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Posts by Gillian Macdonald

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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

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H-Net Job Guide does a good job of bringing in DH job ads too! @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social

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Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026 – 13-17 April 2026 | Virtual and In-Person

✨Registration is now OPEN for our Symposium!✨

Join us for a new three-part experience: one day at MSU (USA), one day at UDEM (México), plus two virtual days. Browse our comprehensive program and discover our keynote speakers on our website. Don't miss this opportunity to join a global community!

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Come ask a digital historian anything at #AHA26! Starts at 3:30 in the Marquette room in the Hilton!

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Tonight @historians.org #AHA26, hear from a stacked panel of historians and civics ed leaders about the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, including @inpursuitusa.bsky.social’s Colleen Shogan and project contributor @kawulf.bsky.social

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We're ready for #AHA26!

@jessedraperhnet.bsky.social will chair “An Evolution of Digital Research: Methods, Limitations, and Dissemination,” where @emily-elliott.bsky.social will present, “A Search for Research: Mapping Archives in a Time of War.”

🕜Thurs 1:30PM
📍Salon C6, Hilton Chicago

#highered

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Eeeee, it’s nearly time for #AHA26 and I’m excited to participate in a really cool panel on evolutions of digital research! Please come! @jimambuske.bsky.social @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social @kmapesy.bsky.social @meknaak.bsky.social @emily-elliott.bsky.social

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Digital Humanities Research Scientist at Max Planck, Italy | HigherJobz Apply for a fully funded Digital Humanities Research Scientist role at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy. Deadline 12 Jan 2026.

Digital Humanities Research Scientist – Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Italy.
Full-time research position in #DigitalHumanities and AI.

Deadline: 12 Jan 2026.
Apply: 🔗 higherjobz.com/digital-huma...

#AcademicJobs #ItalyJobs #ResearchOpportunities @bhmpi.bsky.social

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As the holidays approach, here is a gentle reminder to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Symposium, being held at Christ's College, Cambridge, on 4 April 2026.

Submissions are due on Monday, 5 January - Please get in touch with any questions!
#cfp #earlymodern #callforpapers

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English Constitutional Theory and the Cromwellian Upper House This paper analyzes the Other House, the upper house of the English Parliament under the Protectorate. It attempts to assess the place of the house in the constitutional history of England.

works.hcommons.org/records/2khp...

Another paper on English constitutional history, on a neglected institution, the upper house of the Cromwellian Protectorate.

#history #earlymodern #skystorians

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Great presentation at USIH 2025 last week! Proud of our team of graduate and undergraduate students (London Hawes, Maxine Levanduski, Brandon Bell and Katherine Dyal) collaborating with @leadr.bsky.social to build the H-Net Spaces Radical Historians Newsletter digitization project (coming soon!)

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@msuanthropology.bsky.social @msuchi.bsky.social

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Busy weekend for the LEADR Lab! Chi fellows presented two weeks of their hard work building digital cultural maps

Then at the USIH Conference, LEADR + @h-net-humanities.bsky.social presented a proof of concept for their digitization project on the Radical Historians Newsletter

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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable

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I just direct messaged you. Thanks so much!

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Would also really love a link if possible!

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a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery . Alt: a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery .
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If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

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Wow! Brilliant for writers!

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This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.

Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections Purpose of the Study We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...

My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...

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#DigitalHumanities job

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Applications For The 2026-2027 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open

UVA PhD students (+folks who can let them know): our 2026-27 Praxis Fellows application is open! Curious what critical, creative, ethical tech could make possible for your cultural/humanities research? *Zero* tech experience expected—this is our yearlong, friendly+supportive chance to learn+explore:

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Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation – Found History

How do we reach an audience when the audience has scattered?

New blog post: Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation

foundhistory.org/2025/08/digi...

#dh #digitalhumanities

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Cerne Abbey: Archaeologists unearth secrets of medieval hall Archaeologists return to Cerne Abbas to unearth the medieval abbey and its Anglo Saxon predecessor.

Pleased to see some coverage by the BBC of our excavations at #CerneAbbey which concluded at the weekend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I’m not sure there’s a correct or incorrect approach. I’m wrestling with the same question for my digital history course. Having them understand LLMs and poke is valuable for the history of technology and learning about outputs etc. but an opt in/opt out statement and an alternative might help?

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Preview of the chatbot interface of the "Machina Emblematica" project. A scanned page from the "Symbola Emblematica" is shown on the left, the conversational interface (text, image thumbnails and text input field) is shown on the right.

Preview of the chatbot interface of the "Machina Emblematica" project. A scanned page from the "Symbola Emblematica" is shown on the left, the conversational interface (text, image thumbnails and text input field) is shown on the right.

Chatbot project starting to take shape... #DigitalHumanities #DH2025 #IIIF #LLM

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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: News

CFP - AI for DH: Research Problems and Critical Approaches.

DHQ seeks 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI (research problems, critical approaches, responsible applications, case studies, etc.).

Deadline: Sept 15, 2025.

More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html

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Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

Mellon is piloting a program specifically directed at students with Humanities degrees, because they get JOBS and there’s a fundamental misunderstanding that their skills aren’t transferable!

www.mellon.org/voices/human...

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