Assistant Professor Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social's essay on the topic of AI and Holocaust Memory, βUncanny Testimony,β was published by @longreads.com: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
16.10.2025 22:49 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0@bcgl.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Current Affairs, etc. π www.bcglee.com
Assistant Professor Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social's essay on the topic of AI and Holocaust Memory, βUncanny Testimony,β was published by @longreads.com: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
16.10.2025 22:49 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks so much, I appreciate it!
11.10.2025 21:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks so much for your kind words - I really appreciate them, and I'm glad that the piece resonated with you! And thank you for your work, too, in having volunteered as a docent and being the family archivist!
11.10.2025 21:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks so much, Scott - very kind of you to say!
01.10.2025 01:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βFor all its futuristic appeal, I felt myself turning to the past. I yearned to speak with my grandmother about her life.β
A scholar at the intersection of AI and Holocaust memory wrestles with technology that speaks with the dead.
By @bcgl.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss
longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
I really appreciate your kind words, @dhutchinson.bsky.social!
29.09.2025 05:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Appreciated this thoughtful piece from @bcgl.bsky.social. Eloquently puts into words some of concerns about a particular use of AI that I've been grappling with.
27.09.2025 01:38 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks so much, @jenserventi.bsky.social - I truly appreciate it!
29.09.2025 05:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βBut what if, instead of resisting the deaths of the last survivors, we allow ourselves to accept their mortality?β
The grandson of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor grapples with the use of AI to reanimate the dead.
A new essay on @longreads.com, by @bcgl.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
Iβm incredibly grateful to @cherilucasrowlands.com for working with me on this piece and providing such thoughtful edits throughout the writing process!
25.09.2025 17:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss
longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
12.09.2025 19:14 β π 19 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0Thanks so much! Yes, we're planning to publish on the survey - we're hoping it'll be useful to the community!
12.09.2025 20:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
12.09.2025 19:14 β π 19 π 15 π¬ 1 π 0Pls help spread the word: We are hiring! π²ββ¨
@ischool.uw.edu is recruiting two tenure-track assistant profs in AI. Areas include human-AI collaboration, AI & society, comp social science, NLP, and AI applications.
Apply by Nov 15, 2025: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Happy to answer questions!
CFP - AI for DH: Research Problems and Critical Approaches.
DHQ seeks 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI (research problems, critical approaches, responsible applications, case studies, etc.).
Deadline: Sept 15, 2025.
More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html
Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches
dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html
We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it!
03.07.2025 00:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0By all means - that sounds amazing! Really appreciate the kind words and interest. Iβd love to catch up sometime soon over zoom - Iβll send you an email to find a time if that sounds good!
02.07.2025 23:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Really appreciate it, Katie! And hope all is well with you!
02.07.2025 23:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thanks so much! Hope all is well with you!
02.07.2025 21:09 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It was fantastic to collaborate with Ying-Hsiang on this project, who did such incredible work!
02.07.2025 20:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Search results for "tattered and worn map" showing that the results are accurate (most are tattered and worn).
The public demo (digital-collections-explorer.com) enables searching over 500,000 map images from the Library of Congress's API. For example, search for "tattered and worn map"
02.07.2025 20:56 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0https://github.com/hinxcode/digital-collections-explorer
With our Digital Collections Explorer, a collection steward can spin up a local viewer with just a few lines of code. An overview of the Digital Collections Explorer architecture can be found in this overview figure.
The full codebase is available here: github.com/hinxcode/dig...
With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961
Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com
Thanks so much, Heather!
21.06.2025 19:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Very excited to have this article in Internet Histories with @tjowens.bsky.social and Jonah Estess! In the article, we study Colin Powellβs PowerPoint presentation to the UN Security Council and trace the PowerPoint through web archives
15.06.2025 20:24 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The full dayβs schedule can be found here: ischool.uw.edu/events/2025/...
20.05.2025 17:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Title slide for the public symposium βAI and the future of Holocaust research and memory,β hosted by the University of Washington.
Today, Iβll be sharing about the public symposium, βAI and the Future of Holocaust Research and Memory,β hosted at @ischool.uw.edu on Udubβs campus in Seattle. Wonderful to be here with such incredible colleagues across the world and across disciplines.
20.05.2025 17:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0