An incredible reading list about #AI framed through what TMC calls "data politics" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Anyway, I made a reading list in public. I try to avoid doing that. The Twitter “syllabus” wars scarred me. It’s gonna be a touchy few days.

So we opened 2026 nominations early for the #DH2026 conference.

It's been intense traveling between @rs4vp.org #rsvp2026 in Dublin to #dh2026 in Deajeon, South Korea where I moved b/w metadata & periodicals to arguing about the designation of "small data" as not worth pursuing. REF: Tully Barnett who urged #dh to focus on more "small data" project #dhsi

Martin R. Kalfatovic@udcmrk.bsky.social · last wk.

"Small data is not simpler data" by @triproftri.bsky.social at @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social ... Great exploration of British Literary Annuals on the colonial context and keep the cohesion of the book as artifact

🤯 completely packed panel for Saturday morning slot #RSVP2026 final day! Thanks to my wonderful co-panelists Jessica Valdez & Beth Gaskell w/Jim Mussell moderating

Kath: these toys that we're using (inside of a game) amplifies the most terrible aspects that we've created inside "the matrix." Citing Wendy Chun's critique of where the current machine learning is heading, that it's a failure. Will it ever be a toy that embraces restoration in society? #RSVP2026

One man getting “carried away” should not be able to destroy federal agencies and pull life-saving funding from thousands and thousands of people.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

Wolff Lecture #RSVP2026 - an incredible thinker around LLMS & probabalistic thinking. She's weaving bibliographic arrangements, libraries, 19c newspapers, word embeddings & paratexts to comment on commercial LLMs (w/o selling us anything or pushing an agenda!)

Fascinating workshop on the Curran Index led by @vicmanch.bsky.social. This is a fab list of resources. I think it opens up conversations about accessibility and how we can make resources more affordable/accessible to larger audiences as well!

Huh! Never thought about doing a quick pre topic modeling of the metadata for all 30k pages from the literary annuals! Inspired by @emilyjlm.bsky.social doing preliminary testing of topic modeling & semantic analysis on dirty OCR. Plugged in my dataset to Voyant+ -- now I'm curious! #rsvp2026

Back at it for Day 2 #rsvp2026 - what a fun evening last night catching up w/pals & seeing so many new attendees. Super impressed w/all of the grad student presenters & thrilled to hear their ideas (and read later articles & books)

Packed house for the first #RSVP2026 #printinmotion panel! Sitting in the "Pedagogy in Circulation" completely full room, looking fwd to Jordi Alonso, Kristen Whittle, Beth Rodgers (esp on *Girls Own* magazine

While at Dublin #RSVP2026, simultaneously prepping to skip across the world to Daejon, South Korea for #DH2026 🤯 Final huge travel for this year of sabbaticaling! Have 2 more surprise presentations in VA and Paris, though, in Aug & Sept 🧐😵 - hard to stop the travel bug! 🔥

DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon)@dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 2w ago

📘 The #DH2026 Book of Abstracts — first release — is now on Zenodo, in PDF and machine-readable XML. All accepted contributions for #DigitalHumanities 2026 in Daejeon, Korea (July 27–31). 🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno... A revised edition follows after the conference.

I've been working for years on collaborations with @mkgold.bsky.social @frostdavis.bsky.social even before anyone spelled out how to do that kind of hard work. That work spoiled me for collabs w/other teams! We grappled & scrapped but *always* respected one another w/generosity. 😎

Really enjoying the way that @rs4vp.org is honoring all of the finalists for this wonderful book prize by offering an overview of each one in such a public fashion! All of this scholarship is incredible -- well done RSVP!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals@rs4vp.org · 3w ago

Our final spotlight for the 2026 Colby Prize is Anne-Julia Zwierlein's Lecturing Women in British Fiction, Periodicals & Public Orality (Routledge, 2025). Learn what our judges had to say here: buff.ly/u816Usf The finalist will be announced 25 July at the #RSVP2026 AGM. Watch this space!

ARRIVED! Dublin experience activated for the #RSVP2026 conference - 1 of my fav conferences on 19c global periodical studies 😁 Already managed a sunset walk to see The Famine Memorial Jet lag tho 🫪😵‍💫😴 @rs4vp.org

If you live in California and you want to take advantage of the state-run portal that tells all registered data brokers to delete your data instead of having to send an individual request to every single one, here is what you need to know: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP Tool

Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. ...

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New paper! "Recalibrating Artificial Intelligence for Social Biases: Four New Priorities for Datasets, Models, and Metrics" Coming out of learnings from Lucy Havens' PhD, we suggest alternative priorities for AI that could rebalance its handling of social biases: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Recalibrating Artificial Intelligence for Social Biases: Four New Priorities for Datasets, Models, and Metrics | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Campus closures, mergers, and cuts: here's my latest survey from summer 2026. bryanalexander.org/horizon-scan...

Join our final pre-conference #RSVPDigiEv, “Migrations Through the Local Press” next Friday, 26 June with @drewhobbs.bsky.social, Lisa Peters, and Simon Young, who explore how local pride influenced coverage of migrations both literal and metaphorical across the #19thC press!

Conference Digital Events – RSVP

To maximize participation by our various far-flung members, RSVP will continue to host Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to our in-person gathering. Panels for 2026 will…

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For those looking at their NEH grant reinstatement, highly recommend looking at the Award Reinstatement Instructions, which are much more specific about what is/isn't a change of scope, what budget changes need approval (nothing w/in 25% of total award), & what staffing needs approval.

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm actually finding these Award Reinstatement Instructions more useful than the Restarting doc. The Instructions are more specific about what they are actually asking for & what actually constitutes a change (& what doesn't!). Read carefully before starting. www.neh.gov/grants/manag...

Work with me! Late-breaking opening in the English Department at Davidson College. We're hiring a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor of post-1800 Brit Lit.

Really enjoyed that whole week with incredible participants and a rich conversation. ❤️ Every bit of it

Cynthia Heider@cynthiaheider.com · 2mo ago

The last day of a great week at #DHSI2026 meeting smart colleagues and discussing "DH Leadership." Thanks to @raysiemens.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @triproftri.bsky.social for their kind and thoughtful facilitation! 🙏🏻

We are super lucky this morning to host @kfitz.info in our #dh leadership #DigitalHumanities Summer Institute on the final day! We read her "Leadership" chp from *Leading Generously* on Day 1 My Q: how has leadership had to shift since 2024 when LG came out? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_2r...

"Leading Generously" Kathleen Fitzpatrick

YouTube video by Oregon Humanities Center

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Just over a week left to register for #ACH2026! Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity, with keynotes by Laura Gonzales and Maria José Afanador-Llach. Registration closes June 21: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Program: buff.ly/cs2h5pm

ACH 2026 – ACH Membership

ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both "emergence" and "emergency." This dual meaning…

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This Framework should particularly useful to folks who may be considering using AI in their research and scholarship, and for those who encounter it in their work. Tags: #DH #DHSI2026 #elit #english #angusge #literature #humanities #research #scholarship #peerreview #publishing #academia #MLA #AI

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The MLA AI and Research Working Group's new "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" offers questions and case studies on AI literacy, human-centered expertise, and responsibility and ethics to guide discussion and reflection. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...

YAS!

Luke Waltzer@lukewaltzer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

… @katinalynn.bsky.social, forthcoming… punctumbooks.com/titles/unexp...

… @katinalynn.bsky.social, forthcoming… punctumbooks.com/titles/unexp...

Who among us has recently published a book using mushrooms as a way to demonstrate community power? I know it's a #dh person! But, my memory is failing me on this one right now. Would love to share it w/ our DHSI DH Leadership group bc mushrooms came up yesterday as a framework for collaboration

Oh look what popped up in my social media memories! #digpd @ #dh summer institute from 2012! player.vimeo.com/video/436927...