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It’s GIS day @uniofreading.bsky.social 🙌 we welcome prof @stuartdunn.bsky.social to kick off a day of training and interdisciplinary research! #digitalhumanities

Testing day for new holographic projector in preparation for Unlocking History Day @uniofreading.bsky.social #sustainability #bluemarble #digitalenvironmentalsustainability

📚New book series from University of Exeter Press: Environment, Senses and Emotions, edited by Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna). The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions #envhum

Professors @maraoliva.bsky.social and @johngibbsscreened their video essays at the @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, showing how digital media can be used in innovative scholarly ways in history, film studies and beyond! 🔗 rdg.ac/4ieB2sh

Don't miss this opportunity! Previous participants, including myself, found it a game-changer!

#lovemyjob has gone to a whole new level! Wonderful evening at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social for Teresa Murjas’ new installation NISSEN and with my brilliant brilliant friend and amazing soul Dr Jessica Lutkin 💖 #grateful @uor-research.bsky.social

Well my week has already peaked! Had the most wonderful morning with the most wonderful team at #themillsarchive working some spectacular collections on #renewableenergy #lovemyjob 💚 @uor-research.bsky.social @fidgitpig.bsky.social

Happy Morning working with my wonderful colleagues from FTT and Linguistics at an interdisciplinary research workshop! #lovemyjob @uor-research.bsky.social

The Times has published my letter, co-authored with Dr Mathilde Pavis, on UK government policy on Copyright and AI Training Data. Ministers should listen to ethical AI developers who license data from creative artists, not Big Tech that insists on 'scraping' the internet to seize data illegally.

Thank you for posting this! And thank you to my wonderful video essay peeps! 💖

Part 3 #History students working with the #Hiroshima collection @ University of Reading Special Collections 💚 big thank you to @archivesgb.bsky.social 🙏

Part 1 #History students @themerl.bsky.social working with primary sources on the US #environmental movements in the 1920s and 1960s 💚 so lucky to have these materials here in the most beautiful setting!

Definitely the best room and view on campus! Want every class here from now onwards! #teaching the US and the #Coldwar

Super excited to be teaching my new module on the US 🇺🇸, The Global Environment and Sustainability 💚

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Research day @ my happy place 💚 the Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social #sustainability

I love my job has gone to a whole new level!! Spent the morning with my partners in crime @fidgitpig.bsky.social Jacqui Turner & Eugene McSorley walking around Harris Garden for our new project: Bring Power to the Garden! 💚 #interdisciplinaryresearch #environmentalsustainability

always a good day to receive the author’s copy! 🩵 #research

No filter- just blue 💙

The big day is here! Join in! Hybrid book launch at the National Archives at Kew on 23 January, 4:00-6:00 pm (refreshments from 3:30 pm) for Archives and Emotions co-edited with @ValeriaVanesio www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-a...

As we prepared for the Trump onslaught, I sat down (virtually) with friends and colleagues to discuss (some) one-term presidents. Thanks Clodagh and Alex for having me. You can listen to the conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/

Research day at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social 💚

🫣🥹😀 so grateful for this wonderful experience! And especially the to the incredibly generous and loving video essay community, especially @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social John Gibbs and Kevin B. Lee! #interdisciplinaryresearch

The one and only @willdigravio.bsky.social introducing our second screening: “Remixing New York” which also features my own work on the New York World’s Fair of 1939. #lovemyjob

Super excited (and very emotional) to be screening my first video essay Museum of Moving Image in NYC this afternoon #interdisciplinaryresearch #lovemyjob

Big thank you to everyone who attended our session on video essays @historians.org annual conference! It was just brilliant and we loved the audience’s engagement and questions! 🙌🗽 #interdisciplinaryresearch @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social

Great article on our #MOMI screenings this weekend! reverseshot.org/features/329...

Day 1 of the @historians.org annual conference! Look forward to sharing my work on video essays and #history this afternoon, together with the wonderful John Gibbs, @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social and Kevin L. Bee 💪🗽 #interdisciplinaryresearch

Welcome to New York! 🗽❤️https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Research-News/Reading-researchers-exhibit-video-essays-in-New-York

Hey NYC friends! Begin the new year this weekend at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, where we (my dear pals and colleagues @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social, @maraoliva.bsky.social, Kevin B. Lee, John Gibbs, and myself) have curated four programs of video essays! More here: movingimage.org/series/expan...

NYC… 🗽 here we come!

Bob Reinhardt’s “Exploring Submerged Resilience” reflects on the Atlas of Drowned Towns, a public digital history project that provides a platform for exploring and recording the histories of US towns that moved or disappeared to make way for big dams. Read more in the American Historical Review. 🗃️

I’m hosting a new books program on BBC Radio 4, on Sundays at 4pm, and also on BBC Sounds! It’s called TAKE FOUR BOOKS, and here it is! 👇📻🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

We have a report out today on Criminalisation & Repression of Climate & Environmental Protest 1/10 @uob-policystudies.bsky.social

Congratulations Andrew! Wonderful news! 👏👏👏👏👏💖

This 👇 incredible scholar - wonderful and generous man! 💖

Don’t want to wake up from this beautiful dream! Still can’t believe I am working with these legends!

New episode (and the last interview of 2024)! I talked with @sethrockman.bsky.social about his new book PLANTATION GOODS (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), the ongoing struggle of the writing process, the joy of archives (and necessity of deadlines), and more. Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Teaching WWII for my American Century module today and using one of my favourite resources from the Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms exhibition hosted by the New York Historical a few years ago. #history #interdisciplinaryteaching

The 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights is available for pre-order!! Pub date 6/17/25. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network is running a reading group on this next semester, co-hosted with CRITIQUE (thanks to Mike Albert!)

things are only looking üp and by things, we mean everyone, because the inevitable has happened and the hog now has height as well as width

#research day @ my happy place @themerl.bsky.social with bonus coffee ☕️ with @archivesgb.bsky.social & 🎄

Had the best day yesterday at the #digitalhumanities #data for #humanists event! My favourite quotes: “data is the new oli” (Bergel) & “museum data are not nuetral! (Smith). Big thank you to @dawnkanter.bsky.social for being the best DH officer ever!

The brilliant Dr Giles Berger delivering a superb lecture on data for humanists! (If only I had a penny for every time a humanist told me: I don’t have data! 😝) #digitalhumanities #interdisciplinaryresearch