Rebecca Kahn

A large number of puffins on a rocky outcrop. Two are walking near to the camera, one looking directly at the camera.

PSA - Our Farne Islands puffin webcam is livestreaming from dawn until dusk, every day during the 2025 breeding season.

It's surprisingly addictive and quite relaxing to watch: buff.ly/9ATC3Xy

Photo: Nick Upton

Skulls, skin and names: The ethics of managing heritage collections data online This discussion will highlight the ethical challenges of managing the digitised images and records of materials which, for ethical reasons, are no longer shown in galleries.

Interested in musuems and data and doing things ethically and how these things all impact each other? Then come see me speak about skulls and tattooed skin at the Digital Humanities and Materiality seminar tomorrow (March 5) www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Sometimes in this academic game we get to have truly supportive & happily productive experiences. Lunch in Leuven turned into this paper, written with two smart women, @agneatha.bsky.social and Edurne Kugeler. Fitting that it's about the human touch openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Skulls, skin and names: The ethics of managing heritage collections data online This discussion will highlight the ethical challenges of managing the digitised images and records of materials which, for ethical reasons, are no longer shown in galleries.

Next month (5 March) I'm going to be talking about some research @aboutgeo.bsky.social and I did on the documentation of human remains in digitised cultural heritage collections. Please join us, via the good folks at the School of Advanced Studies www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests Community picks, hidden gems, helpful tools, tips & tricks for finding IIIF content.

New post! 🧭 Navigating the IIIF Landscape: A Guide to Finding Images & Manifests. I gathered your community tips, hidden gems & helpful tools for discovering IIIF content. Thanks everyone who contributed! #IIIF #DigitalHumanities #liiive
liiive.now/blog/2025-02...

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...

A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.

Academics: please become an active Wikipedia editor and add to public knowledge in your area of research, and please also remember to cite women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, etc. slate.com/technology/2...

The complexity of that evaluation form seemed way out of proportion to the allowed word-count. Hammers to crack peanuts.

Nobody warned me how much time supervising MAs takes up (or at least, supervising them with modicum of care and encouragement). The MA thesis model is brutal: big piece of work, little time in which to do it, a major step up for many students. Are PhD supervisons as intense?

Also, where did the surname Carter come from? In #theArchers New Years Eve episode, when he explained the story to Hannah I don't think anyone had the surname (could be misremembering though).

The ONiT Explorer, one of the #multimodal tools demoed at this event👇is being publicly launched by our friends at the @oeaw.bsky.social next week, with wine & snacks!
🗓️20 January 2025
⏰ 17:00
📍Academy & online
More details: www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/In...

CS Talk by danah boyd: In Pursuit of Responsible AI The talk will take place on Thursday, January 30, 2025, in Lecture Hall 2 on the second floor of the Faculty Building at Währinger Straße 29.

Who says Vienna in January is boring? danah boyd (@zephoria.bsky.social) is giving 2 talks here at the end of January, 1st on reparing the social fabric (Jan 29) 2nd on responsible AI (Jan 30). Both look great. More details here: informatik.univie.ac.at/en/news-even...

Today I'm launching #liiive: a new IIIF viewer that puts real-time collaboration front and center. View, annotate, and discuss together as if you're in the same room. Just paste a manifest URL and go! liiive.now 🎄 #DigitalHumanities #IIIF #DH #ArtHistory #Museums

Call for Proposals (English edition) The English edition of Programming Historian seeks proposals for new original lessons or translations to be considered for publication in 2025. Subm...

The Programming Historian in English has announced its CFP for lessons to be considered for publication in 2025. Please see the Call  on the website: https://buff.ly/3OZwCsP. If you have any questions, you can reach out to Managing Director, Alex Wermer-Colan, at english@programminghistorian.org.

I Know What I Know: The Story of Graceland told by Professor Jason Arday YouTube video by University of Bristol

Mbaqanga seems to be the theme today (see earlier today). This popped into my timeline today, via @hetanshah.bsky.social and the British Academy. What a joy. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Image credit: Bodleian Library, Oxford: two panoramic views of the interior and a key. Line engraving by D. Loggan after himself. Welcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

PhD studentship available:

Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800

#PhDlife

Fully funded £19,237/year + tuition fees covered. PhD project partnership with Bodleian Lib

Deadline: 15 Jan 25

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www.coventry.ac.uk/research/res...

Maybe it’s my ageing, sentimental, diasporic heart, but the line “When hate is legislated, love is an act of rebellion” in the context of the city where I grew up, made me sit down and have a little moment.

The Sound of Soweto - 1. The Sound of Defiance - BBC Sounds Thabiso Mohare explores the musical life of Soweto, past and present.

For anyone out there who needs something to warm them up a bit today - South African poet Thabiso Mohare presents this wonderful sound-picture of Soweto, a complicated, creative place: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Help a 🌈 bookshop out! They have a Pay it Forward scheme where you can buy a book for someone else, so it's really two for 1... thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...

Lecturer in Cultural Analytics & Knowledge Systems at UCL Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Cultural Analytics & Knowledge Systems. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Lecturer in Cultural Analytics and Knowledge Systems
🟦 UCL, Department of Information Studies
🟦 Permanent Post
🟦 £52-61k

Includes teaching undergraduates to analyse text at scale.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKZ772/l...

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and The British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium The symposium will aim to draw on the insights of the humanities and social sciences to explore varied understandings and experiences of 'belonging'.

The British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation are pleased to announce a call for applicants for early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences to attend the Knowledge Frontiers Symposium between May 7-9, 2025 in Berlin. Deadline 15 Jan:

Bracket showing the final eight in the quarter finals

🎉 TIME FOR QUARTER FINALS 🎉

We’re down to the final eight, and there are some difficult matchups as we get close to the prize.

🗳️ Cast your ballot: forms.gle/rBW7uSSLRfzk...

I wish I could sign this! Don’t have a European passport (despite many years of residency here) but I do have a uterus and this petition matters. Anyone want to proxy for me?

Woohoo! 'Tis the season. Keep your Fat Bear Week, this is the playoff that matters, and it warms my curmudgeonly heart every year. Let the voting begin...

#CallForPapers IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, October 2025 Special Issue “Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities” will explore how AI unlocks new insights in the humanities.

Deadline for submissions: January 15th, 2025

www.euppublishing.com/doi/story/10...

CFP Alert! 🚨 @dharanpreethi.bsky.social and I editing a Journal of Cultural Analytics special issue: "Computational Approaches to Cultural Heritage in the Global South."Submit your research exploring innovations, challenges, and the richness of local contexts. shorturl.at/TO3AD
#DigitalHumanities

Europeana are working on their search tools, and have a survey open on how easy it is (or not) to find things.

If you use Europeana for your research, as a data source, image source, source of texts etc, let them know your thoughts: survey.zohopublic.eu/zs/xGBPc7

Excellent PhD studentship: Data, Race & Empire, on the work/ collecting of Archibald Hewan, the first black missionary physician in West Africa

With @bookscribbler.bsky.social, Linda Andersson Burnett & Zachary Kingdon at National Museums Scotland

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j... #histSTM 🗃️📜

1/1 Register now to be a part of Friday 29 November’s LGBTQ+ Library Resources Hackathon! libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.../lgbtq-ha....

You'll get:
Training from a librarian
REFRESHMENTS
And the knowledge that you're helping make sure our archives represent everybody in society.

Although I have had to use my extra jumper as a makeshift tunic for the kid more than once, due to being a Distracted Parent.