Enlightenment Workshop: Book Talk - Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror (2025) 11 May Keith Michael Baker (Stanford University) Book Talk: Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror (2025) (New College, lecture room 6)…

French history #skystorians - don't miss Keith Baker at Oxford on May 11 to talk about his new book on Marat!

www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/enligh...

We’re looking for a writer We’re hiring a writer who can make the world’s largest problems understandable to our large Our World in Data audience.

Ourworldindata is hiring a writer ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely.

It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.

🌊 Online Talk | 15 April 2026, 12–1pm

Michaela Mahlberg (@michamahlberg.bsky.social) will discuss water stories at the Environmental DH Seminar at the University of Manchester(@manchester.ac.uk).

🔗 Reserve your spot:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/water-stor...

I love these threads you do, and wish someone did this for French archives too!! A treasure trove for PhD ideas.

Catching up with files released at the National Archives so far this year: 111,321 in January, 57,307 in February, and 66,986 in March

Most of those are army and Air Force personnel records from WW2 (still)

But there’s some others of interest…

See you tomorrow!

We’re hiring more at Warwick! Assistant Professors in History of Capitalism: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/... & History of Iberian Empires: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/mobile-1/... Happy to answer any questions for anyone interested!

Centering AI in Society and Ethics Initiative - News and Events Upcoming Events:

Our AI & Society group is hosting a symposium on "Ethics and Agentic AI" at NC State Univ on May 26, keynoted by David Danks of UVa. Please share and consider submitting: sites.google.com/view/ai-soci...

All 11.333.878 buildings in the Netherlands

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it!
Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

Émojis les plus utilisés entre février et juillet 2020 pour une requête COVID dans les tweets archivés par l’INA

🚨 Dans le dernier numéro des #Annales

'Les sources nativement numériques. Enjeux de #documentation et de #redocumentarisation'

par @valeriesch.bsky.social , Frédéric Clavert et @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social

Un article à lire en #openaccess

👇
dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Conference CfP Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation Lancaster University, UK 1-2 October 2026 Conference funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and BRAID Abstract subm…

Excited to share the CfP for our AHRC-funded conference “Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation” #conference which will take place 1-2 October 2026 at Lancaster Uni. Deadline for abstracts 20th of April. #academicsky #envhum 🌍 #conservation wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...

here's something people actually should be mad about

Congrats to you both!!

Water Stories – Language & Action Join the Environmental DH Seminar for a discussion with Prof. Michaela Mahlberg

Don’t miss the chance to join Prof. Michaela Mahlberg for a compelling discussion on water narratives at the Environmental DH Seminar on *Wednesday, April 15th at 12:00 PM*. Secure your spot now! Click on the link below for more details #Water #EnvironmentalDH #DHseminar #CorpusLinguistics

Asheesh is exactly right. There's not enough funding for the humanities. We can argue the details, but that's the fundamental problem.

Some pie charts for various categories (not in order) for DH Awards 2025.

Some categories (not all shown) have early leaders, but there are 17 days left to mobilise your own supporters to vote. Anyone may vote (once).
Anyone at all.
Closes 2026-04-17.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Or (if the lack of https bothers you) forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...

I've seen people happy with results on late 18/19/20-c. printed docs in English - cc @jimclifford.bsky.social @historyjacob.bsky.social - but I haven't tested it myself on other langs/periods. But it's not that I expect OLMoCR to be perfect, but that it's an open foundation on which to improve.

'Moving the Frame': a fully-funded PhD Studentship at UCL. Film, 20th century history of technology, computational methods and more... Fabulous!

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flyer for a fully-funded PhD project at UCL and BT Archives: includes QR code for this link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/news/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnership-cdp-studentship-0. Deadline 24 April. A 20th century London scene with BT Tower towering.

Come and do a PhD with me and colleagues at UCL! Fully funded thanks to the @ukri.org : computational approaches to a UNESCO-accredited moving-image archive at British Telecom. #dh

Can we have one of these inquiries here, please? #UKHE is also leading a stupid amount of money from the public institutions to these leechy private businesses. And yes, the lack of accountability is a key part of the issue about that.

Job Announcement: Call for Predoctoral Fellowships at the International Max Planck Research School for Multimodal Digital Humanities (IMPRS-MDH) www.mdh.uzh.ch/en/op...

Virtually attending the 11th Global Digital Humanities Symposium is free, but you need to register by this Friday (3/27): msuglobaldh.org Full program is up (I'm giving a quick talk on supporting multilingual DH while monolingual, & why multilingual letterpress+lasercutting belong in our DH center):

Vincent Hiribarren: Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best YouTube video by IHR Digital History Seminar

📢 If you missed Vincent Hiribarren's recent @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best', the talk is now on our YouTube channel youtu.be/VO26YAK1mu0 #dhist

Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians

Does not bode well for open source OCR, vision research...

Three great postdocs are available in Trento as part of the "Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy" project. Deadline 8 May: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026

We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum

A map showing private drains leading from residences to common shores, or sewers Boston Town Records, BPL Special Collections

A receipt from Peter Virginia, an African American laborer, to Boston’s Board of Selectman for ‘taking twenty Load out of the North School Vault’

I’m currently obsessed by Boston’s early C19 sewage infrastructure, which relied heavily on the labor of African Americans. Here’s an 1803 map of sewers in Middle (now Hanover) St in the North End & an 1802 receipt from Peter Virginia for emptying septic tanks. This is literal History from Below! 🗃️

Love these reminders from Pleiades! Gazetteers should be living things.