Congratulations to Julia Flanders, who just won the Busa prize for lifetime achievement! @juliaflanders.bsky.social #DH2026
Katie McDonough
@kmcdono.bsky.social
History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France.
My boiling hot take on this is that, if tech companies are going to fund this kind of research (looking at Schmidt too), then the money needs to be given *no strings* to an independent arm's length research body, pooled with other funding, and treated as a donation not as direct funding.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d agoAnthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...
Who is writing about rescuing tech-for-good from technosolutionism? I’m looking for insights on how we use the wise insights from the anti-technosolutionist analysis while maintaining a space for better informed enthusiastic tech-for-good communities and keep the space for nerd voluntarism.
Very important essay documenting & reflecting on the work of young volunteers collecting data for Britain's mid-20th c. Second Land Utilisation Survey - www.nls.uk/collections/... The collection is now @natlibscot.bsky.social maps.nls.uk/series/secon... maps.nls.uk/series/secon...
Mapping memory | National Library of Scotland
Two volunteers revisit their 1960s maps from the Second Land Utilisation Survey, revealing the human stories behind Britain’s land use mapping.
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After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.
Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
Starting today I have 1 month in London to do all my favorite things, like... - swimming at Brockwell Lido - walking in Nunhead Cemetery - basking in the glow of the open stack shelves at the BL ...but mostly seeing friends and saying some goodbyes 🥲
Being at Chalke History Festival reminds me yet again how interconnected university-based history and other forms of history-making are. The thing we do in one place explicitly supports the thing we do in another. University cuts, closures and job losses harm the entire history eco-system.
Advocating for History by Doing History - On History
This blog was written by Claire Langhamer, Director of the IHR Historians are very good at crafting arguments and in recent times very many people have advanced very many arguments about why history m...
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This is really cool #LongC18 urbanformation.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/a...
Analyzing London’s Eighteenth-Century Road Network
Mapping centrality on the roads from London: A study of late eighteenth-century London and its environs to measure the correspondence between global radiality and local centrality I am posting belo…
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Lancaster was closer to Scotland than London, so rooting for my excellent northern neighbors tonight.
Publiée récemment ! Une nouvelle traduction de la leçon de @danielvanstrien.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen, @melvinwevers.bsky.social, @thomassmits.bsky.social, et @kmcdono.bsky.social. 🔗 doi.org/10.46430/phfr0041
La vision par ordinateur pour les sciences humaines : introduction à la classification d'images par apprentissage profond (partie 1)
Ceci est le premier volet d'une leçon en deux parties qui présente des méthodes de vision par ordinateur basées sur l'apprentissage profond pour la recherche en sciences humaines. À partir d'un ...
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🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!
Katie McDonough@kmcdono.bsky.social · last mo.Job! Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities & Publishing at Carnegie Mellon - cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/de...
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Kind of how I feel today, cleaning out my parents' basement and garage.
weird medieval guys@weirdmedieval.bsky.social · last mo.little demon, france, 15th century
Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...
Job! Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities & Publishing at Carnegie Mellon - cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CMU/de...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...
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This Friday's #DigiClass seminar: GraphRAG and the Ancient World: Toward a Spatial AI Research Platform, Federico Di Pasqua (Zurich). 26th June 2026, 17:00-18:30 BST. Register to attend in person, or follow online on Youtube: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
GraphRAG and the Ancient World: Toward a Spatial AI Research Platform
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ANOTHER opportunity at Cambridge Digital Humanities: 2026/27 Methods Fellowship. Deadline 17 July. More details here: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/methods/meth...
Methods Fellowships 2026/27 - CDH
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In unexpected good news: !!JOB!! Come and work on our new multidisciplinary programme at UCL as a 'Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society'. Permanent full-time position in London. Deadline 28 June. Specialism open. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #dh #sts
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Permanent lectureship in Modern British History at the University of Manchester. FT, £42-58k, closing date 30 June 26, starting Sept 26 onwards. For international people, this is equivalent to a tenure-track Assistant Lectureship. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #SkyStorians
Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road
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En route to Chicago for artfl-project.uchicago.edu/symposium-2026 - super excited as always to reunite with the ARTFL team in Hyde Park.
Computational Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Studies Symposium | ARTFL Project
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📢Call for papers for our 2026 conference ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’ on Tuesday 24th November 2026. Abstracts submission deadline 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026. For more information: www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/news/call-fo...
@bplmaps.bsky.social recent exhibit "Processing Place" has been awarded an Honourary Mention for the 2026 ISHMap Prize in Map History! Congratulations to @en-dash.bsky.social @itspangler.bsky.social @emilyrbowe.bsky.social on this fantastic news! www.leventhalmap.org/about/press-...
New Exhibition “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew our World” opens at Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library on September 13, 2024 - Leventhal Map & E...
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Leventhal Map & Education Center@bplmaps.bsky.social · last yr.It’s time to say “Goodbye!” to Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World 👋 💾 Though leaving the gallery, the digital exhibition (www.leventhalmap.org/digital-exhi...) of Processing Place, with dozens of high-resolution maps, will remain available on our website.
We are thrilled to see our sister project receive this recognition from the International Society for the History of the Map #ISHMap. Well done to the project staff and volunteers! #LoveIrishResearch
Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️🌈@catsporter.bsky.social · 2mo agoLocating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage has been awarded the international ISHMap Prize in Map History 2026, which we dedicate to our volunteers! ishmap.com/ishmap-prize... @mudderofpearl.bsky.social @lizgabbett.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie
So excited to see this work honored with the ISHMap Prize in Map History this year! Congrats @catsporter.bsky.social and the volunteers who made this research possible!
Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️🌈@catsporter.bsky.social · 2mo agoLocating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage has been awarded the international ISHMap Prize in Map History 2026, which we dedicate to our volunteers! ishmap.com/ishmap-prize... @mudderofpearl.bsky.social @lizgabbett.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie
Feeling sad that I had to miss #DARIAH2026 but also glad not to be stuck in Italian transport strike limbo! Good luck to everyone in Rome this week.
This coming Monday! Very excited to have teamed up with the French History seminar for a discussion of Mélanie Lamotte's By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, & Labor Shaped the Early French Empire (@harvardpress.bsky.social) MON, 18 May, 17:30, zoom & in person @ihr.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians
Panel discussion | By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire
Europe and the World, 1500-1800 Seminar
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Europe & the World at the IHR@ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 3mo agoTHIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern
The latest issue of French History is now published! 💾🖥️🖨️ Articles covering the 11th to the 20th centuries... And a 🔥 series of decolonial reflections on historiography and curating via the landmark volume Colonisations: notre histoire and the Musée Carnavalet relaunch @frenchhistory.bsky.social