Jim McGrath
@jimmcgrath.bsky.social
Instructional Designer and college educator. PhD in English. Interested in course design, digital pedagogy, and digital literacy. also digital humanities, public humanities/history, poetry, horror, comics, aesthetics.
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For those following. Here is the paper plane project prompt, instructions, etc. en español and in English.
January 22, 2026 at 3:45 AM
For those following. Here is the paper plane project prompt, instructions, etc. en español and in English.
The new AAC&U report titled "The AI Challenge" may provide some helpful data for folks at centers for teaching and learning who are advocating for critical and slower considerations of AI's impact on campus in lieu of AI adoption or AI evangelism: www.aacu.org/research/the...
The AI Challenge: Faculty Concerns About Generative AI in… | AAC&U
This collaborative study provides campus leaders, educators, and policymakers with clear evidence and faculty insights to inform thoughtful decisions…
www.aacu.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:55 PM
The new AAC&U report titled "The AI Challenge" may provide some helpful data for folks at centers for teaching and learning who are advocating for critical and slower considerations of AI's impact on campus in lieu of AI adoption or AI evangelism: www.aacu.org/research/the...
My first non-work reading and writing preoccupation of 2026 is digging back into William Butler Yeats. If you have any recs for readings (academic or otherwise), please send them my way!
January 16, 2026 at 3:48 PM
My first non-work reading and writing preoccupation of 2026 is digging back into William Butler Yeats. If you have any recs for readings (academic or otherwise), please send them my way!
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Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
Hoping that @molly.wiki can help explain.
Wikimedia Foundation announces new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Perplexity and others
January 15, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.
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How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
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In Advice: If you don’t want students to default to AI, the classroom has to become the laboratory for practicing the skills that you care about: reading, writing, problem solving, thinking, and creating. https://chroni.cl/3YsSVMc
Advice | If You Care About It, Do It in Class
Why faculty members need to shift the balance of class time from first exposure to skills practice.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
In Advice: If you don’t want students to default to AI, the classroom has to become the laboratory for practicing the skills that you care about: reading, writing, problem solving, thinking, and creating. https://chroni.cl/3YsSVMc
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Pleased to partner with Philip Morris on our “healthy smoking in schools” initiative
We know students, like the rest of the world, are using AI. Teachers need to be equipped to deal w/all the issues AI creates. Our approach starts with maximizing safety & privacy and empowering educators to make educational decisions, so AI tools can benefit not harm www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI has become the norm for students. Teachers are playing catch-up.
At a New York City training session, educators explored how artificial intelligence could support teaching while also discussing their concerns around the technology.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Pleased to partner with Philip Morris on our “healthy smoking in schools” initiative
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Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3>
<p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/jit...
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I wrote about some of 2025's big generative AI developments and their implications for historians: multimodal generation, deep research, and handwriting transcription. In short, we need to stop dismissing this as nothing more than "autocomplete on steroids." cblevins.github.io/posts/gen-ai...
Generative AI and History in 2025 | Cameron Blevins
Personal website for Cameron Blevins, Associate Professor, Clinical Teaching Track at University of Colorado Denver
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December 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I wrote about some of 2025's big generative AI developments and their implications for historians: multimodal generation, deep research, and handwriting transcription. In short, we need to stop dismissing this as nothing more than "autocomplete on steroids." cblevins.github.io/posts/gen-ai...
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The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The CCCC Special Committee on Generative AI in College Composition & Writing Studies is pleased to share two docs that have been in the works since this past summer:
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Academic Integrity, Plagiarism, & Generative AI: Guidelines for Postsecondary Writing Teachers docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AI came up at a dinner party over the weekend and someone was talking about how their managers encourage even their high-performing employees to use AI to work faster, which was a perfect talking point to the perspective that AI is a fantasy of management culture where labor is further dehumanized.
December 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
AI came up at a dinner party over the weekend and someone was talking about how their managers encourage even their high-performing employees to use AI to work faster, which was a perfect talking point to the perspective that AI is a fantasy of management culture where labor is further dehumanized.
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Hi friends, in case you missed it, I am offering some writing and editing services in the new year.
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
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If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
Writing and Editing
Towards a better future for the humanities.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hi friends, in case you missed it, I am offering some writing and editing services in the new year.
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
If you are feeling stuck on your academic writing project I might be able to help. ✨
halperta.com/categories/e...
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The collateral damage of people upset (often with good reasons) about generative AI is their digital humanities colleagues. It’s outpacing 2010 levels of vitriol, by a lot. The irony is we’re the best allies — we understand how the tech works and can translate between the doom and the hype. +
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The collateral damage of people upset (often with good reasons) about generative AI is their digital humanities colleagues. It’s outpacing 2010 levels of vitriol, by a lot. The irony is we’re the best allies — we understand how the tech works and can translate between the doom and the hype. +
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The CFP for ACH2026 is now live: ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/
The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual.
Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!
The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual.
Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!
ACH 2026 CFP
Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool
ach2026.ach.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The CFP for ACH2026 is now live: ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/
The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual.
Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!
The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual.
Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!
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I had a great conversation with Fatima Seck for this episode of Conversations in Atlantic Theory where I discuss Binding Media.
I have aversion to listening to my recorded voice but hopefully you won’t 🥸
I have aversion to listening to my recorded voice but hopefully you won’t 🥸
Élika Ortega on Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas
Podcast Episode · Conversations in Atlantic Theory · 11/11/2025 · 53m
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December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I had a great conversation with Fatima Seck for this episode of Conversations in Atlantic Theory where I discuss Binding Media.
I have aversion to listening to my recorded voice but hopefully you won’t 🥸
I have aversion to listening to my recorded voice but hopefully you won’t 🥸
an Ancient Aliens meme from the Our Marathon project’s meme collection is the most viewed file in Northeastern’s Digital Repository Service. Appreciate my old coworker Sarah Sweeney sharing this data point and others! librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276987&fbc...
DRS Reaches 500,000 Uploads – Library News
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December 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
an Ancient Aliens meme from the Our Marathon project’s meme collection is the most viewed file in Northeastern’s Digital Repository Service. Appreciate my old coworker Sarah Sweeney sharing this data point and others! librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276987&fbc...
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I am beyond thrilled to share some good news:
1. I've moved to a new job at UC Santa Barbara.
2. We have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual
Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social!
Both, we hope, will allow us to continue building the work! +
hfa.ucsb.edu/news/schmidt...
1. I've moved to a new job at UC Santa Barbara.
2. We have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual
Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social!
Both, we hope, will allow us to continue building the work! +
hfa.ucsb.edu/news/schmidt...
Schmidt Sciences awards $750,000 to UCSB-led team to transform Black press archives with AI | Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
English professor Jim Casey leads a national coalition to recover 19th-century African American newspapers using machine learning and public crowdsourcing.
hfa.ucsb.edu
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I am beyond thrilled to share some good news:
1. I've moved to a new job at UC Santa Barbara.
2. We have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual
Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social!
Both, we hope, will allow us to continue building the work! +
hfa.ucsb.edu/news/schmidt...
1. I've moved to a new job at UC Santa Barbara.
2. We have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual
Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social!
Both, we hope, will allow us to continue building the work! +
hfa.ucsb.edu/news/schmidt...
i know i am extremely late to the party but this play is great. particularly enjoyable if you are a lapsed literary scholar like me I suppose
December 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
i know i am extremely late to the party but this play is great. particularly enjoyable if you are a lapsed literary scholar like me I suppose
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It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
It’s that time of year: what was the piece of writing about AI that stuck with you the most this year, pop press or academic? A few of mine in the thread. ⬇️
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Some great books and articles on archives and libraries that came out in 2025.
In no specific order.
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In no specific order.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Some great books and articles on archives and libraries that came out in 2025.
In no specific order.
🧵
In no specific order.
🧵
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🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
CFP: USIH-IU Community Scholars Program | Society for US Intellectual History
In partnership with the Institute for American Thought at Indiana University, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History is pleased to announce the continuation of a new opportunity to support continge...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🔔 We’re honored to open a new round in the @susih.bsky.social -IU Community Scholars Program, which unlocks onsite + remote library access for 3 years for contingent scholars + historians working beyond the academy. Please apply + share! CFP due 2/1. Onward! 🗃️ s-usih.org/2025/12/cfp-...
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New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
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And maybe one day we may even realize that "language" and "text" or even "writing" are not the same thing either; and definitely not synonymous of "intelligence"
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
And maybe one day we may even realize that "language" and "text" or even "writing" are not the same thing either; and definitely not synonymous of "intelligence"
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We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes
"Digital humanities methodologies might serve as useful counters and correctives to desires to prioritize AI outsourcing and integrations at the expense of pedagogy." New blog post from me on digital pedagogy in the age of AI: jimmcgrath.us/teaching/dig...
Digital Processes, Not Products: Embracing Digital Ephemerality and Iteration
Hi! Below you’ll find the text of a “PODTalk” I gave at the 2025 POD Network Conference in San Diego. This was my first time attending and presenting at POD and I really enjoyed m…
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
"Digital humanities methodologies might serve as useful counters and correctives to desires to prioritize AI outsourcing and integrations at the expense of pedagogy." New blog post from me on digital pedagogy in the age of AI: jimmcgrath.us/teaching/dig...