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On Monday, he (Trump) is expected to meet with top aides to discuss suspending or canceling U.S. military aid to Ukraine, according to an administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/w...

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Starmer: “We will go further to develop a coalition of the willing to defend a deal in Ukraine and guarantee the peace…the UK is prepared go back this with boots on the ground and planes in the air. Europe must do the heavy lifting…but for this to succeed it must have strong US backing.”

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Really shocking from the National Library of Australia. Tim's digital work is so fantastic but it's facilitated by OA to this corpus of newspapers. If other libraries follow suit, work like @ryancordell.org's will be threatened too. Stunningly bad. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/03/02/t...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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If you are interested in Wikidata, historical knowledge, and how the two interact (TL;DR: the structures of the present have a habit of imposing themselves on the past), then this article in IJDH - from me and my colleague Ammandeep K. Mahal - may be of interest. doi.org/10.1007/s428...

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

A brilliant opportunity for someone. And you get to work with Helle!

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Presenting @beyondnotables.bsky.social 👑 of Queries

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We have a new case study on the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition Toolkit: "Congruence Engine - raising environmental awareness in an interdisciplinary research project" sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit...

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An important statement released by @royalhistsoc.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social and @histassoc.bsky.social - reinforcing the message that we must collaborate not compete. This applies cross-discipline as well.

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Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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A full-time, open-ended lectureship in Ancient History at Leeds! It's a different department to me but your duties will still include being asked interminable questions about ancient weirdos by me, your colleague with a healthy interest.

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'The BA course...“climate justice, sustainability and development”, will begin in 2026. The university says it will equip students with a blend of expertise in climate politics, activism and environmental human rights....this will be combined with the practical green skills needed to drive change.'

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It would be good to see the HEPI survey generating all this broadsheet hype today matched with a survey of working lecturers on what's already being/been done to address these issues. Many departments have reintroduced invigilated exams; many tutors are engaging imaginatively with these challenges.

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It has been such a pleasure to read entries to this prize for the last three years. Which means I'm looking forward to seeing what you submit this year! Deadline is 30 May #dhist

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Today we welcome 215 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and PGR Members who join @royalhistsoc.bsky.social: bit.ly/3EV5fhJ The Society is an international membership and our new Fellows and Members practice #history in 15 countries. Applications to join are welcome 👇 #skystorians 1/2

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Nominations are now open for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history. Submit your work or work you love published since January 2024. Deadline for submissions is 30 May. ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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Nominations are now open for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history. Submit your work or work you love published since January 2024. Deadline for submissions is 30 May. ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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Some people seem a bit confused so let's talk a moment on what Great Man Theory is, why I think Silver is blundering into it and why it doesn't work. The key thing here is fundamentally it is two propositions that come as a 'package deal' - reject either and it isn't Great Man Theory. 1/

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tl;dr: Clarivate wants to make it impossible for academic libraries to buy books once and own them forever and wants instead to make it a recurring subscription payment. They're also trashing demand-driven acquisition, so libraries have to guess what readers want. www.uksg.org/newsletter/u...

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Wow—this is #SegmentAnything 2 running entirely in the browser! With WebGPU (Chrome, Edge), generating embeddings took ~2s for a 1024x1024px region on my machine. No server required! #Annotation #DigitalHumanities #Maps #IIIF

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What a fantastic resource! I can imagine using this to teach paleography - input a IIIF manifest for a MS, share the room link with students, and work together on transcriptions and annotations! Might try this in my RBS fragmentology class in July...(apply here! rarebookschool.org/courses/libr...

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“Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries.” Clarivate is making all its academic assets rentals. This will be incredibly unpopular. www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-...

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📣Applications to our Public History Prize are open! The Pamela Cox Public History Prize (open to PGRs and ECRs) recognises activities that enhance public understanding of social and cultural history✨ 👉More info & apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/publi... ⏰Deadline 24 March 2025 🗃️

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In information science parlance this is serendipitous information retrieval

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The book shelved next to the book you thought you needed, is the book you needed.

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As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index

submitted 15 days ago • 45 comments

Scraping in python is straightforward. The program "reads" the website and snags data based on your instructions (the program). Overview linked. If you are AI averse and arent adept at scraping, now is the time to set that aside. AI is good at writing basic code. realpython.com/python-web-s...

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Man/Woman/Chainsaw at Joiners tonight. Classic venue. Good new band.

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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

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👤 Our first starter pack is a handy repository for all SSI Fellows on Bluesky. Connect with them at go.bsky.app/BaXzrAh and if we've missed missed anyone, please let us know!

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Listening to the new Mogwai record. They really are one of those bands that I couldn't imagine not being part of my musical life.

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A metascience call doing some metascience experimentation in the reviewer phase is, well, meta.

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China opens recruitment for ‘planetary defence force’ amid fears of asteroid hitting Earth

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Do others feel slightly uneasy using the term 'my team' in this type of context? As if it implies some kind of possession? What I mean is 'the excellent group of people, whose thriving it is my pleasure and responsibility to promote', but it seems a bit long-winded.

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Wikipedia is now recognized as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance. This recognition highlights Wikipedia's role in advancing free and trusted knowledge, powered by nearly 260,000 volunteers in 300+ languages. Read more ➡️ wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/02...

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We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

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Good to see the @datarescueproject.org now has a website. Dismal that they need to exist at all. www.datarescueproject.org

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You know when you read an email before leaving work, realise you don't have time to respond, and then get home from work to find yourself half-composing a response between thoughts. Yeah, that.

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Starting in 15 minutes at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar: Tom Mullaney (Stanford University) on 'The Audacity of Chinese Computing'. ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/09/tues... But if you can't make it, it'll be on our YouTube channel later this week.

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If you value what we do at the Programming Historian, please consider supporting us. We are an independent open access publisher. We exist because of the community. Ask your institution to join our partnership programme or give monthly as an individual on Patreon. www.patreon.com/theprogrammi...

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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

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At the Journal of Digital History, we ensure articles are reproducible - but this comes at a cost: time. Analysing 16 articles since 2021, we found that technical review & peer reviewer acquisition significantly extend timelines. #AcademicPublishing journalofdigitalhist...

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when writing about the rise of British populism it’s worth bearing in mind that voters still prefer Starmer to Farage… ….and even prefer Ed Davey to Farage

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