The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

Call: A rare and highly strategic opportunity at the intersection of AI and the humanities! The Met is opening postdoctoral positions to explore how AI can reshape research, collections, and audience engagement. Deadline: April 15, 2026 #DigitalHumanities 👉 www.nyfa.org/jobs/job-inf...

Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom#linguistvisual communication research cluster! Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job […]

@mpe @brembs @NanetteRissler @sedoa The post by Johan Rooryck really resonates with me, for several reasons. Yes, lots of innovation and quality in small publishers! And in Digital Humanities, #doa is all but a niche: it is the default and in itself a matter of prestige (at least in my view) […]

💻 MSc Information Science (1 year) For students with some coding & ML background who want to build applications, conversational agents, machine translation, etc. Hands-on projects with real-world NLP challenges and many opportunities to work in DH projects. rug.nl/masters/information-science/

🔬 Research MA in NLP (2 years) Advanced, research-oriented training in ML, computational linguistics, and language modelling. Strong DH connections. Prepares you for a PhD or industry research. rug.nl/masters/natural-language-processing-research/

📚 MA Digital Humanities (1 year) Built for humanities students, no coding background needed. You'll learn programming, data analysis, and digital methods while leveraging your domain expertise. rug.nl/masters/digital-humanities/

Interested in Digital and Computational Humanities for your Master's? The University of Groningen (Netherlands) offers three masters at different levels, from humanities grads with no coding experience to aspiring NLP researchers. Strong interaction with a leading NLP group @gronlp.bsky.social 🧵

Wyrm – Citation Network Explorer Recently, I've had a number of students wrestling with the challenges of scoping a field, pulling together a literature review, and trying to determine how different pieces might be in conversation with each other. I used to sometimes sit students down with Ed […]

I just submitted my textbook manuscript to @langscipress! 🎉🎉🎉 I published the initial version of the first few chapters online in April 2024 and this project has been at the centre of my attention for much of these past two years so it's a big day for me! I am incredibly grateful to the many […]

* Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile * people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend * now open source knockoff in python and rust What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a […]

At a pivotal moment—when AI agents are rediscovering and reinforcing the enduring value of Linked Open Data (LOD) and the principles of Linked Data—we are taking another step forward for the community. We will soon release a new open-source edition of Virtuoso that introduces a feature […]

This is great news! "New Publishing Opportunities for Researchers: Germany Joins Open Research Europe Open access publishing platform to be opened up to researchers at all German [as well as French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Austrian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish, Sweden, and Swiss, afaict] […]

At last! It starts this fall: "A new era for Open Research Europe" https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-research-and-innovation-news/new-era-open-research-europe-2026-03-26_en Diamond #openaccess for all authors from 11 supporting countries: 🇦🇹 Austria 🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 Germany […]

With #wikidata increasingly used and gaining traction in academic contexts (including #glam ), we should engage with the larger community in earnest. I just became aware of the discussions around the reform of current notability policies […]

Ha! The original Lancet article on the dangers of reading in bed is here: doi.org/10.1016/S014...

We’re looking for a Research Data Engineer (m/f/x) (3,5 years). If you have a #DigitalHumanities profile with experience in #tei encoding, #ocr / #htr, and #iiif (or any of those and are willing to learn the rest), get in touch! The full time position can be split, so if (for whatever reason) […]

Macht es nicht wie ich, verpasst nicht unseren Vortrag zu BERTopics und Keyness! Heute in der Session "Automatisierung und KI" ab 9:00 (aber unseren Vortrag erwischt ihr auch noch, wenn ihr um 10 Uhr kommt!) im Hörsaal 5. @cnDuKeli und Julia Röttgermann […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

The Norwegian Consumer Council has released a report on #enshittification today, which can be found at https://www.forbrukerradet.no/news-in-english/digital-products-and-services-are-getting-worse-but-the-trend-can-be-reversed/ They are also hosting a seminar starting at 11:30 - mostly in […]

We are looking for new colleagues for TIB’s Open Science Lab – Help us secure endangered research data from the US My blog posting, some more background info from @tibhannover and the job vacancies are all available in English as well, see below ⬇️ […] [Original post on openbiblio.social]

This week I talked to the Digital Humanities students about using AI as a research assistant. Slides here, in case they're useful for anyone. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y1LHZxKihufntKmZCZq1YoX5jAFh4-kU/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=114563031523184809425&rtpof=true&sd=true […]

The corollary to this is that figuring out how to do reliable evals and tests for tasks other than code — incl fuzzy, subjective tasks — has become a critical bottleneck and will receive a great deal of attention.

Very interesting article! "This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." […]

You'll get to do some innovative work on linked data, federated web services (ActivityPub!) & peer-to-peer data archiving (BitTorrent!), in support of a global grassroots network of data rescuers and archivists! Including me! * 2 years fixed term at 0.5FTE * Starting salary 57708 EUR pro rata […]

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

It's publication day! Available in print and Open Access https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550918/digital-social-reading/ A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.