Deborah Lee-Talbot
@colourfulhistories.bsky.social
Historian. Currently researching the history of Pacific Island archives and use, alongside gen-AI and Ethics. Easily distracted by women's history and local politics.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Drafting editorial policy is weird, but kind of fun.
"Clearly state your methodology, where you got those sources, if those sources are the product of AI, or the article gets it".
#academia #history #policy #AI
"Clearly state your methodology, where you got those sources, if those sources are the product of AI, or the article gets it".
#academia #history #policy #AI
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December 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
One of the things I like about examining uses of AI in research is the opportunity to consider how other professions are using AI and where they are not.
On today's calendar: the work of the NLA.
Curious? Interesting reading here re their Artificial Intelligence Framework:
#research #academia
On today's calendar: the work of the NLA.
Curious? Interesting reading here re their Artificial Intelligence Framework:
#research #academia
Artificial intelligence framework | National Library of Australia (NLA)
The Library is working to leverage artificial intelligence technologies to deliver our mission while retaining our trusted and respected reputation.
www.library.gov.au
December 3, 2025 at 5:50 AM
It worked last-time. Let me try this again.
HailMaryFullaGraceLemmeWinThisStockCarRace**
**Grant application.
HailMaryFullaGraceLemmeWinThisStockCarRace**
**Grant application.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It worked last-time. Let me try this again.
HailMaryFullaGraceLemmeWinThisStockCarRace**
**Grant application.
HailMaryFullaGraceLemmeWinThisStockCarRace**
**Grant application.
So we spent months getting students to critically engage and learn how to use university services and this happens.
AI can be, in limited circumstances, a means of enhancing some research.
Such universal approaches lack the nuance needed for a range of schools and disciplines.
AI can be, in limited circumstances, a means of enhancing some research.
Such universal approaches lack the nuance needed for a range of schools and disciplines.
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
So we spent months getting students to critically engage and learn how to use university services and this happens.
AI can be, in limited circumstances, a means of enhancing some research.
Such universal approaches lack the nuance needed for a range of schools and disciplines.
AI can be, in limited circumstances, a means of enhancing some research.
Such universal approaches lack the nuance needed for a range of schools and disciplines.
Mr Tulk and our librarians?!
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have a lifelong connection to Victoria’s state library – which is why I am aghast at its crude self-lobotomy | Gideon Haigh
If the ‘suits’ can come for the State Library of Victoria, they can come for anyone, and no public institution is safe
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December 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Mr Tulk and our librarians?!
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This eradication of SLV culture and history is bewildering and also expected from an inexperienced board.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Deborah Lee-Talbot
If you're interested but can't make it in person, I'm compiling all the outcomes of my residency on this page: https://slv.wraggelabs.com/ I'll add tomorrow's talk in the next day or so.
Experiments with SLV place-based collections
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December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If you're interested but can't make it in person, I'm compiling all the outcomes of my residency on this page: https://slv.wraggelabs.com/ I'll add tomorrow's talk in the next day or so.
I can deal with snakes, spiders, magpies, etc. But put a journal article with revisions in front of me and there's pouting, sulking, and intense questioning about my life choices.
**Sigh** Still sitting here doing the damn thing. Guess that's something.
**Sigh** Still sitting here doing the damn thing. Guess that's something.
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December 2, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I can deal with snakes, spiders, magpies, etc. But put a journal article with revisions in front of me and there's pouting, sulking, and intense questioning about my life choices.
**Sigh** Still sitting here doing the damn thing. Guess that's something.
**Sigh** Still sitting here doing the damn thing. Guess that's something.
The Australian government has missed an opportunity to become a global leader in the ways of safeguarding AI users, and other people online, against the bias, disinformation and harms that can be perpetuated by unregulated AI use.
National AI Plan drops 'mandatory guardrails' for artificial intelligence
The federal government's long-awaited National AI Plan will seek to accelerate the growth of artificial intelligence in Australia, and largely leverage existing laws to protect against its worst harms...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The Australian government has missed an opportunity to become a global leader in the ways of safeguarding AI users, and other people online, against the bias, disinformation and harms that can be perpetuated by unregulated AI use.
Okay, this is fun. Also, our family has strong film opinions. Who would've guessed it.
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Okay, this is fun. Also, our family has strong film opinions. Who would've guessed it.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Interesting to see that the only thing England could add of value to the "Empire pudding" was 'old beer'.
#history #christmas #baking #colonisation
#history #christmas #baking #colonisation
December 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Interesting to see that the only thing England could add of value to the "Empire pudding" was 'old beer'.
#history #christmas #baking #colonisation
#history #christmas #baking #colonisation
Apparently sitting in the lounge, pointing out "That's new. That's a new scene. That's a re-developed scene" when The Teen is watching Return of the Jedi is not condoned parental behaviour.
Fun though.
Fun though.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Apparently sitting in the lounge, pointing out "That's new. That's a new scene. That's a re-developed scene" when The Teen is watching Return of the Jedi is not condoned parental behaviour.
Fun though.
Fun though.
Cultural institutions need consistent support, but sometimes they need us to be louder, more pointed, and gain more traction than usual.
The State Library of Victoria needs our support to stop further cuts to research support.
Sign the petition and share: c.org/T2vGVZxSCP
#petition
The State Library of Victoria needs our support to stop further cuts to research support.
Sign the petition and share: c.org/T2vGVZxSCP
#petition
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Cultural institutions need consistent support, but sometimes they need us to be louder, more pointed, and gain more traction than usual.
The State Library of Victoria needs our support to stop further cuts to research support.
Sign the petition and share: c.org/T2vGVZxSCP
#petition
The State Library of Victoria needs our support to stop further cuts to research support.
Sign the petition and share: c.org/T2vGVZxSCP
#petition
Apparently, I've achieved time travel as a dude on the train is playing Simply Red's Stars from a boom box.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Apparently, I've achieved time travel as a dude on the train is playing Simply Red's Stars from a boom box.
I'm swear going to write a book one day titled "Looking after things: the women who ran missions, stations and vineyards".
That little phrase hides a LOT of management, knowledge and experience.
#missedinhistory #history #academia
That little phrase hides a LOT of management, knowledge and experience.
#missedinhistory #history #academia
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I'm swear going to write a book one day titled "Looking after things: the women who ran missions, stations and vineyards".
That little phrase hides a LOT of management, knowledge and experience.
#missedinhistory #history #academia
That little phrase hides a LOT of management, knowledge and experience.
#missedinhistory #history #academia
I'd like to reassure everyone my father-in-law has been re-released into the world after peering over my shoulder at my work and asking, "But who's going to read a transcript of these diaries".
#research #academic
#research #academic
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November 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
'When a railroad shall have revealed to the wondering eyes of Melbourne...the beauties of the range through which the Yarra gently descends, Yeringberg will be, in tourists' phrase, one of the lions'.
Ah, the Yarra Valley, a tourist destination for generations.
#tourism #research #historianontour
Ah, the Yarra Valley, a tourist destination for generations.
#tourism #research #historianontour
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 AM
'When a railroad shall have revealed to the wondering eyes of Melbourne...the beauties of the range through which the Yarra gently descends, Yeringberg will be, in tourists' phrase, one of the lions'.
Ah, the Yarra Valley, a tourist destination for generations.
#tourism #research #historianontour
Ah, the Yarra Valley, a tourist destination for generations.
#tourism #research #historianontour
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In light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps:
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November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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OMG, happy 25 anniversary to the musical gem that is Since I Left You, The Avalanches.
Top spin for today.
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Top spin for today.
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The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (Official HD Video)
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November 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
OMG, happy 25 anniversary to the musical gem that is Since I Left You, The Avalanches.
Top spin for today.
youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE?...
Top spin for today.
youtu.be/qLrnkK2YEcE?...
Note to self. Keep the conference paper achievable and small scale. Just something tidy and interesting.
Low hanging fruit. Go for the low hanging fruit.
Or I could say fuck it. Where's the fun in that?
Low hanging fruit. Go for the low hanging fruit.
Or I could say fuck it. Where's the fun in that?
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November 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Note to self. Keep the conference paper achievable and small scale. Just something tidy and interesting.
Low hanging fruit. Go for the low hanging fruit.
Or I could say fuck it. Where's the fun in that?
Low hanging fruit. Go for the low hanging fruit.
Or I could say fuck it. Where's the fun in that?
Today I'm wrapping up a scoping survey regarding the standardisation of AI use in Higher Ed. This research was conducted in collaboration with research &teaching staff at the Pacific Adventist University, PNG & is part of a broader project regarding the impact of AI on student experiences in PNG.
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Today I'm wrapping up a scoping survey regarding the standardisation of AI use in Higher Ed. This research was conducted in collaboration with research &teaching staff at the Pacific Adventist University, PNG & is part of a broader project regarding the impact of AI on student experiences in PNG.
Fuck it. I'm going to learn how to do this coding business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Fuck it. I'm going to learn how to do this coding business.
Sitting at my local library, wondering how I'm still locating marvellous music from the ever glorious B-52s. Today's find: b-mesopotamia. The lyrics are a gem.
Go read a book.
Go read a book.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Sitting at my local library, wondering how I'm still locating marvellous music from the ever glorious B-52s. Today's find: b-mesopotamia. The lyrics are a gem.
Go read a book.
Go read a book.
Curious to see that once upon a time we had "field research" as the standard practice and now "desk research" is a norm.
I wonder how often the latter leads to the former?
Signed, a desk-bound historian with boots that need walkin'
I wonder how often the latter leads to the former?
Signed, a desk-bound historian with boots that need walkin'
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November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Curious to see that once upon a time we had "field research" as the standard practice and now "desk research" is a norm.
I wonder how often the latter leads to the former?
Signed, a desk-bound historian with boots that need walkin'
I wonder how often the latter leads to the former?
Signed, a desk-bound historian with boots that need walkin'
