New! Anuli Akanegbu’s report “(404) Job Not Found” interrogates what it means to be perceived as “AI literate” in today’s labor market, & how those perceptions are shaping the career outcomes of Black workers who are already navigating a wide range of inequities. 1/6 datasociety.net/library/404-...

interesting read. don’t love the transactional framing and the metaphor breaks down a bit for me (feels more like we are cultivating a garden than letting in and then breeding AI alligators) but I agree with a lot of what’s in here.

Rahman: "We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being." She ends with this: "I am not afraid. And I am not afraid to keep working on this problem, even after ICE is gone."

“Good Frankensteins make good neighbors.” -Robert Frost

Co-Star really wants me to resubscribe and I don’t hate this approach tbh

Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing zdnet.com/article/fran... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social It's not about the French government not trusting US tech companies… Whoops, actually, it is. They're far from alone.

Nota bene, teacher friends! 🗃️ 🍎

"AI detection should not be used in education due to its methodological imperfections, violation of procedural fairness, and unverifiable outputs."

when you dig into this story you learn that the PILOT deal cuts local colleges sweetheart tax breaks (25% of what they should owe) and most of the schools (including Northeastern, towards the bottom of that infographic) don’t even pay that: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/30/b...

Lovely essay on RSS: “Every interface is an argument about how you should feel.”

ACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu

two snow days in a row for SSU and i feel like i earned it after multiple rounds of shoveling tbh

For those following. Here is the paper plane project prompt, instructions, etc. en español and in English.

My first non-work reading and writing preoccupation of 2026 is digging back into William Butler Yeats. If you have any recs for readings (academic or otherwise), please send them my way!

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...

In Advice: If you don’t want students to default to AI, the classroom has to become the laboratory for practicing the skills that you care about: reading, writing, problem solving, thinking, and creating. https://chroni.cl/3YsSVMc

Pleased to partner with Philip Morris on our “healthy smoking in schools” initiative

Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here. cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...

I wrote about some of 2025's big generative AI developments and their implications for historians: multimodal generation, deep research, and handwriting transcription. In short, we need to stop dismissing this as nothing more than "autocomplete on steroids." cblevins.github.io/posts/gen-ai...

The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer: Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AI came up at a dinner party over the weekend and someone was talking about how their managers encourage even their high-performing employees to use AI to work faster, which was a perfect talking point to the perspective that AI is a fantasy of management culture where labor is further dehumanized.

Hi friends, in case you missed it, I am offering some writing and editing services in the new year. If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨ halperta.com/categories/e...

The collateral damage of people upset (often with good reasons) about generative AI is their digital humanities colleagues. It’s outpacing 2010 levels of vitriol, by a lot. The irony is we’re the best allies — we understand how the tech works and can translate between the doom and the hype. +

The CFP for ACH2026 is now live: ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/ The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual. Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!

I had a great conversation with Fatima Seck for this episode of Conversations in Atlantic Theory where I discuss Binding Media. I have aversion to listening to my recorded voice but hopefully you won’t 🥸

an Ancient Aliens meme from the Our Marathon project’s meme collection is the most viewed file in Northeastern’s Digital Repository Service. Appreciate my old coworker Sarah Sweeney sharing this data point and others! librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276987&fbc...

I am beyond thrilled to share some good news: 1. I've moved to a new job at UC Santa Barbara. 2. We have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Both, we hope, will allow us to continue building the work! + hfa.ucsb.edu/news/schmidt...

i know i am extremely late to the party but this play is great. particularly enjoyable if you are a lapsed literary scholar like me I suppose

It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️

Some great books and articles on archives and libraries that came out in 2025. In no specific order. 🧵

🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

And maybe one day we may even realize that "language" and "text" or even "writing" are not the same thing either; and definitely not synonymous of "intelligence"

We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes

"Digital humanities methodologies might serve as useful counters and correctives to desires to prioritize AI outsourcing and integrations at the expense of pedagogy." New blog post from me on digital pedagogy in the age of AI: jimmcgrath.us/teaching/dig...

Feeling inspired by this talk from instructional designer Jim McGrath about use of AI in higher education ❤️

I posted the talk I gave at the annual POD Network conference last week: "Digital Processes, Not Products: Embracing Digital Ephemerality and Iteration." Topics include AI, digital pedagogy, hypertext, and more! jimmcgrath.us/teaching/dig...

Players are roleplaying in Fortnite to teach each other their rights when encountering ICE officials “I would slip [the warrant] under the door, but there’s no space under the door,” the agent says. The civilian pauses. “Well. Sounds like a personal problem.” www.404media.co/ice-defense-...

Very sad to hear that poet Charles Coe has passed away. I was lucky enough to have dinner with him and some mutual friends a few years ago and he was so lovely. www.charlescoe.org/about

that brief span of time where it seemed like there was a Ranch 1 on every block of Manhattan

Salem State University's Center for Teaching Innovation (where I work) has done a light website refresh with some more information about our faculty support work. A first step in raising CTI's profile a bit beyond SSU campus! www.salemstate.edu/cti

If anyone I know is heading to POD in San Diego next week (provided air travel doesn't get worse by then), let me know! I'll be giving a talk on digital pedagogy in the age of AI, iteration, and third-party tools. Also looking for San Diego recs: pinball, book/comic shops, and museums/exhibits.

i feel like we could be making a bigger deal out of this, fellow Celtics fans

“The Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.” Check our article instead, which uses conversations not individually chosen for public sharing, actually describes our methods and data, and finds quite different distributions for how people use ChatGPT and personal info disclosed in their chats.

another new Frankenstein adaptation has dropped this year, courtesy of The Onion

Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

@davidbessis.bsky.social 's recent episode on Russ Roberts' EconTalk is extraordinary. www.econtalk.org/a-mind-blowi... . I highly recommend it to anyone in *any* field of study. I cannot wait to read his book _Mathematica_, especially since I already see so much of Borges baked in there.

Great to see a new issue of Current Research in Digital History!