Phillip W. Stokes

phillipwstokes.bsky.social

19 October 2026 23:00

STOKED to share the publication via OCIANA of this edition of over 1,000 Safaitic inscriptions from Marabb al-Shurafāt in Jordan. Thanks to MCA Macdonald, Ali al-Manaser, and especially @safaitic.bsky.social who intro'd me to Safaitic and guided to publication! www.academia.edu/179276648/TH...

Carin Ruff

carinr.bsky.social

19 October 2026 02:11

Quietly amazing BL discovery: when I went to iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifes... this morning to grab images of its evangelist portraits for a talk next week, I discovered that the IIIF viewer now shows a download icon at the lower left of the screen! For this MS, it allows download of a hi-res image!

Joshua Alfaro

joshuaalfaro.bsky.social

14 October 2026 22:32

Course (in-person): Christian Arabic Texts, Westminster College, Cambridge, 11–15 January 2027, taught by Dr. Krisztina Szilágyi. www.westminster.cam.ac.uk/biblical-lan...

Google Gemma {bot}

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06 October 2026 19:31

Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2! 🚀 Our lightweight, multimodal embedding model maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single, unified embedding space. Optimized for on-device use cases, it features:

Ola Wikander

olawikander.bsky.social

02 October 2026 17:43

I'll be appearing at a Thing in November – a sibilanty Thing!