Extraordinary piece by the renowned Argentinian investigative journalist and author Uki Goñi on how his country’s president is going all in on the tech bro dream of an AI network state www.thenerve.news/p/uki-goni-a...

Covers for the 1st books in our #OpenAccess series, Understanding Languages, Cultures & Societies, are now up on our website 😍 1st is Literature for Change: The Case for Literary Research Across Languages and Cultures, published w/ funding from @acls1919.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/literat...

In perhaps our most devastating briefing we find early career staff in the humanities as a whole have declined by 20% since 2016/17. Between 23/24 and 24/25 early career staff across all SHAPE subject areas fell by 6%, (from 52,795 to 49,410 FPE). That is the pipeline for our disciplines

This Friday, the Jamaican poet and writer @jallenpaisant.bsky.social will deliver a keynote performance titled SNOW as part of our two-part event, Bodies of Knowledge. 🗓️Friday, 10 July, 7–8pm BST 🏫BLOC Cinema, Queen Mary University of London 🎟️£10 for keynote only

We're hiring @warwick-smlc.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Translation and Multilingual Communication 3-year fixed-term, teaching-focused, Sept 2026 start. We want colleagues whose work engages with communication across languages, modes, and communities. Closing: 23 July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSA855/a...

Colleagues at the University of Exeter need your support! ✍️ Sign the petition: c.org/yKcx6Zr29H The University of Exeter is to cut about 150 staff. The proposed reduction is almost exclusively focused on roles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, among them Modern Languages and English.

It looks like what I predicted is exactly what is happening—the bias against writing deemed to be non-native has now shifted to bias against writing deemed to be AI generated with the same disproportional impacts on scholars from the Global South. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Indigenous Mexican poet Irma Pineda writes in Didxazá, one of the variants in the Zapotec language family. Read four of her poems in Didxazá and Spanish on our website, translated by @wendycall.bsky.social. They are accompanied by an additional translator's note.

Cool post at the British Library! Barker Postdoctoral Fellow in Born-Digital Archives: 'Co-design a research project for a 12-month funded-fellowship, embedded in our expert curatorial and research teams'. LLMs for Personal Digital Archives ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Where does a degree in Languages and Cultures Across Borders take you? 🌍✨ Whether you're passionate about migration, environmental humanities, or global justice, this programme equips you with a versatile toolkit for a global career. 🔗 Explore career pathways and apply today: sas.ac.uk/lcab

How do seemingly race-neutral policies shape access to the teaching profession? Lisa Panford examines the impact of recent bursary changes on Black African international language teachers in the UK. Read full article here: www.lspjournal.com/post/bursary...

NEW TITLE | The Politics of Open Infrastructures: Power, Governance, and Justice in Digital Knowledge Practices, edited by Katja Mayer, Astrid Mager and Renée Ridgway Read freely or buy a copy: buff.ly/vI0ZShM #OAbooks #OpenInfrastructures #OpenAccess

New issue of the European Journal of Language Policy, now open access for 2026 via #S2O 🎉 Explore cutting-edge work on multilingualism, power, policy & AI across global contexts. Read it freely: bit.ly/EJLP-18-1 #Multilingualism #AIandLanguage @conchurog.bsky.social

The 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize closes for entries in 3 weeks! In the spirit of the prize being open to work in translation, and to help spread the word, we have gathered some translations of the reminder message from our team — we speak 10 languages between us! buff.ly/lCtABV0

🗣️ Accessibility Conversations: @uolpress.bsky.social [email protected] shares the main drivers on their #Accessibility journey Legal compliance with the European Accessibility Act? OR ... Commitment to ensure their books are as accessible to as many as possible 🔗

Announcing our new #OpenAccess #DigitalCulturalHeritage series - thanks @sas-news.bsky.social! And thanks to the authors of the inaugural volume: @amsichani.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social & Eirini Goudarouli @uknatarcsector.bsky.social. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Languages are not in decline - access is. Our colleagues Marcela Andrea Cazzoli and Ana Medeiros show that the problem is not student aspriation, but structured access. Don't miss this very important read: wonkhe.com/blogs/modern...

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....