Small win in my neck of the woods: residents of New Brunswick, NJ raised a big enough of a stink to successfully block the development of a data center last night
Apply to the 2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies - Historic Athens in 3D, July 6-10, 2026!
Open to scholars in all disciplines interested in exploring digital humanities methods for representing archival information and rich narratives about historical urban spaces. ๐บ๐๏ธ ๐ฌ๐ท
A Friday happy hour toast to:
Bad Bunnyโfor his gorgeous joyous inclusiveness
Teal Robe Lady in Minnesotaโfor standing up for good & being a bad ass
Uncelebrated people around the USA helping neighbors. I celebrate you
Good teachers, librarians, & those standing tall for facts
We the People
I'm not even vegan and this has become a go-to recipe. Very easy and fun to keep people guessing about what the frosting is made of ;-) www.loveandlemons.com/vegan-chocol...
We have a vegan chocolate cake too, but I feel like we're falling down here compared to some of you overachievers. It tastes good though. ๐ #DouglassDay
Thanks, Liz ๐ฅฐ ๐ค
Douglass quotation made with a hand operated screw press. It says: "There are such things in the world as human rights. They rest upon no conventional foundation, but are external, universal, and indestructible. Among these, is the right of locomotion; the right of migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs alike to all and to all alike."
Mini screw press with inked letterpress letters used to make commemorative quote from Frederick Douglass
We're doing #DouglassDay in Alexander Library today until 3pm. Check out the screw press and commemorative quote, thanks to our friends at the Scarlet Letterpress.
This was my first experience: I printed a few hundred for a protest in November and they were gone in 15 minutes.
Anyway! If you want to give it a try --
linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Come to our @douglassday.bsky.social transcribe-a-thon next Friday (2/13) and transcribe digital records, print a physical postcard (with help from the Rutgers Scarlet Letterpress) and have a piece of cake. There's a virtual option too. ๐๐๏ธ๐ฐRegister at libcal.rutgers.edu/event/16187674
CFP for the Rutgers Digital Humanities Showcase for any of y'all along the Northeastern corridor. Submit by March 2 for the March 31 event! dh.rutgers.edu/showcase-cfp...
CFP for the Digital Classics Association panel at SCS2027 in Boston next January now up on the SCS siteโ
"Experimental Contexts for Digital Classics"
Submit your abstracts by February 20
classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...
#digiclass
This was a needed exhibit, in place for over 15 years. Removed this past month. It included Oney Judge's story, a woman enslaved (& stalked after escape) by President George Washington. (Image = exhibit art panel; photo taken by William Fischer, Jr., 2017)
**NEW BLOG POST** Patrick Liu and Patrick Burns on INTERNING IN THE ISAW LIBRARY: DEVELOPING AN ERROR CORRECTION DATASET FOR LATIN TEXTS #isawnyulib #ancientlatin #digitalclassics #libraries @isawnyu.bsky.social @nyulibraries.bsky.social isaw.nyu.edu/library/blog...
On April 1st, 2026 at 5PM (Eastern time), I'll lead an @isawnyu.bsky.social "Expanding the Ancient World Workshop" titled "Digital Approaches to Global Art History: The Example of the Human Figure" and on topic of using GAERHF in teaching. isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-... to register. #GlobalAntiquity
Just a light-hearted post with my silly cat who unexpectedly plunged into the snow when toodling around the yard.
Tuna in olive oil
Iโve made an effort to cite non-English language sources in digital humanities work ever since reading a chapter by @gimenadelr.bsky.social and Domenico Fiormonte about how blinkered and provincial it looks to have sources in just one language
Subsequent to this shameless diversion, I actually did complete the work thing I was supposed to do
precisely the sort of hospital and convalescent center depicted in the second season of Downton Abbey.
Dodman, "Faces of battle in Mrs. Humphrey Ward's Writing." Needed a second post to get it all ๐
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence.
She cites substantial donations to various organizations and notes that "about 700 country houses, large and small, have been offered to the War Office" (184)โmany of which had already been converted into
Photo of a group of people gathered around a table leaning over to examine the details of a historic map laid out on it. One of the women in the picture is pointing to a detail on the map while the others look on. From 2026โs H-65: Material Foundations of Map History, 1450โ1900 (Photo by Andrew Shurtleff). Text above and below the image reads, โRare Book School 2026. Apply Today! rarebookschool.org/schedule. FIRST-ROUND APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17 FEBRUARY.โ
Rare Book School is accepting applications for our summer 2026 coursesโincluding new course offerings & partner locations!
Details: rarebookschool.org/schedule
The first-round deadline is ๐ญ๐ณ ๐๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?"
A list of ideas!
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
Screenshot of Gmail tweet saying: Welcome to the Gemini era, reposting a Google tweet that explains the latest update on Gemini.
Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?
That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
Strong agree
More rules for thee, not for me
CFP: AI & the Study of Antiquity at RutgersโNew Brunswick next March. I'm an organizer together with Corey Brennan and Serena Connolly of the Rutgers SAS Classics dept. Send us your abstracts by Nov 21! More at dh.rutgers.edu/cfp-ai-and-a...
Thanks to all who came! We all did a little something to put more authors of color into Wikidata.
Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025
As DH grows, itโs increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasnโt been a clear venue for that.
So Iโm thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!
bit.ly/ach-anthology
Thank you for this. Much needed, given the gaslighting we are all subjected to.
