mia ridge
Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol at British Library. EB Secretary @adho-org. Access + UX for digital heritage, AI/machine learning and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage / GLAM / digital humanities. She, they. More at https://www.miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!
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- Reposted by mia ridgeDisinformation spreads for free while more and more news gets locked behind paywalls and other obstacles. It's not hard to envision how that ends. theconversation.com/news-sites-a...
- Reposted by mia ridgeI just learned that there's a book titled "The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900" and it's going straight onto my list of favorite academic book titles academic.oup.com/north-caroli...
- Reposted by mia ridgeNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Really enjoyed hearing from @aarontay.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social at CONUL's AI in Libraries seminar - lots of great talks to come! conul.ie/seminar-ai-i...
- Reposted by mia ridgeFor the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.
- 'I am scared to live in a society whose members are incapable of having deep discussions and arguments' How Big Tech Killed Online Debate www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-big...
- Reposted by mia ridge."..we should take comfort, or at least a deep breath, recognizing that relatively few job openings explicitly call for AI know-how. It simply isn’t true that you can’t land a job without mastering Claude or ChatGPT."
- Reposted by mia ridgeThe UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
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Bill Turkel and I have just published an article in DHQ. It is about the emergence of Manslaughter as a charge at the Old Bailey, and the working methods we used to analyse the data. dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/4/000... Thanks to Gabor Toth for shepherding it through peer review. - Reposted by mia ridge[Not loaded yet]
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- Reposted by mia ridgeApply for our PhD placement scheme to get involved in extraordinary research at the Library. There are eight available placements exploring a variety of themes including war poetry, 21st-century digital tools, illustrated newspapers and decarbonisation. Find out more: link.bl.uk/PhDPlacements
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- Reposted by mia ridgeGoogle books going down is just the latest in the long catalogue of “don’t rely on big tech to save the commons”
- Reposted by mia ridgeHappy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.
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- Reposted by mia ridge“Jaywalking is permitted in London. In 1966, the police tried to crack down on it, but gave up after three months.” People walk and cycle on roads by right, people drive under licence. Jaywalking is not a thing in English law and Waymo must not change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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- What is there to do in Dublin on a Thursday night? I'm staying right near TCD, and haven't been there since 2014 or so
- Reposted by mia ridgeVery happy to share that our new paper, "Interoperability as Equity: Collaborative Cultural Heritage Knowledge Graphs as a Tool to Shape Inclusive Ontologies" is out! We are discussing linked open data, ontologies, Wikidata and interoperability with CIDOC CRM doi.org/10.5334/johd...
- Reposted by mia ridgeMilton tangent complete, I am returning to my work on erased/struck out/obliterated inscriptions. For many reasons they aren't the easiest things to locate in online catalogues. So if you come across any fun ones (esp. in books published prior to ~1750), here is a public request to think of me.
- I don't know why but I've suddenly remembered the Madonna parody that went 'Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie, put your hands all over my body'.
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- Reposted by mia ridgeCRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships
- Reposted by mia ridgeOne of my most cherished classes is my 18th century novels course where the primary learning objective is "learn how read long novels." We did a "couch to 5k" approach to attention span and note-taking.
- Reposted by mia ridgeThe research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories. Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo... #envhist #envhum
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- Reposted by mia ridgeKey takeaway: stop using biometrics to unlock your devices.
- New court record from the FBI details the state of the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: phone was on w/Lockdown Mode; personal laptop was off; work laptop was on w/Touch ID; several Signal chats used disappearing messages. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
- Reposted by mia ridge"Clearly the levels of funding in these institutions is not what it is in other countries and it has not been keeping up with inflation. Over the last 20 years, it is down 40% in real terms." Interview with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social interim CEO Jeremy Silver www.thetimes.com/article/d6f2...
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- Reposted by mia ridge“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by mia ridgeGreat news! 🙌 Art UK will be relaunching our crowdsourcing platform Art Detective, thanks to a grant from @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social Find out more 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto... 🧑🎨 Mary Winifrid Smith (1904–1992) © the artist's estate. 📷 @nationaltrust.org.uk
- Reposted by mia ridgeHow Businesses Are Manipulating ChatGPT Results You’ve long heard about search engine optimization. Companies are now spending big on generative engine optimization. my latest for @wsj.com 🎁🔗 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
- Reposted by mia ridgeThe most beautiful #snail ever to exist! Many #marine snails go through an early life stage called #veliger, wherein they drift along with the #plankton before settling onto the sea floor as an adult. We call this, #sparkles #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #mollusk #gug
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- I'm not saying the story is a beat-up, but I've had a lot of encounters with NHS staff over the past nine years, and not once have they called me 'madam'.
- UKRI fellowship funding for exceptional AI researchers currently based outside of the UK - funding to relocate to the UK, establish a highly skilled team, undertake transformational AI research More info: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... Manchester Uni express interest form: forms.gle/ZUMJKCbxFJJG...
- 'It is 2025, and seemingly everyone wants us in the humanities to do stuff “with AI,” informed not by what the technology avails but by the hopes it encodes.' Sonja Drimmer on 🔥on Art Forum www.artforum.com/features/gen... #AI4LAM
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- Reposted by mia ridgeTo round out your January, please enjoy Part 2 of "Getting Started in Periodicals Research," a conversation between @c19thnewshound.bsky.social and @patrickleary.bsky.social! In this installment, Patrick talks attributions research and digitization in periodical studies. rs4vp.org/getting-star...
- Aww, it'll never get to be a real fish
- OOOOH Researchfish Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠 help.researchfish.com/en_US/resear...
- Reposted by mia ridgeIt's official! I've been 'doctored'. So many folks to thank - for now, fab supervisors @digivictorian.bsky.social, @bethgaskell.bsky.social, @drbeard79.bsky.social, @miaout.bsky.social, great examiners @jimmussell.bsky.social, @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social and many friends/colleagues @rs4vp.org.
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- Reposted by mia ridgeMeta has been lobbying for this all around the world. It moves the cost of compliance to the App platforms (Apple and Google) and government and away from them. It also literally does nothing to address any of the actual problems we’ve seen this month with Grok, CSAM etc.
- I don't know what this says about my life but I've just remembered that I dreamt that I read or tagged then closed loads of browser tabs. In the dream I was so proud of myself!
- Reposted by mia ridgeWe're looking at setting up the Society for Hopeful Technologists as a co-operative society and I'd love to speak with folks or find examples of folks who have experience of running membership orgs that are also coops societyforhopefultechnologists.org
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- Reposted by mia ridgeHow? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
- Your semi-regular reminder that the British Library's Research Repository has stacks of open datasets from collections, and research by Library staff e.g. bl.iro.bl.uk/catalog?f[hu... #OpenAccess #OpenGLAM
- Reposted by mia ridgehowever, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely
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