2024 #Academic Year-in-Review: ✅#PhD Complete ✅4 grants received ✍️2 articles published 🏦1 museum exhibit opened ❌17 fellowship/grant rejections 📜8 conference presentations 📚65 seminar classes taught #ecr #AcademicChatter #classics #GenAI #buddhism #NormalizeRejection

Looking forward to Jackie Baines and my presentation at #AIASCS2025 on #GenAI images and the #AncientWorld! Thanks to the Digital Classics Association for organizing the panel!

#CFP (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the Ancient World - June 25-26, 2025 - hybrid/University of Reading UK - edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/generat… Due by Feb 7

Quick reminder that there are 3 weeks left to submit an abstract for (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and #Teaching the #AncientWorld! Check out the full #CFP here: edwardasross.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/cfp… #GenAI #AI #classics #buddhism #history Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) Connecting Research

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Come see our exhibit while it is still open! If you can't, there is an online version here: collections.reading.ac.uk/ure-museum/exp…

Part 2 of Dr. Edward A. S. Ross (he/him)'s series on Hellenistic Central Asia and AI explores how generative #AI tools represent ancient music 🎵 #DigitalHumanities #ArtificialIntelligence #HellenisticHistory #CentralAsia digitalorientalist.com/2025/01/28/hel…

🚨FINAL #CFP: (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Teaching the #AncientWorld Conference - June 25-26, 2025, Uni of Reading. Abstracts Due: February 7, 2025 Full Details: edwardasross.wordpress.com/events/generat… #AI #GenAI #Classics #Teaching Connecting Research Classics for All Institute of Classical Studies (ICS)

Had a great time presenting at the Southampton Branch of The Classical Association about our work on #GenAI in #AncientGreek and #Latin learning and #GenImageAI yesterday! It was lovely to see some Classics@UnivReading students and alumni as well!

Absolutely thrilled that the iGAIAS project has won the 2025 Uni of Reading Collaborative Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning. Looking forward to continuing our work promoting #AIethics, #AIliteracy, and exploring #AI's impact Classics@UnivReading!

The "3 Wh per ChatGPT query" estimate is back and haunting my social media feeds! 🧟‍♀️ First of all -- that number is a back of the envelope calculation 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸.

Had a wonderful time at Università degli Studi di Parma speaking at the Intensive ENCODE Spring School on #generativeAI #ethics and #teaching #AncientLanguages! It was fantastic to discuss digital competencies for ancient writing cultures with so many brilliant students.

Thrilled that my third piece as a contributor for Digital Orientalist was just posted. Have a look to see how #DeepResearch AI models identify the #AiKhanoum foot. digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/27/hel… #AI #AgenticAI #AIBias #ancienthistory #centralasia #hellenistichistory #classics

What can a marble foot fragment from Aï Khanoum tell us about #AI? @edwardasrossEdward puts Deep Research models to the test in Part 3 of his series on generative AI and #Hellenistic Central Asia. #digitalhumanities #history #llm digitalorientalist.com/2025/05/27/hel…

There is one week left to register for in-person attendance to #iGAIAS2025 Uni of Reading. Registration: store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-an… #digitalhumanities #classics #ancienthistory #genimageAI #Latin #Greek #Chinese #Tibetan #AIethics #sustainability Connecting Research Classics@UnivReading

We have a new blog! Several of our Classics staff were recently nominated and awarded for their teaching, research, and outreach work. We are thrilled to celebrate them. Read more here: blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-re…