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Pascal
@pascaliensis.bsky.social
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Bayesian librarian & attribution historian
Boolean engineering since 1995
P&RP my own : about citation, information literacy & tabletop role-playing games
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Pascal @pascaliensis.bsky.social · Oct 30
Almost 50 Years of Academic Research on Tabletop Role-Playing Games: Historical Evolution and Bibliometric Analysis
pmartinolli.github.io/JDR50bibliom...
#TTRPG #Quarto #RStudio #Bibliometrics
TTRPG Subject Headings in Peer-Reviewed Articles Distribution
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rexbrynen.bsky.social
Bridging theory, practice, and pressure: CNN Academy’s humanitarian health journalism simulation

This article was written for PAXsims by Zinzi Sibanda a BA(Hons) student in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and a member of the CNN Academy simulation team. The report below reflects…
Bridging theory, practice, and pressure: CNN Academy’s humanitarian health journalism simulation
This article was written for PAXsims by Zinzi Sibanda a BA(Hons) student in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and a member of the CNN Academy simulation team. The report below reflects her personal views, and not those of CNN or any other organization. Humanitarian crisis simulations are well established across the international system. United Nations agencies, NGOs, government organizations, and universities have long built exercises to replicate the pressure and complexity of real emergencies—from the  …
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November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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feralrobots.bsky.social
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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andreloez.bsky.social
Depuis 25 ans on parle de "brutalisation" pour 14-18, avec ZÉRO base empirique.
Dimitri Chavaroche a fait le taf dans sa thèse, dont il vient de tirer un livre. Résultat : pas de "brutalisation" générale couteau en main, mais des combats ponctuels à la grenade. Un travail désormais incontournable.
Couverture du livre Corps à corps Extrait Table des matières 1 Table des matières 2
November 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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elmc.at
Spent the last month mapping the blogosphere by its links. The graph is finally ready

Communities clump into a big hex and the whole thing looks like a star map

What are blogs anyway but stars in the sky?

elmc.at/mapping-the-...

To check out the graph directly follow this link:

graph.elmc.at
Mapping the Blogosphere
An interactive graph of TTRPG blogs, showing who links to whom, how communities change over time, plus stats and how it all works.
elmc.at
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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megueyb.bsky.social
Nothing is new, and we have always been here. #WomenInGames #History #TTRPGS #BoardGames #GamesForEducation
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology
Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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pierrearlais.bsky.social
Un bon rappel pédagogique des limites des llm
stopcitingai.com/
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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gameoftotothrones.bsky.social
J'ai lu que Matilda J. Gage était également la belle maman de l'auteur du Magicien d'Oz, Lyman Frank Baum, et qu'elle a beaucoup inspiré cette histoire.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
The Feminist Who Inspired the Witches of Oz
The untold story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel
www.smithsonianmag.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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freddie2310.bsky.social
OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572
OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners”
C’est une annonce qui est passée relativement inaperçue, mais qui mérite que l’on s’y arrête un instant. Clarivate a récemment annoncé l’intégration d’OpenAlex comme une nouvelle base de données au se...
carnetist.hypotheses.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.

“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —

altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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clairedupindb.bsky.social
Heureuse d'annoncer la parution de mon article "Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata" 🎉✨ dans le Journal of Open Humanities Data, qui se trouve ici en open access : doi.org/10.5334/johd...
Victims of Posterity. Identifying Gaps on 19th-Century French Art History with Wikidata | Journal of Open Humanities Data
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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huber-digital.bsky.social
Are you teaching a rare MS or out of print book? Why not make a digital edition of it, or even better, ask your students to collaborate!

Our training course is free and the edition can be published #OA in the digital editions platform #PRISMS:

www.prisms.digital/training/

#DSE #DH #TEI #XML
Merton's Bestiary: A Digital Edition, edited and transcoded by Sebastian Dows-Miller. Merton College Library, Oxford, MS 249.
September 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
Vous utilisez #Zotero pour des projets non-universitaires ? à des fins perso ou pro ? Individuellement ou dans un collectif ou une association ? Vous n’êtes ni chercheur ni étudiant ?

Merci d'aider ma collègue Frédérique Flammerie en répondant à ce court sondage framaforms.org/questionnair...
Questionnaire sur la formation en ligne à un logiciel libre | Framaforms.org
framaforms.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
Brilliant paper. TL;DR in Table 2.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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aboutgeo.bsky.social
@rockettara.bsky.social and I've been teaching the #MachinaEmblematica some new tricks: better image interpretation and conversational context, smarter source retrieval from the Symbola et Emblemata. It’s a bit slower now… we’ll work on that next. 😉

Try it here: machina.rainersimon.io
The Machina Emblematic user interface explaining an image depicting a dragon. Image on the left, text on the right.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
pascaliensis.bsky.social
Superbe réfutation d'un article qui prétendait faire des revues systématiques avec Google Scholar principalement.

À déguster avec un bon whisky (ou un lait chaud). Ça tape fort et où ça fait mal. Un régal, hélas paywalled.
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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jimclifford.bsky.social
Excited to share our new dataset, "Historical Canadian Persons"! We augmented Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries with Wikidata, scholarly sources, & Library and Archives Canada to create linkable data on individuals & families. #DigitalHistory #CdnHist borealisdata.ca/dataset.xhtm...
borealisdata.ca
November 17, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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lauraestill.bsky.social
Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...

Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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historians.org
In #AHAPerspectives, Rhiannon Garth Jones and Matthew Gabriele argue for moving away from the traditional bibliography in trade books and toward something more conversational to engage with the wider public. 🗃️
Bibliographies for the People – AHA
Embracing alternative citation help the public better engage with trade history books.
www.historians.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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attilabatorfy.bsky.social
The Australian Inland Mission's stunning cartographic work between 1922 and 1970. Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/helping-th...
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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tomsaunders.me
This guide to making reports in #Quarto with #typst by @rfortherestofus.com is super in-depth and useful. Great for anyone wanting to publish dynamic and polished documents that make use of #rstats and #Python code to analyse data.
How to Make High-Quality PDFs with Quarto and Typst
Learn to create high-quality PDFs using Quarto and Typst with this in-depth tutorial, including custom templates, branding, and advanced techniques.
rfortherestofus.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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thisismattmiller.com
LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser

thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t...

- Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure
- In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool
- OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation
LCNAF & Trie
Storing +11M unique LCNAF names in 50MB Trie data structure
thisismattmiller.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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mathildelarrere.bsky.social
Michelle Audin n'est plus
c'est triste purée
mais regardez ce merveilleux travail qu'elle faisait
Il y a ce livre, et ce blog, une véritable mine de trésors et de connaissances
macommunedeparis.com
La Commune de Paris
Blog de Michèle Audin
macommunedeparis.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM