Just back from #CHR2025. A lot of interesting work, and I was especially surprised by how well the lightning talk format worked out (shout-out to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social’s timed slides for keeping the chaos in check)

Chuffed to be able to continue work in this area with these wonderful colleagues... 📖🤖

📢 Computational Humanities Research, an #openaccess journal, invites contributions that consider reproducibility and replicability as both technical practices and epistemic commitments. Submit by 1 May 2026. Learn more: 🔗 https://cup.org/4pxbZow #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social#openaccess

Meanwhile, University rebrand incoming.... 👍

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

Quite a lot of info in this thread - it’s a big and complex piece of work - but the blog aims for a digestible overview: github.com/Living-with-...

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty. Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable. A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.

Job! #sts

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept! 🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods 🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science 🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏

🗞️Job Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL. Join us www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #dh

📢JOB ALERT: Childers Professorship of Irish History We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025 🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/

'The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions. University senior managers are hiding behind this report to hide their own failures and mismanagement, while gutting the workforce.'

Important collections for all sorts… 🗃️

Permanent Job: Curator of Climate and Earth Sciences, SMG London. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web... #histsci #sts

The 800-Year-Old Mystery of a Lost Medieval Legend Is Solved, Researchers Say 🔗 www.404media.co/the-800-year...

Later today at #DH2025: teaching the MapReader workshop w/ @danielwilson.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen + Rosie Wood remote. And first thing Wednesday we are giving a paper about analyzing text on maps as research data.

We're looking for a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL! Apply by 9 July ⬇️

📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊ 🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork. 🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July 📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term 🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV

Today is our last day at the #FAccT2025 conference 💔 As our time in Athens draws to a close, this year's program chairs would like to share some reflections on the FAccT 2025 review process in a new blog post. facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-26/r...

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552...

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century. #SummerSolstice British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278 Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

Over the years I’ve been doing this work, colleagues in many other countries—including places we think of as much more progressive—have spoken enviously about Chronicling America, because we have a massive *public* archive of historical newspapers while their countries’ are all in corporate archives

📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England 📅: 16 May 2025 Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8 @camglamresearch.bsky.social

🚀 Shaping the future of RSEs in Arts & Humanities! Two key reports outline a national vision - essential reading for all disciplines. Developed by the community, for the community. Dive in & be part of the conversation! 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, will give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as UCLDH celebrates its 15th anniversary 🎉🥳 22 May 2025, 6pm-8pm www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL. Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to come and spend up to three weeks in our natural history collections at @camunivmuseums.bsky.social to undertake humanities research on a visiting fellowship! #museums

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

Postdoc in Digital History at Luxembourg's @c2dh.uni.lu working on the Impresso project... history of 📰& 📻 and which is top 🍌. #dh 🗃️ recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.h...

🚨Second one: Reimagining Caribbean Collections: Unveiling Histories of Identity and Wellbeing through Material Culture @maacambridge.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @cam-archaeology.bsky.social 📅:30 April 2025 🪶:cc-eefitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk Apply here👇 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... #GLAM

🚨2025 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership First up: The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage @universityofleeds.bsky.social and @theul.bsky.social 📅: 30 April 2025 🪶: [email protected] Apply here👇 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/... #GLAM

🚨 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/

Very nice PhD position available, working with @theul.bsky.social, @whipplemuseum.bsky.social and HPS in Cambridge, working with great people, on the history of environmental change in the east of England... www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u... 🗃️ #histsci

Run a small press? This sounds like a great opportunity to do something interesting with special collections at UCL.

Looking forward to visiting Dublin later this week and speaking at the @ucddublin.bsky.social Centre for Cultural Analytics. Come along if you're nearby on Friday: www.eventbrite.ie/e/culture-da...

We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians

@vittles.bsky.social is the nuts of food writing

A local resident has started a petition to push #NewhamCouncil to install an LTN that has been proposed since 2020 after her 3 year old son was hit by a driver trying to pass them on their way home from nursery. If the LTN had been in place, this would not have happened. chng.it/fdMjmQxkQw

The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation with 6,500+ Fellows & Members, worldwide, representing the diversity of academic and professional history. We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians

Join us in Durham Anthropology - we’re hiring an Assistant Prof in Anthropology of Data Science. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

I hope that Thomas's work helps underscore the distinction between humanities' targeted uses of machine learning and the discourse about generative AI

madlib losing his house and record collection to the eaton fire is illustrative of just how large of an archival loss there’s been in LA this past week. definitely won’t be the last www.brooklynvegan.com/madlib-lost-...

Another interesting workshop at The National Archives (who don't seem to be on here) next month about photographic collections, organised by @giorgiatolfo.bsky.social #dh blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/exploring-ea...

For those interested in research around #AIpolicy and #AIaccountability, @theaial.bsky.social are currently hiring PostDoc and PhD positions in these areas 👇🏼 aial.ie/pages/hiring/

Thrilled to share that the CHR2024 proceedings are now live! 🚀 This incredible collection reflects the hard work of so many in the Computational Humanities community. Excited to see these papers presented at the conference in December! 🎉📚 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/ Register here: events.au.dk/chr2024/