From the walls of Copenhagen #trump #graffiti

I'm visiting the iSchool at the University of Illinois. Besides super interesting conversations with the brilliant folks here and the wonderful company of @anuncivilphd.bsky.social I also get to do morning runs on the prairie.

#CfP: The II International Seminar for Emerging Historians of Education, organised by HISTEDUP, invites submissions. Date: 24 November 2025 at the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon. Submission deadline: 15 October 2025 Learn more: www.ische.org/g0wd #HistEd #ECRchat

Reminder Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org have til 26 September to vote in upcoming Council elections! 🗳️ There's lots of great candidates & all committed to the field. Obvs ideally I'd like to be your choice 😜 But vital to vote for who you feel will represent you & profession #skystorians #academicsky

Join us tomorrow! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the pod's 3rd birthday 🥳

📚💻💰📝 If you are thinking about applying for an ERC grant and want inspiration, I've updated my paper where I tell how I got mine. It now includes the application (B1+B2), the manuscript for the presentation I gave at my interview, the slides, and the nine peer reviews. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...

Thank you to @llassabe.bsky.social for having me on her American Campus Podcast to talk about how scholarly writers can benefit from applying developmental editing skills to their own texts! This is a quick listen & a great intro to the topic if you're new to it www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

📚💻💰📝 If you are thinking about applying for an ERC grant and want inspiration, I've updated my paper where I tell how I got mine. It now includes the application (B1+B2), the manuscript for the presentation I gave at my interview, the slides, and the nine peer reviews. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...

"I, Robot...you, Jane" Thanks to the wonderful @sophieheywood.bsky.social I have rewatched Buffy S1E8 and now have another great source to how the Internet was represented in late 1990s kids/teen popculture. #ERCCoG #WEBCHILD en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robo...

The comments. Read the comments!

We need YOU plus your #historian and #DH friends. And really anybody who cares about our history and representing ALL OF US. Please share! @ach.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @iassistdata.bsky.social @newamerica.org @muckrock.com

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

A "not in the field" question for colleagues who study higher ed: is there a concept in the literature that's something like "non-strategic opportunism" -- idiosyncratic decisions by institutions that take advantage of immediate circumstances, but are unrelated to institutional or sectoral mission?

This is *not* good. My access to the BBC's written archives was vital for my Sesame Street book. Without access based on my individual request, I would not have understood the beginnings of international marketing of children's television.

I just discovered that @sesamescholar.bsky.social's "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" provided the example development notes in @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's "Make Your Manuscript Work" (Appendix C). While reading the notes* I feel like I'm cheating because I've already read the book.

These days I basically only freelance in the fall, which means: I'm open for book design projects from now until Dec! I do covers and interior book design and am pretty reasonable price-wise. I think they look nicer than whatever AI can do lol Woefully outdated website here: www.megireid.com.

Call for assistance! Had someone work on art for the cover of a certain project I’ve been teasing, and frustratingly, the piece ended up being unusable. Anyone have recommendations for artists who are good at ‘80s style anime characters that need commission work / don’t get enough attention?

Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide

Having just finished "The AI Con" all I hear when I read this is the sniggering of @emilybender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social

But I was told AI will replace historians

OpenAI is now openly suggesting people use chatGPT for mental health, to „untangle their thoughts” to help them „think more clearly” or if they need to decide whether to „break up with their boyfriend”. This is unacceptable. Somebody will die. They know that. They don’t care. Fuck them.

Free workshop *today* HOW TO EDIT YOUR OWN BOOK Learn an efficient system for evaluating your manuscript and making revisions that will help your ideas land with publishers, peer reviewers, and readers Recording provided for all registrants courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/edit...

Har fået nyt blingbling til computeren 🤖 @sesamescholar.bsky.social

Så det søndag (midag her) Jeg skal prøve at huske at dele mine starter pack, hver søndag (Så længe der er behov) Men (por farvor) i må også godt dele løs til alle de nye der er kommet til her på det sidste det er jo stor hjælp til alle og giver liv her på Bsky.🙂 Starter pack 1 go.bsky.app/GPAvkbF

I've argued for years (along with many others) that we should teach these methods (ML, now AI) across the board, but I'm very skeptical of AI as ed-tech. Teach the tech, don't teach with the tech. Shared governance, absolutely. An agreed upon policy? Whoo I don't see it at this stage.

I’m raising $ for The Trevor Project, an org serving LGBTQ+ youth. For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1. Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏 bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...

Want to know how to not just write a scholarly text but make it into a manuscript that publishers actually want? That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for. Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

This. 100% this! I love working with people who can teach me new things and push me to think better, bigger, and smarter. When I hire people, I also make sure I can learn things from them I don't already know. How else would we push past existing knowledge?

We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

Reminder that from the end of summer I’m available for work! Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc. I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions

#Blueskystorians of the world unite!!! -Which history book has left in you with the feeling ‘I want to write something like this’? Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions (I am putting together the syllabus for the History research methods grad seminar I am teaching in the fall)

Looking to branch out into Byzantine/Eastern Roman History. Any accounts that I should be following? Book recommendations also welcome! #Byzantium #EasternRoman #Medieval #LateAntiquity #Historians #History

The Nazi soldier celebrating the end of the Paris occupation & the US soldiers controlling the crowd in a Roman arena are the product of the same ahistorical logic that underlies all genAI – a logic of associating redundant patterns in which visual consistency triumphs over historical coherence 5/

I'm considering a podcast assignment in place of comprehensive final exam: provide small groups of students with an exam question to answer in the form of a 5-10 minute podcast to share with class. Any guidance, ideas, direction appreciated!

I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Hit a wall with your current manuscript? Spend the next few weeks digging into your draft using my developmental editing system, go into the new school year with a concrete plan to get it published. manuscriptworks.com/mdw

Care+caring are often gendered, and thus devalued, while also seen as an innate quality that some of us have and others lack. What would it look like to teach DH care skills? That is, rather than use a caring approach to teach DH, we create opps for folks to develop their caring DH capacities

#SesameStreet @sesamehistory.bsky.social @sesamescholar.bsky.social @sesamestreetdigest.bsky.social @sesamestreet.bsky.social

And when have read that, read this 👇 fabulous book on Sesame Street by @sesamescholar.bsky.social

Hi historians--I'm trying to flesh out my bibliography of work on *non-state actor* violence on/in colonial frontiers/hinterlands/remote sites. Suggestions?🗃️

Our long hike in the German alps has turned out to be the strangest media history lesson...🤔 The further we get into the mountains, the older the televisions in our rooms... Today, the 13yo mistook the television for a fancy microwave at first glance 😂 Guess the dimensions weren't much off.

Today. Lunch w a view.

Dear DH hivemind: Who knows a bit about challenges with digital/computational text analysis with data which is informal text, without standard use of punctuation and grammar etc (teenagers chatting online basically) (... Perhaps also in combination with the use of llms for analysis)

🌍Are you looking for a once-in-a-lifetime trip? Join John Mandeville on a fantastical medieval journey through Türkiye, India, China, and beyond in his 'Book of Marvels and Travels'! Recommend this beach read to your #medievalsky friends, and travel together! ☀️ oxford.ly/4liCko8

If you work at a Danish university, you can use the free, safe and secure Deic File Sender www.deic.dk/da/filesender Have used it for years. Great service.

Eh… ???!

G3 is pleased to announce Editor-in-Chief Lauren McIntyre will be running a 'Meet and Greet' session at #ISMBECCB2025 on July 22, 10.00-11.00 at our OUP booth. Don't miss the opportunity to ask Lauren any questions about the journal and have your publishing requirements answered. 🧬

Just read about an AI contract for the US Department of defence. I feel like people misunderstood all of the dystopic movies and books of my childhood and interpreted them as "how-to" guides. I mean, did you all miss the point of WarGames (1983) or 2001: A Space Odyssey?

This is another outgrowth of this. They‘re not „digital natives“, they‘re the smartphone generations. They don‘t know how tech works cause they never had to. (meme from tumblr account „uncahier“).