Katie McDonough

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Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

@debssutton.bsky.social sorry i messed up your name above!

How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives?

Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.

I'm sorry, we don't record these sessions!

Definitely solved in some cultural contexts and not others!

My student @historyjacob.bsky.social has shown the new OCR tools work very well with early modern English print text. We use to struggle with the long s and many other issues. This opens up NER on sources that use to be too messy. He also developed a fine tuned NER model for Atlantic commodities.

How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives?

Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.

I don't do drafting in LaTeX templates. I write in word/google docs/etc, and then only put text into the template once it's nearly ready to go & to work on figures/finalize length. Also highly recommend using Overleaf as your interface for LaTeX - LaTeX templates as word documents never works.

Embodied Environmental Histories of Danger in a British National Park Lena Ferriday discusses danger and wildness in Dartmoor

Last call for this awesome online seminar on danger in Dartmoor tomorrow! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-e... #envhist #environmentalhistory

Friday morning call for abstracts!

We're looking for chapters for our historical network analysis edited collection, under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. See the cfp for more! Email us at interlocked.universe@gmail.com #dh #digitalhumanities #networkanalysis

See you in Lancaster on 18 March 💫

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

Looking forward to hearing about this & more from @profdanhicks.bsky.social w/@debssutton.bsky.social at the Lancaster History Lecture on March 18th

dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/the...

Major news: A @nytimes.com story today reports on developments in our lawsuit, filed with @modernlanguage.bsky.social and @acls1919.bsky.social, opposing the illegal dismantling of the NEH.

The article covers newly released discovery in the case.

Here’s what discovery confirmed:

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MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar for a talk and discussion with Jim Clifford and Jacob Polay (Saskatchewan)​.

Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:

"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...

#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️

I am also looking to test a new email strategy. Would love to see what ideas are floating around out there!

Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester.

More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#DH

Please join us online on Wednesday, March 11 for another talk in the Environmental Digital Humanities seminar series

#dh #dhist #skystorians

Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental DH Seminar for a talk and discussion with Jim Clifford and Jacob Polay (Saskatchewan)​.

Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:

"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...

#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️

Excellent venue for computational humanities work, colocated with ACL in San Diego on July 6. Please share!

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: $78,000 - $88,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virgini...

Apply to join my team by 3/16!

Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.

$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.

Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material Open Maps Meeting: November 5 & 6 2024 at the Dutch National Archives and National Library

New working paper out: "Open Maps: New Research Directions and Workflows for Digitized Historical Cartographic Material" led by Vincent Baptist & Jules Schoonman (TU Delft) #dh #maps

openmapsmeeting.nl/publications...

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️

www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...

Celebrating Enlightenment Values in 2026: the Example of Voltaire and Slavery Thursday, 26 March 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET Benjamin Franklin Hall Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA Nicholas Cronk Celebrating Enlightenment Values in 2026: the Example of…

American friends! Come listen to our Director, Nicholas Cronk, discussing Voltaire and Slavery on March 26th
@amphilsociety.bsky.social: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ce...

📣 Two Open PhD Positions in Environmental Humanities - Exploring Biodiversity Narratives
📌 The University of Fribourg, Switzerland
These interdisciplinary PhD positions are at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, the social sciences, and biodiversity communication. #EnvHum #Envhist

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...