wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

signed: "An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education" #ai openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

I'm giving a talk for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada on Nov. 12: explora.alliancecan.ca/events/digit.... All welcome to register!

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

The Technical Council of @teiconsortium.bsky.social discussing the issues raised by #TEI community prior to the #tei2025 conference @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social. Thank you to the excellent local organisers for accommodating the Technical Council and organising such a wonderful conference.

In more publishing news, this article I co-authored with @epyllia.bsky.social Helena Bermúdez-Sabel ans @janellejenstad.bsky.social just came out as well. Very #TEI specific, but it has fun literary examples in it journals.openedition.org/jtei/5705 #digitalhumanities @teiconsortium.bsky.social

What an exciting piece of news to start the day! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025.... Congratulations on this game-changing document analysis, @matthewsteggle.bsky.social!

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Ruh-roh... www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is @janellejenstad.bsky.social on 23 April 2025, talking about "From Macbeth to Mucedorus: Changing how we Edit and Publish Early Modern Plays". Register now! research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at...

How do you bring together feminist praxis and making? I'm co-leading a #DHatGuelph workshop on feminist making with @antimony27.bsky.social where we'll weave together feminism and data with creative activities. Let’s make, resist, and reimagine together! Reg: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/researc...

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

Robert Reich wrote this list seven years ago. Every. Single. Item. Is. Happening. Now. robertreich.substack.com/p/20-signs-o...

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

The Anti-Authoritarian Academic Code of Conduct -- from 2016 but freshly relevant. We all need to be thinking about where our lines are. dailynous.com/2016/11/29/a...

Upcoming LEMDO Technical Webinar: "Putting it all Together." Thurs Mar 27 08h00 PDT. Our PM will explain how to include files in your edition, encode the edition landing page, and supply the necessary metadata. Register at www.surveymonkey.ca/r/KDK9T65. Earn a credit towards cc:DH/HN certificate.

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Come visit our table in the RSA/SAA Exhibit Hall in Boston. We'll be sharing the table with Digital Renaissance Editions. #SHAX2025

Linked Early Modern Drama is on Bluesky! We are housed at @uvic.ca and supported by @uvichumanities.bsky.social. #earlyModernDrama #Shakespeare #digitalEditions #editing #textEncoding

Prep for #Shax2025 by exploring our #DigitalExhibits. The Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project provides a semi-diplomatic edition of 6 Shakespeare plays from a 1694 manuscript held at Douai, France. See this project live on Saturday, March 22. buff.ly/rX5Hs2h

The Research Centre for Scottish Studies is excited to welcome back Marjory Harper talking about letters from the Scottish diaspora. Scour your attics. and bring your own family letters down for a workshop after the talk!

Hi there! We are the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Our members promote research in the history of the book including manuscript culture, print, digital technologies + beyond. Follow to connect with bookish scholarship from around the world + across time periods.

Hi! We're SHARP News, an online open-access quarterly publication of @sharpweb.org. Follow us to hear when we publish new materials and to hear about interesting things happening all over the book-ish world. Tag us in your posts so we can let others know about your work, publications, and events!

TODAY 1pm CST: Prof. Liza Blake @medrenliza.bsky.social will be giving a NVS Seminar titled ‘Queer(er) Editing’. Come join us in @tamu.bsky.social LAAH 463 or livestreamed on Zoom. For more details and the Zoom link, see: newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

Do you have a Digital Humanities (by any name) program at the BA, MA, PhD level? Add your program to the Digital Humanities Course Registry! For Canada: be in touch w/me (email/dm) or sign up at website For the rest of the world: find your national moderator dhcr.clarin-dariah.eu

“Tech companies are built to take risks and move quickly. The government is built to serve all people safely and equitably” www.wethebuilders.org/posts/move-f...

Canadians! Sign the parliamentary petition (sponsored by Charlie Angus) to revoke Musk’s Canadian citizenship www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#HumanitiesWeek has been a blast! We hope you'll join our final event, the annual Unessay Competition, tonight @ 6:30 PST (online). Students will share their research with complete freedom of form, and you'll get to vote on your favourite works! Register: events.uvic.ca/humanities/e...

Everyone outside the US should be downloading datasets from data.gov. Search for keywords flagged by the regime and save those ones first.

Let's give a boost to @melvillehouse.bsky.social. They are a courageous publishing house speaking truth to power! Follow them, like their posts, and buy their books (Jack Smith Report coming this week).

Also: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

How are Canadians feeling about travelling to the US for academic conferences right now? Crossing the border feels wrong; abandoning American colleagues also feels wrong. Thoughts?

OBS / Balliol College research associate position! We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position at Balliol College, Oxford. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Balliol -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 28 February

Endings Principle of the Month: 4.1 No dependence on server-side software: build a static website with no databases, no PHP, no Python. For more on how your processing can contribute to the longevity of your #DH project, visit endings.uvic.ca/principles.h...

There's a call for reviewers for DH2025! It's a great way to keep in touch with the field while giving something back. Find out more and apply: https://dh2025.adho.org/reviewers/ It's open peer review, and last year there was a prize for the best reviewer. #DigitalHumanities #DH #DH2025

For the last two years, I've been slowly working on training an OCR model for braille. I have successful error rates on single-scan models, but I need more data before I can release an open access model. If your library/institution has braille books you can scan to contribute, please get in touch!

On Nov. 11, @uvichcmc.bsky.social remembers the 648,390 Canadians who participated in the Great War 1914-1918. canadiangreatwarproject.com.

LEMDO Webinar Thurs, Aug 22, 8 am PDT: LEMDO Project Manager will cover inline styling for transcriptions, inline CSS, and Flexbox. Earn a credit towards the Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities. Sign up via Survey Monkey to receive the Zoom link: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/K9QMW9V.

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month!🏳️‍🌈 One thing that we love about #DH is the chance to explore different identities and queerness in the humanities. DVPP’s student-selected anthology of Queer Poetry is a great example of this! Check it out at dvpp.uvic.ca/queerPoetry....

Linked Early Modern Drama Online is offering a technical webinar at 8 am PDT, Thurs, Jn 12. Topics: (1) LEMDO's Endings-compliant editions/anthologies; and (2) "Making Editions Accessible." Earn credit for CC:DH/HN certificate. #DH #DigiHums Sign-up link: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/8YQGSVT.

students being taught how to create barricades and other ways to disrupt active shooters and then using those techniques when attacked by the cops who wouldn't protect them from shooters when they were children is so poetic and so american

We are delighted to share the schedule for Keystone DH 2024! Very excited for this conference about tinkering, experimenting, exploring, and games! keystonedh.network/2024/schedul... #dhsi #digitalhumanities @neh-odh.bsky.social @teiconsortium.bsky.social

Megan Lukaniec's project, "Tekwarihwakhashonhk 'We are putting ideas together': Analyzing Wendat and Waⁿdat Syntax and Discourse" will look at patterns in Wendat and Waⁿdat to create a grammatical guide and Wendat dictionary website and support language revitalization. 3/4

Adrienne Williams Boyarin's project, "Jewish Women in Hostile Archives: England, 1154-1307 CE" seeks to recover the story of England's Jewish women in the medieval era and will reveal what women can teach us about England's Jewish diaspora and culture. 👀: majw.uvic.ca 4/4

Janelle Jenstad's project, "Editing Early Modern Drama: Edge Cases, Outliers, New Texts, and Multi-Texts" will build on LEMDO's past work and will tackle paratexts, new encoding challenges, and multi-text plays to expand the canon of early modern drama. 👀: lemdo.uvic.ca 2/4

Congratulations to the three HCMC PIs who have been awarded SSHRC Insight Grants! Project information in the thread 🧵 1/4

Great news for those who love #manuscripts or #Shakespeare: the Douai Shakespeare Manuscript Project is now available! This release includes editions and facsimiles of Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. 👀: lemdo.uvic.ca/douai 📷: Douai MS 787, Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore