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David Smith

@dasmiq.bsky.social

Associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Natural language processing, digital humanities, OCR, computational bibliography, and computational social sciences. Artificial intelligence is an archival science.

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Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · yesterday

Who's up for a good old fashioned (but short, bc I'm tired) paper thread? Thrilled to be in this special issue of Gender & Society (an absolute dream!), where we propose a feminist-inspired extension of how to theorize and model the spread of ideas in science + journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What Gets Lost in Translation? Epistemic Tensions between Translation and Diffusion in Practice-Oriented Scholarship Abstract This paper proposes a feminist-informed metascience theory to explain the interconnected processes of idea creation, translation, and diffusion. Drawing on feminist critiques of science centered on perspective, power, and praxis, we develop a creation–diffusion model that jointly examines how ideas are created and then how the content of ideas influences their spread across academic fields. Using a nationally funded gender equity program as a case of a practice-oriented knowledge-production community, we analyze how gender equity research concepts were translated and diffused through the program-funded publications. We operationalize substantive engagement with gender equity research using word embeddings and Concept Mover’s Distance. Then, with additional contextual variables, we measure (1) the predictors of this engagement (ideas) and (2) the impact of engagement on citation counts and citation interdisciplinarity (the diffusion process) across social science and STEM fields. Our findings show that, in addition to context, the content of the idea matters for diffusion: Engagement with critical dimensions of gender equity research, such as feminism and structural concepts, diffused less often, whereas other dimensions, such as gender and methods, achieved broader uptake. Our empirical findings highlight the role of perspectives and epistemic power in shaping both knowledge production and diffusion. Our theoretical framework and methods demonstrate how metascience can incorporate feminist theory directly into diffusion studies, and why it should.
Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Introduction to a special issue on feminist metascience and open science by Christin Munsch and @divreyes.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0891...

Abstract This introduction brings feminist scholarship into conversation with metascience and open science. Drawing on feminist epistemology, we argue scientific reform is not a neutral technical project. Rather, practices intended to improve rigor, transparency, and accessibility may also expose marginalized scholars and research participants to harm, reproduce inequality, and facilitate hostile scrutiny, particularly in the current political environment. These tensions point to the need for feminist metascience and feminist open science. We define feminist metascience as the study of how gender and intersecting relations of power shape the production, evaluation, circulation, and correction of scientific knowledge, and we define feminist open science as an approach to transparency that remains attentive to care, protection, and risk. We offer these definitions and the articles in this special issue as a starting point for larger conversations about how feminist scholarship might contribute to emerging debates over scientific reform.
Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2d ago

The presidents who helped draft the letter — Andrew Martin of Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow of Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, and Ronald Daniels of Johns Hopkins University — should be ashamed. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Trump Administration Tries A New Reform Pitch To The Nation’s Universities

The Trump administration has sent a letter to the nation’s universities asking them to answer how they will address reforms in seven policy areas before the end of 2026.

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Wenyi Shang@wenyishang.bsky.social · last wk.

Please join us for the "Leveraging Emerging Datasets for Critical Research on Books and Reader Communities" workshop, either in person in Daejeon or online at #DH2026! We'll introduce approaches to preserving and analyzing digital library metadata, online book reviews, and fanfiction datasets.

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Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2w ago

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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Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2w ago

Last year @dasmiq.bsky.social & I—& UIUC PhD student Esther Kim—researched newspaper stories about Ben Franklin in our Viral Texts data for an educational series by Alabama Public Media/PBS—the series is about using data science/DH methods to learn about the Revolution—our episode is online now!

How Ben Franklin Became a Samurai: The American Revolution as Told in Meiji Japan | Grades 9-12 Social Studies Teaching and Lesson Resources

How did Benjamin Franklin become a legendary figure in a 19th-century Japanese children's book? Follow an investigation that combines history, digital humanities, artificial intelligence, and archival...

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Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not a lot of info here about what kinds of agreements, with whom, and finances. But another example of data opening up for “AI” that wasn’t open for researchers. I fought many data wrangling battles at Semantic Scholar over missing ACM data. All research papers should be open access!

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

We are opening a consultation on the inclusion of ACM publications within AI licensing agreements for access and training purposes. We have published this piece as to why we believe it is the right time now to enter into these discussions. buff.ly/VTatuda

Denis@dpeskoff.bsky.social · 3w ago

Do you work across computational methods, social sciences, and the humanities? Submit to Text as Data 2026! 📄 One-page submissions 🔓 Non-archival ⏰ Due August 1 📍 October 5 @UCBerkeley tada2026.org

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Daniel Evans@djevans.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That's a wrap! Beyond thankful to my committee @zoeleblanc.bsky.social , @profdownie.bsky.social , @ryancordell.org , @dasmiq.bsky.social

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2mo ago

Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2mo ago

Dan created a computational pipeline to extract newspaper metadata from Rowells’ & Ayers’ annual newspaper directories—including fields like circulation, genre, & language—creating a rich, longitudinal dataset that will help scholars analyse newspapers’ evolution over the 19th & early 20th centuries

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 2mo ago

Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research

Sarah Lang@sarahalang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When #DataFeminism @laurenfklein.bsky.social came out in 2020, it felt like a perfect match for #DigitalHumanities. Here was a framework all about concerns some #dh scholars have been circling for years. And yet, I can’t say the field has embraced it.😢 Why? latex-ninja.com/2026/05/31/w...

Why the Digital Humanities Haven’t Embraced Data Feminism

When Data Feminism came out in 2020, it felt like a perfect match for Digital Humanities. Here was a framework that took data seriously as a site of power, bias, and politics: exactly the kind of c…

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David Mimno@dmimno.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Did the administration successfully bury their horrific change to green card procedures by releasing it Friday afternoon before Memorial Day? People who have followed every rule should not have their lives upturned for months or years. Where is the continued pressure?

Richard Jean So@richardjeanso.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to announce, w/ @hoytlong.bsky.social, @ari-holtzman.bsky.social & Emily Wenger, that we won a Schmidt Science AI grant to build AI systems for storytelling + narrative world making. How do you get AI to tell immersive, believable, interesting stories? www.schmidtsciences.org/2026-humanit...

2026 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute Development Awards - Schmidt Sciences

Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is supporting 11 global interdisciplinary research teams to explore collaborative AI interventions with the potential to catalyze major bre...

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Alex Gil@elotroalex.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I guess I should've asked this a few weeks ago, and not the day before I teach the module on "machine translation" for my Translating the Caribbean course, but here goes: What's your favorite contemporary critical essay on machine translation coming from the humanities?

Rosemary Joyce@rajoyce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The article notes that declines in international students are fueling the budget crisis. That’s entirely pain inflicted by the Federal government. But the solution is not directly responsive to that; I sincerely doubt those lost international students were coming to study classics. 1/

Rob Townsend@rbtownsend.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The affected majors include Classical Civilization, Digital Humanities, German, Russian, and Middle Eastern Studies, among others...no jobs are currently slated for elimination, though teaching assignments and workloads may be affected." bit.ly/47oHkm9

MindCORE at the University of Pennsylvania@pennmindcore.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Experimental Humanities Lab led by Fritz Breithaupt seeks a postdoc to help launch a research hub at the intersection of narrative, empathy, cognition, & AI. PhDs in lit studies, cog sci, psych,+ who combine narrative insight w/empirical skills encouraged to apply: apply.interfolio.com/183656

Home | Experimental Humanities Lab

The Experimental Humanities Lab at Indiana University. Fritz Breithaupt, director

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