It is publication day for The Organism-Environment Pairing (@mitpress.bsky.social)! This 📗 has been deeply formative for me as a scholar, and it owes so much to so many wonderful people. I truly hope it finds many readers! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205282... #booksky #philsci #histsci #philsky #evosky

Memory in Revolt free virtual seminar series on decolonial directions in archives www.archiveslab.org #archives #PublicHistory via @thomascauvin.bsky.social

Today and tomorrow (May 11&12) online: Panel 1: Collaborative Practices in Digital History Panel 2: Citizen Engagement, Heritage, and Disputes Panel 3: Community Practices, Activism, and Historical Knowledge Panel 4: Participatory Research and Territorial Practices www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/even...

On this day in 1898, Louisiana adopted a new constitution that excluded Black voters and jurors using restrictions like a poll tax and discriminatory literacy and property requirements.

Illustration of the Dutch Austraelsche Compagnie 1615 expedition from Texel nl to find a new route to Malaysia bypassing the monopoly of the VOC. The map illustrates them arriving in Leeuweneiland/ Porto Desire in modern Argentina in route to the Pacific. #coastalhistory #4oceans 1/3

Our online book history festival is all about connecting with bookish compatriots! Join us for three, action-packed social events: a bookish craft session, a book recommendation hour, and an early-career mentorship session (spots limited, pre-registration required!) events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

NEW TECHNOLOGIES Sometimes things move so fast they seem to have arrived before they were launched. My father, loathing early computers, preferred counting in his head. His head was crowded with numbers. He had worn them in terrible times and rarely lost count.

My paper "Catching up with the daughters of Atlas" from the Association of Ancient Historians conference last month in Iowa City is now up on the #PleiadesGazetteer website. Share and enjoy! pleiades.stoa.org/docs/papers-...

CfP: Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners elaboratories.org/event/revolu... August 8-9 at UVA #PublicHistory #archives #DH #preservation

🪄Historical Sea Routing is now much quicker to load, reload, and compute seasonally-plausible sailing routes, thanks to some behind-the-scenes browser magic. Find a 6500-mile return trip in under 1 second! 🛟 Do you have historical voyage data which might help with calibration? [1/3]

Here's of the prints on sale—ranging from greeting card to 13x18", each $5/5 for $20 through Tues 4/28. Letterpress 🐶🐝🦌👑✍️🏳️‍⚧️🌱🐅😷 & more: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/prin... (as usual, $ => my getting a press for accessible printing + more mutual aid projects, ty!)

ICYMI: #DPC has released a new, free advocacy course on the 'Novice to Know How' training platform. It's a practical approach to advocating for #digitalpreservation. See: www.dpconline.org/news/dpc-lau... #digipres #digitalpreservation - Thanks to National Archives esp @melindahaunton.bsky.social

Digital humanities and social justice: a case-based approach academic.oup.com/dsh/article/... by Susan Schreibman, Felix Bui, Anna Villarica More info teach.dariah.eu @dariaheu.bsky.social via @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

How do you identify collaborators for a public humanities project when there is not an obvious community with which to work? I discuss my concept of "in the spirit of" collaboration as an answer thanks to @ncph.bsky.social . ncph.org/history-at-w...

5/6, join online+free @scholarslab.bsky.social event by our DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg for a very good example of DH dissertation work right now: interactive digital pedagogy exploring how we can practice speculative reinterpretation as a way of asking "what if?" when archives fall short +

As the United States nears its 250th birthday in July, PBS News is speaking with historians about the country’s history and visiting major landmarks. Is there something you’ve always wanted to ask a historian about George Washington? Now is your chance: https://bit.ly/427YOA1

This was both a powerful and artful memento mori: an elegant woman looking into the mirror, and rapidly aging with the paper flap. This was printed in 1510 Germany, #skystorians

The results for #DH Awards 2025 are now live. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win in this openly nominated, openly voted #DigitalHumanities awareness activity. There's no real prize (winners may use the associated icon), other than everyone seeing the resources. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

🌿🌴🌿 We're wrapping up the semester!! That means it's time to recap my lecture class, Botanical Bodies: Plants, Medicine + Colonialism in the History of Science. Happy to share my syllabus, which I no longer make publicly available after some plagiarism issues. Get ready for a plant 🧵:

Public History in Global Perspectives Call for Presentation. Student-led online international seminar. Organised entirely by the students of the Master in Digital and Public History at the Université du Luxembourg, FOR students and WITH students. www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

Just a reminder, not a scold: most of the time it takes less than a minute to add ALT text to an image you post. You needn't be poetic, nor capture the "essence" of the shot—just describe it. And if it's just text—or if your point in posting the image is to show its text—it takes much less time. 🙏

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! On April 1, the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel publicly released a bombshell 52-page opinion. It said that the Presidential Records Act is “unconstitutional” and that Trump “need not further comply with its dictates.” 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

📣Join us for the 3rd History of Knowledge Conference, "Decentering the History of Knowledge"! The event will take place in Utrecht on 25-27 August 2027. 📝A call for papers will follow in Fall 2026. For more information: 1) Register with "[email protected]" 2) Visit: www.uu.nl/en/news/thir....

✨Are you a library or archive looking for more researchers? Sourcery can help your collections get more love. We're looking for institutional partners! 🔮Ready to get started? Reach out at: https://sourceryapp.org/institutions/ #RemoteResearch #Library #Archive #DigitalArchives #ResearchCommunity

Want to gather with #PublicHistory #community in person soon? Join us in Washington, DC on May 27, 2026. Together, we’ll name specific threats to inclusive public history practice and strategize for weathering threats. Register by May 13: https://ncph.org/conference/realizing-the-power-of-history/

🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

Join us for #BHLDay2026: “Towards a Biodiversity Data Ecosystem Built on BHL Data” a public symposium exploring how biodiversity literature powers data, research, and discovery. 📅 Wed 29 April; 2-5pm BST 📍 London + Online 🎟️ View the program + register: bit.ly/bhlday2026

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Registration is now open for the GLAM Labs Futures conference in Edinburgh in June! https://www.glamlabs.io/events/glam-labs-futures-26 #glam

🚨 Newly found 🚨 by Paige in the Forbes Collection of Vergiliana at Phillips Academy, Andover: a 1549 manuscript of a translation of Bk 1 of the Aeneid into Greek by John Harpsfield. What a lovely Greek hand!

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

#AI4LAM Fantastic Futures 2026: Trust in the Loop, co‑hosted by @librarycongress.bsky.social National Gallery of Art and Smithsonian explores how #libraries #archives and #museums can build  trustworthy, accountable, human‑centered #AI ecosystems

The voting form for DH Awards 2025, after some delay, is up! It will shut on 2026-04-17. dhawards.org/dhawards2025... If your browser warns you that this is 'http' rather than 'https' be assured that the Google Form is the latter. Indeed, you can go directly there at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...

Call for Papers: Archives and Ethics Conference - deadline 13 April. Experts from all fields welcome! padlet.com/dturner2_23/...

Buzzing after a day of presentations about potentialities of AI & cultural heritage by AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH), a collaborative project led by @theul.bsky.social Research Institute and other partners. Especially enjoyed hearing about decolonial efforts @scottpolar.bsky.social

More destruction of the cultural heritage in Iran. Chehel Sotun in Isfahan, dating back to the 17th c, a UNESCO World Heritage site sustained damage in the war.

My student created this guide about the Abbot Academy telescope built by Alvan Clark & Sons for 1874 transit of Venus. From Lens to Legacy: Advancement of Astronomy at Abbot Academy & Phillips Academy owhlguides.andover.edu/lens_to_legacy #HistSci #astronomy cc @rmathematicus.bsky.social

Registration for the SHARPIES—our totally online Book History Festival—is now open and free for SHARP members! 📚😀 If you're not a member, it's easy to join (membership is between $55 and $100). The festival will take place July 7th-9th with events across time zones. events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...

Check it out: museums.fivecolleges.edu

For the "everything is online" crowd in the back: Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.

📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

JOB: Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography at @bplmaps.bsky.social (Boston) www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c... #maps #PublicHistory #geography

With the expanding campaign in the Middle East, I'm thinking once again of the importance of programs like @scholarsatrisk.bsky.social and our own At-Risk and Displaced Academics and Artists program with the Royal Society of Canada. rsc-src.ca/en/programme...

Please join CLA Board Vice-Chair Sara Georgini on Wednesday, March 4th at 7 pm EST for "Defending Democracy in the Stacks," a fantastic conversation organized by the Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy. Registration is free via Zoom: bit.ly/4ruKgFZ

We’re pleased to announce our first publications of 2026! We have 4 new #OpenAccess articles to enjoy: “Leveraging Consumer-Level AI for Descriptive Metadata Creation in Archival Collections," by Hope Dunbar & Ken Axford of SUNY Buffalo Libraries: elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/i... (1/4)

📢 Nominations are now open for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History! The prize celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Anything published since ~Jan 2025 is eligible. Nominate your work or work you love. Details ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

The Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database by CERL tracks copy-specific evidence in 15th-century books. Freely accessible and continually expanding through international collaboration. 🔎 Explore MEI: data.cerl.org/mei/_search

Job posting: Head of Digital Collections @ Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Closing: 03/13/26; $143,910-$187,093 (GS 14). Located w/in Digital Collections team, Digital Access & Archives Dept, Public History Div. To lead NMAH’s efforts to expand te impact of its digital collections

Look what arrived in the post, featuring an essay by yours truly.