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Gillian Macdonald

@gilliansmac.bsky.social
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Digital lab director | early modern Atlantic world + Scotland | digital historian

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026
It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Jesse Draper @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What does "Responsive and Responsible AI Use in the Classroom" look like? @gilliansmac.bsky.social, Sarah Freye, and Danielle Nicole DeVoss, and I addressed this in a wonderful roundtable discussion revised for the newest volume of the Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference. Check it out!
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Very impressed by @edinburghup.bsky.social’s “AI Policy” for authors: edinburghuniversitypress.com/publish-with.... Best I’ve run into so far, though I’ve not searched systematically. (Given changefulness of AI, though, the page could usefully be dated and versioned.)
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AI policy - Writing your book - For authors
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Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH
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Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Global DH Symposium @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
✨Registration is now OPEN for our Symposium!✨ Join us for a new three-part experience: one day at MSU (USA), one day at UDEM (México), plus two virtual days. Browse our comprehensive program and discover our keynote speakers on our website. Don't miss this opportunity to join a global community!
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Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2026 – 13-17 April 2026 | Virtual and In-Person
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Gillian Macdonald @gilliansmac.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Come ask a digital historian anything at #AHA26! Starts at 3:30 in the Marquette room in the Hilton!
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Tonight @historians.org #AHA26, hear from a stacked panel of historians and civics ed leaders about the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, including @inpursuitusa.bsky.social’s Colleen Shogan and project contributor @kawulf.bsky.social
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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
We're ready for #AHA26! @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social will chair “An Evolution of Digital Research: Methods, Limitations, and Dissemination,” where @emily-elliott.bsky.social will present, “A Search for Research: Mapping Archives in a Time of War.” 🕜Thurs 1:30PM 📍Salon C6, Hilton Chicago #highered
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Gillian Macdonald @gilliansmac.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Eeeee, it’s nearly time for #AHA26 and I’m excited to participate in a really cool panel on evolutions of digital research! Please come! @jimambuske.bsky.social @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social @kmapesy.bsky.social @meknaak.bsky.social @emily-elliott.bsky.social
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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Digital Humanities Research Scientist – Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Italy. Full-time research position in #DigitalHumanities and AI. Deadline: 12 Jan 2026. Apply: 🔗 higherjobz.com/digital-huma... #AcademicJobs #ItalyJobs #ResearchOpportunities @bhmpi.bsky.social
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Digital Humanities Research Scientist at Max Planck, Italy | HigherJobz
Apply for a fully funded Digital Humanities Research Scientist role at the Max Planck Institute in Rome, Italy. Deadline 12 Jan 2026.
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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
As the holidays approach, here is a gentle reminder to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Symposium, being held at Christ's College, Cambridge, on 4 April 2026. Submissions are due on Monday, 5 January - Please get in touch with any questions! #cfp #earlymodern #callforpapers
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Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
works.hcommons.org/records/2khp... Another paper on English constitutional history, on a neglected institution, the upper house of the Cromwellian Protectorate. #history #earlymodern #skystorians
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English Constitutional Theory and the Cromwellian Upper House
This paper analyzes the Other House, the upper house of the English Parliament under the Protectorate. It attempts to assess the place of the house in the constitutional history of England.
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Jesse Draper @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Great presentation at USIH 2025 last week! Proud of our team of graduate and undergraduate students (London Hawes, Maxine Levanduski, Brandon Bell and Katherine Dyal) collaborating with @leadr.bsky.social to build the H-Net Spaces Radical Historians Newsletter digitization project (coming soon!)
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MSU LEADR @leadr.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Busy weekend for the LEADR Lab! Chi fellows presented two weeks of their hard work building digital cultural maps Then at the USIH Conference, LEADR + @h-net-humanities.bsky.social presented a proof of concept for their digitization project on the Radical Historians Newsletter
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Alaska Raptor Center @raptororg.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
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heathen king @heathenking.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery .
Alt: a man with a pumpkin head is dancing in a cemetery .
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Wow! Brilliant for writers!
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This January, @danieljstory.bsky.social, Alexandra Levy, and I are once again co-leading @historians.org's Sinclair Podcast Workshops. Do you have a history pod idea you want to vet with a small group? Pitch us for Developmental Conversations! Deadline 12/1/25. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
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Survey on Serendipity and Information Seeking in Digital Collections
Purpose of the Study We are seeking to understand the different methods of information seeking in digital collections. In addition, we would like to understand what the participants' perceptions of se...
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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
#DigitalHumanities job
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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
UVA PhD students (+folks who can let them know): our 2026-27 Praxis Fellows application is open! Curious what critical, creative, ethical tech could make possible for your cultural/humanities research? *Zero* tech experience expected—this is our yearlong, friendly+supportive chance to learn+explore:
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Applications For The 2026-2027 Praxis Fellowship Cohort Now Open
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Tom Scheinfeldt @foundhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
How do we reach an audience when the audience has scattered? New blog post: Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation foundhistory.org/2025/08/digi... #dh #digitalhumanities
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Digital Humanities Outreach and Media Fragmentation – Found History
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Hugh Willmott @hugh-willmott.co.uk · 05/08/2025
Pleased to see some coverage by the BBC of our excavations at #CerneAbbey which concluded at the weekend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cerne Abbey: Archaeologists unearth secrets of medieval hall
Archaeologists return to Cerne Abbas to unearth the medieval abbey and its Anglo Saxon predecessor.
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Rainer Simon @aboutgeo.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Chatbot project starting to take shape... #DigitalHumanities #DH2025 #IIIF #LLM
Preview of the chatbot interface of the "Machina Emblematica" project. A scanned page from the "Symbola Emblematica" is shown on the left, the conversational interface (text, image thumbnails and text input field) is shown on the right.
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DHQuarterly @dhquarterly.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
CFP - AI for DH: Research Problems and Critical Approaches. DHQ seeks 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI (research problems, critical approaches, responsible applications, case studies, etc.). Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html
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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: News
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Gillian Macdonald @gilliansmac.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Mellon is piloting a program specifically directed at students with Humanities degrees, because they get JOBS and there’s a fundamental misunderstanding that their skills aren’t transferable! www.mellon.org/voices/human...
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Team: I’m thrilled to report that Worlds Turned Upside Down has surpassed 100,000 downloads on the strength of 17 episodes. I’ll have a full slate of thanks once I return from the Emerald Isle next week, but for now, thanks for listening!
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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
#DigitalHumanities job
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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
New job: Assistant Professor, Post-1800 Transnational History (tenure track) University of Notre Dame jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68889
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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
H-Net Journals is pleased to announce that a new volume of The Proceedings of the H-Net Teaching Conference has just been published! Are you interested in inclusive teaching or integrating art or the digital humanities into their pedagogy? If so, check it out! journals.h-net.org/phtc/issue/v...
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Knowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
KCWorks for Institutions will enhance your institutional research dissemination, protect your research outputs as a digital preservation system, and allow for superior discovery of research objects. And that's only a few of the features we offer! Visit: join.hcommons.org
Meme of a hand labeled "your institution" slamming a blue button labeled "contacting Knowledge Commons about KCWorks"
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
An interesting article about how Climate change is threatening the remains of hundreds of ancient forts dotted around Ireland's coasts by @colmanos.bsky.social ‪‬ www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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Coastal erosion threatening Ireland's ancient forts
Climate change is threatening the remains of hundreds of ancient forts dotted around Ireland's coasts, which are vulnerable to coastal erosion.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Not complaining but there seems to be some Whose Got The Oldest Documents archives bragging going on in my timeline.
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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Join us for our fourth annual remote teaching conference sponsored by H-Teach! The deadline to register is 7 p.m. EDT August 17, 2025. Check out the link for more information. networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #digitalhumanities #historyeducation #teaching #learning
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Jesse Draper @jessedraperhnet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
A New Job Guide Experience Today we’re proud to roll out the all-new H-Net Job Guide! We spent the last year working to integrate the Job Guide into the H-Net Commons platform with the following new features: 1/ #academicsky #jobs @h-net-humanities.bsky.social
H-Net Job Guide logo over the text "Reaching over 200 countries with over 100,000 page views per week!" Under the text are two black rectangular buttons with labeled "Job Seekers" and "Job Posters."
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
NOW PLAYING: Episode 16: The Tea A looming financial disaster for the East India Company leads to a new crisis in North America when seven tea-laden ships are sent to the colonies in 1773, inspiring Bostonians to dump much of the cargo in Boston Harbor. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Reminder: Deadline for Spaces Cohort - July 1 Spaces is designed to give scholars the content management infrastructure they need to create, manage, and share their work with their scholarly communities. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Reminder: Deadline for Spaces Cohort July 1 | H-Net
Apply now for the 2025-26 H-Net Spaces Cohort! The deadline is July 1.If you have a project idea that is still in the early stages of development, or if you need significant support and hands-on training in DH methods, consider applying for H-Net's Spaces Cohort Program. This program provides additional support to scholars seeking to build a digital project with H-Net Spaces.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
***Digital History Seed Grants*** The IEHS invites submissions for awards, up to $2,000 each, to support graduate students and early-career scholars seeking to develop or engage with digital history work connected to migration history and related fields. Deadline: 8/1/25 iehs.org/awards/seed_...
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Digital History Seed Grants
Visit the post for more.
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Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We have a Fulbright Fellowship in #IrishStudies for US faculty available for 2027 - see here for details: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...
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New Fulbright Fellowship in Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast available from 2027
The US-UK Fulbright Commission's Queen's University Belfast Award in Irish Studies covers a six-month appointment to research, lecture and teach in Irish Studies in Northern Ireland.
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
NOW PLAYING: Episode 15: The Heavens Fall The detainment of a West African-born enslaved Virginian named James Somerset in London leads to a court case decided by England's most powerful judge that challenges the foundations of slavery in the British Empire. www.r2studios.org/show/worlds-...
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Featuring: Christopher Brown, Trevor Burnard, Julie Flavell, and Chernoh Sesay, Jr. Voice Actors: Amber Pelham, Anne Fertig, Gillian MacDonald, Norman Roger, Craig Gallagher, and Adam McNeil.
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Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down, the best podcast on the American Revolutionary Era 👇
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Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This was a terrific episode! #skystorians #academicsky @rrchnm.bsky.social
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Something’s brewing on Worlds Turned Upside Down.
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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Let's head back to Scotland, shall we? Check out @gilliansmac.bsky.social and Morgan Fox from @leadr.bsky.social "Networking the Revolution" on the most recent @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Humanities Coffeehouse series. youtu.be/6VMjKt7iGXE?...
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Networking the Revolution: The Glorious Revolution in Britain (1688-1692)
YouTube video by Omohundro Institute
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