Kalle Westerling
@kallewesterling.bsky.social
Day-time Research Application Manager at The Alan Turing Institute for digital arts and humanities research.
Night-time #drag historian with a PhD in #performance.
Formerly #DigitalHumanities Research Institute, Living with Machines, and HASTAC
Night-time #drag historian with a PhD in #performance.
Formerly #DigitalHumanities Research Institute, Living with Machines, and HASTAC
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Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...
November 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...
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Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3834 - Computational Humanities Research 2024
ceur-ws.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
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tag yourself, I'm "it's a dick" 🐳
November 18, 2024 at 2:09 PM
tag yourself, I'm "it's a dick" 🐳
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Can we take a moment to admire the extraordinary attention to detail in the costuming for #WolfHall from the incredible designer Joanna Eatwell? A flawless interpretation of Jane Seymour’s bonnet and gown from the Whitehall Mural 🙌
November 16, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Can we take a moment to admire the extraordinary attention to detail in the costuming for #WolfHall from the incredible designer Joanna Eatwell? A flawless interpretation of Jane Seymour’s bonnet and gown from the Whitehall Mural 🙌
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Upcoming MapReader Community Calls for fall and winter are all posted on the docs!
This month (on Oct 31 🎃), we'll be focusing on issues around annotation:
- what tools for annotating maps?
- what standards?
- human vs synthetic training data?
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
This month (on Oct 31 🎃), we'll be focusing on issues around annotation:
- what tools for annotating maps?
- what standards?
- human vs synthetic training data?
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
Events — MapReader 1.4.1.post0.dev5 documentation
mapreader.readthedocs.io
October 1, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Upcoming MapReader Community Calls for fall and winter are all posted on the docs!
This month (on Oct 31 🎃), we'll be focusing on issues around annotation:
- what tools for annotating maps?
- what standards?
- human vs synthetic training data?
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
This month (on Oct 31 🎃), we'll be focusing on issues around annotation:
- what tools for annotating maps?
- what standards?
- human vs synthetic training data?
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
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Join us for the next #IIIF Community call on Sept. 11, with the team behind Recogito Studio will present. Recogito Studio, a new annotation platform which facilitates annotation for education & research.
To join, use the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community
To join, use the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community
August 28, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Join us for the next #IIIF Community call on Sept. 11, with the team behind Recogito Studio will present. Recogito Studio, a new annotation platform which facilitates annotation for education & research.
To join, use the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community
To join, use the Zoom on the IIIF Community Calendar: iiif.io/community
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🗃️ Applications now open for the final 2024 Data/Culture workshop on big historical newspaper & maps data + tools.
Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.
forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3
www.turing.ac.uk/events/autum...
For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!
Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.
forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3
www.turing.ac.uk/events/autum...
For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!
Autumn Data/Culture Workshop
This workshop aims to bring together historians and others with an interest in using big, digitised historical map and newspaper collections as primary sourc
www.turing.ac.uk
August 15, 2024 at 3:30 PM
🗃️ Applications now open for the final 2024 Data/Culture workshop on big historical newspaper & maps data + tools.
Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.
forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3
www.turing.ac.uk/events/autum...
For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!
Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.
forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3
www.turing.ac.uk/events/autum...
For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!
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The next MapReader Community Call will be Sept 5 (4pm UK) - sign up here!
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
August 22, 2024 at 8:00 AM
The next MapReader Community Call will be Sept 5 (4pm UK) - sign up here!
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
mapreader.readthedocs.io/en/latest/co...
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Full-time permanent post @ucc.bsky.social
Lecturer in Literature and Empire
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Lecturer in Literature and Empire
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August 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM
Full-time permanent post @ucc.bsky.social
Lecturer in Literature and Empire
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Lecturer in Literature and Empire
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Our last newspapers & MapReader workshop of 2024! Taught by @danielwilson.bsky.social, @kallewesterling.bsky.social, Rosie Wood (Turing), Tim Hobson (Turing), & yours truly. With guest appearances from @fedenanni.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen (SAS) & Jon Lawrence (Exeter)! 🗃️
🗃️ Applications now open for the final 2024 Data/Culture workshop on big historical newspaper & maps data + tools.
Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.
forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3
www.turing.ac.uk/events/autum...
For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!
Sept 30-Oct 2 2024 in London & (partially) online.
forms.office.com/e/4h6sfLfuE3
www.turing.ac.uk/events/autum...
For historians & historically-minded colleagues & students!
Autumn Data/Culture Workshop
This workshop aims to bring together historians and others with an interest in using big, digitised historical map and newspaper collections as primary sourc
www.turing.ac.uk
August 15, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Our last newspapers & MapReader workshop of 2024! Taught by @danielwilson.bsky.social, @kallewesterling.bsky.social, Rosie Wood (Turing), Tim Hobson (Turing), & yours truly. With guest appearances from @fedenanni.bsky.social @npedrazzini.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen (SAS) & Jon Lawrence (Exeter)! 🗃️
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Who is Data/Culture? We are: @pieterfrancois.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social @andrepiza.bsky.social @davidbeavan.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social + Rosie Wood, Tim Hobson, Ed Chalstrey.
June 5, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Who is Data/Culture? We are: @pieterfrancois.bsky.social @ruthahnert.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social @andrepiza.bsky.social @davidbeavan.bsky.social @kallewesterling.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social + Rosie Wood, Tim Hobson, Ed Chalstrey.
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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...
I have five invite codes for BlueSky in case anyone needs one?
February 2, 2024 at 11:06 AM
I have five invite codes for BlueSky in case anyone needs one?
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it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
December 14, 2023 at 10:35 AM
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
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since the DH world is here: Who else has a full-blown "DH dissertation" that was finished *after* 2017 (aka after me, @walshbr.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social, @amandalicastro.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, etc finished our PhD programs)
November 27, 2023 at 8:52 PM
since the DH world is here: Who else has a full-blown "DH dissertation" that was finished *after* 2017 (aka after me, @walshbr.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social, @amandalicastro.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, etc finished our PhD programs)
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As part of Open Access Week, Ben Tiven (from Library Stack) and Amy Ballmer (from Pratt Libraries) and I are talking about open access + knowledge sharing — and discussing our new collab OA project, my Reparative Redaction booklet — this Thursday at 3pm ET on Zoom! pratt.libcal.com/event/11454430
October 23, 2023 at 7:52 PM
As part of Open Access Week, Ben Tiven (from Library Stack) and Amy Ballmer (from Pratt Libraries) and I are talking about open access + knowledge sharing — and discussing our new collab OA project, my Reparative Redaction booklet — this Thursday at 3pm ET on Zoom! pratt.libcal.com/event/11454430
So excited to have been working on this project — check out MapReader via the link below! I never won any real big prizes for my DH projects before so this is a big one for me 🎉🎉🎉
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! 🗃️
October 23, 2023 at 6:52 PM
So excited to have been working on this project — check out MapReader via the link below! I never won any real big prizes for my DH projects before so this is a big one for me 🎉🎉🎉
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CFP! Inkcap is collaborating w/ the Journal of Electronic Publishing for a special issue, titled "On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Comms and Publishing." Abstracts due Dec 15. Please submit & share widely! Creative & collaborative submissions most welcome.
Call for Papers: Special Issue, "On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly ...
Abstract submission deadline: December 15th 2023When we think of scholarly communication, we're usually thinking of something that can be shared independent of its creator(s). A book, a journal articl...
journals.publishing.umich.edu
October 23, 2023 at 6:07 PM
CFP! Inkcap is collaborating w/ the Journal of Electronic Publishing for a special issue, titled "On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Comms and Publishing." Abstracts due Dec 15. Please submit & share widely! Creative & collaborative submissions most welcome.
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How transparent are foundation models that claim to be "open"? A group centered at Stanford and led by Rishi Bommasani has released a paper proposing a transparency index. crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/fmti.pdf 🧪 #MLSky
October 19, 2023 at 3:15 PM
How transparent are foundation models that claim to be "open"? A group centered at Stanford and led by Rishi Bommasani has released a paper proposing a transparency index. crfm.stanford.edu/fmti/fmti.pdf 🧪 #MLSky
Just returned to my dissertation for the first time since my defense/viva in January 2022, as I'm preparing one chapter for potential publication, and it is both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. Monstrous feelings!
October 20, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Just returned to my dissertation for the first time since my defense/viva in January 2022, as I'm preparing one chapter for potential publication, and it is both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. Monstrous feelings!
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Microsoft Research has two new applied scientist positions to work with Hanna Wallach's team on identifying, measuring, and mitigating potential harms caused by generative AI systems:
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
October 19, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Microsoft Research has two new applied scientist positions to work with Hanna Wallach's team on identifying, measuring, and mitigating potential harms caused by generative AI systems:
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
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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