Lisa Baer-Tsarfati
@baersafari.bsky.social
Historian, digital humanist, & community advocate. University of Guelph PhD candidate. AskHistorians moderator. Researching how language shapes power, gender, & identity. She/her
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As I refocus my career on academia, research, & digital scholarship, I wanted to introduce myself—both to new connections & longtime colleagues who might not know the full scope of my work. 🧵👇 (1/7) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLinguistics #Python #NLP
As I refocus my career on academia, research, & digital scholarship, I wanted to introduce myself—both to new connections & longtime colleagues who might not know the full scope of my work. 🧵👇 (1/7) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLinguistics #Python #NLP
1/3 Just wrapped #nacbs2025 in Montréal and, while I have to head home early, I had a fantastic time presenting with @melissa-glass.bsky.social and @ma-jones.bsky.social. Big thanks to @brodiewaddell.bsky.social and everyone who attended for such a smart, generous session.
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 AM
1/3 Just wrapped #nacbs2025 in Montréal and, while I have to head home early, I had a fantastic time presenting with @melissa-glass.bsky.social and @ma-jones.bsky.social. Big thanks to @brodiewaddell.bsky.social and everyone who attended for such a smart, generous session.
🚨Call for Co-Panelists 🚨 I am still seeking one more co-panelist for NACBS 2025! If your work explores rhetoric, power, & control, please reach out! More info 👉 bit.ly/4kgCz2G Deadline to get in touch March 14th.
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
Forum | NACBS
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March 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨Call for Co-Panelists 🚨 I am still seeking one more co-panelist for NACBS 2025! If your work explores rhetoric, power, & control, please reach out! More info 👉 bit.ly/4kgCz2G Deadline to get in touch March 14th.
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
1/12 This past weekend, I had the privilege of presenting at the 2025 Tri-University History Conference, discussing how public-history projects like @askhistorians.bsky.social combat misinformation in an era of politically motivated historical distortion. 🧵👇 #Skystorians
March 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
1/12 This past weekend, I had the privilege of presenting at the 2025 Tri-University History Conference, discussing how public-history projects like @askhistorians.bsky.social combat misinformation in an era of politically motivated historical distortion. 🧵👇 #Skystorians
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The latest Scottish History Network digest is out! Read about the latest news, opportunities, publications and events (so many events!) here mailchi.mp/ce51967f494a...
March 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The latest Scottish History Network digest is out! Read about the latest news, opportunities, publications and events (so many events!) here mailchi.mp/ce51967f494a...
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Really excited about our new venture with The Heritage Lab: please circulate to any scholars or institutions you think would be a good fit for this project, which looks specifically at South Asian art, history and culture. Please feel free to DM me any questions!
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Digital Heritage in action: The Heritage Lab x Wikimedia UK
Collaboration between The Heritage Lab and Wikimedia UK involving researchers from across UK Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums (GLAM).
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February 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Really excited about our new venture with The Heritage Lab: please circulate to any scholars or institutions you think would be a good fit for this project, which looks specifically at South Asian art, history and culture. Please feel free to DM me any questions!
wikimedia.org.uk/2025/02/heri...
wikimedia.org.uk/2025/02/heri...
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📣Call for Submissions!
The Centre for Scottish Studies is currently accepting submissions for the Frank Watson Book Prize 2025 for the best original work on Scottish History published in 2023 or 2024. Deadline: 31 May 2025.
More details and past winners: bit.ly/3SqHEdh
@uguelphhist.bsky.social
The Centre for Scottish Studies is currently accepting submissions for the Frank Watson Book Prize 2025 for the best original work on Scottish History published in 2023 or 2024. Deadline: 31 May 2025.
More details and past winners: bit.ly/3SqHEdh
@uguelphhist.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📣Call for Submissions!
The Centre for Scottish Studies is currently accepting submissions for the Frank Watson Book Prize 2025 for the best original work on Scottish History published in 2023 or 2024. Deadline: 31 May 2025.
More details and past winners: bit.ly/3SqHEdh
@uguelphhist.bsky.social
The Centre for Scottish Studies is currently accepting submissions for the Frank Watson Book Prize 2025 for the best original work on Scottish History published in 2023 or 2024. Deadline: 31 May 2025.
More details and past winners: bit.ly/3SqHEdh
@uguelphhist.bsky.social
🚨 CFP: 2025 NACBS Panel 🚨 Seeking co-panelists for Language, Legitimacy, and Threat: Discursive Constructions of Authority & Transgression in Early-Modern Britain. If your work explores rhetoric, power, & control, please reach out! More info 👉 bit.ly/4kgCz2G
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
Forum | NACBS
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February 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
🚨 CFP: 2025 NACBS Panel 🚨 Seeking co-panelists for Language, Legitimacy, and Threat: Discursive Constructions of Authority & Transgression in Early-Modern Britain. If your work explores rhetoric, power, & control, please reach out! More info 👉 bit.ly/4kgCz2G
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
#Skystorians #EarlyModern #NACBS2025
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A great new initiative for Early Modern Studies at UHI - accessible world wide and with excellent staff!
New MLitt Course @thinkuhi.bsky.social - with @uhihistory.bsky.social @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, Highland Theological College & UHI Literature team, @insuhi.bsky.social enrolling in September 2025 – Early Modern European Studies (EMES)
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UHI Launches New Early Modern European Studies MLitt
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, in collaboration with the UHI Centre for History, UHI Archaeology Institute, UHI Highland Theological College and UHI Lit…
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February 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A great new initiative for Early Modern Studies at UHI - accessible world wide and with excellent staff!
Thrilled to be presenting at the Tri-U History Conference on 1 March! I’ll be talking about how projects like @askhistorians.bsky.social combat misinformation & shape historical discourse. If you’ll be there, let’s connect! If not, let’s discuss: What role should historians play in this fight? 🗃️
February 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Thrilled to be presenting at the Tri-U History Conference on 1 March! I’ll be talking about how projects like @askhistorians.bsky.social combat misinformation & shape historical discourse. If you’ll be there, let’s connect! If not, let’s discuss: What role should historians play in this fight? 🗃️
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive’…Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves." — Sophie Scholl
She was only 21 when the Nazis executed her for resisting. Would you have the courage to resist if called upon to do so?
She was only 21 when the Nazis executed her for resisting. Would you have the courage to resist if called upon to do so?
#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️
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#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️
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February 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive’…Those who don’t want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves." — Sophie Scholl
She was only 21 when the Nazis executed her for resisting. Would you have the courage to resist if called upon to do so?
She was only 21 when the Nazis executed her for resisting. Would you have the courage to resist if called upon to do so?
print(”Hello, World!)
As I refocus my career on academia, research, & digital scholarship, I wanted to introduce myself—both to new connections & longtime colleagues who might not know the full scope of my work. 🧵👇 (1/7) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLinguistics #Python #NLP
As I refocus my career on academia, research, & digital scholarship, I wanted to introduce myself—both to new connections & longtime colleagues who might not know the full scope of my work. 🧵👇 (1/7) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLinguistics #Python #NLP
February 18, 2025 at 1:48 PM
print(”Hello, World!)
As I refocus my career on academia, research, & digital scholarship, I wanted to introduce myself—both to new connections & longtime colleagues who might not know the full scope of my work. 🧵👇 (1/7) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLinguistics #Python #NLP
As I refocus my career on academia, research, & digital scholarship, I wanted to introduce myself—both to new connections & longtime colleagues who might not know the full scope of my work. 🧵👇 (1/7) #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLinguistics #Python #NLP
Reposted by Lisa Baer-Tsarfati
🧵 Another week of current events on @askhistorians.bsky.social. There's increased variety from Nazis (finally). Many questions still need answers if any #skystorians want to get involved in crowd sourced history
This is a great example of the news driving inquiry:
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
This is a great example of the news driving inquiry:
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Google Maps has now started calling it the Gulf of America. How have countries historically decided the names of shared areas like oceans, or mountain ranges?
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February 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🧵 Another week of current events on @askhistorians.bsky.social. There's increased variety from Nazis (finally). Many questions still need answers if any #skystorians want to get involved in crowd sourced history
This is a great example of the news driving inquiry:
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
This is a great example of the news driving inquiry:
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Just wrapped up 8 months in the NAAAP Mastermind Program! This peer-mentorship program brings together high-performing Asian-American professionals to learn, grow, and support each other. #NAAAP #Mentorship (1/3)
February 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Just wrapped up 8 months in the NAAAP Mastermind Program! This peer-mentorship program brings together high-performing Asian-American professionals to learn, grow, and support each other. #NAAAP #Mentorship (1/3)
Thrilled to announce the publication of Networks and Networking in Scottish Studies: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Ewan! Co-edited with Sierra Dye & @mariahjhudec.bsky.social, this open-access volume celebrates @kiritekatawa.bsky.social's dedication to accessible, inclusive scholarship (1/3)
January 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Thrilled to announce the publication of Networks and Networking in Scottish Studies: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Ewan! Co-edited with Sierra Dye & @mariahjhudec.bsky.social, this open-access volume celebrates @kiritekatawa.bsky.social's dedication to accessible, inclusive scholarship (1/3)