Katie McDonough

Sign the Petition Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa

Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.

CFP - Speculative Climates: Hauntings Of The Past Across The Humanities – EASLCE Considering the contemporary as a timespace haunted by crises rooted in the past, the workshop on Speculative Climates asks how the intricate mesh of

PhD students, check out this International Doctoral Workshop in Cologne, Germany, in November. Deadline: 30 April. #envhist #envhum

Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032 | Other at Yale University Apply for Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library job with Yale University in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032. Other at Yale University

JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

Wish we could have cited @morphss.bsky.social in "Show Me the Data"!

bsky.app/profile/morp...

Old Women, Race, and Power Conference - The Huntington

“What does the history of aging, power, and agency look like when we center the diverse experiences of women?” 🗃️

www.huntington.org/event/old-wo...

ARGHHHH I want to go to all of this

of course!

CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower | Debates in the Digital Humanities Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

A lot has been happening in the digital humanities and the university. My colleagues @kallewesterling.bsky.social, Jeanelle Horcasitas, and I are interested in having a broader discussion and debate on DH outside of the ivory tower

CFP is open through March 15

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...

reposting as this will be such a valuable book for PhD students, postdocs, and really anyone who wonders how to combine humanities & technology in the workplace - abstracts due March 15!

Edited by an amazing team - @kallewesterling.bsky.social @lisaironcutter.bsky.social & Jeanelle Horcasitas

an old-school DnD alignment chart, a grid of 3x3 squares, with the two axes being lawful to chaotic and good to evil. lawful good: a lengthy, well-formatted footnote with additional explanatory text neutral good: a note to future self of what to do with a footnote, but the full citation already pulled chaotic good: an incomplete footnote but the various authors are at least listed in brackets lawful neutral: a somewhat more restrained footnote than lawful good, without explanatory text true neutral: just the footnote chaotic neutral: a note from the author to the author, saying only "find this again!" lawful evil: a curt footnote saying "see, again:" with the full citation after it neutral evil: text, cut off by the screenshot: "I swear I read this somewhere; I've lost the bloody [...] goes to publication" chaotic evil: a completely blank footnote

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

I am just blown away by this project & the broader work to connect communities & trees. Will be sharing with students as a beautiful example of meaningful, humanistic data.

And wow, I can't wait to read Montgomery's new book: bookshop.org/p/books/when...

Very special: blackheritagetrees.com

"How might that ancestral connection be reclaimed? How do we honor the ancestors, and the trees that sustained them? As a longtime researcher of photosynthetic organisms, Montgomery commonly describes the process as a sacred exchange of breath between beings. "

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions.What do a seventeenth-century mortality tab

Don't miss direct.mit.edu/books/monogr...

You might contact Josh Schneider at library.stanford.edu/university-a... - he would know if there's anything in the collections.

York History Department - Academic Jobs Uncover the past to define the future. We are seeking research-led historians to join our world-class, collaborative community. Discover career-defining opportunities within one of the UK’s most disti...

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Job description British Library Advisory Council- Chair The British Library is entering a bold new era. As one of the world's leading national libraries, we hold over 170 million items and support millions of people across the UK and beyond with research, learning, and inspiration. This is a pivotal moment to join us as we begin an ambitious new chapter, expanding access, strengthening engagement, and shaping our future as a modern national library for the digital age.

OK so I know I carp on a bit about the British Library, but only because I think it’s important. They want a new Advisory Council Chair - surely someone here would be excellent in helping them get back to their core purpose of serving the research community?
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Decorative images with a screenshot of tiny.iiif in the background, and image server choices (as text labels) in the foreground: IIPImage, Cantaloupe.

Small update to #tinyIIIF, my no-nonsense #IIIF server! You can now choose your image server during setup:

• IIPImage
• Cantaloupe

Running small- to mid-sized collections? Teaching with IIIF materials? Building IIIF-enabled tools? Check out tiny.iiif!

github.com/rsimon/tiny-...

#DigitalFriday

New episode of Uncanny Landscapes up now, with historian @katrinanavickas.bsky.social on her book Contested Commons and the strange pathways of England's relationship with 'public space'. open.substack.com/pub/uncannyl...

This looks excellent! Register before Monday.

"this workshop day explores how environments shaped by water - rivers, shorelines, embankments, irrigation systems, wetlands & other dynamic landscapes and atmospheres - can be studied, modelled & interpreted through spatial and digital methods."

Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective

CDH announces new role as publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social! New website launches with expanded vision for cultural analytics scholarship, supported by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. JCA also joins @ojcollective.bsky.social. More on editorial team and new features below.

Now, the higher education systems of EU states are riddled with many structural and funding problems of their own. But a UK system that manages to combine US levels of student debt with European issues of teaching and research capacity bottlenecks gets the worst of both worlds

Wonderful to see work by @rmidura.bsky.social featured in @lrb.co.uk !

And if you want to know more about the Orléans title used for spares, see my latest blog post dukesandprinces.org/2026/02/12/t...

@gworthey.bsky.social would be good to talk to!

Yep, see below

bsky.app/profile/mell...

Whoa the Corporation for Public Broadcasting website is totally gone👇

Thank god for the Internet Archive, so we at least have evidence of what they've erased: web.archive.org/web/20260122...

The photo shows a smiling Dr Jonathan Spangler in blue shirt, Greg Jenner in lilac jumper, and Tom Allan in dapper suit and tie

Oh, by the way, our international listeners can now enjoy the hugely enjoyable You’re Dead To Me episode about Philippe Duc d’Orleans (Louis XIV’s extraordinary brother)

Our excellent guests are expert historian @jspan.bsky.social and comedian Tom Allan — available globally on all podcast apps

Archive Rambler: from Hartland to Clovelly How can archival research deepen the experience of hiking, and vice versa? Giorgia Tolfo finds out on a trip down the South West Coast Path.

Really like these blogs, by @giorgiatolfo.bsky.social & for @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy!

They link archival research, embodied experience & ways of seeing, knowing & feeling.

Strikes a chord, as we do similar on our #AccidentalJourney threads!

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

YouTube video by The Alan Turing Institute Living with Machines: Beyond the tracks

`I love this #accidentaljourney thread, so eye-opening and embodied. Look forward to reading more. When I worked for the Living with Machines project I briefly collaborated with colleagues on a project on "railspace": www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgN...
Makes me think about interesting connections...

Setting The Agenda for Change in Higher Education: Lessons from Australia A discussion paper by Mark Pendleton (UK-elected HE) Preface UCU Commons has long argued for more deliberation and discussion in our union, rather than simple polarised debate. In that spirit, this...

Last year I wrote a paper on some successes our Australia sibling, the NTEU, has been having in bringing attention to governance failures.

The UK also needs an inquiry into university governance, rising corporate influence and the erosion of staff/student voice.

ucucommons.org/setting-the-...