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Well we are working on clearing a garden patch outside! @blat.at thinks we should plant wheat next to sugarcane next to tomatoes next to pumpkins…

An empty room with white walls, bare concrete floor, a single window, radiator and dangling light bulb

It’s like I’m at the beginning of a game of Animal Crossing. What to do…?

For some reason this got set to the tune of “He’s got the whole world in his hands” in my head…

Everyone is very welcome - we have a really exciting paper line-up!

Blog Post #39: Tara Andrews In her latest blog post, Tara reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September.

In her latest blog post, @tla.bsky.social reflects on a summer of RELEVEN highlights, including PhD defences, conference talks at IMC Leeds, and the preparations for our closing conference on 3-5 September 👀 Read her reflections here 👇

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Yes! I have one of each of these, and the happy wanderer has limited speech, for extra fun.

I had the opposite - envy at all the small kids who could be trusted to ride bikes down the sidewalk and stop at road crossings, while I couldn't make my kids begin to comprehend it. Still can't quite, with the 7yo

Zenodo page saying "Too many requests, please try again later"

Is it just me or is Zenodo getting unusable these days?

Get your abstract in by tomorrow and join us in Vienna in February!

I had to get into the high school club of weirdos before I ever heard of him, so I guess my parents weren’t in the bubble. But everyone else in the world surely is.

This slide is basically showing the genesis of the whole project!

Eligibility criteria for Austrian open access agreement with OUP. The offending passage reads: "If you are publishing your article in a Supplement, then you are not eligible to use Read and Publish funds to cover the open access charge."

Well, I guess this is the last time I publish in a #DH conference special issue in DSH. This is a stupid exclusion.

Today's fresh academic hell is having to sit through a customer service online chat in order to be able to release an accepted paper for publication without having to pay many thousands of pounds. #latestagecapitalism

Eh, I suspect he would consider the problem solved with the removal of only a single holiday.

I knew we weren’t immune, but it sucks to see that we aren’t immune. 😢 #graz

VIS4DH is back at @ieeevis.bsky.social, November 2025 in Vienna! Find the Call for Papers here, focusing on the Visualization of Conflict and Peace: vis4dh.dbvis.de/cfp/

For what it’s worth this study has been discussed quite a lot on a Discord of mine, and the study design seems to have been pretty questionable. So I wouldn’t despair on the basis of this.

First page of the Kindle edition of Silverborn

Welp, there went my weekend! #silverborn #nevermoor

A DuckDuckGo query for the word ‘hecatomb’ and its definition, followed by a link for Amazon offers for hecatombs

The death (large-scale sacrifice?) of search keyword advertising

Flying from Vienna to Amsterdam on Austrian, but really Air Baltic. Had to check to make sure it was the right flight…

Shocking confession: I honestly have no preference about which way the toilet paper hangs.

...they would have been, but the NEH grant just got cancelled?

You could make a verb form "doged April 2025" :)

Serious question: are there any NEH grants that were not terminated?

Would “terminated April 2025” not suffice?

LinkedIn's "Suggested job searches" dialogue for me. "Professor emeritus" is highlighted.

Now if LinkedIn really could get me this kind of job that would be awesome...

Digital Humanities @ Uni Wien is hiring! Ph.D. position, 4 years, seeking someone who is looking to apply machine learning methods and/or network analysis methods to find out neat things about the Middle Ages, anywhere in the world. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

ARGH DAMMIT YOU EARWORMED ME

This seems like an obvious opening for your internet friends to put on some padding and then say this… ;)