You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Autumn arrived on schedule in Vienna, 53f/12c and rainy. Love it.

If it is the case that the effects of cancelling USAID could have been mitigated by soliciting more aid from other countries beforehand, then not pre-arranging that handoff amounts to reckless or negligent homicide. Making Rubio et al killers.

We’re pleased to announce Performant Studio, an open source, standards-based software toolkit for #digitalhumanities projects. Check it out: www.performantsoftware.com/studio/

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Yay!

'Mississippi' Fred McDowell 🎶'Write Me a Few of Your Lines' #bluesmusic

I have visited many US National Parks and the interpretive displays are uniformly outstanding. The idea that they (and museums) will be scrubbed of inconvenient historical truths is an outrage.

Brushing up on my Stasi history…no special reason

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This is the time of year when the @athletics.com play some good baseball and showcase their best young players for wealthy teams to snatch up over the winter. Several this year. Same as it ever was.

We are so excited about the @thewha.bsky.social conference in Incheon Korea next June! If you are interested in any aspect of teaching and research about the transnational and global human past, you should submit a paper or panel proposal and come join us! #worldhistory thewha.org/conferences/...

Just a short walk over to the lawn for UFC fight night, or to the new ballroom for some karaoke

US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...

As of today available in paperback 🎉🎉: our edition and translation of the Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order with @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Printed version is highly recommended as it offers edition and translation on facing pages, which was not feasible in the ebook.

Apparently, no one seems particularly bothered, but for the past few days, Trump has been talking repeatedly about being a dictator. If Americans don’t want that, the window to stop him is closing quickly.

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

Introducing a new #liiive feature: cut perfect outlines with the Photoshop-style Smart Scissors tool! Read more on the liiive blog: liiive.now/blog/2025-08...

@timothysnyder.bsky.social likes lists, and this is another good one. Tried to imagine Trump or for that matter Rubio or Witkoff reading it and that momentarily broke my brain.

Listen, you can’t break the Trump cult, but they are the minority. We need a sustained presence of Democrats in rural spaces to talk to their neighbors and run for office. Seats go uncontested for decades. Hate gerrymandering? Get Democrats on every ballot and every race. We have to run to win.

Reminder: Annotorious brings Photoshop-like selection tools to your browser! • Intelligent Scissors • Magnetic Cursor • WebGPU-powered SegmentAnything I just wrote proper docs! Usage guides, examples, full API: github.com/annotorious/... github.com/annotorious/... #OpenSeadragon #IIIF

I learned a great deal from this @timothysnyder.bsky.social lecture series a few years back. For a deep dive check it out: m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Beautiful. The Aretha story is ace, and I’m jealous.

Goodnight from Frances Ridley, still wondering exactly what strange beast gave its skin for the covering of her Nanna’s book of folk remedies. Goodnight from Henry Arrow up at Shog Farm, wondering if the new fencepost wards will keep the Hoarse Hag at bay. Goodnight from Hookland.

I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.

Trump saw footage of Russian riot police beating Navalny supporters near Red Square in 2021 and said, “I’d like some of that.”

it's amazing the amount of time and effort Democrats spend painstakingly critiquing their messaging while Trump just fires from the hip while his brain leaks out of his ears and it's good enough for 312 electoral votes and winning control of the entire federal government

After long discussions with 3 chatbots, one tells me I am in the process of developing "a computationally tractable mythographic schema, informed by a wide corpus, grounded in theory and ontology, and able to grow." Of course I knew that, because I am designing the method, but I like the phrasing.

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

I'm on the job market and #opentowork looking for full-time opportunities in #cartography #GIS. Please help me find an amazing job! In the meantime, I will continue offering my freelance services through @tombolomapsdesign.bsky.social, so please send any potential clients my way!

The Joey Chestnut of political debate!

Lots of computational research w/historical maps & views at #DH2025 from Rob Nelson, Bethany Warner & @thomassmits.bsky.social, @stesantschi.bsky.social & H. Panday, @s-alvanides.bsky.social & UrbanMetaMapping, Doruk Şen et al. (+ @danielwilson.bsky.social & me!). Great to see this field growing!

I've started a bsky account for "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure". @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social . My thread skills need work but I'll look to add groups of figures to that feed on a semi-regular basis. As well as ask for help. I have one query in mind. #ArtHistory #DH

The Pelagios Network’s People Activity are holding a Sample Data Gathering Sprint 29 July, 12 - 1pm, Online via Zoom (register for link) Organisers: Gabriel Bodard (London) and Jun Ogawa (Tokyo) https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/linked-open-data-people-data-gathering-sprint

Those of you who teach history, classics, art history, archaeology, etc., especially of the ancient world: how much more likely are you to use numismatics in teaching due to digital resource accessibility than you were 10+ years ago? #classicsbluesky

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

Never a dull moment in #Hookland

I knew something was missing

And how are hard days in Kyiv or Gaza helped along?

Truer words never uttered

it's so isolating to be the only one in the world who's pedantic to the right degree, in the right way, at the right times, and about the right things

Reporting in from a hot, beautiful Georgia day on the farm and even hotter momentum on the ground: In just 27 days, we’ve raised over HALF A MILLION DOLLARS to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Status and new directions of my Geographic Lens on Stories (GLOS) project: kgeographer.org/glos_creatio.... Now focused on concept schema induction. Recent pilot product for exploring canonical folklore motif and tale type indexes ATU <-> TMI: glos.kgeographer.org. An About page there tells more.

Boosting my Digital Data Specialist position at the Institute for Spatial History Innovation. Applications due this week!

Richmond, CA pre-4th fireworks last night put me in mind of Ukraine, not US.

🪄Historical Sea Routing is now much quicker to load, reload, and compute seasonally-plausible sailing routes, thanks to some behind-the-scenes browser magic. Find a 6500-mile return trip in under 1 second! 🛟 Do you have historical voyage data which might help with calibration? [1/3]

Good night Judy and Amber, and best of luck to you both.

The Pitt University Times profiled me as someone whose grant got cancelled. I talked about what @nehgov.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info @neh-odh.bsky.social @nehafge3403.bsky.social means for my research, for the humanities, and for institutions in Pittsburgh; and my student who fled the US.

Bluesky prompts, “What’s up?” I’m preparing to leave the US for Vienna again, this time for a good long while. Thanks for asking.