Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely: ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

Works in progress for the Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography which starts in less than two weeks! ruderman.sites.stanford.edu It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

"Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century, this article..." What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.

This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem. alignmentalignment.ai

💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment. culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788

Very excited to be in Melbourne this week to deliver a keynote at a workshop on digital methods in the humanities and social sciences! homo-calculans.blog/workshop

Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943) À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam

This year was the second time we organised the Digital Methods Summer School with Methods@Manchester. Great group of participants and tutors from across diverse disciplines and cultures, full-day workshops and lively discussions. 😍 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5o...

This was a fantastic summer school!

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: @catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: @catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

overflowing centuries of visual abundance www.chartography.net/p/getting-lo...

"Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map" (ed. Kären Wigen) is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. A fantastic volume that recovers non-Western maps, critiques established practices, and offers new avenues for counter-cartography (e.g. my chapter). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map" (ed. Kären Wigen) is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. A fantastic volume that recovers non-Western maps, critiques established practices, and offers new avenues for counter-cartography (e.g. my chapter). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

Just in time for the final day of the @dataculture.bsky.social project, our experimental article, ‘Reading Maps at a Distance’ is published (OA) in Imago Mundi: doi.org/10.1080/0308..., which was a blast to write with @kmcdono.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen and Rosie Wood… #dh 🗃️ 1/2

You should read everything that @lscholz.bsky.social writes but this is particularly excellent, regardless of the epoch you are studying.

On advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?

📣 Join the Data Advocacy For All team for a one-day symposium "Working with Data for Social Change" this Friday, March 14th, in person (CU Boulder) and over Zoom. For more information and a link to register: da4all.github.io/symposium-20...

Join us online on 12 March 3pm for another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: Wright Kennedy will give a talk titled "Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

Join us online on 12 March 3pm for another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: Wright Kennedy will give a talk titled "Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

typical book project timeline

What kind of politics is needed to reorganise the planet–society metabolism in the Anthropocene? How can we develop new forms of legal imagination for a post-Enlightenment epoch? We hope to address these and other questions at Ca’ Foscari Venice; and there’s still time to submit a proposal!

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Wow this was a blast! Thanks to all our speakers including @kirstylilley.bsky.social @jolwalton.bsky.social @paulpunkt.bsky.social & many more!

Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

We are hosting a workshop on migration and mobilities in Eurasia at Manchester in March - CFP below - feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Bursaries for UK travel available.

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Call for participants! 📢 One month left to apply for the next four Mathematical Humanist Workshops hosted by RRCHNM in the summer of 2025. Applications are due February 15, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern. Apply by emailing your application to [email protected] 📩 View the full CFP here: mathhumanists.org/cfp/

Come join us in Manchester on January 29 for an interdisciplinary workshop on current research in the environmental and digital humanities: #digitalhumanities @kmcdono.bsky.social

Marc Bloch, historien, témoin, résistant #MarcBloch Série à retrouver dans Le Cours de l’histoire tous les jours à 9h sur @franceculture.fr puis en #Podcast @radiofrance.fr alors qu’Emmanuel Macron a annoncé l’entrée de Marc Bloch au Panthéon #Pantheon www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Lovely example of how weird real-world data is. I put all 55 million points in Overture maps into a Nomic Atlas map. Lots of points spuriously appearing in the ocean. But the 1° square around 'null island' (0° lat, 0° long) is suspiciously clear -- someone has cleared out bad data just there.

Craig Callender just described this as the "dream team of agnotology": @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, and other stars not on bsky. UCSD Disinformation Summer Institute applications due Jan 31! tinyurl.com/5n8ndkxb

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!