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Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
pinned post!
My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!
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about 1 year ago
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Timnit Gebru
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Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".
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Anna Alexandrova
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The central place of the bogeyman ‘positivism’ in how social scientists caricature each other’s work is nicely captured here by
@adrianblau.bsky.social
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Social Science and Its Critics: An Ideological Analysis | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core
Social Science and Its Critics: An Ideological Analysis - Volume 41 Issue 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/social-science-and-its-critics-an-ideological-analysis/4B632B87DB4CFF616A3C7D5401AD34FE
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Alan Liu
about 1 month ago
U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger,
@jamessmithies.bsky.social
):
z.umn.edu/spring26
. Table of contents:
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
@uminnpress.bsky.social
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Past and Present
about 2 months ago
5/ “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by
@lscholz.bsky.social
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@manchester.ac.uk
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#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
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The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*
Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities
https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae042
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Christos Lynteris
about 2 months ago
Tristes Tropiques, 70 years later
@franceculture.fr
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"Tristes Tropiques", retour sur un livre visionnaire
Il est des livres qui marquent une génération de lecteurs. "Tristes Tropiques" de Claude Lévi-Strauss, est de ce ceux-là. En 1977, plus de 20 ans après sa parution, trois collaborateurs poursuivent le...
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-nuits-de-france-culture/matinee-de-l-inactuel-tristes-tropiques-1ere-diffusion-26-07-1977-3550420?at_campaign=Bluesky&at_medium=Social_media
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Past and Present
about 2 months ago
New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by
@tibetcurator.bsky.social
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@uomsalc.bsky.social
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#OpenAccess
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TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA*
Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a
https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf032
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Adam L
2 months ago
This essay from
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on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read:
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...
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Past and Present
2 months ago
Brilliant seeing
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commended by
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Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...
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2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...
https://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025-richard-deswarte-prize-in-digital-history/
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Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social
on desalination
#envhist
#envhum
#skystorians
#DH
@kmcdono.bsky.social
2 months ago
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RRCHNM
2 months ago
CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks. Read here:
https://crdh.rrchnm.org
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Current Research in Digital History
Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations.
https://crdh.rrchnm.org
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Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
Next up on November 12:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social
on desalination
#envhist
#envhum
#skystorians
#DH
@kmcdono.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Katie McDonough
3 months ago
The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester &
@n8cir.bsky.social
Environmental
#DH
Seminar is up! Next:
@ehameeteman.bsky.social
on Nov 12 (online) Details:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...
#envhist
#envhum
#skystorians
@dsilu.bsky.social
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Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15: Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
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Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artemis-project-a-digital-bridge-to-historical-landscapes-and-maps-tickets-1747747161809
3 months ago
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Ryan Heuser
3 months ago
Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
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Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Ryan Heuser. This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments.
https://culturalanalytics.org/article/144825-generative-aesthetics-on-formal-stuckness-in-ai-verse
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Global DH Symposium
3 months ago
What does
#DigitalHumanities
look like from/for the Global Majority? If you're working at the intersections of tech, justice & humanities, across borders, languages, and disciplines, we want to learn from you! ⏰ 5 days to submit to Global DH 2026! 📆 Deadline: October 15, midnight
msuglobaldh.org
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026 – 13-17 April 2026 | Virtual and In-Person
https://msuglobaldh.org
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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
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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography
https://ruderman.sites.stanford.edu/
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Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15: Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.
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Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/artemis-project-a-digital-bridge-to-historical-landscapes-and-maps-tickets-1747747161809
3 months ago
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Katie McDonough
3 months ago
The Environmental
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Seminar (EDHS) is back! Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from
@n8cir.bsky.social
, our first event features the ARTEMIS project. Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley. RSVP 👇
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Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps
Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artemis-project-a-digital-bridge-to-historical-landscapes-and-maps-tickets-1747747161809
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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
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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Conference on Cartography
https://ruderman.sites.stanford.edu/
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Robert Simmon
4 months ago
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!
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David Bamman
4 months ago
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
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Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014
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Duncan Money
4 months ago
"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.
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Ben Recht
4 months ago
This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem.
alignmentalignment.ai
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Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
https://alignmentalignment.ai/
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Journal of Cultural Analytics
4 months ago
💻 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
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Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2025 | Published by Journal of Cultural Analytics
In this special issue, we bring together scholars from across multiple disciplines to reconsider the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment.
https://culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788
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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
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Workshop: Madness in Method – Homo Calculans
https://homo-calculans.blog/workshop
4 months ago
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Florian Louis
6 months ago
Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943) À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam
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Łukasz Szulc
6 months ago
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. 😍
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This was a fantastic summer school!
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6 months ago
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American Historical Association
7 months ago
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. 🗃️
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Special Issue Submissions - AHA
Natural light and processed MSI images of the HMML Palimpsest Project Methods for Archival Silence in Early History The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue illustrating a ra...
https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/how-to-submit/special-issues/
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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
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Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)
Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-weather-in-early-nineteenth-century-ireland-dr-c-porter-tickets-1325106000719?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2Ajfzmvl%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTQ1MzI5NjM3OS4xNzQ3MzgwNjQ2%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NDczODA2NDYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NDczODA2NDYkajAkbDAkaDA
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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
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Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Dr C. Porter)
Join us for a deep dive into early 19th-century Ireland’s climate, as uncovered through the lens of the first OS digitised records.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-the-weather-in-early-nineteenth-century-ireland-dr-c-porter-tickets-1325106000719?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1%2Ajfzmvl%2A_up%2AMQ..%2A_ga%2AMTQ1MzI5NjM3OS4xNzQ3MzgwNjQ2%2A_ga_TQVES5V6SH%2AczE3NDczODA2NDYkbzEkZzAkdDE3NDczODA2NDYkajAkbDAkaDA
8 months ago
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Ryan Cordell
8 months ago
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
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About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
https://www.loc.gov/collections/chronicling-america/about-this-collection/
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RJ Andrews
9 months ago
overflowing centuries of visual abundance
www.chartography.net/p/getting-lo...
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Getting lost in Zuantu
A new catalog of 71,294 historic Chinese visualizations.
https://www.chartography.net/p/getting-lost-in-zuantu
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"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).
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Territorial Imaginaries
Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo244151757.html
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"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...
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Territorial Imaginaries
Fresh offerings on world mapping beyond Western conventions. This strikingly colorful volume contends that modern mapping has never been sufficient to illustrate the complex reality of territory and...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo244151757.html
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Computational Humanities Research
10 months ago
🚨 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/
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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)
9 months ago
📯 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...
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Daniel Wilson
9 months ago
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
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Reading Maps at a Distance: Texts on Maps as New Historical Data
Published in Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography (Vol. 76, No. 2, 2024)
https://doi.org/10.1080/03085694.2024.2453336
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Mateusz Fafinski
10 months ago
You should read everything that
@lscholz.bsky.social
writes but this is particularly excellent, regardless of the epoch you are studying.
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Past and Present
10 months ago
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...
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The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument*
Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities
https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae042
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The New Yorker
10 months ago
A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?
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The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Cameron Blevins
10 months ago
📣 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...
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Symposium | Data Advocacy for All
A One Day Symposium
https://da4all.github.io/symposium-2025/
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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
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Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915
Join us for a discussion about the spatial and social implications of segregation and their impact on urban policies
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/separate-but-dead-disease-segregation-in-new-orleans-1880-1915-tickets-1270244598789?aff=oddtdtcreator
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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
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Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915
Join us for a discussion about the spatial and social implications of segregation and their impact on urban policies
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/separate-but-dead-disease-segregation-in-new-orleans-1880-1915-tickets-1270244598789?aff=oddtdtcreator
10 months ago
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Ted McCormick
10 months ago
typical book project timeline
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Justas Patkauskas
11 months ago
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!
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Conference | Geoanthropology: Metabolism, Legal Imagination, and Geopraxis - Unive
conferenza/convegno
https://www.unive.it/data/33113/26/98921
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Adam Bonica
11 months ago
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. 🧵⬇️
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Richard Ovenden
11 months ago
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...
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Microsoft Forms
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Katie McDonough
11 months ago
Wow this was a blast! Thanks to all our speakers including
@kirstylilley.bsky.social
@jolwalton.bsky.social
@paulpunkt.bsky.social
& many more!
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