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Nick Laiacona @nicklaiacona.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Excited to spend the day at Columbia University talking about #EditionCrafter and giving a workshop on how to use it! We developed this tool for publishing digital editions under an NSF grant to the #MakingandKnowing project. www.editioncrafter.org

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Check out this amazing project so many of us at Performant Software have been working on for the past couple of years. We can't wait for the launch and for everyone to see it!

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Luis Villa @lu.is · 27/07/2025

This, from @nicholasbs.bsky.social , is a really thoughtful survey of attitudes on AI in the field right now. As they say, read the whole thing, but a finding that resonates: “You should use AI-powered tools to complement or increase your agency, not replace it.“ www.recurse.com/blog/191-dev...

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Developing our position on AI - Blog - Recurse Center

This post is about how we've tried to develop a position on AI in the context of learning and growth at RC.

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 12/06/2025

This afternoon / evening, @kelleykreitz.bsky.social & I are presenting as part of the #ACH2025 panel 13A: Papers: Advocacy and/in the Classroom (5:30-6:45 pm EDT). We'll talk about critical mapping in the classroom. Come chat with us about data, narratives, and counter-mapping.

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Liz Grumbach @emgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers: 1) "go slow and build things", 2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management), 3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The @zooniverse.bsky.social crew are putting together a fascinating feedback form to create a set of recommendations for running ML/AI-engaged projects. Participate here and help shape next steps for ethics around community and citizen engagement at scale blog.zooniverse.org/2025/06/10/e...

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Ethical Considerations for Machine Learning in Public-Engaged Research

With support from the Kavli Foundation, the Zooniverse team is launching a project to help us develop a set of recommendations for running AI-engaged projects on the Zooniverse platform.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I believe that today, June 10, is the day that the RIF'd NEH @nehgov.bsky.social employees officially separate from the government. What a complete (and completely unnecessary) loss for us all. And what a betrayal of their service to us. Sending gratitude to all public servants this morning.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/05/2025

"You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter."

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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter is a Tragedy

Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 24/04/2025

Experts in their fields, the very best at what they do, dedicated and talented people, treated like garbage.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

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Jamie Folsom @jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@kelleykreitz.bsky.social and @anindita.org on “The Ground Beneath our Feet: Critical Mapping in the Classroom” #bostondh25

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Learn How to Build a Digital Edition In our new video, Nick walks you through the process of creating a functioning digital edition. Solutions–DIY DH projects you can bring to life using Performant's open-source tools. #digitalhumanities www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...

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How to Publish a Digital Edition

We partner with scholars in the humanities to build software for research and education.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

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Joris J. van Zundert @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

The whole narrative of AI increasingly appears to me to resemble a very well known folktale. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In the new year I’m going to publish a history of the last 5 years of building @transkribus.bsky.social as an AI cooperative: shared ownership, shared resources, all profit reinvested into infrastructure. It turns out we can build a better tech world together, but that takes work & community.

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Ben Brumfield @benwbrum.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Have you ever wondered where an author lifted a passage from when they didn't cite a source? @lucianli123.bsky.social was able to use LLM embeddings to trace sources Charles Darwin used in Origin of Species, as well as later authors quoting (or paraphrasing) Darwin! See his work at today's webinar:

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Tracing the Genealogies of Ideas with LLM Embeddings (December 12, 2024) - FromThePage Blog

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Brooke T. Sample @brookesample.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan. PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

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DH2025 @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Javier Cha and Roopika Risam will be the keynote speakers of @ADHOrg #DH2025. Know more about the keynotes here: dh2025.adho.org/keynotes/

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Nick Laiacona @nicklaiacona.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Presented today at UVA's Scholars' Lab on this amazing project we're developing with Prof. Pamela Smith and crew at the Making and Knowing Project at the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University! #EditionCrafter #MakingAndKnowing

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Nick Laiacona @nicklaiacona.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I spent this morning tweaking our proposal for a workshop at #DH2025. Then we had our weekly meeting with the editor of Samuel Johnson's Papers to discuss the new digital edition we are hoping to launch soon. Next, I am preparing for a demo of #EditionCrafter at UVA's #ScholarsLab. #dayofdh2024

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

💻Interested in Digital Editing?💻 Join @cmohge.bsky.social for a London Rare Books online short course on 29 January and 31 January 2025! This course will be delivered asynchronously, with live Zoom sessions. Find out more and book here: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...

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Digital Editing

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Always such a great event -- and this one was our 10th! Thanks to our @cunygcdi.bsky.social Digital Fellows for organizing, to all of our presenters, and to @jojokarlin.bsky.social for the #jojodoodles!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/11/2024

At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

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All - Bluesky Directory

A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

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Nick Laiacona @nicklaiacona.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I had a wonderful time in Merida, Mexico this week at the History of Science Society #HSS24 annual meeting. Great to be a part of the #MakingAndKnowing panel and to talk about #EditionCrafter www.editioncrafter.org

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Edition Crafter

A simple digital critical edition publication tool.

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Brian Kirby @boringstorybook.com · 10/11/2024

If you have friends in publishing, let them know how poor their reach is on X, and how things are working out positively here. I did a dive on the numbers, the results are plain. The publishers and agencies are wasting their breath over there. boringstorybook.com/break-up-wit... #publishing #authors

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Break up with your X. – INCREDIBLY BORING STORIES

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 18/09/2024

A fun, work-related thing -- the Grolier Club in NYC has an exhibition celebrating Melville's Billy Budd at 100, and @performant.bsky.social worked on the digital edition that's on display. buff.ly/3RS8b1v

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Current - The Grolier Club

The Grolier Club

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Check out @jamiefolsom.bsky.social & @absempere.bsky.social with @aboutgeo.bsky.social (Rainer Simon) as they demo the new annotation platform #RecogitoStudio for the @iiif.bsky.social community. This is the 1st in a suite of tools we are creating for #DigitalHumanities dh.tools/RecogitoStud...

Image text is IIIF Community Call: Recogito Studio. Wednesday, September 11. 9am PT/12:00 ET/5:00 pm BST. Text is on a black background. A portion of the image on the right side is a portion of a page of a medieval era illuminated text.

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Nick Laiacona @nicklaiacona.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Looking forward to demoing #EditionCrafter at #DH2014 today! This presentation is part of the #DHInsideOut pre-conference workshop.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 28/06/2024

We're excited to announce the first public beta release of Recogito Studio, an extensible platform for collaborative, standards-based annotation of TEI text, IIIF images, and PDFs. Developed in collaboration with University of Bonn and @aboutgeo.bsky.social. Learn more at dh.tools/recogito-lau...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 10/04/2024

Sometimes Scholars' Lab's Makerspace overflows into the adjoining Text Aisle*! If you're around Charlottesville, come visit us when we're open or join our workshops, open to all: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/makerspace/ (*Yes, it's a crafting pun and also a Very Formal Room Name)

A Photo of the Scholars' Lab Makerspace room. Makerspace Manager and Lead Research Technologist Ammon Shepherd is in the middle, surrounded by students and other visitors looking at making plans and working on making projects.

A photo of the "Text Aisle" corridor outside Scholars' Lab Makerspace room. The corridor has multiple long tables running down it, and corridor tables and Makerspace are visibly overflowing with students and other visitors working together on makerspace projects.

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Performant Software Solutions @performant.bsky.social · 08/04/2024

Our latest newsletter is out! bit.ly/43RzwGz Check out @mtmiller.bsky.social's Open Islamic Texts Initiative project, and more! #DigitalHumanities

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 19/03/2024

A resolution on "In Defense of the Right to Learn" was passed at the 137th Business Meeting of the AHA (held on January 6, 2024), and accepted by the Council. Read the full text of the resolution on the AHA website. 🗃️

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This resolution passed on January 6 and was accepted by the Council on January 24, 2024.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 13/03/2024

Yesterday, Alex Levy (AHA) participated in @humanitiesall.bsky.social's Humanities Advocacy Day. She and Sarah Betzer (UVA) had productive meetings on the importance of the humanities with staffers from the offices of Representatives Don Beyer and Bob Good and Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner. 🗃️

Three women standing in front of a US flag and a sign for Representative Don Beyer's office.

Three women standing in front of a US flag and a sign for Senator Tim Kaine's office.

Three women standing in front of a US flag and a sign for Representative Bob Good's office.

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NEH Office of Digital Humanities @neh-odh.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

ODH is seeking feedback on the Digital Humanities Advancement Grants program through a call for comments. Please take a few minutes to help us shape the future of this program. Responses are due by March 31. www.neh.gov/odh/call-for...

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Call for Comments: ODH’s DHAG Program

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 04/03/2024

I swear to god, I'm going to try to organize some kind of "No You Absolutely Should Not Do That With AI" event for library reference folks and bibliographers who have the right instincts but not enough confidence to tell researchers with horrible ideas that their ideas are horrible.

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