Join us online on April 15 for another Environmental Digital Humanities seminar: Michaela Mahlberg on "Water Stories - Language and Action"

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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

Join us online on April 15 for another Environmental Digital Humanities seminar: Michaela Mahlberg on "Water Stories - Language and Action"

#DH #envhum

Vector Media Dispelling the notion of “generative” AINeural networks are designed to dissolve all media into the vector space—a universal space of commensurability....

It's Easter so I thought it would be appropriate to be back from the dead to announce that this is coming out at the end of this month: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792167...

Germany does not lack talent, and it does not lack funding. But we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies. We are asking brilliant young scientists to build the future of the German economy, but refusing to give them the lab space, the job security, or the scientific independence to actually do it. If we want to reclaim our place as an industrial superpower, we have to stop the rat race of trying to keep every technology and structure alive that made us successful in the 20th century. Instead, we must fix our system that pushes our most ambitious scientists away. The money is there. The talent can be there. Now, we also need the courage to fix what’s broken.

“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...

Portrait de Jacques Revel

Les @annales.ehess.fr ont l'immense tristesse d'apprendre le décès de Jacques Revel. La revue doit tant à son intelligence et à sa générosité. Secrétaire de rédaction de la revue de 1975 à 1980, il observait et analysait avec une acuité extraordinaire les évolutions de l'historiographie. 1/2

#jobklaxon
Do you want to do PhD in #digitalhumanities, wanna work at a cool institution in the UK?! check this out!
Maybe of interest to the @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community.

Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series

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Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester.

More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester.

More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#DH

Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series

#dh #dhist #skystorians

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Join us for an in-person workshop on fluid environments and the digital spatial humanities in Lancaster on February 27.

Our fantastic speakers include: @kmcdono.bsky.social @ggrig.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social

Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6hc4yy

📚 12–13 mars 2026
Journées ANR DESIGNSHS
Design graphique, recherche & patrimoine des sciences sociales
📅12 mars @Archives nationales et 13 mars @inha.fr
Restitutions, archives Jacques Bertin, plateforme DESIGNSHS

👉+ info : shorturl.at/aQDfo

@ehess.fr @recherche.mnhn.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social l

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

L’historien et résistant juif Marc Bloch entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin Sa famille a demandé que «l’extrême droite, dans toutes ses formes, soit exclue de toute participation à la cérémonie». L’auteur de «L’étrange défaite» a été fusillé par l’occupant allemand en 1944 après avoir été torturé.

L’historien et résistant juif Marc Bloch entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin

Dans une lettre au président de la République, sa famille a demandé que «l’extrême droite, dans toutes ses formes, soit exclue de toute participation à la cérémonie»

Join us for an in-person workshop on fluid environments and the digital spatial humanities in Lancaster on February 27.

Our fantastic speakers include: @kmcdono.bsky.social @ggrig.bsky.social @robertsuits.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social

Register here: tinyurl.com/5n6hc4yy

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

Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities In-Person Workshop at Lancaster University​

Save the date for the "Fluid Environments & Spatial Humanities" workshop @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Feb 27 (in person only)! Details being finalized, but we have stellar speakers incl @robertsuits.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social @gmpala.bsky.social @hlsteyne.bsky.social & more!

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

The central place of the bogeyman ‘positivism’ in how social scientists caricature each other’s work is nicely captured here by @adrianblau.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Screenshot of page 52 University of Minnesota Press Spring 2026 catalog, showing the book cover, description, and contributor names of the new book in the Debates in DH series (ed. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies) titled _Critical Infrastructrure Studies and Digital Humanities_. The text of the description reads as follows: How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our world. _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies. Featuring voices from around the globe, this volume explores how DH builds on and extends theories and technologies of infrastructure that affect society, culture, and knowledge in different national and regional contexts. Examining DH’s own infrastructural genealogy, the contributors offer readers critical reflections and bold visions for the future as they address issues of environmentalism, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, multilingualism, labor justice, feminism, national development, and beyond from a variety of disciplinary perspectives embedded in concrete digital systems. Including innovative “infrastructure manifests,” the essays in this book illuminate how DH can both study and shape the systems that sustain culture, scholarship, and connection....

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument* Abstract. Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century — conflicts between neighbouring towns and polities

5/ “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument”

by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

"Tristes Tropiques", retour sur un livre visionnaire Il est des livres qui marquent une génération de lecteurs. "Tristes Tropiques" de Claude Lévi-Strauss, est de ce ceux-là. En 1977, plus de 20 ans après sa parution, trois collaborateurs poursuivent le...

Tristes Tropiques, 70 years later @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA* Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India"

by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...

The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...] Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.

This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...

2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is awarded to Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp) for their a...

Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article:

"The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue

ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...

Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities:
www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even...

Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination

#envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social

Current Research in Digital History Hosted by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, Current Research in Digital History is an open-access, peer-reviewed, online publication. Its primary aim is to encourage and publish scholarship in digital history that offers discipline-specific arguments and interpretations.

CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks.
Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org

Thanks, no I wasn't aware. Looks great!