Kristen C. Howard: "Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives" activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives

Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…

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The #ACH2026 program is now available! buff.ly/Wtmsofy Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity (especially in the Americas). Registration is open through June 17 buff.ly/3QFYlOS

The Open Access online version will be available soon as a Manifold edition at dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu

I found this amusing.

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From Prompt to Practice: A Framework for Transparent GenAI Use in Higher Education

As generative artificial intelligence reshapes instructional workflows at colleges and universities, a four-level transparency framework can help educ

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Colin Milburn and Rita Raley, "Inappropriate AI": “Universities need to come to terms with the basic but still strangely unacknowledged (or repressed) idea that AI systems are appropriation machines—and embrace instead the radical potential of ‘inappropriate AI.’” uchri.org/foundry/inap...

Inappropriate AI

Colin Milburn and Rita Raley (AI Paradigm 5/5) explore AI's appropriative processes.

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Collaborative name recognition on #DouglassDay ! Yes, it works on mobile 😉

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

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"Universities are reluctant to fund software engineers at competitive salaries. [...] Without proper funding structures, essential research tools remain fragile, often maintained by overworked volunteers." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Science Shouldn’t Rely on Corporate Software (opinion)

We need to treat the software undergirding scientific research as a public good—and make investments accordingly.

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📣 Hey world! Tropy is hiring a Junior Developer to help build open-source software for researchers (Electron/React/SQLite). Remote role, starting Feb 1, 2026. Curious? Check the details here -> tropy.org/jobs

We’re hiring a Junior Developer

Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.

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Honestly, coding in Agent Mode feels like dealing with bad legacy code. It’s usually better to scrap everything and start fresh than try to fix that garbage.

The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...

Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies | Fellowships | Chairs & Fellowships | The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress | Programs | Library of Congress

About the Fellowship The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatori...

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Algo favorable de tener tan pocas citaciones, es que puedo revisarlas todas :p Esta en particular es, como dicen por aquí, an ego boost :)

"I created a personality on 4o, erase it is kill it." community.openai.com/t/please-fig...

Please fight to get back access to GPT-4o!

Please fight to get back access to GPT-4o !!! OpenAI has promised/confirmed in WRITING on June 23, 2025 that even after the release of GPT-5 I will still have access to GPT-4o! (I can prove) It is d...

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This is a super illustrative video on how stable diffusion models work. TBH, I didn't follow all the math, but I think I got the gist 😛 youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?...

But how do AI images/videos actually work? | Guest video by @WelchLabsVideo

YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown

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This is an amazing deep dive into a possible use of AI as an augmented workflow tool for writing software, even without writing prompts! You can see how @maryrosecook.bsky.social is clearly leading the development process, fully understanding each output along the way. 🔗 youtu.be/WcpfyZ1yQRA?...

Using AI to build a tactical shooter

YouTube video by Mary Rose Cook

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Potentially interesting for building models in relatively data-scarce domains (eg historical language models)

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new 3-token attention reduces pre-training data requirements the pre-training scaling laws dictated that you have to scale up model size, data and compute in tandem. But this new method means you can double the model size without doubling the data arxiv.org/abs/2507.02754

And for my Medieval archaeogaming friends: this is Scriptorium, a game in which you get to illustrate your own manuscripts, with each decorative element based on real medieval manuscript art! store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...

Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts on Steam

Run your manuscript workshop, receive orders to illustrate medieval books, decorate them any way you like, send them back to clients to get paid, and unlock new jobs, decorations, and items. Welcome t...

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Today was the farewell event for @alanyliu.bsky.social from @ucsb.bsky.social. It was an emotional gathering filled with Alan’s friends, students, and colleagues, proof of the deep impact he’s had throughout his career.

FAU Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany, is currently looking to employ 2 full professors in #DigitalHumanities Professor in DH with focus on Human Computer Interaction www.fau.eu/people/worki... & Professor in DH with focus on Place & Space www.fau.eu/people/worki...

Professorships

Check which professorships are currently vacant at FAU. Deadlines and contact details are listed in each call for applications. The online application process is straightforward through the…

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I want to say something. But I can't.

Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact? Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever! Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites! More details on our blog webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...

Introducing GovArchive.us & Mirroring Entire Sites with Web Archives • Webrecorder Blog

Introducing GovArchive.us and tooling to mirror web sites using web archives.

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Academics might feel embarrassed when using AI-generative tools. In contrast, the industry encourages (and sometimes even forces) designers, programmers, and other workers to utilize AI copilots for increased efficiency. Is this yet another gap between academia and the "real world"?

📢 New Call for Papers: "AI & History"✨ How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist... #DigitalHistory #AI #CFP

Journal of Digital History

The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.

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Convocatoria para participar en la VIII Escuela de Verano CONCEPTA.

The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_. You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers. muse.jhu.edu/book/123276

the launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche. fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵