It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO

Dear UK colleagues and friends, I will be giving several virtual talks about Empire of Refugees (@stanfordpress.bsky.social, 2024). Zoom in! Sep 30 — University of Edinburgh Oct 2 — University College London Oct 7 — Anglo-Turkish Society Oct 28 — King's College London More details below.

There are rainbows, and then there are RAINBOWS!!

My group just finished up a new paper that I'm excited to get out into the world: "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" (to be published at CHR): github.com/bamman-group...

GitHub - bamman-group/ca-classification-data: Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics"

Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data

Headed to London for our last @dataculture.bsky.social workshop for 2024. We have a blast doing these and they wouldn’t be possible without contributions from many former Living w Machines people. Meeting new colleagues at workshops + getting the gang back together = 🥳

If you're a #skystorian#EarlyModern@bhamhistory.bsky.social@emilymayvine.bsky.social#OpenAccesswww.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Jazzed to be co-PIs w/ @jhereia.bsky.social@tamigraph.bsky.social@datasociety.bsky.social—Dr. Kneese has been doing amazing work on climate & computing for years so it’s an honor to be on a project w/her that confronts the urgent, evolving reality of AI’s environmental impacts

JRjhereia.bsky.socialSep 27, 2024 1:23pm

We got an NSF ReDDDoT planning grant! I'll work w/ PI @tamigraph.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social and co-PI @histoftech.bsky.social ✨ We'll engage communities impacted by AI’s material infrastructures (e.g. data centers) to include environmental impacts beyond carbon: new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-phi...

NSF and philanthropic partners invest more than $18M to prioritize ethical and societal considerations in the creation of emerging technologies

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced an inaugural investment of more than $18 million to 44 multidisciplinary, multi-sector teams across the U.S…

Le séminaire du Pireh a repris aujourd'hui. RDV le vendredi à 9h30, à la Sorbonne ou sur Zoom, pour celles et ceux qui s'intéressent à l'utilisation du numérique en histoire. Nous aurons notamment le plaisir d'y recevoir @jbcamps.bsky.social@sandrabree.bsky.social.

Headed home after a wonderful Spatial Humanities conf!! Thanks Bamberg organizers!

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