iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Laura Untner @luntner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Anti-Konferenz »Scheitern in den Digital Humanities« – mit Keynote von Tessa Gengnagel (@tesstess.bsky.social) und vielen spannenden, experimentellen Beiträgen 2. Oktober 2026, 10–17 Uhr, Mehringhof Berlin Kostenlose Anmeldung bis 21.9.: junge-dh-berlin-brandenburg.github.io/termine/konf...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/07/2026

My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

$a tiny random fraction of books in HathiTrust 1931-1980 in English that include the word "philosophy" somewhere in metadata$

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#DH2026 was a wonderfully organized conference. Things that I'll remember: the kindness of strangers; the sunset over the misty mountains; the music; the trees ❤️ Meeting people familiar and new. For now, time to return and hope I can come back to SK some day. 감사합니다 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social.

photo of a river in Daejeon, showing a high rise spire-like building on the left shore, a bridge across, and mountains in the background; sun is setting (to the right), to left mist over the mountains

photo of a group of trees in a Korean arboretum, all different types, behind each other, with a tall brown trunk in front, behind it a lower very green tree and behind it a higher tree with pink petals; around them more green

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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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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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Sarah Lang @sarahalang.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

👀 Treat yourselves to pretty slides (courtesy of @resonanzfilter) at our Thursday morning (Korean time) talk about ideologies of knowledge work in #DH at #DH2026!

Title slide of “A discipline divided” showing book covers

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A point that Kim Hyeon's keynote at #DH2026 rightfully raises, in my view, even if implicitly, is the need for the field to finally drill down on our use of terminology like 'knowledge' (data, information). Made more urgent by adoption of AI (terminology), already a desideratum before.

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Appeal to academic authority gone wrong. It also strikes me how scholars can be borderline illiterate outside their own area of expertise. Worst of all, the insufferable snobbery and snark permeating academia and social media. Everything is a contest. Deeply unserious.

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Adding to the #DH2026 travel tips: When looking for the subway platform of Line 1 at Daejeon station (to go to Government Complex Station), look for signs that state the direction as Banseok. Naver will say Jungangno but that's not on any signs (not in English; neither is Banseok at first).

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Zenodo landing page for the Book of Abstracts.

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Never seen a work of art so perfectly embody the concept of ›Zivilisationsbruch‹ (breach of civilization) as Nolan's Odyssey. Surely his most magnificent film.

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For years I've scoured the internet for any kind of video footage of Roberto Busa. Nothing. I'd given up hope. And now, I just randomly STUMBLED ACROSS IT omg no one will understand, it's just a minute but it might as well be a unicorn and it says so much about IBM marketing and in this essay, I'll—

still from a black-and-white video from 1958, indoors close-up showing a young Jesuit priest (Roberto Busa) in a black cassock, looking sideways and smiling, behind him electronic machinery

still from a black-and-white video from 1958, over-the-shoulder shot showing a Jesuit priest in black cassock from behind, leaning over ancient scrolls, tracing the text lines with his right hand while comparing them to a paper printout of lines of code above it with the fingers of his left hand

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Mickaël Wilmart @mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

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Carlo Ginzburg è morto, addio al grande storico italiano

Aveva 87 anni. Era famoso in tutto il mondo per le sue ricerche sulla stregoneria e le credenze popolari

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Cologne Center for eHumanities (CCeH) @ccehum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How do you do, fellow DH kids? Jokes aside: As a #DigitalHumanities centre @unicologne.bsky.social we look forward to engaging with the international #DH community and will be posting updates on our project work and conference activities. Also, shout-out to our neighbours @idhcologne.bsky.social!

A square graphic featuring the silhouettes of Cologne Cathedral outlined in thin white lines, combined with the initials “DH” in bold black letters against a teal-coloured background.

A colour photograph showing an advertising column on the right edge of the frame, a tree trunk in the centre, a yellow-orange building, and a bus stop in the background. A person is riding past on a bicycle; several bicycles are leaning against the building’s wall.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

In Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo apologizes for the Doctrine of Discovery, which sanctioned colonialism & slavery, to talk about AI. Here, I thought I went off the rails in Data Empire, where I insist the Doctrine of Discovery is critical to the history of data’s power www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026)

ENCYCLICAL LETTER MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE [ Multimedia ] ___________________________

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Laura Untner @luntner.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Thank you for every vote! I am really happy that Sappho Digital turned out to be the first runner-up in the category »DH Dataset or Model« of the Digital Humanities Awards 2025! I’d like to use this moment to introduce the project a bit more – so here’s a short thread 🧵

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Laura Untner @luntner.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Die Website meines Dissertationsprojekts, Sappho Digital, wurde in der Kategorie »DH Dataset or Model« für den Digital Humanities Award 2025 nominiert – darüber freue ich mich sehr. Abstimmen ist hier möglich: forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1... Weitere Informationen zum Projekt: sappho-digital.com

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My writing used to have so much personality. Then academia completely trained that out of me. Now that I'm sitting here, writing the blandest prose, boring myself to death, I'm starting to think: What the hell! I might as well get my style back! At least it won't read like AI.

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Amanda Wasielewski @amandawasielewski.com · 25/03/2026

🚨Funded PhD opportunities🚨 Great opportunity for PhD positions in digital art history / multimodal digital humanities! A newly funded research initiative based in Zurich and Rome is currently advertising up to 5 fully funded PhD positions: arthist.net/archive/51998

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Predoctoral Fellowships, IMPRS for Multimodal Digital Humanities, Zurich

Mara Freiberg. University of Zurich, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.05.2026

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Wim Van Mierlo @wvmierlo.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Grammarly has added a new circle to hell. Please share to raise awareness. #Grammarly #GenAI #AI #impersonation

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Wunderbare Rezension von @peertrilcke.bsky.social zu Sybille Krämers "Stachel des Digitalen". Die #DigitalHumanities besitzen die Expertise; eine öffentliche intellektuelle Einordnung (von sich selbst, von Digitalität/Geisteswissenschaften, vom Einfluss von genAI) überlassen sie anderen.

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Actually I'm realising that the reviewer who (wrongly) assumed we used AI translation in our submission might have been confused by the AI translation option in the Conftool on top of things. Now I'm confused as well. @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social Was that option meant to be multidirectional? #DH2026

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Our paper @sarahalang.bsky.social was accepted to #DH2026! Yay! But also: One reviewer thought we used AI to translate it into English! No! I can't express how incredibly offensive and patronizing that review is. Worse, I'm sure the reviewer is a lovely person. But wow. #DigitalHumanities

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Dr. Linda Freyberg @dielindada.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Sind wir alle Komplizen des Niederganges der (traditionellen) Geisteswissenschaften? fragt @windhagr.bsky.social in seinem sehr spannenden und neue Perspektiven eröffnenden Vortrag „First, They Came for the Traditional Humanities…“ @dhdkonferenz.bsky.social #DHd2026

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Melusina Press @melusina-press.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Just in time for next week's #DHd2026, our new publication "From Global to Local?", a reflection on the state of #digitalHumanities in German-speaking countries, its pasts, currents and possible futures. doi.org/10.26298/198... #DHd @DHdKonferenz

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17/02/2026

It seems to me that defining DH as purely quantitative methods is a neat way of shaving off all the hard-fought interventions made by people who were interested in making the field reflect the diversity and complexity of the actual world.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

To have a reasonable conversation about "AI" in which people are not just dunking or repeating truisms or (best case) muddying the waters, one must do two things: 1. Disentangle the signifier "AI" from actual material technologies. 2. *Entangle* actual material technologies w/ a sociology of use.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

intense flashback to palaeography class

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Johannes Spengler @johannes-spengler.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Aktuell wird wieder das Ende der #Literaturkritik zelebriert, zuletzt in der FAZ und von Jonathan Guggenberger in der taz. Als Lösung dafür: der Verriss. Welche Funktion die Ermutigung zum Verriss erfüllt und ob Laienkritiker anders werten, betrachte ich in der ZfdG, #litwiss: shorturl.at/D8JTi

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»Kein Buch für mich« – zum Umgang mit negativen Urteilen in der Buchblogsphäre | ZfdG - Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften

Durch zunehmende Professionalisierung im Buchmarkt sind Buchblogger*innen mit einem grundsätzlichen Dilemma der Literaturkritik konfrontiert: Der Behauptung der eigenen Unbefangenheit. Eine Betrachtun...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The forensic promise of networked images was: the more digital footage there is of an event, the more reliably that event can be reconstructed. Methodologically, this still seems true. Politically, however, the opposite seems to be the case: the more images, the more competing versions of reality 3/

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🚨Phd Position in #Digital #Medieval Manuscripts Studies You will be part of an international research project, applying innovative computational methods to the study of the transmission history of the Latin Physiologus and the Bestiary. 📍Radbout University (NL) 📆15 Jan 2026 ▶️ tinyurl.com/3wtcxpfc

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PhD Position in Medieval Manuscript Studies | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD Candidate in Medieval Manuscript Studies at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Diese Entwicklung ist letztlich eine konsequente Zuspitzung des Herausbildens bestimmter Formen der Antrags- und Begutachtungsprosa, deren Rolle in einem Prozess des unbezahlten Hin- und Herwälzens zum Zwecke der gerechten Ressourcenverteilung (oder des Anscheins davon) ad absurdum geführt wird.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Jana Keck @janakeck.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

@chnunn.bsky.social opens our conference „Disciplinary Transformations?“ We will discuss how H have impacted DH. @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

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Gareth Southwell @garethsouthwell.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin". www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Rereading this long 2022 piece by James Pogue. He’s not the only one to limn the intellectual/ideological framework for the forces now empowered, but this is detailed, nuanced, and sourced. www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04...

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Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets

They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Für die FAS durfte ich über die aktuellen Löschkampagnen in den USA und über die veränderte Rolle digitaler Bildarchive angesichts generativer KI schreiben – und darüber, warum Datensicherung jetzt das Gebot der Stunde ist: zeitung.faz.net/fas/feuillet...

Screenshot der digitalen FAS mit dem Artikel, Überschrift: Angriff auf die Vergangenheit

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22/01/2025

I do not see how we’re going to have productive academic discussions of "AI" until we stop accepting the marketing that lumps all machine learning methods & technologies into one amorphous thing called "AI"—so we get minimalist & maximalist responses that echo that marketing—we don’t have to do this

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Institut für Digital Humanities @idhcologne.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

Heute gab es Bücher und Buch-imitierende Kuchen! Dank an Dr. @tesstess.bsky.social !

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

My thesis about "Digital Scholarly Editions Beyond Text" has now been published as an OA monograph: doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1132. It covers multi-transmitted picture / film works from medieval to modern times, modelling theory, #DigitalHumanities theory and a bunch of other stuff ✍️

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 19/11/2023

Does anyone have any recs for feeds one should follow as a DH / digital humanities person on here? I looked around but couldn't find too much (happy to follow ppl but was wondering due to the lack of hashtag implementation).

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Tessa Gengnagel @tesstess.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

I feel like such a spam bot trying to follow everyone I followed on T**tter at once while having zero followers and posts of my own here 😂 If there's a better way to do it, I missed it.

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