The plenary videos from the CNI meeting are now available: 🤝Shaping CNI’s Future Together 📚A Landscape of AI in Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social 🏆AUPresses Stand UP Award @brettbobley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social 💰The State of Funding for US Higher Ed, Science, and Technology in a Time of Change

Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org lnkd.in/eEwbdbSw

Figured I’d wait to post anything for this, but I can’t tell you how excited I am for us to have the opportunity to be funded to do this work. We really do believe that our project connecting communities, digital archives of the early Black press, and human-AI systems will have a large impact

For "Communities in the Loop: AI for Cultures & Contexts in Multimodal Archives," congrats to: Jim Casey, Christopher Dancy, @snblickhan.bsky.social, Tiffany Smith, Benjamin Lee. (And I must also include @profgabrielle.bsky.social !)

Seconding all of this — so much fun not work with so many people I deeply admire, and we can’t wait to share out as our project progresses!

I can confirm, thinking with this crew is honestly wonderful, 10/10, Dream Team experience. I have more to say but a meeting to facilitate! More soon.

Honored to be giving an opening plenary talk on AI & libraries later today at CNI 2025! I’m excited for the conversation with Kate Zwaard and for the full program by @cni-org.bsky.social! www.cni.org/events/membe...

I am beyond thrilled to share some good news: 1. I've moved to a new job at UC Santa Barbara. 2. We have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! Both, we hope, will allow us to continue building the work! + hfa.ucsb.edu/news/schmidt...

Guest Post on GovScape. It is a great example of how we can build on each other's systems and work to enable access to government information! Follow @govscape.bsky.social for more! www.datarescueproject.org/guest-post-g...

Thank you to @datarescueproject.org for publishing this blog post by @kdeeds.bsky.social and myself on GovScape! Extremely grateful to @datarescueproject.org for all their incredible work!

Very excited to have a software paper with @yh-huang.bsky.social in the CHR journal on the Digital Collections Explorer, our open-source multimodal viewer for digital collections!

New Research Tool: GovScape (US Gov PDFs) govscape.net ||| Research Paper (preprint) About #GovScape arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010 #govdocs @eotarchive.org

Anyone interested in govt transparency and public access should check out GovScape from @bcgl.bsky.social and his team👇 It's an incredibly powerful tool that allows visual, semantic text, and keywords search of 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages!) and counting: www.govscape.net

We’re live! Search 10 million+ U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below: Website: govscape.net ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010

Huge step forward in enabling access and use of content archived from government websites!

1/ Announcing GovScape – a public search system for 10 million U.S. government PDFs (70 million pages)! GovScape offers visual search, semantic text search, and keyword search. Explore below: Website: www.govscape.net ArXiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2511.11010

Assistant Professor Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social's essay on the topic of AI and Holocaust Memory, “Uncanny Testimony,” was published by @longreads.com: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

“For all its futuristic appeal, I felt myself turning to the past. I yearned to speak with my grandmother about her life.” A scholar at the intersection of AI and Holocaust memory wrestles with technology that speaks with the dead. By @bcgl.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

Appreciated this thoughtful piece from @bcgl.bsky.social. Eloquently puts into words some of concerns about a particular use of AI that I've been grappling with.

“But what if, instead of resisting the deaths of the last survivors, we allow ourselves to accept their mortality?” The grandson of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor grapples with the use of AI to reanimate the dead. A new essay on @longreads.com, by @bcgl.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

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.