Since launching our digital archive last year we have been constantly updating the site to make as many of our collections as possible available to researchers around the world
There are now over 260,000 pages of evidence relating to the Holocaust and the Nazi era available online buff.ly/OaZa98s
🛡️ @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins Sky Defense!
Our ambassador is raising $500,000 for interceptor drones and other air defense equipment to help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks.
Join us — let’s make a difference, strengthening Ukraine against terror:
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📣 2 PhD Opportunities at AI4DH at the University of Ljubljana
2 PhD positions are open for applications at the European Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH) at the University of Ljubljana.
🔜 Deadline: 22 May
ℹ️ Find out more: ai4dh.eu/2026/04/07/o...
JOB: Machine Learning Engineer at Cambridge Digital Humanities for interesting (fixed term) project with CAMPOP www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/n...
The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.
Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.
Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!
A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
Immortality in mythology gives similiar plot problems in stories as mobile telephones do in modern dramas. There is either some very implausible reason it doesn't apply/work, or it's just ignored entirely. In this essay
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I went with Congratulations but then questioned my choice. What's the correct german word for "Congratulations but with more meaning" I wonder.
Congratulations! This calls for a celebration !
Call: A rare and highly strategic opportunity at the intersection of AI and the humanities!
The Met is opening postdoctoral positions to explore how AI can reshape research, collections, and audience engagement.
Deadline: April 15, 2026
#DigitalHumanities
👉 www.nyfa.org/jobs/job-inf...
Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...
Photo of the Varvakeion Athena statue on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, a Roman copy of the original statue of Athena Parthenos in the Pathenon.
Holding a statue of Nike on the pillar perhaps? Am wondering if it's a copy of the Roman copy in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens (but then the dates don't match), or does it have some other origin?
Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! ai4lam.org/submission-i...
#FF2026 is in the US, but will be very hybrid so you don't need to travel there to present or attend many sessions #AI4LAM #MuseTech
In just under two hours, we're hosting @jonippolito.net in a webinar presenting his research on the environmental impact of #AI use compared with other common digital technologies.
Register for "How Green is your Prompt" webinar here: content.fromthepage.com/april-2026-w...
"Explore all known artworks by Georgia O'Keeffe along with art, archive, and historic home collections .... Built on Linked Art/linked data. Dive into a new kind of digital catalogue raisonné..."
Call for Chapters:
Minimal Computing for Social & Cultural Heritage
Link to call:
jamesosullivan.github.io/MinimalCompu...
This collection will explore how minimal computing can be applied to social/cultural heritage.
We welcome full chapters as well as shorter pieces.
Funded @researchireland.ie
Two divers in full gear on the bottom of a greenish, murky body of water, brushing sediment away from a dense field of circular, encrusted pottery vessels scattered and stacked across the lake bottom.
Following up on yesterday's post about the #Roman shipwreck cargo discovered in Lake Neuchâtel: what a stunning photo of the pottery vessels on the lake bottom! 🤩
📷 octopusfoundation.org/en/project/e...
Rare chance to see the 1913 Italian silent movie of Last Days of Pompeii. London, May 6. Details here www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/0...
Want to learn more with your peers in libraries, archives and museums? Join the AI4LAM Slack join.slack.com/t/ai4lam/sha...
Submit a proposal to FF2026 by April 6! ai4lam.org/fantastic-fu... #FF2026 #FF2025 #AI4LAM
The J. Paul Getty Trust is looking for a new Director of the Getty Foundation. With a $28M budget, & exemplary programs, the Foundation strengthens the global arts ecosystem in museums, archives, and communities through strategic philanthropy. Salary: $525K-$550K. Los Angeles area residency req'd.
I'm guessing Modest Mouse was prompted by Small Phophets?!
new post on my personal blog.
i think these three areas often go unexplained, so hopefully this explains why some of these packages exist. these are fine to exist but the majority of developers shouldn't have to pay the cost for them.
Flyer for the AI4LAM Fantastic Futures 2026 conference call for proposals. Key information about the conference is written over a map of Washington DC with pins showing the location of the three co-hosting institutions: the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian, is displayed on the left side against a neutral background. The theme of the conference: 'Trust in the Loop' and the four topics: Implementations, Data, People and Models & Infrastructure are listed with the deadline: 6 April 2026 on the right hand side. Full details at: https://tinyurl.com/3w7xzawv
CfP: AI4LAM Fantastic Futures 2026 conference.
16-17 Sep 26
"Trust in the Loop extends the idea of “human in the loop” to focus on the work LAMs must do to ensure that AI-enabled services are built on trust, authenticity & accountability."
Deadline: 6 April
Details: tinyurl.com/3w7xzawva
Screenshot of the Data Explorer tool applied to 12 brewery directories, published from 1896-1918
I'm fascinated by digitized historical directories, and I'm a big #IIIF booster, so naturally I spent some recent evenings building the tool I wanted to see in the world: a "Data Explorer" view of 12 brewery directory guides from 1896 to 1918: hadro.github.io/brewery-guid...
Chinese world culltural trend
How can we study human development over two thousand years?
For most periods and regions, we lack reliable data on income, health, or education. Before 1800, and outside Europe, historical records are extremely fragmentary.
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🏆️ The Digital Preservation Awards are back for 2026🏆️! #DPA2026 celebrates great #digitalpreservation work from every corner of the world and from every sector.
Nominate the project or initiative you believe should win an award👇🏽 […]
[Original post on digipres.club]
Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...
#jobklaxon
Do you want to do a PhD in #history and/or #philology and #digitalhumanities? Come to work with us in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social
3 funded posts:
www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-char...
Perhaps of interest to the @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community.
