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Peter T. Evans

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Digital Humanities | NLP | Computational Theology Now: Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen. Before: Digital Academy, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Before Before: The list is long...

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · Mar 14

Theologian by training; Digital Humanist by trade.

Multicultural expat living in Germany.

Dad to two boys.

Married to an academic.

Coffee and chocolate are the ways to my heart.

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently EU Commission just announced some AI in Science Strategy, partly aiming to bring US researchers in Europe.
And, I mean, just keeping European researchers in would be great.

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 4h

Do you have any way to see if this is a one-off error? Are other copies like this? Because I agree with @ellenforget.bsky.social, I don't know how this passed the proof stage.

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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 17h

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

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Al Sweigart @alsweigart.bsky.social · 1d

Hey experienced software dev folks: do you use any low-code/no-code tools for your job, hobbies, or work? Either for polished products or rough in-house tools?

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 15

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Pre-announcement: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC plan to invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial int...

www.ukri.org

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dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social · 1d

Want to continue your #digitalhumanities journey?

Sign up for this short course on LLMs for humanities research at School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Run by two of our wonderful #text2tech convenors @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen.

www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research

www.sas.ac.uk

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 2d

These are amazing!

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 2d

Ha! Maybe that was in my subconscious (The Bear is a great show). My initial mental image was remembering the morning rush at Starbucks when sometimes, just sometimes, everything simply flowed.

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BSC-CNS @bsc-cns.bsky.social · 2d

📢Vacancy: BSC is looking for a Deep Learning Engineer for Language Technologies

➡ bsc.es/4ZL

#trabajo #feina #job

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 2d

Closest I can picture is managing people in food-service industries: you stop for a moment and look at your kitchen and everything is being executed not only exactly how you told your staff to do it, but how you yourself would do it and how you imagine it being done in your mind's eye.

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Unpaywall like a pro …

A screenshot of a New Yorker article that is paywalled, with the Firefox developer tools open, where selecting the initial document in the Network tab allows reading the complete article as submitted before the paywall overlay kicked in.

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 2d

You, my good sir, are brilliant. I applaud you 👏👏👏

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

I read about this not too long ago here:

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anguilla: The Caribbean island making millions from the AI boom

Anguilla has the internet domain .ai and is earning a fortune selling the address to tech firms.

www.bbc.com

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

This was a moving read. Glad it's finally "home" for you.

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

This was a really good piece, Zeb. Thanks for sharing it with us. Alaska is a mighty long way from Germany, but I'd love to Wrangell-St. Elias one day.

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

We'll see! Trying to put together a little proposal for next year's theme...

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I ended up looking at their website, and they're worlds away from the Salvation Army (for whom I have the utmost respect!). I don't live in the UK, but this does seem jarringly dissonant from the experiences I've had there.

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

Is this like the contemporary, hyper-radicalized version of the Salvation Army or something? 😰

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 3d

Opening here at the LMU: a W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education at the Faculty of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and the Study of Religion. The position combines research in philosophy with a strong focus on didactics.

Application deadline: 15 November 2025

job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b...

Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education

job-portal.lmu.de

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Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries @dhnb.bsky.social · 23d

📍 CFP DHNB 2026: Lost in abundance: Encounters with the non-canonical

Submission deadline: October 15th
Conference date: March 9-13, 2026
Location: Aarhus, Denmark

Please spread widely! 🎉

#digitalhumanities #glam #digitalculture

Call for Papers: DHNB 2026, Aarhus – DHNB

dhnb.eu

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 3d

That’s wonderfully beautiful ❤️. So glad this is part of your life (and thanks for sharing it with us).

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 4d

Warst du heute in Göttingen?

Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed, I think this is the case. I immediately see the theological relevance, as well as the mirror being held up (and I'm not sure I like what I see). I've been an SST member for decade now; maybe this will be my first conference to attend. Sounds like it will be excellent.

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 4d

What a theme! I can't decide if I love it, or if I'm depressed by it.

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Karen O’Donnell @karenod.bsky.social · 4d

The #SST26 call for papers is live! Deadline 14th Dec. Theme: “Theology: A Discipline of Failure”
Bursary applications also open

www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...

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