We're recruiting for new Wasafiri trustees with expertise in the following areas: Legal, Treasurer/Finance, Fundraising. The deadline to apply has been extended to Sunday 1 March. Please share in your networks! Full details:

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

🚨 * VACANCY! * We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small, friendly team. More info below: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ⏰ Deadline: Sun 15th Feb Please share with your networks! #PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing @oipassoc.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social

REMINDER! Deadline for Call for Papers coming up on 30 Jan. "Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices" Still time to submit your proposal 👇

Today the @softwaresaved.bsky.social alongside our international partners launches the 2026 Research Software Engineering Survey. If you write code for academic research we want to hear from you - even if you have a different job title. @society-rse.org @ukiedh.bsky.social @dariaheu.bsky.social

We spoke to our British Latinx issue guest editors – writer and lecturer Karina Lickorish Quinn and poet Leo Boix – about their journeys of editing this landmark issue. They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more. buff.ly/0fD2Noa

Wonderful to look back on #UKDARIAHDay! 🔮 Colleagues from SAS, King's & Edinburgh reflect on the future of digital infrastructure. Huge thanks to Lisa Otty & Edinburgh Futures Institute for leading such an inspiring event! ✨ tinyurl.com/569v2erx #DigitalHumanities

We’ve updated our ‘Training Hub’ on our @uolpress.bsky.social website - please share! All docs and videos featured from training sessions are now accessible and easier to find, with extra resources added to help students, researchers and anyone keen to find out more about academic publishing…

We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below. Application deadline: 15 February, 2026 buff.ly/yibsATf

How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...

I'm happy to share a creative zine, "Ten annoying things about digitizing under-resourced and under-represented languages - And what might help fixing them" from our OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities held at CEU: zenodo.org/records/1823...

There are just 3 weeks left to submit your proposal for the 2026 Annual Event, to be held at the University of Southampton, 15-16 June. Theme: Sustainability. digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... Questions about the CFP? Join our drop-in session on Wednesday www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Well worth checking these SAS Reshaped Humanities resources out. Courses and hubs available include Open Access in the Humanities, Public Engagement, Interviews as a Research Method, Digital Humanities, Going Freelance with a Humanities PhD and more. Free, but you'll need to register. 2/2

The School of Advanced Study 'has developed Reshaped, an online training platform offering free resources for humanities researchers in the UK and further afield, covering topics such as digital skills for research and open access in humanities subjects.' 1/2

📣 Orders are open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia — British Latinx Writing & Art! Guest co-edited by Leo Boix and Karina Lickorish Quinn, this issue critically explores the vibrancy and creativity of the British Latin American and Latinx communities.

Did you know we have bursaries available for our MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders? Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities! 📅 4 Feb online 📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)

'Investing in languages is not a sentimental project; it is a strategic one.' Great blog from Martha Lane Fox martha6j5h2.substack.com/p/britain-is...

Congratulations to Dr Kaspar Beelen (@dh-researchhub.bsky.social) and colleagues Dr Ruth Ahnert (@qmul.bsky.social), Dr Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Dr Daniel Wilson (@ucl.ac.uk) who've received a grant from Schmidt Sciences to bring AI to humanities research.

Great #MultilingualDH food for thought, reflecting on global Englishes, the afterlives of British colonial education, and how that intersects with what writing is judged to be "human".

The collateral damage of people upset (often with good reasons) about generative AI is their digital humanities colleagues. It’s outpacing 2010 levels of vitriol, by a lot. The irony is we’re the best allies — we understand how the tech works and can translate between the doom and the hype. +

Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...

Our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia - British Latinx Writing & Art is now available to read for our digital subscribers and those with access to Taylor & Francis 💻 If you’re unable to access Wasafiri digitally, preorder the print issue: buff.ly/OWMJ4pb

Got to flip through @rondagrizzle.bsky.social's reviewer's copy & this book looks great—smart honest digital humanities understanding "failure" as useful & often necessary part of iterative, creative, experimental research (failures & methods/goals, not ethics/people) +

Thank you to the @ciol-linguists.bsky.social for sharing @drjoeford.bsky.social's recent article for @theconversation.com on the CIOL Voices blog. "Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world." Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh

The Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies' MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders explores how research methods of cultural and translation studies, linguistics, and area studies can be combined to offer new insights into complex societal issues. https://bit.ly/3O2gR3u

Get to know us! We have a new '5 minutes with' blog post, featuring @paulakennedy.bsky.social, Head of Publishing at @uolpress.bsky.social. Paula tells us about the journey the University of London Press has been on and why she feels open institutional publishing matters: oipauk.org/2025/12/03/5...

Editors' Choice: Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

An article that I immensely enjoyed co-writing with a group of fantastic colleagues is out: publications-prairial.fr/encounters-i... In it, we discuss insight from a series of multilingual storytelling workshops we conducted in Ireland.

Join us online tomorrow 2 December at 4pm @dh-researchhub.bsky.social I'm looking forward to discussing loss and precariousness in social media and other digital cultural heritage collections. This is an free event, but you need to register at the link below. ✨

**New article** on The Conversation UK about languages and the government's national curriculum review - theconversation.com/englands-nat... - @uk.theconversation.com @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist. Join us & bash the Fash?

It was a pleasure to work on these four beautiful magazines and collaborate with the many diverse individuals and institutions we worked with in 2025. We hope you'll pick up a copy, share with your friends, and support our work nurturing literary communities across the world.

AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns. AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration. #SaveNottinghamLanguages

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

**Open Day next Weds 26th Nov, 2-4pm at Senate House** for the 2026-7 intake on the intercollegiate MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders. Register your place: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @llc-rhul.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Happy publication day to possibly my favorite book chapter I've ever written, "Stop Lying to Yourself: Collective Delusion and Digital Humanities Grant Funding"! Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

Congratulations to @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social on publication day for Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi... (Open Access). Fantastic editors and team at @uolpress.bsky.social!

'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking. Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it. www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker

Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵

🪧A date for your diaries if you'd be interested in our training session, 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication', led by @drjoeford.bsky.social from @ilcs.bsky.social and our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social. 📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30 👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #AcademicPublishing

Our thanks go to @amsichani.bsky.social, co-editor of forthcoming #OpenAccess book, Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, who says: ‘The UoLP team is setting the standard for me for present and future academic publishing: quality-focused, human-driven, and open.’ uolpress.co.uk/publish-with...

Have you seen that the Language & Society Journal special issue on the Curriculum & Assessment Review editorial by Norbert Pachler, Zhu Hua, Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick is now online? Definitely worth a read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...