Daniel Wilson
@danielwilson.bsky.social
Thinking about Data and Machines, their Histories and Cultures. Sometimes using Computers.
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🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
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🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
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Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
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Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty.
Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.
A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.
Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.
A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.
September 12, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty.
Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.
A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.
Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.
A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.
Job! #sts
We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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September 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Job! #sts
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We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!
🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice
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🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Find the latest UCL job opportunities here.
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September 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!
🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025
Reimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices
Click on the article title to read more.
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September 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025
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As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏
Exit Darkness
How I surprised myself
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August 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
As life affirming as it gets. Political theorist Paul Sagar, now at KCL but formerly my colleague at college, on crossing the two year mark after the climbing accident that left him tetraplegic. Thank you, hedonic adaptation 🙏
🗞️Job
Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL.
Join us
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Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL.
Join us
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#dh
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
🗞️Job
Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL.
Join us
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#dh
Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL.
Join us
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
#dh
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📢JOB ALERT: Childers Professorship of Irish History
We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025
🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/
We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025
🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/
The Childers Professorship of Irish History - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
The Childers Professorship of Irish History in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 9:35 AM
📢JOB ALERT: Childers Professorship of Irish History
We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025
🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/
We are seeking an outstanding scholar, an inspiring teacher and an academic leader to further the study of Irish History at Cambridge. Deadline: 25 October 2025
🔗More info and apply: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/52202/
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'The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions. University senior managers are hiding behind this report to hide their own failures and mismanagement, while gutting the workforce.'
Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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July 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
'The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions. University senior managers are hiding behind this report to hide their own failures and mismanagement, while gutting the workforce.'
Important collections for all sorts… 🗃️
We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections.
Applications open until 22 September. Read more
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Applications open until 22 September. Read more
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LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Important collections for all sorts… 🗃️
Permanent Job: Curator of Climate and Earth Sciences, SMG London. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web... #histsci #sts
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July 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Permanent Job: Curator of Climate and Earth Sciences, SMG London. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web... #histsci #sts
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The 800-Year-Old Mystery of a Lost Medieval Legend Is Solved, Researchers Say
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The 800-Year-Old Mystery of a Lost Medieval Legend Is Solved, Researchers Say
The Song of Wade was a popular legend that survives in only one enigmatic text. Now, researchers think they have solved a longstanding puzzle about its meaning.
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July 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The 800-Year-Old Mystery of a Lost Medieval Legend Is Solved, Researchers Say
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Later today at #DH2025: teaching the MapReader workshop w/ @danielwilson.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen + Rosie Wood remote. And first thing Wednesday we are giving a paper about analyzing text on maps as research data.
July 14, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Later today at #DH2025: teaching the MapReader workshop w/ @danielwilson.bsky.social & Kaspar Beelen + Rosie Wood remote. And first thing Wednesday we are giving a paper about analyzing text on maps as research data.
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We're looking for a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL!
Apply by 9 July ⬇️
Apply by 9 July ⬇️
We’re hiring! RoRI is looking for a Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL.
If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.
More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
If you're passionate about improving research systems, cultures and decision-making - we’d love to hear from you.
More details & how to apply: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
June 26, 2025 at 10:21 AM
We're looking for a Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow in metascience to join our team at UCL!
Apply by 9 July ⬇️
Apply by 9 July ⬇️
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📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊
🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork.
🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July
📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term
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🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork.
🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July
📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term
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June 12, 2025 at 11:23 AM
📢 Fully funded 4-year #PhD: The Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery & Reparations 🌍✊
🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork.
🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July
📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term
🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV
🔍 Join cutting-edge research, work with UCL SELCS + SPRC, & conduct overseas fieldwork.
🎓 Starts Oct 2025 | 🗓️ Apply by 7 July
📍 London | 💼 Fixed-term
🔗 shorturl.at/1KZvV
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Today is our last day at the #FAccT2025 conference 💔
As our time in Athens draws to a close, this year's program chairs would like to share some reflections on the FAccT 2025 review process in a new blog post.
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-26/r...
As our time in Athens draws to a close, this year's program chairs would like to share some reflections on the FAccT 2025 review process in a new blog post.
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-26/r...
Reflections on the FAccT 2025 Review Process
We are here in Athens this week for the 8th annual ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. As we enjoy the presentations, we want to take a moment to reflect on our year as Progr...
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June 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Today is our last day at the #FAccT2025 conference 💔
As our time in Athens draws to a close, this year's program chairs would like to share some reflections on the FAccT 2025 review process in a new blog post.
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-26/r...
As our time in Athens draws to a close, this year's program chairs would like to share some reflections on the FAccT 2025 review process in a new blog post.
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-26/r...
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Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
June 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.
doi.org/10.18737/552...
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The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#SummerSolstice
British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
#SummerSolstice
British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
June 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The Summer Solstice will soon be upon us, and here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#SummerSolstice
British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
#SummerSolstice
British Library Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
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New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278
Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/
Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/
Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing
Ride-sharing platforms like Uber market themselves as enabling `flexibility' for their workforce, meaning that drivers are expected to anticipate when and where the algorithm will allocate them jobs, ...
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June 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
New paper out today, accepted at #FAccT2025, led by Jake Stein and me: "Not Even Nice Work If You Can Get It; A Longitudinal Study of Uber's Algorithmic Pay and Pricing" arxiv.org/abs/2506.15278
Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/
Over the last 3 years, we've been working with @workerinfox.bsky.social to audit Uber's algorithms. 1/
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Over the years I’ve been doing this work, colleagues in many other countries—including places we think of as much more progressive—have spoken enviously about Chronicling America, because we have a massive *public* archive of historical newspapers while their countries’ are all in corporate archives
May 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Over the years I’ve been doing this work, colleagues in many other countries—including places we think of as much more progressive—have spoken enviously about Chronicling America, because we have a massive *public* archive of historical newspapers while their countries’ are all in corporate archives
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📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England
📅: 16 May 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England
📅: 16 May 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
Cambridge University Library and University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities
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April 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship:
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England
📅: 16 May 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England
📅: 16 May 2025
Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8
@camglamresearch.bsky.social
Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the beavers, for today is their special day!
This illustration of a beaver comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#InternationalBeaverDay #BeaverDay #RareBooks
This illustration of a beaver comes from 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon.
📷 Reserve 590 BUF
#InternationalBeaverDay #BeaverDay #RareBooks
April 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🚀 Shaping the future of RSEs in Arts & Humanities! Two key reports outline a national vision - essential reading for all disciplines. Developed by the community, for the community. Dive in & be part of the conversation! 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
April 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🚀 Shaping the future of RSEs in Arts & Humanities! Two key reports outline a national vision - essential reading for all disciplines. Developed by the community, for the community. Dive in & be part of the conversation! 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, will give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as UCLDH celebrates its 15th anniversary 🎉🥳
22 May 2025, 6pm-8pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, will give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as UCLDH celebrates its 15th anniversary 🎉🥳
22 May 2025, 6pm-8pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
UCLDH is delighted to welcome Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, to give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as the centre celebrates its 15th anniversary.
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, will give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as UCLDH celebrates its 15th anniversary 🎉🥳
22 May 2025, 6pm-8pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, will give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as UCLDH celebrates its 15th anniversary 🎉🥳
22 May 2025, 6pm-8pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL.
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
April 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL.
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...