I could not be more happy that Karen has won Strictly. She is awesome.

Props to the Wiltshire goat!

What if there was a way to link museum collections based on the way an object looks? Kaspar Beelen and I have a paper out now talking about 'Heritage Weaver,' a project that used multimodal AI to link and explore museum data across collections: doi.org/10.63744/txx...

It feels real now that there’s a publication date and a cover uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage: Access, Use, Value and Sustainability, by Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social and me, will be out on 7 May 2026 (open access).

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Without downloading any new pics, describe your vibe for today using an image from your gallery

Call for Proposals!🔔 We're pleased to announce the CFP for the 2026 Annual Event (15-16 June, University of Southampton). Theme: Sustainability digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... Info session 16 Dec Abstract submission by 30 Jan EOI for peer review by 2 Feb Notification of acceptance 16 Mar

📢CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS📢 What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? - Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue - Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026 - Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... 🗃️ #GLAM

So sick of GenAI bobbins at this point

Clover and Bird, by Endô Kyôzô Japanese, 1897-1970 c. 1930 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24022

I’m always grateful to have studied Tom Stoppard’s plays at A Level. I saw The Real Thing at the Old Vic last year and could still remember large sections of dialogue. Lots of things I didn’t really understand as a 17 year old!

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild (mostly small): 1. Coypu 2. Fox 3. Stoat 4. Raccoon 5. Red deer

At the exciting stage of choosing book cover designs!

At this point, roll on retirement with two rescue dogs.

The University of London is looking festive

My short contribution to this brilliant edited collection is on ‘Risk, failure and the assessment of innovative research’, which focuses on how funding bodies might address and (even!) encourage risk read.uolpress.co.uk/read/316fdea... #DigitalHumanities

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

A record 27-point win for Ireland over Australia. Marvellous!

Delighted to have been one of the co-authors for an article about @ukiedh.bsky.social - ‘Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UK–Ireland Digital Humanities Association’. Huge thanks to everyone whose generosity & collegiality is reflected in the work described.

Project StoryMachine aims to preserve, explore and provide greater access to folklore traditions in Germany and the UK, through the development of a digital infrastructure called StoryMachine storymachine.iisys.de

‘The British Library is our great national home of cultural workers. We go there to read and research, to learn and to grow, to write and to think, to inspire and create’.

Since it’s University Press Week #UPweek, a shout out to my amazing colleagues at University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social. They are flying the flag for open humanities publishing.

Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker

You hear so much negativity about the NHS, but we had such a wonderful social worker who pulled out all the stops to let my dad go home with proper support. And on the weekend too.

It's HERE: World Digital Preservation Day 2025! We're excited to kick off #WDPD2025 with our opening blog by William Kilbride, writing from #iPRES2025 in Aotearoa New Zealand, one of the first places in the world to welcome the Day👉https://buff.ly/suGDx7v Happy World Digital Preservation Day🎉

From making witch-bottles to sitting in historic ruins listening to spooky stories, 9th November is a date for your diary if you're in Herts - @herts.ac.uk & @beinghumanfest.bsky.social have teamed up to create a full programme of fun #Folklore family events. Come and join us!

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

I read Grazia today for the first time in years (my sister brought it along for a hospital visit) and mainstream papers could learn a lot about support for women’s rights.

Dealing with an elderly parent in hospital atm and honestly, Celebrity Traitors is a tonic.

Publishing next month! Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community. Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social Published by @uolpress.bsky.social uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...

The UK Government Web Archive is one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, with 25+ years of digital material published by the government. We were glad to join The National Archives in hosting a user workshop. Thanks to all participants! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/

🪧A date for your diaries if you'd be interested in our training session, 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication', led by @drjoeford.bsky.social from @ilcs.bsky.social and our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social. 📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30 👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #AcademicPublishing

For UK academic folk, in case you don’t know about this service, the AHRC does publish all panel outcomes, with figures for numbers of applicants, numbers of successful awards etc. There is a lag, though, so the most recent info is from January 2025.

We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

It's 10 years since the Open Library of Humanities published its first article. Since then, OLH has published 13,000 open access scholarly articles which have been downloaded over 8 million times. This excellent editorial by Rose looks back at that decade. olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

We’re delighted to be advertising for a Community & Advocacy Manager to work with the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association @ukiedh.bsky.social. It’s a full-time position (fixed term) and we’d love to hear from you #DigitalHumanities

As it's #OAWeek we'd like to ask #humanities researchers a few questions on how they feel about #OpenAccess - this will help us to inform the resources we create and share. If you have a couple of minutes, please fill this out, we'd love to hear from you! www.surveymonkey.com/r/8RV273D #Publishing

Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

If you’re struggling with iOS 26 (it was making me feel queasy) the accessibility options are your friend. Settings - Accessibility - Reduce motion - Enable.

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale! This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...

Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….

'View from Senate House Library' (2014) by Melissa Scott-Miller chrisbeetles.com/artwork/44604/view-from-senate-house-library

Not having working lights in the office in a gloomy October week is apparently a low priority for repairs …

Free workshop on ‘Using historical census data for research’, 23 October www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

How wonderful to be remembered like Jane Goodall.