Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal βrisk of redundancyβ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
Anna-Maria is also the co-editor with Michael Donnay of @uolpress.bsky.social 's newly published open-access βReframing Failure in Digital Scholarshipβ which gathers reflection pieces from across SAS including @jfwinters.bsky.social, @cmohge.bsky.social and @naswells.bsky.social: bit.ly/3Y69HAn
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Thanks for your excellent contribution!
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If youβve been planning to apply, this is the moment.
Join an international community of researchers & open science practitioners for a week of focus, creativity, collaboration, and connection in Machynlleth.
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π’ Save the date for RSE Midlands 2026!
π 20 April 2026
π University of Nottingham
Details coming soonβwatch this space!
#RSEMidlands2026 #RSEng #Networking #Midlands
rse-midlands.github.io
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As an avid 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly' reader in my childhood, it might possibly be my favorite operating metaphor for a chapter.
Thanks again for contributing!!
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So glad we could include your essay! π
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Very excited to publish this #OpenAccess #DigitalHumanities book today!
Available to purchase in paperback, hardback and EPUB, can be downloaded for free as a PDF, or read online for free via our instance of Manifold:
πhttps://uolpress.co.uk/book/reframing-failure-in-digital-scholarship/
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@amsichani.bsky.social and I couldnβt have done it w/out the stellar team @uolpress.bsky.social including @emmagallon.bsky.social, @paulakennedy.bsky.social, @jrbowman.bsky.social and Kat Nelson, all of our excellent (open) peer reviewers and everyone @dh-researchhub.bsky.social who supported us
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The team also includes @balloonleap.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @rivaquiroga.bsky.social @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social, Frances Corry, Arianna Ciula, Jennifer Stertzer, Jentery Sayers, Lauren Tuckley, Elena Spadini, Janneke Adema & Anisa Hawes
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We got to work with an absolutely fantastic set of contributors including: @quinnanya.me
@jfwinters.bsky.social @cmohge.bsky.social @david.deroure.org @jennymitcham.bsky.social @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social @arranjrees.bsky.social @caiomellodh.bsky.social @jenniferisasi.bsky.social
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It includes 20 reflections from people working across a range of institutions, career stages and national contexts. Itβs an invitation to pull #failure back from the periphery and it offers a snapshot at how we understand failure in research today & the role it could play in the future.
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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
π£ Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
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Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UKβIreland Digital Humanities Association
Abstract. This article discusses the development of a Digital Humanities (DH) Association for the UK and Ireland. It explores processes for evidence gather
Want to know how to start a #DH association? Probably not - but lots about building sustainable orgs that support researchers, practitioners & students.
Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social
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We loved hearing Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine talk about using the Warburg Library while researching for her new album on @latenightseth.bsky.social π«
Congratulations to Florence on the release of Everybody Scream!
Watch βEvelynβs daughterβ (from 2:40): youtu.be/M_mc_gErXX0?...
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This looks like a dream job, working with the team @ukiedh.bsky.social and @dh-researchhub.bsky.social to support the digital humanities community in Ireland and the UK! #DH #Jobs
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A colleague and I are about to publish an edited collection about failure. Lots of references to Halberstam, but lots of other things as well.
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@society-rse.org
08.10.2025 10:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
RSECon26 Call for Conference Committee Members - Society of Research Software Engineering
RSECon26 Committee call is now open.
What better way to mark #InternatationalRSEDay (coming up on Thursday!) than applying to help organise #RSECon26, the tenth annual research software engineering conference run by @society-rse.org in Sept 2026?
Learn more: society-rse.org/rsecon26-com...
Apply: forms.gle/ooKQ5na6Bx9q...
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the album art for the upcoming 10 year anniversary edition of Carly Rae Jepsen's EMOTION with expanded tracks
there's a big problem with the culture here on bluesky, and it's that not nearly enough people are posting about the 10 year anniversary of Carly Rae Jepsen's groundbreaking and timeless album EMOTION being this year and how awesome that is
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Come join me on the organising committee for next year's #RSECon. It's a great way to give back and get to know the community, plus we'll cover the cost of your registration at the conference!
22.09.2025 13:22 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
@ilcs.bsky.social maybe something for 1000 Words for Belonging?
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What strange times, when the commander of RAF Greenham Common is coming out as a liberal supporter of the right to protest
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This is a great opportunity to develop your own professional practice, connect with the amazing community of @softwaresaved.bsky.social fellows and help research software better! Open to UK and international applicants.
@ukiedh.bsky.social @dariahie.bsky.social
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Look beyond papers for a better REF and research culture - Research Professional News
Mareike Wehner and Natalie Wallis describe how and why their university is encouraging non-traditional outputs
Hear from Mareike Wehner and Dr. Natalie Wallis of #LivUni's Outputs Development team, who are looking to support more diverse research outputs and foster a research culture that drives innovation.
Find out about NTOs and their impact.
π www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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FRSA. Artist. Senior research lead @CODATA-ISC, Paris. PhD @OIIOxford & @TheRuskin; visual art, archives, open research data, digital preservation & curation. Opinions mine. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏπͺπΊ Also on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@LM_HATII
Mostly at https://digipres.club/@anj
Author of "1491, "1493," and, most recently, "The Wizard and the Prophet." Working, inefficiently, on another book.
The background image is pretty old by now, but I like the pig. The avatar photo is only a couple years old, though, so that's something.
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a CoreTrustSeal-certified digital repository, or online archive, for the long-term preservation of Ireland's social and cultural digital legacy. Explore the Repository: https://repository.dri.ie/
Academic Librarian - Medieval Historian interested in Book History, Crime, and Religion - Podcast Host (Medieval Murder) - Dog Mom π
Digital Researcher at the National Archives, UK
Historian and curator focused on media history, history of science and technology, and digital approaches to the study of history
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. Lover of early modern history, nuns, cats, French fries, and the Nats. Hater of fascism and anything diminishing the humanity of those around us.
Mitacs Postdoc in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts & Hum), INKE Partnership || Postdoc in Open Social Scholarship, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic) || PhD in Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies ('23, Carleton U)
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
People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Book production and digital publishing at University of London Press.
Museum data, researcher, cat friend, runner. π³οΈβπ (he/him)
The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance brings together 12 HEIs, The RSE and SGSAH to provide a collective voice for Arts & Humanities in Scotland.
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... mostly about digital preservation but also everything else too. Works for the Digital Preservation Coalition. Occasionally Professor at Glasgow Univ. Personal opinions.
Lecturer in Book History at IES. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills, out soon with MUP (https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526129390/#generate-pdf). Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.
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