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.

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”' Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ . Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Some 'believe more radical action [than simply reducing the % from 25%] is on the cards. That could include the scrapping of PCE altogether, with research culture becoming a regulatory matter in which universities are required to hit minimum standards as a condition of funding.' 2/2

Absolutely delighted to invite applications from prospective HEI supervisors for four Collaborative Doctoral Partnership opportunities, to start October 2026. Deadline for applications Fri 28th Nov, 5pm. Further details below and here: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Having recently been involved in institutional discussions on this subject, some thoughts: 1) One of the few things ensuring that the REF 'works' is that it relies on the esteem of fellow academics and their assessment of what constitutes rigour, innovation, etc. That is an essential human element.

Absolutely astounded that the UCU and Unison branches at Kent and Greenwich were not consulted, and that staff only found out about the merger this morning via BBC news and Kent Online. Solidarity to all colleagues.

"UK's first 'super-university' to be created as two merge from 2026". So it begins. I did my PhD at Kent's wonderful School of History, so I'm sad to see this. But as someone with many friends working at Kent, I'm mostly thinking of them today and hope they are okay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"This is a race in crisis now". If you haven't seen the almost ever present pro-Palestine protests at this year's race, do seek it out. Quite remarkable. [The Cycling Podcast] S13 Ep133: Stage 16 | Poio > Mos.Castro De Herville | Vuelta a España podcastaddict.com/the-cycling-...

Blogged: Fine-tuning a VLM for art history in hours, not weeks iconclass-vlm generates museum catalog codes (fun fact: "71H7131" = "Bathsheba with David's letter"!) @hf.co TRL + Jobs = magic ✨ Guide here: danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/i...

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

🟢 We are delighted to announce the first Green DiSC Bronze Awards. Six teams across the UK and Europe have been recognised for embedding sustainability in their computational research and support practices. Next application deadline: 19 November 2025 www.software.ac.uk/news/green-d...

so this came out yesterday! First article from my PhD. Long slog but it was worth it. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

John Staveley, wonderfully portrayed in an oil sketch by Joseph Wright of Derby, who was born on this day in 1734.

Taking the plunge (I enjoy Pynchon, but always thought for some reason that I'd need to be in the mood for this one; and this mood - start of term energy and enthusiasm etc - appears to be the mood I've chosen)

Last day of two weeks off. Went to Birdworld to see all the lovely birds.

Today has been a very frustrating day to follow Fulham FC. Very frustrating.

Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.

Happy to have played a small role in this big paper, which was led by Cody Kommers! "We offer three principles for hermeneutic evaluation—that benchmarks should be iterative, not one-off; include people, not just machines; and measure cultural context, not just model output."

"UN human rights staff urge leadership to declare Israel’s war in Gaza a genocide" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

🧵1/ Our branch just passed a motion condemning the stealth closure of the MA in Black British History. We did this to demand accountability — for the future of the MA and for the College’s promises on racial justice and equality. shorturl.at/gIUVG

This is a fantastic database of Dutch West India Company employees in the seventeenth century (1635-1664) - 168 entries for people from Hamburg alone 👇

These people have no idea what goes in to collecting, cleaning and processing data into a usable state. Every data scientist/AI hypeman should have to come into the field and experience where their data comes from.

🌊 We are excited to announce that Collaborations Workshop 2026 (#CollabW26) will take place as a hybrid event at ICC Belfast from Tue 28 to Thu 30 Apr 2026. Registration will open on Mon 15 Sep with a limited release of super early bird tickets. Find out more: www.software.ac.uk/news/date-th...

Introducing a new #liiive feature: cut perfect outlines with the Photoshop-style Smart Scissors tool! Read more on the liiive blog: liiive.now/blog/2025-08...