@combattingbias
A project focusing on identifying and mitigating biases in data creation within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Hosted at Huygens Institute & International Institute of Social History. Funded by NWO TDCC-SSH. https://combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl
๐ข NEW BLOG POST | In this blog post, Manjusha Kuruppath examines the several forms of bias that a researcher encounters in the written archive.
Read it here! โก๏ธ combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/histori...
#blog #bias #archive #history #knowledgeproduction
Another international company of Turkish, Portuguese, Polish and Armenian/Persian merchants doing business at a notary's office in Amsterdam, with the help of Isaac Chamis who knew the Armenian, Turkish and Italian language (1643).
#Amsterdam750 #migrantcity
1/2: On Tuesday, colleagues from GLOBALISE, Necessary Reunions and @combattingbias.bsky.social presented in a lunchtime webinar, with fruitful discussions amongst speakers and the audience. Speakers: Lodewijk Petram, Manjusha Kuruppath, Leon van Wissen, Amber Zijlma, and Mrinalini Luthra.
๐ข NEW BLOG POST | Our colleague Renate Smit provides a great overview of the successful proceedings at the Colonial Archives and Meaningful Digital Infrastructures Symposium in January 2025.
โก๏ธ combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/news/meaning...
(cross-posted from @globalise.bsky.social's website)
๐ฃ Join us for the webinar โFrom Scribe to Screenโ on Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 12-1.30 PM CET, co-organized with Leiden Universityโs COGLOSS series. This event explores the digitization and accessibility of archives alongside new approaches to global history.
More info: edu.nl/c4my3
#DH #Archives
Our latest newsletter is out. A few highlights:
โข Upcoming webinar on March 18th, exploring digital approaches to global history
โข New project, 'Necessary Reunions', on historical maps from Kerala
โข More: huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fc...
#DH #Archives
๐ Accountability is a core part of responsible research. We have published our Ethical Commitments, as one way to keep ourselves accountable for the work we are producing.
โก๏ธ Read them here! combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl/about/ethica...
#Accountability #EthicalCommitments #ResearchEthics
Screenshot of 'SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models.' SHADES is in multiple grey colors (shades).
โซโช It's coming...SHADES. โชโซ
The first ever resource of multilingual, multicultural, and multigeographical stereotypes, built to support nuanced LLM evaluation and bias mitigation. We have been working on this around the world for almost **4 years** and I am thrilled to share it with you all soon.
๐กToday our team is in Utrecht co-hosting the Seminar on ๐
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐ together with the FAIR Expertise Hub!
We are discussing the key challenges that emerged from FAIR implementation, as well as use cases and possible solutions!
@angelicamaineri.bsky.social
The Combatting Bias project is now on Bluesky!
A 1-year project funded by the NWO TDCC-SSH, aiming to produce practical guidelines to help SSH researchers identify, analyse, articulate, and reduce biases embedded in their work.
Check out our website! ๐ combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl