This is cool: make a shareable IIIF url for any object in a compliant collection github.com/natemoo93/wh...

"Researchers using licensed databases and journals likely never read the license terms governing the use of that content, but these terms have major implications for their right to access content; engage in computational analysis like text & data mining; and retain data" www.arl.org/blog/join-ar...

a great irony of doing these proofs is that a number of my citations are from born-digital publications without page numbers and lol, my whole argument is dumping stuff on the web is not sustainable

Proofs! coming soon to an Internet Histories near you

excellent roundup of What Judging Is Like from @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

CFP: 11th COMPUTATIONAL ARCHIVAL SCIENCE (CAS) WORKSHOP ai-collaboratory.net/ieee-big-dat...

In my opinion the whole alt-ac thing only works when you are committed to treating your job as a real thing with real stakes and real people who are not your stepping stone to something somehow Better

I am scoping out computational needs to run a couple LLMs locally and 😱😱😱 computers went from a casual thing you could just type type tap on to A RIG

no less than 3 of my colleagues have come up to me today to ask me about the new Werewulf movie, ostensibly in 13th century English, which means my reputation is secure around here

Over on Threads (and, I gather X) there is a huge meltdown happening about use of genAI on AO3; notwithstanding the fact that fans can be the most intense/least forgiving people ever, it is super interesting how cross/betrayed folks are that sthg they loved might be AI generated, even in part

Zooniverse has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 BILLION classifications contributed by volunteers! Want to learn how 1 billion classifications have made a real-world impact? Read our blog post and learn why we’re excited for what’s next: blog.zooniverse.org/2026/06/29/o...

IT'S HAPPENING! I am, linguistically, very interested in this film, which is allegedly in 13th-century Middle English. The syntax feels modern to me but the phonetics sound about right from the trailer, though where and exactly when in the century matters a lot here.

Not all AI is totally evil, some of it is even technology you use every day! I was scared to learn how many people think it is all one same thing, so I wrote a training to demystify machine learning practices from generative language models. You can find it here hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w...

An excellent use case for why people really need to be able to define “AI” and recognize it’s an umbrella term, not a synonym for heavyweight commercial LLMs/frontier models.

We are expecting to crack 110F today - but the difference is we are not running around outside in extreme heat. We're treating it like it's 10 F: don't spend tons of time in the sun, move from AC to AC, hydrate so much. It's our inverse winter; AC is as important here as heat is in the cold

The original WildChat authors made a website where you can explore all their ChatGPT-user conversations: wildvisualizer.com We made a viewer for only the fiction conversations so people can study how real users are generating fiction: ai-fiction-wild.com Heads up: it is very NSFW.

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

Applications for this 2-year postdoc at @cmu.edu are starting to be reviewed now, so don't delay! Please spread the news to your local #DH networks. One of the people you'll be working with is me :) I am excited to meet this new colleague and collaborate on computational humanities in Pittsburgh!

Love a virtual conference but my time in the West has radicalized me against Eastern Time as the default. Please don't start your conf at 7 am for us!!

hello everyone i am working on a big piece for guardian about the CURRENT STATE OF MUSIC ZINES!!!! i have many already but i want to get as many as poss from FAR AND WIDE in uk so pls either fill out the form here or email me directly (email on my website in bio) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

I think VLM-based OCR might finally be close to working on historic newspapers! Many models I've tried before failed i.e. hallucinations, repetition loops, context overflow. Surya OCR 2 (a 650M model!) does a very good job!

Job alert! British Library seeks a Curator for their Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts DL 12 July tinyurl.com/25fs9kun #medievalMSS

🚨 The CHSTM is offering 13(!!) new dissertation completion fellowships! Each provides $15k for three months of research for PhD candidates at US schools. Residence at SHI is optional, but comes with a place in our research community also - we’d be delighted to welcome any fellows! More info here:

this is my effort to introduce people to the differences between generative and non-generative kinds of artificial intelligence while assuming *no* prior math, computer science, or any of the scary things that come up when we talk about AI.

What is AI and why is it happening to me? my latest workshop/training/explainer in the style of Intro to Excel for Beginners hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w... Coming to my campus more broadly in the Fall ...

Postdoc: Barker Postdoctoral Fellow in Born-Digital Archives ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

We ( @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and I) invite you to participate in a research project on writing studies, rhetoric, and composition instructors’ and administrators’ experiences with, perspectives on, and feelings about generative AI: bit.ly/WS_AI.

New article from my esteemed colleagues answers the question “do students know what a database is” ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...

This is a good idea and one I would love to see for corpora and other collections of things people want to use

Questions I’ve received thus far from my summer students -How do I open the pdf -What is scan document -How do I print -What is URL -How do I open the pdf -How do I open the pdf -How do I open the pdf

If you liked Bears Will Be Boys, you might enjoy our new FAccT paper! We prompted LLMs to complete 24K stories about animal characters where gender is unstated. We found that.. bears are *still* boys. And female animal characters disappeared while "neutrality" increased. arxiv.org/abs/2606.079...

Publisher Girlfriend: we started this new complicated project at work, remediating all the descriptions for our books for the website Me: oh! you are making a controlled vocabulary Publisher GF: I forgot you do this every day again

I’m hiring a digital humanities librarian to join my team at Tufts! Please share with your networks! Full details: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/23231

an analysis of AI-related sessions at the Conference on College Composition and Communication docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

#bookhistory Hey, folks, have you made, or do you have, a favourite bibliography or curated corpus focused on 18th or 19th century books in English? Maybe it's quite small or has a niche genre or period focus? (how-to manuals from the 1840s? books about cows, 1770-1820?) I'd love to hear abt it!

if anyone is still looking to become a digital scholarship specialist, the best advice I can give you is to learn how to read OCR for as many languages as you can. I will not be alt-texting this one for obvious reasons

Joint statement from some of the big statistical and demography groups: Commerce Dept's new ban on common statistical privacy measures means we'll get a lot less data on neighborhoods, counties, rural areas. But the order is "so vague" nobody really knows exactly how it will be carried out yet.

CFP: The ISSRE 2026 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability, dependability, and security of software systems cyprusconferences.org/issre2026/

Folger Shakespeare Library is hiring a cataloger: amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

This is such a wild thread and sign of things to come. Having poked around, I think it might be the case that people who've formed their self-image around the sense of being owed deference bc they're the smartest lad in the school are the ones experiencing LLMs as a spiritual concussion.

The annual bibliography is one of @sharpweb.org’s most important (and least recognized) contributions to #bookhistory. Broad and diverse in scope.

Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is offering Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies for scholars using digital methods to explore the impact of the digital revolution on society, culture, and international relations. Open to all disciplines—apply by Sept 15. #DigitalScholarship

Great news, please share widely: the Faculty of Humanities, University of Helsinki will open a permanent university lecturer position in Digital Humanities in Autumn 2026. Teaching-focused, future-facing methods role, linked to LingDig, HELDIG and SSH-wide methods teaching. More details in August.

Great new article by Lizzy Williamson on how the digital provenance of our databases and resources can unlock & contextualize data ethics to inform our use of them academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

and come hear me and my colleague garrett talk about how we adapted this excellent book chapter into a 2-part activity research.lancaster-university.uk/en/publicati...

scholarship in 2026: an open journal i published in a decade back no longer has a website...the link's 403. my version of the article was lost in a 2022 computer crash. there's a researchgate version but i gave up my account in like, 2017? i can find it deep on the web, i'm sure. or search AI 😭

I have 15 yrs of my research interests in zotero. I always tell the students "this may not work for you but you should try it". I lost all my notecards with my citations every time so Z was a huge win. I'd rather they use a citation manager than pull made-up citations off Chatgpt or whatever

It's publication week! My book, Critical Fandom: Representations of Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Fan Fiction, is officially out through University of Iowa Press. Use code MESSINA40 for 40% off: uipress.uiowa.edu/books/critic...