Melissa Terras
@melissaterras.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including CoSTAR network activities, Creative Informatics, and Transkribus. MBE FREng.
View from a hotel room, Istanbul. Here to keynote the cooperative AI conference. It would be #academicglamour but all the computers are down so no wifi… and no doors opening or locking. I may raid the minibar given that sensor is offline too. While I pile furniture against the door… #postdigital
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
View from a hotel room, Istanbul. Here to keynote the cooperative AI conference. It would be #academicglamour but all the computers are down so no wifi… and no doors opening or locking. I may raid the minibar given that sensor is offline too. While I pile furniture against the door… #postdigital
Happy Halloween, all! New guisers this year include people wearing green hooded cloaks…
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Happy Halloween, all! New guisers this year include people wearing green hooded cloaks…
An evening with the wonderful Suzanne Vega in #Edinburgh
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
An evening with the wonderful Suzanne Vega in #Edinburgh
The long-haired Burmese cat that hangs out in our local graveyard… #Edinburgh
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The long-haired Burmese cat that hangs out in our local graveyard… #Edinburgh
View from a b&b, #York. Last trip of this run before a whole four weeks at home…! #academicglamour
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
View from a b&b, #York. Last trip of this run before a whole four weeks at home…! #academicglamour
At the Guildhall, York today for our XRNetwork event - celebrating the projects we’ve funded but also Emma Brown now talking about the hard work we’ve put into EDI to make sure we’re reaching, supporting, and funding a wide range of people across the UK, via wonderful @xrstories.bsky.social team
October 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
At the Guildhall, York today for our XRNetwork event - celebrating the projects we’ve funded but also Emma Brown now talking about the hard work we’ve put into EDI to make sure we’re reaching, supporting, and funding a wide range of people across the UK, via wonderful @xrstories.bsky.social team
Rogue urban sunflowers. Love it. #edinburgh
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Rogue urban sunflowers. Love it. #edinburgh
Had time to pop into the fab @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Treasure exhibition. The “problematic” case was eye opening. I hadn’t heard of this truly awful bible - the parallels today re what power is doing in the name of Christianity shows exactly why we need libraries, historians, & humanities scholars now.
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Had time to pop into the fab @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Treasure exhibition. The “problematic” case was eye opening. I hadn’t heard of this truly awful bible - the parallels today re what power is doing in the name of Christianity shows exactly why we need libraries, historians, & humanities scholars now.
View from a college room, #Oxford. Love it. #academicglamour
September 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
View from a college room, #Oxford. Love it. #academicglamour
Am becoming quite obsessed with this little ruined house right on the cliffs just outside Berwick, which you can briefly glimpse from the East Coast Mainline. 😍
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Am becoming quite obsessed with this little ruined house right on the cliffs just outside Berwick, which you can briefly glimpse from the East Coast Mainline. 😍
Well the Pillow Queens at the Usher Hall were awesomesauce. Finally got to see them live. 10/10 no notes. They finished with Liffey 🥰 which is where to start with them if you don’t know them…
September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Well the Pillow Queens at the Usher Hall were awesomesauce. Finally got to see them live. 10/10 no notes. They finished with Liffey 🥰 which is where to start with them if you don’t know them…
At gate, about to leave China. An eye-opening 10-day trip, on tech ambition, infrastructure, pursuit of engineering… but essential place of criticality, and the humanities. I read this phenomenal Dan Wang book while here - really recommend it. View from Shanghai tower yesterday. Mind-blowing.
September 15, 2025 at 2:16 AM
At gate, about to leave China. An eye-opening 10-day trip, on tech ambition, infrastructure, pursuit of engineering… but essential place of criticality, and the humanities. I read this phenomenal Dan Wang book while here - really recommend it. View from Shanghai tower yesterday. Mind-blowing.
View from a hotel room, #Shanghai #academicglamour - home again, home again, early doors tomorrow… had a fab trip, but!
September 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
View from a hotel room, #Shanghai #academicglamour - home again, home again, early doors tomorrow… had a fab trip, but!
Just chatting to other hotel guests about how much we love the official Chinese “Beware of Communication Network Scams” poster on the back of our room doors… the illustrations have their own peculiar aesthetic…!
September 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Just chatting to other hotel guests about how much we love the official Chinese “Beware of Communication Network Scams” poster on the back of our room doors… the illustrations have their own peculiar aesthetic…!
Nanjing Flea/Vintage/Antique Market… fascinating range of things… I came home with 1960s(?) Deer Lady!
September 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Nanjing Flea/Vintage/Antique Market… fascinating range of things… I came home with 1960s(?) Deer Lady!
Also, #Nanjing is a fantastic place to explore. What an opportunity. Although - much support to my colleagues back home in Edinburgh trying to communicate with fingers-in-ears-la-la-la power, on home turf.
September 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Also, #Nanjing is a fantastic place to explore. What an opportunity. Although - much support to my colleagues back home in Edinburgh trying to communicate with fingers-in-ears-la-la-la power, on home turf.
Having a marvellous time in #Nanjing, a guest of the fantastic Nanjing Uni, and a visit today to Nanjing Normal Uni. Today is Teacher’s Day in China - a national, celebrated festival: the atmosphere so, so different to how it feels working in UK Higher Ed just now.
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Having a marvellous time in #Nanjing, a guest of the fantastic Nanjing Uni, and a visit today to Nanjing Normal Uni. Today is Teacher’s Day in China - a national, celebrated festival: the atmosphere so, so different to how it feels working in UK Higher Ed just now.
View from a hotel, #NanjingUniversity, China. Here to keynote at an AI conference later in the week. #academicglamour
September 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
View from a hotel, #NanjingUniversity, China. Here to keynote at an AI conference later in the week. #academicglamour
AI things I love: the Merlin bird call identification app from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social, Cornell. Screenshot of the sounds of Oxford before I wend my way home. More of this kind of AI processing, please. And we should be asking why there isn’t more of this, and where resources are to build more.
September 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
AI things I love: the Merlin bird call identification app from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social, Cornell. Screenshot of the sounds of Oxford before I wend my way home. More of this kind of AI processing, please. And we should be asking why there isn’t more of this, and where resources are to build more.
September 4, 2025 at 9:57 AM
August 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM