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

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

I am looking for Korean Studies PhDs from the Global South who want to participate in the AAS conference in 2026 (loc. Vancouver). I will help place people in panels and facilitate funding that should cover MOST of airfare/hotel. circulate widely. DM for more info

Looking for co-panelists/roundtable for SIGCIS 2025 virtual conference working at intersection of power, history, computation/information, counting/classification, particularly from global south/decolonial/feminist perspectives. Please spread the word. Open to experimental 'mess' meetings.sigcis.org

I am excited to announce our latest work 🎉 "Cultural Evaluations of Vision-Language Models Have a Lot to Learn from Cultural Theory". We review recent works on culture in VLMs and argue for deeper grounding in cultural theory to enable more inclusive evaluations. Paper 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.22793

This paper looks like a refreshing perspective on how to understand LLMs “Rather than asking whether these models “think” or “understand” in human-like ways, a more productive direction lies in analyzing how they participate in processes of meaning-making.” arxiv.org/abs/2505.17080

[1/5] We're launching a new thing @ the Metro NY Library Council: The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly🤗 interdisciplinary links btw NYC's libraries + archives; connecting its knwldg workers, grad students, artists + designers; and creating an open publicatio

2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...

@miriamposner.com just listened to you on the library juice panel and it’s time you do that profile update ;) and yayayyyy go badass Miriam!

“In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston (from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)

I'm really 🤗 abt taking part in this Peer2Peer conference — rethinking the Internet — at the Feminist Center for Creative Work in LA next Fri/Sat. On Sat afternoon I'll be talking abt intentional infrastructures, emergency media, going offline, friction, Noah Purifoy, + our LibraryField prjct 🌱😎📚📡📫🐢

Most of this from the DHQ article, "The Questions of Minimal Computing" www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2... and built on my old pal, @spikenlilli.bsky.social work in the very 1st *Debates*: "This Digital Humanities Which is Not One" dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitle...