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Lauren Klein
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Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · May 21
I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:
A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.
laurenfklein.bsky.social
The first of a series of talks about DATA BY DESIGN, this one with @chronictanvi.bsky.social about how vis history can shape current design practices, is now online--along with all of the other amazing talks from @infoplusconf.bsky.social. Check them out!

informationplusconference.com/2025/talks/
Information+ Conference 2025
informationplusconference.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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lindsaythomas.net
@wearehighered.bsky.social has designed a quick survey to gather information about current state and federal attacks on higher ed, program closures, budget cuts, etc. There is a lot happening all over, and a lot that isn’t being reported on. Take a moment to document it here:
Campus Tracker — We Are Higher Ed
www.wearehighered.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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albertocairo.com
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
The 9000-page 52-pound book, entitled LIAR, LIAR, on display today at the University of Maryland. Sample interior page. Front of a postcard describing the project. Photo of postcard describing project: “9,296 pages document 3o,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump from his first day in office, 2017, to his final day on January 20, 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the country's next president. All that verbiage is s3" thick, weighs 52 pounds, and it started like this. The disolution of the Delaware College of Art & Design, to whom Lead Graffti had donated 1oos of design books over the past decade, brought an invitation to redaim them. We found a few, which brought us another interesting find — a blank Coppic-stitched book with a spine about 36 inches wide bound by Ema Ishii Holdredge for her BEA show at the Corcoran School of Art in 2008. That book haunted us for several weeks, and we decided it was too audacious not to give ita Lead Graffiti shot. For a while, we pondered how to fill a several thousand-page book with content that made a serious point. The notion of the presidential untruths came to mind, so maybe there was some documentation we could "borrow?" Sure enough, in a few Safari minutes, we found a downloadable PDE from The Washington Post that we could massage into a typographic form we could use. We were off. Ray undertook the ink-jet printing of the pages, folding and inserting the red cover-weight sheets for structural support, and gathering and punching the folds for sewing. Jill did 99.8% of the sewing. At a 3o2 United gathering, we encouraged attendees to give the book a stroke. Shown at right is the head of the Delaware ACLU, who has excellent technique. LEAD GRAFFITI | NEWARK, DELAWARE| LEADGRAFFITI.COM|RAY@LEADGRAIETTI.COM”
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Excited to be up in Boston with @chronictanvi.bsky.social for Info+, a conference I’ve long admired
infoplusconf.bsky.social infoplusconf.bsky.social @infoplusconf.bsky.social · Oct 15
Introducing the final two Information+ 2025 keynote speakers: Lauren Klein and Tanvi Sharma! 💫

Read about their experiences at:

informationplusconference.com/2025/program/
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Cannot wait to share this with all of you!
chronictanvi.bsky.social tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 19d
Lula Iola Mack, a student of W.E.B. Du Bois who contributed to the making of the phenomenal Data Portraits visualizing black america.

Here she is visualized amongst 3,856 other black graduates Du Bois surveyed. #DataByDesign #DataViz
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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lukewaltzer.bsky.social
I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.
mkgold.bsky.social Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 20d
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
In fact already many people at CUNY doing this exact work! cc @mkgold.bsky.social @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @lmrhody.bsky.social etc
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
For those in Atlanta, TIME 100 in AI honoree and mental health activist Kauna Malgwi will be gracing us with her presence at Georgia Tech tomorrow as part of our @aiainetwork.bsky.social Distinguished Speaker Series / IPaT Brown Bag crossover event. Info here: research.gatech.edu/ipat/fall-20...
Black and gray poster for talk by Kauna Malgwi on the hidden cost of AI.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
Screenshots of the following text: Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025. Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy. Screenshots of the following text: The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally 1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.

The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.
  2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.

Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own. If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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mariaa.bsky.social
So much good stuff in here. I'm reading @bschmidt.bsky.social's piece on computational history: "The split in American digital history shows a way to make computation focus not on making the humanities more scientific but instead making them more creative."
dmimno.bsky.social David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 23d
"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...
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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dmimno.bsky.social
"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...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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mellymeldubs.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
Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Wonderful to spend time with @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @cindyanguyen.bsky.social talking data and empire and history. Mark your calendars for these two amazing books--BIBLIOTACTICS and DATA EMPIRE--which, I can attest, will be terrific!
cindyanguyen.bsky.social Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social · Oct 13
DH as critical praxis and worldbuilding with @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @roopikarisam.bsky.social. An intellectual-pedagogical-feminist dream symposia come true through, hosted through my Critical Data Lab at UCLA Data X. datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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acarv.in
There are some tantalizing tattoo options among this spooky Venn diagrams
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
It's a perfect autumn morning in Atlanta, coffee shop is spinning Air's Moon Safari on vinyl, and Vauhini Vara (@vauhinivara.bsky.social) is speaking at Emory at 4PM this afternoon. Come on out! www.eventbrite.com/e/vauhini-va...
Vauhini Vara: If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?
The AIAI Network is hosting journalist and novelist Vauhini Vara on Thursday, October 16.
www.eventbrite.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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mkgold.bsky.social
Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social
eve.gd Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Oct 16
Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.

Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Just when you think you’re keeping it together, you open your toiletry bag to discover that you’ve packed contact lenses for only one eye
October 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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mmolarsky.bsky.social
Never forget.
Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...
GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
github.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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maurasmale.bsky.social
Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! We have a few jobs open in CUNY libraries:

cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

I’m not at these campuses but happy to answer questions!
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Theory as "a tool to open up the world." Love this!
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Oct 4
"What’s teacherly abt me... is that I love giving people a concept they can use as a tool to open up the world. That’s what theory is to me: a can opener. Or a key to a vast kingdom. Using things as 🔑s, instead of as 🔨s, is to me one of the most beautiful thing abt being an academic + a theorist."
Tina Campt
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa, "My approach to language is that theory doesn’t need to be a weapon."
www.novembermag.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
So proud to see my friend @kanarinka.bsky.social quoted in The Boston Globe about how this egregious new college "compact" goes against everyone and every thing that higher education stands for: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/b...
Trump makes MIT an offer, one many on campus hope the school can refuse - The Boston Globe
President Trump issued terms to MIT and other schools; many on campus urge them to push back.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟
Software Engineering Applications
Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...
docs.google.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM