Carmen Thong
@carmenthong.bsky.social
PhD in English, MA in Public Policy @ Stanford || Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies
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Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Out now!
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself
And better yet? It's #openaccess!
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio...
Thanks to all contributors! 🎉
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And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!
#TCDXII
Our twelfth conference dedicated to Caribbean digital studies. Jamaica, 2025.
thecaribbeandigital.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!
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Unsurprising: Using longer words makes female authors more “literary”
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Unsurprising: Using longer words makes female authors more “literary”
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
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If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
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The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The Post45 Data Collective invites graduate students in the humanities or adjacent fields to explore cultural data reflexively and collaboratively in a mini-workshop hosted virtually on Friday, March 13. Details here: data.post45.org/news/grad-wo...
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There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
There is no 'congrats' loud or enthusiastic enough for the Penn State grad students, who didn't just win their union today, but did it by an utterly absurd 90 point margin.
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
I'm so proud and happy for them!!!!!
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A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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My niece Punkin needs a kidney 🫶🏾🫶🏾 Please share and tell a friend who may be able to help 🙏🏾
www.gofundme.com/f/give-marci...
www.gofundme.com/f/give-marci...
Donate to Give Marcia a Chance at a Healthy Future, organized by Sharday H
Marcia is a vibrant 14-year-old girl who has always loved to dance and play the flu… Sharday H needs your support for Give Marcia a Chance at a Healthy Future
www.gofundme.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My niece Punkin needs a kidney 🫶🏾🫶🏾 Please share and tell a friend who may be able to help 🙏🏾
www.gofundme.com/f/give-marci...
www.gofundme.com/f/give-marci...
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Cool reflection on the interpretive circularity of models & texts.
We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy.
But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.
We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy.
But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.
June 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Cool reflection on the interpretive circularity of models & texts.
We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy.
But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.
We tend to imagine that models tell us about the relations between texts, and differ only by accuracy.
But you can also turn this around and use texts to explore the relations between different models / interpretive approaches.
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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI.
Their experiments also uncovered thousands of cases of direct contradictions or interpretive ambiguities within the model spec.
Their experiments also uncovered thousands of cases of direct contradictions or interpretive ambiguities within the model spec.
October 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and xAI.
Their experiments also uncovered thousands of cases of direct contradictions or interpretive ambiguities within the model spec.
Their experiments also uncovered thousands of cases of direct contradictions or interpretive ambiguities within the model spec.
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I see America is now at the “dissident professors fleeing the regime” stage
Our plane to Spain is in the air!
🙌🙌
Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
🙌🙌
Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
October 10, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I see America is now at the “dissident professors fleeing the regime” stage
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📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.
dh2026.adho.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH
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Despite the gutting of the National Center for Educational Statistics, the dept of Ed *did* manage to release 2024 college major counts in the usual format, so I can run it through the same code I do every year. First off, the change since peak of the largest fields -- another year of drops.
September 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Despite the gutting of the National Center for Educational Statistics, the dept of Ed *did* manage to release 2024 college major counts in the usual format, so I can run it through the same code I do every year. First off, the change since peak of the largest fields -- another year of drops.
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Thank God!
Evidence that diversity in STEM improves our quality of life, part 5,670,723.
Two female engineers design a much needed, patient-friendly alternative to the metal speculum.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Two female engineers design a much needed, patient-friendly alternative to the metal speculum.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Netherlands researchers redesign vaginal speculum to ease discomfort
Cold, rigid, and metallic – it’s not a medieval torture device, but the vaginal speculum, a tool used daily in gynecological exams worldwide and often linked to discomfort and fear. Two engineers at…
www.france24.com
August 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Thank God!
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New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
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NEH announces new grant opportunity "to support public programs focusing on: American Military History and Valor; The American Dream and Economic Freedom; America’s Role on a Global Scale; or the U.S. Semiquincentennial." bit.ly/45bCC9A
NEH Announces Funding Opportunity for Museums and Historic Sites on the History of American Excellence
bit.ly
July 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEH announces new grant opportunity "to support public programs focusing on: American Military History and Valor; The American Dream and Economic Freedom; America’s Role on a Global Scale; or the U.S. Semiquincentennial." bit.ly/45bCC9A
Meanwhile in the UK...
Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
July 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Meanwhile in the UK...
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The Trump administration is withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the U.N. agency of being “woke.”
Trump pulls US out of UN cultural agency UNESCO for second time
President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the U.N. culture and education agency UNESCO on Tuesday, repeating a move he had already ordered during his first term, which had been reversed under Joe Biden.
www.reuters.com
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Trump administration is withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the U.N. agency of being “woke.”
Joining #DH2025 virtually from the PST time zone because of ✨The Times✨ but looking forward to presenting on a panel with other projects in the intersection of DH and postcolonial studies!
July 13, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Joining #DH2025 virtually from the PST time zone because of ✨The Times✨ but looking forward to presenting on a panel with other projects in the intersection of DH and postcolonial studies!
There is too much banal evil...
Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be any more reasons to quit Spotify, the brutal news keeps coming
Why We Quit Spotify
Enough is enough
www.hearingthings.co
July 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
There is too much banal evil...
The colloquy for "Colonialism, Post, and Anti in the Digital Age" is up on Stanford's Arcade! It collects pieces by scholars that have inspired the workshop in the last two years, with additions to come:
shc.stanford.edu/arcade/collo...
shc.stanford.edu/arcade/collo...
Colonialism, Post, and Anti in the Digital Age | Stanford Humanities Center
shc.stanford.edu
July 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The colloquy for "Colonialism, Post, and Anti in the Digital Age" is up on Stanford's Arcade! It collects pieces by scholars that have inspired the workshop in the last two years, with additions to come:
shc.stanford.edu/arcade/collo...
shc.stanford.edu/arcade/collo...
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Really interesting report from the @britishcouncil.bsky.social - "Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, Innovation and Opportunity". Reflecting the situated experiences and
innovative practices of practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Iraq, bringing a new lens to considering digital past.
innovative practices of practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Iraq, bringing a new lens to considering digital past.
www.britishcouncil.org
June 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Really interesting report from the @britishcouncil.bsky.social - "Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, Innovation and Opportunity". Reflecting the situated experiences and
innovative practices of practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Iraq, bringing a new lens to considering digital past.
innovative practices of practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Iraq, bringing a new lens to considering digital past.
I am a part of the editorial team for UNESCO's report on The African Book Industry and it has just been published online today!!
Check it out here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
Check it out here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
June 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I am a part of the editorial team for UNESCO's report on The African Book Industry and it has just been published online today!!
Check it out here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
Check it out here: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
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Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!
Global Majority Fellowships 2025-2026
www.responsiblenlp.org
June 16, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!