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Mark J. Hill
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Lecturer in Cultural Computation and Digital Humanities at King's College London.
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)

📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Some wonderful photos in this article
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Photographs of London's Kings Cross Before the Change - c.1990 - Flashbak
The gas holders by London’s Kings Cross Station have been moved, and Culross Buildings and Culross Hall in Battlebridge Rd were demolished around 2004 for the comprehensive redevelopment of the area. ...
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August 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!

📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#AcademicJobs
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August 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
mrak.bsky.social
Having a lovely time at #acl2025 and the @woahworkshop.bsky.social in Vienna!
August 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Our best theme paper goes to Mark J. Hill for "Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse".

This paper investigates how real-world events trigger toxic behaviour that spreads across unrelated online communities. Losses have a stronger impact than wins!
August 1, 2025 at 8:37 AM
mrak.bsky.social
On my way to #acl2025 Vienna by train. Currently in county 4 or 5. Unfortunately the last two are the longest to get across.
July 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Out of context exhibition reviews.
June 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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The Unpaywall browser plugin is quiet genius, finding non-paywalled / open access versions of research articles unpaywall.org/welcome
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June 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Will be presenting Catching Stray Footballs (arxiv.org/abs/2506.01642) at PreTrain at KCL next week (pretrain2025.github.io/pages/schedu...). Title-wise, it's very much an odd paper on that list! Looking forward to it. #acl2025 #woah2025
June 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
mrak.bsky.social
A new preprint of mine up on arxiv: "Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse" (arxiv.org/abs/2506.01642). An analysis of posting behaviours of fans of English professional football on Reddit. Fill your (football) boots.
Catching Stray Balls: Football, fandom, and the impact on digital discourse
This paper examines how emotional responses to football matches influence online discourse across digital spaces on Reddit. By analysing millions of posts from dozens of subreddits, it demonstrates th...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
mrak.bsky.social
Quick trip up to Oxford to see some old friends talk about serious things!
May 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Pretty good day, yesterday.
April 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
mrak.bsky.social
Teach coding to novices in higher education (e.g., intro to python)? Finding AI has made the process difficult/less successful? Have novel ways of integrating/overcoming LLMs? Want to have a chat about this? Drop me a message! Organising a cross-institutional/discipline group to discuss the topic.
April 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...
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King's AI+ Academic Fellowships (leading to an open-ended academic post)
King’s is making a major strategic investment into driving AI activity across our nine academic Faculties. Our ambition is to accelerate growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data-driven research...
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March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
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February 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Reminder! Tuesday (4 March), 16:00 Brian Ball (Northeastern London) is presenting to the Computational Humanities Research Group at @kingsdh.bsky.social on "Structure Meets Strategy in the Misinformation Age: a Simulation-Based Study." Hybrid event, register here: forms.office.com/e/79m7nUwu6d
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February 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Delighted to be welcoming @roopikarisam.bsky.social to give the second King's Public Lecture in Digital Humanities in May: "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis". Details and registration here - www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...
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Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis
King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.
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February 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
mrak.bsky.social
Perfect timing - straight into the section on digitisation projects for Monday's lecture.
handle.invalid Q. Pheevr @handle.invalid · Mar 24
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
Screenshot from a scan of page 289 of an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote. The text is set in two columns. In the left column, we read in part “thou hast hit the point, Sancho, which can alone shake my resolution”, and on the right “thy share of the booty would would have been at least the emperor’s crown of gold”; by coincidence, these align so that the phrase “shake my booty” can be read across the columns.
February 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
mrak.bsky.social
Dear DH/CompSci/coding people - anyone know of formal or informal discussions taking place about experiences/best practices for teaching coding and integrating (or not) LLMs? I'd be keen to hear how others are managing it and whether we can learn anything from each other. #programming #teaching
February 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Huge thanks to @miaout.bsky.social who gave a guest lecture to our KCL DH @kingsdh.bsky.social MA students, touching on work with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Living with Machines project, Turing Institute! Really cool to see the intersections between research, GLAM, and professional DH work!
February 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Not sure I've many followers in Helsinki/Finland who wouldn't already be aware of this, but: good lineup, that.
tolonen.bsky.social Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · Feb 7
Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History February Seminar will take place on 21.2.2025, all welcome as always: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
February 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
mrak.bsky.social
The Computational Humanities Research Group at KCL continues research seminars this term. Join us on 4 March to hear Brian Ball (Northeastern London) give his talk "Structure Meets Strategy in the Misinformation Age: a Simulation-Based Study." You can register here: forms.office.com/e/79m7nUwu6d
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February 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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When I read this my first thought was "uh oh, does my most recent proposal look like AI?!" So I went back to re-read it. Found a typo almost immediately, so I guess I'm in the clear...
melissaterras.bsky.social Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Jan 23
Have just read my first AI generated conference proposal, I'm sure. Its not bad. The writing is smooth. The format is straight off the Chat-GPT. There are a couple of new ideas hinted in there? Its very polished. Hard to turn down, as a result. But? is this what we are doing now, as a field?
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January 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Startup pack of my academic colleagues doing amazing digital research at @kingsdh.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SXpvQhQ These are the ones I know who are on Bsky - drop me a message if I missed anyone 😅 #academia #digitalhumanities
November 15, 2024 at 8:55 PM