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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

I'm so excited! @aelang.bsky.social used my polybius site generator to build "Visualising correspondence from the archives of Australian literature" https://aelang.github.io/letters/

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GitHub - shawngraham/polybius: static site generator for historical data; use the online editor static site generator for historical data; use the online editor - shawngraham/polybius

@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy released a static site generator, Polybius github.com/shawngraham/..., which lets you visualise different aspects of a dataset, and I tried it on some correspondence between Australian women writers aelang.github.io/letters/. Thanks Shawn!

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...

We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.

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a clear resin cube with text on one face and a curved design extending from another face in front of a window

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace Please join us for the next in our digital humanities series, the Tuesday Forums, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab, of the Library's DH Center. These presentations invite...

Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Wow, what a resource for AI literacy! Thank you @miriamposner.com! (and HT @suzannerblack.bsky.social)

Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link

... The Complete Guide to Lock Picking, the magic of taking one's students to special collections, delightful zines to help you with programming wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s..., the little-known B-side hit single from Frozen AND a mise en abîme cover

This #DataSittersClubv zine, I mean book, has everything: illuminated medieval manuscripts, "some pretty cool art books about surveillance, censorship, and oppression" including this banger from Anne Covell annecovell.com/artist-books..., kid-kits as print culture ... [contd]

Can confirm @anasalter.bsky.social's game is hilarious ("Decolonize the mainframe"). Plus the retro styling of the graphics is *chef's kiss*. We were treated to a demo of distant coding too in which, in about 3 and a half minutes, they built the basics of an escape room text adventure game #ACH2025

Bite Size Command Line!

... The Complete Guide to Lock Picking, the magic of taking one's students to special collections, delightful zines to help you with programming wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s..., the little-known B-side hit single from Frozen AND a mise en abîme cover #DHMakes #ACH2025

This zine, I mean DSC book, has everything: illuminated medieval manuscripts, "some pretty cool art books about surveillance, censorship, and oppression" including this banger from Anne Covell annecovell.com/artist-books..., kid-kits as print culture ... [contd]

Cover of DSC #22: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Zine-Sitter, with Lee pointing to the text "We can do better than just printing out the DSC!" and holding a zine of the cover.

Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍

Open Access now available for "Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities"
ed. @gabrielh.bsky.social , Anouk Lang, & Simon Appleford

proud to have a chapter in this fine volume!

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/digital...

Something I don't understand is: why can't LLMs write novel-length fiction yet?

They've got the context length for it. And new models seem capable of the multi-hop reasoning required for plot. So why hasn't anyone demoed a model that can write long interesting stories?

I do have a theory ... +

DH Panel: Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities Join the Scholars' Lab & the Digital Humanities Center for an event celebrating the launch of Digital Futures of Graduate Studies, a new edited collection from the University of...

Deleted old post that had the wrong time! If you're local please join us for the roundtable March 18th at 12:00. We will have copies of the collection to give out to graduate students.

cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/eve...

Happy we have a Data-Sitters Club essay in this @jepub.bsky.social special issue rethinking academic community, care, & collectivity, edited by @katinalynn.bsky.social. Also 🔥: @hkpmcgregor.bsky.social & co-authors on big gay shit disturbing & breaking project management & collaboration conventions

Hannah McGregor’s ‘No One Is In Trouble: Queer Feminist Collaborations in the Amplify Podcast Network, The SpokenWeb Podcast, and Witch, Please Productions” is a conversation with key collaborators on creating radical, expansive, care-centred collaborative scholarship doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [17/n]

A promotional image reading: JEP: The Journal of Electronic Publishing Special Issue, On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing Issue Editor: Katina L Rogers Expected release: Jan 24, 2025

Join us Friday 1/31 at 12pm EST for a roundtable on collective & embodied scholarly communication! Contributors to the JEP special issue On Gathering will talk about process, unexpected outcomes, & challenges. Hosted by @jepub.bsky.social & @ach.bsky.social RSVP: members.ach.org/civicrm/even...

New article co-authored by Machery shows that non-expert readers cannot distinguish AI-written poetry from poetry by human authors and rate AI-generated poems more favorably.

"Non-expert poetry readers ... mistakenly interpret their own preference for a poem as evidence that it is human-written."

The Cultural Geo-Analytics Lab at @kingsdh is supporting applications for the LISS DTP PhD funding! 🎓🌍📊 If you're passionate about interdisciplinary, data-driven research in culture and geography, this is for you 🗓️ Jan deadline #LISS #phd liss-dtp.ac.uk/applying-to-...

Cover of DSC Super Special 1: The Data-Sitters Debate at Dartmouth, with quip "The Data-Sitters finally meet in person... and get into a big fight!"

Cover of Data-Sitters little tl;dr with Karen standing in a field of sunflowers, and the quip "What's DH?"

Want more #DataSittersClub? Tomorrow we've got something Super Special for you... and a brand new sub-series for the DH curious!

Reading these words is like being hit by a truck: you're an extraordinary writer, Quinn. I have a pain in my chest from reading this ❤️

Electronic Literature and Interactive Fiction Bluesky Feed Making feeds (the Twitter equivalent of lists) on Bluesky is not straightforward. The app/site itself does not include that functionality. I (@samplereality.bsky.social) am cobbling together (in a rou...

I've started a feed of electronic literature, digital narrative, and interactive fiction scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts. If you'd like to be on the feed, let me know here: https://forms.gle/KfD2Waf6WeKSNocq8.

as ever, the tagline on the cover nails it - I never even noticed the 😬 look on Claudia's face before but with the text, it becomes the focus of the whole picture and the broken leg recedes from view #DataSittersClub

New #DataSittersClub book on corpora! by @quinnanya.bsky.social and Shelley Staples ("Corpus construction is like making an argument", sing it). Also, pizza and research questions, the Taco Bell Quarterly, and hopped-up wordcounters datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc19.h...