Two more things.... (1) IP rights have to be part of the convo on genAI. (2) There is a big problem with the umbrella term of AI. It's hard to be precise about AI w/ a character limit. Saying we don't want writing undermined is not the same as saying we don't want improved cancer detection.

You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky

This will set tongues wagging www.bbc.com/news/article...

The research is the point. The reading is the point. The indecipherable handwriting is the point. The marginalia is the point. The weird quirks of penmanship are the point. The finding of the thing you didn’t even know you were looking for is the point

I consider myself a baby DH-er — learning as quickly as I can so that my project can get out in the world. I teach some aspects of DH in all my courses. So I am not refusing everything computer aided — but when it comes to reading & writing, I am increasingly vocal in my refusal.

It's backup day! 📂🎉 Back up your art, your writing... everything! Repost to remind a friend!

Where does this leave those of us who do not want to "use the latest paid models regularly"? I was more open to learning about gen AI a few years ago but...

This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.

Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700." Apply by March 1. 🗃 #arthistory #LatinAmerica www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...

The @contingent-mag.bsky.social ’s book list 2025 is now published and it includes e.g. @mtoiv.bsky.social ’s ”Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka” and Brian Harnetty’s ”Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives” to name 2/39 🤩

The New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/... Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.

Thank you to @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for the latest 'Academic process and Digital Humanities' Post where she discusses her use of GIS in her archaeological studies

I really loved this two years ago, but last year I didn't get enough messages to make it happen. Don't be shy! Tell me about the best history book you read this year for the year-end episode.

The winter holidays are here, and PEN America is ready to celebrate them in our favorite way — curled up with a good book! But this year — as our holiday season Banned Books Reading List shows — even heartwarming holiday tales aren't safe from bans: bookshop.org/lists/happy-...

Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.

Amsterdam in the seventeenth century is a city where women are the true backbone. They keep the city running while men are at sea or abroad – as labourers, businesswomen, caregivers, regentesses, artists and also as sex workers. #Amsterdam #newcanon #amsterdam750 www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief...

I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.

My worry here is that tabular, numerical info is much easier to decipher and standardize, so it gets turned into a dataset without…

Next Monday, the Prize Papers Talk is hitting new waters, as Eleonora Rohland's talk dives into climate history: The Doldrums is a belt-shaped weather phenomenon near the equator, where winds are very weak, trapping sailing ships inside. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 10: Disappearance I promised it would get worse for our poor seafarer yesterday. #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory Previous entry was fro Feb 3, 1869, buddy had been sick since Jan 17th, next entry comes Feb 6th: "Last night Carl Fred Johannsen had the cook

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 9: Vignette Just a little story from the logs today, because it's been one of those days. Not as bad as this guy's day will get tomorrow. #crewagadvent25 Wed Feb 3rd, 1869, from Antwerp to Callao: "Carl F Johansen has been off duty since the 8th January he

Please share widely, & consider attending, all levels of training & fields of study welcome - you don't have to be a 'maritime historian'! We also welcome those interested in marginalized identities broadly conceived - gender is just one intersectional consideration! See the CFP: #maritimehistory

Announcing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026! www.swaan.org Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...

Solidarity with British Library workers on the picket line!

this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam

Next week, Séverine Angers will present her research on women's patriotism during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, based on letters from military families. Sign up for the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven with the link below!

t's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)

On 7 December 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET, @mrfw17thc.bsky.social is speaking on "Time Apart in the Early English East India Company" as part of @movedapart.bsky.social's Gendering Global History seminar series. Contact [email protected] for the Zoom link. #EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians

A chapter in the new womensart book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' explores creative #printmaking in protest, including in women's Civil Rights activism & zine making in the Riot Grrrl era....Art below left by LaToya Hobbs of Black Women of Print bookshop.org/beta-search?...

The Louvre heist got all the fanfare so I missed this Oakland museum theft a few days later, which included a number of precious Native baskets and other items.

It’s my book’s half-birthday today! To celebrate, I’d like to mail one of you a free signed copy. Just like this post to enter the draw. You can enter your name until 11:59 pm Pacific time on Wednesday, December 3rd. Please reskeet! #cdnhist #envhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

A fun #DHmakes type project at the intersection of text, textiles, fonts, and making!

Humankind has launch more satellites in the past four years (2021 - 2025) than in the previous seven decades. 75% of the currently active satellites belong to a single operator (SpaceX).

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25 Day 3: Who is doing what now? Now we're taking a stroll through the other details. Worried about the <1600 ton ship having only eight crew? Don't be! It's 8 'sailors' - there's lots of other crew! Let's look at some of them! #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

Piggybacking to note that my Sailing School is also on sale! 50% off! #maritimehistory #bookhistory

Join us TODAY at 12 p.m. for a virtual discussion of Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea, part of JCB Reads. Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...

Today's the last day to submit for our end-of-year publication lists. We're soliciting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters by contingent historians with a 2025 pub date! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Feeling like things are tipping you over the edge? Look at this gorgeous detail from Quentin Pierre Chedel's book of prints, with fisherman falling out of the page...

All Dutch- & Flemish- themed Art Herstory note card wallets are on sale at a 35% discount! Dutch- & Flemish- themed 6-packs are 30% off Dutch- & Flemish- themed individual cards are 25% off Shop in our online store, artherstory.net/shop/

Happening this afternoon! 🗃️

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

If you're a Canadian who lived outside of Quebec and purchased bread from Loblaw's between 2001 and 2021, you can get compensation AND stick it to the Westons if you submit a claim before December 12th. www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca

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🏺 I look at this gorgeous piece of materiality and performance, and think that we don't consider eccentricity enough as a motivator for unique, beautiful things in prehistory...

I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.

Don't pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. We'll want them around to understand the data we do have, build more open data, work on languages big companies don't care about, and evaluate when systems go wrong. bsky.app/profile/giul...

Next week @lhaasis.bsky.social and @neleppp.bsky.social are welcoming Jean Soulat for the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven! Sign up here to learn more about a pirates‘ lair: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf... #earlymodern #maritimehistory

"Is the government playbook to underfund boards, then blame them when they can't balance their budgets, and then use this to take them over, sell their assets and open the door to privatization?" I'd say that's a fair question. #onpoli