And cut! 📽️ That's a wrap on #SCMS26! Thanks to the attendees, co-exhibitors, and @scmstudies.bsky.social for an especially jam packed and fun conference. Our #SCMS2026 website will stay up for a few weeks so you can still save 40% on the books we had on display: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/s...

Thank you @wendemuseum.bsky.social for a dynamic historical and contemporary conversation on cultural propaganda in a gorgeous community space. Looking forward to visiting again! If you haven’t checked out the wonderful exhibitions, event lineup, and garden space, it’s such an intellectual oasis!

Now that AI Literacy Day is over: mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Call for archives professionals Link to full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My latest:

La/culver city folks! Will be talking libraries, Vietnam, cultural propaganda, colonial/ postcolonial book infrastructures at the capacious @wendemuseum.bsky.social sat March 28. Come for talk and wine reception! www.eventbrite.com/e/bibliotact...

Critical makers out there, please consider submitting to @jitp.bsky.social ! cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

📣Registration Now Open for DH2026 ⏰Early Bird Registration: until May 18, 2026 For a full overview of registration categories and fees, please visit the Conference Registration page: dh2026.adho.org/conference-r... More info: dh2026.adho.org/registration... @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

Book Alert! Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam [Cindy Anh Nguyen, U of California Press] Learn more: lhrt.news/2026/02/14/b...

Hot take: Miserably writing through a teaching statement in 2026 while getting pushed gen ai tools left and right from my employer and told I need to remove certain words “to be safe”. Living a bureaucratic energy time dump and now I’m more compassionate why students end up using gen ai for writing.

There’s rough moments living in La, and then there are the other moments where I’m rallying friends to go to an I Ching movement community event for part #vibes part ethnographic research part scoping out this wild capacious venue of the Wende Museum for my book talk in two weekends.

This episode puts to bed the most ambitious bit of live podcasting I've yet attempted. I'm thrilled we were able to give a taste of this unique event to an exponentially larger audience. Thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @johannawinant.bsky.social, Emory & all the panelists who saw the potential.

Friday's #AAS2026 panel "Digital Horizons of Vietnam Studies" was organized by @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, author of BIBLIOTACTICS: LIBRARIES AND THE COLONIAL PUBLIC IN VIETNAM. Read her #AAS2026 Q&A with us to learn more more about her research and new book: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

Our paper (see co-authors in the thread), "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology", is now out in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. (1/5)

Reminder, Registration is open and the program has been released for #msuglobaldh 2026 April 13-17th. Join us in MI, online, and in Monterrey, MX! #dh #digitalhumanities #musetech

Who wants to be a coauthor on a maybe serious paper “DH+AI= Frenemies?”

We presented on our tool for enriching and clustering book data at Code4Lib today. Check it out, and let us know what you think! data.post45.org/our-tools.html Huge thanks to @thisismattmiller.com for leading development on this project. #code4lib #c4l26

Spring in person and virtual events, New Books Network Podcast, a book cake, oh my!

Postdoc positions at UC Berkeley, including with the fabulous Cultural Analytics group: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05222

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

Starting off this year of the fire horse. “Hoa Bằng depicted books as desirable food objects with attractive scents and providing spiritual nourishment.” p. 132 Bibliotactics bibliotactics.com/spring-in-pe...

This is going to be great! Don't miss it!!

"Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) along with many other metropolitan global cities in Southeast Asia, is experiencing a cultural youth renaissance of global mindsets." BIBLIOTACTICS author Cindy Nguyen speaks with us about reading culture in Vietnam for #AHA26:

Cindy Anh Nguyen - Bibliotactics Libraries and the Colonial Public in Vietnam À paraître en janvier aux UCP

This conference means so much to me. In 2019, @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I collaborated to put on the 1st ACH conference since the 1990s. I ran it for the next few years and now the labor has been taken on by other wonderful people. #ReviewsInDH, among other projects, would not exist if not for it.

And now presenting…https://www.ucpress.edu/books/bibliotactics/paper (available open access free globally) (photo from the in person premier at the Vietnamese American refugee model curriculum conference!)

Countdown 1 more day until Bibliotactics Pub Day. I wrote the book to be 'readable' in many ways and by different audiences including my parents and students. Here's the pre-AI cliff notes that I wrote to guide your reading journey. print book 30% off code UCPSAVE30 www.ucpress.edu/books/biblio...

One more day until Bibliotactics published. In case you accidentally end up on Amazon… you can spend you 8.99 on donating to your favorite non profit since the book is a available open access luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1... or you can order directly from Uc press with the 30% discount code UCPSAVE30

Call for Papers! We are seeking short papers that center questions and stakes of time in AI models. How do machines encode time & how do they structure our experience of time? For example, work examining the compression of labor & capitalism within AI’s infrastructures and model vectors. Details:

Hi hi historians, my wonderful colleagues in Leuven & Ghent are organising a workshop on histories of scholarly evaluation, in Leuven 27-29 September! Expenses covered. Call for papers here: www.arts.kuleuven.be/cultuurgesch...

Day 2 of #bibliotactics countdown until January 13 pub day: Kady Drorbaugh and I made a preview zine to creatively showcase the ambitions and visual character of Bibliotactics! As a paratextual guide for readers to navigate to the chapters they’re most interested in bibliotactics.com/bibliotactic...

One of my goals with the class this quarter is to encourage non-engineering students to push themselves to understand unfamiliar technologies in a bit more depth than they might otherwise. With this assignment, I tried to systematize the way I tend to do this. miriamposner.com/classes/is29...

Late to the new years countdown so 5 days until #bibliotactics pub day countdown! Will share a tidbit about the book everyday. First up, the story behind the book and why reading culture matters today: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here. cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...

Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

HUGE mail week for critical library histories. @cindyanguyen.bsky.social @murmz.bsky.social

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

I'm looking forward to this roundtable next Wednesday (December 3) on "Colonial Libraries and Anticolonial Resistance." There's a fantastic lineup, including @cindyanguyen.bsky.social, who will be discussing her new book! RSVP to get the Zoom link: calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col... #libsky

⏰ Reminder: #DH2026 Call for Papers Deadline Approaching! The submission deadline for DH2026 is coming up: 📅 December 8, 2025 23:59 KST (Korea Standard Time) 14:59 GMT (UK) 09:59 EST (US East Coast) Join us in Daejeon, South Korea (July 27-31, 2026)! www.conftool.pro/dh2026/

Bibliotactics events coming to your city! East coast folks--if there is a community org/library/university interested let me know. Or if other folks would like to batch on another event while I'm in your city. First up is a zoom roundtable on colonial libraries calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...

"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

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

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉 Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

Wonderful to spend time with @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @cindyanguyen.bsky.social talking data and empire and history. Mark your calendars for these two amazing books--BIBLIOTACTICS and DATA EMPIRE--which, I can attest, will be terrific!

"What’s teacherly abt me... is that I love giving people a concept they can use as a tool to open up the world. That’s what theory is to me: a can opener. Or a key to a vast kingdom. Using things as 🔑s, instead of as 🔨s, is to me one of the most beautiful thing abt being an academic + a theorist."

The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...

It's UK official! DATA EMPIRE, coming July 9, 2026 🤩