#histSTM 🗃️

Tomorrow!

Now this is an overview worth reading #skystorians. I’ve been running table models with pre-trained German language models (with pretty high CER) and it still took my total data entry time down at least 60-70%.

And now it’s stuck in customs and I have to sort out various online documents (submitted where one replies), and pay VAT. The circulation of #knowledge from the US to Europe nowdays… EU #skystorians, how did it work for you?

This was an excellent and wide ranging collection in #history and #economics, felt like a good opportunity to finally get something to read that’s not on a screen.

#JobOpportunity 1 Postdoc + 2x 0,75 Dissertationsstellen "Provincializing Coloniality. A Global History of Twentieth Century Tyrol" (Univ. #Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Finally, my addiction to cemeteries paid off 😉 THANK YOU so much Dana Stanciu-Păscărița for inviting me to give the keynote at #Elabchrom in #Sibiu soon 😊 grants.ulbsibiu.ro/elabchrom/co...

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Something for @eurohealthhist.bsky.social & any interested in the history of patient experiences.

An intense day of discussion in Cluj, on patients from the early 19th century plague to the interwar sanatoria & asylums, bereavment, grief, institutionalisation, difficult topics tackled among others by @kindkovacs.bsky.social @chendirl.bsky.social, as part of @eurohealthhist.bsky.social

Perhaps of interest to @eurohealthhist.bsky.social members as well?

The database from my PhD-dissertation is finally publicly available! Detailed data from 3250 south-Swedish probate records, both urban and rural, from between 1570 and the 1860s, free for anyone to use for your own projects. www.lusem.lu.se/organisation...

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

call for no more papers

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"

Finally out, on the economic impact of plague on remaining households (wealth& income) in early 18thC Hermannstadt(Transylvania). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #econhist #skystorians

I published something in the latest issue of the Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung. It’s on the Lorrainians/French in Banat, it’s in English and it’s open access. Check it out here: www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a... www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/a...

Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.

Sem: Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156512 Vienna, 24.10.2025-13.12.2025, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Manuscript, Rare Books and Archival Studies Initiative (MARBAS), Princeton University, …

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

Had such a fantastic time at #CEH-C this afternoon! It was wonderful to finally speak about Transylvania to an audience who “gets” the region & seeing so many friends and colleagues. hoping this is the first of many editions! Thank you @univie.ac.at @dominiquereill.bsky.social and everyone else!

Long meetings without results in 1776 @OeStA

Reading letters from old friends in the archives @OeStA before the #CEH-C

We're hiring! Join CeMESS @univie.ac.at as a DATA STEWARD and help shape the future of research data management. Collaborate with top researchers and drive innovation in Open Science. Apply now! 🔗 cemess.univie.ac.at/career-educa...

Cfp: "From craft guilds to unions". Datini-ESTER Advanced Seminar for early-career economic and social historians, 11-17 May 2026, Prato (Italy). Learn more about your field of studies, make friends, and enjoy lovely Prato! Apply before 15 October: www.istitutodatini.it/ester/htm/ca... Pls. share!

Join us at #ViCAS - a new interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Vienna! 🏛️ Application for Senior #Fellowships and Early-Career Fellowships are now possible. 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 📅 Deadline for Application: 1st September 2025. Apply now: ⤵️ vicas.univie.ac.at #PhDSky #AcademicSky

Check out @jelenasubotic.bsky.social's thread about the new article and the forthcoming RIS special issue 🧵👇

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists. Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website: germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk #skystorians

GenAI - the crap gift that just keeps on giving crap. GenAI is not capable of peer review, because it has no capacity for judgement. It can’t tell fact from fiction, let alone sound from shaky analysis. It should be banned, and reviewers who use it named and shamed.

From the Patient Registry to the Patient History: Individuals and Diseases in a Transylvanian Hospital in 1877, Social History of Medicine, 2025, doi.org/10.1093/shm/... authors Luminița Dumănescu & Nicoleta Hegedűs #HistMed #COST #CA22159 #MedHums #HealthHist #Skystorians #SSHM

Happy to show our work on developing (among other things) a model for Romanian with Latin script based on parish records from 19thC Transylvania (via @transkribus.bsky.social) at the Society for Romanian Studies conference #SRS2025 #skystorians

Designating 'the urban and the suburban could be highly consequential. Areas outside the city limits were neglected in sanitary terms... witnessed higher death rates during epidemics... [& saw] excessive violence' Fascinating new post by Antoni Porayski-Pomsta on #UrbanHistory from the peripheries

Definitely something to put on your reading list, #skystorians & those in @eurohealthhist.bsky.social

📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜 What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox? My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%. 🧵👇 1/6

📖 New article online! 'A Provincial Pandemic: European Ignorance of the 1918 ‘Spanish’ Influenza as a Shared Event', by John P.R. Eicher www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

in #CLUJ on May, 22? thankful for #VladPopovici 's invitation to present my research at his institute of Facultatea de Istorie şi Filosofie | Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai - and many thanks for #forumulculturalaustriac and Andrei Popov for the support 🙂

Registration is now open for 'Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800' on 5th and 6th June: eventbrite.com/e/corruption... Join us at the IHR or online for what promises to be an exciting conference!

Speaking of Pope Leo & disinformation: journos keep pontificating about how his name signals reform because Leo XIII was a social reformer. Um, no. Have they actually read the damn encyclical (1890)? He was a deeply conservative, regressive, if not outright reactionary pope. 1/5

Apply before May 15th for the doctoral positions at the Centre for Economic Demography at Lund University with my colleagues Martin Dribe, Jeanne Cilliers or with me! These are externally funded, 4-year positions in fascinating projects. We're a highly international department in a cute small city 🌞

Still time to register for our hybrid event on the challenges & opportunities of AI in higher ed & research. More details here: eutopia-university.eu/english-vers...

"If routine childhood vaccination declined by 25%, we...projected there would be 26 900 cases...of postmeasles neurological sequelae, 100 cases...of paralytic poliomyelitis, ...5.4 million hospitalizations...due to all infections, and 80 600 deaths...due to all infections."

Really looking forward to seeing this volume published next month with @CEU Press (now @amsterdamupress.bsky.social ), containing the first of an unexpectedly lengthy series of studies on 18th century #plague in #Transylvania. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

The program for the #CEH-C2025 - Central European History Convention - to take place in Vienna this July is finally up, and wow, is it amazing! ceh-c.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us... #skystorians #histmed even a little #econhist

When the #archival material is larger than the table.. and someone took a bite already! Finally managed to photograph the 1750 #fiscal record for villages in Northern #Transylvania. Now just to process it :| #skystorians #earlymodern #Habsburg

You might not know this, but @safeguardingdata.bsky.social, Henrik Schönemann’s (@lavaeolus.bsky.social) initiative of archiving the US’s open access information to secure their existence, is pretty incredible one. Please check out the website! safeguar.de

Really greatful for COST 22159 @eurohealthhist.bsky.social, to @kindkovacs.bsky.social for encouraging me to join, and to Dimitra Vassiliadou for a fantastic workshop on #patients and a much too brief stay in Mytilini, Lesvos. Looking forward to welcoming Action participants in Cluj this September!

Myself and my colleague Dr Raul Carstocea are inviting applications for a PhD scholarship at Maynooth University , looking at the imperial roots of the Ustasha fascist movement. If successful, the position is fully-funded for four years. Please share and feel free to contact me!

They did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.

A thought-provoking workshop in the WG3 on Patients in the @eurohealthhist.bsky.social COST Action 22159.

@eurohealthhist.bsky.social WG 3 (Patients) hosting ONE DAY HYBRID WORKSHOP exploring First Person Accounts in the History of Healthcare Friday 4 April 2025 Starts at 8.30 am CET (Central European Time) To register online see details lnkd.in/e6TmSsvs #MedHums #HealthHist #Skystorians #History