At @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the 2026 HAVI open call awardees! Congratulations to all the PIs on your fantastic work, bridging digital humanities & AI. www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

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A fantastic set of projects. Interesting to see how many deal with inaccessible forms of knowledge: artefacts that are fragmented, broken, impenetrable Congrats @brettbobley.bsky.social on keeping the cutting edge of humanities research sharp.

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It's infuriating how the U.S. is treating our international researchers. We are so incredibly lucky that talented people want to come to our country to study, research, work, and build. Trump, Musk, and their cronies are destroying the best parts of science in the U.S.

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Today in OCR/HTR fun: I'm working with entity extraction over an HTR corpus, and the entity extraction differentiated between versions of the term with and without a superscript "t" -- so "War Dept" and "War Dep^t" are different entities. Attached image is the latter, in different hands.

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NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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