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John Ladd

@jrladd.com.bsky.social

Assistant Prof @ Washington & Jefferson CIS Data science, cultural analytics, network analysis, early modern lit, birds jrladd.com

87 Followers  |  108 Following  |  6 Posts  |  Joined: 06.02.2024  |  1.8133

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Had a good time collaborating with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and the AI for Humanists team on this! It also features some data we've been cooking up for @print-and-prob.bsky.social. Worth thinking about whether you have a research task that a local LLM could help with...

31.07.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Code Tutorials The AI for Humanists project is developing resources to enable DH scholars to explore how large language models and AI technologies can be used in their research and teaching. Find an annotated biblio...

New NEH-supported tutorial on running LLMs locally with ollama! Your laptop is more powerful than you think. Save money, privacy, and energy.

aiforhumanists.com/tutorials/

10.06.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books

Had a blast with so many new friends at the @pricelab.bsky.social’s Dream Lab workshop last week! For anyone interested in applying DH methods to book history questions, here’s a mini-site with a guide and all the materials from β€œDigital Approaches to Early Modern Books”: jrladd.com/digitalbooks/

29.05.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For anyone interested in #DH and #CulturalAnalytics for early modern studies and book history: I'm very excited about the new Dream Lab course I'm teaching in May! Registration is open now: www.eventbrite.com/e/digital-ap...

28.03.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dream Lab presents: β€œDigital Approaches to Early Modern Books," a #DH workshop hosted at the University of Pennsylvania this May.

28.03.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I'm so pumped to be teaching this course, and I'm really grateful to @pricelab.bsky.social and @folgerlibrary.bsky.social for making these scholarships available. Let's hang out in May and talk about all the amazing ways you can combine book history and DH!

21.01.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad this is still useful for folks! This is on my feature wishlist for the next iteration of Network Navigator, too (cc @zoeleblanc.bsky.social)

16.01.2025 00:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Elon Musk killed our WCW "plums in the icebox" Twitter bot, so I just resurrected it in this custom feed:

bsky.app/profile/did:...

If you are amused by wild poetic text reuse, you might enjoy.
Shout out to my so sweet collaborator @jrladd.com, and take that, Elon!

08.01.2025 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

🀝🏻 welcome to the club

10.08.2024 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Two grad school buddies in identical shades of millennial mustard

Two grad school buddies in identical shades of millennial mustard

Everyone is laughing at me and @jrladd.com for wearing identical shades of millennial mustard. This is the inevitable outcome of grad school buddies

#dh2024

09.08.2024 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Journal of Digital History The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.

If you’ve seen our network analysis tool, Network Navigator, check out this article! It situates our work (@jrladd.com, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social) in the larger DH tools ecosystem and explores the role of network analysis in scholarly infrastructure.
https://rb.gy/ppspn6

18.07.2024 09:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Study for β€˜The Spanish Dance,’ by John Singer Sargent, 1879-80, πŸ“Έ via @cjzero.bsky.social

07.04.2024 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 232    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨

We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting

We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews.

Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!

14.02.2024 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 81    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

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