Boosting again! Please submit your proposals for the #DLFteach toolkit on digital pedagogy in music & sound studies by Dec. 5, 2025!

🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception. Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

I might also suggest that faculty at institutions where they are being required to use AI against their wishes may want to trade in those faculty senates for faculty unions. maybe all those graduate students pushing for unions over the last several decades were on to something there

“I love that #Dartmouth is the kind of place where big ideas and muddy paths go hand in hand.” Professor @roopikarisam.bsky.social, chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies, speaks with Shondaland ahead of hosting Shonda Rhimes ’91 for a students-only book talk on "Year of Yes."

RECOMMENDED: The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object ← dh+lib

Thanks as always to our fantastic editors-at-large for this cycle: Abbie Norris-Davidson, Amy Gay, Claire Burns, and Anna Kijas!

OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.

The way I clicked BUY faster than the speed of light! Congrats @dorothyjberry.bsky.social on this being out in the world! 📜 📚

the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech. hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

Ooof the job market is not great for people who know most AI applications are bad.

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The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open. Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars. This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there! hnr2026.sciencesconf.org

New @hf.co BigLAM dataset: 9,363 OA books with page images + rich MARC metadata for evaluating (and training) VLMs on metadata extraction. Libraries are starting to explore AI-assisted cataloguing, but we lack public evaluation data. Hoping this helps fill that gap. huggingface.co/datasets/big...

"Ghost Workers in the AI Machine: U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation" @cwaunion.bsky.social HT @ethanmarcotte.com cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

CfP for #DLFteach toolkit vol. 5 is now live! This volume will focus on digital pedagogy in music & sound studies. Deadline is December 5, 2025. Read at bit.ly/dlfteach5. Reach out to me or Jess Grimmer with questions.

How culture shapes the design and use of technology—and how we can resist the one-size-fits-all approach to technology design. Katharina Reinecke's Digital Culture Shock is out now. Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.

Disheartening read as I put together my syllabus. But I also discovered this list of “anti-AI” assignments that have given me some ideas. Would love to hear more! against-a-i.com/assignment-i...

"... an especially powerful strategy for shutting down critique of GenAI is the construction and imposition of “feeling rules”: social expectations about the appropriate ways to feel and display emotion in a given context"

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

"Local taxes typically cover the largest portion of local library funding. State direct appropriations and grants, and IMLS federal grants, support a smaller portion of various library programs and services." www.nbcboston.com/news/local/l...

After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas. @loganjaffe.bsky.social

Editors’ Choice: Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data: A dh+lib Special Issue digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2025/07/craf...

I’m proud to share the #DH2024 conference proceedings. This year we’ve chosen to celebrate the poster as a key part of the DH conference. zenodo.org/records/1592... #DH2025 @adho-org.bsky.social

Reminder that proposals are due July 25!!

I'm excited to share a CfP for a special issue, “Cultural Heritage in Crisis” that @asegerberg.bsky.social and I are guest editing for Library Trends. Proposals are due July 25, 2025. Share widely! Full details available at annakijas.com/news/cfp_202.... #culturalheritage #libraries #archives

Among the reasons we didn't set up SUCHO (emergency archiving Ukrainian cultural heritage) as an institutional web archiving project: institutions aren't neutral, and shouldn't be assumed to be perpetually on the right side of things.

It should also raise the alarm for all of AI: If people like Musk are willing to weigh its AI to become mecha-hitler, they're probably also willing to weigh it to support their business interests.

Last month at the Disaggregation Nation! conference in Pittsburgh, I ran a breakout session where we collectively authored an artwork about the different datasets that touch our lives. I'm sharing it here as a recipe: an invitation to try it yourself! www.jerthorp.me/post/a-day-w...

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

I'm excited to share a CfP for a special issue, “Cultural Heritage in Crisis” that @asegerberg.bsky.social and I are guest editing for Library Trends. Proposals are due July 25, 2025. Share widely! Full details available at annakijas.com/news/cfp_202.... #culturalheritage #libraries #archives

"Our copyright statutes were written for a world of photocopiers and cassette tapes...They never contemplated a scenario in which the entire back catalog of 20th-century literature could be vacuumed up and repurposed without a single author knowing it happened." lithub.com/the-courts-j...

Job Opportunity! University of Missouri - Columbia, Libraries Languages, Literatures & Digital Humanities Entry level and experienced librarians are encouraged to apply. Training and mentorship will be provided. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

The AAUP calls for the immediate release of David Huerta & the immediate cessation of these violent & reckless ICE raids that are terrorizing hard-working families from coast to coast. An injury to one is an injury to all. #FreeDavidEndRaids www.aaup.org/media-releas...

"A new report from the UN' ITU has revealed a 150% average increase in indirect carbon emissions from four leading AI-focused tech companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta - between 2020 and 2023" www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai...

Just saw the news out of Texas. If anyone would like guidance or help with doing a data rescue at your state level, please feel free to get in touch. We are happy to help or just commiserate.

We're about to start the next stage of data gathering on visa revocations, SEVIS status changes, deportation and detention targeting academics. @akijas.bsky.social has joined our team as head curator. Looking for two people to lend a hand on data curation. DM if interested. More announcements soon

This will have a devastating impact on rural and less populated parts of the country. It seems like we’re going to have to lose everything in order to realize the good that government once did.

I wrote to my fascist Senators using the amazing @resist.bot to ask them to resign. Enough is enough with these spineless cowards.

We put up a proposal that lays out a way for users to declare whether/how they want their data to be used by things like generative AI or public archives, check it out on github: github.com/bluesky-soci...

The next session in the newly rebranded #ByteSizedPedagogy series is April 4th at 1:00 EST with @jajrk.bsky.social and @amandalicastro.bsky.social discussing critical making. #DHmakes. Registration linked from blog post below!

The 2025 ACH Elections are coming up quickly. Voting will open 3/15 and close 3/29. This year, we are electing 3 full-term members of the ACH Executive Council (serving 2025-2029), and 1 partial term member (2025-2027). Read the candidate bios and statements on our blog: buff.ly/jsmmfy0.

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: [email protected]. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

We ❤️ all the libraries that have been supporting data rescue and their patrons. Our focus is the preservation of access for all. www.datarescueproject.org/libraries-su...

Tomorrow we're embarking on our next Community Sprint, on the Universal Viewer's UX. This is a great opportunity for developers of any level to contribute to open source software in the cultural heritage world. For more info, check out our Slack channel: universalviewer.slack.com

The following week, join @ach for Int'l Scholars in DH: Labor, Care, & Careers, Fri 3/7, 12pm EST, hosted by Jajwalya Karajgikar @jajrk.bsky.social! https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?reset=1&id=29