Thanks to Erin for such a thorough and generous review. It’s lovely when someone really gets the spirit of what you were trying to create! Made my week!

This is a really important piece of scholarship - not only for people dealing with digitised collections data, but really for anyone who does stuff with data full stop!

We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

Join us next week on Nov 12, 12pm UK time, online to hear from @ehameeteman.bsky.social on "Reimagining Desalination through Digital Archives" at the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... #envhum #dh

It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

This looks like a really cool new journal: an "online and open-access platform for speculating about possible futures [...] encourages creative and interdisciplinary collaboration and non-traditional forms of knowledge production" #OpenAccess and no publication fees 👍

Coming up this Thursday, an excellent event about AI & cultural heritage research org by @amsichani.bsky.social & @braiduk.bsky.social. Reg still open! Featuring fab speakers incl @ruthahnert.bsky.social @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social @jnockels.bsky.social @danielvanstrien.bsky.social & more

What most people don’t understand about successful grant writing is that it’s not about learning a template, it’s about learning a *genre*. There are expectations in place, but there’s also room for creativity. And that’s what I’m teaching in this workshop: docs.google.com/forms/d/1FxR...

Very proud of our book and experiment on open peer review. And grateful to all who have contributed!

Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... #envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm

This also arrived today, to distract me from other reading. And thank you, @samuelmoore.org, for the kind acknowledgement at the start. It sounds as though I will enjoy this intellectual provocation.

There is 1 free ‘scholarship’ spot on this course, so please do share the info with any grad students, ECRs, and unaffiliated or precariously employed academics you know!

There’s nothing I love more than learning a material culture origin to a common word/phrase—little linguistic skeuomorphs—so just imagine my delight reading about the "tapered or wedge-shaped bars" that added spaces into linotype text literal SPACE BARS y’all! babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=um...

Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ947/p...

Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….

This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word

A preprint/author's original version of my review of @elikaortega.bsky.social's Binding Media. Posted under OUP's self-archiving policy academic.oup.com/pages/self_a... works.hcommons.org/records/kekj...

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Wow, exciting to see this new application of MapReader with historical Danish series maps!

During this period of open peer review of the Living w/Machines book, 2 new chapters are available: 1. MapReader - a deep cut on the epistemological shift it offers for computational map studies 2. Environmental Scan - a method for digital source criticism at scale #skystorians #dh #maps #histstm

Hey! We have two new draft chapters of the Living with Machines book up online for your delectation! One on Mapreader and one on the Environmental Scan. read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/liv...

Now open: call for the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026. Eligible titles, published in 2025, may be submitted by the author before the closing date of 15 December. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v #Skystorians

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open. Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars. This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there! hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

Petition update 3700 signatories to date Thankyou

We're going to be hosting a one-day event in Cambridge on Dec 3rd focusing on the Publish Review Curate model. More info very soon but save the date!

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations @adho-org.bsky.social has a number of positions open - help out with ADHO Awards, Communications or with a Fellowship aimed at improving the website adho.org/jobs/ It's a great way to help the field and support your local DH organisation too

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

With the phrase “unfunded hobbyist research” the new Universities UK President continues a much longer history of contempt that UUK has shown towards the labour of all those who work in universities

Apologies for all the rage-reposting this morning.

'"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.

One of the things that really grinds at the “elite” is that RAE/REF has shown for 30 years that research excellence really IS spread far beyond their narrow vision. They absolutely HATE it.

The people who are supposedly 'the voice' of research intensive universities don't understand research funding or even research. A truly embarrassing organisation

The last REF found that 98% of UK research was either "internationally recognised", "internationally excellent", or "world-leading". If you think low-quality research is the noteworthy challenge in UK higher ed right now, you are wilfully looking in the wrong direction

Important new article form my colleague Paula Westenberger on Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage research, and the challenges in UK copyright law and policy. www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/eur...

I have an op-ed out today in @resprofnews.bsky.social introducing my new book on the commercialisation of open access publishing.

We are delighted to announce that libraries can now request an early access free trial of Oxford University Voltaire, a new digital scholarly edition from the Voltaire Foundation. Find out more > bit.ly/oxunivoltaire @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Oof. This.

This cool event is now online, due to tube strikes, but it does open it up to DH/AI/Hums people from all over!

This is entirely of a piece with the now accepted view that research activity is best directed from above by non-experts who provide funding only in line with strategic objectives they cook up amongst themselves. Of course, this view is entirely wrong - it’s a managerialist fantasy and it sucks.

So @theturing.bsky.social has decided they no longer need Humanities (!) - so the The Alan Turing Institute’s Humanities and Data Science Interest Group are having one final event: "Network power: the humanities and data science in collaboration" In person and online, Oxford, 25th Sept. Pls share!

There's lots I could say about the wrongheaded banishment of humanities projects, people and groups from @theturing.bsky.social - what is AI if you don't think about its deployment and how it affects society, eh? Interdisciplinarity is key to building a better future. Pfffft to yer defence silos.

We all needed this right now 👇🏽 Alt text and info about the author are in the replies

Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters. This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.

This conference on Artificial Intelligence in Arts and Industry (AI2) might be of interest to some of the DH crowd. I'm speaking about some ongoing work with language models, and how we can use their failures productively: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ai2-artifi...

"With this experiment we set out to develop new publishing approaches and forms that recast the humanities book as a collaborative ‘process’ rather than a ‘product’ (Gilby et al. 2022), reflecting the open research principles underpinning the research project itself." - Gallon & Bowman on LwM book 🥰