Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital heritage collections w @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom &Amelia Acker www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Join us online tomorrow 2 December at 4pm @dh-researchhub.bsky.social I'm looking forward to discussing loss and precariousness in social media and other digital cultural heritage collections. This is an free event, but you need to register at the link below. ✨

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

My copy of Geschichte auf Instagram und TikTok (History on Instagram and TikTok) is here! ✨ Thanks to the editors Mia Berg, Andrea Lorenz and Kristin Oswald for bringing together this 900+ page collection on history on social media 📖 open access: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐 Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l... @uclasamueli.bsky.social

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

📣 CfP: Sustainable #WebArchiving 📣 netpreserve.org/ga2026/cfp/ 🗓️ PROPOSALS DUE OCT 15 🇧🇪 #iipcWAC26 AT KBR, ROYAL LIBRARY OF BELGIUM 20-23 APR 2026 #webarchives | #WebArchiveWednesday | #DigitalPreservation | #DigitalHumanities

📖 Very excited about the publication of this book, out in November... Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi... #OpenAccess @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

We're recruiting for a Senior Data Engineer. Come and help us capture, preserve and provide access to almost 30 years of archived websites. Web Archiving is awesome! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

"Are you a manager in a company that uses conversational chatbots (like Copilot or ChatGPT) in daily work?" My former colleague is doing a study on how the use of generative AI influences managers' perceptions of their subordinates. Looking for people to interview. Please share! 🙏

If you’re a follower and you’ve ever used a web archive for historical work, I’d be really interested in hearing about your project and your approach to the archive. Please get in touch if you exist!

One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture. Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.

1 / Executive power now operates via Delete Commands in digital infrastructures. This isn't data management. It's calculated obliteration of who gets to exist in digital memory and knowledge infrastructures. Thank you @verfassungsblog.de for publishing our (@ktmac.bsky.social and my) essay!

If you are in London in April, come see me keynote at an intimidatingly interesting conference. Here is the schedule, full of international geniuses, also I will be there. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... easychair.org/smart-progra...

We've got a zine that we put together recently on DIY web archiving. It doesn't have to be technically difficult, and there are tools that may work better for some websites than the Internet Archive (though certainly make sure things get archived there, too!)

Free online seminar @dh-researchhub.bsky.social on 5 March (15.00-16.45 GMT): ‘Skulls, skin and names: the ethics of managing heritage collections data online’ www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

An exciting fully-funded PhD studentship available from the University of Sheffield and @histparl.bsky.social. The PhD will explore the contribution to parliamentary culture in the UK made by Irish MPs during the 19th century. Deadline for applications 5 March 2025.

Online lunchtime seminar organised by @dh-researchhub.bsky.social, 18 Feb, 12.30-14.00 GMT, ‘Artistic responses to (intelligent) machines’. Free to register #DigitalHumanities

📣 Are you using social media or algorithmic data in your research? If so, the Algorithmic Archive project is interested in hearing from you! We are mapping research practices and methods used to collect and analyse #socialmediadata across disciplines. Survey: forms.office.com/e/wVs2QUARRE

📣 Are you using social media or algorithmic data in your research? If so, the Algorithmic Archive project is interested in hearing from you! We are mapping research practices and methods used to collect and analyse #socialmediadata across disciplines. Survey: forms.office.com/e/wVs2QUARRE

Are you using social media or algorithmic data in your research? If so, the Algorithmic Archive project @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social is interested in hearing from you. Survey: forms.office.com/e/wVs2QUARRE Survey open until 20 Feb

📢Calling all Digital Humanities graduates from UK & Ireland! We want to hear about your career paths and your thoughts on the future of DH education @melissaterras.bsky.social Take part in our DH Career Survey before 31st Jan and let's define DH together! 📝Survey Link: forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D

Did you study digital humanities at a university in the UK or Ireland? Several partner institutions are running a study to better understand the career paths, progression, and skills development of graduates with Digital Humanities training. Please fill out their survey!

On the Wayback Machine homepage there are two sections researchers ought to know about web.archive.org 1. "Save Page Now". 2. "Tools". there are extensions for browsers that make it easy for you to check whether a page has been archived, and save any page that hasn't yet with a click of a button.

Call for papers: UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association annual event, Glasgow, 17-18 June 2025 (CFP deadline 15 Jan 2025) easychair.org/cfp/ukie2025. The theme is ‘Collaboration beyond boundaries’ #DigitalHumanities

If you provide #DigitalHumanities training to students in the UK and Ireland, it would be wonderful if you could circulate details of this ‘Career Destination Survey for students from UK/Ireland DH programmes and training’ forms.office.com/e/zKqFu4fK4D. Thank you in advance!

Our report "Multilingual DH in the UK and Ireland: Summary Report and Recommendations" is now available at zenodo.org/records/1368... co-authored with @pnilsson.bsky.social + @politonaiz.bsky.social. Many thanks to those who contributed to the report and for the support of @ukiedh.bsky.social

Very excited to see my chapter on the representativeness of social media collections published in open access alongside many other amazing researchers in "Exploring the Archived Web during a Highly Transformative Age" (editors Sophie Gebeil & Jean-Christophe Peyssard) doi.org/10.36253/979...

If you work in research, higher education or the cultural heritage sector, I would be very grateful if you could spare 10-15 mins to complete this survey of ‘Attitudes towards Generative AI in research, cultural heritage and education’ forms.office.com/e/MjvHAUBTAG. Thank you very much in advance!

Kicking off this year's #iipcWAC24 with a keynote panel about Skyblog, a French blogging platform and pioneer of social networks in France. #socialmediaarchiving #webarchiving #digitalpreservation

The call for proposals for the annual event is now live! This year's theme is Inclusivity Across Sectors. English: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2024-annual-... Gaeilge: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2024-annual-... 📅: 1 March @ucc.bsky.social

Anyone else excited for the launch of #MappingTheHumanities tomorrow?! This new online map will allow users to find and connect with #arts and #humanities research activity more easily. Register to attend the online launch event here: www.sas.ac.uk/events/mappi...

Final version of this report on ‘Archives and the environment’ is now online. It touches on archives as records of environmental change, the impact of environmental change on archives, and the environmental cost of creating and preserving digital archives 🗃️

CFP 📣 The Call for Papers for #DH2024 is now live! Details here: dh2024.adho.org/cfp/ Deadline for submissions is December 5th 2023. Conference is in Washington D.C., August 6-9, 2024!

We're so excited for this year's Being Human Festival! With our friends at Senate House Library, we'll be hosting an event that explores censorship and histories of queer reading in 1980s Britain - led by the fabulous @sarahpyke.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen.

Went to see a little piece of home at the #nationalgallery. Small but very well curated exhibition ✨ #assisi