Job Announcements, News

Job: Taxonomist, Career Opportunities at APA

From the ad: The Taxonomist is responsible for the ongoing development, revision, and maintenance of APA’s controlled vocabulary/taxonomy (Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms), which is used primarily to index APA’s electronic research databases…The Taxonomist is responsible for initiating and executing plans for semantic content enrichment processes to support continuous improvement of existing products, product line […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: ILiADS 2017

From the ad: The ILiADS Planning Committees welcome proposals from project teams who would like to join us for ILiADS 2017! At ILiADS, ideas grow through collaborative, iterative processes. During this week of digital immersion, teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students are invited to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate/Full Professor, Michigan State University

From the ad: The Department of History at Michigan State University seeks a historian at the rank of Associate or Full Professor with research and teaching expertise at the intersection of digital history and critical diversity. Read full ad here. Learn more about the cluster in Critical Diversity in a Digital Age, of which this hire is […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: CDH, Princeton Postdoctoral Fellowships

From the ad: Every two years the Center for Digital Humanities seeks a two-year postdoctoral research associate. The successful candidate will collaborate with current Center staff, Princeton faculty, library staff, and graduate students while working on their own project, to be completed within the term of the fellowship. We seek innovative scholars who will bring theoretical, […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Early Modern Digital Agendas – Network Analysis

From the post: We invite applications to attend Early Modern Digital Agendas: Network Analysis, a two-week institute to be be hosted at the Folger Institute, Washington DC, from 17-28 July 2017. This will be the third iteration of Early Modern Digital Agendas, each of which has been generously supported by the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities. Under the direction of […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

My talks – and I guess I’ll warn you in advance if you aren’t familiar with my work – are not known for being full of hope. Or rather I’ve never believed the hype that we should put all our faith in, rest all our hope on technology. But I’ve never been hopeless. I’ve never […]

News, Resources

Resource: RStudio Cheat Sheets

From the site: The cheat sheets below make it easy to learn about and use some of our favorite packages. From time to time, we will add new cheat sheets to the gallery. If you’d like us to drop you an email when we do, let us know by clicking the button to the right. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Hacking the Attention Economy

For most non-technical folks, “hacking” evokes the notion of using sophisticated technical skills to break through the security of a corporate or government system for illicit purposes. Of course, most folks who were engaged in cracking security systems weren’t necessarily in it for espionage and cruelty. In the 1990s, I grew up among teenage hackers […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities – 6th Annual Conference

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce its sixth annual conference, to be held at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, September 11-12, 2017. From the announcement: The conference will feature posters, papers and panels. We invite proposals globally on all aspects of digital humanities, and especially encourage papers treating topics that deal with […]