#BookHistory! This is a hybrid panel so please do join us even if you’re not in Bloomington!

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

The #iSchoolUI has 🔸FOUR🔹 open faculty positions in the areas: Information Sciences, Information, Culture & Society, Information Behavior/HCI/UX, and Early Literacies! Submit your application by December 15 ▶️ bit.ly/iSchoolatIllinoisJobs

Out now: "Digital Text Analysis and Early Shakespeare Bibliography: Using Voyant Tools with Bad OCR" www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/1...

Quick question for y’all musicology PhDs from a humble composition MusDoc: what‘s the consensus on the Jan Swafford bios?

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!

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

Are you a brilliant grad student with a passion for human-centered audio creativity? Experienced in generative AI and multimodal reasoning models for audio creation? Come join us at Adobe in San Francisco during the Summer of 2026 for our Internship program! research.adobe.com/careers/inte...

In a few weeks CU will host the Midwest Yiddish Fest ’25. The kickoff "Block Party" includes a lecture by Rachelle Grossman on Yiddish Printing in America & live printing @skeuomorphpress.org using our case of Yiddish type—the event does require registration but there’s a single-event $5 option

So glad to see my friend Steve here. A good follow and a better fellow.

Looking forward to this meeting at Chicago organized by @hoytlong.bsky.social and Chris Kennedy: neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/research/hum...

Getting ready for my lecture for Dartmouth’s Family Weekend tomorrow! They’re getting the #DataEmpire sneak peek 🤩

Yiting Xia showing our poster at ISMIR 2025’s Late-Breaking/Demo session!

Pulling this post from the archives because…well because I have only a few papers left to comment on & need to fill the exponentially-longer stretches of time between each one

MIREX poster at ISMIR 2025. MIREX started 2005!

A controlled symbolic music generation task produces piano scores with a desired difficulty level; an auxiliary optimization target for difficulty prediction helps prevent conditioning collapse, enabling more precise and adaptive score generation.

So delighted to be hosting my friend @hellejensen.bsky.social as an @ischoolui.bsky.social Research Fellow over the next 10 days! She’ll be giving several talks about digital history, a transnational look at Sesame Street, and a new transnational project on childhood during the early WWW years.

Beautiful day in Daejeon for my favourite conference.

Our closing keynote for #TEI2025 is @juliaflanders.bsky.social , who speaks earnestly of TEI’s ongoing relevance in an ethical formulation of our technologies and data structures.

Just reposting this because I shared the blog post a bit late last night. Please share! Let me know what you think.

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

@tarannum44.bsky.social from @webscidl.bsky.social is up next at #ACMHT2025 describing web archives usage for verifying attribution of Twitter screenshots with a compelling use case of one's love for pineapple pizza. 🍍🍕 @phonedudemln.bsky.social

Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day to all who celebrate! www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

Here is the DSH publication link: academic.oup.com/dsh/article/...

Hi Friends! My coauthors @tedunderwood.me @gworthey.bsky.social @profdownie.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new article in DSH @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads". Link in comment:)

Modern Fiction Studies is sponsoring a conference on “Cultural AI” at Purdue, to be followed by a special issue. @aarthivadde.bsky.social, @richardjeanso.bsky.social, N Katherine Hayles, @mattwilkens.bsky.social , @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, and I will be there later this week.

On fast and furious road trip to Brantford, ON to see my mum. Stopover in London, ON. Was able to drop by a long-standing haunt and see folks that I have know since the 80s!

Important new article form my colleague Paula Westenberger on Artificial intelligence for cultural heritage research, and the challenges in UK copyright law and policy. www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/eur...

Prepping for my first one-shot digital humanities workshop 💪 Intro to Data for Humanists that is the most gentle walkthrough for folks who aren't used to thinking about their work in these terms. Working with data from my two fav projects: @ccp-org.bsky.social and the Womens Print History Project

@chesterjankowski.bsky.social Brace for impact around 21ish October. Jimmy's Corner awaits. Happy Labour Day.

Starting Monday, the triennial Banff International String Quartet Competition, all livestreamed Arete Quartet—Seoul Cong Quartet—Hong Kong Quatuor Elmire—Paris Quartett HANA—Munich Quartet KAIRI—Salzburg Quatuor Magenta—Paris Nerida Quartet—Bremen Poiesis Quartet—Cincinnati Viatores Quartet—Berlin

One of the most interesting trends emerging from the 1st two discussions in "Writing with Robots" is that the majority of students—mostly English students, so a specific sample—are stridently anti-AI, intellectually—they know & espouse the most important critiques—but they also use it, quite a lot+

Thank you student who decided to wear a tie dye shirt today and then walk in front of my on campus. Your shirt is incredible

What’s so cute about @ryancordell.org getting these is how he realizes that I live in absolute color “OMG YOUR <insert clothing> is so BRIGHT> Me: please drive 🩷💕

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Since book sales data is basically impossible to get, this is one of the few resources where you can actually see what people are reading and when. With the SPL checkout data, you can track trends for your favorite authors and novels, but also see aggregate patterns. E.g., COVID 🤝 audiobooks

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a premier international forum focused on research and practice in digital libraries, bridging technical, practical, and social dimensions. More about the event: 2025.jcdl.org

ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries JCDL 2025 will be held as a fully virtual, synchronous event. JCDL 2025 will feature workshops, tutorials, panels, and a doctoral consortium. More about the conference: 2025.jcdl.org

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Looking forward to the year ahead supporting the global DH community with @kmapesy.bsky.social. Thank you Michael Sinatra and @djakacki.bsky.social for all your work over the past years!

Genuinely—has anyone ever taught a class & students reported the reading load was just right? Bc I’ve spent 2 decades teaching across the reading load spectrum—from quite heavy to a few magazine articles per week—& every single class gets “too much reading” on evals—I think it’s an impossible target

@lisagiven.bsky.social Was in Canberra hotel room, packing up to head to Sydney and I see this...

Giving my HTRC Extracted Features lecture at ANU. Second photo is me starting the dinner conversation at the visiting scholars supper at ANU Was a great day, meeting new scholars and talking shop.

Very spiffy visiting scholar dinner at Australian National University.

#DigitalHumanities job

Some interesting thoughts about the issues of sustainability at scale and the Constellate platform.