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 🤩

DH as critical praxis and worldbuilding with @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @roopikarisam.bsky.social. An intellectual-pedagogical-feminist dream symposia come true through, hosted through my Critical Data Lab at UCLA Data X. datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026). Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper ‪‪@andrewpiper.bsky.social‬. Submission deadline: 31 August. 2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/ #HKADH

“'I see the page, the spread, or the book as another medium where I could transpose what I have learned and known about film—sequence, rhythm, and pacing,' he says. In publishing projects like Tenderness Montage he has attempted to translate the filmic montage into a sequence of printed pages."

Join me for the bibliotactics book talk today zoom and in person in Singapore 16:00 – 17:30 (SGT) ari.nus.edu.sg/events/20250...

A post describing some common ways to structure DH-y syllabi for those about to rough one out - "Frameworks for DH Course Design" walshbr.com/blog/framewo...

Today! Digital libraries, Cambodia and Vietnam, sustainable development, digital humanities and digital preservation and access. Will be streamed on Facebook live and can join via zoom! khmerstudies.org/2025-cks-lib...

Saigon Experimental “Book Talks”: Art, Community, Women’s Reading, August 8-9, 2025 Join us in Saigon for experimental community talks around reading, feminism, and art. It's an honor and dream to "start" my book tour in Saigon (where the intellectual/personal/political journey began) alongside…

Evaluating topic models (and document clustering methods) is hard. In fact, since our paper critiquing standard evaluation practices four years ago, there hasn't been a good replacement metric That ends today (we hope)! Our new ACL paper introduces an LLM-based evaluation protocol 🧵

Friends, please share! Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

In this post I compiled a literature review of research about such gendered service disparities. These dynamics contributed to my resignation from a tenured full professorship last week.

It’s absolutely not a matter of “just saying no” — not only because the repercussions of refusal are inequitable, but also bc it’s wrong to create individual responsibility for increasing systemic dysfunction: more + more service work spread across fewer folks in a guilt-powered volunteer economy

Feminist Trouble in Southeast Asia: An Invitation by Theresa de Langis, Nicole Yow Wei, Tara Tran, Cindy Anh Nguyen [New Publication] Truly honored to share the excerpts of our publication "Feminist Trouble in Southeast Asia: An Invitation". It's been a privilege to work together with fellow…

lecturer job posting in our Information Studies department at ucla for three courses: Data Management and Practice; Collection Management for Archives, Libraries, and Museums; and Audio Archiving Please share recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10435

Announcing…BIBLIOTACTICS! Available now for Preorder with UC Press 30% off My forthcoming book Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial public is now available for preorder from UC Press with the promo code UCPSAVE30. Be the first to pick up your print copy to be published and shipped by January…

Alex Lu, Priyank Chandra, Adrian Petterson and I are hosting a workshop at Aarhus Critical Computing on 18 Aug: Reimagining Social Media and Social Movements in Crisis: A Workshop on Empirics, Theory and Research Guidance. Please join us! sites.google.com/view/aarhus2...

This was inspiring, a talk that drew people from computer science, digital humanities, data studies, and more! @whkchun.bsky.social discussed language models as "deconstruction machines", myths of Echo and Narcissus, mirrors, opacity, "humanities washing", indigenous protocols... such a rich talk!

Signalboosting this CFP!

Excited to attempt to fill the big shoes left by @plach.bsky.social and Claudia Berger as co-chair of the DH in Libraries SIG for @ach.bsky.social alongside Jessica Brode Frank. You do not have to be an ACH member to participate in the group; communications signup is here

Have you ever done a "hidden curriculum" session with undergrads? (That is, explaining all the things colleges assume you know but are not obvious to many people.) What did they find most helpful?

Here's a link to the poster (actually slides). #ach2025 Our argument is that models instantiate interpretive lenses through which we view collections of text. Model evaluation often looks like a way of justifying one interpretive lens as better than others. github.com/zacharykstin... ...

Cool reflection on the interpretive circularity of models & texts. We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy. But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.

My course proposal for Cultural Analytics @berkeleyischool.bsky.social has been approved for Fall 2025! This is the fullest expression of my vision for CA: a radical interdisciplinary experiment for rethinking knowledge production at the intersection of the humanities and machine learning. (1/9)

Join us next week for #ACH2025, a fully virtual conference that centers care for our #DigitalHumanities community. It will be inspiring and energizing 🤩

The ACH 2025 conference (June 11–13) is around the corner! Don’t miss our keynote lineup: Rahul Bhargava on community data, Lynda Kellam on the Data Rescue Project, and Hannah Alpert-Abrams w/ guests on NEH + DH futures. Register now: buff.ly/D8LRJ8I Details: buff.ly/RO9Moem