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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 26d

Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty.

Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.

A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Sep 4

Job! #sts

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!

🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Search UCL Jobs

Find the latest UCL job opportunities here.

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

Reimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · Aug 14

As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏

Exit Darkness

How I surprised myself

diaryofapunter.substack.com

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Aug 14

🗞️Job

Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL.

Join us

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#dh

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢JOB ALERT: Childers Professorship of Irish History

We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025

🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/

The Childers Professorship of Irish History - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

The Childers Professorship of Irish History in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · Jul 31

'The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions. University senior managers are hiding behind this report to hide their own failures and mismanagement, while gutting the workforce.'

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great news, congratulations! Idea for a blog: ‘Journey of a polymath’

Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Jul 24

Important collections for all sorts… 🗃️

LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · Jul 23

We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections.
Applications open until 22 September. Read more
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

LSE Library Fellowships

Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

www.lse.ac.uk

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Jul 22

Permanent Job: Curator of Climate and Earth Sciences, SMG London. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web... #histsci #sts

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404 Media @404media.co · Jul 17

The 800-Year-Old Mystery of a Lost Medieval Legend Is Solved, Researchers Say

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The 800-Year-Old Mystery of a Lost Medieval Legend Is Solved, Researchers Say

The Song of Wade was a popular legend that survives in only one enigmatic text. Now, researchers think they have solved a longstanding puzzle about its meaning.

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Jul 14

Later today at #DH2025: teaching the MapReader workshop w/ @danielwilson.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen + Rosie Wood remote. And first thing Wednesday we are giving a paper about analyzing text on maps as research data.

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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 26

We're looking for a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL!

Apply by 9 July ⬇️

Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · Jun 11

We’re hiring! RoRI is looking for a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL.

If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.

More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL History @uclhistory.bsky.social · Jun 12

📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊

🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork.

🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July
📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term

🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today is our last day at the #FAccT2025 conference 💔

As our time in Athens draws to a close, this year's program chairs would like to share some reflections on the FAccT 2025 review process in a new blog post.

facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-26/r...

Reflections on the FAccT 2025 Review Process

We are here in Athens this week for the 8th annual ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. As we enjoy the presentations, we want to take a moment to reflect on our year as Progr...

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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jun 25

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?

Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.

doi.org/10.18737/552...

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Yikes, this looks good: do the VLMs leverage the existing XML in this set up?

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#SummerSolstice
British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r

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Reuben Binns @rdbinns.bsky.social · Jun 19

New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278

Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/

Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing

Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...

arxiv.org

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · May 12

Over the years I’ve been doing this work, colleagues in many other countries—including places we think of as much more progressive—have spoken enviously about Chronicling America, because we have a massive *public* archive of historical newspapers while their countries’ are all in corporate archives

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · Apr 9

📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England
📅: 16 May 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8
@camglamresearch.bsky.social

Cambridge University Library and University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social · Apr 8

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · Apr 7

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the beavers, for today is their special day!

This illustration of a beaver comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.

📷 Reserve 590 BUF

#InternationalBeaverDay #BeaverDay #RareBooks

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David Beavan @davidbeavan.bsky.social · Apr 4

🚀 Shaping the future of RSEs in Arts & Humanities! Two key reports outline a national vision - essential reading for all disciplines. Developed by the community, for the community. Dive in & be part of the conversation! 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Graphic report cover: Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: a Roadmap

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