Justin Tonra

Great work, James: congrats!

Congrats, Claire: I can't wait to read it!

Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UK–Ireland Digital Humanities Association Abstract. This article discusses the development of a Digital Humanities (DH) Association for the UK and Ireland. It explores processes for evidence gather

Want to know how to start a #DH association? Probably not - but lots about building sustainable orgs that support researchers, practitioners & students.

Thanks @jfwinters.bsky.social for guiding the process & @jtonra.bsky.social for working on the implementation section w/ me! @ukiedh.bsky.social

Enhancing research and teaching capacity through collaboration: building a UK–Ireland Digital Humanities Association Abstract. This article discusses the development of a Digital Humanities (DH) Association for the UK and Ireland. It explores processes for evidence gather

How do you start a Digital Humanities association?

You can now read our answer to the question on everyone's lips, open-access in DSH: academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

It's a real pleasure to be in the company of great co-authors, writing about a great association!

@ukiedh.bsky.social

Learn with ChatGPT - App Store Generative AI technology has revolutionised how we approach our daily tasks, with ChatGPT being one of the… Learn more tips and how-tos on the App Store.

And they are actively targeting students now, right in time for assessment season: apps.apple.com/ie/story/id1...

"Tech companies do everything to turn inevitability into a lived experience, as they pollute their applications with ‘AI assistants’ and make opting out quite a cumbersome task for technology users. The inevitability myth is powerful. So powerful, I nearly got trapped." 👏

Outrageous and antidemocratic that fried is overlook while Johnny-come-latelies like hash browns and hassleback [sic] make the ballot.

Thanks a million, @richardacarter.bsky.social: this is really helpful! 🙏

Recommendations please: I'm looking for an LLM that can be downloaded and run on a local machine. User-friendliness of installation and use much more important than power or parameter size.

How to use ChatGPT at university without cheating: ‘Now it’s more like a study partner’ The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?

Obviously one expects no less from the university rankings industrial complex, but this is absolutely dire, willfully-naive AI boosterism.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Just realised that Robert Frost's "Putting in the Seed" has a winking emoticon:

(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite,
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;)

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

The CLS INFRA project has officially concluded. After four transformative years, our work in building infrastructure for computational literary studies is complete. Thank you for being part of this journey!

Similar resistance in the Netherlands: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Opinion: We are lecturers in Trinity College Dublin. It is our responsibility to resist AI Even if all the known issues were magically resolved, we would still not want our students to use GenAI

And a response to the original opinion piece today: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... (unpaywalled: archive.ph/l0f3k).

Students hate that I base 50% of their grade on their "rich inner life" but this is the only way to be sure they are not using LLMs

Herbert's 'Redemption'? Not an elegy, though.

Opinion | The University’s Best Weapon Against A.I.: The 14th Century

Today, happily, brings a more thoughtful and considered opinion: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Blithely dismissing "transitional worries about cheating" reveals a misunderstanding of the serious and fundamental threat posed to the integrity of degrees and other qualifications.

And uncritical boosterism undermines the "policies and institutional guidelines" that the piece mentions.

I have no issue with some of the utopian sentiments, but it strikes me as irresponsible to imply that AI will help to achieve them without specifying HOW, beyond dubious hypotheticals: "individualised, tailored mentoring that no overstretched academic could hope to supply."

Opinion: From personalised tutoring to improved accessibility, why AI can democratise higher education Artificial intelligence is to be embraced rather than feared, but educators and students cannot ignore its dark side

Disappointing to see this piece recommending a general embrace of AI in higher education with no meaningful engagement with the serious issues involved.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️
We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚
#REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory
[See images for details & how to apply.]

Read somewhere that em-dashes are now considered a signal of AI-generated text and lamented that AI is destroying everything that I love.

Ireland & UK #DigitalHumanities folk, would you like to help shape the development of the UK-Ireland DH Association? There’s an open call for expressions of interest to join the organising collective (3 new members) & we’d love to hear from you whether you’re in HE, GLAM or somewhere else entirely!

#NeverForget

Outrageous snub for Paddington.

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

This workshop introduces the fundamentals of network analysis for humanities scholars, combining historical and literary case studies with hands-on practice. Participants will explore networks of literary characters, correspondence, and historical actors, and learn to visualise and interpret these structures using accessible tools like Gephi and EzLinaVis.

📢 CLS INFRA Online Workshop 📢

All welcome! Registration now open at link below.

📆 Wed 9 July
🕐 10:30 CEST
🎟️ forms.gle/XH875jLaCwxf...

CLS INFRA Closing Event registration Here you can sign up to participate in the CLS INFRA Closing Event - a workshop accompanying CCLS conference in Kraków. The event will take place on 2nd July 2025, in Collegium Padervianum (Jagiellon...

CLS INFRA CLOSING EVENT

Registration now open for in-person and online participants.

🎟️ Free: forms.gle/5b98Z9dpKarZ...
📍 Jagiellonian University, Kraków
📅 2 July 2025
🕐 0900-1800
🔗 clsinfra.io/closing-event/

Lindsay Reid and I have a chapter, "Digital scholarly editing in the early modern curriculum," in this very cool, open-access collection. Chapter abstract here: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/... @uniofgalway.bsky.social