Just noticed that tomorrow, 5 July, is the sign-up deadline for the #DH2026 Fun Run! You don't want to miss this: it's fun! And there are teeshirts! Thanks for organizing, @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social.

This week, Professor & Executive Associate Dean J. Stephen Downie was a guest speaker at the Herder Institute in Marburg & the University of Göttingen. Downie, who serves as co-director of the HathiTrust Research Center, lectured on the TORCHLITE project. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4eneRS4

Serving on the ADHO Board & in various related roles has been one of the most rewarding parts of my professional life: a small enough community that I've come to know some amazing colleagues really well, but also international in scope and large in ambition & heart. Please consider volunteering!

Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)@adho-org.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢Exciting Opportunities with ADHO! Please apply before 1 May 2026 More info: adho.org/positions/

📢Exciting Opportunities with ADHO! Please apply before 1 May 2026 More info: adho.org/positions/

Still thinking about leadership? How do it in these moments? (Me too!) Join us for 📌 Week 1 (June 8–12) in Montreal for #DH Leadershpi course co-lead by me, @gworthey.bsky.social @raysiemens.bsky.social Tuition scholarships available. Early registration thru March 1.

Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH! dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f... Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY... Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/

Ryan posted this over a month ago so I'm a bit late to the party... but hardly a day has gone by since that I haven't listened to one or all three songs: I love them so much! I second the recommendation of "Babbage" for DH folks. Best DH song since that TEI video of Subterranean Homesick Blues.

Ryan Cordell@ryancordell.org · 11mo ago

So if you're in the mood for some melancholy, poetic folk music today—and who ISN’T, really?!?!—give us a listen. If I had to recommend 1 song to test whether you dig our sound, it would be track #3, "Babbage's Dream." That one might appeal to some of my DH colleagues even—geeky history-based tune!

It's always a pleasure and honor to co-author with Yuerong @yrhu.bsky.social (and of course with @profdownie.bsky.social and @tedunderwood.me as well), and her latest is not to be missed: "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads".

Yuerong Hu@yrhu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a free-access link to it: academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Hi Friends! My coauthors @tedunderwood.me @gworthey.bsky.social @profdownie.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new article in DSH @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads". Link in comment:)

Forgot to cc: the excellent @owenmonroe.bsky.social on this repost last week. Congrats again, Owen, and thanks sharing your thoughts on this internship with the community!

iSchool at Illinois@ischoolui.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

cc: @neh-odh.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

iSchool at Illinois@ischoolui.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Does anyone have examples of a survey for collecting evidence about re-use of research software? Or advice about how to design such a survey? @softwaresaved.bsky.social #DH2025

Here for this moment. What a moment. #DH2025

Next up: Sara Arribas Colmenar on recovering María Lejárraga's forgotten legacy & the choreographic evolution of the Art Theatre trough social network analysis. Maria Lejárraga (1874-1974) was a feminist writer & dramatist associated with the Martínez Sierra Dance Company. #DH2025

I'm honored to be chairing this final paper session of #DH2025, which means that I won't be posting much (can't walk and chew gum at the same time) -- but it's great to have such a robust audience!

"Embracing absence in the digital humanities" presented by Ellen Charlesworth (co-authored with Claire Warwick) on incomplete collections data from UK museums, keeping in mind the geographic, rural/urban, economic differences. How does the digital reinforce and reify digital inequality? #DH2025

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

JCLS@jcls-io.bsky.social · last yr.

#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS

This is super important. In several instances at #DH2025, I've heard colleagues say that newer releases of ChatGPT have gained domain expertise in their subfield—probably because OpenAI scraped and absorbed open data refined and curated by specialists from GitHub and HuggingFace. No credits given.

Glen Layne-Worthey@gworthey.bsky.social · last yr.

Matt Gold on ethics & complicity of OA publishing: encouraging students to publish openly their work that may (or will) be monetized and capitalized by the AI industry. Citation: "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons." doi.org/10.48550/arX... #DH2025

'Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI' :: a eye-poppingly important and panel with @medievalben.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @filipa-calado.bsky.social Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit #DH2025

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David Mimno@dmimno.bsky.social · last yr.

The distinction is "experimental" vs "observational". Whether you use tech to manage data is orthogonal.

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David Mimno@dmimno.bsky.social · last yr.

The tech has always been most successful as a means to an end, that should ideally become background. But DH also challenges the STEM/non-STEM dichotomy. I always go to the analogy of astronomy -- squeezing as much as possible from weak, distorted signals from the distant past.

The tech has always been most successful as a means to an end, that should ideally become background. But DH also challenges the STEM/non-STEM dichotomy. I always go to the analogy of astronomy -- squeezing as much as possible from weak, distorted signals from the distant past.

Loving this work from old friends (and new) at @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social: distant-reading highly formulaic college course descriptions to explore how, when, and where “AI” (and “LLM," etc.) concepts appear. What's the semantic field like? Is AI a tool, object of critique, societal phenom? #DH2025

Stanford Literary Lab@stanfordlitlab.bsky.social · last yr.

#DH2025: Today (07/18) is already the last conference day. Nichole Nomura, Mallen Clifton, Unjoo Oh, Jessica Monaco, Matt Warner & Madison Zickgraf Burke dive into course descriptions from California’s public universities. #HigherEd #CourseDescriptions

Sayan Bhattacharyya asks: Can we teach DH as *humanities* — and not as some sort of "shadow STEM”? Proposes a new humanities-first meaning for HAC (in the old yack vs. hack supposed dichotomy): Historicization, Analogization, Contextualization. I love this as a new DH pedagogy! #DH2025

Josir Cardoso (Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia) on the ethics of discourse around public science (e.g. Covid vaccines). How to deal with, e.g. far-right discourse a là “The social sciences and humanities produce potheads and communists”? #DH2025

Reflecting on various talks at #DH2025 I'm struck by the number of projects here and elsewhere at the intersection of oral histories and community archives that don't realise they could draw on those fields and digital public history for ethics, workflows and other practices