I like the concluding call to action of the #DH2026 opening keynote.

“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University. 🤡 www.science.org/content/arti...

AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research

More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint

science.org

Happy DATA EMPIRE day! Want a sticker with my autograph for your copy? Fill out this form: roopikarisam.com/get-your-sig... Order my 11,000 year tale of how data gained so much power over us and how we can resist it now! N. America: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS Elsewhere: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK

There's so much destruction right now. Of course you can't fix everything yourself. But you can focus on one thing, find some like-minded people, and make a real difference.

Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 3w ago

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

Truly one of my favorite collaborators! And thank you #ACH2026 for a great conference.

Jamie Folsom@jamiefolsom.bsky.social · last mo.

Super excited to be presenting with @roopikarisam.bsky.social this morning at #ACH2026 on "Hybrid Minimal Computing"! Slides (for my part, the technical dimension) here: dh.tools/hybrid

Does he understand that passports are given to Americans who go to other countries, not to people visiting the US?

Jacob Bogage@jacobbogage.bsky.social · last mo.

In Donald Trump’s new passport design, his image literally supersedes the Declaration of Independence.

Raymond Queneau's Exercises de Style gets a mention at #ACH2026!

Super excited to be presenting with @roopikarisam.bsky.social this morning at #ACH2026 on "Hybrid Minimal Computing"! Slides (for my part, the technical dimension) here: dh.tools/hybrid

📢Introducing 1776: Views from the British World! Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence that launched a revolution that created the USA, this series complicates traditional narratives of this event by situating it in a larger British world context.

Thrilled to be at #dhsi2026 to talk about using Performant Studio (open source #dh tools) to make a map based research website! dh.tools/maps

DATA EMPIRE is on NPR's list! "A book that promises not to just show how empires have collected and weaponized data over the ages, but also how we can resist, is an easy must-read for me." wnyc.org/npr/nx-s1-58... Pre-order: N. America: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUS Elsewhere: tinyurl.com/DataEmpireUK

15 books our critics can't wait for this summer | WNYC

A gothic horror tale, a creepy science-fiction romp, a sweeping romance, an intergenerational saga, a book about birds — here are the fiction and nonfiction our critics are most looking forward to.

wnyc.org

the murder of juniper blessing is a horrifying reminder of the campaign of violence being waged by the most powerful against the vulnerable and the environment of hate being encouraged on all sides of the political spectrum

250 workers jobless with no severance and little notice; support Hampshire staff and faculty! www.helphampshireworkers.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today

Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.

helphampshireworkers.com

@roopikarisam.bsky.social now presenting the Pan African Data Project panafricandata.org #ctdh

At #ctdh listening to the incomparable @roopikarisam.bsky.social on “Knowledge at Scale: Data, Power and the Work of the Humanities”

Paris friends! Amis parisiens ! This Thursday is the first of four public lectures I'm giving on AI and philology, broadly defined: "Philological Reasoning and Computational Models." The advertisement is in French, but the lectures are in English. I'd also love to meet while I'm here in March! 1/

Woo hoo! Our proposal for #DH2026, “Minimal Computing with a Database? The Pan-African Data Project as Hybrid Minimal Computing,” was accepted. This was, however, the first time I had two of the reviews say to go back and re-read Roopika Risam’s work. My powers of anonymization are strong!

I am delighted to share that my book, Printing Nueva York, is now available for pre-order from @nyupress.bsky.social. It uncovers the early history of Latinx writing and publishing in NYC. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983053...

Today is publication day for my book, Printing Nueva York: Spanish-Language Print Culture, Media Change, and Democracy in the Late Nineteenth Century. nyupress.org/978147983053... I am grateful to @nyupress.bsky.social for making it possible! #NYUPress #LatinxStudies #19thCenturyPrintCulture

“Pairing free buses with paid parking says we value people in motion more than cars at rest,” writes Nicolas Rohatyn.

Opinion | The Way to Pay for Free Buses Is to End Free Parking

Free buses would be transformative not only for riders, but for the ecosystem of the city as a whole.

nyti.ms

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Contingent Magazine@contingent-mag.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

DARIAH (digital research infrastructure for art and humanities scholars in the EU) has a new journal, Transformations Vol 1: workflows transformations.episciences.org/volumes/965 @dariaheu.bsky.social #DH #DigitalHumanities

Cannot wait to share this with all of you!

tanvi@chronictanvi.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Lula Iola Mack, a student of W.E.B. Du Bois who contributed to the making of the phenomenal Data Portraits visualizing black america. Here she is visualized amongst 3,856 other black graduates Du Bois surveyed. #DataByDesign #DataViz

Hands down, the best professional decision I made last year was to work with @performant.bsky.social. Could not love collaborating with @jamiefolsom.bsky.social @anindita.org and their amazing colleagues more. 😍

Honoring our collaborators @performant.bsky.social, whose rigor and skill helped make Native Bound Unbound possible. They built a platform that connects people, stories, and places across time—a living archive built with care, precision, and imagination. #NativeBoundUnbound #DigitalHumanities

Not unexpected, but scary/impressive/fascinating... Just-in-Time Malware that use LLMs during execution, to "dynamically generate malicious scripts, obfuscate their own code to evade detection, and leverage AI models to create malicious functions on demand."

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 9mo ago

New: Google says it has discovered at least 5 malware families that use AI to rewrite their code and generate new capabilities on the fly, suggesting AI-powered malware is finally starting to take off. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/... Report also has interesting stories about state actors' AI use.

A project that my company @performant.bsky.social has been working on for multiple years launches tomorrow! Launch events will be live-streamed on Saturday and Sunday at 1 pm MT. It's been such a privilege to work with the Native Bound Unbound team. They describe the project as follows... (1/4) #DH

Native Bound Unbound@natboundunbound.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend. Watch live: Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_... Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe) www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG... Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.