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Thinking about attending the SCS in Boston? Love monks and Late Antiquity? Submit an abstract for this panel!

I love working with these colleagues on an editorial project (thanks, y'all!) and am excited at the prospect of more publishing, crediting, and re-using data in medieval humanities.

Then, peer review essays by Jeffrey Miner doi.org/10.1353/dph....
and Shawn Graham (@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy) show two very different reader responses to the dataset. doi.org/10.1353/dph....

The wonderful data section in the Fall 2025 ODFMS installment begins with the Datini Letter Collection Dataset introduction by Adam Franklin-Lyons and Pavel Oleinikov. doi.org/10.1353/dph....

The multi-part ODFMS "installment" begins w/ a preface to the series. doi.org/10.1353/dph....
The intro essay (“Review and Reuse”) then articulates how humanities disciplines benefit from data-centric research & why datasets are a key research element to showcase and credit. doi.org/10.1353/dph....

Just launched: Open Datasets For Medieval Studies, a new annual installment in Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures (Johns Hopkins Press) wherein scholars peer review research datasets. Section co-edited by @lauramorreale.bsky.social @jwtorg.bsky.social & me.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/56242.

Pie chart showing percentages of current nominations to DHAwards

The categories for the open DH Awards 2025 are: BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN (e.g. something that uses DH for purposes of enjoyment) BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data) BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS (e.g. a report on why a project failed, or problems with DH) BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH) BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS (e.g. something used to build a DH resource) BEST DH DATASET OR MODEL (e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used for DH research) BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos or how-to guides in any form) BEST DH RESOURCE (e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)

Don't forget to nominate any #DH resources for DH Awards 2025 so they get on the ballot!

Deadline coming up soon!

dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

The current distribution of votes per category is a tad uneven and you can probably guess which categories are which!

A reminder that the 5 calls app (or website) has all the contact info handy for calling reps, and even has scripts for specific issues.

Also I forgot to say that if you win an award to go to Kzoo, there will be a waiver for DMSI participation fee AND a subsidized registration fee for the Congress!

Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025.
Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH

Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Happy new mayor day to all who celebrate!

Here's to the potential that a new year brings.

Thanks! And congratulations on the book launch.

You know she's a Byzantine historian, right? It's also a good example of how history can help us think through lived experience of empire (as you aptly note) when applied to arts like fiction writing. Well-informed imagination is powerful.

+1 for Rhea being a great place to publish--humane, ethical, scholarly.

Jobs | City University of New York

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**

Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.

Applications due February 1, 2026.

Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

I will always, always be grateful for the nodding audience members in a panel or a class. There's something reassuring about that subtle nod when all is quiet.

Glad to hear you're currently safe and checking in with each other.

Screen shot of registration page for the ISAW Open House for Prospective Students. More info at https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-house-2025

Quick reminder that @isawnyu.bsky.social is having a VIrtual Open House for Prospective Students day after tomorrow (Wednesday Nov. 5th, 10AM US Eastern time). Info and registration at isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-... . Please share if you think someone who would be interested hasn't signed up. Thanks!

Congrats on the new position, and best of luck as you navigate new projects. I hope to hear more about it soon!

I've always like weather, and talking about the weather. Seems like the same genre as this!

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Great new tool from Flickr foundation - the Data Lifeboat, to package up Flickr image collections and get them out of dodge quickly, with metadata and readmes. Speaking to urgency of portability of digital cultural heritage given current times. They need some testers to play and give feedback 👇

Michigan has some really touching shipwreck museums, including one on Beaver Island. I believe the SS Edmund Fitzgerald is commemorated in the museum on Whitefish Point.

Okay, you had me at that very first paragraph about the beach! (Looking forward to reading the whole thing).

I don’t know why this zoom hack didn’t occur to me until now, but if you have an activity where you want students/colleagues to call on each other/go around the virtual room—e.g. when making introductions—have everyone raise their hand & then lower them when done—no guessing as to who hasn’t gone

@walshbr.bsky.social check the thread for a link to a still-online version!

Archaeogaming: An Introduction to Archaeology in and of Video Games | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...