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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Just noticed that tomorrow, 5 July, is the sign-up deadline for the #DH2026 Fun Run! You don't want to miss this: it's fun! And there are teeshirts! Thanks for organizing, @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social.

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iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This week, Professor & Executive Associate Dean J. Stephen Downie was a guest speaker at the Herder Institute in Marburg & the University of Göttingen. Downie, who serves as co-director of the HathiTrust Research Center, lectured on the TORCHLITE project. Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4eneRS4

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Serving on the ADHO Board & in various related roles has been one of the most rewarding parts of my professional life: a small enough community that I've come to know some amazing colleagues really well, but also international in scope and large in ambition & heart. Please consider volunteering!

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

📢Exciting Opportunities with ADHO! Please apply before 1 May 2026 More info: adho.org/positions/

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I got to meet Fobazi in the same small lunch party with Quinn, and had the very same flushed feeling: a real star, and I was totally struck! But she was also so kind, accepting, sharply funny, and self-effacing that I hoped we could just stay friends. Too late, too soon, but the memory lives on.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Still thinking about leadership? How do it in these moments? (Me too!) Join us for 📌 Week 1 (June 8–12) in Montreal for #DH Leadershpi course co-lead by me, @gworthey.bsky.social @raysiemens.bsky.social Tuition scholarships available. Early registration thru March 1.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH! dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f... Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY... Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ryan posted this over a month ago so I'm a bit late to the party... but hardly a day has gone by since that I haven't listened to one or all three songs: I love them so much! I second the recommendation of "Babbage" for DH folks. Best DH song since that TEI video of Subterranean Homesick Blues.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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".

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Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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 · 08/09/2025

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!

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iSchool at Illinois @ischoolui.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#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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Yuerong Hu @yrhu.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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 · 30/07/2025

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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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

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 · 20/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

Here for this moment. What a moment. #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

"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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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 · 18/07/2025

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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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Concluding the panel: organizer Ben on The Shadow. The show begins with an overview of who's suing whom in the content-creator v. AI legal landscape. #DH2025

Info graphic of current lawsuits of content creators against AI companies using their content.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Lauren's account of the weaponization of "openness" based in part on her observations of the Stop Cop City protest movement in Atlanta GA: open public comment at city council meetings becomes totally different when turned into granular, Ctrl+F searchable data of vulnerable people. #DH2025

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Julia Neugarten @julianeugarten.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This is super important. In several instances at #DH2025, I've heard colleagues say that newer releases of ChatGPT have gained domain expertise in their subfield—probably because OpenAI scraped and absorbed open data refined and curated by specialists from GitHub and HuggingFace. No credits given.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Lauren on AI and LLMs as the limiting case of DH, observing the full co-opting of openness in DH (which began as an idealistic stance), and its downright weaponization by, e.g., OpenAI (See Karen Hao, "Empire of AI"). #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Another citation from Matt G.: Christopher Kelty, "Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public" #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Matt Gold on ethics & complicity of OA publishing: encouraging students to publish openly their work that may (or will) be monetized and capitalized by the AI industry. Citation: "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons." doi.org/10.48550/arX... #DH2025

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Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons

General-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) systems are built on massive swathes of public web data, assembled into corpora such as C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma. To our knowledge, we conduct the first, ...

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Rather than "protect" free speech and open data rights of AI-scrapers, how about respecting rights of data owners, and differentiating rights based on intended uses? Example of the granular Nwulite Obodo Data License, which is tripartite, has different terms for users in/out of Africa, etc. #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

First @filipa-calado.bsky.social addresses language, copyright, Fair Use defenses, bias, etc. in AI. Filipa trained two GPT-2 models, one on Heritage Foundation-promoted texts, and the other on ACLU-promoted texts. Hilarity ensues (along w/less-funny stuff). #DH2025 Slides: bit.ly/dh2025-open-...

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‘Original Expression’ to ‘Aggregate Forms’: Language and Copyright in the Shadow of AI Filipa Calado Assistant Professor Pratt Institute, School of Information Link to slides: bit.ly/dh2025-open-data

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

'Rethinking the Ethics of “Open” in the Shadow of AI' :: a eye-poppingly important and panel with @medievalben.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @filipa-calado.bsky.social Ben situates the panel by first proposing "shadow" rather than "age" of AI to defang it a bit #DH2025

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The tech has always been most successful as a means to an end, that should ideally become background. But DH also challenges the STEM/non-STEM dichotomy. I always go to the analogy of astronomy -- squeezing as much as possible from weak, distorted signals from the distant past.

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

(Speaking of #DH2035: I for one am looking forward to a future conference of the Alliance of Potheads and Communists!) #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Whoops! Never has a public faux pas of mine been so charmingly corrected. ☺️ Thank you, Scott! And I hope to see you long before #DH2035 (and on much firmer ground). #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Loving this work from old friends (and new) at @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social: distant-reading highly formulaic college course descriptions to explore how, when, and where “AI” (and “LLM," etc.) concepts appear. What's the semantic field like? Is AI a tool, object of critique, societal phenom? #DH2025

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Glen Layne-Worthey @gworthey.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sayan Bhattacharyya asks: Can we teach DH as *humanities* — and not as some sort of "shadow STEM”? Proposes a new humanities-first meaning for HAC (in the old yack vs. hack supposed dichotomy): Historicization, Analogization, Contextualization. I love this as a new DH pedagogy! #DH2025

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