Anelise Hanson Shrout
@anelisehshrout.bsky.social
#DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
For LOTS OF REASONS I don’t think it is ever okay for a professor to date a student in their own department. It’s an obvious power imbalance and potentially disastrous for the student’s education and career. So it is real jarring and not fun to see it portrayed as a cute happy romance in a novel!
Yesterday we said goodbye to our very sweet dog, Maxim DeWinter Shrout. He'd been with us for nearly seventeen of his eighteen years, through moves home to NJ, and then to NC, CA and finally ME. Our house is strangely quiet now.
It’s nice to have my work corroborated by another DNA test. What is also deeply gratifying is the vindication of Madison Hemings, Israel (Gillette) Jefferson who spoke of TJ and SH, & Fawn Brodie, who put the men’s recollections in her TJ bio that I read at 14 and got me started on this journey.
Nurses in our local hospital system are organizing to form a union after a for-profit group bought it. Prime (the new owner) promised to expand services, but instead we've just seen cuts to healthcare and this kind of behavior.
Maine Public@mainepublic.org · 4w agoAaron McDaniel says he is one of four nurses to be suspended at CMMC and believes the reason is because he is a vocal supporter of the union effort. https://www.mainepublic.org/health/2026-09-16/cmmc-nurses-protest-what-they-say-is-managements-attempt-to-influence-their-attempts-to-unionize
Students in discussion of uncurated materials is not teaching. Students hanging out together is not teaching. Good teaching is the thing that AI cannot do, while it can mimic a role in the first two. 9/
2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/
This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!
Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research
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This MIT report on AI and teaching is rightfully getting lots of praise: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/. There's a ton to like, but it exemplifies a trend I see on Bluesky around AI + pedagogy conversations: they tend to leave out online learning entirely.
This might be the semester that I do all of my slides in reveal.js
#DH2027 is coming to Galway! ⛵️ Join us 28 June–3 July 2027 at the University of Galway for ADHO’s 37th annual conference, on the theme #Creativity. Our website is now live: dh2027.adho.org Watch this space: the CfP is coming soon. #DH2027 @adho-org.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
Oooh boy. This is a great opportunity to talk about datasets and what goes into constructing a small one much less a "well structured historical dataset" in some fields. I'm a digital historian of Renaissance and Early Modern Italy and *none* of my material is digitized (1/13)
Jim Clifford@jimclifford.bsky.social · 2mo agoAre we ready for machine written history? When given access to a well structured large historical dataset, Claude’s Fable 5 can identify a topic, complete the research and write a strong and original draft research paper. This has the potential to break peer review, graduate school, & job searches.
Oscar-winning musician and actor Glen Hansard dies in Dublin motorbike crash
Oscar-winning musician and actor Glen Hansard dies in Dublin motorbike crash
Singer found fame after starring in The Commitments and with his band The Frames
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Our flight from Dublin landed with five minutes left in this match, and the lads sitting next to us absolutely lost it with anxiety and then joy when their phones connected, as they refreshed the updates, and when Mayo won.
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3mo agoMayo prove all the pundits wrong as they finally scale their Everest
Leaving @rs4vp.org with so many new things fizzing around in my head. Thank you for a wonderful and generative conference!
This was an absolute barn burner of a plenary.
SHEAR@shearites.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe kicked off #SHEAR2026 yesterday with the President’s Plenary on “How to Tell the Truth about History in 2026.” We heard from scholars who challenged us to show up, embrace the messiness of history, and always “show your work.” Followed by a reception at Carpenters’ Hall with SHEAR cookies.
📘From our latest issue! Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 'Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640' #Migration #History #EarlyModern #England #Immigration 📜 16thc 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🎉 Happy birthday to renowned historian, Joe Lee! A Tract for Our Times, edited by Miriam Nyhan Grey (2024) honours Lee’s contribution to historical scholarship with essays from leading historians of modern Ireland. 🔗 Find the book in shops nationwide or at www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.
Maritime history folks, is Lloyd's Index for the 19th c. searchable somewhere?
Anelise Hanson Shrout@anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 3mo agoIs there a searchable Lloyd's index for the early nineteenth century? I know that the volumes have been digitized, but before I dive into transcription I want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel.
Is there a searchable Lloyd's index for the early nineteenth century? I know that the volumes have been digitized, but before I dive into transcription I want to make sure I'm not reinventing the wheel.
The Pope has decided that instead of competing against each other, Portugal will play Brazil while Spain plays Mexico.
An observation: I'm training a model to transcribe a 19th century ledger. Some of the people listed in the ledger are Black. Although the handwriting for each entry is the same, the model in its current state is much worse at correctly transcribing the names of Black people.
