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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · 9d

Apply for up to £10k from the DisCouRSE Network+ to promote leadership training and career pathways for digital Research Technical Professionals like you! Submission deadline: Friday 14th November 2025, 16:00 GMT. For more information and to apply visit discourse-network.github.io/funding/roun...

DisCouRSE Flexible Fund - Round 1

DisCouRSE is a UKRI-funded Network+ project that will encourage and support the development of leaders across all digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) roles, resulting in an empowered and co...

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step-up.bsky.social @step-up.bsky.social · 22d

NEW mentoring scheme for research software, data, & computing infrastructure professionals in London and the SE.
💬 Monthly meetings for 6 months
👥 Mentees & mentors welcome
🎯 Career planning, skills development etc
📅 Start in Nov 2025
🔗 Sign up: step-up.ac.uk/mentoring/
#dRTP #Mentoring

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · 21d

PDRA opportunity for researchers with an interest in learning digital methods in @kingsartshums.bsky.social's @kingshistory.bsky.social department.

#digitalmethods #PDRA #digitalresearch

King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 21d

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/124987-...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History | King's College London

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · 21d

PDRA opportunity for researchers with training in digital methods in @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social department.

#digitalmethods #PDRA #digitalresearch

King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 21d

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/124986-...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History | King's College London

www.kcl.ac.uk

kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · 23d

🧠✨New on the KDL blog: AI in Research. A Pretext to Talk About Accountability, Ideas & Paradigms
Arianna Ciula & PatrickFfrench @kingsartshums.bsky.social explore how #AI challenges assumptions on research, authorship & intellectual contribution.
kdl.kcl.ac.uk/blog/ai-in-r...

AI in Research | King's Digital Lab

A dialogue between Arianna Ciula, Director and Senior Research Software Analyst at KDL, and Patrick ffrench, Professor of French in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, from which so...

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Sep 9

KDL is at RSECon2025 with 7 contributions on Requirements Handling in Agile, Robust Practices for Research Outputs (both today), the Impact of RSEs, the RSA role, DiscouRSE network, STEP-UP dRTP training catalogue (all tomorrow), and digital accessibility
rsecon25.society-rse.org/programme/

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Sep 1

Join the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War launched by @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social, and work closely with
@kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
on cutting-edge interdisciplinary research!
Apply at tinyurl.com/KCLjobs

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great to see Alice Thornton's Books featured recently in The Guardian and The Smithsonian Magazine:

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Aug 24

Have you seen that our project has had some news coverage over the last few weeks? We've rounded the stories up here:
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...

Alice Thornton's Books is in the News

News article - 24 August 2025

thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Aug 5

Great to see our project getting this coverage.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social

Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Aug 4

Great to see our project written up in today's Guardian. Follow the link inside to our digital edition - more than one thousand pages of Thornton's writings transcribed and modernised. @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 4

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Jul 14

KDL team featuring at DH2025 with: Hackathon on Audiovisual assets (Mon); digital preservation & sustainability (poster, Tue); openness in GLAM (panel), respectful requirements elicitation (paper) and RAG (poster) for indigenous data (Fri)

dh2025.adho.org/browse-the-p...

Program agenda – DH2025

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step-up.bsky.social @step-up.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚀 Working in research software, data, or computing infra in London?
Join us at STEP-UP RSLondon 2025 – your local space to connect, learn & grow!
📅 7 July | 📍 One Birdcage Walk
🔗 Register for free: www.tickettailor.com/events/stepu...
#STEPUP #RSLondon #dRTP #RSE #DataSteward

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · May 15

A ‘copy’ of the Magna Carta sold to @hls.harvard.edu library has been identified as an original version.

1 of only 6 intact originals from the 1300s, researchers from King’s & @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social describe it as “one of the world’s most valuable documents”

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/harvard...

Harvard Law School's 'copy' of Magna Carta revealed as original

Researchers from King's College London and the University of East Anglia have discovered that a ‘copy’ of Magna Carta owned by Harvard Law School is in fact an extraordinarily rare original from 1300.

www.kcl.ac.uk

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · May 8

We're thrilled to be part of the #CLARIN-ERIC consortia - great news that the UK is now a full member!

www.clarin.ac.uk/article/uk-j...

UK joins CLARIN ERIC

www.clarin.ac.uk

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EHRI-UK @ehri-uk.bsky.social · May 7

Come work with us! 📢 NEW JOB ALERT 📢
Research Projects Data Analyst at The National Archives, UK
Fixed Term Appointment for 12 months
Closing date: Monday 26 May 2025 midnight

nationalarchives.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

#digitalhumanities

Research Projects Data Analyst

As the living, growing home of our national story, The National Archives is already a special place to work. We’re an institution nearly 200 years old with a collection spanning 1,000 years of history...

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Apr 14

👏 Professor @s-tanner.bsky.social and Dr @aballatore.bsky.social from @kingsdh.bsky.social and experts from King's Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk 🔽

Digital research led by Kings to forecast the emergence of slavery in war zones

Academics from the Department of Digital Humanities and King’s Digital Lab will spearhead digital research in the new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War.

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Apr 14

Deadline to apply for the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2025 at
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social is approaching.
Apply by 22 April, 2025. Details: dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk
Free to participants and bursaries available.

DH & RSE Summer School 2025

dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk

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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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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Apr 4

Over April, necessary updates and improvements are being made to the systems and software providing the OpenStack virtualisation environment which hosts KDL’s services.
You might experience minor outages of a few minutes.

Do continue to report any issues at: kdl.kcl.ac.uk/contact-us/

Contact us | King's Digital Lab

King’s Digital Lab (KDL) is a Research Software Engineering (RSE) team in King’s College London

kdl.kcl.ac.uk

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Cambridge Digital Humanities @camdighum.bsky.social · Mar 28

Join this virtual information session on 14 April to find out more about the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School hosted at @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social this summer.

Register: buff.ly/seA4aGE

Virtual Information Session for the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2025 - CDH

Host Jonathan Blaney, Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer at CDH About Join this virtual information session to find out more about the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Sum...

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Mar 26

KDL Director Arianna Ciula is presenting at today's DH Atlas Workshop "Accessing Digital Humanities Research on the Cultural Heritage": dh-atlas.github.io/workshop.html

Workshop | DH ATLAS

The ATLAS of Italian Digital Humanities

dh-atlas.github.io

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · Mar 26

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
@kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)

King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · Mar 16

it does all the things a digital edition should do - browse, search, side-by-side view - but a special mention should go to the very cute events timeline that @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social made. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/timeline/

The Eventful Life of Alice Thornton

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excited to announce the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2025 at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Join us from 30 June to 3 July for expert talks, hands-on workshops, and networking. Apply by 22 April, 2025. Details: dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk

DH & RSE Summer School 2025

dhrse2025.er.kcl.ac.uk

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kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Mar 17

Applications for this role close on TOMORROW (Tuesday 18th March.)

Note: this is an indefinite contract and could be hired as either a Senior or non-Senior RSE, depending on qualifications:

www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109427-...

(Senior) Research Software Engineer

www.kcl.ac.uk

kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social · Mar 5

@ukiedh.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @society-rse.org @kingsartshums.bsky.social