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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 23d

It's always a pleasure and honor to co-author with Yuerong @yrhu.bsky.social (and of course with @profdownie.bsky.social and @tedunderwood.me as well), and her latest is not to be missed: "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads".

Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 23d

This is a free-access link to it:
academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

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Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 23d

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:)

Yuerong Hu, Ted Underwood, Glen Layne-Worthey, John Stephen Downie, Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2025;, fqaf084, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf084

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Sep 8

Forgot to cc: the excellent @owenmonroe.bsky.social on this repost last week.

Congrats again, Owen, and thanks sharing your thoughts on this internship with the community!

iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · Sep 3

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

PhD student Owen Monroe wearing a blue button-down with polkadots and smiling in front of a brown backdrop.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Sep 3

cc: @neh-odh.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · Sep 3

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

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iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · Sep 3

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

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Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · Aug 18

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....

Hu, Y., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., LeBlanc, Z., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2025). Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research. Big Data & Society, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251359229 (Original work published 2025)

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 30

It's such a comfort to know that you're taking such good care of "our" Postels, Amanda! (Along with the rest of those treasures, of course.) Please stay safe, and continue to Keep Stuff Safe™️ with Lots Of Copies!

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · Jul 19

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 20

Nothing more than sloppy, hasty googling... but now I'm thinking of it, the best historical / nostalgic reenactment would've been a link to the SGML version of TEI Lite, which is the one that first delighted me with its Dylan.

"Yesterday's Information Tomorrow!"

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 20

And thank you, Ben, for the outstanding and thoughtfully critical panel. As far as I'm concerned, the negativer the better: there's a whole helluva lot of hype out there that needs smart counterbalancing!

BTW, there were plenty of very smart pro-AI papers at the conference, too. ⚖️

#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

It's hard to say what was most inspiring in a truly momentous talk full of many, many moments. But I was first touched when you said that giving a DH keynote had been a career-long dream of yours.
It was our collective dream as well, Roopsi. Thank you for fulfilling it with such style. 💜
#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

For the record, the arguments at the #DH2025 "in the shadow of AI" panel today were way more nuanced and subtle than just "(valid) concerns about attribution." I'm too spent at the moment to summarize, but there's more to discuss than what you (Ted, I mean) are responding to. To be continued!

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Jul 18

Does anyone have examples of a survey for collecting evidence about re-use of research software? Or advice about how to design such a survey? @softwaresaved.bsky.social #DH2025

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · Jul 18

Here for this moment. What a moment. #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Sara is @sararribas.bsky.social -- and you can see her cool SNA visualizations right there on her Bluesky account.

See also her article: revistas.uned.es/index.php/RH...
#DH2025

Constelaciones de artistas: análisis y teoría de redes aplicado a la danza y el teatro español (1914-1934) | Revista de Humanidades Digitales

Revista de Humanidades Digitales – RHD – UNED – CONICET - UNAM

revistas.uned.es

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Despite clearly defined, limited, and gendered roles (women were librettists, men were composers), SNA reveals María's hidden importance in the work of the theater.
#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

In Sara's 1st network analysis, the role/position of individuals are the nodes, and the dances, theater pieces, and zarzuelas are the edges. In the next, edges are other dance/theater companies.

María turns out to be the primary connecting node for collaborations (e.g. w/Ballets Russes)
#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Next up: Sara Arribas Colmenar on recovering María Lejárraga's forgotten legacy & the choreographic evolution of the Art Theatre trough social network analysis.

Maria Lejárraga (1874-1974) was a feminist writer & dramatist associated with the Martínez Sierra Dance Company.
#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

I'm honored to be chairing this final paper session of #DH2025, which means that I won't be posting much (can't walk and chew gum at the same time) -- but it's great to have such a robust audience!

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

"Embracing absence in the digital humanities" presented by Ellen Charlesworth (co-authored with Claire Warwick) on incomplete collections data from UK museums, keeping in mind the geographic, rural/urban, economic differences. How does the digital reinforce and reify digital inequality?
#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

In a robust discussion: Lauren K. advocates for us to create *alternatives*: university- and library-sourced models, etc.

Filipa: "The cat's definitely out of the bag, but that doesn't mean we can't trap it in the bathroom!"

#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ben's conclusion: we have no idea what to do. Hence the "shadow" of AI.

Restrictive CC licenses don't work. Our old and generous ethos of openness is no longer workable.

#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Meet the resistance: adversarial perturbations.

Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI:
glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

#DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · Jul 18

Ben outs LAION, the "Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network," which claims to be "truly open" (no), "100% non-profit" (oh, please), &c. They seem to be winning in court! 👀

Citation: Eryk Salvaggio, "Challenging The Myths of Generative AI" www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...

#DH2025

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