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Francois Soyer

@fsoyer.bsky.social

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Associate Prof of European History, the Inquisition, Antisemitism and Gender/Sexuality at the University of New England in Australia. Hispanophile and Lusophile.

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 19h

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !

📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1

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CoMMA

comma.inria.fr

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 1d

The perils of an Australian university campus in the springtime.

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 7d

Birdlife in Australia is never dull: a discussion in progress at the feeder.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · 10d

Ouch: why pay $440,000 for AI work ("including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.")? Then again, why pay $440,000 for a single report anyway? Universities should take note. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Reposted by John Quiggin, Martin Tomko, Ariadne Vromen , and 6 more John Quiggin, Martin Tomko, Ariadne Vromen, Ben Harris‐Roxas, Margot C. Finn, Kathleen Kennedy, François Soyer, Michelle Arrow, David McInnis

Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 26d

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 27d

I am not quite sure how this works, but here's a free open source editable historical map that's pretty decent on medieval Europe.

matthias mprove @mprove.bsky.social · Sep 11

www.openhistoricalmap.org#map=4/52.78/...

OpenHistoricalMap

OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.

www.openhistoricalmap.org

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 12

I was sitting at my desk and had a feeling that someone was watching me.

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matthias mprove @mprove.bsky.social · Sep 11

www.openhistoricalmap.org#map=4/52.78/...

OpenHistoricalMap

OpenHistoricalMap is an interactive map of the world throughout history, created by people like you and dedicated to the public domain.

www.openhistoricalmap.org

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you!

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you, response sent. :-)
They're fairly large birds with a very sharp beak who seem to have a particular loathing for cyclists in the springtime! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JF...

Swooping season: How to stay safe

YouTube video by Australian Academy of Science

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 10

Springtime in Australia.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Portugal's foremost twentieth-century poet, Fernando Pessoa, opining on Australia (Portuguese: É-se feliz na Austrália, desde que lá se não vá).

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 18

Receiving my author’s copies of my latest book: always a wonderful feeling but this time also a bittersweet one.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 10

Beware swooping trees.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 5

Just found the longest word in the English language.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 3

Saw some of my fellow inhabitants of Armidale using surfboards as makeshift sleds this morning! #Australia #Armidale

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Certainly have not seen this much snow since I moved there in 2018!

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Siberia Down Under. #Australia #Armidale

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Snow in Australia will always feel strange to me

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Aug 2

Snow Down Under... and it's only getting heavier! #Australia #Armidale

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Jul 28

4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 25

A question for Lusophones. Here is a blasphemous sentence from a inquisitorial trial: “que era puta mui grande e aleivosa farta de cães, gatos e negros." The official meaning of "fartar" is to be "satiated [with food].". Could it have a different (and ruder) meaning?

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 24

Congratulations Una!

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 20

Another frosty Antipodean winter morning and another colorful visitor in the garden (Armidale, NSW).

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 18

Australian King Parrot (Male).

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's winter here in Australia but we still get these colourful visitors on frosty mornings in the NSW northern tablelands.

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 9

Latin as a living language in 16th century Europe. In 1552 the inquisitors in Lisbon were interrogating an Englishman accused of sacrilege and because the Englishman "could not speak Portuguese well and knew Latin, they asked him questions in Latin." digitarq.arquivos.pt/.../0b68019c....

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Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 8

Congratulations Rachel! This is excellent news.

Francois Soyer @fsoyer.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you!