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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 2d

✨ 🌱 Update: call for submissions deadline extended to 12th October!

Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 10d

⏰ Last day to submit to Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital!

📅 Conference: 23-26 June 2026
⏳ Deadline: 30 September 2025

Topics: computational humanities, digital ecologies, AI ethics & more.

Submit now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

#digitalhumanities #cfp

Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital | King's College London

From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 7d

We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, recent news from the (proposed) record-breaking $55 billion deal with the video game maker Electronic Arts Inc.!!
#videogames #gaming #EA
www.euronews.com/business/202...

How could EA's go-private deal impact the video game industry?

If the transaction is approved, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund will join Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, run by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as EA’s new owne...

www.euronews.com

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Helena Atteneder @aneleh-redenetta.bsky.social · 19d

What an amazing conference it was!!! Many thanks to the organisers, to all my wonderful colleagues and friends! Geomedia Conference always feels like home. 🌍😁🥰#geomedia #transforming-passion #geomedia-studies #karlstad-university

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info-activism.bsky.social @info-activism.bsky.social · 14d

[Recommended resource + event] 🚀 Our friends at Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social have just released a new field guide: “The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build.” Read more: blog.okfn.org/2025/09/23/o...

Our New Field Guide: ‘The Tech We Want | Read This Before You Build’ - Open Knowledge Blog

We at OKFN are questioning our own practices and learning how to do things anew. This new publication compiles some of these processes and invites you to put your community first.

blog.okfn.org

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · 17d

🇨🇦🎮👾Call for abstracts until 10 October 2025 for the HCII 2026 conference & affiliated conferences, such as the 8th International Conference on HCI in Games, to be hosted in Montreal, Canada!! More info at: 2026.hci.international/hci-games
#HCI #games #play #design #impact #VR #AR #XR #AI #HCII2026

View of Montreal in summer, with the Biodome and several bridges. Photo by D.P. Henriques 2025 CCBY.

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Scott Rodgers @scott-rodgers.bsky.social · 22d

Laura Mulvey, who recently retired from Birkbeck, to refeive a BFI Fellowship. www.bfi.org.uk/news/laura-m...

Laura Mulvey to receive a BFI Fellowship

The BFI’s highest honour recognises the huge global impact of Mulvey’s work through her groundbreaking writing and filmmaking, including her seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’.

www.bfi.org.uk

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · Aug 24

This is an open biblio —and anyone can add to it to help keep it updated!

Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Aug 24

And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:

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Matevž Čelik Vidmar @matevzcelik.bsky.social · Aug 5

Rimska arena v Nîmesu, zgrajena okoli leta 100 n. št., ena bolje ohranjenih. V 6. stol. je postala trdnjava, v 12. stol. srednjeveška četrt. Do 18. stol. v njej stalo 150 hiš. Po obnovi v 19. stol. zaživela na novo. Danes gosti koncerte, festivale, uprizoritve. Dediščina se ohranja in živi naprej.

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sharing this recent interview with @dietoff.bsky.social, E76 | "The Shape of Synthetic Data" Pondering AI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9njJ...

E76 | The Shape of Synthetic Data with Dietmar Offenhuber | Pondering AI

YouTube video by SAS Software

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Anna Jackman @ahjackman.bsky.social · Jun 17

📢 New article - 'Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms'. Louise Hooper
@gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and I reflect on the legal dimensions of off-the-shelf drone incidents and the potential diversified harms accompanying them.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Techno-legal geographies: consumer drone misuse and harms

Drones increasingly feature beyond battlefields, deployed across civil, commercial and hobbyist applications and contexts. So too are off-the-shelf consumer drones increasingly being misused. From ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · Jul 26

In NES games, Luigi is at an unfair disadvantage since he cannot pause the game. While this might be self-evident to Japanese players, international players might find this handicap baffling. The reason is the Famicom's lack of Start and Select buttons on the second controller.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · Jul 27

Hieronymus Bosch owl detail from Le Louvre today. Vibe.

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎥 Cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira em Santarém. Na foto, o filme histórico-biográfico "The Elephant Man/ O Homem Elefante," realizado por David Lynch (1980) e baseado na vida de Joseph Merrick. #cinema #cultura #Verao #Santarem
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...

Foto das sessões de cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira, em Santarém. Nesta foto, vê-se um still do filme histórico-biográfico "The Elephant Man/ O Homem Elefante," realizado por David Lynch (1980) e baseado na vida de Joseph Merrick (1862 – 1890).

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Scott Rodgers @scott-rodgers.bsky.social · Jul 18

Some snaps from the @birmac.bsky.social / Media & Democracy / Qualitative Methods Group workshop 'Exploring Quali-Quantitative Approaches in Social Media Research', where me, @robtoes.bsky.social & participants explored methods for approaching the messy, contradictory phenomena that is social media

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WIRED @wired.com · Jul 24

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for harming the planet. www.wired.com/story/the-ic...

The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law

In a landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice declared that failure to act on climate change can be an “internationally wrongful act”—meaning countries could face legal consequences for...

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · Jul 23

Huge news from the International Court of Justice in the Hague – the start of a new era of climate accountability

The court confirms that states are obliged to act on the climate crisis, and that the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is fundamental for all other human rights

World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities - Greenpeace International

The world’s highest court has just delivered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in the face of the climate emergency.[1] The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision deliver...

www.greenpeace.org

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thekeysmusic.bsky.social @thekeysmusic.bsky.social · Jul 23

@jemgilbert.bsky.social check out our new album just dropped ACID COMMUNISM orcd.co/acidcommunism

KEYS - Acid Communism

Dewiswch wasanaeth // Choose your preferred music service

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · Jul 25

Hong Kong Noir! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · Jul 20

📝Don't miss the IWG online meeting of the @opendatacharter.org, on 'data created by non-governmental actors: challenges & opportunities': Tuesday, 22 Jul 2025, 7pm (UTC+1). In my talk, I'll discuss data re-use in multicultural cities. #NGOs #opendata #datamigration #datarecycling
👇 Register below..

Banner for the talk by Diogo Pereira Henriques, titled "Open data (and im)migration: *foreseeing data re-uses and visualizations from NGOs working on social challenges", in the next Implementation Working Group (IWG) Online Meeting of the Open Data Charter, next Tuesday, 22 July 2025, between 7pm and 8pm (UTC+1). Blue background with white letters and a montage of several images depicting multicultural environments and experiences in Lisbon, Portugal. On the left, excerpt from the painting by Anonymous (no date), 'The Chafariz d'El-Rey' (King's Fountain) in the Alfama District, Lisbon. Netherlandish, ca. 1570-80, from Wikipedia/The Berardo Collection, Lisbon (via Walters Museum) - Public Domain (accessed 20 July 2025). On the right, 3 excerpts from photos from Lisbon by D.P. Henriques 2025, CC BY.

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Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today’s Festival Deadline: Toronto/Los Angeles DOCUMENTARY Festival

filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocum...

IN-PERSON screenings and HYBRID Festival Mode: Entering its 9th year, the Toronto & Los Angeles Documentary Festival now gives filmmakers 5 tiers to showcase and promote their film. #filmfreeway

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Martin Luther King III @officialmlk3.bsky.social · Jul 18

Happy Nelson Mandela International Day! He believed that each of us has the power to create a more just world. We honor his legacy by serving others today and every day.

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Diogo Pereira Henriques 鬼佬 🐯 📚 @diogo-ph22.bsky.social · Jul 16

🎥 Cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira, em Santarém. Na foto, o doc biográfico "Joan Baez – I am a Noise / A Cantiga é uma arma," realizado por Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, e Maeve O'Boyle (2023). #cinema #cultura #Verao #Santarem
🌙 + info: www.santaremcultura.pt/index.php/es...

Foto das sessões de cinema gratuito às 4as no pátio do Teatro Sá da Bandeira, em Santarém. Nesta foto, vê-se o público e um still do doc biográfico "Joan Baez – I am a Noise / A Cantiga é uma arma," realizado por Miri Navasky, Karen O'Connor, e Maeve O'Boyle (2023).

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AFT @aft.org · Jul 15

"Autism is not a cause for fear or shame; it’s a form of neurodiversity." — @rweingarten.bsky.social starting tonight's #VitalLessons town hall with @vinguptamd.bsky.social, @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, and Danielle Hall, Autism Society's Director of Health Equity Initiatives.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Jul 14

The “E-Bike Effect:” Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.

E-bikes support fewer car trips.

V @lloydalter.bsky.social

E-Bikers Ride Much Farther and More Frequently Than Regular Bikers

They are not 'cheating,' but are serious transportation.

www.treehugger.com

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