Classics programs being closed across the globe. Meanwhile poised to be the year's biggest blockbuster:
Walking Odysseus
Alt: Walking Odysseus through a forest followed by his men. From the Christopher Nolan movie
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Peter T. Evans
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Digital Humanities | NLP | Computational Theology Now: Drifting... Before: Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen. Before Before: Digital Academy, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.
To my dear DH Community in Germany, an Abschiedsbrief.
To my dear DH Community in Germany, an Abschiedsbrief.
I’m so cross that Exeter is telling students & soon-to-be students that their degrees will not be impacted by the proposed cuts. It’s not true. Students and degree programmes will be impacted if there are no longer subject specialists doing the teaching. #DefendExeterUni
The excellent reputation of our humanities degrees has been built on years of research-led teaching. Students are taught by top academics producing cutting edge research within their own sub-disciplines. We are not generalists. We are not interchangeable. #DefendExeterUni
absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last mo.my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids
People in #DigitalHumanities / #ComputationalSocialSciences / #InternetResearch: What are currently the best approaches to archiving / scraping / transcribing #TikTok? I’d be interested in both preserving the original video, the original video page including captions/comments/…, and more […]
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The University of Exeter houses one of the best Theology/Religion departments in the UK. It will be a huge loss for the field if the department is decimated. It is one of many humanities departments under threat and like similar moves at US institutions should be a concern to everyone in academia.
Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · last mo.A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
The web site for @dhtech-community.bsky.social can now be found at dh-tech.adho.org ! (existing dh-tech.github.io url will still work & redirects) Thanks to @adho-org.bsky.social for supporting Special Interest Groups like DHTech
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Are you developing code for Digital Humanities research? Have you ever thought about publishing your code? Do you wish code would be more reusable, visible, and impactful? Join our upcoming webinar to explore how code review and publication …
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Digital Humanities often focus on data and tools. Critical Infrastructure Studies asks a deeper question: who builds, controls, and maintains the systems that shape what becomes visible, searchable, and knowable? An important perspective for the age of AI. #DigitalHumanities #AI #VisualCulture
Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...
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AI is not only a technical question, it is a deeply human one. In this new Substack post, I offer a first theological engagement with Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas and ask what it means to remain human in an age of AI. open.substack.com/pub/digitald...
I can confirm that using claude to write rust works pretty well. RustMallet is a whisker faster than Java Mallet at training topic models, and adds some tweaks that I have avoided in Mallet for stability reasons (multiple saved states by default). github.com/mimno/RustMa...
GitHub - mimno/RustMallet: Rust implementation of sparse Gibbs sampling LDA, following the SparseLDA scheme from MALLET
Rust implementation of sparse Gibbs sampling LDA, following the SparseLDA scheme from MALLET - mimno/RustMallet
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Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl
JCLS@jcls-io.bsky.social · 2mo ago#CCLS2027 goes @rug.nl !!! @fpianz.eurosky.social and his team are looking forward to welcoming you to the beautiful city of Groningen.
There's a genre of LLM criticism that I find so destructively unhelpful: using a single vague prompt to "analyze" data, e.g. "summarize the themes across this collection of texts," to claim "see! LLMs don't work." & it's getting published! Reviewers this is not good work pls reject it if you see it.
Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑
It's here! Happy publication day to the first in our Studies in Trauma Theology series (edited by @karenod.bsky.social)
SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 3mo agoIntroducing the 1st title in our Studies in Trauma Theology series (ed @karenod.bsky.social): Assaulted Body, Assaulted Faith by Samantha G Smith. This work examines the intersection of trauma and theology at the lived experience of sexual violation. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...
We worked really hard to produce and get this report to you. Hoping that our report reaches as many people as the other Yale report from a few weeks ago. This one was faculty grass roots, and paints a slightly different picture. (No shade on my colleagues working on the commissioned one. Honest).
Yale AAUP@yaleaaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.
I maintain a pretty active presence on LinkedIn. One of the things I find striking is how AI-cautious my Bsky network is, and how AI-for-business gung-ho my LinkedIn network is. I don't always know what to make of this distinction. I haven't figured out how to think about AI in industry yet.
I’ve almost drowned twice. The first was at a school swimming gala where, luckily, my distress was immediately obvious. The second was in a busy swimming pool surrounded by friends and only one person spotted me. Otherwise I’d have died 31 years ago. Archive link because £££: archive.is/5hPOq
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Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture. 2 June 2026, 6-8pm in London. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...
The more things change - Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world
UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture.
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Just received reviewer comments from my MA thesis... 🫠 And so, *SO* many missed typos! 😱 Ich gebe jetzt auf.
Ich freue mich, nachher um 16:15 h an der Uni Kiel meine empirische Studie über epistemische Profile unterschiedlicher LLMs vorstellen zu dürfen! Herzliche Einladung, man kann sich online ohne Anmeldung zuschalten. Einen QR-Code zum Zoom-Raum finden Sie hier: www.ub.uni-kiel.de/de/digital-h... #LLM
"Re-focusing on data also means rethinking what counts as meaningful work. Preparing data isn’t just a technical step; it carries so many interpretive choices. It’s where all our beloved hermeneutics live." Such a good rant...er...post by @sarahalang.bsky.social. Well worth your time to read.
Sarah Lang@sarahalang.bsky.social · 3mo agoAre you also starting to get tired of the constant gesturing that we need better Research/ #AIEthics that doesn’t lead anywhere?😵💫 Better data --> better research. Sounds obvious, but that's not where the attention goes. A rant. And some answers ;) latex-ninja.com/2026/05/17/w... #DH