Graphic showing double page opening of emblem book from Stirling Maxwell Collection featuring portrait of a man on the left and a printed emblem of text and image on the right. The image is overlaid with information about the fellowship scheme welcoming researchers and repeating closing date and URL to follow.

📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!

We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.

Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

📆Closing date: 5 January 2026

#UofGLibraryFellows

Embroidery hoop with a partially completed nature-themed illustration.

Does embroidery count? If so, I’m working on some funky nature textures! (Great talk, by the way!)

A figure in a late medieval manuscript drawn on a margin. They are pulling a missing piece of text on a rope and pointing to a place where it should be inserted.

Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope!

Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C.

www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

📢 Are you a student with an interest in the history of Scottish women's sport? 

Apply for a new PhD studentship exploring Women, Sport and the Visual in Scottish Sport History. 

More info in the thread below 👇🏻🧵

🎓 Thinking of a PhD in the Arts & Humanities?
We’ve got five fully-funded PhD opportunities open now — but they’re closing fast! ⏳

🔗 Full details & how to apply: www.sgsah.ac.uk/prospective/...

📅 Many deadlines in 1 week – don’t miss out!

#PhDOpportunity #SGSAH #FundedPhD #PhDAlert

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:

‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’

Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!

#PhD #postgraduate

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A hand soaked with sweat, in a plastic glove, caught in the act while doing a digital scan of a broadside for a Munich based library. Source: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10811151?page=6,7

Say hi. This is an example of how human labor will be remembered when all books are digitized and we all work with digital copies only. And maybe, hand on heart, this hand was intentionally raised to greet us from the past. #skystorians #bookhistory #digitalhumanities

Are you a CAHSS researcher with an excellent data-led project? Nominate your work (or someone else's!) for a CDCS Digital Research Prize - there's £250 towards research costs up for grabs!

Deadline for nominations NOW EXTENDED: 14th March 2025

The image features a large red ampersand symbol with an illustration of a woman holding a telescope inside it. The background consists of a grid with blue, green and yellow lines, representing a graph. In the top right corner, there is a dark blue circular logo with the letters "DCS" in pink. At the bottom right, there is a dark blue rectangle containing white text that reads "NULL HYPOTHESIS TESTING IN R".

Spaces still available for our upcoming course! Sign up now to learn theoretical and practical skills for null hypothesis testing in R. #NHT #R

📆 Tues 11 &18 Mar, 14:00 – 16:00
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The image features a historical photograph of a large room with people working at desks an old university classroom. Superimposed on the left side is a green-tinted illustration of Ada Lovelace, a 19th-century mathematician and writer, in the shape of an ampersand. On the right side, there are three dark blue rectangles with white text that read "UNDERSTANDING AND CREATING WORD EMBEDDINGS." In the top right corner, there is a circular dark blue logo with pink text that reads "DCS."

Spaces still available for our upcoming Silent Disco workshop! Explore how word vectors work, how to interpret them, and how to answer humanities research questions using them.

📆 Mon 17 Mar, 10:00 – 12:00
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Funded PhD opportunity University of Stirling on heritage, community, care & wellbeing in collaboration with National Trust for Scotland: www.stir.ac.uk/research/res...

Thank you for such a thought-provoking and engaging workshop considering our heritage futures.

What do we mean when we talk about infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage? Please take our survey imagining futures, or come along to our workshops (in Edinburgh & online) - more details here: de.ed.ac.uk/project/infr... And survey link below! Please share 🙏🏛️📚🎨💻

Edinburgh's Centre for Data, Culture & Society's Summer School is now open to applications! It's aimed at researchers at HEIs and professionals looking to learn/develop digital research methods - more info and applications process below 👇
www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/training/CDC...