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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes. I made extensive use of the comment section at the end to point how administrators/IT are focused on easy-to-use general purpose chatbots and easily persuaded by the "AI inevitability" argument out of self interest. I doubt they will quote me when they publish the results...

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes, Lexos is kind a next step, although I've been thinking about a downloadable app with at least some of the functionality. In the meantime, you could also put the tutorial in a Google Colab, which at least saves on the installation hassles and is good for demonstration.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'd be interested to get your take on the Lexos wrapper for MALLET: scottkleinman.github.io/lexos/dev/us.... It occupies a different niche but is still designed to be user friendly. Tutorial at github.com/scottkleinma....

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Topic Modeling with MALLET - Lexos Documentation

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

FWIW, it worked for me on the 10th, even though I saw those messages.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Features in earlier versions of Lexos were developed with Chinese in mind. I'd be eager to hear how it goes.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lexos is available for beta testing, and commmunity contributions to the source code, documentation, or tutorials are welcome. I hope people find it useful in both their research and their teaching!

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New features include simpler installations; an enhanced wrapper for MALLET (nod to @dmimno.bsky.social's pyrmallet) and LLM-based topic labelling; improved cluster analysis visualisations; a new text classification module; new structural styolmetry tools; and more! +

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lexos implements many common workflows such as cluster analysis and topic modelling, along with rich visualisation and language processing features. There is a full user guide and accompanying Jupyter notebook tutorials. Check out the documentation: scottkleinman.github.io/lexos/v0.2.2/ +

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm happy to announce a new release of the Lexos text analysis library for Python! Lexos aims to find the sweet spot beginner-friendly workflows and powerful, flexible functionality which developers can use it in their backends. github.com/scottkleinma... #DigitalHumanities #DH +

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GitHub - scottkleinman/lexos: The Lexos Python text analysis library

The Lexos Python text analysis library. Contribute to scottkleinman/lexos development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lexos now provides a newbie-friendly (I hope) entry point for using your Python/Rust version (as well as the original Java version). Official announcement coming next week.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think a lot of administrators and IT staff see more benefit in forging individual connections with the tech industry, whether for paid positions on boards or employment opportunities outside academia.

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I can confirm that using claude to write rust works pretty well. RustMallet is a whisker faster than Java Mallet at training topic models, and adds some tweaks that I have avoided in Mallet for stability reasons (multiple saved states by default). github.com/mimno/RustMa...

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GitHub - mimno/RustMallet: Rust implementation of sparse Gibbs sampling LDA, following the SparseLDA scheme from MALLET

Rust implementation of sparse Gibbs sampling LDA, following the SparseLDA scheme from MALLET - mimno/RustMallet

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026

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Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

This volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc...

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I just misread "Boethian tragedy" as "Bohemian Rhapsody". It's been a long semester...

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Wishing you a speedy recovery. If you haven't already been told, take vitamin B to prevent lingering nerve pain.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Just found out that a course in DH is now required on my campus for all students doing teacher education.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I'm excited to hear about this project. Congrats! I'm hoping your findings will help us push back beyond the 19th century.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It's been a labour of love, and I hope it finds a home in the DH toolset.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Extensive documentation, including a user guide, API docs, and Jupyter notebook tutorials. Lexos is built on the backs of many open source projects, and I hope that I have made them more accessible to users with less technical expertise but adaptable by those with more.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Rolling windows frequency analysis, keyword-generating tools, and keywords in context. For topic modelling, includes a simple Python interface for calling MALLET and an easy-to-produce, re-engineered version of Andrew Goldstone's dfr-browser.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Features are include a rich set of tools for pre-processing textual data, as as well as working with spaCy docs, manipulating HTML and XML tags, chunking data, and visualising doc-term matrices. Clustering tools, including k-means, hierarchical clustering, and bootstrap consensus.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The landscape is very different from when I began the project, but I'm hoping that people will find it useful. Please pass the word and try it out! The docs are at scottkleinman.github.io/lexos/.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

The beta release of the Lexos text analysis library is now available at github.com/scottkleinma.... It reproduces and extends the Lexos web app as a Python library in a way that is approachable for students and Humanities researchers, and useful for developers producing their own apps.

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GitHub - scottkleinman/lexos: The Lexos Python text analysis library

The Lexos Python text analysis library. Contribute to scottkleinman/lexos development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Marie de France thought the following statement fitting (if she wasn’t being sarcastic): "You couldn’t command anything in my power that I would not do, whether it turned to folly or wisdom. I will perform your commands; for you, I will abandon all folk" (Lanval, 124-128).

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...

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Schmidt Sciences awards $11M in grants to bring AI to humanities research - Schmidt Sciences

Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

One question I have is whether you can have more than one human in the loop. In my own experiment with vibe coding for DFR Browser 2, I open sourced the project on GitHub. But I wonder if potential collaborators will make pull requests for a (largely) AI-generated code base.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

If anyone is still doing topic modelling, I'd love some user feedback (thanks to @alanyliu.bsky.social for some initial suggestions). This was a fascinating example of how we can quickly adapt and update existing open-source tools. I hope to develop it further.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Like many DH colleagues, I've been testing the vibe coding waters. As a case study, I ended up re-engineering Andrew Goldstone's dfr-browser for exploring topic models. github.com/scottkleinma... It has a bright new look, a lot of new features, and it's hopefully easier to use. +

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Are you going to continue to develop the app, or is it functionally complete? I'm curious as a user, but I think this question is important for these types of quickly spun up tools, as you hinted in your earlier post.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Hearing Big Country on the radio in my current student union and experiencing big nostalgia remembering seeing them in concert in my then student union in the 1980s...

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.

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Laura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The evisceration of pre-modern scholarly communities continues apace. Just FYI: history only goes back about 250 years.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Interesting. I'm currently working on the MALLET interface for Lexos and have been using Claude 3.5 to help with test functions (with limited success). But the lesson here is that we need to start thinking about AI as a (the?) potential user when we design our software...

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

It's sounded like armageddon here since late last night.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Grateful to have this wonderful community of folks to commiserate and strategize with, especially given how each of us is in a resource scarce environment #DayofDH2024

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

My #DayOfDH2024 is mostly devoted to dealing with teaching and advising tasks put on hold for the Thanksgiving holiday. But I'm going to try to squeeze in some work on Lexos, including tasks suggested by my code reviewers at DHTech (dh-tech.github.io).

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Also, the types of projects we can envision are different when a single course release (reducing us to three courses per semester) can blow nearly the entire grant budget. Even if we are guaranteed to get the grant, at some point it becomes not worth it.

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Rebecca Sutton Koeser @suttonkoeser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Planning a #DigitalHumanities research software project and need help with technical planning? Submit your project to DHReSCU (DH Research Software Consulting Unit) to be matched with a Humanities RSE consultant. forms.gle/hgMGR7YmHc4N... Selected project teams will be paid $1500 for their time.

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DHReSCU Application - Project

The Deadline for this Application is November 27th DHReSCU is a pilot program meant to aid early-stage digital humanities research software projects in developing a technical implementation plan. We h...

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Fabulous news for #MedievalSky today: the British Library has brought 1000 digitized manuscripts (MSS) back online: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman.... Congrats to all the BL staff who have made this recovery possible.

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Medieval manuscripts blog

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #559,044!

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Not sure if it's quotable for your purposes, but Gwyneth Glyn's "Cofia fi at" is lovely.

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Scott Kleinman @skleinman.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

We might need some brainstorming about success strategies for the CSU. Let's put it on the agenda for @dhatcsu.bsky.social.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 09/08/2024

For slides from today's talk about the massive Cal State DH Consortium @dhatcsu.bsky.social that we're working on, check the slides and final page for links to the website & last year's final report tinyurl.com/DHATCSU #dh2024 We welcome suggestions for how to create a consortium for 30k ppl!

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Harris DH at CSU DHC 2024 presentation

Leveraging Digital Humanities & Ethnic Studies: Networking 23 Campuses Katherine D. Harris katherine.harris@sjsu.edu @triproftri

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