Patricia Murrieta-Flores

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Precolonial Maya urbanism on the dry tropical karstic plains of northwest Yucatán. Often precolonial Maya urban landscapes are perceived as low density, however this changes perspective when considering the intensity of using and managing land resources within the urban built environment, maintaining productive and co-dependent relationships with the environment. Examples of vernacular architecture and cultivatable plots remain in satellite cities and the periurban landscape.

The historical urbanism based on urban form introduced with Spanish colonial occupation on the dry tropical karstic plains of northwest Yucatán (with examples of vernacular architectural appropriation in colonial times)

The historical city and colonial forms become adapted into cosmopolitan contemporary Mérida on the dry tropical karstic plains of northwestern Yucatán. New architectural forms are often inspired by colonial rather than indigenous practices, except for the reintroduction of local materials.

Short description of the week's programme.

Spent the week introducing northwestern Yucatan lowland #Maya agro-urban landscapes from #archaeology to current #urbanism to ULB #landscapearchitecture using #gis #hgis #urbandata #maps on the #builtenvironment focusing on #landuse patterns. Proud how far they've come. @ulbrecherche.bsky.social

Two weeks ago I started a new job as a distinguished prof in #DigitalHumanities and #AI @tecdemonterrey.bsky.social. It has been a couple of busy weeks! But today I'm visiting #LabNuevoLeon with its amazing collab spaces to take a course on creative visualization with government data 😍

Unlocking colonial records with Artificial Intelligence. Achieving the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th-century Latin American historical collections Between the 16th and 18th centuries, Spanish and Indigenous people produced millions of colonial documents in diverse calligraphic styles in Latin American territories. Accessing their rich informa...

🎉 So glad to share with you our latest article on Handwritten Text Recognition and Machine Learning looking to achieve the automated transcription of large-scale 16th and 17th-century Latin American historical collections!
#HTR #ML #AI #DH #Colonial #Mexico
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Estás interesado en colecciones digitales para patrimonio cultural? Vamos a aprender un montón en este evento!! ⬇️⬇️Inscríbete pronto! #HD #patrimonio #cultura #AI #digital #glam

How AI is Transforming Colonial Mesoamerican Archaeology Explore how AI tools like NLP and GIS uncover hidden narratives in colonial Mesoamerican historical archives

I recently wrote a short blog post for Historica.org. I explore some possibilities about how AI can assist in the exploration and analysis of historical collections. It’s not about replacing traditional methods but expanding our toolkit for understanding the past. I hope you like it! #AI #DH

Qué buena lista. Y aplausos a Gabriela Salas Cabrera que ha conseguido incluir el Náhuatl en Google Translate. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇲🇽

The geographer. Painting for Ian Gregory.

I sometimes paint in my spare time. One of the things I love about it is the feeling of being able to manifest what is in my imagination 🌈 So, this painting is called 'The geographer'. I made it for a friend and colleague that has been my mentor and a great model of what academia should be. Ian, 🙏🏼

Rounding off a fantastic day celebrating the launch of our Human Remains Digital Library with a fascinating session on Storytelling & Outreach! Thank you to all of our wonderful speakers and everyone who joined us online. 🙌🏻📝💡Find HRDL here: hrdl.liverpool.ac.uk

Beautiful sunny day in the north west of England 🌈

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

This is so important...People are not #data. In creating datasets for historical #BigData or large scale analyses we need to do carefully thought data capture design and come back to close reading. #AI #ML #DigitalHumanities

Unveiling a Complex Legacy

Hernando de Pizarro & Sebastián de Benalcázar shaped the conquest of Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, & more—but their involvement in Indigenous trafficking reveals a darker legacy.

Hola! Muchísimas gracias! Si, claro, prestare atención a ello. Eres lingüista? Platicame que haces? 😊

Uuhh this is a good challenge for the holidays!
Choose 5 books that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One book per day for 5 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge

1 of 5 📚🪐

Initial 'D' with strawberries in a gradual from the Dominican convent of St Nicholas in Gdansk. Graz University Library, Cod. 2067, I (fol. 24r), REALonline image no. 007997.

Postdoctoral fellowship in the field of medieval studies for a period of 12 months (2025/2026). Together with the École française de Rome and the Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo. Application deadline 31 January 2025: t1p.de/6nu6q
@maxweberstiftung.bsky.social #medievalsky
#medievalstudies

What's in an attention head? 🤯

We present an efficient framework – MAPS – for inferring the functionality of attention heads in LLMs ✨directly from their parameters✨

A new preprint with Amit Elhelo 🧵 (1/10)

This just made my morning 🤣

Check out this new CFP for a Special Issue on "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South," guest-edited by @patymurrieta.bsky.social and @dharanpreethi.bsky.social:

culturalanalytics.org/post/2820-cf...

Abstracts are due January 15, 2025. 💥

*has 😜

Hola Rex! Que bien! Haz visto el trabajo de Carlos Pallan? Ya hicieron el Unicode de Maya 😍 dblp.org/pid/84/9589....

Ah! qué padre Christian!! Si, quieres ver alguno? Te lo pongo aquí en el transcurso de la siguiente semana? Estamos empezando a hacer modelos para lenguas indígenas. Ahorita estamos trabajando Náhuatl clasico. Te interesaría platicar de esto?

Hola! Si, es colonial, se registra desde s.XVI igual que otras lenguas indígenas con el alfabeto latino y algunas veces las variantes de Mixteco se designan por geografía: Mixteca Alta, Baja y de la Costa. Mira este atlas está bien bueno: atlas.inali.gob.mx/agrupaciones...

Hola! Gracias Christian :) Hay muchas, pero tenemos por ejemplo: variantes de Náhuatl, Otomí, Zapoteca, algunas variantes de Maya, Zoque, Mixe, y Mixteco entre otras. También Latín y combinaciones entre estás (p.e. Español-Latin-Nahuatl).

Doesn't matter how much companies say they aim to 'adress' biases in LLMs. If data is white, male, middle age, Western, and from the global north, it's impossible to claim generative AI holds solutions for all. How would decolonial technologies look like if we dared to try?

Será posible uno en línea? 😊

Querida Sofía, unamos fuerzas desde el sur 💪🏼

Gracias querido Alberto! Mira el thread que hicimos sobre nuestros resultados hasta ahora aqui:
bsky.app/profile/paty...

@juanpangaritab.bsky.social

Finally, check out more of our work here:
wp.lancs.ac.uk/newspainflee...