Just adding that four people have separately told me I cannot change the title from "What is AI and why is it happening to me?" to anything else

For those of you descending on San Francisco for RSA next week, join us at Book History Now (a 3-part series) - Collections as Data rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee... - Networks, Media, and Method in Book History rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee... - Preserving Greek Texts rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...

We are starting an AI literacy effort at UA libraries and yours truly, who has been doing this for a long time, is working on some foundational basics. I revived the old blog to share this snippet from a larger training I'm putting together: hfroehli.ch/2026/02/11/w...

I was so so bad at math and so full of misery from it and now I teach people linear algebra. Nobody is more surprised than me, I promise, but it is also a superpower for being able to understand what Not Getting It feels like

What's the difference betewen machine learning and generative AI? blogged (how passe) here hfroehli.ch/2026/02/11/w...

will this be my new Moby Dick Is About Whales? (and yes I will blog about this, eventually)

robots now make desire paths

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

If they're going to make me teach AI, they're going to get my version of AI

Level up your data analysis skills at our new mini-training series! We’ll feature a few intro-level tips and tricks to get you started cleaning, combining and understanding data. Register: littlesis.org/trainings/

regretfully before I moved to Tucson (!) I had basically 0 Spanish (but several other languages through immersion/study, including French, several Germanic languages, and Scots Gaelic). While my spoken Spanish is like talking to a 2 year old building my skills has been fun. everyone can do it!

Out now! Special issue of @registerstudies.bsky.social, edited with @shelleystaples.bsky.social on Register and Professional Discourse. Papers address register in a range of contexts, inc. architecture, business, higher education, journalism, legal practice & virtual workspaces. Read more below!

- the shared histories of the Americas through the study of the cultural production emerging out of historical periods without which the U.S. cannot be understood such as the Mexican-American war (a.k.a. la intervención estadounidense de México) and the cold war, among so many others 3/

Here's some things we teach *every day* and which you probably liked last night: - the centrality of Spanish to the US: we teach Spanish as a second+a heritage language, + its history in the U.S. - the cohesion of a community that may not find many other places on campus to just go and be Latine 2/

Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/

I have to say, as someone who has been observing academics making material available for free online (or refusing to do so) since online became a thing, that linguists are leaving just about everyone far, far behind. This, for example: wold.clld.org "World Loanword Database"

Are you starting a new social media research project? Check out our new Social Media Research Toolkit. It is a list of 50+ social media research tools curated by researchers at the Social Media Lab. socialmedialab.ca/2025/12/15/s...

Everyone writing their dissertation right now should feel amazing about their work because no matter what, even if you didn't write words this week, it's better than this

things are bad when the thought "maybe reading about Sir Thomas More's contested authorship will be more enjoyable than having to read more about generative AI" crosses your mind

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

This whole week I keep thinking about David Golumbia, how right he was, and how *incredibly* mad he would have been to have been proven right

The next session in our seminar series, ‘The Fragile Record’, explores gaps and silences in cultural heritage collections. Join us online at 4pm on 17 February as we examine uncertainty, privilege and power in digital archives. www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc

Lessons Learned from Machine Learning Researchers about the Terms “Artificial Intelligence” and “Machine Learning” @johnrgallagher.bsky.social compstudiesjournal.com/wp-content/u...

We’re excited to share today that the Newberry has received a $4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to expand access to our Indigenous Studies collections and strengthen collaboration with tribal nations. www.newberry.org/news/newberr...

We are pleased to announce the Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials workshop, which will be held 3/13 during #AAS2026! Learn about text encoding, codicology, & more from field experts. 💻 The workshop is free, but please register by 2/15! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I can't tell you how many of the databases and vendors we work with are just adding AI stuff to their platforms. We are drowning trying to keep track and manage all of them!

New blog post! This one describes the *my place* app which brings the place-based collections I worked on during my SLV residency together in a single interface – just try searching for an address! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/02/02/my-place-exploring-slv-collections.html #glam […]

Girlfriend loves to bake and I sometimes get sent to work with cake, cookies, etc. everyone’s delighted when it happens! We also have a candy jar in our space, does so much for morale & well being. Snacks are the way!!

Hey sociologists, I'm organizing an ASA Methodology session on AI! Submissions are due by 2/25. Looking forward to a timely cross-method convo on emerging research best practices and disciplinary norms and ethics in August.

Applications for our rare books librarian position at the University of Arizona are open until Feb 9 (next week) We have a fab diverse collection, great people to work with, and amazing Mexican food. arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... I'm not on the search, please feel free to reach out w qs!

"Land grant universities would, in effect, offer instruction and research in scientific, labor-saving agriculture so as to point away from labor-intensive slave agriculture [...] And while a liberal arts education was not mandated, it was permitted." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Why did they pull the "qualifications" section from every academic job ad for this

I love this piece. It's a nice companion to @aresluna.org's analysis and celebration of Gorton, "the hardest working font in Manhattan" :)

My brilliant friend Ån wrote a searing-yet-hopeful newsletter about the promises of computers, creativity, and connection in the current moment, where it all seems like a blasted landscape of ashes. [Also there is a mixtape for you to listen to.] feralresearch.org/newsletter/d...

A quick plug for our @rsaorg.bsky.social San Francisco '26 session on building and using early modern libraries rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee... Saturday, 21 Feb, 2.30pm–4pm.

Blueskeets of the @rsaorg.bsky.social persuasion, I hope you'll save the date for 3 excellent book history-digital humanities panels at the conf Thurs 9-10:30 Collections as Data Thurs 11-12:30 Network, Media, Method Fri 2:30-4 Preserving Greek Texts Details: rsa.confex.com/rsa/2026/mee...

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For literal years all I could remember about my half-year Latin intro course in middle school* is that it was about a family stuck in a ditch Today I realized I could google it! Book was Ecce Romani. Immediately purchasing *this represents about 90% my Latin knowledge, fyi

someone I respect very much is very encouraged by vibe coding and I think we are reaching a new threshold we are not fully prepared for here

Philosophy, history, and law were the top of the hierarchy in those spaces. In the "Great books", "reclaim the west" style liberal arts programs, there was a very strong vision of a humanities-driven reclamation of the education system with an agenda through law, education policy, and universities

Anthropic's project to "destructively scan all the books in the world" was actually viewed as the *more* ethical and legally sound approach to training its AI. Previously the industry standard had been simply to pirate vast "shadow libraries" of digitized books for free online. wapo.st/4rjXAMQ

📢 DPC Members 📢 Join us on 3 Feb, 14:00–16:00 UTC for 💾 Copy That Floppy… LIVE! 💾 An online workshop with Dr Leontien Talboom, covering floppy disk preservation and a live demo of the full workflow, from setting up a workstation to verifying results. Sign up […] [Original post on digipres.club]

The article makes it sound scary, but this is actually THE most efficient and cost effective legal way to do it. The reason I've fought for DMCA exemptions to ebook cracking for scholars is they don't have AI-scale money to build corpora this way for understanding & teaching cultural history.

I would pair with snaccooperative.org. And a long rant about metadata!

Did everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE

For #monthofdick (from a couple days before the month started), a letterpress print made from lasercut wood made from a 1568 image (ty EEBO!) + quote from @heatherfro.bsky.social (re: her digital humanities text analysis paper repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...)

ok librarians love to talk about burnout as an organizational, structural problem, but it's also true of faculty and staff across the disciplines and the structures we *all* operate under in the modern university crln.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Job: Canada Impact+ Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence viprecprod.ad.umanitoba.ca/DEFAULT.ASPX...