James Smithies @jamessmithies

James Smithies

@jamessmithies.bsky.social

I do digital humanities and social science, and research software engineering, stuff in universities.

78 Followers | 52 Following | 5 Posts | Joined: 17.11.2023 | 1.759

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Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...

Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.

Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...

16.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 35 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1

Research Fellow (Computational Methods) - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level BSalary package: $118, 632 to $134,507 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Fixed term (24 months) Build from the Ground Up: Work closely with the D...

We're hiring!

Research Fellow (Computational Methods)
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Research Fellow (Values Based Digital HASS)
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

ARDC RSE-CEP Research Software Engineer
jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

#digitalhumanities #digitalsocialscience #rse

13.10.2025 04:12 — 👍 4 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

DHA2025: Registration Open Registration is open for DHA25. Please click through to the registration site at the Australian National University to purchase your tickets.

🦉 Early Bird registrations are now open for DHA2025!

Register for "Digital Archipelagos" at the Australian National University from the 2nd to the 5th of December at discounted early bird rates until the 10th of October!

More info (including our program): dha25.org/post/registr...

08.09.2025 01:23 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

New Social Science Research Infrastructure Network to Enhance Research Capacity in Australia | ARDC The Social Science Research Infrastructure Network (SSRIN) is tackling key digital infrastructure challenges for social science researchers as part of the ARDC’s HASS and Indigenous Research Data Comm...

*New* The Social Science Research Infrastructure Network (SSRIN) will tackle key digital infrastructure challenges for social science researchers, part of our HASS & Indigenous Research Data Commons.
🔗 ardc.edu.au/article/new-...
w/ @thekidsau.bsky.social @ardc.edu.au
#socialscience

07.07.2025 00:02 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Antipodal Experiments: Digital Humanities & Social Science (D-HASS) in Australasia | D-Lab

It's nice to be back in California. Today I'll be talking at D-Lab Berkeley about what I've learned after a year in Australia! 'Antipodal Experiments: Digital Humanities & Social Science in Australasia': dlab.berkeley.edu/events/antip...

#d-hass #digitalhumanities #digitalsocialscience #rse

19.05.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Research Software Engineer (Social Science Research Infrastructure Network) - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: ANU Officer Grade 6/7 (Specialist)Salary package: $93,646 to $107,795 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full time, Fixed Term (up to 18 months) Help Build National Research ...

The ANU HASS Digital Research Hub is advertising an RSE role, to contribute to the SSRIN project, funded by ARDC and led by University of Queensland.

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

#socialscience #digitalsocialscience #computationalsocialscience

08.04.2025 05:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Oh, sorry to miss you too @roopikarisam.bsky.social! We need to find an excuse for you to visit Australia :).

08.04.2025 05:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Principal Research Software Engineer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Senior Manager 1 (Specialist)Salary package: $131,524 - $137,807 per annum plus 17% superannuation Term: Full time, Continuing A Unique Opportunity: Lead the creation of a cutting-...

Help me build a research software engineering (RSE) team dedicated to the humanities and social sciences!

Principal Research Software Engineer (RSE): jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/princip...

Senior Research Software Engineer (RSE): jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/senior-...

#digitalhumanities #digitalsocialscience

06.02.2025 04:25 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

@jamessmithies is following 20 prominent accounts

David Bamman
@dbamman

Associate Professor, School of Information, UC Berkeley. NLP, computational social science, digital humanities.

Alan Liu
@alanyliu

I'm a professor in digital humanities & English at UC Santa Barbara. For public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & co-founded https://center-humanities-communication.org/. My website: https://liu.english.ucsb.edu/

Matt Gold
@mkgold

Associate Prof of English and Digital Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center. Director @cunycommons @cunygcdi @cbox. Co-Editor @dhdebates. Co-PI @ManifoldScholar. http://mkgold.net

Martin Paul Eve
@eve.gd

Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd

m leal causton
@mlealcauston

[researcher | data ⇆ archivist ⇆ [ ] ] info. governance + networks + accountability + transparency >>> critical-digital-methods + research @dataunion-erc.bsky.social @lsts-vub.bsky.social brussels - berlin | [rt/post ≠ endorsement]

GRAPHIA
@graphiaproject

https://graphia-ssh.eu/ Funded by HORIZON Europe (@horizoneu.bsky.social), focusing on #KnowledgeGraphs, AI Services and Next Generation Instrumentation for R&D in Social Sciences and Humanities

University of Minnesota Press
@uminnpress

Book publisher, est. 1925.

Leah Pennywark
@lpennywark

Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.

Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP)
@mdap-unimelb

We're an academic team of Research Data Specialists enabling data-intensive and data-informed research across disciplines @unimelb www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap

Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH)
@aadh

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org

Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
@ardc.edu.au

Enabling the Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant digital research infrastructure, platforms, skills and data collections. Enabled by #NCRIS. Visit https://ardc.edu.au/

@dhnow

Paul Rowe
@armchair-caver

Cultural heritage / collection management software / data access / occasionally seen caving. CEO, Vernon Systems.

Katie McDonough
@kmcdono

History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France.

Michelle Watson
@michwatsonoz

Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country

Ben Lee
@bcgl

Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Current Affairs, etc. 🌐 www.bcglee.com

mia ridge
@miaout

Digital Curator @BLDigiSchol at British Library. EB Secretary ‪@adho-org. Access + UX for digital heritage, AI/machine learning and crowdsourcing in cultural heritage / GLAM / digital humanities. She, they. More at https://www.miaridge.com. Can't see DMs!

REEVALUATE EU Project
@reevaluate-project

An EU funded project that provides tools for prioritization, contextualization, 3D modeling and reuse of cultural heritage to empower museums and the public to collaborate in making heritage accessible, inclusive and secure. Visit us at "reevaluate.eu".

Miguel Escobar Varela
@miguelev

Assoc Prof, National University of Singapore | using computational methods to study Southeast Asian cultural heritage | Book: THEATER AS DATA (University of Michigan Press, 2021) | Deputy director, https://app.bsky.cz/profile/cssh-nus.bsky.social

Amy Earhart
@aearhart

Literary scholar/digital humanities/Black studies, sheep herder, owner of big fluffy Pyrenees who guard said sheep. Descended from a long line of dissenters-Quakers, Mennonites, Bretherns. Current project is uncovering the Millican Massacres of 1868 (tx).