Sheila A Brennan

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The next deadline for our Dangers and Opportunities of Technology program (DOT) is Sept 12th. Tell your friends! www.neh.gov/blog/time-pr...

Time to Prepare DOT Proposalswww.neh.gov The heat is on for the summer, making it a good time to craft your applications for the Dangers & Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) before the September 12, 2024 dead...

Finished a major weekend task of recycling my dissertation & book research files. I held them for a while in case I might need it. Those folders represented many hours of research, puzzling through ideas & concepts, archival visits, photocopying fees, database searches, years of my life.

A thing I wrote is now out in the world: doi.org/10.1093/jahi... It is a short review essay of how historians and archivists have been using the web since the '90s (US perspective), to collect personal histories & eye witness accounts following current events & reflecting on the past

“Share Your Story”: Legacies of Online Collectingdoi.org In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we as historians knew that we had witnessed a major set of events and that we would not be able to fully ass

Folks, my colleagues in NEH's Research Division are hiring 3 program officers (GS 12-13), deadline 6/20, remote and telework eligible: www.usajobs.gov/job/794523700

Don't forget, the next @neh-odh.bsky.social Digital Humanities Advancement Grants deadline is next week (6/13): www.neh.gov/grants/odh/d...

Digital Humanities Advancement Grantswww.neh.gov Supports digital projects throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability.

Couldn't be happier to toast my mentor and friend, Susan Smulyan, today during her virtual retirement. What a legacy she leaves through her teaching, mentorship, scholarship, service to the humanities, and to her hometown Providence!

So many cool projects, and even more we couldn't fund. Take a look at how our DOT program has taken off ! www.neh.gov/blog/announc...

For the evening crowd: We just announced 19 DOT (Dangers of Tech) awards. Check out the list! Projects about AI & artists; public transportation; tech & warfare; genetics & health equity; biotech; water justice; history of data centers; social media & fundraising. List linked below.

Announcing New ODH Awards (April 2024)www.neh.gov These projects are part of a larger slate of 238 awards announced by NEH . From an investigation of the impact of Arecibo Observatory on its surrounding communities to a history of life-support techno...

Excited to visit Salt Lake City for the first time this week for #ncph2024. I have no clue where public historians are posting. Seems quiet here and the old place.

Share your thoughts on the DH Advancement Grants program with us! Ideas about future directions? Opinions about funding and project levels? Should there be a sustainability track? Survey open thru 4/8.

The deadline for our call for comments on the DHAG program has been extended! Follow the link to provide feedback by April 8 and share the link widely! www.neh.gov/odh/call-for...

Call for Comments: ODH’s DHAG Programwww.neh.gov

Great night for UConn men and women!

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Career Opportunity: Public Affairs Specialist. The National Endowment for the Humanities is looking for a candidate to manage and support the agency's social media strategy.

Public Affairs Specialist (Social Media-Digital Communications Manager)www.usajobs.gov NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.

Excited for the Zooniverse team (and NEH awardees), named today by the White House as a winner of the OSTP Year of Open Science Challenge & Champion of Open Science! www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

White House Office of Science & Technology Policy Announces Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge Winners | OSTP | The White Housewww.whitehouse.gov Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is announcing the winners of the OSTP Year of Open Science Recognition Challenge. This challenge engaged researchers, community sc...

We really do want to hear from you!

ODH is seeking feedback on the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program through a call for comments. Please take a few minutes to help us shape the future of this program. Responses are due by March 31. www.neh.gov/odh/call-for...

Call for Comments: ODH’s DHAG Programwww.neh.gov

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🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨 We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to: - measure document similarity - classify texts with zero-shot prompting We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews. Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!

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Check out this new guide for designing crowdsourced transcription projects in Zooniverse, created by Univ of Minnesota & Zooniverse during their Institute for Advanced Topics in DH, Building capable Communities for Crowdsourced Transcriptions: help.zooniverse.org/getting-star...

How to create a project with our Project Builder - Zooniverse Helphelp.zooniverse.org A quick guide to building a project.

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Wow! Congrats to Brent Seales on his 20-year crazy quest. Nobody thought this would work, yet, here we are. We can now read entire passages from inside the Herculaneum Scrolls. There could be a ton of new ancient world texts coming in the next few years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First passages of rolled-up Herculaneum scroll revealedwww.nature.com Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scripts, unveiling musings on music and capers. Researchers used artificial intelligence to decipher the...

Public humanists, GLAM folks, the NEH’ Public Programs Division is hiring a program officer, GS 12-13, remote work eligible. Apps open until March 5, www.usajobs.gov/job/774228300

The NEH is hiring again! The Education Division is looking for a Program Officer, GS-12 (short-term position) Apps due: 2/22. www.usajobs.gov/job/771792400 Remember to follow directions and requirements, including submitting a federal style resume.

Humanities Administrator (Temporary - NTE 13 Months)www.usajobs.gov <p>NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.</p> <p>The Division of Education Progr...

TFW you finish a thing that was hard to write and sometimes kicked ya around, but you’re happy with the results.

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Today, NEH announced grants for 260 humanities projects, including 15 Digital Humanities Advancement Grants. Congratulations to all our awardees! www.neh.gov/blog/announc...

Announcing New ODH Awards (January 2024)www.neh.gov These projects are part of a larger slate of 260 awards announced by NEH. The awardees are exploring and forging new paths in digital humanities—including an open-source Braille digital translation...

It's announcement day at the NEH: www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann... Congratulations to all of these amazing projects! We know there are so many great projects that we could not fund. Don't give up, there is always another deadline.

You’ll Never Walk Alone gets me every time. That ensemble of voices was beautiful.

Seeing the components of well-written, successful applications can be helpful when crafting your own. Don’t forget the next deadline is Jan 11, 2024.

New sample narratives of successful Digital Humanities Advancement Grants applications have just been made available! Follow the link to read them. www.neh.gov/grants/odh/d...

Digital Humanities Advancement Grantswww.neh.gov Supports digital projects throughout their lifecycles, from early start-up phases through implementation and long-term sustainability.

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icymi, please respond to this call for comments on a forthcoming NEH grant to fund research into the state of the humanities. Responding doesn’t take long, and I guarantee I will read every single answer personally. www.neh.gov/ode/call-for...

Call for comments: New NEH grant program on the state of the humanitieswww.neh.gov

n and ñ are different letters, Spelling Bee!

How lucky are we?

I started my Twitter account when I first joined NEH 12 years ago, so seems fitting to start here by announcing that next month I will once again join @neh-odh.bsky.social and wonderful friends and colleagues like @jenserventi.bsky.social @brettbobley.bsky.social @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social!

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Join the team! Now offering a two-year career diversity postdoc, working with me on the Humanities Indicators and other humanities, arts, and culture programs. Details at bit.ly/HACPostdoc23 but also happy to answer any questions.

When “business attire” appears next to “cocktail “ you realize your nice jeans probably aren’t quite dressy enough.

Folks going to #MCN2023, say hello to my @neh-odh.bsky.social colleague, @bethanyfarrell.bsky.social who is representing ODH this year! She’s a local so can also help you find good options for food, drink, and cool places.

Please spread the word that submissions for the National Postal Museum Awards for Scholarship in Postal History are open through Dec 1. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...