Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.

We are proud to offer four new MLS/MA degrees at the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies! Learn more about these opportunities to earn degrees in Art History, Urban Affairs, English, and Media Studies alongside your library degree. sites.google.com/view/qcgslis...

I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..." Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."

Remember to register for the Boston DH THATCamp! Join us in Medford at Tufts University this Friday: bostondh.org/thatcamp-2026/

An AI writing assistant has been added to a platform that is widely used for student projects. I discovered this today while I was teaching. The AI agents are disabled by default. An administrator needs to turn them on. Fascinating.

Well. A 60’ pine tree is leaning towards my window at a 45 degree angle. It does deep sideways dives with each gust. I’m very attached to having trees outside my window. I would like to continue having trees. 😬

I got to ride the shuttle around Logan after a gate change and everyone was bored or grouchy, but I’ve never seen an airport that way. 10/10 highly recommend.

Oops! Several medical schools recently stopped using actors, including transgender actors, to role play as patients with students. It’s all chatbots now. Who could have guessed LLMs would treat these patients differently?

My apartment complex waxed the stairs. It’s 4am and we’re stuck on a landing.

If you’re looking for Spotify alternatives, at Tisch Library, we’re streaming our own playlist from the music online database. #DouglassDay

No context #DouglassDay snippet.

We already have a submission that's only a couple of hundred dollars more than the lowest submission we got in the AY19-20 spreadsheet.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

I accidentally ordered a half-dozen assorted donuts on the mobile app this morning. Pre-dawn on a holiday. Snug in bed. 6” of un-shoveled snow. Idk, other than that I was curious. Can you be choosy about your half-dozen assorted on the mobile app? No. And that button won’t take you there.

My food pyramid is just permutations of macaroni and cheese.

ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2 🔗 buff.ly/O7y3KaD

Digital Health Humanities Postdoc at Tufts! The project is building a physician-level dataset from the American Medical Directories. The dataset includes physicians' place of training and practice, specialization, and demographics. Due 1/30: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/22563 #digitalhumanities

Extended Deadline! -- Turn in your proposals by January 26th. :D

If you're in the area -- check out the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference! The CFP is open until January 5th. ctdh.io/call-for-pro...

In 2022, before Chat-GPT and when DALLE was still request-only, I made this AI recipe site to satirize recipe blogs. I admit that the devil on my shoulder was whispering "aaad revenueee." It took a weekend. It was fun. Now it just makes me sad.

This is excellent. Does anyone have the citation for the March 2024 paper referenced at 3:06, comparing ChatGPT to Jim Crow? Would like to read and assign.

Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

I am about to board a flight and everyone in a 10 foot radius at the gate has cold symptoms. 😬

Landed in Denver for #DLF! Find me!

I haven’t googled myself in a while and I’m horrified. My therapist generator, built on @samplereality.bsky.social ‘s work at DreamLab was featured in a podcast. Like, the whole episode. www.verybadtherapy.com/episodes/pat...

I have almost changed a bike tire for the first time. It’s been a journey. And now, at the end of it all, my brakes are permanently on and I can’t solve it. What happened to WikiHow? Why is everything a hyper YouTube video? Am I in hell?

In case you missed it, this workbook is a guide to thinking through when and how to take risks as a higher ed worker. It aims to help us differentiate between danger and discomfort, while also offering some practical information about how to protect yourself while taking meaningful action.

#digitalhumanities and #dhmakes friends -- have you tried or do you currently hold regular hours that invite people to the space without strict programming? E.g., promoting a co-working environment, opportunities for collaborative work, office hours... Beyond "stuff," what helped shape your space?

I'm sorry, but Microsoft should not be allowed to do anything with AI until you can open a UTF-8 csv file in Excel.

Great panel at #DH2025 and it's great to hear more about AI resistance & refusal, giving consideration to whether our methods serve the communities we work with. Though this ex. does raise questions for me about the impacts of the absence in training data if scholarship is closed.

conference season is upon us

Because we need a bit of fun in the world too, here is a post about the sonification of the data in our Data Rescue Tracker (now DRP Portal). Very much worth a read and listen. Thanks to Will Clary for making this! www.datarescueproject.org/sonifying-da...

Just spotted this opening for a Research Associate, Managing Editor and Digital Data Specialist for the World Historical Gazetteer, whgazetteer.org. Deadline is July 11, 2025 tomorrow! Great for folks doing critical GIS & working w/JSON, python: networks.h-net.org/jobs/68811/u...

Overheard from a campus tour: “I don’t really know AI but I’ve never read a textbook, I’ve never watched a video. I just use ChatGPT.” 😰

If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...

So I’m walking my dog and suddenly, I am sprayed with water. I hear, “Oh shit!” I look to see a woman on her porch with a super soaker. “Did I get you?!” She launches into explaining about rabbits in her garden. I, groggy, start asking Q’s about gardening. Glossing over—water gun? Rabbits?

I’m frustrated for many reasons at surface-skimming media history takes on AI like “people opposed the printing press too!” If media history is going to help us navigate the present, we have to reckon with something people often omit from those comparisons—the intersection of power & new media (1/4)

What does this mean for our little DH projects? I've been poking around and haven't found much chatter. I know our best practices for sustainable DH projects, but I've never prepared for the Battle Bots arena.

Seen on a walk: this tree completely engulfing a fence. The way Boston just plants trees right in the sidewalk and directly under power lines is astounding. We don’t really have other options, but still… wild!

Everyone around here is way too on edge for the city to have under-advertised fireworks for an obscure holiday.

can i ignore well established grammatical rules because i don’t like the mouthfeel

The essay about this in DH+Lib is out! I talk about the workshop I ran and my somewhat failed attempt at avoiding "buttonology" as the complexity of teaching the craft recreated some of the challenges I face when I teach digital tools. dhandlib.org/weaving-the-...

The first section of this issue has two articles that feature weaving as a method for data physicalization:

Whether it's a DH project, a personal site, or even gov site that is going offline, all you need is a WACZ file created with any of our tools (Browsertrix.com, ArchiveWeb.page) and you can host a web archive-powered mirror of your own, for free! To get started, check out: github.com/webrecorder/...

Last month I was working out how to capture changes to gov websites for a workshop and landed on these little track changes tapestries. I saw the CDC HIV site removed a ton of pages and information. I thought it was fishy…. And so it was! This little tapestry captures the loss in a few lines.

My first post as a regular contributor to ACRLog is about LC not only implementing the changes to "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley," but *fast-tracking* those changes. acrlog.org/2025/03/28/a... #critcat #LCSH

Love this new initiative by @webrecorder.net: GovArchive.us, mirroring dynamic sites as a static web archive, while preserving the previous URL structure. Could be a really compelling options for digital humanities projects, too.

Love to get an email from my professional org @ach.bsky.social within hours of it surfacing that DOGE had come for NEH, with specific steps people can take, a form to collect info on research impacts, and a commitment to further advocacy. Keep it up, ACH. MLA, AHA & friends should take note.