Of course I'm now listening to *a lot* of Boards of Canada.

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

📢The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is open for nominations until the end of May. Nominate your work or a work you love published since Jan 2026. All formats welcome. Help us celebrate the best of digital history internationally. Details ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...

Ep 18. What the REF is happening with books?! This week on What the Ref, the team heads to Plymouth for a lively workshop on non-traditional outputs before diving into a fascinating interview with Gareth Cole on the future of open access books.…

What the REF is happening with books?!

We join the @hiddenref.bsky.social team to unpack the challenges of

🔓️ defining openness
💰️ funding models beyond BPCs
🪢 the tension between flexibility and REF policy!

Listen to Ep 18. now! 🎧️

"Some of your favs are not going to be competing at the Olympics because of this bullshit" [Counter Pressed with Flo Lloyd-Hughes and Friends] Fifa’s new coaching rule, Bay Collective and gender testing
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Indeedy

If you are a Boards of Canada fan and aren't on the Boards of Canada Reddit, you need to take a look. The breadcrumbs being left and the new album hype it is generating is really something.

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

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

✨ Nominations for the Deswarte Prize in Digital History are open until 31 May. Details on how to nominate and what is in scope are found ⤵️

When anyone who is a member of the Reform party or supports them bemoans the loss of British culture, show them this.

Tuesday 17 March 2026 - Vincent Hiribarren (KCL): Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best - Digital History Seminar This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97943434361, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: This paper compares how a historian and AI appro...

📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

Tuesday 17 March 2026 - Vincent Hiribarren (KCL): Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best - Digital History Seminar This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/97943434361, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: This paper compares how a historian and AI appro...

📢 Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 17 March (midday UK time) for Vincent Hiribarren on the topic 'Historian vs AI: who reads and analyses archives best'. All our seminars are live on Zoom and published after on our YouTube channel ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist

You can stop talking about Matt Goodwin now! Perhaps instead talk about Hannah Spencer, the person who actually won.

Today we’re celebrating #NationalRetroDay! 🎮

Discover a world of old-generation consoles and relive the history of gaming.

Old-school games for new memories – book your tickets now: https://bit.ly/3OywLXa

Waking up delighted to find that there is another Green MP in the UK. There is hope.

i keep saying they're essentially an attack on shared context, flattening and destroying information about sources that was present in the training data

Ta. I like recommendations!

Today is one of those days when my brain adores Boards of Canada (1999 Peel Session, to be specific).

Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years.

Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

The 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar SUBMIT YOUR NOMINATION HERE BEFORE 31 MAY Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of Lon...

📢 Nominations are now open for the 2026 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History! The prize celebrates the best of digital history internationally. Anything published since ~Jan 2025 is eligible. Nominate your work or work you love. Details ➡️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

It's the economy, stupid. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

News: we're thrilled to have received £80,000 of funding from the BFI to help us digitise a remarkable archive of agricultural films and make them available to the public!

Read more on the @uniofreading.bsky.social website:

www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...

Queer joy as a digital good - ESRC Digital Good Network This project foregrounds queer joy as a practice of personal and collective resilience amidst a socio-political landscape of increasing queerphobia.

Happily the ESRC Digital Good network seems to like joy driven research - this THE piece is related to a project led by my colleague Lexi digitalgood.net/research/que...

.. acting like they know everything. It might look like a queer nerd sharing what they love with a room full of people, and freely exploring ideas as they come to mind."

‘Joy doesn’t dilute academic rigour. It sustains it’ By weaving playfulness, humour and authenticity into teaching, research and departmental culture, academics can spark curiosity, strengthen collaboration and tackle difficult conversations, say Alice ...

💖 "A student once said to me (Madeleine), 'Seeing you as a lecturer made me realise anyone can be one.' While to this day we don’t know if that was a compliment, at least one student has learned that academia doesn’t have to look like stuffy, posh men.. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/joy-d...

S. Wright Kennedy: Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915 YouTube video by IHR Digital History Seminar

📢 For those who missed S. Wright Kennedy on 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915', the recording is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar youtube channel youtu.be/-pfATKVLxU0?... #dhist

¡Felicidades @jenniferisasi.bsky.social! ✨

We're so proud to see one of our longest-serving editors achieve this fantastic career milestone.

Thank you for all you have given, and continue to give, to our project.

Your contributions to Programming Historian are nothing short of inspirational 💫

UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus January 2026

Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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UCU elections 2026: recommended votes. All information is available at https://ucucommons.org/election26/

From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.

We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU

Tuesday 17 February 2026 - S. Wright Kennedy (University of South Carolina): Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915 - Digital History Seminar This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93298609780, later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: TBC Abstract: In the late nineteenth century, life expectancy ...

This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist