriptions may extend curator views / eyes to make art more searchable and accessible #ff2025

Great 'text on maps' work presented by Katie and Bert #FF2025

Katie posted: If you want to play around with our text on maps data viz interface the link is text-on-maps-viz.allmaps.workers.dev

Fab from French Ministry of Culture - https://comparia.beta.gouv.fr for people to compare LLM responses blindly and then learn about them. Developed by a solid multidisciplinary team. #ff2025

Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025

Welcoming a spectacular crowd today for the first day of Fantastic Futures 2025: AI Everywhere, All at Once! #ai4lam #ff2025 Online registrations are open throughout the next two days so if you couldn't make it in person, register to access the livestream! https://www.conftool. [1/2]

New blog post: What is a research software analyst?

Arianna Ciula @arimare.bsky.social writes about her role at King's Digital Lab as an RSA. How is being an RSA different from being an RSE? What skills are needed? And why don't most UK dRTP teams have RSAs? step-up.ac.uk/blog/2025-12...

Registration open for first DisCouRSE Focus Group: Team Culture and Leadership in dRTP contexts. How can leadership influence a healthy team culture in dRTP context? Take part to exchange ideas & practices. discourse-network.github.io/events/20260...

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