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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Next up is 'The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London', by @jmotis.bsky.social and Katherine Kania: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The London bills of mortality are most well known as printed broadsides produced for public consumption in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which informed early modern Londoners of mortality rates within their parishes. This article analyses a parallel and more detailed set of manuscript bills of mortality intended for the monarch in order to explore the geographical distribution of a wide variety of causes of death during the 1660s. When read alongside the printed bills, the monarchs’ bills of mortality provide new insight into the geography of epidemic disease outbreaks, as well as how infrastructural, socioeconomic, and environmental factors correlate with other historical death rates in seventeenth-century London.

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Me to the Microsoft chat "agent" I connected to: hi, I need help fixing XYZ thing. "Agent": Worry not, for I stand steadfastly beside you, unyielding and determined, prepared to mend this fractured moment. Your load becomes mine, and together, we shall chart a course toward resolution. Riiiiiight.

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

New research article: 'The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London', by @jmotis.bsky.social and Katherine Kania: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Fossillocator @fossillocator.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21/09/2025

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Someone shared this with me and it pretty much made my day so I'm passing it on for everyone else's entertainment, too!

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

On Friday AM I'm chairing a panel where I originally planned to announce a new NEH grant program on sustainability. Even though I don't get to do that, I'm excited for a rich discussion w/ panelists incl @jmotis.bsky.social @kfen.bsky.social as we consider our work in the current landscape. #DH2025

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If you're attending #DH2025 make sure to check out @jmotis.bsky.social's panel Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities on Friday and @deepthimurali.bsky.social & @jasonheppler.org's session Participatory Platforms, Open Scholarship and Advanced OCR on Thursday.

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Program agenda – DH2025

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Humanists are supposed to be good with words, but there aren’t words enough to describe all the things the amazing @brettbobley.bsky.social did for DH communities & ppl here in the US & around the world. I’ve reposted many of y’all’s #thanksBrett posts, but those really are the tip of the iceberg.

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Brian Croxall @briancroxall.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

But what meant the most was when I was severely underemployed in 2009, @brettbobley.bsky.social took the time to talk with me about the process of applying to jobs at the NEH. We had never met apart from Twitter and he chatted on the phone. That meant so much to a broke PhD. #ThanksBrett

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Cheers to a boss and friend I’ll appreciate forever. @brettbobley.bsky.social always took me seriously, let me run away with ideas that both succeeded and failed, and engaged the field with deep kindness. #ThanksBrett

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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

To @brettbobley.bsky.social‬ - Massive thanks to you for everything you have done to foster an innovative, thoughtful, and vibrant DH community! NEH's ODH was where I cut my teeth as a peer reviewer for grant proposals & I'll ever be grateful for those experiences. #ThanksBrett

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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#ThanksBrett for understanding that the humanities, done digitally, needed specific lines of federal R&D and capacity building $$ to innovate, creatively address field needs , build communities, and foster open source and open access work. (We still need it.) 1/

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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)

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Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#ThanksBrett for your central role in building up the most exciting and generous academic field of the last 25 years! The office of digital humanities was been a tremendously positive force. @brettbobley.bsky.social

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

The field of DH is indebted to @brettbobley.bsky.social‬, who has made an indelible impact on so many lives and careers, including mine. Brett founded and led the NEH Office of Digital Humanities with vision, insight, ambition, humor, and passion. And crocs. #ThanksBrett

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Neil Fraistat @fraistat.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Thanks @brettbobley.bsky.social! You and ODH provided the infrastructure for DH infrastructures, developed the instruments for instrumenting international collaborations, and envisioned the means for us to envision the future.Here's to your next chapter! I'll always value your last! #ThanksBrett

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 13/06/2025

#DHmakes We're all going to work on crafting this in our own preferred medium for @brettbobley.bsky.social right? #ThanksBrett

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

As someone who has work for and with @brettbobley.bsky.social for almost 20 years, I know how hard he has worked to ensure that NEH could support the range of exciting work happening in the digital humanities. #ThanksBrett

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 13/06/2025

#ThanksBrett for your generosity, adaptability, and focus on enabling scholarship including by shielding scholars from as much flak as you could.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I am one of so many people in digital humanities whose careers were shaped by @brettbobley.bsky.social. Brett was a model of the kind of worker I aimed to be during my time at NEH, and I was so lucky to work with him for so many years. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, generosity, and vision.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I had the incredible privilege to watch & learn from Brett Bobley’s (@brettbobley.bsky.social) thoughtful, collaborative, & patient approach to building capacity across NEH. Those essential attributes led to the creation of the Digital Humanities Initiative, then @neh-odh.bsky.social, + #ThanksBrett

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

My brain just broke. I was searching through a Slack channel for mentions of Coroner's warrants and Slack decided that when I searched for "coroner" I must obviously also want all mentions of "coronation"... #fuzzySearchFun

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Team: Get infected with enthusiasm for Death by Numbers and 17th century London with @jmotis.bsky.social on the @oieahc.bsky.social's Digital Humanities Coffeehouse series: youtu.be/MmfJidjs370?...

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Death By Numbers: Morality Records & Plague in Britain

YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

In 2002, the #NEHfunded primary sources and teaching resources for world history chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistory... a site that's been revitalized as worldhistorycommons.org

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In 2006, the #NEHfunded a website of primary sources for teaching about 1989 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe: 1989.rrchnm.org

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Making the History of 1989

The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 08/05/2025

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the #NEHfunded sustainability work for the September 11th Digital Archive: 911digitalarchive.org

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Home · September 11 Digital Archive

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I have the contract in hand so that makes it official... I have officially been awarded tenure at George Mason University! Expect more awesome history out of me, especially via @rrchnm.bsky.social, in the years and decades to come!

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

In 2018, the #NEHfunded World History Commons, an open educational resource for teaching world and global history worldhistorycommons.org

worldhistorycommons.org

World History Commons

An open educational resource with over 2000+ peer-reviewed content for world and global history teachers, scholars, and students.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

$200k from Mellon to each of the humanities councils that lost funding from NEH (which is mandated funding in the NEH legislation). It's one time and won't fill the budget hole, but v good to see.

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The #NEHfunded a structured data transcription module for the Omeka S platform, for scholars working with quantitative data: datascribe.tech

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DataScribe

A structured data transcription module for the Omeka S platform.

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

From 2023-2026, #NEHfunded Mathematical Humanists, which was supposed to hold a series of 12 workshops to teach the mathematics behind common digital humanities techniques: mathhumanists.org

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Mathematical Humanists

Project website for the Mathematical Humanists.

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RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Over the years, @georgemasonu.bsky.social has won 157 National Endowment for the Humanities awards. Over half of these awards were awarded to the Department of History and Art History. During the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the excellent work the #NEHfunded.

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A. T. Greenblatt @atgreenblatt.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Okay, so my awesome sister @sharonie621.bsky.social just showed me how to customize Google to search without AI. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER NOW. Maybe I'm the last person to do this. But just in case I'm not, it's easy to set up. I'll share the steps here. (1/8)

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Jessica Otis @jmotis.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

impact.ach.org

NEH Grants 2025

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 04/04/2025

The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “This frontal attack on the nation’s public culture is unpatriotic, anti-American, and unjustified.” 🗃️

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Historians Defend the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Public Culture - AHA

The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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