Colin Milburn and Rita Raley, "Inappropriate AI":
“Universities need to come to terms with the basic but still strangely unacknowledged (or repressed) idea that AI systems are appropriation machines—and embrace instead the radical potential of ‘inappropriate AI.’”
uchri.org/foundry/inap...
Collaborative name recognition on #DouglassDay !
Yes, it works on mobile 😉
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"We must treat infrastructure as a public good. Instead of each lab or institution fending for itself, universities should pool resources to support shared platforms with transparent governance."
"Universities are reluctant to fund software engineers at competitive salaries. [...] Without proper funding structures, essential research tools remain fragile, often maintained by overworked volunteers."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
📣 Hey world!
Tropy is hiring a Junior Developer to help build open-source software for researchers (Electron/React/SQLite). Remote role, starting Feb 1, 2026.
Curious? Check the details here -> tropy.org/jobs
Honestly, coding in Agent Mode feels like dealing with bad legacy code. It’s usually better to scrap everything and start fresh than try to fix that garbage.
The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...
Muchos trabajos reflexionan en torno al aspecto inconmensurable de los datos generados en la era digital y sus implicancias en el ámbito de las humanidades; remitimos, de todos ellos, a Melo (2017) por sus aportes desde la historia digital al pensamiento crítico del desarrollo de herramientas computacionales para leer este “archivo infinito”.
Algo favorable de tener tan pocas citaciones, es que puedo revisarlas todas :p Esta en particular es, como dicen por aquí, an ego boost :)
"I created a personality on 4o, erase it is kill it." community.openai.com/t/please-fig...
This is a super illustrative video on how stable diffusion models work. TBH, I didn't follow all the math, but I think I got the gist 😛
youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY?...
What really stands out to me is how this video demonstrates the potential of coding with an AI tool. This isn't "vibe coding" at all.
This is an amazing deep dive into a possible use of AI as an augmented workflow tool for writing software, even without writing prompts!
You can see how @maryrosecook.bsky.social is clearly leading the development process, fully understanding each output along the way.
🔗 youtu.be/WcpfyZ1yQRA?...
Potentially interesting for building models in relatively data-scarce domains (eg historical language models)
And for my Medieval archaeogaming friends: this is Scriptorium, a game in which you get to illustrate your own manuscripts, with each decorative element based on real medieval manuscript art!
store.steampowered.com/app/3119540/...
Today was the farewell event for @alanyliu.bsky.social from @ucsb.bsky.social. It was an emotional gathering filled with Alan’s friends, students, and colleagues, proof of the deep impact he’s had throughout his career.
FAU Erlangen Nürnberg, Germany, is currently looking to employ 2 full professors in #DigitalHumanities
Professor in DH with focus on Human Computer Interaction
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
&
Professor in DH with focus on Place & Space
www.fau.eu/people/worki...
I want to say something. But I can't.
Ever wanted to restore a taken down site from a web archive, with link navigation and references intact?
Our latest tooling make this simpler than ever!
Announcing govarchive.us - a dynamic, web archive-powered mirror of US government sites!
More details on our blog
webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03...
Academics might feel embarrassed when using AI-generative tools. In contrast, the industry encourages (and sometimes even forces) designers, programmers, and other workers to utilize AI copilots for increased efficiency. Is this yet another gap between academia and the "real world"?
📢 New Call for Papers: "AI & History"✨
How does AI reshape historical research? We're looking for contributions that contextualize AI technologies within broader historical frameworks. Submit your abstract! Deadline: May 31, 2025. 🔗 journalofdigitalhist...
#DigitalHistory #AI #CFP
Convocatoria para participar en la VIII Escuela de Verano CONCEPTA.
The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
colorful front page of Computational Humanities Research Journal , published by Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/computational-humanities-research
the launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche.
fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵
