A cautionary tale about the manipulative nature of the academic job market from someone who has risen above the declarations that these idiots made. There are so many abuses that we just became accustomed to in academia. Even when it was supposed to have gotten better. Read on...

Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

A friendly time zone reminder for digital humanities folks: if you're submitting to @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social, 11:59 PM on 12/15 in Korea is 9:59 AM Eastern and 6:59 AM Pacific. Get your proposals in tonight or set a (very) early alarm tomorrow morning!

Well done, @brettbobley.bsky.social !

On the heels of @dancohen.org recent substack, the 3rd sabbatical update: Digging in the Archives, an Exercise in Joy triproftri.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/s... ..where I circle back to AI after gleeful tangents & gorgeous photos of #19c books @rs4vp.org #digitalhumanities #ai #periodicals

Sabbatical Update 3: Digging in the Archives It's been a busy Fall with travel as I work my way through Phase One. What I thought would take only a couple of weeks has evolved into 6 months of design, implementation and follow up alongside wrangling metadata to create complete, true linked open…

Giving a talk at the eHumanities Center Cologne tomorrow in Germany & they said do the whole thing! Talking from the beginning about the annuals & why they're important all the way to issues with building the metadata, relying on outdated indexes and homegrown DBs. #digitalhumanities #dataethics

Has anyone used VFlat (mobile app) and then transferred those files to @tropy.bsky.social on a Mac? Think I can export individual files to my Mac from VFlat (but not the folders I so lovingly set up for each volume) VFlat does very fast text recognition of photos (better than Adobe).

Scanning 4 vols of the Bengal Annual at the British Library that aren't anywhere else (nor digital...nor in the Boyle index) 🤯 VFlat app has been incredibly helpful...looking fwd to playing with auto OCR creation from 15000 literary annual pages 📖📖📖📂

😊 is spending the week at the British Library trying not to get my finge👈👉rs in the photos

New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

THIS! Funding at my institution is non-existent. I'm on a yearlong, half pay sabbatical that took years to save up for. I'm going to every archive possible bc I won't ever be able to do this again before I retire. Bypassing spending months deciphering hw chicken scratch = time returned to me 💖🛎️

Oh boy...I can't wait to write this into an update! Thx to @dancohen.org for the latest newsletter on @tropy.bsky.social Gemini & deciphering that chicken-scratch that is #19c correspondence! Exactly rt that this use of gen #AI helps scholars who are time & cash-strapped

Also on my sabbatical, I've been organizing our tenants to fight against the predatory practices and extremely delinquent regular repairs in our rent stabilized apt complex. I mean, some elderly tenants have gone w/o heat or functioning stoves FOR YEARS🙈🙅‍♀️🤯 Feminist organizing FTW 🙌

For the morning crowd, especially as we continue grapple with #AI in higher ed with the daily deluge of ed tech sales emails

A 2nd update from this yearlong scholarly adventures. Diving into all things #AI including a glorious AI & Humanities non #NEH summer institute, a #GovAI panel on AI workforce, a keynote on resisting the romance of innovation -- but staying focused on my lil' #19c books #digitalhumanities

Story time: Update on this massive data project with these #19c literary annuals. Including as much data as we can for use in Internet Archive, OCLC & Wikidata to create opportunities for all kinds of user and data crosswalks (1/+) #periodicals @rs4vp.org

📖 Colby Book Prize nominations open today! We're accepting nominations from now until 31 Jan. 2026. The Colby Prize recognizes original book-length scholarship published in 2025 that most advances our understanding of the long #19thC British press. More info: buff.ly/LIi76WJ

Harry Hootman created a db of Faxon's print index of British & Am literary annuals for his dissertation, published it on a personal website, and created a boon of info. He passed away unfortunately and his website disappeared but I've got the data. #periodicals #dataethics

Any thoughts? @rs4vp.org @patrickleary.bsky.social @lindseckert.bsky.social @pritijoshi.bsky.social #victorianperiodicals #periodicals

Building a spreadsheet of every pg in 83 vols of literary annuals w/ 300-400pp, 40 to 50 literary texts & 10 to 12 engravings. Stumbled on this engraving in 1833 Forget Me Not. Accompanying short story =ekphrastic rendering of engraving. Never seen a Black woman portrayed in this way in annuals 🤯

ACLS Digital Justice Seed & Development Grants. (Due to ofa.acls.org by 9:00 PM EST on 11/20/25) The ACLS Digital Justice Grant program supports projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice in digital scholarly practice, contribute to understanding of racial & social justice issues.

Up next: invited to participate on a discussion panel on workforce readiness for #AI in local govt orgs A: Well, hire people not with degrees in "prompt engineering" but instead with liberal arts degrees or community engagement experience Not sure I'm gonna tell them what they want to hear😬

The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...

International conference "Data Ethics for Historical Research in a Digital Era. Critical Reflections and Best Practices" 📍Mainz (Germany)/hybrid event 📆10–12 Nov. 2025 Make sure to register now and be part of the conversation! ➡️ […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

I am so so so thrilled to share that I will be teaching a course on #Voyant and #Spyral at DHSI in Montreal in June 2026, with the lead programming developer of Voyant, Andrew MacDonald. Come, join us in exploring the messy world of textual analysis! dhsi.org/2025/10/01/i... #DigitalHumanities

Taking a year-long sabbatical is HUGE. My 1st step was to upskill my project management leadership methods w/ the @modernlanguage.bsky.social and the #DigitalHumanities Summer Institute. The plan is not the goal. The Goal is the Goal! triproftri.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/s... @rs4vp.org #dh

Taking a year-long sabbatical is HUGE. My first step was to upskill my project management leadership methods with the MLA and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

@nytimes.com Pls investigate deeper into this charade! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t... "AI Advisory Board" has 1 faculty member & 1 student w/rest from tech. Interview CA Faculty Association? or SJSU-CIRCLE initiative faculty? FFS sloppy reporting that shills for the chancellor's office

Recommendation needed: mobile app for photographing small 19c books Gathered airline pts to get myself to the BL to transcribe & photograph 5x 300 quarto pgs on sh*tty newsprint ppr Recs for mobile apps to photograph the vols? VFlat & Adobe Scan already recommended #periodicals @rs4vp.org #dh

began class today with this slide

An incredible talk by @rebekahcummings.bsky.social around the future of libraries: "In Our AI Era" www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLdf... #dh #digitalhumanities #AI

Surprise fees! Always fun 🙄 My University buried a link to another web page in the travel docs that WE HAVE TO PAY FOR TRAVEL INSURANCE but there's NO opt out. It comes out of grant funds/prof development $ that are already razor thin Hope $170 buys Risk Management an extra stapler 🤯😠

Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH! dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f... Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY... Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/

Ok, I'm going to London. Tacking into Germany speaker circuit trip coming up in a couple months. Recommendations for places to stay near the British Library? (Low cost since this is outside my grant funding)

Panel calls for BARS 2026 are up on the blog! - Letitia Elizabeth Landon & the Poetics of Retrospection (convened by Emily Rohrbach) - Repetitions & Innovations in Late German Romanticism (Joanna Neilly) - Creative-Critical Writing & Romantic Studies (Adam Neikirk) www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199

Help: I need photos of *Bengal Annual* 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 & 1836 at @britishlibrary.bsky.social BL isn't doing digital scans for remote patrons, tho a/o in London who mt be able to get to the BL? @rs4vp.org @victstudies.bsky.social @jimmussell.bsky.social

CFP (due 10/15 initial interest) from Journal of Open Humanities Data with Jenny Kwok co-editing this special edition, Benchmarking in #DigitalHumanities openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...

Who's in Germany in Dec? Looks like I'll be giving an update on this project at U of Cologne at their DH Colloquium. Veering so hard into linked open data & data ethics along w/deep archival work on editors' ltrs & chasing down copies of 19c literary annuals. So grateful to v generous colleagues!

Holy shite! A wonderful cataloguer just introduced me to AN ENTIRE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS that I've never visit at the NYPL Schwarzman! In 5 yrs at the Grad Ctr & numerous return visits to NYPL....and they still use paper card catalog to find stuff 🤯🤯 Just blew up my timeline for the next 5 days!

Doing some deep research in the archives about colonial literary annuals in Bengal & found a review of my 2015 book by a librarian which starts out "Harris found her turf early on" which means that this will be a banger of a review in the BSA journal. Some observations (1/+)

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

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.

Today was spent wading thru a fab book by Rahul Sagar *To Raise a Fallen People* that resurrects 19c articles from India's periodicals. When my brain is bursting like today, I usually wander down the hallway to visit my wonderful Philosophy colleague, Anand Vaidya. He passed away suddenly Oct 2024 😥

In searching for a family contact for a deceased colleague's family to ensure we can re-purpose his dataset, I bumped into my 2012 post lamenting lack of $$ & time to do what I'm doing now in 2025 😪 triproftri.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/l... Thnx to our #DH center, the dream lives 13 yrs later 🤩

Japan #DH was incredible! Next up, discussing critical cataloging at CA Library Assoc for feedback on the line b/w agnostic vocab & scholarly apparatus = metadata So grateful for ongoing guidance from the community incl @gworthey.bsky.social 🙌 cla2025.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp... @rs4vp.org

Wrapped the Japan #Digitalhumanities conf & am so incredibly grateful for this community! Such interesting and engagement people with very poignant and important projects. Thanks for @rs4vp.org for the support from the @patrickleary.bsky.social Field Development Grant award to attend! #dh

As is the thing in Japan, heading to the local Family Mart (or 7-11) to pick up something delicious for dinner before jet lag makes me completely incapable of moving & sends me to be very hungry...

Between these 3 days of incredible presentation at Japan #digitalhumanities , BlueSky #DH & sketching workflows w/ChatGPT (using it for good), this feels more & more like getting my hands dirty into the depths of bigger #dh project than I've ever been able to perform 😍😍🤩🤩🤩 #grateful #dreamproject

Recommendations for automating OCR corrections of scans from 19th print volumes? Transkribus keeps coming up - anyone have experience with this? #dh #digitalhumanities