I can confirm that using claude to write rust works pretty well. RustMallet is a whisker faster than Java Mallet at training topic models, and adds some tweaks that I have avoided in Mallet for stability reasons (multiple saved states by default). github.com/mimno/RustMa...

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Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl

There's a genre of LLM criticism that I find so destructively unhelpful: using a single vague prompt to "analyze" data, e.g. "summarize the themes across this collection of texts," to claim "see! LLMs don't work." & it's getting published! Reviewers this is not good work pls reject it if you see it.

Biggest comeback in history? 999: Icelanders convert to Christianity & ditch Norse myth↩️ 1200's: Snorri Sturluson uses the power of euhemerism to make Norse myth biblical↩️ 1930's: a very Catholic Norse scholar pilfers the edda for character names↩️ 2026: Pope quotes a character called Gandalf 🇮🇸👑

It's here! Happy publication day to the first in our Studies in Trauma Theology series (edited by @karenod.bsky.social)

We worked really hard to produce and get this report to you. Hoping that our report reaches as many people as the other Yale report from a few weeks ago. This one was faculty grass roots, and paints a slightly different picture. (No shade on my colleagues working on the commissioned one. Honest).

Love this idea!

I maintain a pretty active presence on LinkedIn. One of the things I find striking is how AI-cautious my Bsky network is, and how AI-for-business gung-ho my LinkedIn network is. I don't always know what to make of this distinction. I haven't figured out how to think about AI in industry yet.

I’ve almost drowned twice. The first was at a school swimming gala where, luckily, my distress was immediately obvious. The second was in a busy swimming pool surrounded by friends and only one person spotted me. Otherwise I’d have died 31 years ago. Archive link because £££: archive.is/5hPOq

UCLDH is delighted to welcome Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh, to give the 2026 Susan Hockey Lecture. 2 June 2026, 6-8pm in London. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Just received reviewer comments from my MA thesis... 🫠 And so, *SO* many missed typos! 😱 Ich gebe jetzt auf.

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possibly better than the original

Ich freue mich, nachher um 16:15 h an der Uni Kiel meine empirische Studie über epistemische Profile unterschiedlicher LLMs vorstellen zu dürfen! Herzliche Einladung, man kann sich online ohne Anmeldung zuschalten. Einen QR-Code zum Zoom-Raum finden Sie hier: www.ub.uni-kiel.de/de/digital-h... #LLM

"Re-focusing on data also means rethinking what counts as meaningful work. Preparing data isn’t just a technical step; it carries so many interpretive choices. It’s where all our beloved hermeneutics live." Such a good rant...er...post by @sarahalang.bsky.social. Well worth your time to read.

New #DigitalHumanities journal

Would it be accurate of me to say that tech employers don't care about your portfolio of software projects anymore because everyone can just vibe code anything, if not simply copy anyone else's project?

We need more of this! #DigitalHumanities

Please check out my latest article! Paid support keeps this going, and I have put hundreds of hours into the writing and research for this series. Please subscribe and tell your friends about it. It keeps this alive. I need to be able to eat and pay mortgage. open.substack.com/pub/100dayso...

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#KostasThoughts Junior faculty advice: if it matters to you, get it in writing! People may act in good faith today. But memories change, administrators change, and institutional priorities change.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Hi everyone, if you speak Portuguese and want to talk about Gemma models, I'll be on this discord channel for the next hours doing a AMA about Gemma! come chat!! discord.com/invite/googl...

While @vanlinduist.bsky.social is creating awesome presentations on design, I've been inspired by one of her designs and decided to try to recreate a medieval font from a real manuscript. I'm not sure if this ever became a proper font (probably not), it was just fun to try.

#GLAM Job Alert Open Scholarship Librarian at Cornell University Library: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

O great hive mind! About a week ago I saw someone doing further experimentation on Talkie's coding abilities — I think with few-shot examples? I know the Talkie-1930 release itself does some testing of its coding ability, but I think this went beyond that? Am I hallucinating?

Do I know anyone working in the #GLAM space who has recently hired new employees? If so, are you willing to let me contact you?

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Unbelievable seeing myself posting looking for a part-time contract video prompt engineer... but here we are. Junior folks with good experience using video models, feel free to get in touch. (Europe good, maybe US east coast.)

I'm starting to study Physics. Who are nice people to follow that share this kind of content?

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📢 Late Call - #IMC2026 Tired of doomscrolling? We are looking for one more #DH paper for our session "The Endless Scroll: Digital Approaches to Medieval Time, II" at the IMC Leeds 2026, organised by @mshl-cdha.bsky.social imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... #CfP #medievalsky

CFP, please circulate! Hypermedia Warfare and Techno-Legal Entanglements: Media, Technology, and Legal Perspectives on Contemporary Conflict Zones (Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan) In Cambridge on July 10, abstracts due May 30. Some funding is available for travel & lodging. www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/events/41366/

Scott's gifted prolific open-access research & public teaching to our field for many years. We can help recognize his impact+publications as (more than) dissertation-sized by letting him know if you've taught, cited, etc. specific things:

You know how some days you feel like everything is going right and you're on top of your game, and then other days you're asking yourself "what the hell have I done with my life?" ? Well, today is a definitely a "what the hell have I done with my life?" kind of day...

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I can't wait for you to read this. Nearly a decade of research has gone into uncovering how Britain’s food shaped its sense of place in the world during the First Age of Nationalism. 'The King's Dinner', out 1 June 2026. uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...

Bookmarked: Manu ・ Manuscript Annotation & Visualisation https://manu.is/ #annotation #handschriften #tools A collaborative platform for annotating, transcribing, and visualising historical manuscripts. Built on IIIF and W3C Web Annotations.

So glad that it's finally out! What a privilege to have been involved with the eManuSkript project. emanuskript.vercel.app

We parsed 3.6 million historical names with 96% accuracy by moving away from expensive frontier models to fine-tuned Qwen 3.5 models. We also found that switching our output format from JSON to YAML dramatically increased stability.

My fantasy is that someone buys the Hampshire land and buildings and turns it into a kind of 'institute for advanced study' for humanities research & public education

This is a great thread from @shahanmemon.bsky.social, essentially about the possible future of building our own software to meet our individual needs (rather than relying on big, "one-size-fits-all" options). Worth a couple of minutes of your day to read it.

It's finally happening at the end of this week, I'll be delivering my first talk as part of my current empirical #LLM study. Looking forward to seeing how people react and to visiting the UZH to meet @fredvanoorschot.bsky.social and @hannareichel.bsky.social! www.theologie.uzh.ch/de/faecher/s...

So glad that it's finally out! What a privilege to have been involved with the eManuSkript project. emanuskript.vercel.app

I'm trying to recreate the release schedule of The Pickwick Papers offset by 190 years, and chapters 3-5 are available today. Chap 1 was a bit of a slog, but 2 had some good cringe humor and ended on a cliffhanger. Definitely curious to find out what happens. mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/Pickwick/

I dissent. As a Christian and theologian who cares deeply for civil rights and justice and tearing down the idol of white supremacy that our nation clings to in its greed and lust for power and domination, I dissent.