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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 16h

Opinion-havers! Historicists! Nerd friends! Leftists! All/none of the above! Submit a proposal to GENERATIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, a new volume on AI and DH to be edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org and me! Deadline 11/1. Please share!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I get this instinct, but in the world of AI, philosophy has been privileged for a long time. These aren’t questions with final answers, and we’ve had rigorous conversations about them for thousands of years. I find going to other parts of the humanities and social sciences more practical.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

100%. Give me more empirical research that helps us make sense of the messy world.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it might be my bad mood speaking, but most universities on the planet are more involved in producing civil servants and managers than producing knowledge. It's kind of a wonder we still call all this "higher education", hire PhD students, deal grant money, run academic presses. for how long?

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

nothing is more devastating than hearing your colleague, for whom English might be, idk, fourth language, read out all those llm-speak americana cliches in a conference talk. It doesn't lead to more egalitarian spaces, or more just treatment of talent. It inevitably signals status.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

use of LLMs is pervasive in academia, everyone is depressed about it. but who can afford ~not~ to rely on AI? those who already hold high social capital: good English, good schools, good networks. For everyone else the 'baseline' is already far out of reach without LLMs

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In 4 years, we've come from whatever this was to... Claude Code.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Spoilers: all 10 ended up being desk rejected. - 1 paper withdrawn - 1 author was too busy for a call - 1 author no-showed - Authors of 3 papers couldn't answer basic qs - Authors of 3 papers could, but not technical qs - 1 author answered all qs, but paper had a major flaw

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research @tmlrorg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission? medium.com/@TmlrOrg/ask...

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Asking Authors About Their Own Papers

By Nihar B. Shah

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After four weeks of nonstop coding, it's time to slow down a little and engage in some reflections. As I regularly remind my students and lab members, a digital humanities scholar who only engages in technical work without reading and reflecting isn't really in the humanities.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"LLMs are just n-dimensional classifiers" has a very similar flavor to "everything is just quantum mechanical interactions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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More Is Different

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Time flies! I've arrived here in Hong Kong already a week ago. I'm here for a month as a first part o my two-year role as guest professor at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty or Arts, specifically in the context of their "Arts Tech Lab". See: www.atlab.hku.hk

Homepage of the Arts Technology Lab, with the name in big capital letters, black on white background, and the slogan: "Fostering Creativity, Innovation and Collaboration".

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ACL 2027 @aclmeeting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy: We are introducing changes in the @ReviewAcl reviewing and submissions. The changes will cap authors and introduce changes in the reviewing to keep our community sustainable. #NLProc #NLP

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I also ask that journal editors and conference organizers please stop sending requests to review a manuscript or an abstract that obviously should've been desk-rejected or sent back to the author(s) for revision. I must be doing close to 40 reviews a year. This is unsustainable.

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Scott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 04/09/2026

🧪 We are staring down a crisis with peer-review. Editors needed 4.5 invitations to secure a single peer reviewer in 2025, double the effort required back in 2018. Meanwhile, we have half of surveyed scientists admit to using AI to draft their reviews. This isn't sustainable. #AcademicSky

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Can AI help solve the peer-review crisis? Here are its promises and pitfalls

Amid a shortage of human reviewers, tests indicate AI can assist—but is not a savior

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Me: to study the humanities is to cultivate a fuller understanding of the mind as we seek to find meaning in the past, present, and future of our individual and collective existence Them: are you happy Me: god no

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 03/09/2026

Imagine if we decided, since the humanities == the good life, we have to hire whatever theorists empirically make ppl happiest.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks to AI agents, I've managed to completely redesign two of my existing websites and create a brand new one ... in 6 days. Brave new world. And I'm beyond pleased with the results. Check out: javiercha.com bigdatastudies.net samhan.ai

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wow! Retro to the max. Brings back so many memories.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Download dot com's most popular downloads at the end of 1996

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Truly, end of an era.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 27/08/2026

📚 What looks like the work of a solitary author can be the product of a system. In BIG FICTION, Emory professor Dan Sinykin argues books are shaped by a larger system: agents, editors, marketers & others whose decisions shape the page. 🎧Listen: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/big... 🧵

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Alliance 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...

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AI and History Conference 2026

A practitioner-focused conference for historians using AI and computational methods, October 15–16, 2026 at Johns Hopkins University.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Highly recommended reading from my wonderful former colleague at NEH, Molly Hardy. (Related aside: I once asked one of the DOGE boys "who would ever want to work here after what you've done?" To which he replied, "oh, NEH will be so much better soon." Yeah, fuck off.)

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

📣Call for Papers: Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities Annual Conference (HKADH) | Model/Making: Toward Generative Humanities ⏰️Submission deadline: September 1, 2026 🔗 More information: 2027.hkadh.org#cfp 🔗 Learn more about HKADH: hkadh.org

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HKADH 2027

Model/Making: Toward Generative Humanities. 21-24 January 2027, Hong Kong.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

CFP deadline is approaching! In my original post, I shared the wrong deadline. 🫣 Please submit your abstract by 1 September. #HKADH2027

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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Very happy that the Hong Kong Association of Digital Humanities (HKADH) has joined @adho-org.bsky.social! Announced at #DH2026.

Welcome HKADH!

Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities

We are proud to welcome HKADH as the newest constituent organization of the Association for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Key Contributions & Focus Areas:

Fostering digital humanities research and collaboration in Hong Kong and East Asia

Supporting multilingual DH initiatives and local community engagement

Strengthening global networks of scholars, practitioners, and institutions

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🎉 We are delighted to welcome the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities (HKADH) as the newest constituent organization of the Association for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)! Please join us in welcoming HKADH to the ADHO community! Learn more about HKADH: hkadh.org #DH #ADHO #HKADH

hkadh.org

Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities

Advancing New Pathways in Digital Humanities in Asia’s World City

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Sid Meier's Civilization II (1996)

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is how NER should be done. I used Claude Code to add LLM integration. For the time being, I'm using GPT-5.6 Luna, which costs literally just pennies to process these requests. Notice how this approach makes provenance visible and invites fellow historians to inspect the results.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Enzo to be sacked in the morning. 😁😁

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Are you Tottenham in disguise?

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Two years ago, I used GPT-4o to automate named-entity recognition tasks on a medieval Korean epitaph data set. I was already quite pleased with the ~90%-accurate rate of the output.

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Demetri @phdemetri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is the blockbuster of the AI generation

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Kepa is already costing us a cup. 😵‍💫😂

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Revisiting a bunch of PDF files I scanned in grad school: It's incredible that so little has changed.

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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!

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DH2027

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AIUCD @aiucd.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

News from Daejeon, where #DH2026 is currently taking place and the official announcement has just been made: @adho.org has selected the University of Padua to host #DH2029! A major achievement for the bid team and for the entire Italian DH community.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At our Playing Heaven #DH2026 mini-conference, a Chinese graduate student came up to me after one of the panel sessions and was puzzled by my Tang–Song Confucian knowledge-distillation agent's taxonomy, which grouped "roots and branches" 本末 together with "political economy" 理財.

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I took a train to Busan to head to #DH2026 this morning, except on the slower ITX so that there was an option to jump off the train easily in case zombies started appearing in the rear.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Let's put the 'fun' in 'funding'" -- Lisa Spiro. (Agreed!) #DH2026

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

I love how many #DH2026 presenters are so robust and advanced in their analytical methods but ALSO extremely accurate and knowledgeable about very small details of the data they used. Data curation and quality is the core of this community! 🧡

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For once, I agree with BTS. I'd also appreciate it if people stopped placing my work in the diversity category and just recognized my research contributions.

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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History

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Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Agents finished the task while I was away conferencing.

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