Congratulations to the awesome Dr Robyn Adams, who has been awarded a 3-year AHRC Research Grant to analyze the network of people who gave books and money to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in the first part of the seventeenth century. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Just added: "Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks" ift.tt/3wwW1yn

Very proud of this paper looking at the robustness of network analysis results in historical correspondence, published with Sebastian Ahnert in @culturalanaltyics today! Hope you'll indulge a short tweet thread with some of our findings :) culturalanalytics.org/article/25943-…

Dear Java devs, we're still looking for contributors to Gephi! ...and to everyone else: please retweet! 😊

JOB ALERT! Come work with us! Shaping Scholarship Research Fellow Apply by 3 Dec 2021 Help construct a prosopography of the donors to the Bodleian & visualise the networks of donors & their books using digital methods tinyurl.com/y6dp7n5t

A popular parlour game in early 17ᵗʰ-century England was to link various noblemen to the Lord High Chancellor of England; this game was called “Six Degrees of Francis Bacon.” #RandomAndFakeTrivia

Turns out this is less fake than I thought! My apologies to 6° of Francis Bacon! Oh, and check out sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com

[HNR] HNR Afternoon Tea Lecture: John Ladd, Comparing Networks of Biography: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon and John Aubrey’s Brief Lives (March 10) - eepurl.com/hTjgQT

Degree centrality of members of the English elite, 1520-1720, using data from sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com.

Are we losing research opportunities because we are not focusing enough on cataloging DH projects? DH fellow Samantha Rogers believes we are, and offers an initial list of valuable DH resources focused mainly on the early modern period in our blog. vanderbilt.edu/digitalhumanit…

"Towards a Computer Science of History" (a thread)... When tens of millions of dollars endow expansions of CS and data science+, the hires might go to the economics of information, scientific cyberinfrastructure, urban computing, even data science for the social good.

Our aim is to explore the role that communities played in public and private life before 1800. How and why did premodern people form, sustain, and dissolve social collectives? What prompted the material, affective, and intellectual investment in networks of intimate exchange?

Francis Bacon and Michel de Montaigne. Rivals? Danny Heitman writes on some of their influential essays: neh.gov/article/franci…

1. It is with great sadness that we learn the news of Bruno Latour’s passing today. He was an intellectual giant, a friend, & someone whose work inspired me greatly. A thread for those who want to know more about this extraordinary life.

Six Degrees of Courses Taken

To uncover data sharing trends in the humanities, @dylan_ruediger & Ruby MacDougall conducted a series of interviews with key personnel at Mapping the Gay Guides, UNC Library’s On the Books project, Johns Hopkins Engineering’s Black Beyond Data, & 6° of Francis Bacon. sr.ithaka.org/publications/a…

12-1 pm EST, April 25, DIGITAL LIVES: EXPLORATORY RESEARCH GROUP“Networks and Archives.” Join host .Jason Boyd in a discussion of two digital resources for the study of “collective biography”: *Six Degrees of Francis Bacon *The Vault at Pfaff’s Register torontomu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…