Hidden in plain sight, the marsh rabbit builds a fortress of secrets. Deep in the Okefenokee, it weaves globular nests of dried grass directly onto the floating peat - masterfully camouflaged and accessible only by watery trails. A true swamp architect! #SwampSunday #Okefenokee #WitchSky #Nature

A gentle reminder. If you hear the muffled thump of the Easter Bunny's mighty paws tonight and have neglected to leave out an offering of carrots and whiskey, its wrath will be terrible to behold.

Eating my Easter Egg on a Chinese high speed train (as God intended, I guess).

Vacation internet was down for #caturday, but here are some of the cats I met!

My book Selling Out Santa is about the cultural consequences of political pressure on Hollywood in the post-war period. It's Open Access and I stand by that; everyone should have access to education and scholarship. But I am also unemployed, so any copies sold/venmo tips really do help a lot!

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Favorite books about women's history? Any time period, any geographic location. It's for a thing

My Nan, 1977, watching Robert Powell in the crucifixion scene from Jesus of Nazareth: "Fancy putting something like this on at Easter."

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

After a winter of Too Much Work, I started my Easter vacation with 1 small grant accepted and 2 articles back with positive reviews. Life is good 🩷 & there's a lovely cat at my hotel #academicsky

The first one is now safely installed, waiting for future visitors in its display case. Find out more: www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news...

We are working on a new exhibit on toys & play, and reviewing our collections. A problem with museum collections of children's culture is that the objects most loved never make it through history & into the collections - they are loved to pieces... but there are exceptions! #museumlife

Procrastinating Difficult Task by going out in the Open Air Museum to see spring arriving 🌼 #museumlife @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social

I know all sorts of libraries and archives are having trouble with data scrapers, and they're doing their best to protect their data. Still, it sucks that I am locked out of UK sites like TNA and CWGC about a third of the time I try to use them. Sometimes I can do a captcha, but sometimes just NO.

Two very good days discussing digital archiving, AI supported transcription, machine learning in annotation, folklore outreach, and more. Some very cool projects, very nice people, and very big questions. #digitalhumanities

I'm in Uppsala! For this cool thing on AI & archives. #ai #archives #museumlife

A small thing that cheers me up these days is that I have bought a Pacific-centred wall map. It's because I'm going to travel, but it is surprisingly soothing looking at a map where the USA is crammed up in an insignificant corner.

Visiting our 1950s farm for lunch today. #museumlife

Here is my best Habermas story. I am grad student waiting in LONG line for Habermas talk. There is a tall man waiting in front of me. Line moves so we are eventually visible to organizers, a woman looks over & makes horrified face. Runs out: "Prof Habermas! You don't have to wait in line!"

I love this post and will just echo that sitting in discomfort, not knowing something, grappling with your imagination, acknowledging that stories can have a beginning and end without becoming a "universe", these are all extremely healthy mental benefits of cultural media that we have eschewed.

#DHNB2026 really interesting how Transkribus is thinking about FAIR and technical infrastructure for research. Balancing openness, sustainability, data protection in a cooperative AI infrastructure for digital humanities research.

Anyone at #DHNB2026 who managed to get pictures of the best paper award winners? My colleagues won, but I had to leave early and was not present to get a picture!

Last key note of the #dhnb2026 ! Bolette Sandford Pedersen, on metaphors as cultural markers.

We discussed at dinner yesterday that surprisingly few of the papers at #dhnb2026 explicitly discuss the ethics of llms & generative ai. But this morning, David Alfter's presentation does a very thorough job of explaining how they used chat-gpt. #digitalhumanities

Ok kan noen hjelpe meg? Jeg har samla en haug bilder av folk som bærer ungene sine (med sæle, sjal etc) i norge i Gamle Dager. To ulike metoder. Den ene er med en rem av noe slag og jeg skjønner ikke helt åssen det funker. Her er oversikten - bilder følger i tråd. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Onur Kilic from @umeauniversitet.bsky.social adding queer perspectives to AI systems. #dhnb2026

Christa Shusko offering some very thoughtful perspectives on care-ful and critical digitization! #digitalhumanities

#DHNB2026 Good presentation on the noise of digital humanities data. Traditional Quantitative social science work with information from surveys etc and have developed methods to account for this because they are a priori known.... Digital humanities data on the other hand...

Fin showing a map of where women in Finnish history were born and died. "You see here, many women moved away from Finland for a warmer place to die" #DHNB2026

Så gøy å høre @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social på #DHNB2026 snakke om hvordan digitalisering førte til gjenfinning av informasjon om det samiske spillet Sákkhu. Med shoutout til @mbergnordlie.bsky.social Digital humaniora 💚

Kamilla Matthiassen from @aau.dk presents her work with digital methods on the women's prison in Christanshavn 1870-1928. #digitalhumanities #dhnb2026

Hey #skystorians , we really need an explanation here!

Starting the day at #dhnb2026 with a key note by Katherine Bode!

I have a question for #medieval #historians / #cat people! A friend sent me this meme from Insta:

I took the train to Oslo today, so had time to write up a blog post about yesterday’s AI theory discussion, which was about @ryanheuser.com’s paper on LLM-generated poetry, Jameson, the gimmick, idealisation, rhyme and metre. jilltxt.net/do-llms-norm...

we dare you to find a museum more ready

@au.dk really has a lot of bricks. A LOT. #dhnb2026

It's on! #dhnb2026 I'm at session 1c, listening to Anna Pouline Brogaard on a quantitative close reading of song terms in Grundtvig!

I don't know how it took me so long to discover @oliviermorin.bsky.social 's 2016 book, but now I am reading it. On page 13 and loving it so far.

On a night bus, on my way to #dhnb2026 ! ❤️

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

Here's the state attorney in charge of the case against the son of the future queen of Norway trying to cheer people up by bringing some home-made pastries for everyone. Norwegians really believe in the power of pastries to make things better, if not only for a few minutes.

Research findings so far today: the Norwegian folklorist Olav Bø was involved when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was selling Norway as the official home of Santa in the 1990s 😅

It's almost spring in Oslo, but I'm dressed for a visit to a very cold archive. #museumlife

I'm teaching James this week, & my students tell me that this telegram is perfectly intelligible.

Ok I discovered that when you submit an ERC you can name three people you DON’T want to review your application and I LOVE that there’s a funding scheme that recognizes that academic have enemies