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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 06/08/2026

Towards my quest to write five blog posts this month, I wrote up some musings on the two DH conferences I attended this summer and where different pieces of the community are going.

digitalhumanities.stanford.edu

Conference Musings on ACH and DH 2026

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DH Awards @dhawards.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So we opened 2026 nominations early for the #DH2026 conference.

Want to nominate something for DH Awards 2026?
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2026

DH 2 Awards

The annual open Digital Humanities Awards are now accepting nominations for 2026. The DH Awards are a set

of openly-nominated openly-voted annual awards run as a DH awareness raising activity. The awards are nominated and voted for entirely by absolutely anyone. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight internationally and engage DH users (and the public) in the work of the DH community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities.

Note: There is no financial prize. Self-nominations are encouraged. Resources only needs to be nominated once. The only tests are: Is it loosely DH, can voters get to it, has it launched or had an update in 2026, and is it in the right category.

Nominations are open until 2026-12-31.

Nominate Here

Categories:

BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN

(e.g. something that uses DH for purpo joyment) ⚫ BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION

(e.g. a visualization of DH data)

BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS

g. a rep a project failed, or problems with DH)

BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION

(e.g. bloq, article, video, on DH)

BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS

(e.g. something used to build a DH resource)

BEST DH DATASET OR MODEL

(e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used

for DH research)

BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS

(e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos or how-to guides in any

BEST DH RESOURCE

(e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

ChatGPT vs. the Duplex: A Collaborative Student-Centered Inquiry into the Limits of Gen AI's Poetic Capabilities!, Lena Marchese, Elizabeth Garcia, Brittany Whelan, + working with @laurenfklein.bsky.social found Jericho Brown's poetry is resistant to LLM dupes: all repetition, no presence #DH2026

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#DH2026, where I used spatiality in Interactive Fiction and 20 years of IFComp as a proxy to talk for a minute about our collective transition from the bulletin board regime of online discourse as the dominant social-cognitive paradigm (e.g. let's all stand around the dumpster fire

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Great first day #DH2026 workshop on "Engaging Difficult Audiences: Designing Games for Bored Students, Visitors, and DH Scholars," by Sophia Booij (Australia National Uni) and Nellie Seale (Uni of Melbourne). Awesome real thoughtful framework for game design in GLAM, community, and teaching spaces.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@dh2026daejeon.bsky.social It turns out, most everywhere is a 10+ hour flight from New Zealand, including #DH2026, my first DH since moving. Got mine and Kevin Qu's poster on spatiality and topology of interactive fiction for the #SIG-DLS & DCL mini-conference, icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Fela understood that corruption is rarely just about losing money. It is about losing legitimacy. It is the theft of a nation’s faith in itself." In the US again, briefly, reading Fahamu's consideration of what it should mean to celebrate America. fahamupecou.substack.com/p/authority-...

fahamupecou.substack.com

Authority Stealing

Fela Kuti, Frederick Douglass, and the Unfinished American Experiment

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

If anyone's heading to @aclmeeting.bsky.social and wants to grab tea, I'll be at @nlpandcss.bsky.social talking about how opioid products and the companies that made them act the same, as seen in their semantic action trajectories and a random sample of 10k docs from Opioid Industry Archive (OIDA).

aclanthology.org

Documenting Corporate Harm: A Semantic Action Trajectories Approach to the Opioid Industry Document Archive Shared Task

Ben Miller. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. 2026.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I'd wait an hour in the rain for a lecture half as good as Peter Caviello's grounded, informed, scathing, funny takedown not of a single NYT author, but of the whole rhetorical framework on which lazy Crossfire journalism is built. Didn't Jon Stewart demolish that mode ages ago?

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

I just finished "There Is No Place for Us" by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social It's a modern, non-fiction, "The Jungle", about the purposely designed-to-fail housing system in this country - an unholy abomination of government & corporations - and the resulting dystopia www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

goodreads.com

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in Ameri…

Through the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta famil…

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 09/08/2025

We knew in our guts while hiding that the shooter was targeting us. This violence is driven by anti-vaccine propaganda. And the rot start at the top. Just this week RFK Jr canceled all mRNA vaccine research while lying about the technologies safety and effectiveness.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

How did we so quickly go from the GDPR's Right to Be Forgotten (2014) to the (2025) EU AI Act's solution to bias being more data in the system? Yes, each approach deals with a different problem, privacy and algorithmic violence by administrative regimes. Did we cede the finacialization of speech?

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Linda Diak @lindadiakquilts.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The penguin is quilted and ready to protest! It’s a bit crooked, but I have had vertigo off and on all week, so I’m okay with crooked.

Art quilt of an angry penguin with Hands Odd in orange above him. The dark blue background says “protect women’s rights, the arts, due process, free speech, lgbtqia+ rights, museums, libraries, research, science, national parks, our vote” and in the bottom of the penguin, “the penguins.”

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

Barchart showing meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. Each model has two bars, a blue one saying PRO-LEFT and a red one saying PRO-RIGHT. The PRO-RIGHT bars on higher than the PRO-LEFT in all of them.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I don't know how I could have misses the launch of this initiative by @carlbergstrom.com & @jevinwest.bsky.social but it's absolutely a must for anyone confused about what LLMs are and can do, as well as for anyone not skeptical enough about this technology: thebullshitmachines.com

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Spending the day at the Africana DH convening at Clark Atlanta U. Panel 1, @drtonieshat.bsky.social, Rico Chapman, Marco Robinson, Charmayne Patterson. So much good work on sharing local knowledge, imagining the future, and why Starbucks needed to think before putting a slogan on a coffee cup.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

A newsletter for folks interested in cities, housing, affordable housing, and urban political economy. Please subscribe! Free! First up: "WHAT DO HOUSERS DO NOW?" I expect most entries to be more focused on a particular housing policy debate or an important piece of research I read.

dans-newsletter-cfccf2.beehiiv.com

What Do (U.S.) Housers Do Now?

This crisis is so different from others that housing folks have been through. A bit about some previous crises, and some initial thoughts about being a houser in the face of authoritarianism and hosti...

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Lavie Tidhar @lavietidhar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There are just nine days left to get the World SF Bundle! storybundle.com/scifi Supporting independent publishers, benefiting authors directly, and also supporting non-profit Locus Magazine! Re-posts much appreciated!

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Andrew Plotkin @eblong.com · 26/03/2025

NarraScope news: we have keynote speakers and a schedule! narrascope.org/schedule We have registration open! narrascope2025.eventbrite.com We have other info on the web site too. narrascope.org Join us in Philadelphia in June. Hope to see you there.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/03/2025

"It’s not that OpenAI picked something cute and accidentally the co-founder of that studio hates. OAI picked Ghibli because Miyazaki hates their approach It is display of power: You, as artist, animator, illustrator, writer are powerless. We will take what we want & do what we want. Because we can"

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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Atlanta friends! I'll be launching my book this Wednesday, 3/26, at Decatur Library, 7pm. I’m honored to be joined in conversation by the brilliant journalist and author Malaika Jabali. The event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there.

Event flyer for There Is No Place for Us: “Brian Goldstone in conversation with Malaika Jabali,” at Decatur Library, 215 Sycamore Street, Decatur, Georgia, on Wednesday, March 26 at 7 PM. Hosted by Georgia Center for the Book and A Cappella Books. Free event; books available for purchase.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Join me on Reddit for an AMA about housing precarity and homelessness in the U.S. Why are so many people—even those with multiple jobs—unable to afford a place to live? The AMA is live now, and I’ll be answering questions starting Monday at 1pm ET.

reddit.com

From the povertyfinance community on Reddit: I’m Brian Goldstone, author of "There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America," about why millions of Americans with jobs still can’t afford a ...

Explore this post and more from the povertyfinance community

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

On regulating AI absent fed oversight, my take on Kevin Frazier's grounded, practical, www.lawfaremedia.org/article/amid... "UDAP [Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices] enforcement ... [is an] important means of protecting consumers amid the rapid adoption of AI.” (1/2)

lawfaremedia.org

Amid Federal Push for AI Innovation, Who Will Look Out for Consumers?

With AI innovation bound to accelerate under new federal policies, state attorneys general emerge as vital consumer protectors.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yes, and laid the model for disparate bailouts post-2007-2010 foreclosure crisis that enabled the subsequent rise of institutional single family home investors. Some recent related work. www.lewis.ucla.edu/2023/02/08/4... quantitative.emory.edu/images/11-4-... doi.org/10.1080/0735...

doi.org

Race, uneven recovery and persistent negative equity in the southeastern United States

I analyze neighborhoods with persistent negative equity in the Southeast to understand whether persistent negative equity can be explained by the same factors that led to the crash or whether dynam...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm deeply sorry and upset that the wonderful people at the NEH who have spent careers helping people tell essential American stories are being anything but praised and rewarded. "Appalachia Youth," "Up from the Dust," HiPSTAS. Nationwide library programs. The NEH made public humanities possible.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

nytimes.com

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Went to the capital w/ my son and a few 100 others to #StandUpForScience. He talked to two geneticists, a political scientist, an academic union rep, a mass spec salesperson w/ a PhD, a computational biologist, a behavioral biologist, and a person in a frog costume who 100% studies frogs in a lab.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I wish all of our institutions would have an equally forceful rebuttal as unqualified Republicans (often illegally) try to tell us what to teach. These people are the inheritors of TN in State of TN v. Scopes. They continue to be wrong, reactionary, repressive, and regressive.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This year's tourney is a bit different: which Division I NCAA team will be the first to go under b/c their institution and students are casualties of Republicans' assault on Federal government and higher ed? Grand Canyon w/ $1.3b in debt? Clemson and their $194m athletics program? Place your bets!

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

📣The CFP for #ACH2025, our virtual #DigitalHumanities conference, is now available! The conference will be held June 11-13. Proposals due March 23.

ach2025.ach.org

11 June - 13 June 2025, Virtual Conference

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Vermont understood the assignment. Take notes, America.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Terry Eagleton argued the humanities, and by extension universal education, provided social cement as religion's cultural dominance died. Of course the Right attacks education as they instantiate their version of religion, a cult of personality and influence(rs) in a Big Tech attention economy.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Compelling and persuasive critical assessment about what humanities research is and does, and why generative AI is not just problematic but confounding. Will be sharing widely. Thanks @laurenfklein.bsky.social and co! Link to arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190

Screenshot from abstract, with highlighted text: "1) Models make words, but people make meaning; 2) Generative AI requires an expanded definition of culture; 3) Generative AI can never be representative; 4) Bigger models are not always better models; 5) Not all training data is equivalent; 6) Openness is not an easy fix; 7) Limited access to compute enables corporate capture; and 8) AI universalism creates narrow human subjects. We conclude with a discussion of the importance of resisting the extraction of humanities research by computer science and related fields."

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 27/02/2025

As of today, more NIH study sections have been cancelled in 2025 then held. What does this mean for groundbreaking research that urgently needs funding? Critical proposals in aging, cancer, health outcomes, and bacterial virulence are now left without review. #standupforscience2025

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/02/2025

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Sean Keenan @thatseankeenan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

State lawmakers’ eyebrows jumped at a House committee hearing Tuesday, as Georgia State University geographer Taylor Shelton shot off a barrage of statistics about institutional investors’ staggeringly high level of home ownership across Georgia. atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/02/26/g...

atlantaciviccircle.org

Are state lawmakers warming to a crackdown on Wall Street homeownership?

“There are over 300 metro Atlanta areas where big companies own over 50% of the single-family rental market.”

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 21/02/2025

Postdoc opportunity at the School of Information Sciences, Urbana-Champaign. Teaching one course a semester. Application deadline April 1, but they recommend conversation with potential faculty mentors in advance of that date. Renewable for a second year. Pls RT! ischool.illinois.edu/research/pos...

ischool.illinois.edu

Postdoctoral Research Associate Program

Description of the postdoctoral research associate program including requirements and application process.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Tomorrow, I might tally the total indirects on the projects on which I was PI or Co-PI with grants from the NEH, NSF, DoD, and others. Tonight, I'm thinking about how those indirects kept the lights on, janitorial staff paid, student fees paid across the department, IT humming, and so on. (1/2)

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I’ve unfortunately needed to add more material to my post from yesterday. The re-election of Donald Trump is looking like the biggest act of American self-destruction since the Civil War. Same link, new title and some updates.

science.org

Revised and Extended: What's Happening Inside the NIH and NSF

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

For three years at MIT in 6.033, CS Engineering, I taught Nancy Leveson's Therac-25 article on how unanticipated software-hardware interactions combined with negligent oversight killed patients at six medical facilities. The eventual article about Marko and Musk, I imagine, will be worse.

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If the GOP were so concerned with a balanced budget why don't they make their sociopathic poster child and his companies pay any taxes? Three years, $10.8b income, $48m taxes. 0.4% effective rate. Under Reagan, that would have been 9.6% for $1.03b. itep.org/tesla-report....

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Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024

Tesla reported $2.3 billion of U.S. income in 2024 but paid zero federal income tax. Over the past three years, the Elon Musk-led company reports $10.8 billion of U.S. income on which its current fede...

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Ben Miller @transitive.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

As part of the @aiainetwork.bsky.social project, I'm starting to collect #AI+humanities related pedagogy. @sarapalmer.bsky.social wisely recommended Omeka. I was only looking for some Omeka examples, but found something inspiring. #urbanplanning narcotic-archive.org/s/archive/pa...

narcotic-archive.org

The Narcotic City Archive

The Narcotic City Archive collects and preserves the heritage of substance use and many associated social, cultural, economic, and political issues. Please contribute!

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

washingtonpost.com

Opinion | A new era of government censorship has dawned

Donald Trump fancies himself a champion of free speech. Oh, really?

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