The deadline for submissions to the upcoming Digital Humanities Summer Institute aligned conference in Montreal is this Friday, January, 30, 2026. La date limite pour soumettre des propositions au colloque parallèle du Digital Humanities Summer Institute est fixée à ce vendredi 30 janvier 2026.

We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

We have slots of nice looking cores at this site. This is what a sediment core looks like on Subastian

We are streaming from 900m

#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH

ROV in the water, diving to 2600m

Here's the R/V Falkor (too) and the bay inside with the amazing robot sub (SuBastian), suspended from a giant A frame for deploying it through an even larger door. The two workbenches in front give you a sense of scale. You can also just make out @archaeal.bsky.social in front of the Falkor

This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social#AsgardArchaeahere: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/

In the water diving to 900m. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean #AsgardArchaea @schmidtocean.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social @texasscience.bsky.social @utmsi.bsky.social

Stormy waters have cleared. Winds and light. Currents moderate. Live streaming from 850m. Collecting push cores.

Other researchers in action on Falkor (too)

Watching the sunset from the Falkor (too) decks. Looking for the green flash.

For everyone who puts words on pages…

Waiting for the wind to subside, while the ship maps a channel on the sea floor for the next dive, Galen visits the bridge and settles right in.

Viperfish? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Solmissus #76590087345 (aka Reginald) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Siphonophore @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

I've not seen a colobonema colored quite like this before. Beautiful job pilots! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Pelagothuria flyby! Haven't seen one of these in a while. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Mastigoteuthis @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Enteropneusta & Bathysaurus @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

I have not seen a acorn worm travel like that. Cool! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

Benthocodon @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife

May be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. If you want to know why it’s called a strawberry squid, watch the video

Livestream dive two. We see a strawberry squid and a sea of brittle stars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZLe...

So long as all humanities students take a statistics course, particularly journalism students, with an emphasis on hypothesis testing, Bayes' Theorem, and statistical significance.

This semester I ported a course by @mikekestemont.bsky.social from R to Python and taught it alongside a great colleague. Designed for Humanities Masters students with no maths and little Python, it takes you through univariate stats, testing, distributions, and finishes with Bayesian modelling.

I'm super excited to announce that ISBA @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has voted to start a new section on Bayesian Social Sciences! It will be a great way to further collaborations with many disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities. bss-isba.github.io

I’m teaching an environmental humanities course this fall and you can bet I’m going to be assigning this post (and your column) as we discuss the impact / ethics of AI use.

IMLS is under attack. They’ve been instrumental in digital humanities and GLAM. Make noise, spread the word, call your reps. IMLS co-funded my 1st NEH grant, which later became the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium & introduced 1000s of students of color to DH. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

(1/8) Welcome to the official Bluesky account for Stolen Relations (indigenousslavery.org)! We are a digital humanities project housed at Brown University that centers on and works collaboratively with tribal communities in our local region.

Looking forward to co-teaching "Digital Pedagogy and the Book: Tools, Methods, and Projects" with Andie Silva at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), which will take place in Montreal this year! Our workshop is Week 2 (2-6 June 2025) Details and registration: dhsi.org/course-offer...

'As the rise of digital humanities has increased the amount of information available exponentially, collaboration...has become ever more important. This trend underlines the vital role the arts and humanities will play in addressing major global challenges'. 1/2

The effect and mechanism of mutual aid on the subjective well-being of participants in the COVID-19 pandemic link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Location: Minneapolis, MN Participants: 200 Amount: $500/mo Duration: 2 yrs Design: RCT EMPLOYMENT DID NOT DECEASE Food and housing security, financial security and psychological wellness all significantly improved. www.minneapolisfed.org/research/ins...

Great to see new reports/studies flagging cobenefits of nature restoration such as peace (below) & "a sense of identity or well-being + spiritual experiences" phys.org/news/2025-01..., but these are still very anthropocentric. It needs doing also for the sake of our wider kin, the more-than-humans!

With any luck, the AI will realize it is the problem and delete itself

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

In case you havenʼt seen it yet, this website is such a great resource for all of us researchers and teachers working on and discussing technology and society: Calculating Empires – A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 calculatingempires.net

Can't help but worry about graduating with a PhD within the next four years, only to be faced with an academic job market that has been gutted and starved like never before...

We call on universities and other higher education institutions in Australia to shut down their accounts on 'X' (formerly, 'Twitter') as soon as possible Sign petition here: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/... #eXit #auspol #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky 🧪🌏 #ECRchat

Given that these men really do have the potential to destroy society, democracy and the world, some might find it rather glib to complain about their cringiness. But I'm with Shaw: it seems unjust that it should also be so deeply embarrassing to watch this happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I write about happiness for #globeandmail so I might have to pitch a trip to Copenhagen, a city so confident that newcomers will happily stay forever that they can get "quality of life insurance" to cover a free trip outta there. www.thelocal.de/20241028/why...

DH community: The 2025 DHI will be held virtually on April 4-5,2025. The then is Digital Humanities as a Tool for Resiliency: Analyzing and Addressing Crises through Innovative Digital Practices. Please find the complete Call for Papers here: lnkd.in/exrKVJZp #digitalhumanities #DHI2025

The call for applications for the 2025 workshops seeking participants interested in developing a conceptual foundation for understanding the assumptions made in common #digitalhumanities #DH methods, such as statistics, network analysis, and text mining and analysis is here! mathhumanists.org/cfp/

Right on time, the @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social conference program is out with so many incredible talks! Virtual registration is free: msuglobaldh.org/schedule/ #dh #digitalhumanities #globaldh

On that note, there's just one more piece of news that I'm thrilled to share with you: a paper offering more technical details on Bayesian textual criticism, which I've authored with Rob Turnbull, has just been accepted for publication by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities!

Getting winded from chasing the kind people into all the microblogging warrens of the internet. But the skies do seem curiously blue here.