I've been working on the dissertation in the student lounge at church recently, so the priests stop by to say hi and check in. One is a former engineer, so when we started discussing how I transcribe and store my sources in XML today he said "Well it is an eminently suitable way to store data!"

It generates text based on its training data. It does not thoughtfully select the best sources or fret about getting them right or go out to learn new things by talking to researchers or visiting archives or dropping in on a conference or two. It generates text based on its training data. That’s it.

You know this book is important and useful because it sits on the little shelf of "most used books" on my desk! :D

Reviews In DH journal for reliably awesome digital humanities work across many fields & practitioners—written about accessibly, engagingly, concisely (& of course: free+OA!):

I'm at 175 responses for my survey on personal tutoring! I want to smash the 200 threshold, so if you're an academic in UK HE who's had pastoral repsonsibility for students in the last 5 years under any title, I'd love to hear from you - it only takes ten minutes. Please do share.

Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026

This looks awesome! A data viz course from the authors of Data Feminism, @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social. So excited to teach with these materials! openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...

Looking for a low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities learning opp? There's still space in our #ACH2026 pre-conference workshops: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative & Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution

Penn is excited to host a free in-person Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub for the #ACH2026 conference, featuring watch parties, a DH Happy Hour, a Lightning Talks session, a #DHMakes space, a sticker & trinket exchange, and more! RSVP at www.library.upenn.edu/events/ach-2.... We hope to see you there!

This is a really great list of resources for teaching and learning Medieval Latin compiled by Brigid Ehrmantraut #medievalsky www.medievalists.net/2026/06/lear...

There can't be many systems in the world in which the consumer pays nothing but the creative gets paid. USE YOUR LIBRARIES

"More New Yorkers are borrowing books from the New York Public Library today than 15 years ago; borrowing is up 27 percent since 2010." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/o...

if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler

the generation gap here is so huge. it was not kids and teenagers who fell for the ten-year right-wing propaganda campaign to erase every tiny inch of progress made on trans rights; it was their parents and grandparents. the party is not prepared for what winning a primary will look like by 2036

this way of phrasing it just made me laugh so hard

Imagining how surprised someone will be, 40-50 years hence, to learn of the New School’s origins…. For that matter, to discover that for decades, Indiana University taught more languages than any other school in the country. And bragged about it!!

"women can be perfectly capable of using this technology and simply choose not to" we did in fact need data backing up this incredibly obvious claim bc a LOT of companies will insist Susan from Accounting is refusing to use AI to do the books because IT needs to come explain how it works to her

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Quince & lizard by Giovanna Garzoni, because it's her day.

Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

This month, UCLA admin circulated two white papers that are so harrowing they’ve kept me awake at night. If you’re a UCLA person and haven’t seen these, you really must. In response, the Faculty Senate has scheduled a Town Hall on June 2. senate.ucla.edu/news/june-2-...

Behold, my 600 tiny triangles have become 150 slightly larger triangles! Next step, glue fabric to even more tiny triangles and sew them together! 😅 #quiltsky #DHmakes

Real good bit about the slippery slope of genAI use. A battle we're already fighting, especially against the C-suite.

A federal tool to identify noncitizens on voter rolls keeps making mistakes. “This is not ready for prime time,” a county clerk in Missouri said. “And I’m not going to risk the security and the constitutional rights of my voters for bad data.” (Published Feb. w/ @texastribune.org)

Time lapse of the last english paper pieced triangle of the 600 triangles! #quiltsky

This is pretty dang good. Both poignant and amusing. Good use of Latin!

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

I love Ignatz, but realisticly I am Helga. Tag yourself 😂

Brother Gregor gone fishin'

The Tribal Exchange Network Group (TXG), a federally funded group that supports Tribal environmental protection programs and related activities that collect and manage data for decision-making and assessments. Volunteer to support: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Also MIT: We’re closing down the libraries and firing the librarians!

The last of the first 600 one-inch triangles to be pieced together. Progress has been good this week while watching episodes of Portrait/Landscape Artist of the Year (think GBBO but painting) #quiltsky #DHmakes

Libraries are not just knowledge repositories, though it’d be enough if that’s all academic libraries did. We create the conditions for knowledge production across campus, and also create knowledge in our own right. A uni cannot function without a healthy, well funded, appropriately staffed library

This webinar hosted by Dr. Nicole Cooke, as part of the History of Black Librarianship course at UofSC, is being opened to the broader community in recognition of Dr. Wedgeworth’s extraordinary legacy and his long-term commitment to the library profession. sc-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

THIS is your sign to come and do #bookhistory research in Antwerp in the outstanding collections of Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library. Apply here for the Nottebohm Fellowship by Oct 1: sl1nk.com/i61nfmk 💙📚 📜 Come and join us... It’s pretty great here! 😉

Reminder. There's an early modern pub night for PhDs & ECRs (& others interested at any stage of their careers) held in London every month. To be added to the mailing list, send me a DM. It's an informal welcoming event. We meet at different historic pubs across central London. #earlymodern

The testudo remains effective. 🐢

A promotional post for cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/en, a platform for searching and visualising data across PLRE, Renaissance Cultural Crossroads, Plantin sales and provincial booksellers' inventories, c. 1500–1640. So, ownership, sales, and translations of books in #earlyModern England. #bookHistory

It’s really frightening.

In Rome, Time Is a Flat Circle: Papal Book History from Digits to Digital

You know what I appreciate about Leo's new encyclical? Numbered paragraphs for easy citation of a web-based, non-paginated document. All those digital-only academic journals without numbered pages need to get on that!

Pleased to report that I have once more returned to #BookHistory Paradise, aka the Plantin-Moretus Museum. I saw some pages from musical liturgica in the workshop and became teary. I love this place (and its collections) so much. #MusicalBookHistory

📚📚📚 2/6 Sarah McElroy Mitchell reviews: Renske A. Hoff, _Involving Readers: Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch Bibles (1522–1546)_ (Brill, 2025). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #MaterialCulture #Reading #Readership

📚📚📚 5/6 Laura DeLuca reviews: Meredith Martin, _Poetry’s Data: Digital Humanities and the History of Prosody_ (Princeton University Press, 2025). Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Poetry #DH #DigitalHumanities

Upstairs at the Plantin-Moretus Museum you can find an important piece of #BookHistory: a volume of Plantin’s Antiphonarium Romanum (1571-3). Hugely influential for #MusicalBookHistory and I wrote an entire article about its commissioning and production: acta.musicology.org/acta/article...

It's still #FemaleBirdDay! It's celebrated all through Memorial Day weekend. So please bring out more lovely ladies! 🪶 Downy Woodpecker

The way you know Bluesky is not a representative sample is several people are livetweeting their reading of an encyclical