Lauren Klein
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
🐳 You’re God damned right @hesterblum.bsky.social & I made a TWENTY-FIVE EPISODE PODCAST just about 𝐌𝐎𝐁𝐘-𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐊. Subscribe now at exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick & enjoy our thrilling trailer:
Please consider writing a piece for this volume on Africana Digital Humanities at HBCU’s. I’ve worked with each of the editors, and they are all top notch humans! ( please circulate as well)
If you've been jamming to the #DH2026 feed all week and are now, like me, very sad to see it end, I have something for you: a book on the history of data visualization called DATA BY DESIGN! Bonus: a signed riso bookplate if you preorder and send us your address! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...
Data by Design
From maps of colonial empires to charts of national trade, data visualization has long been used to consolidate knowledge and power. But just as often, it ha...
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Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social · last mo.Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...
Last day to submit! Deadline is today!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · last mo.Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d agoAnthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...
“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard Paid McKinsey $250,000 For FAS Consultation, Internal Documents Show | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.
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sakura christmas@prof-christmas.bsky.social · 6d agoUnsurprising that all these cuts being made to #Harvard —from the Office of Student Services to the Writing Center to now the Dudley Co-op—are happening with input from McKinsey, a firm made up of The Second Worst People I knew in college there
"AI wILl dEmOcRaTiZe dAtA vIsUaLiZaTiOn!", I see some people claim... www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Okay I gotta hand it to the illustrator on this one for sorta combining Minard's visualization of the loss of troops during Napoleon's Russian invasion with Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa. Figuring out how to combine those in a viz has gotta be a bucket list item for dataviz people.
Dr Ian McCormick@wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d agoHandy Guide to the death count in The Odyssey. #Homer #epic #film #Nolan
Super fun to see my @emorycollege.bsky.social students present on GenAI vs. the Duplex at #DH2026! I continue to be so impressed by the rich interdisciplinary thinking of Lena Marchese (BA English '27), Elizabeth Garcia (BS CS '26), and TA Brittany Whelan (PhD English '29). Paper dropping soon!
Ben Miller@transitive.bsky.social · last wk.ChatGPT vs. the Duplex: A Collaborative Student-Centered Inquiry into the Limits of Gen AI's Poetic Capabilities!, Lena Marchese, Elizabeth Garcia, Brittany Whelan, + working with @laurenfklein.bsky.social found Jericho Brown's poetry is resistant to LLM dupes: all repetition, no presence #DH2026
One of the nicest and most unexpected pleasures of having worked on a book for so long is that all of the friends you make along the way, who have also been working on their books for so long, eventually finish those books--all at the same time! I am feeling so much vicarious pride in 1/
I'm so proud to have contributed to this transnational, feminist labor of love!
Priscyll Anctil Avoine@priscyll.bsky.social · last wk.Pushing the Fronteras is out 🔥 4 years of collective work, love & friendship, amazing activists, scholars, practitioners, drawing on years of Feminist Security Studies - yet pushing its contours further✊🏾 📚 Open Access: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Always here for engineer-designer collabs in DH!
Alice Thornton's Books@thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · last wk.If you're at #DH2026 go see Mary Chester-Kadwell and Tiffany Ong's poster 'Human-centred Design in Digital Humanities: Rethinking Timeline Data Visualisation through Software Engineer-Designer Collaboration' re. the timeline they created for our project. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/timeline/
No surprise that Atlanta is hilly, but interesting to see that three of the top 15 are in my regular running rotation: xangregg.github.io/steepest/#q=...
Steepest Road in Town
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Xan Gregg@xangregg.bsky.social · last wk.Short blog post about my "Steepest road in town" webapp. rawdatastudies.com/2026/07/26/m...
She “also revealed her hand in developing one of the collective’s most iconic poster campaigns — ‘The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist’… The prjct was born from her time in a residency house [w] married male artists who brought their younger affair partners along as… unpaid studio assistants.”
Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself as Guerrilla Girls Founding Member
After decades of anonymity, the feminist artist and activist disclosed in an interview that she is the woman behind the mask of “Liubov Popova.”
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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3y agoJoyce Kozloff, Collateral Damage, at DC Moore
Students from all 50 states just drafted an #AIBillofRights. They named cheating, bias, privacy mental health, environmental costs and more. The civic grammar of AI rights is traveling and we're fortunate that young people are leading the way and writing it. www.the74million.org/article/stud...
Alondra Nelson@alondra.bsky.social · 3mo agoAI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Wish I could be in Daejeon with everyone for #DH2026, but two trips to Korea in less than two months was not in the cards. Skeet lots, friends! I'll be following along from the Jerz
If you are at all interested in the digital humanities, there's a big digital humanities conference in Daejeon with the hashtag #DH2026 which is worth checking out! I'm happy to be following along via Bluesky, even if I can't make the conference!
Just published! "A brilliant and engaging analysis of the transformation of speech recognition technology from hardware-based signal processing devices to data-driven natural language processing systems." – Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Xiaochang Li's Divination Engines @xiaochang.bsky.social
xiaochang@xiaochang.bsky.social · last mo.Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
One more week to submit! See you in Santa Barbara in October!
Fabian Offert@zentralwerkstatt.org · last mo.Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
today in destroying higher education is economic sabotage newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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IYKYK, nineteenth-century style. Congrats, @shsalter.bsky.social on EDITORIAL MASCULINITY AND THE SEX WORK OF PRINT! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Editorial Masculinity and the Sex Work of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Editorial Masculinity and the Sex Work of Print
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I've been waiting for a great analysis of the new OSTP vision for science funding (also so I didn't have to write one). This piece by @jtimmer.bsky.social at @arstechnica.com is brilliant. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
The resulting report is a near-random mixture of grievances and real problems.
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“AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact.” — @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer
The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI
AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...
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The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.”
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w agoOnce you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
Highly recommended! 👇
School for Poetic Computation@sfpc.study · 2w ago✎⋆⑅˚₊ APPLICATIONS OPEN! ⋆⑅˚₊ New classes this Fall at the School for Poetic Computation! This season's classes invite us to connect with the transformative power of experimentation. Apply by Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59pm ET 🔗 sfpc.study/sessions/fal...
The other episode already online features old friends & DH superstars @laurenfklein.bsky.social & @jimccasey1.bsky.social among many others—I did find it interesting to see how our research/interviews translated into the actual edited video, interspersed with so many elements we didn’t see
How Data Science Reveals Unheard Voices in the American Revolution | Grades 9-12 Social Studies Teaching and Lesson Resources
Discover how data science is transforming our understanding of the American Revolution. By exploring digital archives, students uncover the hidden stories of Black organizers, Native communities, and ...
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