Peter Findlay
@pfin25.bsky.social
There's nothing to see here.
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Eero Järnefelt
( 1863 - 1937 ) Finnish painter
"Pine Tree" pencil on paper, c.1887 ( page from the artist's sketchbook )
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
( 1863 - 1937 ) Finnish painter
"Pine Tree" pencil on paper, c.1887 ( page from the artist's sketchbook )
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Eero Järnefelt
( 1863 - 1937 ) Finnish painter
"Pine Tree" pencil on paper, c.1887 ( page from the artist's sketchbook )
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
( 1863 - 1937 ) Finnish painter
"Pine Tree" pencil on paper, c.1887 ( page from the artist's sketchbook )
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Georgia.' (1973) The first major UK exhibition in over 20 years of Euan Uglow's work will be staged at Milton Keynes Gallery in February next year.
December 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Georgia.' (1973) The first major UK exhibition in over 20 years of Euan Uglow's work will be staged at Milton Keynes Gallery in February next year.
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'Green Fields at Sunset.' Joan Eardley rarely strikes a false note. Although a flair for pictorial construction is evident even in the freest of her sketches, these are deeply felt personal responses, momentary sensations, and what she called 'the notion of landscape inside me.'
December 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
'Green Fields at Sunset.' Joan Eardley rarely strikes a false note. Although a flair for pictorial construction is evident even in the freest of her sketches, these are deeply felt personal responses, momentary sensations, and what she called 'the notion of landscape inside me.'
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Ryohei Tanaka (1933 - 2019, Japan), Onion Flowers No. 1.
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Ryohei Tanaka (1933 - 2019, Japan), Onion Flowers No. 1.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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'Cliffs, South Stack, Anglesey.' The darkness implicit in so many of Kyffin Williams's mountain landscapes was a facet of his own make-up. He recognised in it the Celtic tendency to melancholy and that a certain despair and gloom were the logical sequel to his epileptic seizures.
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
'Cliffs, South Stack, Anglesey.' The darkness implicit in so many of Kyffin Williams's mountain landscapes was a facet of his own make-up. He recognised in it the Celtic tendency to melancholy and that a certain despair and gloom were the logical sequel to his epileptic seizures.
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Anne Skinner (Scottish Artist)
"Blue Moon", 2012.
Screen Print, 41 × 67 cm.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Blue Moon", 2012.
Screen Print, 41 × 67 cm.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anne Skinner (Scottish Artist)
"Blue Moon", 2012.
Screen Print, 41 × 67 cm.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
"Blue Moon", 2012.
Screen Print, 41 × 67 cm.
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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November 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Pablo Picasso - Germaine, 1900. Oil on board laid down on cradled panel
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Pablo Picasso - Germaine, 1900. Oil on board laid down on cradled panel
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
“Field with Poppies” 1889
“Field with Poppies” 1889
November 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)
“Field with Poppies” 1889
“Field with Poppies” 1889
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The Distant Island https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235924
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Distant Island https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235924
See this LinkedIn post from Kaspar Beelen about a report we worked on about small language models: www.linkedin.com/posts/kaspar...
Another attempt at self-promotion before I shut up till the new year... probably. 🫠
In the age of ChatGPT, do small language models (SLMs) still matter for libraries and humanities research? 🫥… | Ka...
Another attempt at self-promotion before I shut up till the new year... probably. 🫠
In the age of ChatGPT, do small language models (SLMs) still matter for libraries and humanities research? 🫥
Pe...
www.linkedin.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
See this LinkedIn post from Kaspar Beelen about a report we worked on about small language models: www.linkedin.com/posts/kaspar...
Bridget Riley (b. 1931), The River at Molecey's Mill, 1952–1955. Collection of the artist. © Bridget Riley 2023.
October 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Bridget Riley (b. 1931), The River at Molecey's Mill, 1952–1955. Collection of the artist. © Bridget Riley 2023.
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This is honestly fascinating - dissecting vibes into the incredibly concrete - and people should be using it as a discussion starter in writing classes
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is honestly fascinating - dissecting vibes into the incredibly concrete - and people should be using it as a discussion starter in writing classes
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🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 2,343 manuscripts in the collection of Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari—the library of the Sidi Yahya Mosque (or Jāmiʻ Sīdī Yaḥyá) in #Timbuktu, Mali, which dates to the 15th century.
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
2,343 manuscripts from Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari in Tombouctou, Mali, are now available in Reading Room
2,343 manuscripts from Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari in Tombouctou, Mali, are now available in Reading Room page
hmml.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
🧵(1) Digitization & cataloging is complete for 2,343 manuscripts in the collection of Bibliothèque des Manuscrits al-Wangari—the library of the Sidi Yahya Mosque (or Jāmiʻ Sīdī Yaḥyá) in #Timbuktu, Mali, which dates to the 15th century.
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
Learn more: hmml.org/collections/...
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5000 archives is quite a milestone - and no better way to celebrate it than the publication of the new permanent home for the 'Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi' - a stunning collection of 28,000 images of stained glass - especially for those who thought we were just about holes in the ground.
🎉 An Exciting Announcement 🎉
This week the ADS surpassed 5,000 archive collections! We wanted to give a big thank you to everyone that has allowed us to reach this milestone.
⭐ To find out more about some of the collections released this year visit: buff.ly/qc8n33g
This week the ADS surpassed 5,000 archive collections! We wanted to give a big thank you to everyone that has allowed us to reach this milestone.
⭐ To find out more about some of the collections released this year visit: buff.ly/qc8n33g
August 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
5000 archives is quite a milestone - and no better way to celebrate it than the publication of the new permanent home for the 'Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi' - a stunning collection of 28,000 images of stained glass - especially for those who thought we were just about holes in the ground.
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🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
August 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840?
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners!
#SwitchingTheLens
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For #GenAI, 'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470
Generative AI and the Future of the Digital Commons: Five Open Questions and Knowledge Gaps
The rapid advancement of Generative AI (GenAI) relies heavily on the digital commons, a vast collection of free and open online content that is created, shared, and maintained by communities.…
www.arxiv.org
August 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
For #GenAI, 'The digital commons should not be treated as an object ripe for extraction, but as an expression of “commoning” [Dulong de Rosnay and Stalder 2020]; i.e., as a manifestation of the practice of making, maintaining, and protecting shared and open resources.'
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.06470
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I agree; something I have also been thinking (and saying) in my own off life networks
Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵
August 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I agree; something I have also been thinking (and saying) in my own off life networks
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On small, local language models: 'In a world increasingly dominated by massive models and opaque APIs, we believe there’s still room for small, transparent, controllable systems. Models you can fine-tune, understand and run on your own terms' www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
Why we still need small language models – even in the age of frontier AI
Lean, locally run models can unlock huge benefits for public sector and compute-constrained environments
www.turing.ac.uk
August 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
On small, local language models: 'In a world increasingly dominated by massive models and opaque APIs, we believe there’s still room for small, transparent, controllable systems. Models you can fine-tune, understand and run on your own terms' www.turing.ac.uk/blog/why-we-...
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💻 Only one week to go until our Code Anxiety Club!
This session will focus on "Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways"
To join the session, please follow the link to our livestream: www.youtube.com/live/h45KXR7...
This session will focus on "Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways"
To join the session, please follow the link to our livestream: www.youtube.com/live/h45KXR7...
Code Anxiety Club: Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways
YouTube video by UK DATA SERVICE
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August 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
💻 Only one week to go until our Code Anxiety Club!
This session will focus on "Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways"
To join the session, please follow the link to our livestream: www.youtube.com/live/h45KXR7...
This session will focus on "Pathways to Success: Mastering File Pathways"
To join the session, please follow the link to our livestream: www.youtube.com/live/h45KXR7...
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Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/19/g...
Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All - The Scholarly Kitchen
Open access has revolutionized how research reaches readers — yet, true accessibility is an ethical imperative for institutions, publishers, and service providers to create genuinely inclusive scholar...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
August 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Guest Post — Beyond Open Access, Part 1: Make Academic Content Truly Accessible for All scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/19/g...
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Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out.
I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!
I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!
August 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Is there actually no-one in the UK Library landscape who wants to become Chair of the CILIP LGBTQ+ Network, or are we just not getting the message out.
I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!
I can't continue - way to much going on, but without a chair, the network folds... If you've been mulling it over, now is the time to get in touch!