Reposted by Anna KijasLibraryThingTim @librarythingtim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026AI-written books ineligible for Canadian ISBNs. 15625
Reposted by Anna KijasAlliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 09/10/2026📢 The Call for Proposals for @adho-conferences.bsky.social is now open! Join us at the University of Galway, Ireland (28 June – 3 July 2027) around our conference theme: Creativity. 🔗 Read the CFP: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ ⏰ Deadline: 20 Nov 2026, 23:59 AoE 074
Reposted by Anna KijasMeredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026sheets.works/data-viz/hol...sheets.worksThe people holding up the internetFour billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest. 715362
Reposted by Anna KijasACH @ach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Pleased to share resources from the #ACH2026 Pre-Conference Workshops! Great ideas for teaching, preservation, and community building from @mackymoo.bsky.social Lisa Boutin-Vitela @akijas.bsky.social @danicasavonick.bsky.social Chelcie Juliet Rowell and Allison Fischbach. ach.org/news/2026/10...ach.org#ACH2026 Pre-Conference Workshop Resources 055
Reposted by Anna KijasLisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is a great opportunity to apply for funding to attend @rarebookschool.bsky.social! You might even apply for a scholarship to attend my Fragmentology class next summer... 01812
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’m thrilled to be speaking at Indiana University on Friday about “Lessons from a Rapid-Response Web-Archiving Effort.” More details at events.iu.edu/reei/event/2.... Stop by if you’re in Bloomington! #SUCHO #culturalheritage #webarchiving 130
Reposted by Anna KijasMartin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026See you all next year at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam for AI4LAM's #FF2027 -- Saskia Scheltjens is Head of Research Services at the Rijksmuseum 051
Reposted by Anna KijasMartin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@mollyhardy.bsky.social presenting on "on the Public Data Project, which began in early 2025 with copying 311,000 datasets from Data.gov, and more recently, in capturing all public domain Smithsonian data." #ff2026 131
Reposted by Anna KijasMartin R. Kalfatovic @udcmrk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026@bcgl.bsky.social presents "GovScape (govscape.net), a multi-institutional collaboration to create a public search system for 10+ million government PDFs. Efforts over the past three decades have produced web archives containing billions of webpage snapshots and petabytes of data." #FF2026 131
Reposted by Anna Kijassam blickhan @snblickhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Today we launch our new @zooniverse.bsky.social AI Ethics Framework: www.zooniverse.org/about/ai-eth... It includes Key Principles, Internal Actions taken by Zooniverse, and Recommendations for Project Teams that will guide the use of AI/ML on the platform moving forward.zooniverse.orgZooniverse AI Ethics Framework | ZooniverseProjects on Zooniverse that engage with artificial intelligence and/or machine learning 1138
Reposted by Anna KijasJessica Chapel @jnchapel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's been gratifying to see the response to this project since we officially put it out into the world last week: www.bpl.org/news/boston-... #AI4LAMbpl.orgBoston Public Library and Harvard IDI Release Open Dataset from 135 Years of Historic NewspapersNewspapers represent one of the richest available primary sources for historical research — capturing not just major events, but births… 12917
Reposted by Anna KijasInternet Archive @archive.org · 11/09/2026From saving materials to exploring government records, researching history & building new tools with collections & APIs, these tools turn a shared library into a place where everyone can participate. Can’t attend in person? A livestream event is available, too! www.eventbrite.com/e/1998004770...eventbrite.comDemocracy's Library: Tools for Participation (VIRTUAL)Celebrate the Wayback Machine & other Internet Archive tools that help us preserve, explore, share, and build knowledge together. 0515
Reposted by Anna KijasJim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is the best book about the AI scam that I have read 1358
Reposted by Anna KijasTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...scientificamerican.comOpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts sayOpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach 12958392
Reposted by Anna KijasKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“Saxony-Anhalt is a relatively small state, and the heart of the AfD’s power base in eastern Germany. But the election result sent shock waves through the country’s political system, which was designed after World War II to prevent extremist parties from ever returning to power.”nytimes.comGermany’s Far Right Just Misses Majority in Crucial State ElectionThe Alternative for Germany, or AfD, trounced its rivals but was left unsure if it will be able to govern in Saxony-Anhalt. The result shocked Germany. 214151
Reposted by Anna KijasInternet Archive @archive.org · 21/08/2026✒️ From ancient scripts to avant-garde typography, the Letterform Archive collection at the Internet Archive preserves the art and history of letterforms. Browse thousands of digitized artifacts from typography, graphic design, calligraphy, and the letter arts.👇 archive.org/details/lett... 130685
Reposted by Anna KijasRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026With our August issue of #ReviewsInDH, we celebrate more than 1 MILLION page views. We're so grateful to everyone who has helped us reach this milestone. And don't miss an Asian and Asian Diaspora topic issue, "Resisting Cultural Erasure," edited by Doa Sarmad Khan. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n8reviewsindh.pubpub.orgVol. 7, No. 8: Aug. 2026 - Resisting Erasure · Reviews in Digital HumanitiesVol. 7, No. 8 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit... 21411
Reposted by Anna KijasClaire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Important paper and thread from Melissa Terras, a trusted #digitalheritage voice: "There is room for intervention in both digitizing heritage that may be imminently lost, AND sourcing data for climate science. The institutions that steward heritage don't have as much time as they think ..." 031
Reposted by Anna KijasData Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 28/08/2026Want to know more about our work? Our article is out today! 074
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Folklore Archives in Ukraine: A History of Survival and Preservation” – Svitlana Konovalova (Center for Folklore Archiving and Digital Preservation in Kharkiv), Iryna Voloshyna (Indiana University; Ukrainian National Museum in Chicago), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 000
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Socialist Television Heritage in Crisis: A Case Study of the Radio Television of Serbia Centre for Public Opinion, Programme, and Audience Research” - Nataša Simeunović Bajić (University of Niš), Antonija Čuvalo (University of Zagreb), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 000
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Danmei as Chinese Cultural Heritage: Political Censorship, Queer Resistance, and Transnational Solidarity” – Meli Taylor (Bowling Green State University), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 010
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“The Linguistic Marginalization of Low-Resource Languages: Confronting AI's Limits in Digital Cultural Heritage” – @aklamar.bsky.social (University of California, Santa Barbara), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 001
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Digitally Preserving African Built Heritage: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Architecture, History, and Geospatial Documentation” – Bahare Sanaie-Movahed, @provatlantic.bsky.social, Killion Mokwete, Patricia Davis (Northeastern University), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 021
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Save Our Signs: National Park Signs and the Power of Crowdsourcing to Combat Censorship” – Molly Blake (University of Minnesota—Twin Cities), Lena Bohman (Rush University), Jenny McBurney, and Amelia Palacios (University of Minnesota—Twin Cities), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 531
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“The Data Rescue Project: A Crowdsourced Effort to Preserve At-Risk US Federal Data” – Lena Bohman (Rush University), @lyndamk.bsky.social (University of Pennsylvania), Mikala Narlock (Indiana University Libraries), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 121
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Combating Care: Using Care Ethics to Interrupt Epistemicide” – @kileyjolicoeur.bsky.social (Syracuse University School of Information Science), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 130
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Data Rescue Revisited: Episodic Invisibility, Activism, and Institutional Gaps” -Laura Rothfritz (Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 110
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage” - @melissaterras.bsky.social (University of Edinburgh, UK), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 130
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“Introduction to Cultural Heritage in Crisis” - Anna E. Kijas (Tufts University), Andreas Segerberg (University of Gothenberg), doi.org/10.1353/lib....doi.orgProject MUSE -- Verification required! 110
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm thrilled to announce that the special issue of “Cultural Heritage in Crisis” in Library Trends, Issue 75, No. 1, co-edited by my colleague Andreas Segerberg and I, has been published! It features an amazing group of authors on topics that I’ll post next. View issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57540.muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 196
Reposted by Anna KijasMelissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 31/08/2026New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...muse.jhu.eduProject MUSE -- Verification required! 14218
Reposted by Anna KijasEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 28/08/2026[published May 22, 2026] UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students By Michael T. Nietzelforbes.comUC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By StudentsThe University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, strict policy governing students’ use of AI. It forbids the use of AI for work submitted for credit. 1246
Reposted by Anna KijasAlliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 25/08/2026📢 AI and History Conference 2026 📍 October 15–16, 2026 | Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 🔗 The conference program is available at: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc... ⏰️ Registration closes September 15, 2026. 🔗 More info & registration: proflouishyman.github.io/ai_conferenc...proflouishyman.github.ioAI and History Conference 2026A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University. 056
Reposted by Anna KijasThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Playing in our faces 509118495386
Reposted by Anna KijasJames Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026"Podcasting Continues to Grow in Popularity at the Digital Humanities Center" @sdsulibrary.bsky.social HT @slwalter123.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u... 011
Reposted by Anna KijasKnowledge Commons @kcommons.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Join us on Tuesday for an introductory webinar on Knowledge Commons! 📚️ Register today! buff.ly/xtSFs4K 0910
Reposted by Anna KijasDH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026#DH2026 now has a video archive page: highlights, keynotes, ceremonies, and both celebration performances — including the Opening Performance, newly uploaded. dh2026.adho.org/video-archive/dh2026.adho.orgVideo Archive - DH2026 in Daejeon, South KoreaDH2026 Video Archive A record of DH2026: Engagement, the 36th annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, held 27–31 July 2026 at the Daejeon Convention Center. All videos… 0156
Reposted by Anna KijasDaniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Every illustration in the British Library's 19th-century book images dataset now has an instance mask: 1.02M clean cutouts of public-domain engravings, no image generation involved! One small segmentation model, $3.24 of compute. Model, masks and a search Space with cutout view all open. 111425
Reposted by Anna Kijasgquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 20/08/2026How Silicon Valley learned to talk endlessly about AI risk while blocking anyone from acting www.arguably.uk/p/the-ai-dis...arguably.ukThe AI distraction machineHow Silicon Valley learned to talk endlessly about AI risk while blocking anyone from acting 011
Reposted by Anna KijasGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 07/08/2026Last year, the Trump administration launched a sweeping campaign to censor American history and science in the National Park Service. A crowdsourced project aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the government removes them 🧵 401720772
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Sending healing vibes. I hope you are feeling a better. 030
Anna Kijas @akijas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026„Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data” ACH pre-conference workshop materials by Allison Fischbach and me are now available in Knowledge Commons! Please use and share widely! You can access everything at doi.org/10.17613/9qs... #webarchiving #webrecorder #ach #digitalhumanitiesdoi.org 051
Reposted by Anna KijasRoopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University. 🤡 www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgAI’s top startups are barely publishing their researchMore than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint 14919
Reposted by Anna KijasBrandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Should also say - I am happy to share a preprint with people who might have need earlier than mid-September. Have already done this for a few. Just send along a note! 151