This is absolutely how we should pitch coding agents to humanists. Strictly speaking, what mattered about code was never arbitrary syntax, but clearly specifying data structures and processes. And coding agents still force/teach you to do that part. But … shhh! Let’s get ppl on board.

Is anyone else getting some very weird #DH2026 submissions to review? And by weird, I mean almost entirely seemingly AI-generated? Like with entire sections missing text and weird giant fonts and bizarre footnotes. Curious how are other conferences handling this issue??

Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why? To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present). Excited to share this new CHR paper & data! anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... #CHR2025

#CFP: Our Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) invites proposals for the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle. Please save the date & reshare! Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...

Do you write research software for the humanities? Consider writing a software paper to share your work! Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.

Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

#ThanksBrett for always looking forward. You saw a bright future for the humanities, as key interlocutors in the most pressing socio-technical discussions of our moment, and you created opportunities for those conversations to actually happen. We all owe @brettbobley.bsky.social enormous debts

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

Dumb Q but genuinely need help: say you have a few weeks (maybe only 2) to build a website what's your dream tech stack? Ideally deploy from GitHub though could white knuckle it through AWS, custom domain, & will have complex data viz (d3 & vega) and navigation;

I missed this announcement back in March. "For Schmidt Sciences, Digital Delacroix is the first of a projected 10 to 15 grant recipients that will receive a total of $10 million to apply A.I. to research in the humanities." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/a...

Pre-announcing one of the first fork of Common Corpus: French ScienceCommons, the largest open corpus of French academic publication (about 30 billion words). New Pleias project unveiled on Wednesday at the French Académie des Sciences.

So strange, as the stress and worry about the world grows in this household, so to do the number of Japanese wood-block prints. In order: Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Hasui Kawase