@jfwinters.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Publishing next month!
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the DH community.
Edited by @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social
Published by @uolpress.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi...
The UK Government Web Archive is one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, with 25+ years of digital material published by the government. We were glad to join The National Archives in hosting a user workshop. Thanks to all participants! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/
27.10.2025 11:50 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I’m pretty much always the last author because W surname.
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🪧A date for your diaries if you'd be interested in our training session, 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication', led by @drjoeford.bsky.social from @ilcs.bsky.social and our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social.
📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#AcademicPublishing
For UK academic folk, in case you don’t know about this service, the AHRC does publish all panel outcomes, with figures for numbers of applicants, numbers of successful awards etc. There is a lag, though, so the most recent info is from January 2025.
24.10.2025 09:51 — 👍 21 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 1So perfect!!
22.10.2025 20:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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It's 10 years since the Open Library of Humanities published its first article. Since then, OLH has published 13,000 open access scholarly articles which have been downloaded over 8 million times.
This excellent editorial by Rose looks back at that decade.
olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
We’re delighted to be advertising for a Community & Advocacy Manager to work with the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association @ukiedh.bsky.social. It’s a full-time position (fixed term) and we’d love to hear from you #DigitalHumanities
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As it's #OAWeek we'd like to ask #humanities researchers a few questions on how they feel about #OpenAccess - this will help us to inform the resources we create and share. If you have a couple of minutes, please fill this out, we'd love to hear from you!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/8RV273D
#Publishing
It’s brilliant and utterly bonkers!
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Our online Winter School is now open for booking! We’re offering online courses on a range of topics for those interested in pre-modern books. Courses begin on 26 January. Check it out 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
17.10.2025 13:09 — 👍 13 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2If you’re struggling with iOS 26 (it was making me feel queasy) the accessibility options are your friend. Settings - Accessibility - Reduce motion - Enable.
19.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Awful people can’t imagine that others may not be motivated by the same things as them.
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light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
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Oh no, Cath - I’m so sorry. Thinking of you all.
16.10.2025 10:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….
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'View from Senate House Library' (2014) by Melissa Scott-Miller
chrisbeetles.com/artwork/44604/view-from-senate-house-library
It’s so dark already! But I’ve managed to find a desk lamp at least.
15.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What fun!
15.10.2025 10:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not having working lights in the office in a gloomy October week is apparently a low priority for repairs …
15.10.2025 09:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0This is so brilliant!!!
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Free workshop on ‘Using historical census data for research’, 23 October www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
13.10.2025 12:33 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.
13.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 13 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0This is such great news - congratulations!
09.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Go for the football! It’s OK not to meet your writing target once in a while.
09.10.2025 19:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It’s all true, but it’s always so weird having to write it yourself!
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BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum (hybrid), 6 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
08.10.2025 08:12 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0What a beautiful cat. I’m so sorry.
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