That's a wrap! Beyond thankful to my committee @zoeleblanc.bsky.social , @profdownie.bsky.social , @ryancordell.org , @dasmiq.bsky.social

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2mo ago

Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

with apologies to @xkcd.com

Robinson Meyer@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.

Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

@zoeleblanc.bsky.social @djevans.bsky.social working with serial data. Focusing on periodicals that offer insights into the global south as well as with copyrighted info. A shout out to @bschmidt.bsky.social bc drawing on his approach to sequence alignment. #chr2024