A nearly full gang at #BSSDH2025 – a vibrant mix of disciplines, career stages, and countries. The weather was perfect and the vibe even better. Already looking forward to #BSSDH2026! ☀️

Day 5 at #BSSDH2025 came with a few clouds – fitting for the final day. We’re wrapping up almost with pizza – a historical map-making workshop led by the brilliant Giovanni Pietro Vitali, followed by a reflection session and suggestions for #BSSDH2026.

Day 4 at #BSSDH2025 brought also a 4.5-hour hands-on session on LLMs in humanities research – with two breaks, of course. For many, a first real dive into this space. Led by Valdis Saulespurēns & Anda Baklāne.

Day 4 at #BSSDH2025: still sunny ☼, still (almost) everyone here! We kicked off with Sarah Oberbichler from the DH Lab at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, presenting a keynote on new approaches to using LLMs for historical newspaper research.

This year’s #BSSDH2025 is fully in-person – with one exception: a remote keynote by amazing Claire Lemercier (@cnrs.fr) on "Numbers and Networks: Between Quantitative History and Digital Humanities".
Like all keynotes, it is livestreamed on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8Y...

The new University of Latvia campus offers a bit more than you might expect from a summer school venue – open roof terraces, a community garden, and many quiet spots to take a break or play a quick game.
Thanks to UL for giving #BSSDH2025 full access to its House of Science!

Day 3 of #BSSDH2025 starts with Giovanni Pietro Vitali’s (Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University) workshop on network analysis – brilliant teacher.
Also: still sunny in Rīga. That makes three days in a row. ☀️

Due to high demand, we brought @transkribus.bsky.social to #BSSDH2025 – and we’re glad we did. @caromein.bsky.social is an amazing teacher!

#BSSDH2025, Day 2:
This morning’s workshop with Daniel Ihrmark (Linnaeus University) is all about understanding code – not to become programmers, but to see what Python can reveal in historical texts and data.

..because of national-level procedures, political inertia, bureaucratic loops, internal battles etc.
Meanwhile the ERIC landscape keeps evolving – new ones emerge, networks expand, and researchers in countries where the process moves slowly are left waiting.
Something here just doesn’t seem to work.

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