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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · 7d

Washington Street, Cork, Éire.

Purple spray-painted message reading “immigrants are the sunshine of Cork” spotted at Washington street, in Cork city centre.

Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · Aug 29

Fantastic #dataviz project by YongHong Chen at @ucc.ie’s MA in Digital Humanities using code, yart and 3D printing techniques to visualize data. All part of @ucclibrary.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Studio’s SATLE funded project.

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · Aug 29

Brilliant projects being presented as part of the “Publication of Student-Created Open Educational Resources (OER)” event at @ucclibrary.bsky.social Stephanie Chen opens this session and acknowledges funding by SATLE @ucc.ie

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Apr 8

Happy Pub Date to FEMINIST DIGITAL HUMANITIES: Intersections in Practice edited by @lmrhody.bsky.social and Susan Schreibman!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

#WomensStudies #ReadUP #AmReading #Nonfiction #NonfictionBooks #AcademicPublishing #UniversityPress

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Jul 17

Has #DH2025 inspired you to get more involved in Digital Humanities communities? Sign up for the @adho-org.bsky.social newsletter for updates from our 14 DH organisations and 10 special interest groups (SIGs)

adho.org adho.org/newsletter/

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Aisling Shalvey @ashshalvey.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy to have some news on the UCC website @ucc.ie @uccresearch.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social - read more about my work here; www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

New Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project at the School of History and the Radical Humanities Laboratory | University College Cork

Explore the latest news and events from the Future Humanities Institute.

www.ucc.ie

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mia @miaout.bsky.social · Jul 17

If you can't be in Lisbon for #DH2025 you can still learn about the excellent range of posters on display at dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-p...

Program agenda – DH2025

dh2025.adho.org

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NorseInCork @norseincork.bsky.social · Jun 6

♦️ Job opportunity at UCC! ♦️ 5-year Lecturer in Old English position, commencing in September. This will be a great opportunity for someone to join a thriving department, and to really put their own mark on the discipline. Please share widely!

www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

Lecturer in Old English | University College Cork

UCC wishes to appoint a scholar with a proven commitment to excellence in teaching and research to the role of Lecturer in Old English.

www.ucc.ie

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · May 30

#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!

UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Advocacy Survey

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

www.surveymonkey.com

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · May 22

Dr Birhane, this is not a reply to your post. This is a moment.

a woman in a green dress is dancing in front of a mountain .

ALT: a woman in a green dress is dancing in front of a mountain .

media.tenor.com

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · May 14

Dr @stephenroddy.bsky.social from @radhumslab.bsky.social and @ucc.ie School of English and Digital Humanities speaks to us about his Corpus/Mimesis project exploring the relationship between body & sound. All part of @CACSSS research showcase day.

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · May 14

Professor Nuala Finnegan from @uccsplas talks about her North South Research programme funded interdisciplinary project: Critical Epistemologies Across Borders - Doing Interdisciplinary Feminist Research.

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · May 14

Dr Anne Etienne presents not one, but two! New books on theatre and censorship in Europe, as part of the @CACSSS research showcase day.

Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · May 14

Professor Tom Birkett from the School of English and Digital Humanities at @ucc.ie speaks about his @erc.europa.eu funded project NorseMap at @CACSSS research showcase day. #Vikings #GIS #Crowdsourcing

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Women's Studies, UCC @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social · Apr 15

1) A recap of March's #IWD #PG7044 module on “Researching through Gendered & Intersectional Lenses”, offered by @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & available to all CACSSS PhD students. Curated by Dr @egeertsphd.bsky.social & taught by the wonderful MAWS team, students got...

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UCC Innovation @uccinnovation.bsky.social · Apr 23

The Hidden Galleries project, led by Dr James Kapalo & funded by @erc.europa.eu, created exhibitions & online resources showing visual & material cultural traces of specific communities in archives.

This was the first IP licence from @ucc.ie’s CACSSS.

🔗 bit.ly/4jIDb03

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Oliver Davis @oliverjdavis.bsky.social · May 14

great presentation by @maybenansi.bsky.social from @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social of his work on Lacan and Fanon at the @ucc.ie CACSSS research day today

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · May 13

Sad to see dereliction documented live in daft.ie while checking on a nice cottage I had my eyes on for some time now.

Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · Apr 17

Seems to be up and running again! Alas! It's alive!

a black and white photo of a man with the words it 's alive behind him

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with the words it 's alive behind him

media.tenor.com

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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · Apr 3

The #GeoTagging plugin for #RecogitoStudio is receiving a major overhaul:

• Various bugfixes.
• Improved Wikidata search.
• Most importantly: search across multiple gazetteers.

Big thanks to @atrium-eu.bsky.social for supporting this work! 🎉 github.com/recogito/geo...

Recogito Studio: the gazetteer search feature from the GeoTagging plugin in action.

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · Apr 16

Sad to see this one go... I used it quite often in teaching and as a first step/raw geotagging tool. A real pity.🥲

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · Apr 15

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,

"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"

Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

A light blue diagram depicting the sea, with the water's surface at the top, and just below it is an outline of the Mary Rose, with the depth (12m, 40ft or 6.7 fathoms). There is a line showing the seabed, which takes a rapid dive into the vertical...

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · Apr 9

Two ways of writing/traversing the apocalypse. In yellow, Lionel Verney's journey in Mary Shelley's 'The last Man' (1826); in purple, Alba and Dídac's journey in Manuel de Pedrolo's 'Mecanoscrit del segon origen' (1974) #GIS #Geocriticism

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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · Mar 29

Ireland is losing its war on misogyny

open.substack.com/pub/jamescos...

#ireland #gender #violence #misogyny

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Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez @pnilsson.bsky.social · Mar 28

Paquet d'iniciació a Bluesky pels estudis catalans (a casa i a fora). Molt incomplet, ho reconec, però provem de fer-lo crèixer entre totes?
go.bsky.app/TkyPgoB

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