iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DH friends. Anyone have ideas for publication venues for outcomes of smaller bits of exploratory work? We have some fun outcomes but probably don’t want to spend time working them into something big; but feel they are interesting to the community. I know I’m forgetting something obvious!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a great read for anyone in critical code studies.

The underlying directory structure of MUSE: /
• home/hatch/
• SOUL. md
• IDENTITY.md
• USER.md
• MEMORY.md
• AGENTS. md
• TOOLS.md
• agents/
• docs/
• devices/home_link.md
• memory/
• bank/
• dreams/
• workspace/self_improvement/
• opt/hatch/

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 24/09/2026

#DHmakes meets social engagement 🪡

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've made a lot of progress on OCR + HTR, but nothing breaks a layout parser like Cattle Text Recognition (CTR)

Screenshot of a newspaper page from 1908 with little pictures of cows and their brands.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

ASCII word cloud maker exists now. Upload any .txt file or paste a block of text for a god awful word cloud. I should probably fiddle more with the symbols and buckets, but it is configurable. kaylendwyer.github.io/ASCII-wordcl...

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Book to ASCII

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Adventures in trying to get OpenWebUI to be a functional pedagogical tool. An ASCII word cloud! how resourceful. And yet completely incorrect.

Screenshot of OpenWebUI AI chat. Reads: "I've encountered a technical limitation in the current Pyodide environment. The matplotlib library appears to have corrupted the Python parser state after my initial import attempt, preventing further matplotlib usage in this session. Alternatives I can offer: 1. ASCII-style wordcloud -- I can create a text-based representation using character density." A code snippet reveals an ASCII representation of a wordcloud for Alice in Wonderland, with asterisks.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I am a person who wakes up at 5am, now staying up until 2am to attend #DH2026 in Kansas 😅 I really appreciate everyone who has provided workshop and presentation materials for me to review during daylight hours!

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I passed by a pedestrian crosswalk today and a helpful mockingbird stopped me with a fire alarm sound and then cycled through three different crosswalk styles—two chirpy, one mechanical. When I didn’t cross, it returned to singing. Birds with jobs!

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I think I have some kind of curse where if I visit a DH site, it will go down within 5-7 days.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

another year, another medieval cat cake

a very beautiful (believe me) medieval cat cake with green and pink details

a medieval cat cake carrying a bday cake, the background is blue with moons and stars in yellow

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

For admitted students day, I opened digital projects on multiple computers in our space—Listen to Wikipedia, BPL’s Atlas Scope, Catalog of Distinctive Type, some generated poetry, and Eliza. It felt cruel to tell the students to try to make her quit. It was open in Dev Tools. 😅

“Eliza” computer generated psychotherapist bot with developer tools open in a side panel.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 12/03/2026

Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We are proud to offer four new MLS/MA degrees at the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies! Learn more about these opportunities to earn degrees in Art History, Urban Affairs, English, and Media Studies alongside your library degree. sites.google.com/view/qcgslis...

sites.google.com

MLS/MA Programs

PROGRAMS Master of Library Science Master of Library Science, School Library Media Specialist MLS/MA Programs Advanced Certificate in Youth Services Advanced Certificate in Archives

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..." Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."

Your guide already highlights transparency and user trust; refining threat models, versioned documentation, user-centered examples, and layered information will make the advice more vivid and immediately actionable.

All suggestions: Bruce Schneier, Eva Galperin

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Remember to register for the Boston DH THATCamp! Join us in Medford at Tufts University this Friday: bostondh.org/thatcamp-2026/

bostondh.org

2026 THATCamp

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

An AI writing assistant has been added to a platform that is widely used for student projects. I discovered this today while I was teaching. The AI agents are disabled by default. An administrator needs to turn them on. Fascinating.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Well. A 60’ pine tree is leaning towards my window at a 45 degree angle. It does deep sideways dives with each gust. I’m very attached to having trees outside my window. I would like to continue having trees. 😬

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I got to ride the shuttle around Logan after a gate change and everyone was bored or grouchy, but I’ve never seen an airport that way. 10/10 highly recommend.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Oops! Several medical schools recently stopped using actors, including transgender actors, to role play as patients with students. It’s all chatbots now. Who could have guessed LLMs would treat these patients differently?

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

My apartment complex waxed the stairs. It’s 4am and we’re stuck on a landing.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

If you’re looking for Spotify alternatives, at Tisch Library, we’re streaming our own playlist from the music online database. #DouglassDay

People transcribing. “Blues at Sunrise” by Albert King on the projector.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We already have a submission that's only a couple of hundred dollars more than the lowest submission we got in the AY19-20 spreadsheet.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I accidentally ordered a half-dozen assorted donuts on the mobile app this morning. Pre-dawn on a holiday. Snug in bed. 6” of un-shoveled snow. Idk, other than that I was curious. Can you be choosy about your half-dozen assorted on the mobile app? No. And that button won’t take you there.

Looking out from a window with thick wooden panes at the view of a tall pine, branches heavy with snow. It is a dull, gray morning with light flurries.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My food pyramid is just permutations of macaroni and cheese.

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2 🔗 buff.ly/O7y3KaD

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Digital Health Humanities Postdoc at Tufts! The project is building a physician-level dataset from the American Medical Directories. The dataset includes physicians' place of training and practice, specialization, and demographics. Due 1/30: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/22563 #digitalhumanities

jobs.tufts.edu

Postdoctoral Scholar - Community Health in Medford, Massachusetts | Tufts University

Tufts University is hiring a Postdoctoral Scholar - Community Health in Medford, Massachusetts. Review all of the job details and apply today!

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Extended Deadline! -- Turn in your proposals by January 26th. :D

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you're in the area -- check out the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference! The CFP is open until January 5th. ctdh.io/call-for-pro...

ctdh.io

Call for Proposals – Connecticut Digital Humanities

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

In 2022, before Chat-GPT and when DALLE was still request-only, I made this AI recipe site to satirize recipe blogs. I admit that the devil on my shoulder was whispering "aaad revenueee." It took a weekend. It was fun. Now it just makes me sad.

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Roasted Asparagus | AI | Artificial Ingredient

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This is excellent. Does anyone have the citation for the March 2024 paper referenced at 3:06, comparing ChatGPT to Jim Crow? Would like to read and assign.

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education

Tuesday 25th November 2025

8am - 9:30am PST | 11am -12:30pm EST | 4pm - 5:30pm GMT | 5pm - 6:30pm CET

Virtual on Zoom – REGISTER HERE: http://bit.ly/4qE27dB

Generative AI is permeating higher education in many different ways—it is increasingly embedded in university work and life, even if we don’t want to use it. But people are also sounding the alarm: Gen AI is disrupting learning and undermining trust in the integrity of academic work, while big tech’s energy consumption, use of water, and rapid expansion of data centers are exacerbating ecological crises.

What can we do? How do we resist? Come learn about the environmental, social, economic, and political threats that AI poses and how we can individually and collectively resist and refuse. Learn about how some are challenging the narrative of inevitability.

Join this interactive discussion with international scholars and activists on resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Inputs from multiple scholar-activists include: Christoph Becker (University of Toronto, Canada), Mary Finley-Brook (University of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University of Galway, Ireland), Jennie Stephens (National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland), and Paul Lachapelle (Montana State University, USA).

This event will be recorded and is co-sponsored by:
Climate Justice Universities Union and Climate Campus Network

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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

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New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I am about to board a flight and everyone in a 10 foot radius at the gate has cold symptoms. 😬

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I have almost changed a bike tire for the first time. It’s been a journey. And now, at the end of it all, my brakes are permanently on and I can’t solve it. What happened to WikiHow? Why is everything a hyper YouTube video? Am I in hell?

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

In case you missed it, this workbook is a guide to thinking through when and how to take risks as a higher ed worker. It aims to help us differentiate between danger and discomfort, while also offering some practical information about how to protect yourself while taking meaningful action.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

#digitalhumanities and #dhmakes friends -- have you tried or do you currently hold regular hours that invite people to the space without strict programming? E.g., promoting a co-working environment, opportunities for collaborative work, office hours... Beyond "stuff," what helped shape your space?

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I'm sorry, but Microsoft should not be allowed to do anything with AI until you can open a UTF-8 csv file in Excel.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Great panel at #DH2025 and it's great to hear more about AI resistance & refusal, giving consideration to whether our methods serve the communities we work with. Though this ex. does raise questions for me about the impacts of the absence in training data if scholarship is closed.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

conference season is upon us

Version of “stop doing math” meme made for digital humanities

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 14/07/2025

Because we need a bit of fun in the world too, here is a post about the sonification of the data in our Data Rescue Tracker (now DRP Portal). Very much worth a read and listen. Thanks to Will Clary for making this! www.datarescueproject.org/sonifying-da...

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Guest Post: Sonification and Data Rescue 🛟

At the recent IASSIST conference, we learned of an effort to sonify the work connected to our Data Rescue Project Tracker. Sonification is a fascinating area used in a variety of fields. This project ...

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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Just spotted this opening for a Research Associate, Managing Editor and Digital Data Specialist for the World Historical Gazetteer, whgazetteer.org. Deadline is July 11, 2025 tomorrow! Great for folks doing critical GIS & working w/JSON, python: networks.h-net.org/jobs/68811/u...

whgazetteer.org

World Historical Gazetteer

Linking historical places across time and language.

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Overheard from a campus tour: “I don’t really know AI but I’ve never read a textbook, I’ve never watched a video. I just use ChatGPT.” 😰

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 07/07/2025

If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...

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Kaylen Dwyer @kaylendwyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

So I’m walking my dog and suddenly, I am sprayed with water. I hear, “Oh shit!” I look to see a woman on her porch with a super soaker. “Did I get you?!” She launches into explaining about rabbits in her garden. I, groggy, start asking Q’s about gardening. Glossing over—water gun? Rabbits?

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