Gillian Macdonald

I just direct messaged you. Thanks so much!

Would also really love a link if possible!

If you've done in-person research at any of the following presidential libraries in the last 8 months, can you please follow me/contact me—soon—for a story I'm working on (can be off the record)?

Hoover
FDR
Truman
Eisenhower
JFK
LBJ
Ford
Carter

And either way, can you please share this request? 🙏

Wow! Brilliant for writers!

This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops.

Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25.

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Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections Purpose of the Study We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...

My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...

#DigitalHumanities job

UVA PhD students (+folks who can let them know): our 2026-27 Praxis Fellows application is open! Curious what critical, creative, ethical tech could make possible for your cultural/humanities research? *Zero* tech experience expected—this is our yearlong, friendly+supportive chance to learn+explore:

How do we reach an audience when the audience has scattered?

New blog post: Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation

foundhistory.org/2025/08/digi...

#dh #digitalhumanities

Cerne Abbey: Archaeologists unearth secrets of medieval hall Archaeologists return to Cerne Abbas to unearth the medieval abbey and its Anglo Saxon predecessor.

Pleased to see some coverage by the BBC of our excavations at #CerneAbbey which concluded at the weekend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m not sure there’s a correct or incorrect approach. I’m wrestling with the same question for my digital history course. Having them understand LLMs and poke is valuable for the history of technology and learning about outputs etc. but an opt in/opt out statement and an alternative might help?

Preview of the chatbot interface of the "Machina Emblematica" project. A scanned page from the "Symbola Emblematica" is shown on the left, the conversational interface (text, image thumbnails and text input field) is shown on the right.

Chatbot project starting to take shape... #DigitalHumanities #DH2025 #IIIF #LLM

CFP - AI for DH: Research Problems and Critical Approaches.

DHQ seeks 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI (research problems, critical approaches, responsible applications, case studies, etc.).

Deadline: Sept 15, 2025.

More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

Mellon is piloting a program specifically directed at students with Humanities degrees, because they get JOBS and there’s a fundamental misunderstanding that their skills aren’t transferable!

www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Team: I’m thrilled to report that Worlds Turned Upside Down has surpassed 100,000 downloads on the strength of 17 episodes. I’ll have a full slate of thanks once I return from the Emerald Isle next week, but for now, thanks for listening!

#DigitalHumanities job

I use tropy for archival photographs and transcriptions. I use the google suite for writing because word has crashed too many times, and google docs is a champ. I’m experimenting with obsidian and scrivner.

New job:

Assistant Professor, Post-1800 Transnational History (tenure track)

University of Notre Dame

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68889

H-Net Journals is pleased to announce that a new volume of The Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference has just been published! Are you interested in inclusive teaching or integrating art or the digital humanities into their pedagogy? If so, check it out!

journals.h-net.org/phtc/issue/v...

Meme of a hand labeled "your institution" slamming a blue button labeled "contacting Knowledge Commons about KCWorks"

KCWorks for Institutions will enhance your institutional research dissemination, protect your research outputs as a digital preservation system, and allow for superior discovery of research objects. And that's only a few of the features we offer! Visit: join.hcommons.org

Coastal erosion threatening Ireland's ancient forts Climate change is threatening the remains of hundreds of ancient forts dotted around Ireland's coasts, which are vulnerable to coastal erosion.

An interesting article about how Climate change is threatening the remains of hundreds of ancient forts dotted around Ireland's coasts by @colmanos.bsky.social ‪‬ www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Not complaining but there seems to be some Whose Got The Oldest Documents archives bragging going on in my timeline.

Join us for our fourth annual remote teaching conference sponsored by H-Teach!
The deadline to register is 7 p.m. EDT August 17, 2025. Check out the link for more information.

networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

#digitalhumanities #historyeducation #teaching #learning

If you're having a bad day, here's some otters on a water slide to make your day better #bluesky ... 😊

H-Net Job Guide logo over the text "Reaching over 200 countries with over 100,000 page views per week!" Under the text are two black rectangular buttons with labeled "Job Seekers" and "Job Posters."

A New Job Guide Experience

Today we’re proud to roll out the all-new H-Net Job Guide!
We spent the last year working to integrate the Job Guide into the H-Net Commons platform with the following new features:

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#academicsky #jobs @h-net-humanities.bsky.social

NOW PLAYING: Episode 16: The Tea

A looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies in 1773, inspiring Bostonians to dump much of the cargo in Boston Harbor.

www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...

Reminder: Deadline for Spaces Cohort - July 1

Spaces is designed to give scholars the content management infrastructure they need to create, manage, and share their work with their scholarly communities.

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