The standard of the women’s free skating at the Olympics is extraordinary. What a competition.

Do folklore and digital tech seem like odd bedfellows? 'Father of the supercomputer' Seymour Cray attributed some of his success to advice he received from elves while digging a tunnel (if you don't stumble across an entrance to a subterranean otherworld, home-made is fine). 1/3

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

Doing a history careers panel with a teacher, financial planner, higher ed program director, and librarian for a state agency. All our alumni. Once again I want to say historians get jobs and do interesting things.

Two grant schemes from the School of Advanced Study are now open for applications: Being Human Festival 2026 and the Centre for Public Engagement Practice in Arts and Humanities’ new Collaboration and Innovation Grant. Go to bit.ly/3ZoolUq for details on how to apply

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

In the MORPHSS report **Openness in the arts, humanities and social sciences: Documenting open research practices beyond STEM**, we explore the narrow focus of existing frameworks of open research & propose more inclusive ways of accommodating the diversity of open practice across all disciplines.

Celebrating #SuperbOwl day with some lovely owls from the Victoria & Albert Museum. Details and links in the alt text.

This lecture was amazing. Thank you, Elif Shafak.

🎓That's a wrap! Congratulations to the School of Advanced Study Class of 2025! It was a pleasure to welcome you today at Senate House and to celebrate your achievements. Whatever comes next, we wish you every success.

A wonderful graduation ceremony at @sas-news.bsky.social today. A reminder of why we do what we do and why studying the arts and humanities is more important than ever.

‘What happens when a city loses its university?’ And 52% of students at Essex’s Southend campus on health and social care courses are local.

Wonderful news from Birkbeck's School of Historical Studies. We're hiring not one but TWO open-ended, full-time roles: Medieval Studies, and History of Art! cis7.bbk.ac.uk/home.html#fi...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

And it’s open ended too!

I hear Southampton and the Solent is just beautiful in mid-June! Anyone want to come along and discuss #DigitalHumanities? The call for papers for the UK-Ireland DH Association annual event is still open.....

It almost feels pointless notifying utility companies of a death. Regardless, they will ring and send post to the deceased person. EE and Affinity Water are the particular culprits here.

Sport England Chair, Chris Boardman explains further why we have suspended using the social media platform X. Read the full article on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-before-platforms-why-sport-england-suspended-its-nctwe

Free event at the British Library on Monday 9 Feb (18.30 GMT): ‘Web archive research in an age of Smart Data’

The deadline for submitting a proposal for the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual conference is 30 Jan digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-.... The conference is 15-16 June and this year’s theme is Sustainability (broadly defined).

@senatehouselib.bsky.social has acquired a unique collection of bulletins published by London tenants in wartime #London thanks to a generous grant from @thefnl.bsky.social #libraries #archives #ephemera #WorkingClassHistory #WW2 See here for more👇

Job alert! Interested in a career in libraries? We're looking for our next Graduate Trainee Library Assistant to start in September 2026. A great introduction to the profession and a fascinating and friendly place to work. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ835/g...

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🎉