Hello all — here’s the full programme for our 2025 conference, on 17-18 March! See this link to register, to attend virtually or in-person: forms.gle/Hx9jUxETfYMpdc… And see the link to our website, on our profile, for more information!

Attention Assyriologists & Mesopotamian archaeologists! The IAA Prize for the Best Article of an Early Career Scholar is open for submissions until March 31, 2025. Win €1,000 and gain recognition for your work! Details & submission: iaassyriology.com/iaa-prize/ #Assyriology

An exciting #JobOpportunity at the University of Edinburgh 👀 Post-doc Fellow position of 3 years (1FTE) to work on the Leverhulme project 'Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social Media'. 🔜 Deadline: 24 March ℹ️ More info: buff.ly/QKbNMzD

More coverage of our work on AI for ancient cuneiform! news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/0…

have been working to update the European Art Dataset on Biglam's Hugging Face page. I'm happy to announce that it is fully updated along with 5 Yolov11 models. This dataset has ~15,000 images annotated for object detection. #MachineLearning #DigitalHumanities

If you haven't seen Anthropic's AI in Education report, it is a must read for higher ed profs. A few highlights: 🧵

An important training on machine learning and AI in Arabic and Islamic Studies by Maxim Romanov & the EIS1600 team, deadline April 30. In-person in Hamburg. kitab-project.org/Registration-C…

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, in Joshua Hammer's The Mesopotamian Riddle newscientist.com/article/mg2663…

New update from Seemore Foundation & the Usul platform, which relies on OpenITI texts. It is great to see the reuse of work by the KITAB and OpenITI project teams + Shamela. Their motto: 'Building for The AI Age'. usul.ai. Matthew Thomas Miller (He/Him), Maxim Romanov SHARIAsource

Thrilled to be featured (along with a few of the many rising stars of digital history) in this week's PNAS Front Matter: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… "Historians Use Data Science to Mine the Past"

The Harvard Data Science Review just published our paper on Data Reuse: hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/m0dqvamt... The basic argument is that reuse of open data takes work but it can open up ancient languages such as Greek. Example: look at the Grk when arguing about Homer translations.

Thank you for having me How To Academy podcast and Vassili Christodoulou! You can listen to the episode here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/assyr…

🚨The Greek alphabet may be older than we think! Recent findings from Leiden University, led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal, suggest that the Greek alphabet may have originated earlier than the traditionally accepted 8th century BCE. Through radiocarbon dating of early

התראיינתי היום בכלכליסט על החרם האקדמי על ישראל:

Thread 1/2: 🚨 New #OpenData alert! 🚨 We mapped 5,542 archaeological sites across the South #Levant (from Chalcolithic to Byzantine periods). Perfect for #GIS, settlement patterns & long-term studies! Journal of Open Archaeology Data (JOAD) 🔗 tinyurl.com/4k4v7rce #OpenScience #Archaeology #Levant

🆕 paper alert! 📢 "DATAMESOP: #DATAset on Stable Isotope Measurement (Strontium, Oxygen and Carbon) of #Archaeological and Non-Archaeological Materials from South-West #Asia for #MESOPotamia": tinyurl.com/zdx3bkr6 #Archaeology #Mesopotamia #OpenData

Great app to test out OCR models from merve . App available for free on Hugging Face .

חברתי רננה קידר נעצרה ליד הבית שלה בירושלים - היא לבשה כובע שכתוב עליו דמוקרטיה

AI is coming to the humanities. Whether the humanities welcomes it, we'll see! nature.com/articles/s4358…

🆕Paper alert 📢! "A Geometric Morphometric Dataset of Edo-Period ‘Ogame’ Jar Profiles from Northern Kyushu, Japan 🇯🇵🗾" by James Frances Loftus: openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10.53… #Archaeology #OpenScience #OpenData #Datapaper