What readings do you assign on the Bayeux Tapestry for undergrads? I’m teaching a new course entirely on this object (part how history works, part material history, part experimental archaeology) and looking forward to discovering new-to-me work on it!! #medievalsky #bayeuxtapestry

Fellowship! In connection with the research program in Economic History, Climate and the Environment: histecon.fr/en/fellowshi...

#dhist Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 20 Jan midday GMT (on Zoom) for @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social on 'Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography'. Details ⬇️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

QUERY FOR HISTORIANS (Not directly on preoccupying current events): I’m making tweaks to syllabi. I want to show students in a Craft of History class how to analyze academic articles (& talk about what AI summaries miss or mangle). What’s your favorite article, esp. in terms of compelling writing?

Prize for best reuse of this map

Someone should write a history of the syllabus. You could learn so much about higher ed just from the changes in these documents.

Read it, add to it, enjoy it!

In the late 1970s, Carolyn Lougee of Stanford was doing early digital history work, creating a database of her research. In 1980, Stanford's IT dept *erased* her database. #Oops. And they couldn't restore it. (how do I know this? from a paper archive at Stanford. don't just worship the digital!) 🗃️

Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

Join us! We are the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations and we hope to expand our reach and representation in 2026. We consist of ssociations, networks, centers, institutions, publishers, and journals. Check out the page below to see our current members. #EnvHist

Applications welcome by 9 January!

Paste any IIIF manifest → model classifies every page locally → see where illustrations appear. Part of small-models-for-glam: small, efficient models for cultural heritage work. Not everything needs GPT-4! Try it: huggingface.co/spaces/small-models-for-glam/iiif-illustration-detector

I do lots of hands-on work with teams adopting AI and there is something interesting about what can actually be measured. Most "work" is not pure play task-and-finish tasks, but co-operation and communication, which is much harder to measure. Getting things "done" not the same as doing them faster

Makes you rethink the idea that there's no such thing as "empty" space on a map...

Come work with me! My institution is hiring a new library systems/digital services specialist. And what a place to be—we're in the midst of a $100 million library renovation and good things are happening here.

📢 CRCV is now on data.gouv.fr (certified organisation)! First dataset: Prosocour (17th–18th c.) — individuals, offices/positions, and interpersonal links to explore networks and careers at the French court. ➡️ www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/jeu... #OpenData

Folks, this is a massive (up to $5 mil) matching fund program for "Western civilization, American history and government, and civics." This is the govt siphoning your tax dollars off to those Centers for civics & W Civ being founded by conserv politicians and donors+

This is basically EVERY university in the Anglophone world.

Cool data project on Seattle Public Library checkouts, generously shared exploratory tool and data…

In my lightning talk with @danielwilson.bsky.social ('Disorder or (self-)murder?') we tried detecting significant changes in the framing of suicide in 19th-century British news.

Just back from #CHR2025. A lot of interesting work, and I was especially surprised by how well the lightning talk format worked out (shout-out to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social’s timed slides for keeping the chaos in check)

In the poster session at #CHR2025 starting at 5pm, our dear colleague Michał Bubula will present our short paper entitled "How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition?" anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... Go there and talk to him since we aim to provide your high-quality research data!

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Chuffed to be able to continue work in this area with these wonderful colleagues... 📖🤖

Big fomo this week not being able to join Kaspar Beelen in person for our lightning talk, but grateful to be able to follow along on here 🤩 #chr2025

#openaccess journal 'Computational Humanities Research' will be at @comphumresearch.bsky.social#openaccesss #CHR2025 in Luxembourg, 9-12 Dec. Find out more about the event - and the journal! - here: https://cup.org/3LVGEMY #computationalhumanities #computationalhumanitiesresearch

Want to keep up with everything happening around #CHR2025 on Bluesky? Follow the feed we created to catch all related posts in one place: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Excited for session 2B this afternoon at #CHR2025! @melvinwevers.bsky.social presents our work (w. @folgertk.bsky.social) using Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity to quantify archival silence and bias. We're measuring the diversity of the Dutch National Archive's photographic collection. edu.nl/7cbef

From #CHR2025, I am happy to make public the update of #CoMMA, our corpus of multilingual medieval manuscripts, ran through our ATR pipeline. We updated our corpus with 10k manuscripts, reaching: 2.7B tokens in Latin 560M in French comma.inria.fr But that's not the only thing we did...

Happy to be part of the proceedings with our contribution with the paper "How Scalable is Quality Assessment of Text Recognition?" anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... Our colleague Michał Bubula will present a related poster at the #CHR2025 and be available for questions ... Enjoy!

Interested in analyzing TV at scale? Changes in sitcoms over the 20th century? Check out the latest development in the full #chr2025 paper at anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Lots to talk about here, but we discussed barriers for less-well resourced institutions building corpora; consequences of libraries being forced into subscriptions to ebook collections; FRBR + MARC (and how imp they are for DH corpus building); & rights issues around digital derivatives.

So, so well deserved! Congratulations @brettbobley.bsky.social!

A university that is able and willing to invest in staff and teaching hours will soon be able to absolutely clean up by advertising "lots of small group seminars and face to face time with REAL LECTURERS" with this shit going round

Tomorrow in the @lancasteruni.bsky.social DH Reading Group, we'll be discussing text corpus construction & copyright thanks to the new work in @dhquarterly.bsky.social dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000...

Solidarity with British Library workers on the picket line!

Absolutely top notch marginal creatures in this book of hours leaf! (2024.1.14) 😍🥰 @peripheralmss.bsky.social #midwestmss #medievalsky #medievalmss #manuscripts #fragments

Really important stuff - #archaeology is far from ‘safe’ even when it remains buried… But these conversations need to happen in collaboration with nature-based approaches to #peatland restoration, at multiple scales, and across traditional borders #peatbogs

Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...

The academic administrative class has gone all-in on there being nothing left to administrate in ten years time.

Just over a week until @tag2025york.bsky.social! Excited to speak about #landscape change and conservation with maps and machine learning (@kmcdono.bsky.social, @david-alexander.bsky.social and team!), and to explore creative interpretations of our pasts through #storytelling @archaeolu.bsky.social

📢CfP: DIFFICULT COLLECTIONS📢 What can practitioners & researchers do with difficult heritage preserved in galleries, libraries, archives and museums? - Paper Trails (a Book as Online Open Content) Special Issue - Proposal deadline: 31/01/2026 - Details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... 🗃️ #GLAM

Encouragingly similar to Mike Keller’s closing reflections encouraging deep reading, deep thinking, and deep respect in libraries, archives, and museums even as they engage critically with AI #ff2025

Closing keynote at #ff2025 from @dorothyjberry.bsky.social "What are we looking at? Massive Models and Minimal Description" starts with a quote from @ryancordell.org and discussion of luddism & AI in archives and libraries.

Loads of great talks at #ff2025 - this was fab 👇

My lightning talk at #FF2025, “Refactoring the @iiif.bsky.social Artificial Intelligence Community“ zenodo.org/records/1783...

Great opportunity to get all the titles in the (if I may say so) fabulous Text Technologies series at 40% off

Shout out #2 for LC Labs AI planning process at #ff2025 :) Definitely having impact across institutions and projects!

🔎 Searching for an opportunity to hone your technical writing skills? Our English edition invites proposals for new original lessons or translations. 🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
 📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities