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John Ladd
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Assistant Prof @ Washington & Jefferson CIS

Data science, cultural analytics, network analysis, early modern lit, birds

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Sep 29: "Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print" with John Ladd (@jrladd.com), Assistant Professor in Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. Info/RSVP:
Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print
Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print
cdh.princeton.edu
September 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇
CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
cdh.princeton.edu
September 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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After nearly two years running our homespun ESTC 📚📜, we’ll soon retire it at the request of the ESTC. Proud to have been part of the @print-and-prob.bsky.social team 💪, led by Nikolai Vogler, that helped our scholarly community in a time of need 💜
When our Print & Probability collaborator UCSD grad student Nikolai Vogler heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built to help #earlymodern scholars access the essential metadata needed for teaching and research 📚 📜 estc.printprobability.org
estc.printprobability.org
August 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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...
July 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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/
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...
aiforhumanists.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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 “Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books”: jrladd.com/digitalbooks/
Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books
jrladd.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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...
March 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Dream Lab presents: “Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books," a #DH workshop hosted at the University of Pennsylvania this May.
March 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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!
🚨 A scholarship opportunity for grad students interested in Dream Lab course "Digital Approaches to Early Modern Books" courtesy of the Folger Institute at @folgerlibrary.bsky.social
January 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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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!
January 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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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
August 9, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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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
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.
rb.gy
July 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM
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Study for ‘The Spanish Dance,’ by John Singer Sargent, 1879-80, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
April 7, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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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!
February 14, 2024 at 4:27 PM