[DH Talk] Visualising Translation Studies: Enhancing Historiographical Knowledge through Digital Methods. Join Philipp and I in exploring how digital technology is revolutionizing translation history research! Scan the QR code to register!

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Come and join us! 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 &/𝐚𝐬 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞" Speaker: Prof. Jessica Pressman (San Diego State University) Chair: Dr. Lidia Zhou Mengyuan (Department of Translation) Details could be found at instagram.com/p/DQLJ2NLD836/

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

@unsloth.ai releases a Docker image Train LLMs locally with no setup: just run the image and go. Includes every pre-made Unsloth notebook. No more environment issues. docs.unsloth.ai/new/how-to-t...

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

I've also been talking about this with colleagues and friends lately. Where do we even draw the line between DH researchers and those using AI in the humanities—if there's a line at all?

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #emca #linguistics #sts

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation. Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...

DHQ Language Survey - We want to hear from YOU! We're working to better understand our community's language needs. Help shape DHQ's multilingual future! Click here to take the survey: purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Okay Bluesky, I need your help. I'm looking for some recommendations: What are your favourite tools/examples for #TopicModeling, #Stylometry, and #NetworkAnalysis? Please comment below or DM me. And feel free to repost. #DigitalHumanities #NLP #NLProc

Excited to co-organize the Bridging Human and LLM Annotations for Social Science tutorial at #ic2s2 tomorrow! Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates. Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...

Please come and join us at CUHK!

#DH2025 I will be chairing and presenting on a panel focused on "Accessibility and CARE Principles in the Age of AI" on July 18th, 11:00-12:30. Please join the discussion with our brilliant panelists! DHers, see you all soon in #Lisbon!

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

🎉 Excited to share our new preprint on generative AI disclosure practices in Digital Humanities! We explore how DH scholars perceive and navigate GenAI use in their work. Huge thanks to all who participated in the survey! 🙏 Link: www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.03216

#DH2025 I will be attending the DH2025 conference along with colleagues from Schmidt Sciences. This will be the first time I'm there but NOT as an NEH employee. If you will be at the conference, please attend our HAVI funding session on Tuesday at 1PM. www.conftool.pro/dh2025/index...

[CFP] My department and the Centre for Translation Technology at CUHK is organizing the Conference of "Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II” on 15-17 December 2025. Details are at dh2025.tra.cuhk.edu.hk, papers, workshops, panels all welcome! Please come and join us in HK! Deadline: 30 July

I’m a literary scholar. I teach digital humanities. Last week, I wrote peer reviews for a sociology journal. Tomorrow, I’m headed to a book history conference. Another reason why the “spreadsheet men” framing is unhelpful is that it collapses distinct fields with distinct intellectual traditions.

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research! Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting! for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Spent wonderful days in Leeds! First time at #ESTcongress - great catching up with friends & colleagues worldwide! Next stop: #ADHO2025 Lisbon! 🇵🇹

Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

1M public domain books now available digitally, through our Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard.

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code. #DigitalHumanities #RStats link.springer.com/book/9783031...

New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +

Invited by Shiraz University's Digital Humanities Association, I'll be presenting my work with @tedunderwood.me on classifying English poetry tomorrow at 8:30am US Central Time via Google Meet. Excited to be part of the growing global conversation on DH, including students and scholars from Iran!

The “Mapping German fiction in translation” dataset consists of 35,972 translated titles of fiction originally published in German between 1980-2020 by 6,457 authors in 86 languages." Check out the newest dataset published at JCA by Lisa Teichmann! 🤩 culturalanalytics.org/article/1280...

Had a great time at the first HKADH conference! Caught up with many old friends from ADHO 2024 and met new colleagues and experts from around the world! Wonderful keynote speeches by @miguelev.bsky.social and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social. Next year, HKADH will be held at my university, CUHK! 😉