Conference takes place 15-19 September, registration (which can also take place online!) here: eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/registration

Merisa Martinez@merisamartinez.bsky.social · 45m ago

EADH 2026 Conference program is live and it looks great - so much good stuff going on here! eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/programme

EADH 2026 Conference program is live and it looks great - so much good stuff going on here! eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/programme

The Swedish National Archives have launched a Model Content Protocol Server and asking for feedback on this beta service riksarkivet.se/en/resources... #MCP #AI

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92

Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination Gloria Steinem, the American feminist and journalist whose activism helped push through greater rights for women around the world has died, aged 92. Steinem “passed away peacefully at her home in New York City, surrounded by some of the many who loved her”, a statement shared to her Instagram page said. Continue reading...

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I too am very sad that Gloria Steinem is dead, but I am seeing a number of people post "Rest in Power," and I just want to give a gentle reminder that that phrase has very specific connotations for/in Black culture and is probably not the right one for this situation.

Losing Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Wendell Berry, and Gloria Steinem in the space of ten days feels like a cosmic gut punch. Make it stop.

"When other genders like women engaged with the community, it led to the common assessment that while men could continue acting as men, being a Wikipedian meant that a woman should 'stop behaving like a woman' (Menking & Erickson, 2015, p. 3)." Quoted from www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Becoming Wikipedian women: a sociotechnical history of the Gender Gap Task Force (2013–2023)

The summer of 2014 was a flashpoint of conflict between popular misogyny and popular feminism. While #GamerGate harassment campaigns raged across Reddit and Twitter, the experience of discriminatio...

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WHAT IF EVER STUDIED BODIES OF HALF OF POPULATION HOW MIGHT THAT GO (also bodies are WILD)

Starre Vartan@starrevartan.bsky.social · 6d ago

We used to think that once ovaries had passed through the menopausal transition, the scarred (from making all those eggs!), shrunken organs sat inert in the body. NOPE. "What we found was super surprising.” says Francesca Duncan at @medillschool.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2533...

On the topic of classroom pedagogy after gen AI: this semester, I'm trying out for the first time using hand written "blue books" for in-class written exams, for a first year undergrad humanities class. Has anyone else tried this, and if so, any suggestions or caveats or interesting anecdotes? Thx!

We are inviting proposals to host the annual #CHR conference! A single bid may now cover the coming three editions (December 2027, December 2028, and December 2029). 📝 Expression of interest: September 15 📝 Full proposal: November 10 More info: computational-humanities-research.org/hosting_2027/

You have 29 more days to submit an application for the short-term Nottebohm Fellowships for #Bookhistory research in Antwerp! Come do research in the collections of the Plantin-Moretus Museum and/or Hendrik Conscience Library! consciencebibliotheek.be/en/fellowshi...

Nottebohm Fellowship for Book Historical Research | Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience

Every year, the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library and the Museum Plantin-Moretus offer a short-term Nottebohm fellowship to two researchers, with the gracious support of the Thierry and Frédéric Not...

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First day of classes today for our Year 1 Digital Humanities Master's students. As an international program we always get such a great mix of people from so many countries. It's amazing to see, and they all seem happy and eager to learn. This is the good stuff! Tiny Joys!

#JobKlaxon #DigitalHumanities #DH University Lecturer @helsinki.fi, apply until 3 Oct:

Mikko Tolonen@tolonen.bsky.social · 2d ago

We are hiring! Permanent position for a University Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. The application period is open and closes on 3 October 2026: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please read the job description carefully and feel free to spread the word widely.

Folks teaching in Digital Humanities or Dh-adjacent fields: Does your undergraduate or graduate program include a compulsory internship? If so, what does it look like (e.g., length of the internship, boundaries for what counts as a suitable internship, does it have to be connected to thesis, etc.)?

Folks teaching in Digital Humanities or Dh-adjacent fields: Does your undergraduate or graduate program include a compulsory internship? If so, what does it look like (e.g., length of the internship, boundaries for what counts as a suitable internship, does it have to be connected to thesis, etc.)?

DH friends and colleagues: Does your institution have any standard time frame between posting of job ad and time to decision for tenure track/tenured academic positions?

My girlfriend, who runs a queer archive, is looking to publish an essay of an overarching / comprehensive look the history of queer political and social organizations in East Texas and is on the hunt for queer periodicals, journals, and magazines that would be interested. Anyone have suggestion?

DH friends and colleagues: Does your institution have any standard time frame between posting of job ad and time to decision for tenure track/tenured academic positions?

if you or someone you know are invested in higher ed opportunities to nurture deep thinking (and practice!) about alternative approaches to the past, present, future of media technologies, pls share/apply! our Media Studies Dept is once again recruiting grad students docs.google.com/document/d/1...

CU Boulder Media Studies Grad Program Recruitment!

University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students to begin Fall 2027! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applicatio...

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I'm thrilled to announce that the special issue of “Cultural Heritage in Crisis” in Library Trends, Issue 75, No. 1, co-edited by my colleague Andreas Segerberg and I, has been published! It features an amazing group of authors on topics that I’ll post next. View issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57540.

This paper is part of a wider journal special issue, “Cultural Heritage in Crisis” in Library Trends, Issue 75, No. 1, August 2026, edited by Anna E. Kijas and Andreas Segerberg. There are so many good papers in this volume. We need to get our act together. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57540

New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Getting the right angle for analysis involves creativity with the technical set up 🔩🔬📸 #HistSTM #MaterialCulture 🏛️

I am proud to share the UK 3D Heritage Data at Risk project final report with you! 🔗 Link at the end of this thread.

i’ve never once judged anyone for needing an extension except when that person is me, and then i’m unbelievably harsh

thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton

don’t take advice from people who have long forgotten what it’s like to be precariously employed

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 7d ago

Opinion | Postdocs Aren’t Burger Flippers: Why Unionization Is a Bad Idea Unionization disrupts the bespoke mentor-mentee relationships that are central to the advancement of science. By Evan D. Morris: https://bit.ly/3Sus7fa #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

There is so much amazing crop art this year at the Minnesota State Fair focused on the resistance to the ICE occupation we faced, this one in particular had me choked up.

The search for AI ROI continues. University admin gave a presentation to faculty senate on AI. They begged us to discover use cases for them. All they have is a bespoke Ai tutoring agent and hopes and dreams for improved internal operations All senate had to offer was complaints about cheating

'The report explains that a recent decline in international students has led to "immediate and severe" consequences for the higher education balance sheet. 'a reduction in public funding, rising inflation and high energy prices have also harmed Scotland's higher education institutions.' 3/3