iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 24/05/2026

What if music could help diagnose heart disease? 🎵🫀 ERC grantee Elaine Chew @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social uses maths and AI to study how music influences heart rate and stress levels, opening new possibilities for personalised “music medicine”. 🔗 buff.ly/lzKgxNa #FrontierResearch

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 25/05/2026

Are you a researcher based in 🌍️ Africa who is interested in frontier research? Join the #EURAXESS webinars on ERC grants: 3 June (in French), 10:00 a.m. CEST, register: bit.ly/4nEcVqR 5 June 2026 (in English), 10:00 a.m. CEST, register: bit.ly/4fCNyUa #FrontierResearch #AfricaEU #AfricaDay

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Yes. I love it so much. Have worn it almost every day since I got it.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One of my PhD students gifted me a sweater w the WEB CHILD logo at my inaugural lecture. ❤️

Woman holding a camera taking a picture of her sweater which says WEB CHILD in yellow and pink letters.

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Office of NYC Comptroller Mark Levine @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The Sesame Workers Union is looking for a way to get to a fair & equitable Sesame Street. More than a year after employees at @SesameWorkersunion voted to unionize they’re still fighting for a contract that supports living in an increasingly unaffordable city. We stand in solidarity with their them.

A group photo of Sesame Workers Union at a rally for a contract.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 22/03/2026

A CFP for the #DHmakes crowd!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Tomorrow!

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Will I see you IRL or online for my inaugural lecture? 17 April, 15:15-16:00 CET. Sign-up here: event.au.dk/events/tiltr...

Poster in turquoise w purple writing saying Inaugural lecture. Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen. Picture of woman w red hair. QR code. "Whither Digital History"

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nope.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Will I see you IRL or online for my inaugural lecture? 17 April, 15:15-16:00 CET. Sign-up here: event.au.dk/events/tiltr...

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Audiobooks and back-up snacks. You never know where you get stuck and what kind of food is available (if any).

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Lovely to hear from you. Things are a little less hellish than last week, let's hope the orange bully have forgotten about Greenland soon.

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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Data documentation of disappearance #dataloss

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

With the ruination of search engines, as well as the increasing uselessness of searching one's own Gmail archive due to AI "assistance," using the computer increasingly feels like experiencing dementia.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

My research project will let you fill in a form to tell us about your experience as a kid on the www from 1995 to 2005 *for free* (as soon as the ethics committee approves our questions 🤞)

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Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth

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Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society

University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026

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Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Do you remember taking part in a school mock election? Can you help our Centre member Helen Sunderland out with her research? ⬇️

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Goodnight, friends. Ursula K. Le Guin shared this bit of wisdom in her novel The Dispossessed, and tonight, I'm sharing it with you. We may not have the wealth that our technocapitalist overlords do, but that's ok. The revolution is not for sale. The revolution is US. I love you.

A new image from Etsy seller ArtLight Media. It shows a blue stylized lighted torch on the left. A quote from Ursula K. Le Guin reads: You've cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

"Do as you want. Do as you wish." Maybe you also needed to see this message today?

Text saying "do as you want. Do as you wish. Walrus anarchist collective." Image of walrus looking through binoculars.

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Goodnight, friends. I had grandparenting duties today, so I wasn't able to join in #NoKings on the ground. But I put signs on my car and followed along with the coverage here. Thanks to everyone who showed up and took a stand against fascism. I love you.

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a group of people putting their hands together and the words together we are unbroken

Alt: a group of people putting their hands together and the words together we are unbroken

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SourceLab @sourcelab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Last week we had a *fantastic* presentation and discussion with Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen (@sesamescholar.bsky.social) visiting from Aarhus University in Denmark! She discussed her journey as a digital historian, using AI in research, and the Web Child project - cas.au.dk/en/erc-webch...

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Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

From the walls of Copenhagen #trump #graffiti

A brick wall with a painting portraying Trump as a poop blocking a butt. He is saying "constipation nobody does it better than me!"

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I'm visiting the iSchool at the University of Illinois. Besides super interesting conversations with the brilliant folks here and the wonderful company of @anuncivilphd.bsky.social I also get to do morning runs on the prairie.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Like explaining my students why hyperlinks were such a revolutionary invention. They can't imagine the world where it didn't exist.

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International Standing Conference for the History of Education @ische-news.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

#CfP: The II International Seminar for Emerging Historians of Education, organised by HISTEDUP, invites submissions. Date: 24 November 2025 at the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon. Submission deadline: 15 October 2025 Learn more: www.ische.org/g0wd #HistEd #ECRchat

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Reminder Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org have til 26 September to vote in upcoming Council elections! 🗳️ There's lots of great candidates & all committed to the field. Obvs ideally I'd like to be your choice 😜 But vital to vote for who you feel will represent you & profession #skystorians #academicsky

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Join us tomorrow! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the pod's 3rd birthday 🥳

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

That's the curse of nostalgia 😂 Give Buffy a go. I think it has aged much better than so many shows from that period. Only made it through half an episode of Ally before I had to stop.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Cannot weigh in on Samurai Pizza Cats, but do consider a rewatch of Buffy. Was a big hit with my 13yo.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Den første sæson af Buffy er fra 1997, så der er et look du kan gå efter. Så kan du bare vælge, om det skal være Buffy eller Willow. Gemalen kan være ham læreren i tweet-jakke. Jeg tænker også buffalostøvler, tanktop og hjemmefarvet bluse.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I'm so glad you find it useful. Good luck with the application 😊

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📚💻💰📝 If you are thinking about applying for an ERC grant and want inspiration, I've updated my paper where I tell how I got mine. It now includes the application (B1+B2), the manuscript for the presentation I gave at my interview, the slides, and the nine peer reviews. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...

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How I got an ERC Consolidator Grant. Idea, application, interview, and reviews.

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Laura Portwood-Stacer @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Thank you to @llassabe.bsky.social for having me on her American Campus Podcast to talk about how scholarly writers can benefit from applying developmental editing skills to their own texts! This is a quick listen & a great intro to the topic if you're new to it www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

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Developmental editing for scholarly writers with Laura Portwood-Stacer - American Campus Podcast

On making our academic writing a little more reader friendly.References mentioned this episode:Laura Portwood-Stacer. 2025. Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Wr...

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How I got an ERC Consolidator Grant. Idea, application, interview, and reviews.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

"I, Robot...you, Jane" Thanks to the wonderful @sophieheywood.bsky.social I have rewatched Buffy S1E8 and now have another great source to how the Internet was represented in late 1990s kids/teen popculture. #ERCCoG #WEBCHILD en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robo...

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I, Robot... You, Jane - Wikipedia

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Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue @lyndamk.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We need YOU plus your #historian and #DH friends. And really anybody who cares about our history and representing ALL OF US. Please share! @ach.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @iassistdata.bsky.social @newamerica.org @muckrock.com

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Ada Lovelace Day @adalovelaceday.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 24/08/2025

A "not in the field" question for colleagues who study higher ed: is there a concept in the literature that's something like "non-strategic opportunism" -- idiosyncratic decisions by institutions that take advantage of immediate circumstances, but are unrelated to institutional or sectoral mission?

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This is *not* good. My access to the BBC's written archives was vital for my Sesame Street book. Without access based on my individual request, I would not have understood the beginnings of international marketing of children's television.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Great! And yes, I think you are very right. I think the changing political economy of broadcasting has a lot to do with it.

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Your book sounds so fascinating! If you are interested in a historical and international perspective as a reflective backdrop, you might be interested in my analysis of the political, cultural, and economic reasons for the BBC's resistance to Sesame Street. academic.oup.com/book/45872/c...

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Ban and Bother: The Workshop’s Troubles in the United Kingdom

AbstractThis chapter deals with the Children’s Television Workshop’s efforts to sell Sesame Street to Britain. It shows that the Workshop was extremely int

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Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Will let you know. Suggested it to a colleague yesterday and she loved the idea. Will probably be in October or November. I'm in the US+Canada in September/October to talk about my Sesame Street book and work on the new WEB CHILD project:)

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