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Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester (UK) | Mapping, Data & History | lucascholz.com
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What kind of politics is needed to reorganise the planet–society metabolism in the Anthropocene? How can we develop new forms of legal imagination for a post-Enlightenment epoch? We hope to address these and other questions at Ca’ Foscari Venice; and there’s still time to submit a proposal!

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

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Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Wow this was a blast! Thanks to all our speakers including @kirstylilley.bsky.social @jolwalton.bsky.social @paulpunkt.bsky.social & many more!

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Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

We are hosting a workshop on migration and mobilities in Eurasia at Manchester in March - CFP below - feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. Bursaries for UK travel available.

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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Call for participants! 📢 One month left to apply for the next four Mathematical Humanist Workshops hosted by RRCHNM in the summer of 2025. Applications are due February 15, 2025, 11:59pm Eastern. Apply by emailing your application to [email protected] 📩 View the full CFP here: mathhumanists.org/cfp/

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Come join us in Manchester on January 29 for an interdisciplinary workshop on current research in the environmental and digital humanities: #digitalhumanities @kmcdono.bsky.social

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Marc Bloch, historien, témoin, résistant #MarcBloch Série à retrouver dans Le Cours de l’histoire tous les jours à 9h sur @franceculture.fr puis en #Podcast @radiofrance.fr alors qu’Emmanuel Macron a annoncé l’entrée de Marc Bloch au Panthéon #Pantheon www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments

Lovely example of how weird real-world data is. I put all 55 million points in Overture maps into a Nomic Atlas map. Lots of points spuriously appearing in the ocean. But the 1° square around 'null island' (0° lat, 0° long) is suspiciously clear -- someone has cleared out bad data just there.

submitted 54 days ago • 9 comments

Craig Callender just described this as the "dream team of agnotology": @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @katestarbird.bsky.social, and other stars not on bsky. UCSD Disinformation Summer Institute applications due Jan 31! tinyurl.com/5n8ndkxb

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

My new article on the atmosphere in spatial history is out!

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