Call for Proposals!🔔 We're pleased to announce the CFP for the 2026 Annual Event (15-16 June, University of Southampton). Theme: Sustainability digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... Info session 16 Dec Abstract submission by 30 Jan EOI for peer review by 2 Feb Notification of acceptance 16 Mar

Want to know how to start a #DH association? Probably not - but lots about building sustainable orgs that support researchers, practitioners & students. Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social

How do you start a Digital Humanities association? You can now read our answer to the question on everyone's lips, open-access in DSH: academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-... It's a real pleasure to be in the company of great co-authors, writing about a great association! @ukiedh.bsky.social

"Tech companies do everything to turn inevitability into a lived experience, as they pollute their applications with ‘AI assistants’ and make opting out quite a cumbersome task for technology users. The inevitability myth is powerful. So powerful, I nearly got trapped." 👏

Recommendations please: I'm looking for an LLM that can be downloaded and run on a local machine. User-friendliness of installation and use much more important than power or parameter size.

Obviously one expects no less from the university rankings industrial complex, but this is absolutely dire, willfully-naive AI boosterism. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just realised that Robert Frost's "Putting in the Seed" has a winking emoticon: (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

The CLS INFRA project has officially concluded. After four transformative years, our work in building infrastructure for computational literary studies is complete. Thank you for being part of this journey!

Students hate that I base 50% of their grade on their "rich inner life" but this is the only way to be sure they are not using LLMs

Disappointing to see this piece recommending a general embrace of AI in higher education with no meaningful engagement with the serious issues involved. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]

Read somewhere that em-dashes are now considered a signal of AI-generated text and lamented that AI is destroying everything that I love.

Ireland & UK #DigitalHumanities folk, would you like to help shape the development of the UK-Ireland DH Association? There’s an open call for expressions of interest to join the organising collective (3 new members) & we’d love to hear from you whether you’re in HE, GLAM or somewhere else entirely!

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

📢 CLS INFRA Online Workshop 📢 All welcome! Registration now open at link below. 📆 Wed 9 July 🕐 10:30 CEST 🎟️ forms.gle/XH875jLaCwxf...

CLS INFRA CLOSING EVENT Registration now open for in-person and online participants. 🎟️ Free: forms.gle/5b98Z9dpKarZ... 📍 Jagiellonian University, Kraków 📅 2 July 2025 🕐 0900-1800 🔗 clsinfra.io/closing-event/

Lindsay Reid and I have a chapter, "Digital scholarly editing in the early modern curriculum," in this very cool, open-access collection. Chapter abstract here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/... @uniofgalway.bsky.social

Establish a sub-conclave to sort this out. www.fastcompany.com/91324550/ker...

Where has the woodblock from the image on the left gone? And why has it been replaced by the same page printed on wood? I'm confused.

Trying this query again 🥺

Academic misconduct in John Kelly's _Cool About the Ankles_.

Academic misconduct in Tove Ditlevsen's _Childhood_.

What (free) OCR software are DHers using these days? Source images are straightforward: early 20C printed texts.

A recruitment process is underway for the appointment of President of University of Galway. Read more and apply here: perrettlaver.com/university-o...

DH developer job here at the University of Galway. Come hang with (and maybe support?) the @stemma.bsky.social crew! www.linkedin.com/posts/davkel...

Yes, my book (and several of my articles) are in LibGen. No, Taylor and Francis have still not responded to my multiple queries about whether they sold my book to Microsoft to train their AI without my consent.

Reading John Guillory's _On Close Reading_, this note brought to mind the mountains of unread academic publications, certain to be multiplied now by AI slop, that are generated in response to the metric fixation of the sector. Happy World Book Day!

I'm looking for recommendations of journals publishing articles on pedagogy in literary studies (or broader humanities).

💡Join us at 15:00 GMT for our #QualityInsights Conference Plenary session 'Walking the Tightrope: Maintaining academic integrity through effective assessment design'. Our panel of experts will delve into issues surrounding academic integrity in relation to undirected student use of #GenerativeAI.

We're pleased to announce we've published a proposal for the Association’s governance approach, which lays out a structure for the Association, a model for membership for individuals & institutions and a timeline for elections. Check it out & let us know your thoughts! We'd love to hear from you!

We are very excited to officially announce that the University of Galway will host the DH2027 conference in Ireland from June 28 to July 3, 2027. More information will be coming soon. Congratulations to the Galway team! We look forward to joining you in 2027! #DH2027 #digitalhumanities #Galway

In case you happen to have a copy, I'm looking for Joseph Conrad, _A Personal Record; The Mirror of the Sea_. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. [Volume 11 of the "Sun-Dial" _Works of Joseph Conrad_ edition]. search.worldcat.org/title/61342334

I'm looking for advice on what to do if Worldcat and Inter Library Loans fail to locate a copy of the book you need. Is there a Dark Worldcat? A shadow ILL? It's not a particularly rare book: it was published in 1921 in a run of 780 copies.

An interesting complement to ELTeC: www.distant-reading.net/eltec/

To provide some balance to the amazing and shiny technologies, fixtures, and fittings planned for the new @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social, I think I have convinced the librarian to use newspaper sticks.

Registration link for this seminar: tinyurl.com/BoJoClub

📢CLS INFRA is working to connect the tools and method of Computational Literary Studies (#CLS) to #Journalists. 🎙️📺📰 Here's our video: youtu.be/NfhCD3qmPbU Find resources at our website and download an A4 infographic poster at clsinfra.io/resources/be.... Please tag and repost!

We all love a book club - turns out they change the world! 📢Come hear a #ClsInfraTNA talk: Book Clubs in Journalism Culture - BoJo Club Mercedes de Luis Andrés 🗓️30 Jan, 15:00 GMT 📍Uni of Galway, Hardiman GO11 and online ✍️Register for webinar: go/mdla_tna_talk

Have just read my first AI generated conference proposal, I'm sure. Its not bad. The writing is smooth. The format is straight off the Chat-GPT. There are a couple of new ideas hinted in there? Its very polished. Hard to turn down, as a result. But? is this what we are doing now, as a field?

At King’s College London this morning, talking about student perspectives on GenAI in assessment.

Academic misconduct in Werner Herzog’s _Every Man for Himself and God Against All_.

January just keeps coming! 🪧 Don't forget the CFP for CCLS2025 (Conference of Computational Literary Studies) by @jcls-io.bsky.social! 🗓️Due 30 Jan 👉Info at jcls.io/site/ccls2025/ ☀️Conference in Krakow, 3-4 July See you there!

Weird flex.

There's still a week left to submit a paper or proposal for the 2025 Annual Event! More details and how to submit at our website: digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2025-annual-... #DH #Opportunities

The *one* Eastgate work in Ireland is a copy of Afternoon in @uniofgalwaylib.bsky.social that I ordered for my Literature in the Digital Age lecture course and never managed to read. Instead, it became a salutary part of a lecture on obsolescence and preservation of born-digital literature...

Pálás, the only independent cinema in Galway, is closing down in February. Galway is a UNESCO City of Film. What a travesty. www.palas.ie

The academic integrity perspective on this strange ad is that it will be blindingly obvious to all that you have not written the text generated by this tool.

Conference speaker bounces on stage, full of enthusiasm, praises the quality of presentations and discussion so far, and concludes, "I'm so enervated!"

We are very pleased to announce that Claire Carroll has been appointed as our 2025 Advocacy & Engagement Fellow! Claire will help to ensure we are advocating for digital humanities most effectively by determining how our field matches with the landscape of institutional and policy drivers. #DH