Peter Tarras
@petertarras.bsky.social
Postdoc @jacculturelmu.bsky.social | Blog: http://medisi.hypotheses.org | Book History | Manuscript Studies | Provenance | MENA Intellectual History | SciCom | #FirstGen
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if, on the other hand, it matters to you that these systems are basically still generating complicated statistical models of word tokens and the orders in which they tend to come out, then very little "technical" innovation these tech companies have done in the last 5 years seems worth writing about
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
if, on the other hand, it matters to you that these systems are basically still generating complicated statistical models of word tokens and the orders in which they tend to come out, then very little "technical" innovation these tech companies have done in the last 5 years seems worth writing about
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A study on a palimpsest witness attesting to the complete Syriac version of the so-called middle recension of Ignatius of Antioch’s Letters is ready.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A study on a palimpsest witness attesting to the complete Syriac version of the so-called middle recension of Ignatius of Antioch’s Letters is ready.
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A note in a #manuscript transports us to the study sessions of teacher and pupil, meeting face to face, in the cosmopolitan environment of Medina centuries before talk of globalization. Learn more in this story from Dr. Ali Diakite and Dr. Paul Naylor: hmml.org/stories/postscript-a-teaching-license
Postscript -- A Teaching License
“A unique aspect of HMML Reading Room is that it allows us to see how texts travel among disparate people, places, and cultures...”
hmml.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A note in a #manuscript transports us to the study sessions of teacher and pupil, meeting face to face, in the cosmopolitan environment of Medina centuries before talk of globalization. Learn more in this story from Dr. Ali Diakite and Dr. Paul Naylor: hmml.org/stories/postscript-a-teaching-license
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Gö U and the Academy are sponsoring a series of lectures on Digital Textual Coptic Studies. Full details at the link. Talk by yours truly and Amir Zeldes from @copticscript.bsky.social tomorrow at 4:15 pm Central European time, 10:15 am US Eastern time
Lecture Series "Digital Coptic <i>Textual</i> Studies" - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Webseiten der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
uni-goettingen.de
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Gö U and the Academy are sponsoring a series of lectures on Digital Textual Coptic Studies. Full details at the link. Talk by yours truly and Amir Zeldes from @copticscript.bsky.social tomorrow at 4:15 pm Central European time, 10:15 am US Eastern time
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If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
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Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
November 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
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Tomorrow!
Next week Lusine Sargsyan (Matenadaran/YSU) will enlighten us about the production of Armenian manuscripts in Romania! Tune in on Thu 20 Nov at 10 AM CET. f you're not yet on out mailing list, please register w/ @andyhilkens.bsky.social to receive the Zoom link
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Tomorrow!
Greek #WOTD:
κτάομαι
"get, obtain, acquire"
as in Genesis 4:1:
καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν τὸν Καιν καὶ εἶπεν Ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον
"and after she became pregnant, she gave birth to Cain and said: 'I acquired a human being'"
(Greek trying to reproduce the play on קָנָה, "acquire", and קַיִן, "Cain")
κτάομαι
"get, obtain, acquire"
as in Genesis 4:1:
καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν τὸν Καιν καὶ εἶπεν Ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον
"and after she became pregnant, she gave birth to Cain and said: 'I acquired a human being'"
(Greek trying to reproduce the play on קָנָה, "acquire", and קַיִן, "Cain")
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Greek #WOTD:
κτάομαι
"get, obtain, acquire"
as in Genesis 4:1:
καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν τὸν Καιν καὶ εἶπεν Ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον
"and after she became pregnant, she gave birth to Cain and said: 'I acquired a human being'"
(Greek trying to reproduce the play on קָנָה, "acquire", and קַיִן, "Cain")
κτάομαι
"get, obtain, acquire"
as in Genesis 4:1:
καὶ συλλαβοῦσα ἔτεκεν τὸν Καιν καὶ εἶπεν Ἐκτησάμην ἄνθρωπον
"and after she became pregnant, she gave birth to Cain and said: 'I acquired a human being'"
(Greek trying to reproduce the play on קָנָה, "acquire", and קַיִן, "Cain")
When your interests lead you in such different directions that you think they couldn't possibly be related until a little anecdote proves you wrong:
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
When your interests lead you in such different directions that you think they couldn't possibly be related until a little anecdote proves you wrong:
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I was asked again today what book focused on ancient medicine I have undergraduates read. I gotta say, I adore Jane Draycott’s ancient prosthetics book. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I was asked again today what book focused on ancient medicine I have undergraduates read. I gotta say, I adore Jane Draycott’s ancient prosthetics book. www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
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This is not AI Slop.
You can read the ALT.
You can read the ALT.
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This is not AI Slop.
You can read the ALT.
You can read the ALT.
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💯% this. I was at a seminar today and all the pictures on the slides were pretty robots and shiny future but all I could think of was this sludge pipe.
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
💯% this. I was at a seminar today and all the pictures on the slides were pretty robots and shiny future but all I could think of was this sludge pipe.
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Am looking for PhD students to supervise under this particular call! And v interested in Home student applicants - please share with any ambitious DH/LIS students you know who are on the technical side…
The call for PhD applications for the Centre for Doctoral Training in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing is live - deadline 7th January 2025! We have webinars for potential applicants to ask us questions and seek advice. www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student...
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Am looking for PhD students to supervise under this particular call! And v interested in Home student applicants - please share with any ambitious DH/LIS students you know who are on the technical side…
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Afraid of snakes? St Mawes (d 6th C),a hermit, emigrated from Wales or Ireland to Cornwall, then on to Brittany. There on the isle of St Maudez he started building a monastery, but there was a problem - a plethora of snakes & vermin. He not only deals with snakes, but also worms and nasty insects.
November 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Afraid of snakes? St Mawes (d 6th C),a hermit, emigrated from Wales or Ireland to Cornwall, then on to Brittany. There on the isle of St Maudez he started building a monastery, but there was a problem - a plethora of snakes & vermin. He not only deals with snakes, but also worms and nasty insects.
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Library studies at its best!
My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social
Project MUSE - From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Library studies at its best!
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The way the AI con is presented in the public discourse, it is very easy to lose track of the material imprint of digital technology. These are some excellent reminders.
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The way the AI con is presented in the public discourse, it is very easy to lose track of the material imprint of digital technology. These are some excellent reminders.
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My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social
Project MUSE - From Private Libraries in Late Ottoman Palestine to "Abandoned Property": Reconstructing the Dajānī Family Manuscript Collections in the National Library of Israel
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
My first peer-reviewed article, based on my BA thesis at FU Berlin, has just been published (OA). It traces Palestinian libraries from the late Ottoman period in the so-called Abandoned Property Collection (NLI). Thank you to everyone who supported! doi.org/10.1353/mns.... @sims-mss.bsky.social
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New issue of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55895 #openaccess @pennpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @lisafdavis.bsky.social @borizzle.bsky.social @teachingcodex.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
New issue of Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the @sims-mss.bsky.social Vol. 10, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55895 #openaccess @pennpress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social @lisafdavis.bsky.social @borizzle.bsky.social @teachingcodex.bsky.social
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:
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every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
The app Text With Jesus uses artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer spiritual guidance to users who are looking to connect with a higher power: on.nbc10.com/7XM8xrf
People can text with Jesus on a controversial new app. How does it work?
Artificial intelligence app Text With Jesus lets users chat with biblical figures and it is raising debate over faith and technology.
on.nbc10.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
every new AI application amounts to coming up with a smart sounding way to prey and profit from the most vulnerable and gullable
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I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.