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Patricia Murrieta-Flores

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🌟 Digital Humanist | Historical Archaeologist 📜 🤖 Developing #MachineLearning for Cultural Heritage 🐾 Proud mum of YubYub Commander (aka the cutest pupper) 🧸✨ 🌍 Distinguished Prof in #DH & #AI @TecMonterrey & @LancasterUni #DigitalHumanities #NLP #Mexico

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Nov 19

CFP Alert! 🚨 @dharanpreethi.bsky.social and I editing a Journal of Cultural Analytics special issue: "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South."Submit your research exploring innovations, challenges, and the richness of local contexts. shorturl.at/TO3AD
#DigitalHumanities

CFP: Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South: Challenges and Innovations | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics

This special issue aims to provide a platform for cutting-edge research that bridges the gap between computational methods and the study of cultural heritage from the Global South.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · May 29

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

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bnvis.bsky.social @bnvis.bsky.social · Mar 28

Spent the week introducing northwestern Yucatan lowland #Maya agro-urban landscapes from #archaeology to current #urbanism to ULB #landscapearchitecture using #gis #hgis #urbandata #maps on the #builtenvironment focusing on #landuse patterns. Proud how far they've come. @ulbrecherche.bsky.social

Precolonial Maya urbanism on the dry tropical karstic plains of northwest Yucatán. Often precolonial Maya urban landscapes are perceived as low density, however this changes perspective when considering the intensity of using and managing land resources within the urban built environment, maintaining productive and co-dependent relationships with the environment. Examples of vernacular architecture and cultivatable plots remain in satellite cities and the periurban landscape.

The historical urbanism based on urban form introduced with Spanish colonial occupation on the dry tropical karstic plains of northwest Yucatán (with examples of vernacular architectural appropriation in colonial times)

The historical city and colonial forms become adapted into cosmopolitan contemporary Mérida on the dry tropical karstic plains of northwestern Yucatán. New architectural forms are often inspired by colonial rather than indigenous practices, except for the reintroduction of local materials.

Short description of the week's programme.

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · May 20

Two weeks ago I started a new job as a distinguished prof in #DigitalHumanities and #AI @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social. It has been a couple of busy weeks! But today I'm visiting #LabNuevoLeon with its amazing collab spaces to take a course on creative visualization with government data 😍

Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Apr 2

🎉 So glad to share with you our latest article on Handwritten Text Recognition and Machine Learning looking to achieve the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th-century Latin American historical collections!
#HTR #ML #AI #DH #Colonial #Mexico
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Unlocking colonial records with Artificial Intelligence. Achieving the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th-century Latin American historical collections

Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Spanish and Indigenous people produced millions of colonial documents in diverse calligraphic styles in Latin American territories. Accessing their rich informa...

www.tandfonline.com

Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Mar 18

Estás interesado en colecciones digitales para patrimonio cultural? Vamos a aprender un montón en este evento!! ⬇️⬇️Inscríbete pronto! #HD #patrimonio #cultura #AI #digital #glam

Trinkermedia @trinkermedia.bsky.social · Mar 17

Los invitamos a un webinar para conversar sobre infraestructuras de patrimonio cultural y soberania digita.

*Contextos del Sur* un Webinar de Towards a National Collection.

Miercoles 26 de Marzo, 3:00PM UK, 9:00 AM Mx

Registrate aqui:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-...

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Mar 13

I recently wrote a short blog post for Historica.org. I explore some possibilities about how AI can assist in the exploration and analysis of historical collections. It’s not about replacing traditional methods but expanding our toolkit for understanding the past. I hope you like it! #AI #DH

How AI is Transforming Colonial Mesoamerican Archaeology

Explore how AI tools like NLP and GIS uncover hidden narratives in colonial Mesoamerican historical archives

www.historica.org

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auriola @auriola.bsky.social · Dec 25

Qué buena lista. Y aplausos a Gabriela Salas Cabrera que ha conseguido incluir el Náhuatl en Google Translate. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇲🇽

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Mar 2

I sometimes paint in my spare time. One of the things I love about it is the feeling of being able to manifest what is in my imagination 🌈 So, this painting is called 'The geographer'. I made it for a friend and colleague that has been my mentor and a great model of what academia should be. Ian, 🙏🏼

The geographer. Painting for Ian Gregory.

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The Human Remains Project (UKRI FLF) @thehumanremains.bsky.social · Feb 21

Rounding off a fantastic day celebrating the launch of our Human Remains Digital Library with a fascinating session on Storytelling & Outreach! Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers and everyone who joined us online. 🙌🏻📝💡Find HRDL here: hrdl.liverpool.ac.uk

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Feb 22

Beautiful sunny day in the north west of England 🌈

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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · Dec 29

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Dec 9

New on advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument"

by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester)

#OpenAccess

academic.oup.com/past/advance...

The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*

Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities

academic.oup.com

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Jan 2

This is so important...People are not #data. In creating datasets for historical #BigData or large scale analyses we need to do carefully thought data capture design and come back to close reading. #AI #ML #DigitalHumanities

Native Bound Unbound @natboundunbound.bsky.social · Dec 20

✨ Centering Humanity Beyond the Data ✨

How do we relate to data that identifies a specific enslaved person? Jamelle Bouie warns that digital tools risk "abstracting the human reality away from the story." This caution is crucial for those working with historical archives.

Centering Humanity Beyond the Data.

Image collage of Segesser Hide Painting, Lafayette Head list, Rosaria a cautiva, and Deluvina Maxwell

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Native Bound Unbound @natboundunbound.bsky.social · Dec 22

Unveiling a Complex Legacy

Hernando de Pizarro & Sebastián de Benalcázar shaped the conquest of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, & more—but their involvement in Indigenous trafficking reveals a darker legacy.

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 22

Hola! Muchísimas gracias! Si, claro, prestare atención a ello. Eres lingüista? Platicame que haces? 😊

Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 21

Uuhh this is a good challenge for the holidays!
Choose 5 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 5 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge

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Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social · Dec 20

Postdoctoral fellowship in the field of medieval studies for a period of 12 months (2025/2026). Together with the École française de Rome and the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo. Application deadline 31 January 2025: t1p.de/6nu6q
@maxweberstiftung.bsky.social #medievalsky
#medievalstudies

Initial 'D' with strawberries in a gradual from the Dominican convent of St Nicholas in Gdansk. Graz University Library, Cod. 2067, I (fol. 24r), REALonline image no. 007997.

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Mor Geva @megamor2.bsky.social · Dec 18

What's in an attention head? 🤯

We present an efficient framework – MAPS – for inferring the functionality of attention heads in LLMs ✨directly from their parameters✨

A new preprint with Amit Elhelo 🧵 (1/10)

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 21

This just made my morning 🤣

Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · Dec 20

Behold, the Velociraptor of St John

Stuttgart, HB VII 4, f131r

A red and yellow drawing of the eagle of John in a pose highly reminiscent of the velociraptors from Jurassic Park.

Clever girl.

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Journal of Cultural Analytics @culturalanalytics.bsky.social · Dec 20

Check out this new CFP for a Special Issue on "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South," guest-edited by @patymurrieta.bsky.social and @dharanpreethi.bsky.social:

culturalanalytics.org/post/2820-cf...

Abstracts are due January 15, 2025. 💥

CFP: Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South: Challenges and Innovations | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics

This special issue aims to provide a platform for cutting-edge research that bridges the gap between computational methods and the study of cultural heritage from the Global South.

culturalanalytics.org

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 19

*has 😜

Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hola Rex! Que bien! Haz visto el trabajo de Carlos Pallan? Ya hicieron el Unicode de Maya 😍 dblp.org/pid/84/9589....

dblp: Carlos Pallan

List of computer science publications by Carlos Pallan

dblp.org

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 19

Ah! qué padre Christian!! Si, quieres ver alguno? Te lo pongo aquí en el transcurso de la siguiente semana? Estamos empezando a hacer modelos para lenguas indígenas. Ahorita estamos trabajando Náhuatl clasico. Te interesaría platicar de esto?

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hola! Si, es colonial, se registra desde s.XVI igual que otras lenguas indígenas con el alfabeto latino y algunas veces las variantes de Mixteco se designan por geografía: Mixteca Alta, Baja y de la Costa. Mira este atlas está bien bueno: atlas.inali.gob.mx/agrupaciones...

Atlas de las Lenguas Indígenas de México

Aquí encontraras mapas acerca de las lenguas indígenas de México

atlas.inali.gob.mx

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 19

Hola! Gracias Christian :) Hay muchas, pero tenemos por ejemplo: variantes de Náhuatl, Otomí, Zapoteca, algunas variantes de Maya, Zoque, Mixe, y Mixteco entre otras. También Latín y combinaciones entre estás (p.e. Español-Latin-Nahuatl).

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Patricia Murrieta-Flores @patymurrieta.bsky.social · Dec 19

Doesn't matter how much companies say they aim to 'adress' biases in LLMs. If data is white, male, middle age, Western, and from the global north, it's impossible to claim generative AI holds solutions for all. How would decolonial technologies look like if we dared to try?

Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · Dec 18

🔍 New research reveals a concerning trend: AI training data is increasingly concentrated in Big Tech's hands.

- 70% of data for both speech and image data sets comes from YouTube
- 90% of the data sets analyzed comes from North America & Europe.

This data concentration shapes the future of AI.

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