If you use digital newspaper collections this new OA paper is for you - it’s full of great insights into how to understand what’s in them and the many hidden perils of digital search (like the systemically poorer OCR for cheaper and more left-leaning newspapers - who knew?). Please share

Highlighting the data from our "Whose News" article: 1. 'NewsWords' unigrams for ALL of British Newspaper Archive (e.g. @findmypast.bsky.social, which includes the titles accessed via Gale too) shared with Living w/Machines in 2021, & lovingly crafted by Kaspar Beelen 1/3

#CfP: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History. Saint Louis University, 8-10 June 2026 Abstracts due 15 December 2025 #EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory

Moby Dick is about whales & boats (only one of the two pictured below)

'It's a lost map!' 'Where did you find it?' 'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'. OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.

Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker

Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO

This is a great essay and going to be a HUGE big deal game changer for the early modernists interested in genre, form, etc.

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

Good morning Australia! On Thurs Nov 6 I will be talking about my topics: digital collections, EEBO, ECCO, and my current project, Digital Borderlands In the Classroom. We are live @ Australian National Uni & I believe there will be a zoom link events.humanitix.com/collections-...

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to) Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...

Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org

Fascinating. According to state schools superintendence Tom Horne (also on the AZ board of regents), the University of Arizona *didn't* reject Trump's compact but rather are negotiating to implement it: www.azed.gov/communicatio...

Australians! 2 weeks from now, find out why I'm excited about this giant phone book from 1910 for the Melbourne region, held at the State Library of Victoria, at ANU's CEMS talk on 6 Nov cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...

may the odds be ever in your favour

i spent all this time writing this article (under review) and he just tweets it out

very interesting paper here on assessing linguistic annotation for evaluative applications of the verb 'consider' using LLMs arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12306

I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words) snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...

Call for Papers: Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (virtual conference) www.jwai.org/events/resea...

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what? @hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

in a week I am giving a talk about future of the GLAM sector from a US perspective in Australia and the sheer amount of stuff that has come out in the past week or so of just *writing this paper* is mind boggling

It looks like there's a major outage in AWS US east-1 region (North Virginia). This means large portions of the internet are not going to be functioning. We're so reliant on Amazon's infrastructure for everything now.

Job: Data Instruction and Outreach Librarian aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05126

Job: Digital Humanities Librarian employment.ku.edu/jobs/faculty...

Jobs x2 at Stanford Law School - AI & Technology Initiatives Librarian careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/ai-tech... - Data Science & AI Librarian careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/data-sc...

Job: Postdoctoral Research Associate (Digital Cultural Heritage Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ947/p...

Jobs x2 - Lecturer (assistant prof) in Information Studies + Digital Humanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ516/l...

Jobs x3 at Australia National University - Research Fellow (Values-based Digital HASS) jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc... - Research Fellow (Computational Methods) jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc... - RSE-CEP Research Software Engineer jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/researc...

Job! Open Education Resource Specialist at the University of Arizona Libraries (term-limited + funded by Mellon) We are prone to writing these massive job descriptions but this role would be great for someone who wants more hands-on experience w Open Publishing. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

📢Employment opportunity at PKP! PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact. If you are interested, learn more at: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...

The wonderful Data Curation Network datacuration.network (a collective of institutions focused on curating research data) is hiring a Director! The position is hosted by the University of Minnesota Libraries and has remote working (within US) possibilities! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

The market for identifying and filtering out AI garbage from datasets and digital archives is going to be a huge one. Lawyers, librarians, journalists, historians (and other researchers) are gonna need the expertise.

I teach excel skills to adults who never learned it.* On the one hand, if you are someone who already thinks in "dataframes" this is horrifying. On the other hand, it would be good if this was a foundational life skill up there with long division and multiplication. * hfroehli.ch/2021/06/17/a...

I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale! This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...

I have been thinking about the cultural ascendency of Microsoft Word and how Google Docs is sort of on track to potentially eclipse it lately, but now I have to start somewhere else with all of that, I guess.

"Placing water-guzzling warehouses of computers 'in a hot desert is not a good starting point', he said. 'Putting them in a hot desert in the midst of a drought is even more absurd, because that water is precious.' " www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

hey friends — if you haven't seen, The Verge is running a series on the future of being trans on the internet. it's got a bunch of very cool stories from talented writers! you should check it out www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

LIL fellow @maxy.bsky.social asked 14 scholars, archivists, designers, business leaders & engineers: "If you were given unlimited funding to design a system for storing and preserving digital information for at least a century, what would you do?" Their answers: lil.law.harvard.edu/generational...

This is my first time teaching Varieties of English since the British Library cyberattack. I didn't realize how much I relied on it for audio. If anyone has recordings (or preferably, TikToks that I can download) featuring regional British accents, I'd love to get a copy.

my impression from talking to special collections folks is more "yeah we would actually like to finish processing all our things so we can provide services to users" and a lot less of "we want to spend all of our time learning this new thing that takes us away from our main purpose"

Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇

also -- oop get ready for so much more of this

something I have thought a lot about is that I would love to see licenses for data sets that authenticate that they are 100% human-generated (sort of like CC-BY licenses) as a way to contrast between that + synthetic data. This article is an interesting premise to add to that desire

U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely: