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

🚨🚨🚨 JCDL 2025 invites submissions for Research Papers, Posters and Demos, Resources (Data/Software), Doctoral Consortium Papers, Workshops and Tutorials, and Panel Proposals. To know more about the deadlines and call for proposals, please visit: 2025.jcdl.org/calls/

📚💡📢 JCDL 2025 topics include, but are not limited to: - Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Analytics for Digital Libraries. - Search, Retrieval, and Recommendation Systems. - Human Interaction, Communities, and Collaboration. - Content, Collections, and Digital Humanities.

- Infrastructure, Preservation, and Data Management. - Policy, Ethics, and Societal Impact. To deep-dive into the topics of interest, visit: 2025.jcdl.org/calls/

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.

Having sat at many tables where @profdownie.bsky.social orders both a glass of white wine & a coffee, @eviedc.bsky.social & I now refer to any meal with both coffee & alcohol as “a Downie”

Something we're all in denial about, btw, is that rhetorical infrastructure is one of the central achievements of CS: • 10-page, open-access paper • clear abstract • figure explains the problem on page 1 (or at most 2) • supported by open code • written in ... LaTeX ... (ok, no one's perfect)

Huge congratulations to our Head Librarian and the Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries, @richove.bsky.social, who has been awarded with the 2025 Benson Medal by the Royal Society of Literature. rsliterature.org/announcement...

Re-reading this right now as I get ready to do something analogous. It's really helpful.

Hi Colleagues Please share the link with our other colleagues. The data were created to be used! @ischoolui.bsky.social

Excited to be a part of this! Join us #dh2025 in 2026! And thank you to @javiercha.bsky.social for the invitation!

Prof. Bainbridge presents our poster at DH 2025 in Lisbon.

A full house is enjoying Hannah Jacob's lovely and nature-focused #DH2025 talk on "Critical Refusal, Slowness, and Openness in Community Digital Archival Initiatives." Hannah's own sense of calm in face of initial tech annoyances is 💚.

The National Museum of Natural History is seeking an experienced Data Scientist in the Informatics and Data Science Center, Research Informatics Office to increase capacity to conduct data science and geospatial analyses, visualizations, technologies, & research. www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Hey y’all: 1. Wow, I’m blown away by the response. I’m so glad the project is resonating with folks 2. There are about 10 books left to be claimed. If you are hoping to secure one, please donate/fill out the form soon!

" the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible" For FY26, which starts Oct 1. www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Printing the last two impressions for the artist’s proofs of @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “A Rant About Technology” Planning to compile, bind, & document so we can start taking orders later this week!

Btw, there is a remedy. Apparently, “brain freeze” happens when nerves on the roof of your mouth are irritated by the cold. So, if you place your (warm) tongue on the roof of your mouth and move it around the sensation passes more quickly. 😎

Blogs used to be how craft knowledge got passed around, and they worked okay. But a language model trained on 500,000 blogs that can look at your code and answer questions is better. (Unless you forget to ask it an important question, and it's too sycophantic to remind you to.)

I’m a literary scholar. I teach digital humanities. Last week, I wrote peer reviews for a sociology journal. Tomorrow, I’m headed to a book history conference. Another reason why the “spreadsheet men” framing is unhelpful is that it collapses distinct fields with distinct intellectual traditions.

RYAN TOO REAL

Last Gala night for this QM2 journey. New jacket and bowtie. Brought proper bowtie but couldn't get it tied despite watching 1,000,000 YouTube videos, so bought a clip-on on the boat. Still no pirate sightings.