New book review: Ameen on Heppler, Jason A.: _Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism_. University of Oklahoma Press, 2024. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20142443

"The left hates tech CEOs and knows they’re out to get the ordinary worker, but the left also thinks the CEOs are idiots and can’t actually pull it off. " www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i... [1/2]

Education About Asia will relaunch two weeks from today! Join journal Editor Elise Huerta and Spring 2026 issue contributors Ann Marie Davis and Bill Tsutsui on March 3 for an online celebration of EAA's return. https://bit.ly/EAA-relaunch

After diagnosing the problem with ChatGPT as a coding coach (my post yesterday), I am now jumping on the bandwagon to try Claude. Will report back with my findings 🫡

One of my favorite things about the DH community is it's openness and transparency. I'm so happy to join it with my own blog! open.substack.com/pub/thetechi...

I mourn for the debunked fuzzyjoin package in R. 😭 It would have made my life so much easier.

ICYMI: stringr 1.6.0 🧵 This update brings performance gains and new fns for string manipulation in #RStats. Highlights include: Faster replacements with `str_replace_all()`, 🐫 new case tools to camel, snake, and kebab, case-sensitive str_like(), & more. Read more: tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11...

methodmatters.github.io/true-stories... Great blog post! Clearly, data analytics, data literacy, and communication are entwined skillsets.

padlet.com/csullivan211... A great hive-mind center where educators share challenges and solutions. I could imagine pulling examples from this page to kick-start discussions with faculty.

DH2026 proposal submitted! Fingers crossed we can all meet up in person in Korea 😁

Dear Friends, can you help me expand my network here? I want to learn more about what's happening in the DH world, especially regarding upcoming conferences. Let me know if you can recommend any pages or accounts to follow!

Today's the day I'm going to learn Python. Wish me luck!

So, are most folks using python + gemini to OCR non-English materials? What if the materials have more than non-English language? Can it handle 3-4 language OCRing?

I've decided to use Excel to document my project management this academic year (I'm juggling at least 3 separate DH projects!). Any tips for success? #digitalhumanities #dh #academia #edusky

Advice wanted! --> Have you published any born-digital scholarship? Would you recommend it to A) an early career academic? B) A mid-career academic? And/or C) an alt-ac? #academic #dh #digitalscholarship #digitalhumanities #academia #publishing

Does anyone know of digital tools that can verify sources in bibliographies? #dh #academicsky #edusky

I'm on the look out for publicly available datasets relating to Ancient Rome. I have already seen Harvard's Digital Atlas project, Stanford's Urbis Romae project, Oxford's Coin Hoard project.....what am I missing? Send recs!

Hello Bluesky! I have finally migrated here from Twitter and am looking to rebuild my professional network. I am interested in content related to: technology in higher ed, digital humanities, and (of course) Chinese science fiction!