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...

Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr

Interested in translating or adapting a Programming Historian for your community? Join our webinar to hear our best practices, workflows, and learn how we can support your independent efforts! 31 July – 14:30 BST Tickets remaining ph-community-adaptations.eventbrite.co.uk

✨ The Languages in UK Education special issue is now complete! Many thanks to our guest editors @wendya-b.bsky.social & @cforsdick.bsky.social for compiling this important collection, and to every contributor for sharing bold ideas to shape language education policy. 🔗 www.lspjournal.com

❗ EOI: Closing Soon ❗ The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is seeking 3 new members to join their governing collective. To find out more about UK-IE DHA and their governance plans check out buff.ly/SpmqYXv and submit your Expression of Interest by July 11th 📝 buff.ly/XibwZJw

Curriculum and Assessment Review: ILCS, ALL and UCFL issue a statement. 'The development of a sustainable model for language provision across the whole of the educational sector is of the highest concern to all members of the subject community' Read the statement: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...

'Watch the Policy Dimensions of Research' Olivia Glaze (@oliviaglaze.bsky.social), the current MHRA Languages and Policy Postdoctoral Researcher, gave an inspiring webinar under the auspices of the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) in May, and the video is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkdg...

Fewer pupils in less affluent English schools taking languages, survey finds Less than half taking foreign languages GCSEs compared with 69% in most prosperous state schools www.theguardian.com/education/20...

What does it really mean to think like a linguist? Charlotte Ryland argues it's time to move beyond grammar drills and embrace creativity, culture, and collaboration in language education. 🔗 www.lspjournal.com/post/think-l... ✍️ Collection Edited by @wendya-b.bsky.social & @cforsdick.bsky.social

Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!

Our next free training session, which anyone can register to join, is an overview of books publishing. It provides a comprehensive overview of the process of getting your academic book published. 📅 Weds 18th June, 2-3:30pm, online Register for your place here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨 New book alert 🚨 I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out... Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

#DigitalHumanities folk in Ireland and the UK, please consider completing this UK-Ireland DH Association survey on advocacy within and for DH. Your responses will help to shape Association policy and practice in the future. Thank you!

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University 👉Sign the petition: chng.it/K2zRY6Jqqt 👉Share the petition with family/friends/networks. 👉Send emails outlining your objections. For details and templates visit the website: www.stopcutsinmlatbangor.uk/home/

🚨 * VACANCY! * We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small and friendly team. More info below: www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ⏰ Deadline: Mon 9th June Please share with your networks! #PublishingJobs #AcademicPublishing @oipassoc.bsky.social

Excited to hear this drop through the letter box just now!!! The Routledge Companion to Transnational Web Archive Studies is now out in hard copy - order one for your library today and read about it in Helena Byrne’s @britishlibrary.bsky.social blogpost👇 blogs.bl.uk/webarchive/2...

#DigitalHumanities seminar this afternoon (16:00 BST): Digital Humanities PhDs and Creative Practice: an online discussion panel. Register for zoom link at www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

NEW POST - Around the World with the OABN: Mexico The latest post in our Around the World series, 'El Acceso Abierto en México y los retos de las políticas públicas' by Édgar García Valencia is now available in Spanish & English: 🔗 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/04/23/a... #OAbooks

🔈Final call for survey respondents! I'm looking for those who have done a doctorate in languages and then moved into another field. 📝 Survey: forms.office.com/e/kZCtYVSn8t ❗Participant Information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Join us on April 11th at 11:30 CET for "Multilingual DH & Its Users: A UX-based Community Exploration" with Cosima Wagner, David Wrisley, and myself, as part of the @dariaheu.bsky.social #FridayFrontiers webinar series! Free and open to the public! Register here: www.dariah.eu/2025/03/12/f...

Ya está impreso y listo: Humanidades digitales. Miradas, experiencias y proyecciones desde América Latina. Coordinado por Leonor Riesco T. y publicado por la Universidad San Sebastián. www.buscalibre.com.mx/libro-humani...

The UK's Languages Crisis: Time to Embrace Our Imperfection? www.lspjournal.com/post/the-uk-...

In advance of our roundtable on our edited collection on graduate education in the digital humanities, here's the OA Manifold version of the collection, available for annotation, contestation, debate -- dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/dig...

‘Language is not an ancillary service. It is crucial for expanding understanding of key issues of our age beyond anglophone perspectives and assumptions.’ A response by @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social and St. Andrews School of Modern Languages. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...

We're celebrating Pi Day this week! 🥧 To mark the date, we'll be hosting an interactive exhibit exploring bias in machine learning using Raspberry Pi computers. Come join us in Senate House on Friday! www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...