Congratulations to Dr Kaspar Beelen (@dh-researchhub.bsky.social) and colleagues Dr Ruth Ahnert (@qmul.bsky.social), Dr Mariona Coll Ardanuy (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) and Dr Daniel Wilson (@ucl.ac.uk) who've received a grant from Schmidt Sciences to bring AI to humanities research.

Great #MultilingualDH food for thought, reflecting on global Englishes, the afterlives of British colonial education, and how that intersects with what writing is judged to be "human".

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. +

Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...

Our latest issue, Wasafiri 124: Presencia y Resistencia - British Latinx Writing & Art is now available to read for our digital subscribers and those with access to Taylor & Francis 💻 If you’re unable to access Wasafiri digitally, preorder the print issue: buff.ly/OWMJ4pb

Got to flip through @rondagrizzle.bsky.social's reviewer's copy & this book looks great—smart honest digital humanities understanding "failure" as useful & often necessary part of iterative, creative, experimental research (failures & methods/goals, not ethics/people) +

Thank you to the @ciol-linguists.bsky.social for sharing @drjoeford.bsky.social's recent article for @theconversation.com on the CIOL Voices blog. "Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world." Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh

The Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies' MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders explores how research methods of cultural and translation studies, linguistics, and area studies can be combined to offer new insights into complex societal issues. https://bit.ly/3O2gR3u

Get to know us! We have a new '5 minutes with' blog post, featuring @paulakennedy.bsky.social, Head of Publishing at @uolpress.bsky.social. Paula tells us about the journey the University of London Press has been on and why she feels open institutional publishing matters: oipauk.org/2025/12/03/5...

Editors' Choice: Teaching Bengali Digital Texts to Anglophone Undergraduates: What Voyant Reveals about the Infrastructural Bias of DH Tools

An article that I immensely enjoyed co-writing with a group of fantastic colleagues is out: publications-prairial.fr/encounters-i... In it, we discuss insight from a series of multilingual storytelling workshops we conducted in Ireland.

Rare opportunity for anyone working in the field of DH and Spanish. joblist.mla.org/job/2000675/...

Join us online tomorrow 2 December at 4pm @dh-researchhub.bsky.social I'm looking forward to discussing loss and precariousness in social media and other digital cultural heritage collections. This is an free event, but you need to register at the link below. ✨

**New article** on The Conversation UK about languages and the government's national curriculum review - theconversation.com/englands-nat... - @uk.theconversation.com @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist. Join us & bash the Fash?

It was a pleasure to work on these four beautiful magazines and collaborate with the many diverse individuals and institutions we worked with in 2025. We hope you'll pick up a copy, share with your friends, and support our work nurturing literary communities across the world.

AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns. AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration. #SaveNottinghamLanguages

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

**Open Day next Weds 26th Nov, 2-4pm at Senate House** for the 2026-7 intake on the intercollegiate MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders. Register your place: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @llc-rhul.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Happy publication day to possibly my favorite book chapter I've ever written, "Stop Lying to Yourself: Collective Delusion and Digital Humanities Grant Funding"! Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴

📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly @sas-news.bsky.social

Congratulations to @mjdonnay.bsky.social and @amsichani.bsky.social on publication day for Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship: uolpress.co.uk/book/reframi... (Open Access). Fantastic editors and team at @uolpress.bsky.social!

'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3

👋 Hi Bluesky! The School of Advanced Study, University of London champions the arts and humanities. Working through our renowned specialist institutes and centres of excellence, we offer a rich interdisciplinary environment for researchers to collaborate. Let's connect: 🔗 sas.ac.uk/

Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

You might have heard that the University of Nottingham plans to suspend all languages courses. This is very disappointing and heartbreaking. Here you can find their petition aimed at protecting Modern Languages at Nottingham. You can show your support by signing it. www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker

Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵

🪧A date for your diaries if you'd be interested in our training session, 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication', led by @drjoeford.bsky.social from @ilcs.bsky.social and our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social. 📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30 👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #AcademicPublishing

Our thanks go to @amsichani.bsky.social, co-editor of forthcoming #OpenAccess book, Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, who says: ‘The UoLP team is setting the standard for me for present and future academic publishing: quality-focused, human-driven, and open.’ uolpress.co.uk/publish-with...

Have you seen that the Language & Society Journal special issue on the Curriculum & Assessment Review editorial by Norbert Pachler, Zhu Hua, Wendy Ayres-Bennett and Charles Forsdick is now online? Definitely worth a read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @bldigischol.bsky.social www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

It's been another busy year for the Association! We are delighted to share some highlights of our activities, including updates on advocacy, Community Interest Groups, the Association’s governance, and our Annual Event. digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2025/10/21/2...

Come and work with us! We have a two-year, half-time postdoctoral research associate position working on the @storymachine-ht.bsky.social project www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... If you’re interested in #DigitalHumanities and/or folklore, we’d love to hear from you. Closing date 27 October.

We're delighted to announce four curated online writing workshops tutored by our inaugural International Translator in Residence, the International Booker Prize winning writer-translator, Deepa Bhasthi. The first pair of workshops will be held in autumn 2025. Registration: buff.ly/Gguo10u

Join us on 20 November for the Annual Digital Lecture, a partnership between The National Archives, UK and the School of Advanced Study. The wonderful @nannathylstrup.bsky.social will be speaking about ‘When saving becomes loss: archival memory in the digital age’. Free to register!

Please do sign up to join in our online conversation event on 21st November, 12 noon, about the recent report on language education in the UK from the @hepi-news.bsky.social by @meganlbowler.bsky.social, sponsored by #Duolingo Thanks to @ilcs.bsky.social for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...

Rethinking language education in the school curriculum in England www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A reminder about our new Digital Cultural Heritage series. We're working on the design for this exciting new short-form #OpenAccess series. See the details incl the full editorial advisory board: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #DigitalHumanities #Publishing #OpenResearch #DigitalCulturalHeritage

The call for a new ECA representative on the @ucflangs.bsky.social Executive Committee is still open! This role is a fantastic development opportunity, offering visibility and collaboration with senior academics, and the chance to strengthen your leadership skills. Please share and apply!

At @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social, we are hosting "The Transforming Research into Practice (TRiP)". Supported by the EuroSLA, the programme is dedicated to developing pathways for collaboratively transforming research findings into practical teaching resources and practices.

We are delighted to welcome Vicky Garnett, Graeme Kemp, Valentina Vavassori and Sharon Webb to our governing collective 🎉 We look forward to working with Vicky, Graeme, Valentina and Sharon over the next 3 years. digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2025/09/02/w... digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/people/

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

We've published a new blog post outlining the free training sessions we have on our website. If you're a researcher in the #humanities interested in #publishing and #OpenAccess, there may be something useful for you in there! 👇 uolpress.co.uk/2025/08/navi...

Tomorrow is the *final opportunity to apply for our MA in Languages, Cultures and Societies* - co-delivered with RHUL, UCL, QMUL, ULIP and KCL Language Centre! www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...

We are inviting proposals for the 2025 round of the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme. Please submit your expression of interest by Monday 4 August! More information: www.sas.ac.uk/research-eng...

Celebrate South Asian Heritage Month with writing, interviews, and art from across the continent, specially curated from our decades-long archive – including names like Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, V S Naipaul, Afsan Chowdhury, Abeer Hoque, and many more. Just £30 for all four issues:

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...