My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...

My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...

Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! 🌲☕✨ @ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications. Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020 Happy to answer questions!

CFP - AI for DH: Research Problems and Critical Approaches. DHQ seeks 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI (research problems, critical approaches, responsible applications, case studies, etc.). Deadline: Sept 15, 2025. More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html

Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

Very excited to have this article in Internet Histories with @tjowens.bsky.social and Jonah Estess! In the article, we study Colin Powell’s PowerPoint presentation to the UN Security Council and trace the PowerPoint through web archives

Today, I’ll be sharing about the public symposium, “AI and the Future of Holocaust Research and Memory,” hosted at @ischool.uw.edu on Udub’s campus in Seattle. Wonderful to be here with such incredible colleagues across the world and across disciplines.

"AI-in-the-loop": truly grateful to be part of this workshop "AI and the Future of Holocaust Research and Memory" - at the @ischool.uw.edu, org. by @bcgl.bsky.social, @toddpresner.bsky.social, UCLA, and Robert Ehrenreich, @ushmm.bsky.social. ischool.uw.edu/events/2025/...

On Thursday @ 12.30pm I'm joining the Australian Society of Archivists online to discuss 'Authors and Archives'. Sign up if you'd like to hear me on Miles Franklin's interwar archival activism, and Ben Lee and Andrew Dean on JM Coetzee's 1960s foray into AI www.archivists.org.au/events/event...

I wrote a little bit about the Library of Congress - a place I care about deeply - given today's news: bcgl.substack.com/p/the-disman...

I wrote a little bit about the Library of Congress - a place I care about deeply - given today's news: bcgl.substack.com/p/the-disman...

Finally documented the Beyond Words dataset from the @librarycongress.bsky.social labs / @bcgl.bsky.social for the BigLAM @hf.co org! - 3.5K annotated historical newspaper pages - Bounding boxes + category labels - Photos, ads, headlines, cartoons & more

Very excited to be organizing this public symposium at Udub with Robert Ehrenreich at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and @toddpresner.bsky.social at UCLA, and we'd love to have you join in-person in Seattle on 5/20!

AI preservation is an unaddressed challenge. New work from me on "Preserving AI" at Inside Higher Ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20... @bcgl.bsky.social

After five years, Newspaper Navigator is undergoing some changes - the dataset will continue on, but it's time to say good bye to the search application. LC Labs and I would love to hear from past users about their experiences with Newspaper Navigator in the comments: blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...

Excited to share our preprint "Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research” We're open to feedback—read & share thoughts! @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mmvty.bsky.social @docdre.distributedblackness.net @mariaa.bsky.social @jmjafrx.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @dmimno.bsky.social

For the latest print issue of @currentaffairs.bsky.social, I wrote about gambling in America, and how it relates to the present political moment. Many thanks to @the-syllabus.bsky.social for naming it a "Best of Journalism" curators' pick this past week! www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-wor...

Interactive AI Fair happening today and tomorrow at Temple!! We kick off today with a talk by Prof Ben Lee from U of Washington on AI and Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social More info here sites.temple.edu/fair/

🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Now that year-end lists are in full swing, here’s a post about my 2024 public writing / essays: bcgl.substack.com/p/2024-in-wr...

Now that year-end lists are in full swing, here’s a post about my 2024 public writing / essays: bcgl.substack.com/p/2024-in-wr...

Thank you to #CHR2024 for this award, as well as for hosting such a fantastic conference and building a great community of computational humanities researchers!

Truly honored to receive the Best Long Paper award at #chr2024 with @jammahowald.bsky.social! So grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Jamie (who has an incredible research career ahead of him!), and thank you to @comphumresearch.bsky.social for organizing such a fantastic conference!

Best paper awards! Best Long Paper 🌟 "Integrating Visual and Textual Inputs for Searching Large-Scale Map Collections with Cip" by Jamie Mahowald and @bcgl.bsky.social #chr2024

Very excited to share a long paper that Jamie Mahowald and I have at this year’s @comphumresearch.bsky.social! We built out interactive search for 562,842 map images from the Library of Congress, supporting natural language inputs, visual inputs, and multimodal inputs: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/pap...

Might as well come out with it here on the samizdat site. I have a 500-ish page book on the carbon cycle over all of Earth and human history coming out next year. The cover looks like this. Will have more to say about it once I finally wrap it up soon and the publisher takes the bounty off my head.

I haven’t shared it over here on Bluesky yet, but for @bwdr.bsky.social, I spent a month and a half watching only Holocaust films, and I wrote about my grandmother: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/09/10/s...

If you're interested in digital humanities and pedagogy, here's my latest about training librarians in DH: ideah.pubpub.org/pub/mj651yt4.... Thanks to the DHSI (Digital Humanities Summer Institute) folks, and the MLIS students who let me talk about their terrific work! Go #DH and #libraries

Our book with Minnesota is out in the wild! More on the contributors and interventions to come.

If you have’t seen it yet, I’m working with @rfrank.bsky.social as co-editor of “Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary” for @mitpress.bsky.social. You can read and comment on all the draft chapters on PubPub -> digital-preservation-a-critical-vocabulary.pubpub.org

“[T]he results of the study are less testaments to the ‘quality’ of machine poetry than to the wider difficulty of giving life to poetry… Participants favoured poems that were easier to interpret and understand.” theconversation.com/new-research...

American Periodicals People! Newspapers, magazines, serials, zines, etc. Really any print media with issues! go.bsky.app/7o8gBz6 There's not enough of us yet. Who else is here? Tap in!

I’m recruiting Ph.D. students to join the Lab for Computing Cultural Heritage @uwischool.bsky.social! If you’re interested in working with me and pursuing a Ph.D. at the intersection of AI, LIS, and the digital humanities, you can find more information here: bcglee.com/lcch.html

Amazing opportunity for anyone thinking about doing a Ph.D. in library/information science!

Please share this CFP! We’re hosting a symposium 20-21 May 2025 @skeuomorph.bsky.social on "Building Book Labs: Hands-On Research & Teaching in Book History"—we’re looking for talks, discussion topics, & hands-on activities—& we especially welcome novel formats or session ideas. More at the link!

Sharing for all the new people on Bluesky! *Black DH Projects & Resources* an open community list of 600+ links and counting! bit.ly/Black-DH-List Add yours, and then help us learn about someone else's work too? #BlackSky

I’m recruiting Ph.D. students to join the Lab for Computing Cultural Heritage @uwischool.bsky.social! If you’re interested in working with me and pursuing a Ph.D. at the intersection of AI, LIS, and the digital humanities, you can find more information here: bcglee.com/lcch.html

I was the first member of the public to watch Jerry Lewis’s footage of The Day the Clown Cried, and I wrote about it for @tnr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1854...

I was the first member of the public to watch Jerry Lewis’s footage of The Day the Clown Cried, and I wrote about it for @tnr.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1854...

Excited to begin HathiTrust Research Center's TORCHLITE Hackathon at the U. of Illinois, in beautiful downfield Urbana-Champaign! Although we're in-person only, there's plenty to read at htrc.github.io/torchlite-ha.... TORCHLITE is generously sponsored by our friends at @neh-odh.bsky.social.

We're starting with a keynote by the great @bcgl.bsky.social titled "Computing Cultural Heritage: Toward Search and Discovery at Scale using AI"-- not streamed, but look for a recording at some point soon, and/or follow along with Ben's abstract and slides at htrc.github.io/torchlite-ha...

Beyond excited to announce the CFP for a new volume in the Debates in Digital Humanities series: “Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor” Co-edited by @jimccasey1.bsky.social @shsalter.bsky.social @jgob.bsky.social Submit abstracts by May 15, 2024 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/culture...

Beyond excited to announce the CFP for a new volume in the Debates in Digital Humanities series: “Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor” Co-edited by @jimccasey1.bsky.social @shsalter.bsky.social @jgob.bsky.social Submit abstracts by May 15, 2024 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/culture...

Benjamin Lee (@bcgl.bsky.social) examines the logics and legacies of CompStat: a ubiquitous policing management program that exists at the intersection of technological violence and corporate data evangelism. proteanmag.com/2024/01/18/v...

Yaaas! The US Library of Congress is looking for a new innovator in residence! Apply by 5 March to follow in the footsteps of previous innovators like Brian Foo, Benjamin Charles Germain Lee (@bcgl.bsky.social), Courtney McClellan & Jer Thorp (@jerthorp.bsky.social): newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Excited to share the CfP for "Past Meets Future: A Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Digital History and Cultural Heritage," which I'm co-organizing at IUI 2024! Submissions are due on 1/16/24 - more info below, and feel free to reach out with any questions! sites.google.com/vt.edu/pastm...

Hey MLA friends! If you're interested in Literature & LLMs, come check out our roundtable on Saturday! Awesome lineup of scholars working on AI in public, industry, cultural heritage, & more: @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @jonathancheng.bsky.social @bcgl.bsky.social Carly Schnitzler & Anna Preus

Excited to share the CfP for "Past Meets Future: A Workshop on Human-AI Interaction for Digital History and Cultural Heritage," which I'm co-organizing at IUI 2024! Submissions are due on 1/16/24 - more info below, and feel free to reach out with any questions! sites.google.com/vt.edu/pastm...