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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s GIS day @uniofreading.bsky.social 🙌 we welcome prof @stuartdunn.bsky.social to kick off a day of training and interdisciplinary research! #digitalhumanities

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ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

📚New book series from University of Exeter Press: Environment, Senses and Emotions, edited by Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna). The series will provide a comprehensive exploration of how the #EnvironmentalCrisis is represented, perceived and understood through the senses and #emotions #envhum

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Research at Reading @uor-research.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Professors @maraoliva.bsky.social and @johngibbsscreened their video essays at the @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, showing how digital media can be used in innovative scholarly ways in history, film studies and beyond! 🔗 rdg.ac/4ieB2sh

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Beyond the written word: how the video essay transformed my engagement with history - Connecting Research

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Aston University Archives @astonunarchives.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Don't miss this opportunity! Previous participants, including myself, found it a game-changer!

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

#lovemyjob has gone to a whole new level! Wonderful evening at my happy place @themerl.bsky.social for Teresa Murjas’ new installation NISSEN and with my brilliant brilliant friend and amazing soul Dr Jessica Lutkin 💖 #grateful @uor-research.bsky.social

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Well my week has already peaked! Had the most wonderful morning with the most wonderful team at #themillsarchive working some spectacular collections on #renewableenergy #lovemyjob 💚 @uor-research.bsky.social @fidgitpig.bsky.social

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Happy Morning working with my wonderful colleagues from FTT and Linguistics at an interdisciplinary research workshop! #lovemyjob @uor-research.bsky.social

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Dr Dominic Lees @dominiclees.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Times has published my letter, co-authored with Dr Mathilde Pavis, on UK government policy on Copyright and AI Training Data. Ministers should listen to ethical AI developers who license data from creative artists, not Big Tech that insists on 'scraping' the internet to seize data illegally.

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Thank you for posting this! And thank you to my wonderful video essay peeps! 💖

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Part 3 #History students working with the #Hiroshima collection @ University of Reading Special Collections 💚 big thank you to @archivesgb.bsky.social 🙏

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Part 1 #History students @themerl.bsky.social working with primary sources on the US #environmental movements in the 1920s and 1960s 💚 so lucky to have these materials here in the most beautiful setting!

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Definitely the best room and view on campus! Want every class here from now onwards! #teaching the US and the #Coldwar

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Super excited to be teaching my new module on the US 🇺🇸, The Global Environment and Sustainability 💚

Super excited to be teaching my new module on the US 🇺🇸, Global Environmental Diplomacy and Sustainability 💚

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Research day @ my happy place 💚 the Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social #sustainability

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I love my job has gone to a whole new level!! Spent the morning with my partners in crime @fidgitpig.bsky.social Jacqui Turner & Eugene McSorley walking around Harris Garden for our new project: Bring Power to the Garden! 💚 #interdisciplinaryresearch #environmentalsustainability

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

always a good day to receive the author’s copy! 🩵 #research

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Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The big day is here! Join in! Hybrid book launch at the National Archives at Kew on 23 January, 4:00-6:00 pm (refreshments from 3:30 pm) for Archives and Emotions co-edited with @ValeriaVanesio www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archives-a...

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Archives and Emotions: book launch

Join us at The National Archives and online for the launch of the ground-breaking Archives and Emotions edited collection.

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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

As we prepared for the Trump onslaught, I sat down (virtually) with friends and colleagues to discuss (some) one-term presidents. Thanks Clodagh and Alex for having me. You can listen to the conversation here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Podcast Episode · A Chicken in Every Pot · 20/01/2025 · 55m

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ORCID @orcid.org · 16/01/2025

🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️ We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!! Learn more: info.orcid.org/new-work-types

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

🫣🥹😀 so grateful for this wonderful experience! And especially the to the incredibly generous and loving video essay community, especially @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social John Gibbs and Kevin B. Lee! #interdisciplinaryresearch

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The one and only @willdigravio.bsky.social introducing our second screening: “Remixing New York” which also features my own work on the New York World’s Fair of 1939. #lovemyjob

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Super excited (and very emotional) to be screening my first video essay Museum of Moving Image in NYC this afternoon #interdisciplinaryresearch #lovemyjob

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Big thank you to everyone who attended our session on video essays @historians.org annual conference! It was just brilliant and we loved the audience’s engagement and questions! 🙌🗽 #interdisciplinaryresearch @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Day 1 of the @historians.org annual conference! Look forward to sharing my work on video essays and #history this afternoon, together with the wonderful John Gibbs, @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social @willdigravio.bsky.social and Kevin L. Bee 💪🗽 #interdisciplinaryresearch

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Welcome to New York! 🗽❤️https://www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Research-News/Reading-researchers-exhibit-video-essays-in-New-York

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Reading researchers exhibit video essays in New York - University of Reading

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Will DiGravio @willdigravio.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Hey NYC friends! Begin the new year this weekend at @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, where we (my dear pals and colleagues @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social, @maraoliva.bsky.social, Kevin B. Lee, John Gibbs, and myself) have curated four programs of video essays! More here: movingimage.org/series/expan...

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 27/12/2024

Bob Reinhardt’s “Exploring Submerged Resilience” reflects on the Atlas of Drowned Towns, a public digital history project that provides a platform for exploring and recording the histories of US towns that moved or disappeared to make way for big dams. Read more in the American Historical Review. 🗃️

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Exploring Submerged Resilience: The Atlas of Drowned Towns

Abstract. Submerged under the reservoirs for large dams lie the remains of displaced communities that reveal the depths of “resilience.” Exploring the hist

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James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I’m hosting a new books program on BBC Radio 4, on Sundays at 4pm, and also on BBC Sounds! It’s called TAKE FOUR BOOKS, and here it is! 👇📻🎧 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

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BBC Sounds - Take Four Books - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Take Four Books on BBC Sounds.

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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We have a report out today on Criminalisation & Repression of Climate & Environmental Protest 1/10 @uob-policystudies.bsky.social

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Congratulations Andrew! Wonderful news! 👏👏👏👏👏💖

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This 👇 incredible scholar - wonderful and generous man! 💖

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Don’t want to wake up from this beautiful dream! Still can’t believe I am working with these legends!

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New episode (and the last interview of 2024)! I talked with @sethrockman.bsky.social about his new book PLANTATION GOODS (@uchicagopress.bsky.social), the ongoing struggle of the writing process, the joy of archives (and necessity of deadlines), and more. Listen: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis...

Episode graphic with an image of a man with short brown hair and a blue shirt smiling slightly at the camera. The text below reads "episode 57: Seth Rockman."

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Teaching WWII for my American Century module today and using one of my favourite resources from the Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt and the Four Freedoms exhibition hosted by the New York Historical a few years ago. #history #interdisciplinaryteaching

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights is available for pre-order!! Pub date 6/17/25. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Cold War Civil Rights

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearHow the fight for civil rights in America became an important front in the Cold War

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network is running a reading group on this next semester, co-hosted with CRITIQUE (thanks to Mike Albert!)

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

things are only looking üp and by things, we mean everyone, because the inevitable has happened and the hog now has height as well as width

A diagram of the world's tallest buildings: the Empire State building, the Petronas Towers, all the way to Burj Dubai. Yet there's also another challenger who's entered the fray: because shadowing Burj Dubai stands 'MERL Bluesky pig', reaching almost 700m high.

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Had the best day yesterday at the #digitalhumanities #data for #humanists event! My favourite quotes: “data is the new oli” (Bergel) & “museum data are not nuetral! (Smith). Big thank you to @dawnkanter.bsky.social for being the best DH officer ever!

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Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The brilliant Dr Giles Berger delivering a superb lecture on data for humanists! (If only I had a penny for every time a humanist told me: I don’t have data! 😝) #digitalhumanities #interdisciplinaryresearch

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