Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)
Historian, professor, mom, wife, feminist, rower.
PI of ERC-project WEB CHILD, which studies changing childhoods in the early era of the WWW across the US, South Korea, and Denmark.
Latest book: "Sesame Street. A Transnational History." (OUP, 2023).
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Data documentation of disappearance #dataloss
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)With the ruination of search engines, as well as the increasing uselessness of searching one's own Gmail archive due to AI "assistance," using the computer increasingly feels like experiencing dementia.
- My research project will let you fill in a form to tell us about your experience as a kid on the www from 1995 to 2005 *for free* (as soon as the ethics committee approves our questions 🤞)
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)The call for papers for the @histchild.bsky.social 2026 conference at the University of Sheffield, 1-3 July, is now up on our website! Deadline 14 December www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi... #histchild #skystorians #histyouth
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Do you remember taking part in a school mock election? Can you help our Centre member Helen Sunderland out with her research? ⬇️
- Did you take part in a mock election at your UK school or college between 1983 and 2001? Share your memories for a research project on young people and democracy in modern Britain! Write to us about your experiences here: forms.office.com/e/FNAwjfFR7f
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Goodnight, friends. Ursula K. Le Guin shared this bit of wisdom in her novel The Dispossessed, and tonight, I'm sharing it with you. We may not have the wealth that our technocapitalist overlords do, but that's ok. The revolution is not for sale. The revolution is US. I love you.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
- "Do as you want. Do as you wish." Maybe you also needed to see this message today?
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Goodnight, friends. I had grandparenting duties today, so I wasn't able to join in #NoKings on the ground. But I put signs on my car and followed along with the coverage here. Thanks to everyone who showed up and took a stand against fascism. I love you.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Last week we had a *fantastic* presentation and discussion with Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen (@sesamescholar.bsky.social) visiting from Aarhus University in Denmark! She discussed her journey as a digital historian, using AI in research, and the Web Child project - cas.au.dk/en/erc-webch...
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- I'm visiting the iSchool at the University of Illinois. Besides super interesting conversations with the brilliant folks here and the wonderful company of @anuncivilphd.bsky.social I also get to do morning runs on the prairie.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)#CfP: The II International Seminar for Emerging Historians of Education, organised by HISTEDUP, invites submissions. Date: 24 November 2025 at the Institute of Education, University of Lisbon. Submission deadline: 15 October 2025 Learn more: www.ische.org/g0wd #HistEd #ECRchat
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Reminder Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org have til 26 September to vote in upcoming Council elections! 🗳️ There's lots of great candidates & all committed to the field. Obvs ideally I'd like to be your choice 😜 But vital to vote for who you feel will represent you & profession #skystorians #academicsky
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Join us tomorrow! @alexhanna.bsky.social and I will be celebrating the pod's 3rd birthday 🥳
- And join the livestream celebration on Monday 9/15, noon Pacific here: twitch.tv/dair_institute
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Thank you to @llassabe.bsky.social for having me on her American Campus Podcast to talk about how scholarly writers can benefit from applying developmental editing skills to their own texts! This is a quick listen & a great intro to the topic if you're new to it www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
- 📚💻💰📝 If you are thinking about applying for an ERC grant and want inspiration, I've updated my paper where I tell how I got mine. It now includes the application (B1+B2), the manuscript for the presentation I gave at my interview, the slides, and the nine peer reviews. pure.au.dk/portal/en/pu...
- "I, Robot...you, Jane" Thanks to the wonderful @sophieheywood.bsky.social I have rewatched Buffy S1E8 and now have another great source to how the Internet was represented in late 1990s kids/teen popculture. #ERCCoG #WEBCHILD en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Robo...
- The comments. Read the comments!
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)We need YOU plus your #historian and #DH friends. And really anybody who cares about our history and representing ALL OF US. Please share! @ach.bsky.social @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @historians.org @oah.org @shafrhistorians.bsky.social @iassistdata.bsky.social @newamerica.org @muckrock.com
- Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC! Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, 14 Oct, this year by organising your own ALD event to support women in STEM. You can do anything – a talk, a networking event, a panel discussion, yarn bombing, cream teas, silent disco, Wikipedia edit-a-thon. The options are endless!
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)A "not in the field" question for colleagues who study higher ed: is there a concept in the literature that's something like "non-strategic opportunism" -- idiosyncratic decisions by institutions that take advantage of immediate circumstances, but are unrelated to institutional or sectoral mission?
- This is *not* good. My access to the BBC's written archives was vital for my Sesame Street book. Without access based on my individual request, I would not have understood the beginnings of international marketing of children's television.
- “They have clearly shifted to it being a resource for BBC business priorities. The corporation no longer recognises the value that working with scholars brings, despite the fact this is an archive of how public money was spent over most of a century.” #history 📚🗃️ #BBC observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)I just discovered that @sesamescholar.bsky.social's "Sesame Street: A Transnational History" provided the example development notes in @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social's "Make Your Manuscript Work" (Appendix C). While reading the notes* I feel like I'm cheating because I've already read the book.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)These days I basically only freelance in the fall, which means: I'm open for book design projects from now until Dec! I do covers and interior book design and am pretty reasonable price-wise. I think they look nicer than whatever AI can do lol Woefully outdated website here: www.megireid.com.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Call for assistance! Had someone work on art for the cover of a certain project I’ve been teasing, and frustratingly, the piece ended up being unusable. Anyone have recommendations for artists who are good at ‘80s style anime characters that need commission work / don’t get enough attention?
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Reading list from the talk! I.e., the references slide
- A nice discovery today: #ic2s2 keynotes are on Youtube! In particular, I think the papers listed by @lauraknelson.bsky.social in her keynote could form a great list for a CSS reading group. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXYg...
- Having just finished "The AI Con" all I hear when I read this is the sniggering of @emilybender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)But I was told AI will replace historians
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)OpenAI is now openly suggesting people use chatGPT for mental health, to „untangle their thoughts” to help them „think more clearly” or if they need to decide whether to „break up with their boyfriend”. This is unacceptable. Somebody will die. They know that. They don’t care. Fuck them.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Free workshop *today* HOW TO EDIT YOUR OWN BOOK Learn an efficient system for evaluating your manuscript and making revisions that will help your ideas land with publishers, peer reviewers, and readers Recording provided for all registrants courses.manuscriptworks.com/courses/edit...
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Har fået nyt blingbling til computeren 🤖 @sesamescholar.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Så det søndag (midag her) Jeg skal prøve at huske at dele mine starter pack, hver søndag (Så længe der er behov) Men (por farvor) i må også godt dele løs til alle de nye der er kommet til her på det sidste det er jo stor hjælp til alle og giver liv her på Bsky.🙂 Starter pack 1 go.bsky.app/GPAvkbFat://did:plc:2ruwqwzrxxzdmkbxce3kzdls/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3laezy7gkyq2g
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)I've argued for years (along with many others) that we should teach these methods (ML, now AI) across the board, but I'm very skeptical of AI as ed-tech. Teach the tech, don't teach with the tech. Shared governance, absolutely. An agreed upon policy? Whoo I don't see it at this stage.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)I’m raising $ for The Trevor Project, an org serving LGBTQ+ youth. For every copy of my new book ordered by release day (August 5), I’m giving $1. Can you help me get to 1000 by ordering now (or putting in a request at your local/uni library)? 🙏 bookshop.org/a/8521/97806...
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Want to know how to not just write a scholarly text but make it into a manuscript that publishers actually want? That's what MAKE YOUR MANUSCRIPT WORK is for. Preorder from @princetonupress.bsky.social or any bookseller to get it as soon as it starts shipping press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
- This. 100% this! I love working with people who can teach me new things and push me to think better, bigger, and smarter. When I hire people, I also make sure I can learn things from them I don't already know. How else would we push past existing knowledge?
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)We're hiring an Associate Professor/Professor at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Specialisms include Digital History/Mapping, Critical Data Studies, Archive and Memory Studies, Digital Media Arts, Environmental Humanities, AI/Digital Visual Culture. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD837/a...
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Reminder that from the end of summer I’m available for work! Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc. I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)#Blueskystorians of the world unite!!! -Which history book has left in you with the feeling ‘I want to write something like this’? Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions (I am putting together the syllabus for the History research methods grad seminar I am teaching in the fall)
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Looking to branch out into Byzantine/Eastern Roman History. Any accounts that I should be following? Book recommendations also welcome! #Byzantium #EasternRoman #Medieval #LateAntiquity #Historians #History
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)The Nazi soldier celebrating the end of the Paris occupation & the US soldiers controlling the crowd in a Roman arena are the product of the same ahistorical logic that underlies all genAI – a logic of associating redundant patterns in which visual consistency triumphs over historical coherence 5/
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)I'm considering a podcast assignment in place of comprehensive final exam: provide small groups of students with an exam question to answer in the form of a 5-10 minute podcast to share with class. Any guidance, ideas, direction appreciated!
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Hit a wall with your current manuscript? Spend the next few weeks digging into your draft using my developmental editing system, go into the new school year with a concrete plan to get it published. manuscriptworks.com/mdw
- Reposted by Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her)Care+caring are often gendered, and thus devalued, while also seen as an innate quality that some of us have and others lack. What would it look like to teach DH care skills? That is, rather than use a caring approach to teach DH, we create opps for folks to develop their caring DH capacities
