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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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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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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.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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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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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
October 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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
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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
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...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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)
OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
June 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Wow, what a resource for AI literacy! Thank you @miriamposner.com! (and HT @suzannerblack.bsky.social)
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Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link
H/t @naitian.org for the link
June 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins...
H/t @naitian.org for the link
H/t @naitian.org for the link
The #DataSittersClub is back and we're talking zines! @readywriting.bsky.social checks out a collection of handmade books (manuscripts to zines), and tries making 4 zines in 5 days out of earlier DSC books! We also interview tech zine pros @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines!
DSC #22: Lee Skallerup Bessette, Zine-Sitter
by Lee Skallerup Bessette, Quinn Dombrowski, Julia Evans, and Marie LeBlanc Flanagan June 13, 2025 Lee:(Post-January 20th, 2025, addendum) Look, y’all. It’s ROUGH out there right now. The more thin...
datasittersclub.github.io
June 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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
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]
June 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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]
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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! 😍
June 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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! 😍
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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...
ed. @gabrielh.bsky.social , Anouk Lang, & Simon Appleford
proud to have a chapter in this fine volume!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/digital...
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March 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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...
ed. @gabrielh.bsky.social , Anouk Lang, & Simon Appleford
proud to have a chapter in this fine volume!
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/digital...
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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 ... +
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 ... +
December 30, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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 ... +
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 ... +
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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...
cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/eve...
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...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
March 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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...
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
In ‘Collective Praxis, Collaborative Publishing: The Case of the Data-Sitters Club’ @readywriting.bsky.social @katiabowers.bsky.social, Maria Sachiko Cecire, @quinnanya.me, Anouk Lang & @roopikarisam.bsky.social discuss their DH collaboration, its challenges & benefits doi.org/10.3998/jep.... [14/n]
Collective Praxis, Collaborative Publishing: The Case of the Data-Sitters Club
The Data-Sitters Club (https://datasittersclub.github.io/site/index.html) is a pedagogical resource consisting of “books” that explore themes and methods from digital humanities and computational text...
doi.org
January 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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
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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]
No One Is In Trouble: Queer Feminist Collaborations in the Amplify Podcast Network, <em>The SpokenWeb Podcast</em>, and Witch, Please Productions
At Witch, Please Productions—the queer feminist media production company I co-founded with Marcelle Kosman and Hannah Rehak—we have a motto that underpins and guides our collaborative ethos: “no one i...
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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]
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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...
January 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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...
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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."
"Non-expert poetry readers ... mistakenly interpret their own preference for a poem as evidence that it is human-written."
November 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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."
"Non-expert poetry readers ... mistakenly interpret their own preference for a poem as evidence that it is human-written."
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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-...
Open competition - LISS DTP
liss-dtp.ac.uk
November 16, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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-...
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Want more #DataSittersClub? Tomorrow we've got something Super Special for you... and a brand new sub-series for the DH curious!
October 1, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Want more #DataSittersClub? Tomorrow we've got something Super Special for you... and a brand new sub-series for the DH curious!
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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.
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...
forms.gle
August 16, 2023 at 1:17 PM
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.
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...
Corpora: I bet we all have some anxiety about them. How do you choose what texts to look at? How do you know when you have enough? The #DataSittersClub is back, asking those questions and more to corpus linguist Shelley Staples, while exploring pizza and the Newbery Award for youth literature.
DSC #19: Shelley and the Bad Corpus
by Quinn Dombrowski and Shelley Staples September 12, 2023 Corpora: We got off easy with the Data-Sitters Club. We never had to grapple with the corpus question. We started by gathering all the boo...
datasittersclub.github.io
September 13, 2023 at 9:08 PM
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...
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Bi-weekly blogging continues today with one of my favorite little Python libraries for finding "close-enough" text.
Finding 'close enough' text
For people new to text analysis, it can be hard to wrap your head around the gap between what's completely obvious to you as a human and what's easily detectible by a computer. Especially when working...
quinndombrowski.com
September 7, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Bi-weekly blogging continues today with one of my favorite little Python libraries for finding "close-enough" text.