Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once | Discussion

Also check out Michelle Wang's "Global Medieval Studies is a Failure," which is absolute 🔥 and also argues that comparative studies might be a better path forward than "global" ones. doi.org/10.1086/738440

✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements. dracor.org Release notes: github.com/dracor-org/d... github.com/dracor-org/d... #DigitalHumanities

Interdisciplinary research ftw…!

Already finished mine. 🙏🏻

#ai tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #openaccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have […]

Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Would it be too controversial if conferences start charging a nominal fee like $5 or $10 USD to prevent the submission of random and generic abstracts "written" using generative AI? I waste so much time these days reviewing absolute junk.

📢 #DH2026 Submissions Now Closed! We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support! The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates. See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷 🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...

This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT

This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).

Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...

Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

Feeling some major FOMO... but I'll meet Miguel soon.

Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!

The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021. In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb Graphic: HKFP.

The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021. In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb Graphic: HKFP.

Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.

📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂 📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences! 🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp

Yes, please. hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/h...

STATISTICS?!

The blog post in question, I assume: maria-antoniak.github.io/2022/07/27/t...

Well we have my blog post but given stubbornness to only consult things in PDF format, I’ve been working on a more formal version. Let me know if anyone is interested in helping! I’m so so tired of hearing that “topic modeling didn’t work for my data” from people who didn’t follow best practices.

Hear it from one of the OGs himself!

It's funny, when I've spoken to some ML people---including, just recently, Dave Blei himself---the question is often, "who's still using topic models?" Meanwhile in DH/Social science, it's "please, enough topic models!"

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

I felt like making a chart about academic novels I've read. Here's the result. I don't have an overall favorite among these, but I'll share a few standouts in the thread:

In Chap 10 of #ComputationalHumanities, @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen argue for diachronic search in digital history. Computation loves abstraction and generality, humanists love specificity. How do we balance these? dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

Hot take: ban topic modeling in digital humanities for a year. It'll do wonders for the field. I'm thinking of banning it in my classes.

Olmo 3 32B Think is now free on Open Router until 12/22. Let us know what you think and what to improve! (Hosted by Parasail) This may give it the hug of death... would be my dream. openrouter.ai/allenai/olmo...

At long last! Thank you for everything, @alanyliu.bsky.social. Eternally indebted. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...

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

Harvard should sack anybody who had anything to do with Epstein and use the money to load up on a bunch of promising junior faculty; lord knows there are a ton of great people out there to choose from

Turns out that C. Wright Mills was right on when he said that there is a "power elite." Though for our generation it seems to be an outlandish collection of finance, tech and crypto bros, academics, influencers, grifters, degenerates, perverts, cranks, buffoons, rich Nazis, and fabulists.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

For the morning crowd - thread below about our new article on historical bias in digitized British newspaper collections #dh #skystorians @rs4vp.org @vpreditors.bsky.social @thenacbs.bsky.social

You know, I don't use the terms art history, comparative literature, and philosophy loosely. Why is it that digital humanities is tossed around as if it can be loosely applied to everything and everywhere without any effort to define the scope of what it means and represents?

We are featured in over 50 news outlets today: PhD student David Mahoney's research using web archives, @archive.org, to measure historic website emissions, offering a new method and open-source code for analysing & highlighting online environmental impact. www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/11/c...

Some interesting stuff here on measuring writing quality and improving on qualitative tasks: www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/h...

Microfiche in the digital age 📄💻 Visitors at the Physical Archive tour last month saw how microfiche is preserved digitally. You can, too! Watch the #livestream, 7:30 AM–Midnight PT, scanning & preserving public records in real time — all to mellow #lofi vibes. 📡 www.youtube.com/live/SxUjwZY...

📢 NEW FAQ added to #DH2026 CFP! ✅You can submit multiple proposals ✅Max 2 presentations as lead presenter (long/short) ✅Posters: no limit, but in-person only & no AI translation ✅Workshops/mini-conferences: not counted toward limit ⏰Deadline: Dec 8 dh2026.adho.org/cfp/

NY smartphone ban has made lunch loud again | Discussion

I've seen an alternative argument going around that academics should instead step back and essentially see how things play out with AI, having confidence that if it sticks around (and doesn't go the way of the MOOC) it'll be adapted to academic needs and vice versa, like email, the internet +

An Air Canada flight right now

#LifeinSeoul tip: Avoid Gwangmyeong station at all costs.

Virtual Philosophers / 홍콩대 www.kadh.org/virtual-phil...

Starting soon. #KADH2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbg...

KADH2025 학술대회, 지금 유튜브 생중계를 시작합니다! 🔴 아래 링크에서 바로 시청하세요. The KADH2025 Conference is now LIVE on YouTube! 🔴 Watch the live stream here: www.youtube.com/live/-pbgdoA...

Available volume 19.2 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, dedicated to AI and Digital Humanities. Guest editors @miguelev.bsky.social and @javiercha.bsky.social. Amazing work from them and from all the authors. With 3 articles in open access😍! www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2