Zoe LeBlanc
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social
Assistant Prof @iSchool UIUC studying digital humanities and histories of information. Interested in how we study the past with computers. she/her
Is anyone else getting some very weird #DH2026 submissions to review? And by weird, I mean almost entirely seemingly AI-generated? Like with entire sections missing text and weird giant fonts and bizarre footnotes.
Curious how are other conferences handling this issue??
Curious how are other conferences handling this issue??
January 26, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Is anyone else getting some very weird #DH2026 submissions to review? And by weird, I mean almost entirely seemingly AI-generated? Like with entire sections missing text and weird giant fonts and bizarre footnotes.
Curious how are other conferences handling this issue??
Curious how are other conferences handling this issue??
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Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why?
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.
December 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why?
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).
Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
#CHR2025
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#CFP: Our Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) invites proposals for the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle. Please save the date & reshare!
Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...
Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...
December 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
#CFP: Our Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) invites proposals for the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle. Please save the date & reshare!
Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...
Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...
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Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
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Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!
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Job alert!
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Job alert!
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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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....
@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....
August 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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....
@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....
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#ThanksBrett for always looking forward. You saw a bright future for the humanities, as key interlocutors in the most pressing socio-technical discussions of our moment, and you created opportunities for those conversations to actually happen. We all owe @brettbobley.bsky.social enormous debts
*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
June 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#ThanksBrett for always looking forward. You saw a bright future for the humanities, as key interlocutors in the most pressing socio-technical discussions of our moment, and you created opportunities for those conversations to actually happen. We all owe @brettbobley.bsky.social enormous debts
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Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
In Poetry's Data, @mmvty.bsky.social explores why literary studies must confront digital mediation.
Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out now. Learn more about this engaging book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
April 22, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.
Dumb Q but genuinely need help: say you have a few weeks (maybe only 2) to build a website what's your dream tech stack? Ideally deploy from GitHub though could white knuckle it through AWS, custom domain, & will have complex data viz (d3 & vega) and navigation;
April 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Dumb Q but genuinely need help: say you have a few weeks (maybe only 2) to build a website what's your dream tech stack? Ideally deploy from GitHub though could white knuckle it through AWS, custom domain, & will have complex data viz (d3 & vega) and navigation;
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I missed this announcement back in March.
"For Schmidt Sciences, Digital Delacroix is the first of a projected 10 to 15 grant recipients that will receive a total of $10 million to apply A.I. to research in the humanities."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/a...
"For Schmidt Sciences, Digital Delacroix is the first of a projected 10 to 15 grant recipients that will receive a total of $10 million to apply A.I. to research in the humanities."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/a...
New A.I. Project Explores Mysteries of Delacroix, Master of Romanticism (Gift Article)
Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who may have contributed to his murals and paintings.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I missed this announcement back in March.
"For Schmidt Sciences, Digital Delacroix is the first of a projected 10 to 15 grant recipients that will receive a total of $10 million to apply A.I. to research in the humanities."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/a...
"For Schmidt Sciences, Digital Delacroix is the first of a projected 10 to 15 grant recipients that will receive a total of $10 million to apply A.I. to research in the humanities."
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/a...
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Pre-announcing one of the first fork of Common Corpus: French ScienceCommons, the largest open corpus of French academic publication (about 30 billion words). New Pleias project unveiled on Wednesday at the French Académie des Sciences.
April 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pre-announcing one of the first fork of Common Corpus: French ScienceCommons, the largest open corpus of French academic publication (about 30 billion words). New Pleias project unveiled on Wednesday at the French Académie des Sciences.
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So strange, as the stress and worry about the world grows in this household, so to do the number of Japanese wood-block prints.
In order: Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Hasui Kawase
In order: Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Hasui Kawase
April 11, 2025 at 10:47 PM
So strange, as the stress and worry about the world grows in this household, so to do the number of Japanese wood-block prints.
In order: Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Hasui Kawase
In order: Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Hasui Kawase