That's a wrap! Beyond thankful to my committee @zoeleblanc.bsky.social , @profdownie.bsky.social , @ryancordell.org , @dasmiq.bsky.social
reading this: bsky.app/profile/vort... makes me think they’re on to something.
When #DataFeminism @laurenfklein.bsky.social came out in 2020, it felt like a perfect match for #DigitalHumanities.
Here was a framework all about concerns some #dh scholars have been circling for years. And yet, I can’t say the field has embraced it.😢
Why?
latex-ninja.com/2026/05/31/w...
Congratulate @djevans.bsky.social on defending his brilliant dissertation, “The Layered Incompleteness of Historical Data: Newspaper Directories and the Construction of the Bibliographic Record, 1869–1925”—one of the best examples I’ve read marrying rich historical & advanced computational research
@princeton.edu is seeking to hire AI Postdoctoral Research Fellows affiliated with the AI Lab (@princetonainews.bsky.social) and the Center for Digital Humanities to conduct research focused on societal AI. Applications open through Jul 1! cdh.princeton.edu/news/2026/05...
knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.
Did the administration successfully bury their horrific change to green card procedures by releasing it Friday afternoon before Memorial Day? People who have followed every rule should not have their lives upturned for months or years. Where is the continued pressure?
Dan created a computational pipeline to extract newspaper metadata from Rowells’ & Ayers’ annual newspaper directories—including fields like circulation, genre, & language—creating a rich, longitudinal dataset that will help scholars analyse newspapers’ evolution over the 19th & early 20th centuries
Seeing @ryancordell.org work out more skeuomorphisms and then a few minutes later…