Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!

This is more than the NSF social sciences division - now on the chopping block - awarded in grants last year. Think about that: a single AI company has the money to fund more social science research than the US govt.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d ago

Anthropic AI research fund offers $5m - $30m for social science research on themes of AI impact on workers; transition initiatives; income support; building worker stakes; and wider evidence on public investments. Total fund of $200m available www.anthropic.com/news/economi...

Daejeon by night… #DH2026 #Korea

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning

📢TextAnalysisR is now on CRAN: an R package + Shiny app for text mining: topic models (STM/BERTopic), sentiment, and semantic networks. #rstats #NLP #LLM install.packages("TextAnalysisR") App: textanalysisr.org Doc: mshin77.github.io/TextAnalysisR/

'Too crooked for Concacaf' is a really impressive bar to clear, congrats to Giovanni Infantino.

Pardeep Cattry@pcattry.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW: Concacaf joins UEFA in rejecting FFE, instead imploring FIFA to find ways to increase funding for FIFA Forward through its current means and asking that "any matter follows the proper governance processes" in future full statement: www.concacaf.com/competitions...

My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

"Like Enron, they’re using special purpose vehicles, or off-balance sheet arrangements such as legally distinct subsidiaries, as a way to make their financial reporting look healthier than it actually is — often a glaring sign that something is deeply amiss behind the scenes."

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

"Let's put the 'fun' in 'funding'" -- Lisa Spiro. (Agreed!) #DH2026

I love how many #DH2026 presenters are so robust and advanced in their analytical methods but ALSO extremely accurate and knowledgeable about very small details of the data they used. Data curation and quality is the core of this community! 🧡

"You guys, Quinn made me a scarf." @brettbobley.bsky.social and the NEH-ODH scarf #1 at the Schmidt Sciences reception at #DH2026 #DHmakes 🥰

Earlier this summer, I was elected as the inaugural Chair of the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH). I'm proud to announce that I just fulfilled one of my primary campaign promises: to join @adho-org.bsky.social as a constituent organization.

Just in time for #DH2026 and after almost two years, we published a manifesto for multilingual digital humanities! This is an ongoing collaboration of many people and initiatives, among them the @adho special interest group, @multilingualdhwg, the @DHd working group, and the DH UK-Ireland […]

Here's Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social introducing the "Playing Heaven" LLMs and AI for Historical Analysis Project + Workshop, come join us today at #DH2026!

I've made a #DH2026 bsky feed to make it easier to follow the conference. You can pin it: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Federico Pianzola@fpianz.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Test #dh2026 feed

Love the #DH2026 gadget!

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

Harriet Zeiner@hzeiner.bsky.social · last wk.

Heather Cox Richardson calls us to reinvent what we want democracy to be. FDR’s state of the Union in 1941 said it for me. Government to guard Four freedoms to all: a world based on four essential human freedoms: speech/expression, worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear, globally.

oh man if only somebody had had something to say about this 2500 years ago.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...

LLMs will likely be the most powerful propaganda tool that has ever existed arxiv.org/abs/2606.16475

AI systems out-persuade expert humans

Many societal decisions are settled by contests of persuasion. Conversational AI is a powerful new entrant in these contests, but whether it can out-persuade skilled and highly incentivized humans has...

arxiv.org

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now.

A new global order is emerging as a result of the Iran War, argues Robert Pape. The strength and position of the US is enormously degraded. The position of China and Iran is enhanced. And this is not easily reversible. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Iran and the New Rules of Global Power

The making and unmaking of American dominance.

foreignaffairs.com

today in destroying higher education is economic sabotage newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

newrepublic.com

The real comparison to Moore's law for AI isn't scaling laws, but rather the intelligence efficiency that we gain year-over-year using models to get better at training models.

This is underappreciated - my students and I have done some cool research that has almost certainly touched systems you use daily, but by far and away my biggest impact on the world has been through helping teach a bunch of very smart BS/MS/Ph.D. students who go on to do great things.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

9. By supporting universities, they support the human capital development that flows into the commercial sector and generates the growth and innovation that has been a massive boon for US commerce. This plan undercuts that role, with disastrous consequences that will ricochet for years to come.

We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3

If you're looking for the latest adoption data on open models in US v China v globally, we built a small dashboard with the big picture and per-org numbers. US's role is slowly growing, but still way behind China/Qwen. dashboard.interconnects.ai

Oh. How could not have known about about this? Tensho 篆書 lookup from standard modern chars. Useful for confirming or disconfirming hypotheses about archaic seal characters. 篆書字体データセット codh.rois.ac.jp/tensho/

篆書字体データセット

篆書字体データセットは、印文解読に有用と思われる和漢の字書・字彙類から切り出した篆書字体画像を、機械学習に利用しやすい形式で提供します。

codh.rois.ac.jp