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Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

I would love to hear about your favorite entry-level visualizations that explain how neural nets work. I know about really impressive, detailed renderings (e.g., bbycroft.net/llm), but I'm looking for something appropriate for a first encounter.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190 we're still tinkering, but couldn't wait to share.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

We need publishers (and middle point vendors) to stop prioritizing short term gain over long term sustainability, libraries to demand ownership or refuse to play ball, and we need everyone to respect first sale doctrine. 1/3 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

New! @jenguiliano.bsky.social and I are please to share the February issue of #ReviewsInDH, “Mapping Black Radical Joy” from African and African Diaspora topic editors Cherice Escobar Jones and Tinashe Mushakavanhu. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n2

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

For the first time in over 20 years, Israel has deployed tanks in the West Bank, after expelling 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps. This is a prelude to full annexation, and makes a mockery of the ceasefire agreement that Israel continues to violate. [1/3]

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

This was such a fun project to work on! We release efficient classifiers 🌐 to partition large corpora, and use them to improve sampling for LLM pretraining great work lead by @awettig.bsky.social 👇

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This workload data is pretty damning if you ask me. I'd also wager that this workload is a big part of why (foolishly, IMO), we have people clamoring to integrate AI tools, hoping it will actually help them work faster/better and reduce their overall workload. That ain't how tech gets integrated.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This looks like a fantastic postdoc opportunity at Cornell, slated to work with a wonderful team. They're looking for someone who does English/cultural studies + DH, with emphasis on computational work.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 27 days ago • 168 comments

Pushing live production code cooked up by some young coders over a week of sleepness nights in place of a legacy system that is fundamental to the operation of the US government is against every programming best practice.

submitted 29 days ago • 128 comments

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 30 days ago • 619 comments

Since August, I've been working on the Virality of Racial Terror Project. It's very much a work-in-progress, but feel free to follow along at the link provided. Big thanks to @ryancordell.org for bringing me on board. Lots more I could say, but I'm hoping to report more over the next several months

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem are set to lose education, healthcare and other services provided by UNRWA on Thursday. 🔴 LIVE updates: http://aje.io/vq4fki

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

"DIY Web Archiving": new free zine by @quinnanya.me @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net & me, based on the 11/2024 @sucho-org.bsky.social @webrecorder.net @ach.bsky.social workshop: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... #DHmakes +

submitted 42 days ago • 32 comments

Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze? Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage. Left: yesterday. Right: today.

submitted 42 days ago • 59 comments

Interested in learning more about Digital Humanities and how it fits into librarianship? @pollock.bsky.social is teaching the LibraryJuice course on this very topic. (Would be great for early-career librarians and grad students) libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Stunning cowardice by the AHA Council. For shame. "The Council considers the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza ... to contravene the Association’s Constitution and Bylaws because it lies outside the scope of the Association’s mission and purpose." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/busines...

submitted 47 days ago • 20 comments

Reminder that even the out-of-copyright scans from Google Books are subject to license agreements and such, so once HTRC is sunset as an entity within HathiTrust, they're not able to serve as a broker for access to that stuff either. 😬

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Finally posted the comment I submitted to the US Copyright Office last year in support of expanding the DMCA exemption for text and data mining. It makes the case for actually looking at our text files & I bet it was the first time a textile dataviz made its way into a government document. #DHmakes

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, that's convenient: if you have a bipartite network and want a unipartite network, you can just drag and drop with this tool the-project-project.glitch.me (from @jrladd.com, I think)

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

The past we study is shaped by what survived - but what about everything that didn't? The CHR journal wants your work on measuring, understanding, and accounting for missing data. Deadline has been extended to Jan 31, 2025. Guest-edited by @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and @mikekestemont.bsky.social

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Huh, Ithaka is sunsetting Constellate, HathiTrust is ending HTRC as such, feels like the end of an era for the text analysis data capsule backed by large 3rd party corpora model. 🤔

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

Tune in tonight and tomorrow (each at 8pm local time) to listen to two Ideas episodes/podcasts that I recently co-produced via the Non-Aligned News Research Partnership (NANReP). www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

If you're attending #CHR2024 or if you want to follow along at home, you can pin this feed to your home page. Currently just looks for the hashtag, lmk if I should match to anything else.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Humbly standing in front of the bluesky community asking for pet photos on this Thursday morning.

submitted 105 days ago • 55 comments

I know it's been several weeks since this exemption was renewed and expanded, but I am still chuffed: www.authorsalliance.org/2024/10/25/t...

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group in 2025-2026. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! UW iSchool PhD apps due Dec 2nd: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd... More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

submitted 114 days ago • 2 comments

There's a lot of blaming and finger-pointing and related activity going on, but I'm going to tell a story about a major player who isn't getting much recognition at all. People keep saying that two of the big reasons Trump won was because the people who voted for him didn't know enough and ...

submitted 119 days ago • 6 comments

cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie... we're hiring!

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

Does ChatGPT have a poetic style? Can it successfully generate poems in different forms and styles? In this new paper, we show that, yes, ChatGPT definitely has a poetic style (it’s bad), and it can kind of, sort of emulate different styles... except for when it can’t. arxiv.org/abs/2410.15299

submitted 133 days ago • 3 comments

Going on the job market this year? Thinking of moving from academia to industry? Here I am with another hat (and @katinalynn.bsky.social) offering advice and feedback on CVs and resumes through ACH. Info and registration link below

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

Hey #DH #STS does anyone have favorite articles or books on the history of APIs generally or the development of specific APIs? I've compiled the following list (in the attached image) for my students but I'm sure there's some I'm missing, so please lmk if you have any recs. Thanks 🙏🏽!!

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

The plan is genocide.

submitted 143 days ago • 17 comments

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

submitted 146 days ago • 16 comments

1: AI is hallucinating events, historical figures, entire concepts on Wikipedia 2: a task force of Wikipedia editors is detecting and deleting this stuff www.404media.co/the-editors-...

submitted 147 days ago • 57 comments