@jwbaker.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Humanities · Director of Southampton DH · Programming Historian Trustee · Historian of various things · Likes watching football and cycling · He/Him · Born at 342 ppm · #COYW
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20.02.2026 08:27 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0News: we're thrilled to have received £80,000 of funding from the BFI to help us digitise a remarkable archive of agricultural films and make them available to the public!
Read more on the @uniofreading.bsky.social website:
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2026/Un...
Happily the ESRC Digital Good network seems to like joy driven research - this THE piece is related to a project led by my colleague Lexi digitalgood.net/research/que...
20.02.2026 10:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0.. acting like they know everything. It might look like a queer nerd sharing what they love with a room full of people, and freely exploring ideas as they come to mind."
20.02.2026 10:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
💖 "A student once said to me (Madeleine), 'Seeing you as a lecturer made me realise anyone can be one.' While to this day we don’t know if that was a compliment, at least one student has learned that academia doesn’t have to look like stuffy, posh men.. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/joy-d...
20.02.2026 10:10 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📢 For those who missed S. Wright Kennedy on 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915', the recording is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar youtube channel youtu.be/-pfATKVLxU0?... #dhist
18.02.2026 09:57 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0¡Felicidades @jenniferisasi.bsky.social! ✨
We're so proud to see one of our longest-serving editors achieve this fantastic career milestone.
Thank you for all you have given, and continue to give, to our project.
Your contributions to Programming Historian are nothing short of inspirational 💫
UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus January 2026
Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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UCU elections 2026: recommended votes. All information is available at https://ucucommons.org/election26/
From tomorrow, Friday 30 January, ballot papers will start to arrive by post for VP (HE and FE), and several key positions on our NEC.
We're supporting our own @markpendleton.bsky.social for VP (HE) and independent @suzitoole.bsky.social for VP (FE) & lots of other great people. Please share! #UCU
This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
02.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
This month the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar welcomes S. Wright Kennedy to talk about 'Separate but Dead: Mapping Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915'. Join us 17 Feb, on Zoom, at midday (UK-time) ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues... #dhist
02.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Great to present our work (w. @melvinwevers.bsky.social) on applying "basic" ML to study historical visual culture at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar!
21.01.2026 10:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
#dhist If you missed @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History on Orientalist pixels, colonial colour palettes, and machine learning - plus the fab discussion that followed - the recording is now on our youtube channel youtu.be/kDTJToRCEHQ
21.01.2026 10:20 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1Hoffers Bakery is closing 😭 If you live in my bit of Southampton, you know what that means.
21.01.2026 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Recorded my first mini-lecture for our new Text as Data module. Hopefully starting it by telling them that the module - and our weekly labs - will be apologetically code, software, and data focused will be seen as a welcome challenge.
20.01.2026 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0⬇️ Tomorrow lunchtime ⬇️
19.01.2026 13:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That feeling when you spy that a new Dominion expansion is coming out then your thoughts turn immediately to the lack of space in your board game cupboard.
08.01.2026 08:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#dhist Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar 20 Jan midday GMT (on Zoom) for @thomassmits.bsky.social & @melvinwevers.bsky.social on 'Orientalist pixels: How machine learning reveals the colonial color palette of early photography'. Details ⬇️ ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
05.01.2026 09:28 — 👍 9 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1And then tomorrow it all begins again!
04.01.2026 18:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0* TV show
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I finished watching The Sopranos over the break. I do appreciate a long running TV that figures how to end with grace (see also Better Call Saul).
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Happy 2026. We're going to see Sparks again this year. Which gives the year a headstart before it has really begun.
01.01.2026 00:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Glad to hear I'm not alone. It is more or less my feeling about all Pynchon novels I've read.
29.12.2025 10:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I like Mason & Dixon. It is a very funny book. I also have no idea what is going on most of the time, which I'm ok with, I think.
29.12.2025 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1(and yes, the list name is a bit pretentious: it is one of those pre-wrapped ingroup traditions that started way back and stuck)
28.12.2025 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In case you ever wonder what is going on inside those big headphones of mine, or what those gigs are I go to, here is a list of the new music I liked the most this year. And - shockingly perhaps - it is a Geese free list, for those looking for a Geese free list.
open.spotify.com/playlist/6cR...
Let me be explicit. If you hear anyone say replacing fossil fuels with renewables is going to be expensive, they're either misinformed, uninformed, or lying to you.
Even leaving out the massive economic costs of #climate changes caused by burning fossil fuels, #renewables are cheaper now.
Enjoying playing an expansion of Wingspan (the European one) that includes birds we can see from our dining room table boardgame space.
28.12.2025 19:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excellent Cycling Podcast KM0 piece on the culture, fall (from modest heights), and relegation (of sorts) at Cofidis.
open.spotify.com/episode/1Fgp...
Ah yes, the climate future we all dreamed of: AI slop made in data centres powered by jet fuel 🤦♂️
"Data centres turn to aircraft engines to avoid grid connection delays" @financialtimes.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
