Training AI on regional data helps, but isn't enough. Even locally-built datasets can carry their own biases. Moraes & Sousa argue that treating data as a meaning-making system matters as much as where it comes from. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics #responsibleAI

Just a quick reminder that registration for in-person tickets to our 2026 Annual Event closes on Monday. So get your tickets before you log off for the bank holiday weekend! #DH #DigitalHumanities #DigitalHeritage

The more things change: Digital Humanities in a tumultuous world. The @ucldh.bsky.social welcomes Melissa Terras (University of Edinburgh) for the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture to talk about the role of community, and the importance of data and software sovereignty. buff.ly/76fK8fH

We’re thrilled to announce a series of four online writing and translation workshops led and curated by Wasafiri’s Translator in Residence (Endangered Languages), @juanapoetry.bsky.social. Workshops will take place monthly from June-September.

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: “Beyond the Book: Digital Research, Presentation, and Sustainability,” Organized by the project Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data ⏰️ Submission deadline: July 15, 2026 🔗 More info & submission: closingthegap.github.io/workshop/

Awesome! The first issue of "Digital Humanities Intersections" has been published! https://dhi.iiti.ac.in/index.php/dhjournal/index DHI is a new "open-access, peer-reviewed journal committed to advancing multilingual and interdisciplinary research in Digital Humanities." Check it out!

In this essay, Deepa Bhasthi defends untranslatability, the intentional choice to not translate text, as a necessary practice. She draws on Kannada words that feel too complex or hyperlocal to be translated into a single English word. buff.ly/lS11LRS

JOB: Research Associate in Latin American Studies, Bristol. Women Walkers in Latin America project, focus on Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Mexico. Need PhD, fluency in Spanish and/or Portuguese, archival and/or fieldwork experience in Latin America. Apply by 7 June 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO186/r...

Join us at the British Library for the final Doctoral Open Day in the series (Friday 29th June). Sessions on digital archives, digitization, collections metadata & AI in digital humanities! Also a chance to talk to curators & reference specialists about your research. events.bl.uk/events/docto...

Join us in Brighton on 18th June for the 2026 @oipassoc.bsky.social Symposium! Info ⬇️ Panels cover the importance of non-profit open access publishing in the financial HE context and advocacy featuring @theblochian.bsky.social, @rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy and others + member lightning talks

The last of our big announcements (maybe the best?)... applications are now open for new Community Interest Groups! Want to build a DH community around a shared interest or issue? We’re looking for up to 5 new groups. 🗓 Deadline: 29 June 2026 👉 digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026/05/14/c... #DH

Join us online on 9 June for a timely transatlantic conversation about defending, celebrating and securing the future of the arts, humanities and social sciences. With colleagues from @acls1919.bsky.social, @artsandhums.bsky.social and @britishacademy.bsky.social. Book now: https://bit.ly/4dv1w9h

‘Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage’ is now out in the wild! You can download an open-access copy (PDF) or read the free digital edition on Manifold uolpress.co.uk/book/explori.... Loved working on this with Eirini Goudarouli, @amsichani.bsky.social & the @uolpress.bsky.social team.

Just one week left to submit to our creative call 👟 We're looking for your best fiction or nonfiction — we welcome innovative creative writing that in form, focus, or theme seeks to expand the boundaries of global literary culture. DEADLINE: Midnight BST, 1 May 2026 Submit:

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

"most #AI systems are taught on large western-centric text, mainly from North America & Europe" Result? 💔 hidden #bias that favors western cultural values 💔 reflects societal inequalities 💔 underrepresented voices diminished/ignored #langsky 🗣💬 @academic-chatter.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3cxzjy5x

Still time to vote in #DH Awards 2025, the #DigitalHumanities Awards awareness event. Anyone can vote (once) up until 2026-04-17. Anyone? Yes, anyone. Your aunt can vote, your highschool friend can vote, anyone! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... (or secure form directly at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...)

Two of our brilliant contributors - @quinnanya.me and @arimare.bsky.social - have been nominated for this year's @dhawards.bsky.social! Please give them a vote! @amsichani.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

RESHAPED has launched a new course, Responsible AI in Cultural Heritage, developed by Dr @amsichani.bsky.social through an Arts and Humanities Research Council @ukri.org-funded @braiduk.bsky.social Fellowship in partnership with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our online course on Born-Digital Research is nominated for the DH Awards: dhawards.org/dhawards2025.... You can access our course for free on RESHAPED: reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view.... @sas-news.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @beatricecannelli.bsky.social @caiomellodh.bsky.social

Novelist Santanu Bhattacharya is the Fiction judge for the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. In this essay, he shares his guidance on staying true to the global majority story you want to tell, based off his own experiences and reflections as a published author. buff.ly/ulR9hkl

NEW | 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' Edited by @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social, this collection considers how digital tools shape and are shaped by Greater South language communities. @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/Digital-Lives-Blog

The third seminar in this year’s @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on ‘The Fragile Record’ is concerned with ‘Cultural heritage under attack: saving cultural data in times of crisis’, 31 March, 16.00-17.30 BST. Free to attend online, but you’ll need to register.

Are you a researcher looking for best practice advice and practical tips for running engagement activities with the public? Our Public Engagement Hub on RESHAPED supports researchers in developing knowledge and skills in public engagement with humanities research. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bu4zhx

New podcast episode + blog: we talk to RESHAPED about the skills humanities researchers need today cut across disciplines, career stages, and institutions and how RESHAPED is building the training to match. https://blog.humanities.org.uk/reshapedbuildinginfrastructure #MappingtheArtsandHumanities

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

Job Announcement: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator at the Library of Virginia

Secondly, check out our Book Symposium, where scholars across the field discuss recent publications on inclusive and decolonial perspectives in linguistics. It begins with Erica Britt's thoughtful reflection on inclusivity and positionality: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I wrote a piece for Wasafiri about living in multiple languages and finding home. With thanks to the thoughtful editors at @wasafirimag.bsky.social www.wasafiri.org/content/medi...

We’re developing Mapping the Humanities and AI with the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social's @amsichani.bsky.social and Shani Evenstein Sigalov to visualise networks, gaps, and collaboration. Learn more here: blog.humanities.org.uk/2026/02/25/i... #MappingtheArtsandHumanities

Excellent overview of some of our work in experimental publishing @uolpress.bsky.social by our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social at #copimconference ‘Publishers as collaborators’ and experimental publishing as part of positive research culture 👏 @oipassoc.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Great new post to join a wonderful department: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/139585-...

❓What can a social-justice oriented, pluriversal sociolinguistics look like? @yecidortega.bsky.social reflects on this question in his review essay of 3 brilliant new books on critical sociolinguistics, language & social justice. Early view version here! 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morphss-open-research-report

The 1st book in an exciting brand new #OpenAccess series on #DigitalCulture, Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage by Eirini Goudarouli from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @amsichani.bsky.social and @jfwinters.bsky.social from @sas-news.bsky.social, May 2026: uolpress.co.uk/book/explori...

- Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity by @theapitman.bsky.social, Sandra De Berduccy & Andreas Rauh - Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies by @nottinauta.bsky.social & @palaeofuturist.bsky.social

- Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law by @gwenseabourne.bsky.social & @jhmccunn.bsky.social - Literature for Change by Charles Burdett, @drjoeford.bsky.social, Godela Weiss-Sussex & @naswells.bsky.social

We're recruiting for new Wasafiri trustees with expertise in the following areas: Legal, Treasurer/Finance, Fundraising. The deadline to apply has been extended to Sunday 1 March. Please share in your networks! Full details:

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

🚨 * VACANCY! * We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small, friendly team. More info below: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ⏰ Deadline: Sun 15th Feb Please share with your networks! #PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing @oipassoc.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social

REMINDER! Deadline for Call for Papers coming up on 30 Jan. "Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices" Still time to submit your proposal 👇

Today the @softwaresaved.bsky.social alongside our international partners launches the 2026 Research Software Engineering Survey. If you write code for academic research we want to hear from you - even if you have a different job title. @society-rse.org @ukiedh.bsky.social @dariaheu.bsky.social

We spoke to our British Latinx issue guest editors – writer and lecturer Karina Lickorish Quinn and poet Leo Boix – about their journeys of editing this landmark issue. They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more. buff.ly/0fD2Noa

Wonderful to look back on #UKDARIAHDay! 🔮 Colleagues from SAS, King's & Edinburgh reflect on the future of digital infrastructure. Huge thanks to Lisa Otty & Edinburgh Futures Institute for leading such an inspiring event! ✨ tinyurl.com/569v2erx #DigitalHumanities

We’ve updated our ‘Training Hub’ on our @uolpress.bsky.social website - please share! All docs and videos featured from training sessions are now accessible and easier to find, with extra resources added to help students, researchers and anyone keen to find out more about academic publishing…

We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below. Application deadline: 15 February, 2026 buff.ly/yibsATf

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-...

I'm happy to share a creative zine, "Ten annoying things about digitizing under-resourced and under-represented languages - And what might help fixing them" from our OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities held at CEU: zenodo.org/records/1823...

There are just 3 weeks left to submit your proposal for the 2026 Annual Event, to be held at the University of Southampton, 15-16 June. Theme: Sustainability. digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2026-annual-... Questions about the CFP? Join our drop-in session on Wednesday www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Well worth checking these SAS Reshaped Humanities resources out. Courses and hubs available include Open Access in the Humanities, Public Engagement, Interviews as a Research Method, Digital Humanities, Going Freelance with a Humanities PhD and more. Free, but you'll need to register. 2/2