I agree that we don’t already know how to teach “AI literacy” well. But I also think literacy is too modest a goal. College students should graduate knowing how ML works; it’s liberal knowledge analogous to RNA or trig, not search-engine skills or Excel. And we do know how to teach it in that way.

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio adoptastation.org

New this morning, a Comment I contributed to Nature Computational Science on the interaction between large language models and the humanities. 🧪 🤖 #MLSky rdcu.be/etk07 The link above will be open-access for a month — plus, I'll reply to this post with a link to a permanently open preprint. +

Hi 📚 friends! I wrote a reflection article for the latest issue of the Journal of Library Administration. It's about my experiences with applying the lessons of slow librarianship to management:

"When people write things drawing on ideas I recognize from the literature without citing them, I feel a kind of rage because either they think their idea is novel due to not doing the reading or they know their idea is not novel and they have elected to pass it off as so."

#DHMakes edges finished! What do you think?

To put it another way—no one in power in 2025—not politicians, not tech oligarchs, not business tycoons—seem in the least concerned that AI might challenge them or our power structures—& that is an important media history distinction we should notice & learn from, practically & intellectually (3/4)

Very curious if yr turning on the PRIMO AI research assistant or not. Today I heard about 2 big academic library systems + one big university library saying *no* & not turning it on. I'd love to see what the landscape looks like. Is your library turning on PRIMO ai research assistant? Why/why not?

An interesting question in a students’ reflection on "format" across book & digital media. With books, we have associations of prestige with particular formats—is the same true for file formats? To put it simply, are some file formats—consciously or subconsciously—"fancier" than others?

Thiiiiis. I want things like “vaccine uptake high enough for herd immunity” and “public transit”, and I literally cannot provide them for myself.

That last question — when we are in the position to rebuild, what will we need to have? (when, not if!) — is one I arrived at after listening to a team I’m on trying to figure out what to do about our grant funding being rescinded. It’s really the question that is keeping me going.

Now that I've used bluesky for liveposting a conference, can I say that I love that it *requires* me to include alt text before posting media? Accessible by design!

When my students ask me "what was the most significant change in the last 100 years?" they always expect me to say "the Internet" or "space travel." But most Americans fundamentally don't understand either "some of your siblings will die young" or "women are pregnant or nursing for 1/2 their lives."

SRO in Data-Driven Approaches to Historical Collections at #BostonDH25 - first up is Digital Engagement with Art Collections with Peter Botticelli from Simmons

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

After some technical difficulties, next up at #BostonDH25 is "AI, Open Scholarship and Access to the Human Record", from Greg Crane, Sarah Abowitz, Alison Babeu, Peter Nadel, Charles Pletcher (Tufts University); James Tauber (Signum U); Clifford Wulfman (Princeton).

Reupping this starter pack for a new era of scarcity in #dh cc #bostondh25

@roopikarisam.bsky.social on applying The Questions of Minimal Computing to our present fraught moment: 1) What do we need? 2) What do we have? 3) What must we prioritize? 4) What are we willing to give up? www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2... #bostondh25 #DigitalHumanities

@roopikarisam.bsky.social: "our cultures are our past, present, and future" and deserve preservation even in (especially in) dire circumstances #bostondh25

Testing… 1…2…3 (is this on?) 🙂 #bostondh25

I'm @ the Greater Boston Digital Research & Pedagogy Symposium at @bpl.boston.gov today: bostondh.org/symposium-20... Thank you to all the institutions (Northeastern, Brown, Tufts, BC, BPL, Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Ctr) that have come together to support this #digitalhumanities community

There's so many worse things happening in the government/White House right now, but this hits home. The NEH ODH had an incredible, positive impact on humanities scholarship -- supporting so many great projects over the years.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Lobbying my university to hire these folks, including Scott, and you should be doing the same. Every university would benefit from having this level of expertise in our data management and similar offices.

If someone lost a grant, here's advice for how to appeal that decision. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five... From @thetransmitter.bsky.social <6/n>

Boosting: if you use a public library in the US and use Libby, Hoopla, or interlibrary loan, or have family and friends who do- that funding may be gone as IMLS is dismantled by DOGE. 🗃️

Recently I realized that Smartfood white cheddar popcorn, the snack of snacks, did not taste as good as it used to. Was it me? Please accept my mad investigation into the recipe www.eater.com/24394718/sma...

Was at a local bar last night & one regular—who works at the university, in another department—was chatting with another regular—a retired dude I would describe as "well meaning but not politically engaged"—their chat demonstrated for me just what’s getting through to "normal" folks & what isn’t +

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

Hey, @wellesleycollege.bsky.social is hiring a Science Librarian! Come work with an amazing team of dedicated, deeply collaborative librarians and truly inspiring students. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/w... #LISjobs #libraryjobs

“It’s a spirit, it’s a way of doing things. It’s more than just a place." The book arts lab was founded in 1944, when rare books librarian Hannah French moved a 19th-century iron hand press into the basement of Clapp Library. Learn more about the lab: www.wellesley.edu/news/its-mor...

Acting class. Every time I lesson plan I'm working out "beats" and working on putting myself in the perspective of students--basically Stella Adler character study. And, of course, voice projection, blocking, and physical movement help when I'm in class.

Hey, @wellesleycollege.bsky.social is hiring a Science Librarian! Come work with an amazing team of dedicated, deeply collaborative librarians and truly inspiring students. wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/w... #LISjobs #libraryjobs

Analyzing 80 years of @lemonde.fr archives (1944-2024), we tracked the evolution of gender gaps & stereotypes. Despite a ~5x increase in women presence, they still account for only about 1/4 of individuals mentioned & quoted

This would be a good article to share with students especially because it models excellent fact checking

I created a starter pack for folks who work in and/or are interested in the intersection of #DigitalHumanities and #libraries. Happy to add folks! go.bsky.app/Fg9dqjc

The original Hugging Face bsky dataset may have been taken down, but I still highly recommend @cfiesler.bsky.social's thread on the ethics of public social media data research.

🚀📢 BookNLP-fr is here! A major step for french computational literary studies by the Lattice Lab team—Frédérique, Olga, Martial, Clément, @tpoibeau.bsky.social and I! 🌍 The French expansion of @dbamman.bsky.social’s BookNLP project 📖 doi.org/10.48694/jcl... #ComputationalHumanities #NLP

Yessssss! Journal editors and board members let’s do this! Folks on academic org committees! We can make the case to at the very least change the “Your Twitter handle” box on everything to something like “Your social media profile” #commsky I for one would be thrilled by “Share to Bluesky”

"Scientists, artists, + archivists are panicking abt Epic Games’ deprecating of Sketchfab, the internet’s ldg repository for open access 3D models, saying that the [❓ fate] of the pltfrm [cld end] access to 100Ks free 3D models, severely impacting their role in education, research, + conservation."

Made a new zine about the history and present of radical #cataloging. It's available free to print or in accessible pdf: cataloginglab.org/radical/ #critcat Feel free to message me if you'd like a print copy via snail mail!