It is so surreal to see how CaSDaR has grown! From launching earlier this year, to hosting our first Townhall (which all of you made such a success! 💜 ), having Cassie join our team and now having our funding call, it has been nothing but an absolutely joyous and fruitful journey

If you missed yesterday's wonderful Deswarte Prize seminar - ' (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI' - it is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar youtube channel youtu.be/iwT7PRy-eQs?...

Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 4 November (12:00 GMT on Zoom) to celebrate the winning entry for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History and to learn about gender and lottery rhymes in the medieval/early-modern low countries ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

Went back to some old code a colleague and I put together (mostly them, for pairwise comparison of catalogue data) and found that it is well documented (high five historical us!) so I could - mostly - adapt it for what I need now, which is nice. DOCUMENT YOUR CODE.

Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 4 November (12:00 GMT on Zoom) to celebrate the winning entry for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History and to learn about gender and lottery rhymes in the medieval/early-modern low countries ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

'The University of Derby has reported itself to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after sending letters that revealed which staff members were at risk of redundancy.' Adding insult to injury.

Damn straight

why is the shadow home secretary posting screenshots of a Google AI summary of British legislation? are there no actual researchers left in CCHQ?

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

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🔊 Join the IHR Digital History seminar Tuesday 21 Oct (17:30 BST, on Zoom) for Bronagh McShane and Felix Vanden Borre on 'Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland' #dhist ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

Today is International RSE Day, where we celebrate the Research Software Engineers making vital contributions to research all over the world. Join the celebration by sharing your stories and successes. #InternationalRSEDay #RSEDay2025

Risk-averse universities “hindering REF performance” by ignoring non-traditional research. Institutions should “pull their socks up”, @nataliejessic10.bsky.social tells the 2025 Hidden REF Festival (@hiddenref.bsky.social). Free to read: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Wish I could say I was shocked, but here's the Labour government constraining the right to peaceful protest again... 'You can protest but only according to our rules. The rules are: you're not allowed to use any of the tactics that make protest effective.'

just because you have a freedom "doesn't mean you have to use it at every moment of every day" Just roll that sentence around your mental palate and taste the underlying logic

NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.

Wikipedia. Not unproblematic, but still perhaps the greatest thing to come out of internet utopianism and optimism about collective behaviour. And they want to destroy it.

Somehow we need to construct a world where negative energy prices for clean energy are a social good --- "Storm Amy brings negative electricity prices to UK" - on.ft.com/3WmR628 via @FT

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

New @hf.co BigLAM dataset: 9,363 OA books with page images + rich MARC metadata for evaluating (and training) VLMs on metadata extraction. Libraries are starting to explore AI-assisted cataloguing, but we lack public evaluation data. Hoping this helps fill that gap. huggingface.co/datasets/big...

⏳ The DisCouRSE Network+ has launched its first Flexible Fund, offering up to £10,000 to support projects that strengthen leadership training and career pathways for digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs). Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/discour...

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Change is possible, in a good way. Kudos to the Mayor of London, who had a plan, implemented it and stuck to it.

Applications are still open for the @softwaresaved.bsky.social #Fellowship Programme, but not for long. The deadline is Monday 6 October. For more details and resources, please visit: www.software.ac.uk/news/resourc... Apply here: www.software.ac.uk/apply

Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!

What a lovely tribute show. Thanks Counter Pressed. [Counter Pressed with Flo Lloyd-Hughes and Friends] A tribute to Matt Beard #counterPressedWithFloLloydHughesAndFriends podcastaddict.com/counter-pres... via @PodcastAddict

Looking forward to this exciting lineup for the autumn/ winter's IHR digital history seminar series. Join us online for a series of lunchtime and evening papers:https://ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/category/2025-2026/

More on the failures/erasures that ai chatbots introduce into library search tools aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

📄 A reminder that we are seeking writers (£600) and reviewers (£210) to support the development of new guides on: - AI in research software - Green Computing - EDI in research software Application deadline: Friday 3 October 2025 Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/writers...

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

📢 This looks like a great opener for the upcoming @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar - "Digitising Death: Gender, Genealogy, and the Experimental Recovery of Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland" 👉 21 Oct, 5.30 pm, online, FREE www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

Come join me on the organising committee for next year's #RSECon. It's a great way to give back and get to know the community, plus we'll cover the cost of your registration at the conference!

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else. The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

📢 The 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Scheltinga, Budts, and Puttevils for ‘(Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI’ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...

Once again, it was my privilege to chair the judging panel for this, in memory of a much-missed colleague and friend. Those who knew Richard will be able to imagine how delighted he would have been to see the vitality of digital history.

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company). All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

🎉My co-authors Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts are absolutely delighted to share this news with the world. Read our article for the unique source, short lottery poems, and for the digital history methods we have used to deal with the mass of these so-called prozen.

📢 The 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Scheltinga, Budts, and Puttevils for ‘(Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI’ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...

New from our wonderful colleague Hirah Azhar: 'The War We See', a podcast about war imagery and how it has shaped public perceptions of conflict. open.spotify.com/show/4TXRkew...

Delighted to share that the Department of #DigitalHumanities @ucc.ie will host a digital artist as part of the first @artscouncilireland.bsky.social Digital Artist in Residence pilot programme. Applications are now open! Enquiries to @stephenroddy.bsky.social artscouncil.ie/funding-oppo...

Une nouvelle traduction de la leçon de @jwbaker.bsky.social + @ianmilligan1.bsky.social : doi.org/10.46430/phf... Nous remercions Julie Zeisser pour sa traduction. Merci Raphaelle Krummeich + Aymeric Luneau pour l’évaluation, et @emilienschultz.bsky.social‬ pour le suivi éditorial.

Royal Society's governing council will meet on 1 October to consider expelling Elon Musk. Adrian Smith, its president, taking a new stance in light of Musk address to far-right rally in London last week. @francesjones.bsky.social with the latest. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

'In terms of choosing which areas to prioritise, [Kieron] Flanagan said this would be inherently political, as there is “no conclusive data and evidence…that will answer that question”.' It's striking that almost no one is asking what evidence the "too many things" argument rests on. Start asking.

BBC Radio 6 Music Nick Grimshaw Now Playing KH Looking At Your Pager

This morning I read E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" for my short story reading group*. I think I'll be thinking about it for a while.

💻 Remote tickets now available for Day 2 of The Festival of Hidden REF! Couldn’t make it in person? Don’t miss out - join us online! Q&As will be run through Slido, giving all participants the same opportunity to get their questions answered www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-festiv...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

I can't quite work out if this performance diminishes Jonas (because he didn't destroy the competition a la Pog) or is rather the performance of a rider who knew the competition were beneath him (so restricted his effort to what was needed to win). Either way, chapeau. #lavuelta25

'And to make it more complicated, there are the non-financial benefits such as evidence of longer lifespans and better personal wellbeing than for non-graduates.' If universities had spokespersons who understood what we do, somewhere in this article there might be a mention of the life of the mind.