Elisa Beshero-Bondar

Can this be enough?

At #dh2025 @roopikarisam.bsky.social emphasizes an ethic of care at the heart of minimal computing at every level of our lives’ work in digital humanities. 💜

A gift of sneakers to just the right person

Celebrating the ADHO leadership of Michael Eberle Sinatra fittingly with an iconic gift!

Locations for next ADHO conferences:
2026 : Daejeon, South Korea
2027: Galway, Ireland
2028: Capetown, South Africa !

dh2026.adho.org

#dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

Likewise, sorry! This conference is enormous!

DIGIT AI for Localized TEI/XML Assistance A presentation about a small explainable AI project to fine-tune a language model with a graph RAG built with the TEI Guidelines.

We are so excited to be presenting shortly at #dh2025 on making a small explainable AI model “DigitAI” w/ our knowledge graph made from the #TEI Guidelines, and the declarative power of XSLT 3 (and 4) in work like this! Here are our slides!
1. bit.ly/digitai-dh25
2. bit.ly/xslt-2025

Delighted to be learning from Javier Cha (opening keynote at #DH2025) about the RAG modeling we’re exploring now! I love how he tracks the progress from Cytoscape network viz to neo4j graph modeling in small systems for humanities data!

Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!

Excited to learn the latest about Voyant/Spyral the #dh2025 workshops!

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

Computational cultural studies hero image, showing data mapping along with images of writers and scholars whose work will be examined in the program

The first doctoral program of its kind, our new Ph.D. in Computational Cultural Studies trains students to combine historical, theoretical, and cultural scholarship with computational methodologies.

To learn more: www.cmu.edu/dietrich/english/academic-programs/computational-cultural-studies

Right now, I would implore everyone to start generally thinking about readiness and situational awareness in major cities. Link up with neighbors. Who are your trusteds?

If you travel-- what is your plan for international travel/return to the states?

"Rolled round in earth's diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees" On writing where AI isn't

Here's a substack I composed on the road last week somewhere between a campsite and a moving car in pretty wobbly internet, while reflecting on cobblestones reflecting (yes that, and a bit more): open.substack.com/pub/ebeshero...
#poetry #digitalhumanities #AI #pedagogy #composition

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda."

for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

instantaneous, violent, convulsive

Holding out for the day when I can afford to buy back all the articles I’ve published

Greg Bondar and I in foreground, David Birnbaum (my wise co-instructor) and Juliette Paul from our class at a Korean barbecue place near U. Montreal campus.

Ethiopian food from Queen of Sheba restaurant to be shared 4 ways with hungry DHSI folks from Penn State!

David Birnbaum working on a plan for auto tagging some complex transcription data with one of our students.

A splendid dessert, anticipating my birthday next week!

Dining and coding and teaching (did I get that in the wrong order?) at DHSI in Montreal has been lots of fun this week!
#dhsi2025 #dhsi25

I’ve studied signs, and know their marks

@readywriting.bsky.social Just tried it—slightly scary (being scanned)—but fascinating to see the words coming out!

Me and my co-instructor David Birnbaum, for the “Processing Your XML” class.

Ray Siemens being honored for founding and hosting DHSI

Ray’s T-shirt design

First DHSI lecture being delivered by Ichiro Fujinaga. Title slide reads “On the Virtues of Lazy Machinrs: Rethinking Efficiency, Effort, and Intelligence”

At DHSI, in Montreal and not Victoria this year! It’s the 24th anniversary and Ray Siemens is honored with a special T-shirt reading “A Ray of Sunshine” for his founding and care of our DHSI institute and community all these years! #dhsi2025

Don’t mess with PBS.

Times are US Eastern Time. 10am - 1pm US Eastern Time (will be 7am in Vancouver, 3pm in London, 4pm in Vienna.

Our Digit students hold their project showcase today (projects on their way to completion next week). Check out the slate, join over Zoom, feedback welcome! digit-psb.github.io/DIGIT-Works/...
#digitalhumanities #digitalarts

Hey, I've got a new chapter out with the edgy title: "Against Infrastructure" with @gimenadelr.bsky.social. It's in this new open access book, check it out: books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/...

#digitalhumanities #dh #digitalpublishing #scholarlyediting #textualscholarship #infrastructuestudies

Finally published! Our article on revising sex and gender in the TEI Guidelines, with some literary encoding experimental examples from V. Woolf’s Orlando and cast lists from early modern drama!

One from me: Yesterday, a simple memo asking everyone to share info on research expenditures on a sheet for our whole school of Humanities / Social Sciences underlined a sad thing: Admins are forcing us to prove our value based on money in yet another way. Never had to do that before. :-(

These days, besides dismay and distress every morning and night in encountering news and news of my friends and colleagues, I feel visceral irony about even everyday university stuff. I can't help but see what we *used to* know and understand 2 yrs / 5 yrs ago. You feeling it too? Examples...?

Hegseth shared information ahead of Yemen strikes in a Signal chat with wife and brother The news comes about a month after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to a separate Signal chat with national security leaders.

Hegseth shared information ahead of Yemen strikes in a Signal chat with wife and brother www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I mean, if Trump is seeking to boot people who are “too slow” and not keeping up, it’s not the Fed chief who ought to go first…

@docum3nt.bsky.social Can you share the working link from your site? (First link was truncated) : ebeshero.github.io/UpTransforma...

Our course is now approved for week 1 DHSI last week of May, but seats probably still available.