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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 1d

Interdisciplinarity is fun because it’s something job ads in humanities HE say they want but it often feels like it actively disqualifies you (in the sense of having degrees in, and published in leading journals of, multiple distinct disciplines). Everyone believes you’re not in their discipline.

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 7d

@unsloth.ai releases a Docker image

Train LLMs locally with no setup: just run the image and go.
Includes every pre-made Unsloth notebook. No more environment issues.

docs.unsloth.ai/new/how-to-t...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 16d

We’re hiring @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk for a postdoc in geopolitics of AI www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Research Assistant/Associate (Fixed Term)

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 2 years in the first instance. Applications are invited for a Research Assistant/Associate at the new Bennett School of Public Policy in the

www.cam.ac.uk

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Sep 5

I've also been talking about this with colleagues and friends lately. Where do we even draw the line between DH researchers and those using AI in the humanities—if there's a line at all?

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Sep 4

Keeping “digital humanities” together as a field is going to get so hard in the era of AI. The shear forces are intense: I see lots of humanities profs who were DH-friendly reposting Zitron.

And while E.Z. is a Limbaugh-tier thinker imo, they’re not wrong that AI is disrupting things they value. +

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · Aug 29

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology

<div> <div> <div> <p>Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat cul

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Interesting digital humanities data sources": I blogged about 18 datasets for DHy teaching, research, & tool-learning I've bookmarked, & why they might be useful—plus some relevant tools, events, & resources re:data at risk:

I bookmark sources of data that seem interesting for:

literaturegeek.com

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Mark Dingemanse @dingemansemark.bsky.social · Aug 20

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology

Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#emca #linguistics #sts

View of Radboud Campus in Nijmegen, brutalist Erasmus building hosting the Faculty of Arts & the Futures of Language project in the foreground

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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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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Aug 13

📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature

From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon formation.

Explore the data here: doi.org/10.18737/092...

The Canon of Asian American Literature – Post45 Data Collective

This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.

doi.org

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DHQuarterly @dhquarterly.bsky.social · Aug 10

DHQ Language Survey - We want to hear from YOU!
We're working to better understand our community's language needs. Help shape DHQ's multilingual future! Click here to take the survey: purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

DHQ Language Survey

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com

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Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social · Jul 23

Okay Bluesky, I need your help. I'm looking for some recommendations: What are your favourite tools/examples for #TopicModeling, #Stylometry, and #NetworkAnalysis?

Please comment below or DM me. And feel free to repost.

#DigitalHumanities #NLP #NLProc

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Kristina Gligoric @gligoric.bsky.social · Jul 21

Excited to co-organize the Bridging Human and LLM Annotations for Social Science tutorial at #ic2s2 tomorrow!

Join us at 1:30pm CEST to learn how to combine Qualtrics+Prolific, MTurk, & LLMs for automated annotation and valid estimates.

Code&materials: github.com/kristinaglig...

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jul 17

Please come and join us at CUHK!

Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · Jul 17

CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).

Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper ‪‪@andrewpiper.bsky.social‬.

Submission deadline: 31 August.

2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/

#HKADH

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jul 10

#DH2025 I will be chairing and presenting on a panel focused on "Accessibility and CARE Principles in the Age of AI" on July 18th, 11:00-12:30. Please join the discussion with our brilliant panelists! DHers, see you all soon in #Lisbon!

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · Jul 8

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC
NEW SERIES
Book History for the Future
SERIES EDITORS:
Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA
Tom Mole, Durham University, UK
Sarah Werner, Independent Researcher, USA
Book History for the Future aims to define the cutting edge for a new generation of book historians, as book history enters a new chapter of its evolution. Books sit at a densely trafficked intersection of social relations, status negotiations, emotional investments, material possibilities, desires, aspirations, and dreams.
They require an intellectual approach grounded in attention to physical artefacts and material conditions while also engaged in theoretical reflection, attentive to historical contexts while attuned to contemporary resonances. This series publishes books that eschew academic parochialism in favour of adventurous engagements with new theoretical developments, innovative methodologies, digital tools, and global
contexts.

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Rongqian Ma @rongqianma.bsky.social · Jul 8

🎉 Excited to share our new preprint on generative AI disclosure practices in Digital Humanities! We explore how DH scholars perceive and navigate GenAI use in their work.
Huge thanks to all who participated in the survey! 🙏
Link: www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.03216

Disclosing Generative AI Use in Digital Humanities Research

This survey study investigates how digital humanists perceive and approach generative AI disclosure in research. The results indicate that while digital humanities scholars acknowledge the importance ...

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Jul 7

#DH2025 I will be attending the DH2025 conference along with colleagues from Schmidt Sciences. This will be the first time I'm there but NOT as an NEH employee. If you will be at the conference, please attend our HAVI funding session on Tuesday at 1PM. www.conftool.pro/dh2025/index...

Digital Humanities Conference 2025 - ConfTool Pro Printout

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jul 7

[CFP] My department and the Centre for Translation Technology at CUHK is organizing the Conference of "Translation Studies and Digital Humanities II” on 15-17 December 2025. Details are at dh2025.tra.cuhk.edu.hk, papers, workshops, panels all welcome! Please come and join us in HK! Deadline: 30 July

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · Jul 6

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.

Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Jul 3

Me listening to the first 20 mins of this episode:

wow they're scrutinizing something I co-wrote on a podcast

hey they're scrutinizing something I co-wrote and not giving me any credit

I am not a Spreadsheet Man!!!

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Jul 1

This one’s for the hardcore. But they’re gonna love it.

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & I bicker!

@rbuurma.bsky.social shocks @laheffernan.bsky.social with confession!

@jdconnor.bsky.social outs the Hopkins Mafia!

@manshel.bsky.social, Fred J in ‘77, & more!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jul 3

Before #ADHO2025 Lisbon, I'll spend a few days in London! If you're working on cross-cultural analytics or multilingual LLMs, let's catch up! DM me 👋

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Lídia Zhou Mengyuan @lidiazhou.bsky.social · Jul 3

Spent wonderful days in Leeds! First time at #ESTcongress - great catching up with friends & colleagues worldwide! Next stop: #ADHO2025 Lisbon! 🇵🇹

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IDI @institutional.org · Jun 12

Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

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Jonathan Zittrain @zittrain.bsky.social · Jun 12

1M public domain books now available digitally, through our Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard.

IDI @institutional.org · Jun 12

Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · May 26

Attn: the special issue of SMR on Generative AI in Sociology is now online. The whole issue is fire, but the introduction by @thomasdavidson.bsky.social and Danny Karell is a must read, covering prompting, measurement, and simulations. It's a road map for soc sci research in the genAI era. +

Integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence into Social Science Research: Measurement, Prompting, and Simulation - Thomas Davidson, Daniel Karell, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new capabilities for analyzing data, creating synthetic media, and simulating realistic social interactions. This...

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