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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 2d

The deadline to register for this year's DHKO conference is *this Thursday*, October 9!

DHKO @dhko.bsky.social · 23d

Påmeldingen til DHKO 2025 er åpen og programmet ligger ute!

KEYNOTES:

📍Jack Andersen: Organizing Information, Technological Change and Ideological Contestation

📍Jordan Magnuson: Game Poems and Born-Videogame Poetics

#digitalhumaniora #bibliosky #arkivsky

DHKO 2025: Infrastruktur og grensesnitt - Universitetet i Innlandet

Nasjonalt forskningsnettverk for digital humaniora og kulturorganisasjon (DHKO) sin tredje årlige konferanse skal holdes på (og i samarbeid med) INN. Årets konferanse vil inneholde workshops og presen...

www.inn.no

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 7d

Quality trolling from the dictionary, I support it! 👏👏

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 7d

A sticker featuring a red octopus-shaped kraken, with the text "let's get kraken."

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Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · 8d

Fra 🌳 til 🅿️ . Det er til å gråte over korleis vi erstattar natur og matjord med betong: www.nrk.no/dokumentar/x...

NRK avslører europeisk naturtap: Norge topper verstingliste

www.nrk.no

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 8d

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

Absolutely true! I think the stakes feel higher around generative AI at the moment given what students stand to lose by using it (I work at a university library, for context). There's so much marketing/hype, and a lot of temptation for them to make their lives a little bit "easier."

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

I'm thinking especially about how word choices that have a humanizing effect (e.g., "'think' more deeply," "correct its mistakes") are both misleading and potentially dangerous. It's clear many people using LLMs have no idea what they actually do because of the way they're marketed.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

I've been thinking a lot about how important our language choices are in discussing generative AI and this blog post from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social really gets at why: "When vendors feed you language, it’s in the hopes that you’ll regurgitate it to sell their product for them."

MOOCs and the Myth of "Access" — Sonja Drimmer

The recent piece by Vauhini Vara, “ How Chatbots and AI Are Already Transforming Kid’s Classrooms ” is important reading for the week, and there’s much in it to infuriate. It’s good. But there’s one ...

sonjadrimmer.com

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

I've definitely seen an uptick in both Quisling and Vichy this year.

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

Nå har jeg lyst til å lese 'Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year' igjen med det spørsmålet i bakhodet!

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 9d

Scratching my head at that one.

Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 10d

This was genuinely lovely to read on a morning with so much bad news in the world. Thank you for the updates!

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Camilla Holm Soelseth @supercamilla.bsky.social · 10d

Ikke overraskende.

"a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies.
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Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 10d

Kjenner meg igjen i det første punktet der! Men jeg klarer ikke å gjøre det veldig ofte.

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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 12d

"We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less."

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12d

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 13d

applied linguists and translators: what's your favourite academic paper on machine translation and its effects on translators? 🐦🐦 #lingsky

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, it ends up feeling both weak and nonsensical. "Carefully removed" and "coincidence" are pretty at odds in that sentence, there.

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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · 13d

Hi, can I interest you in some fantasy written by a nonbinary author? With trans and intersex characters? Not based on a franchise by a transphobic author!

Dragonfall, Emberclaw, and my rewritten debut, Pantomime, are out now, and I could very much use some help getting the word out about them. 💖

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Dianna Walla @diannawalla.bsky.social · 15d

Eighty. Four. Pages. What.

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jun 25

Would any of you wonderful people like to review a paper on the impact of generative #AI on #SystematicReview integrity? It would be suitable for people with a good understanding of Systematic Reviews. I am not having much luck getting reviewers.... Thanks.

a blue toy robot with red feet and a clock on its face

Alt: a blue toy robot with red feet and a clock on its face

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Anne-Line 📎 @ithildancer.com · 15d

I anledning den internasjonale tegnspråkdagen kan dere se denne dokumentaren på knappe 38 minutter:

Det forbudte språket - NRK TV

Undervisningen av døve feirer 200 år, men i 100 av disse årene var tegnspråk i klasserommet forbudt. Hvorfor?

tv.nrk.no

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DHKO @dhko.bsky.social · 15d

Først ut denne høsten er Marit Sjelmo, stipendiat på NTNU med "Hva kan litterære reiseskildringer fortelle oss om 1800–tallets Norge?"

Sjelmo vil fortelle om hvordan hun har jobbet med Norsk reiselitterært korpus fra et makroperspektiv ved hjelp av digitale verktøy.

📍Påmelding i lenke under:

D-lab: Hva kan litterære reiseskildringer fortelle oss om 1800–tallets Norge? Bli med på digitalt foredrag 25. september! - NTNU

www.ntnu.no

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DHKO @dhko.bsky.social · 15d

👩🏻‍🏫 Vi ønsker velkommen tilbake til DH-lunsjforedragsrekken, et samarbeid mellom Digital lab på UiB og D-lab på NTNU!

Høsten 2025 kan du få med deg digitale DH-foredrag følgende datoer og tidspunkt:

🟧 Tors 25. sept kl. 11.30-12.00

🟧 Tors 23. okt kl. 11.30-12.00

🟧 Tors 27. nov kl. 11.30-12.00

DHKO @dhko.bsky.social · Jan 31

Denne våren holder vi DH-webinarer i samarbeid med Digital Lab ved UiB og D-lab ved NTNU. 🎉

Foredragsrekken gir forskere og andre som er involverte i DH-prosjekt eller -forskning muligheten å dele sine erfaringer, suksesser og utfordringer tilknyttet bruk av digitale verktøy og/eller metoder.

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