Glen Layne-Worthey

I got to meet Fobazi in the same small lunch party with Quinn, and had the very same flushed feeling: a real star, and I was totally struck! But she was also so kind, accepting, sharply funny, and self-effacing that I hoped we could just stay friends. Too late, too soon, but the memory lives on.

Still thinking about leadership? How do it in these moments? (Me too!)

Join us for 📌 Week 1 (June 8–12) in Montreal for #DH Leadershpi course co-lead by me, @gworthey.bsky.social @raysiemens.bsky.social

Tuition scholarships available. Early registration thru March 1.

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Ryan posted this over a month ago so I'm a bit late to the party... but hardly a day has gone by since that I haven't listened to one or all three songs: I love them so much!

I second the recommendation of "Babbage" for DH folks. Best DH song since that TEI video of Subterranean Homesick Blues.

It's always a pleasure and honor to co-author with Yuerong @yrhu.bsky.social (and of course with @profdownie.bsky.social and @tedunderwood.me as well), and her latest is not to be missed: "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads".

Yuerong Hu, Ted Underwood, Glen Layne-Worthey, John Stephen Downie, Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2025;, fqaf084, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaf084

Hi Friends! My coauthors @tedunderwood.me @gworthey.bsky.social @profdownie.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new article in DSH @adho-org.bsky.social
@eadhorg.bsky.social "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads". Link in comment:)

Forgot to cc: the excellent @owenmonroe.bsky.social on this repost last week.

Congrats again, Owen, and thanks sharing your thoughts on this internship with the community!

cc: @neh-odh.bsky.social @altnehgov.altgov.info

PhD student Owen Monroe wearing a blue button-down with polkadots and smiling in front of a brown backdrop.

#iSchoolUI PhD student Owen Monroe spent his internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities studying the long-term sustainability of NEH-funded digital projects. His work helped NEH explore a new grant program for maintaining digital projects ▶️ bit.ly/3JKLnAj

Hu, Y., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., LeBlanc, Z., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2025). Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research. Big Data & Society, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251359229 (Original work published 2025)

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

It's such a comfort to know that you're taking such good care of "our" Postels, Amanda! (Along with the rest of those treasures, of course.) Please stay safe, and continue to Keep Stuff Safe™️ with Lots Of Copies!

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Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

Nothing more than sloppy, hasty googling... but now I'm thinking of it, the best historical / nostalgic reenactment would've been a link to the SGML version of TEI Lite, which is the one that first delighted me with its Dylan.

"Yesterday's Information Tomorrow!"

And thank you, Ben, for the outstanding and thoughtfully critical panel. As far as I'm concerned, the negativer the better: there's a whole helluva lot of hype out there that needs smart counterbalancing!

BTW, there were plenty of very smart pro-AI papers at the conference, too. ⚖️

#DH2025

It's hard to say what was most inspiring in a truly momentous talk full of many, many moments. But I was first touched when you said that giving a DH keynote had been a career-long dream of yours.
It was our collective dream as well, Roopsi. Thank you for fulfilling it with such style. 💜
#DH2025

For the record, the arguments at the #DH2025 "in the shadow of AI" panel today were way more nuanced and subtle than just "(valid) concerns about attribution." I'm too spent at the moment to summarize, but there's more to discuss than what you (Ted, I mean) are responding to. To be continued!

Does anyone have examples of a survey for collecting evidence about re-use of research software? Or advice about how to design such a survey? @softwaresaved.bsky.social #DH2025

Here for this moment. What a moment. #DH2025

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Sara is @sararribas.bsky.social -- and you can see her cool SNA visualizations right there on her Bluesky account.

See also her article: revistas.uned.es/index.php/RH...
#DH2025

Despite clearly defined, limited, and gendered roles (women were librettists, men were composers), SNA reveals María's hidden importance in the work of the theater.
#DH2025

In Sara's 1st network analysis, the role/position of individuals are the nodes, and the dances, theater pieces, and zarzuelas are the edges. In the next, edges are other dance/theater companies.

María turns out to be the primary connecting node for collaborations (e.g. w/Ballets Russes)
#DH2025

Next up: Sara Arribas Colmenar on recovering María Lejárraga's forgotten legacy & the choreographic evolution of the Art Theatre trough social network analysis.

Maria Lejárraga (1874-1974) was a feminist writer & dramatist associated with the Martínez Sierra Dance Company.
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I'm honored to be chairing this final paper session of #DH2025, which means that I won't be posting much (can't walk and chew gum at the same time) -- but it's great to have such a robust audience!

"Embracing absence in the digital humanities" presented by Ellen Charlesworth (co-authored with Claire Warwick) on incomplete collections data from UK museums, keeping in mind the geographic, rural/urban, economic differences. How does the digital reinforce and reify digital inequality?
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In a robust discussion: Lauren K. advocates for us to create *alternatives*: university- and library-sourced models, etc.

Filipa: "The cat's definitely out of the bag, but that doesn't mean we can't trap it in the bathroom!"

#DH2025

Ben's conclusion: we have no idea what to do. Hence the "shadow" of AI.

Restrictive CC licenses don't work. Our old and generous ethos of openness is no longer workable.

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Meet the resistance: adversarial perturbations.

Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI:
glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

#DH2025

Ben outs LAION, the "Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network," which claims to be "truly open" (no), "100% non-profit" (oh, please), &c. They seem to be winning in court! 👀

Citation: Eryk Salvaggio, "Challenging The Myths of Generative AI" www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...

#DH2025

Info graphic of current lawsuits of content creators against AI companies using their content.

Concluding the panel: organizer Ben on The Shadow. The show begins with an overview of who's suing whom in the content-creator v. AI legal landscape.

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