Melissa Terras
@melissaterras.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
Over to Glasgow tonight to hang out at the launch of the Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound. A fab community run space in an old converted school, supporting access to electronic instruments. It was quite the party! www.gloss.scot
November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Over to Glasgow tonight to hang out at the launch of the Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound. A fab community run space in an old converted school, supporting access to electronic instruments. It was quite the party! www.gloss.scot
Frosty walk this morning #edinburgh
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Frosty walk this morning #edinburgh
Cold but happy on the ucu picket today, dancing to an impromptu band. C- to Edinburgh Uni management with their lack of leadership, plans, or care.
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Cold but happy on the ucu picket today, dancing to an impromptu band. C- to Edinburgh Uni management with their lack of leadership, plans, or care.
Heading home on the train to 🏴 and there is snow on those hills!
November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Heading home on the train to 🏴 and there is snow on those hills!
View from a hotel room, #Leicester #academicglamour. Did a PhD viva today. Home tomorrow… a lot of travel just now, but that’s my own fault! Always interesting to see what happens elsewhere…
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
View from a hotel room, #Leicester #academicglamour. Did a PhD viva today. Home tomorrow… a lot of travel just now, but that’s my own fault! Always interesting to see what happens elsewhere…
Time to go to the airport, after a fab few days in Turkey. Will miss seeing cats everywhere…
November 16, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Time to go to the airport, after a fab few days in Turkey. Will miss seeing cats everywhere…
I have more pics! 😻
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have more pics! 😻
A day off, exploring Istanbul. Sun shone. Am most taken by these dog prints in a tile from c. 1650 in the Topkapi palace. And the tiles! And the mother of pearl inlays!
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A day off, exploring Istanbul. Sun shone. Am most taken by these dog prints in a tile from c. 1650 in the Topkapi palace. And the tiles! And the mother of pearl inlays!
Just me hanging out with the President of @coopseurope.bsky.social, Giuseppe Guerini, who I had the pleasure of explaining to that @transkribus.bsky.social is Europe's first AI cooperative, and is doing well! On the right, Tobias Schweitzer, who is setting up an AI supported carbon-capture coop.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Just me hanging out with the President of @coopseurope.bsky.social, Giuseppe Guerini, who I had the pleasure of explaining to that @transkribus.bsky.social is Europe's first AI cooperative, and is doing well! On the right, Tobias Schweitzer, who is setting up an AI supported carbon-capture coop.
Absolutely delighted to keynote Cooperative AI in Istanbul today: telling everyone how we built @transkribus.bsky.social, and how it has flourished under READ-COOP. I usually speak about this to DH, Library & Archive audiences - great to show our wares to researchers of coops, & fab discussions.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Absolutely delighted to keynote Cooperative AI in Istanbul today: telling everyone how we built @transkribus.bsky.social, and how it has flourished under READ-COOP. I usually speak about this to DH, Library & Archive audiences - great to show our wares to researchers of coops, & fab discussions.
Me: it’s nice out so let’s dial into a work call from a park bench, given its mild in Istanbul
Conference Venue Cat: I spies lap!
Conference Venue Cat: I spies lap!
November 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Me: it’s nice out so let’s dial into a work call from a park bench, given its mild in Istanbul
Conference Venue Cat: I spies lap!
Conference Venue Cat: I spies lap!
In Istanbul for the Cooperative AI conference. First conference I’ve been to where cats and chickens freely roam - and attend! 😍
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In Istanbul for the Cooperative AI conference. First conference I’ve been to where cats and chickens freely roam - and attend! 😍
View from a hotel room, Istanbul. Here to keynote the cooperative AI conference. It would be #academicglamour but all the computers are down so no wifi… and no doors opening or locking. I may raid the minibar given that sensor is offline too. While I pile furniture against the door… #postdigital
November 10, 2025 at 6:52 PM
View from a hotel room, Istanbul. Here to keynote the cooperative AI conference. It would be #academicglamour but all the computers are down so no wifi… and no doors opening or locking. I may raid the minibar given that sensor is offline too. While I pile furniture against the door… #postdigital
Happy Halloween, all! New guisers this year include people wearing green hooded cloaks…
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Happy Halloween, all! New guisers this year include people wearing green hooded cloaks…
An evening with the wonderful Suzanne Vega in #Edinburgh
October 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
An evening with the wonderful Suzanne Vega in #Edinburgh
The long-haired Burmese cat that hangs out in our local graveyard… #Edinburgh
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The long-haired Burmese cat that hangs out in our local graveyard… #Edinburgh
View from a b&b, #York. Last trip of this run before a whole four weeks at home…! #academicglamour
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
View from a b&b, #York. Last trip of this run before a whole four weeks at home…! #academicglamour
At the Guildhall, York today for our XRNetwork event - celebrating the projects we’ve funded but also Emma Brown now talking about the hard work we’ve put into EDI to make sure we’re reaching, supporting, and funding a wide range of people across the UK, via wonderful @xrstories.bsky.social team
October 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
At the Guildhall, York today for our XRNetwork event - celebrating the projects we’ve funded but also Emma Brown now talking about the hard work we’ve put into EDI to make sure we’re reaching, supporting, and funding a wide range of people across the UK, via wonderful @xrstories.bsky.social team
Rogue urban sunflowers. Love it. #edinburgh
September 30, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Rogue urban sunflowers. Love it. #edinburgh
Had time to pop into the fab @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Treasure exhibition. The “problematic” case was eye opening. I hadn’t heard of this truly awful bible - the parallels today re what power is doing in the name of Christianity shows exactly why we need libraries, historians, & humanities scholars now.
September 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Had time to pop into the fab @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Treasure exhibition. The “problematic” case was eye opening. I hadn’t heard of this truly awful bible - the parallels today re what power is doing in the name of Christianity shows exactly why we need libraries, historians, & humanities scholars now.
View from a college room, #Oxford. Love it. #academicglamour
September 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
View from a college room, #Oxford. Love it. #academicglamour
Am becoming quite obsessed with this little ruined house right on the cliffs just outside Berwick, which you can briefly glimpse from the East Coast Mainline. 😍
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Am becoming quite obsessed with this little ruined house right on the cliffs just outside Berwick, which you can briefly glimpse from the East Coast Mainline. 😍