Anelise Hanson Shrout
@anelisehshrout.bsky.social
#DH, digital historian, data humanist. #Philanthropy, #Atlantic, Ireland, North America. From NJ. On occupied Wabanaki land. Opinions mine. She/her. Pro-worker.
If you are looking for joy, I highly recommend showing Labyrinth to toddlers (especially ones who like to dance).
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
If you are looking for joy, I highly recommend showing Labyrinth to toddlers (especially ones who like to dance).
I'm working on the history of a local home, and becoming a bit obsessed with the second owner - Adam Leroy Jones. He was the inaugural dean of admissions at Columbia & tasked with keeping the college "Anglo-Saxon," a member of the American Eugenics Society, part of the group who developed the SATs.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm working on the history of a local home, and becoming a bit obsessed with the second owner - Adam Leroy Jones. He was the inaugural dean of admissions at Columbia & tasked with keeping the college "Anglo-Saxon," a member of the American Eugenics Society, part of the group who developed the SATs.
I take no pleasure at all in reporting that past me did not adequately document her code, and that future me is now wasting a lot of time re-doing work. I will take some pleasure in using past me as an example for students.
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I take no pleasure at all in reporting that past me did not adequately document her code, and that future me is now wasting a lot of time re-doing work. I will take some pleasure in using past me as an example for students.
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Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#DH folks with macOS development experience - the lovely folks at Figure53 are looking for a new colleague!
Hey there! 👋
We’re looking for an experienced macOS developer.
If you’re a developer with an interest in live events or performing arts, if you work independently, and if you want to work at a company where we take care of each other as colleagues and people, please apply!
figure53.com/jobs/
We’re looking for an experienced macOS developer.
If you’re a developer with an interest in live events or performing arts, if you work independently, and if you want to work at a company where we take care of each other as colleagues and people, please apply!
figure53.com/jobs/
Jobs | Figure 53
We are a small software company based in Baltimore, MD. We build tools that help people put on great shows in over 100 countries around the world.
figure53.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#DH folks with macOS development experience - the lovely folks at Figure53 are looking for a new colleague!
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I will never stop being tired of Digital Humanities professors who never approach archivists as peers deeming fit to tell archivists how and why to do their jobs differently. It happens time and time again, rarely with a spirit of collaboration and often with an uncomfortable tech-disruptor energy
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I will never stop being tired of Digital Humanities professors who never approach archivists as peers deeming fit to tell archivists how and why to do their jobs differently. It happens time and time again, rarely with a spirit of collaboration and often with an uncomfortable tech-disruptor energy
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As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann
Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…
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October 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm
We went to the zoo this weekend, and the teenager taking tickets for the carousel was casually reading Claudio Saunt's West of the Revolution.
October 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We went to the zoo this weekend, and the teenager taking tickets for the carousel was casually reading Claudio Saunt's West of the Revolution.
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
I am in a meeting about whether the cemetery board should hire some goats - and one sheep - to mow. This is the best meeting I have ever been in.
September 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I am in a meeting about whether the cemetery board should hire some goats - and one sheep - to mow. This is the best meeting I have ever been in.
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Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social
Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move
YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU
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September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social
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NPR reports that "The Science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear."
The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt.
🧪 1/x
The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt.
🧪 1/x
The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.
When it comes to Tylenol, what are parents to do?
The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.
n.pr
September 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
NPR reports that "The Science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear."
The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt.
🧪 1/x
The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt.
🧪 1/x
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Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!
September 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!
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NJ PBS shutting down next summer.
“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”
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“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”
newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...
New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe
New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The
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September 23, 2025 at 11:31 PM
NJ PBS shutting down next summer.
“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”
newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...
“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”
newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...
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1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
August 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.
1/n
Today I learned that John Gillis - author of Islands of the Mind, a text formative of my approach to Atlantic history - also wrote books about early modern marriage, which I'm now reading to help a friend craft their wedding ceremony.
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Today I learned that John Gillis - author of Islands of the Mind, a text formative of my approach to Atlantic history - also wrote books about early modern marriage, which I'm now reading to help a friend craft their wedding ceremony.
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welcome home, we here press ❤️🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org
We Here Press
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August 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
welcome home, we here press ❤️🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org
I've been critical of the U(C) as an institution, but I am also incredibly grateful for the education I received there in the early 2000s. The current institutional approach is a betrayal of the life of the mind ethos that drew me to UChicago in the first place. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I've been critical of the U(C) as an institution, but I am also incredibly grateful for the education I received there in the early 2000s. The current institutional approach is a betrayal of the life of the mind ethos that drew me to UChicago in the first place. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
Starting this new project by pretending like I'm doing comps again - making lists, taking notes in a template, reading in all kinds of weird poses.
August 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Starting this new project by pretending like I'm doing comps again - making lists, taking notes in a template, reading in all kinds of weird poses.
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continue to collect best e.g.s of assignable articles, especially shorter than these great ones!
will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week
will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week
For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
continue to collect best e.g.s of assignable articles, especially shorter than these great ones!
will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week
will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week
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“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
August 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵
We've packed up our Maine house and relocated to a small apartment in NJ for my year of sabbatical. Any #skystorians advice about starting a whole new project with a year of unstructured time? Alternately, any academic writing groups in the NY/NJ area open to a new member?
August 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We've packed up our Maine house and relocated to a small apartment in NJ for my year of sabbatical. Any #skystorians advice about starting a whole new project with a year of unstructured time? Alternately, any academic writing groups in the NY/NJ area open to a new member?
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Tenure-track African American history job (19th c.) at Bates College in Maine, for those on the market.
Go get it, and good luck! #bskystorians
apply.interfolio.com/170148
Go get it, and good luck! #bskystorians
apply.interfolio.com/170148
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August 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Tenure-track African American history job (19th c.) at Bates College in Maine, for those on the market.
Go get it, and good luck! #bskystorians
apply.interfolio.com/170148
Go get it, and good luck! #bskystorians
apply.interfolio.com/170148
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Many of the places that loom largest in queer history—NYC’s Stonewall Inn, San Francisco’s Castro district—tend to focus on gay men & urban spaces. A fuller history is told by Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz.
@pcb-aha.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...
@pcb-aha.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...
Mapping Lesbian History: Q&A with Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz
Historians Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz use digital mapping technology to uncover a hidden geography of lesbian life in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing patterns of connection among lesbian women in...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Many of the places that loom largest in queer history—NYC’s Stonewall Inn, San Francisco’s Castro district—tend to focus on gay men & urban spaces. A fuller history is told by Cameron Blevins and Annelise Heinz.
@pcb-aha.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...
@pcb-aha.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/m...