Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

The central place of the bogeyman ‘positivism’ in how social scientists caricature each other’s work is nicely captured here by @adrianblau.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

5/ “The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument” by @lscholz.bsky.social (@manchester.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Tristes Tropiques, 70 years later @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...

Brilliant seeing @lscholz.bsky.social commended by @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar's 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History for his article: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" in our next issue ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/2025...

Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even... Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination #envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social

CRDH Vol. 8: New research from Fabio Gigone, Natacha Klein Käfer, Natália da Silva Perez, Nadav Borenstein, Miara Fraikin, Sanne Maekelberg, and Anna McGee explores topics from royal iconography to AI-powered print analysis, midwifery education to palace networks. Read here: https://crdh.rrchnm.org

Join us for another series of online and in-person events on the digital environmental humanities: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even... Next up on November 12: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on desalination #envhist #envhum #skystorians #DH @kmcdono.bsky.social

The 2025-26 schedule for the Lancaster-Manchester & @n8cir.bsky.social Environmental #DH Seminar is up! Next: @ehameeteman.bsky.social on Nov 12 (online) Details: www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/connect/even... #envhist #envhum #skystorians @dsilu.bsky.social @lscholz.bsky.social

Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15: Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.

Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered." culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...

What does #DigitalHumanities look like from/for the Global Majority? If you're working at the intersections of tech, justice & humanities, across borders, languages, and disciplines, we want to learn from you! ⏰ 5 days to submit to Global DH 2026! 📆 Deadline: October 15, midnight msuglobaldh.org

Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely: ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

Join us online for another instalment of the Environmental Digital Humanities Seminar on October 15: Iason Jongepier and Vincent Ducatteeuw will present their digital historical work on the river Scheldt.

The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back! Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project. Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley. RSVP 👇

Very excited to return to Stanford next week to give a talk at the Ruderman conference, on cartography "Above and Below". Register here to attend in person or remotely: ruderman.sites.stanford.edu

Works in progress for the Barry Ruderman Conference on Cartography which starts in less than two weeks! ruderman.sites.stanford.edu It’s free to attend in person (at Stanford) or on-line. Come meet me and other mapmakers, researchers, and journalists!

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

"Taking its cue from the weather wars that unfolded around the Alps in the eighteenth century, this article..." What a wonderful way to begin an article. Sometimes you read something that suddenly opens up hitherto unknown areas of history. In this case, 18th century Alpine weather wars.

This new center strikes the right tone in approaching the AI alignment problem. alignmentalignment.ai

💻 We are very excited to announce the launch of our special issue Computational Formalism, edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Alice Chapot, that reconsiders the intersections of computation and form at this emerging technological and critical moment. culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788

Very excited to be in Melbourne this week to deliver a keynote at a workshop on digital methods in the humanities and social sciences! homo-calculans.blog/workshop

Marc Bloch - Carnets inédits (1917-1943) À paraître en octobre chez Amsterdam

This year was the second time we organised the Digital Methods Summer School with Methods@Manchester. Great group of participants and tutors from across diverse disciplines and cultures, full-day workshops and lively discussions. 😍 new.express.adobe.com/webpage/db5o...

This was a fantastic summer school!

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: @catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

Join us online on 21 March 12pm (BST) for the another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: @catsporter.bsky.social will give a talk titled "Exploring the Weather in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

overflowing centuries of visual abundance www.chartography.net/p/getting-lo...

"Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map" (ed. Kären Wigen) is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. A fantastic volume that recovers non-Western maps, critiques established practices, and offers new avenues for counter-cartography (e.g. my chapter). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map" (ed. Kären Wigen) is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social. A fantastic volume that recovers non-Western maps, critiques established practices, and offers new avenues for counter-cartography (e.g. my chapter). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

Just in time for the final day of the @dataculture.bsky.social project, our experimental article, ‘Reading Maps at a Distance’ is published (OA) in Imago Mundi: doi.org/10.1080/0308..., which was a blast to write with @kmcdono.bsky.social, Kaspar Beelen and Rosie Wood… #dh 🗃️ 1/2

You should read everything that @lscholz.bsky.social writes but this is particularly excellent, regardless of the epoch you are studying.

On advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

A “digital book burning” is under way at federal agencies. Can volunteer archivists and data hoarders save the country’s files from DOGE?

📣 Join the Data Advocacy For All team for a one-day symposium "Working with Data for Social Change" this Friday, March 14th, in person (CU Boulder) and over Zoom. For more information and a link to register: da4all.github.io/symposium-20...

Join us online on 12 March 3pm for another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: Wright Kennedy will give a talk titled "Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

Join us online on 12 March 3pm for another event in our series on Environmental Digital Humanities: Wright Kennedy will give a talk titled "Separate but Dead: Disease & Segregation in New Orleans, 1880-1915". #digitalhumanities #skystorians @kmcdono.bsky.social

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What kind of politics is needed to reorganise the planet–society metabolism in the Anthropocene? How can we develop new forms of legal imagination for a post-Enlightenment epoch? We hope to address these and other questions at Ca’ Foscari Venice; and there’s still time to submit a proposal!

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Wow this was a blast! Thanks to all our speakers including @kirstylilley.bsky.social @jolwalton.bsky.social @paulpunkt.bsky.social & many more!