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Lauren Klein
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Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · May 21
I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:
A screenshot of the front page of the Data by Design website, featuring a bunch of charts in a jumble and one, of a mountain and measurements by Francisco José de Caldas, featured at the top right.
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Cannot wait to share this with all of you!
chronictanvi.bsky.social tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 4d
Lula Iola Mack, a student of W.E.B. Du Bois who contributed to the making of the phenomenal Data Portraits visualizing black america.

Here she is visualized amongst 3,856 other black graduates Du Bois surveyed. #DataByDesign #DataViz
November 7, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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lukewaltzer.bsky.social
I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.
mkgold.bsky.social Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 5d
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure

theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...
November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
In fact already many people at CUNY doing this exact work! cc @mkgold.bsky.social @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @lmrhody.bsky.social etc
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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For those in Atlanta, TIME 100 in AI honoree and mental health activist Kauna Malgwi will be gracing us with her presence at Georgia Tech tomorrow as part of our @aiainetwork.bsky.social Distinguished Speaker Series / IPaT Brown Bag crossover event. Info here: research.gatech.edu/ipat/fall-20...
Black and gray poster for talk by Kauna Malgwi on the hidden cost of AI.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
Screenshots of the following text: Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025. Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy. Screenshots of the following text: The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally 1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.

The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.
  2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.

Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own. If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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mariaa.bsky.social
So much good stuff in here. I'm reading @bschmidt.bsky.social's piece on computational history: "The split in American digital history shows a way to make computation focus not on making the humanities more scientific but instead making them more creative."
dmimno.bsky.social David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 7d
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."

This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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dmimno.bsky.social
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."

This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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mellymeldubs.bsky.social
As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology
Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Wonderful to spend time with @roopikarisam.bsky.social and @cindyanguyen.bsky.social talking data and empire and history. Mark your calendars for these two amazing books--BIBLIOTACTICS and DATA EMPIRE--which, I can attest, will be terrific!
cindyanguyen.bsky.social Cindy Anh Nguyen @cindyanguyen.bsky.social · 28d
DH as critical praxis and worldbuilding with @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @roopikarisam.bsky.social. An intellectual-pedagogical-feminist dream symposia come true through, hosted through my Critical Data Lab at UCLA Data X. datax.ucla.edu/news-events/...
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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acarv.in
There are some tantalizing tattoo options among this spooky Venn diagrams
October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
It's a perfect autumn morning in Atlanta, coffee shop is spinning Air's Moon Safari on vinyl, and Vauhini Vara (@vauhinivara.bsky.social) is speaking at Emory at 4PM this afternoon. Come on out! www.eventbrite.com/e/vauhini-va...
Vauhini Vara: If Computers Can Write, Why Should We?
The AIAI Network is hosting journalist and novelist Vauhini Vara on Thursday, October 16.
www.eventbrite.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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mkgold.bsky.social
Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social
eve.gd Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 25d
Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.

Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Just when you think you’re keeping it together, you open your toiletry bag to discover that you’ve packed contact lenses for only one eye
October 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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mmolarsky.bsky.social
Never forget.
Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’
The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...
GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
github.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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maurasmale.bsky.social
Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! We have a few jobs open in CUNY libraries:

cuny.jobs/queens-ny/in...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

I’m not at these campuses but happy to answer questions!
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Theory as "a tool to open up the world." Love this!
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Oct 4
"What’s teacherly abt me... is that I love giving people a concept they can use as a tool to open up the world. That’s what theory is to me: a can opener. Or a key to a vast kingdom. Using things as 🔑s, instead of as 🔨s, is to me one of the most beautiful thing abt being an academic + a theorist."
Tina Campt
in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa, "My approach to language is that theory doesn’t need to be a weapon."
www.novembermag.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
So proud to see my friend @kanarinka.bsky.social quoted in The Boston Globe about how this egregious new college "compact" goes against everyone and every thing that higher education stands for: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/04/b...
Trump makes MIT an offer, one many on campus hope the school can refuse - The Boston Globe
President Trump issued terms to MIT and other schools; many on campus urge them to push back.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟
Software Engineering Applications
Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨
October 3, 2025 at 3:00 PM
laurenfklein.bsky.social
Cannot wait to share this entire project with all of you!
chronictanvi.bsky.social tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · Oct 3
prettiest data viz i’ve ever made for data by design by @laurenfklein.bsky.social 🌸
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
public goods

"47% have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher ed institutions, w a net positive rating of 33—up 13 points since 2023. more confidence in higher ed than in the police (44%), the medical system (38%)+large tech companies (25%)"

www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Poll: Public Confidence in Higher Ed Growing
Despite the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on colleges and universities, American confidence in higher education is growing.
www.insidehighered.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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wrigleyfield.bsky.social
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?

"We analyze 27 years of NIH extramural awards & their review scores to identify the bottom 40% of grants that would have been eliminated from 1980 to 2007... We then identify new molecular entity drugs, approved in the 21st century, that are linked to these grants"
What if NIH had been 40% smaller?
Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research
www.science.org
September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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louisbarclay.bsky.social
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM