Federico Nanni
@fedenanni.bsky.social
Senior Research Data Scientist @ Research Engineering Group, The Alan Turing Institute • NLP and other related things
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Want to continue your #digitalhumanities journey?
Sign up for this short course on LLMs for humanities research at School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Run by two of our wonderful #text2tech convenors @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen.
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Sign up for this short course on LLMs for humanities research at School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Run by two of our wonderful #text2tech convenors @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen.
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research
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October 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Want to continue your #digitalhumanities journey?
Sign up for this short course on LLMs for humanities research at School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Run by two of our wonderful #text2tech convenors @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen.
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Sign up for this short course on LLMs for humanities research at School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Run by two of our wonderful #text2tech convenors @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen.
www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !
📢New post on FocalPlane - Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group
Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.
Courtney Lancaster @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social reflects on the success of the BioImage Interest Group at UCL, offering a template for other communities.
Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group - FocalPlane
Connecting Researchers Through Bioimaging: Reflections from UCL’s BioImage Interest Group -
focalplane.biologists.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Courtney @courtneyl7a7.bsky.social has written a lovely piece on this wonderful community initiative we’ve been running for 5 years at UCL - have a read! And follow @biig-ucl.bsky.social !
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Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
August 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Thrilled to share the first story from my postdoc! 🎉 A wonderful experiment + simulations collaboration. In the Drosophila wing, we find that 3D cell shapes affect signalling range and fine-tune developmental patterning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Thread below ⬇️
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My Pathway to Independence interview is now live on @dev-journal.bsky.social ! I had a great time speaking with @amjeve.bsky.social about my research journey and what's ahead journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
Pathway to Independence – an interview with Giulia Paci
Giulia Paci is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology at University College London, UK, supported by Yanlan Mao and Buzz Baum, who is interested in how developmental progra...
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August 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
My Pathway to Independence interview is now live on @dev-journal.bsky.social ! I had a great time speaking with @amjeve.bsky.social about my research journey and what's ahead journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...
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And we’re off! 🚀 After a very British day of showers, sunshine and rainbows, Day 1 ended with a fab welcome reception @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🎉 Thanks to everyone who joined & shared #digitalhumanities posters – and congratulations to the winners! 🏆📝
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
August 4, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And we’re off! 🚀 After a very British day of showers, sunshine and rainbows, Day 1 ended with a fab welcome reception @bodleian.ox.ac.uk 🎉 Thanks to everyone who joined & shared #digitalhumanities posters – and congratulations to the winners! 🏆📝
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
@stannescollege.bsky.social
@discoxford.bsky.social
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💻 Frontier performance on local compute
Our Project t0 team has shown that small, open-weight language models can deliver near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks.
Our Project t0 team has shown that small, open-weight language models can deliver near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks.
July 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
💻 Frontier performance on local compute
Our Project t0 team has shown that small, open-weight language models can deliver near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks.
Our Project t0 team has shown that small, open-weight language models can deliver near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks.
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We're hiring! The Aardvark Weather team is looking for a Senior Research Associate in end-to-end AI weather forecasting
Looking for experience in vision language models, Earth system forecasting, deep generative models, + strong software engineering
cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/...
Looking for experience in vision language models, Earth system forecasting, deep generative models, + strong software engineering
cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/...
Senior Research Associate, AI for Weather Forecasting
The Turing has recently undergone a restructuring and is now operating a challenge-led model with three Grand Challenges (Environment &Sustainabil
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July 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
We're hiring! The Aardvark Weather team is looking for a Senior Research Associate in end-to-end AI weather forecasting
Looking for experience in vision language models, Earth system forecasting, deep generative models, + strong software engineering
cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/...
Looking for experience in vision language models, Earth system forecasting, deep generative models, + strong software engineering
cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/...
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Thrilled to be part of the 2025 cohort and very grateful for the amazing opportunity !
Meet the 2025 @dev-journal.bsky.social Pathway to Independence (PI) fellows
Eight developmental and stem cell biologists transitioning from postdoc to principal investigator
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Eight developmental and stem cell biologists transitioning from postdoc to principal investigator
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PI Fellows 2025 | Development | The Company of Biologists
PI Fellows 2025 | Development | The Company of Biologists
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May 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Thrilled to be part of the 2025 cohort and very grateful for the amazing opportunity !
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People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think?
Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯
Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯
January 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
People often claim they know when ChatGPT wrote something, but are they as accurate as they think?
Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯
Turns out that while general population is unreliable, those who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks can spot even "humanized" AI-generated text with near-perfect accuracy 🎯
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1st CFP for the Student Research Workshop at ACL 2025, Vienna (July 27–Aug 1).
🗒️ 1st CFP Link: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
⏰ Paper Submission DL: May 18th
Pre-submission mentoring DL: March 27
🌐 Visit the SRW webpage at: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
Looking forward to many submissions!
🗒️ 1st CFP Link: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
⏰ Paper Submission DL: May 18th
Pre-submission mentoring DL: March 27
🌐 Visit the SRW webpage at: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
Looking forward to many submissions!
Student Research Workshop
ACL 2025 Student Research Workshop.
2025.aclweb.org
January 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
1st CFP for the Student Research Workshop at ACL 2025, Vienna (July 27–Aug 1).
🗒️ 1st CFP Link: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
⏰ Paper Submission DL: May 18th
Pre-submission mentoring DL: March 27
🌐 Visit the SRW webpage at: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
Looking forward to many submissions!
🗒️ 1st CFP Link: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
⏰ Paper Submission DL: May 18th
Pre-submission mentoring DL: March 27
🌐 Visit the SRW webpage at: 2025.aclweb.org/calls/studen...
Looking forward to many submissions!
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Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research
UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...
UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...
Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research at UCL
Explore an exciting academic career as a Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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November 26, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Snr Research Fellow with Digital Skills for Historical Research
UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...
UCL - SELCS-CMII #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKU346/s...
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Attention PhD students interested in digital safety: applications are now open for the Security, Trust, and Safety Fellowships at Cornell Tech!
Eligible projects must focus on adversarial threats to security, privacy and user safety on digital infrastructures.
🚡🚡🚡 mailchi.mp/tech/applica... 🚡🚡🚡
Eligible projects must focus on adversarial threats to security, privacy and user safety on digital infrastructures.
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November 21, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Attention PhD students interested in digital safety: applications are now open for the Security, Trust, and Safety Fellowships at Cornell Tech!
Eligible projects must focus on adversarial threats to security, privacy and user safety on digital infrastructures.
🚡🚡🚡 mailchi.mp/tech/applica... 🚡🚡🚡
Eligible projects must focus on adversarial threats to security, privacy and user safety on digital infrastructures.
🚡🚡🚡 mailchi.mp/tech/applica... 🚡🚡🚡
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Very promising and interesting event coming up in Paris in February 2025!
Submit your expression of interest or talk by Nov 24.
www.iaseai.org/conference
Submit your expression of interest or talk by Nov 24.
www.iaseai.org/conference
International Association for Safe & Ethical AI Conference — IASEAI 2025
The International Association for Safe and Ethical AI will host its inaugural conference (IASEAI ‘25) on Feb 6-7, 2025 at the OECD La Muette Headquarters and Conference Centre in Paris, ahead of the P...
www.iaseai.org
November 21, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Very promising and interesting event coming up in Paris in February 2025!
Submit your expression of interest or talk by Nov 24.
www.iaseai.org/conference
Submit your expression of interest or talk by Nov 24.
www.iaseai.org/conference
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We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing (NLP) | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
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November 19, 2024 at 2:33 PM
We're hiring new #nlp faculty this year!
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Asst or Assoc Professors in NLP at UMass CICS --
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
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Save the date! The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School will take place at St Anne's College from 4-8 August 2025.
Stay updated here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/digital-huma...
#digitalhumanities #DHOxSS2025
Stay updated here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/digital-huma...
#digitalhumanities #DHOxSS2025
Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School
4-8 August 2025. Learn from experts in the Digital Humanities in the beautiful setting Oxford
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November 18, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Save the date! The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School will take place at St Anne's College from 4-8 August 2025.
Stay updated here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/digital-huma...
#digitalhumanities #DHOxSS2025
Stay updated here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/digital-huma...
#digitalhumanities #DHOxSS2025
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We're now accepting applications for the 1st of 3 workshops introducing historians 🗃️ (& other historically-minded researchers) to tools & data created on Living w/Machines - first up, 2 days w/MapReader.
April 30-May 1 in London @ the Turing
Bursaries available!
www.turing.ac.uk/events/sprin...
April 30-May 1 in London @ the Turing
Bursaries available!
www.turing.ac.uk/events/sprin...
Spring Data/Culture Workshop: Search inside maps with MapReader
MapReader, which received the 2023 Roy Rosenweig Prize for Inno
www.turing.ac.uk
February 27, 2024 at 3:16 PM
We're now accepting applications for the 1st of 3 workshops introducing historians 🗃️ (& other historically-minded researchers) to tools & data created on Living w/Machines - first up, 2 days w/MapReader.
April 30-May 1 in London @ the Turing
Bursaries available!
www.turing.ac.uk/events/sprin...
April 30-May 1 in London @ the Turing
Bursaries available!
www.turing.ac.uk/events/sprin...
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The most humane coverage I’ve read of the British Library ransomware attack: ‘It is important to remember that experiencing a cyber attack is traumatic for everyone involved, & that the British Library’s staff are working extremely hard to mitigate the impact to users & restore their services.’
British Library cyber attack explained: What you need to know | Com...
In this essential guide, Computer Weekly investigates the cyber attack on the British Library that has rendered IT systems inoperable and caused service disruption to thousands of users
www.computerweekly.com
January 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
The most humane coverage I’ve read of the British Library ransomware attack: ‘It is important to remember that experiencing a cyber attack is traumatic for everyone involved, & that the British Library’s staff are working extremely hard to mitigate the impact to users & restore their services.’
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MapReader (mapreader.readthedocs.io) has been awarded the AHA Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History this year!!!
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2023 awardees! 🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2023 Prize Winners
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 prizes.
www.historians.org
October 23, 2023 at 5:55 PM
MapReader (mapreader.readthedocs.io) has been awarded the AHA Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History this year!!!
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Mini-thread! It’s publication day for Tudor Networks of Power, which I co-wrote with Sebastian Ahnert. We are really proud of this book, which brings methods from network science to the study of 130k early modern letters But it’s not just a book! global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/8
October 12, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Mini-thread! It’s publication day for Tudor Networks of Power, which I co-wrote with Sebastian Ahnert. We are really proud of this book, which brings methods from network science to the study of 130k early modern letters But it’s not just a book! global.oup.com/academic/pro... 1/8
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The next of our Living with Machines digital residents was Nicolò Bonato who developed a visualisation of our press directories, linking the political leanings of papers with election results. livingwithmachines.ac.uk/lwm-digital-...
Our project Living with Machines funded a series of digital residencies to support work using one of ur datasets or tools/workflows. This is a blog about the first of those by Yann Ryan on his fantastic online guide to accessing and analysing newspaper data livingwithmachines.ac.uk/lwm-digital-...
October 11, 2023 at 9:24 AM
The next of our Living with Machines digital residents was Nicolò Bonato who developed a visualisation of our press directories, linking the political leanings of papers with election results. livingwithmachines.ac.uk/lwm-digital-...