The Tennessee Secretary of State handed public library boards that are eager to ban LGBTQ+ books–and particularly trans books–from their collections the biggest permission slip last week. Rutherford County is *closing* libraries to remove books. bookriot.com/rutherford-c...

Late to the party on this, but I like how this ends: “Confronting the material effects of AI on inequalities of wealth and power is even more critical, and the outcome of that struggle is hard to predict. What I do feel certain about, however, is that we need an active strategy.” Yes!

All 4 positions are open rank & all could result in multiple hires. Folks from the DH/book history/bibliography worlds might look especially at the "Information, Culture, & Society" & open information sciences positions to see if anything resonates—happy to offer what insight I can

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...

I'm looking forward to this conversation about books and social media data! You can join us on November 10 (next Monday morning) via Zoom. Thanks to @yrhu.bsky.social for organizing and to @sharpnews.bsky.social for sponsoring.

Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology. This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

N-gram novelty is widely used as a measure of creativity and generalization. But if LLMs produce highly n-gram novel expressions that don’t make sense or sound awkward, should they still be called creative? In a new paper, we investigate how n-gram novelty relates to creativity.

How much does Congress talk about democracy? How often do they worry that democracy is eroding? @alv9n.com's latest project analyzes every congressional speech in the last 145 years. pudding.cool/2025/11/demo...

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism. Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit." This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

Computationally, whitespace gets little attention—it’s usually standardized or stripped. But in poetry, whitespace matters! Yet actually *preserving* that poetic whitespace is v tough. Its slipperiness points to bigger issues w/ text processing & LLMs. New paper ⬜️ aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-m...

Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is." And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"

Truly epic. Everyone is gonna remember that time Will Smith shocked everyone on live TV

The innings will continue until morale improves.

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

Look at us. We’re all here, on the 97th most popular social media site, enjoying a live event together.

I’m at a halloween party huddled in the corner looking at a single phone and we’re all screaming

Hello welcome to bluesky. We have every kind of anti-government radical left of center, and also, baseball

My Bluesky feed is all live World Series takes. It kind of feels like old Twitter 🥲

Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/ - Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames - Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k

When you read a poem, do you wonder how the poet structures it through whitespace between/before words and lines? We did! Our findings on whitespace - how to measure/preserve it, how usage varies across form/time, how it affects LLMs - now in an #EMNLP2025 (main) paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.16713 🧵👇

Whitespace matters a lot for poets, but it turns out to be REALLY hard to preserve whitespace faithfully. Given a screenshot or HTML scrape of a poem, how can we convert this to text without losing all the formatting, which is often integral to the meaning of the poem?

The project that started my whitespace obsession... #EMNLP2025 While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.

Don't tell the book historians, but subword tokenization is first and foremost a typographic procedure

they are trying to kill every trans kid in America when these rules actually come out, they will be open for public comment and all of us need to flood submissions, call our reps, make noise, everything including the kitchen sink unconscionable evil

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/30/f... They are targeting children and religious holidays. They are staging ICE raids in cemeteries. There is nothing about this that has anything to do with law and order. This is lawlessness and desecration.

if you are wondering why the Trump administration is creating racist memes with images from Halo and Lord of the Rings

Character.AI plans to stop offering chatbots to users under 18 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/t...

Very happy to announce the new Anthology for Computers and the Humanities! 🎉 Inspired by the wonderful ACL Anthology, this is an open, accessible, centralized repository for papers at different workshops, conferences, and related venues. All thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social!

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

"I know fictional characters when I see them. ChatGPT is one. The problem is that it has no author,” writes novelist @vauhinivara.bsky.social. If OpenAI has only tenuous control over the narrator it has unleashed, she asks, who is responsible for its output? www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

Happy to help share the news of the Literary Arts Fund launch today and to serve as its executive director. More here: literaryartsfund.org

Enormous news in literary arts philanthropy: Literary Arts Fund, initiated by the Mellon Foundation in collaboration with Poetry, Ford, Lannan, Hawthornden, & other foundations, will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits & fiscally sponsored lit orgs & publishers over the next 5 years.

This Data Through Design program looks really cool. You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends. Proposals are due November 2. datathroughdesign.com/2026

Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until it takes “accountability for its biased coverage and commits to truthfully and ethically reporting on the U.S.-Israeli war on Gaza.”

Excited to get to sit in on this workshop! Hopefully, @post45.bsky.social will get the opportunity to publish some articles that emerge from this P45DC event 🤩

We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way. Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback. Proposals are due December 1!

DEAR GRAD STUDENTS, This March @post45data.bsky.social will be holding a free, online mini-workshop for grads working in the fields of contemporary literature and culture. More info / abstract submission here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 1/4

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 43 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022)! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-10-28 🗞️ https://theconversation.com/why-we-still-need-a-womens-prize-for-fiction-257494#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Podcast! In his new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach, Ryan Calo argues that if the purpose of technology is to expand human capabilities and affordances, the purpose of law is to establish the expectations, incentives, and boundaries that guide that expansion toward human flourishing.

So cool that the British Literary Prize dataset is the focus of this week’s #TidyTuesday — a weekly community project where people visualize and explore data. This shelf viz is fantastic! Looking forward to seeing more explorations throughout the week. TidyTuesday: github.com/rfordatascie...

Friday night early #TidyTuesday of British Literary Prizes. Wanted it as a bookshelf, made it into a bookshelf 📚 Code: github.com/borstell/tid... #R4DS #DataViz

hey digital humanities nerds heeeeey want to solve a mystery

I would love to see more rich and famous people funding literary culture (they could still do something big with their names on it!) rather than pretending that they can write fiction.

I ruptured my achilles in January. Couch-bound for most of the winter, I read over a dozen books about walking journeys. I was inspired. Obsessed? I decided to walk across Massachusetts. You decide how to experience my story here: pudding.cool/2025/10/walk/