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Alayne Moody
@menyalas.bsky.social
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PhD student using a critical digital humanities methodology, including natural language processing and Bayesian data analysis, to study well-being in 19th century letters and diaries. #lifewriting #wellbeing #Bayes #DH
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buzzbaum.bsky.social
May be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. If you want to know why it’s called a strawberry squid, watch the video
November 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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buzzbaum.bsky.social
Livestream dive two. We see a strawberry squid and a sea of brittle stars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZLe...
Station 2 | SOI Divestream 863
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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November 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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piskyinpresbyland.bsky.social
So long as all humanities students take a statistics course, particularly journalism students, with an emphasis on hypothesis testing, Bayes' Theorem, and statistical significance.
April 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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rantyben.bsky.social
This semester I ported a course by @mikekestemont.bsky.social from R to Python and taught it alongside a great colleague. Designed for Humanities Masters students with no maths and little Python, it takes you through univariate stats, testing, distributions, and finishes with Bayesian modelling.
webpage screenshot for Humanities Data Analysis course, featuring Bayes with laser eyes
January 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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robinryder.bsky.social
I'm super excited to announce that ISBA @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has voted to start a new section on Bayesian Social Sciences! It will be a great way to further collaborations with many disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

bss-isba.github.io
Home - BSS-ISBA
bss-isba.github.io
September 22, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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ldburnett.bsky.social
I’m teaching an environmental humanities course this fall and you can bet I’m going to be assigning this post (and your column) as we discuss the impact / ethics of AI use.
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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roopikarisam.bsky.social
IMLS is under attack. They’ve been instrumental in digital humanities and GLAM. Make noise, spread the word, call your reps.

IMLS co-funded my 1st NEH grant, which later became the Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium & introduced 1000s of students of color to DH. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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maggieliz.bsky.social
Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive

Let people know, download your own copies.
Don't let this digital book burn continue.

#Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI
All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive
Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...
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January 31, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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stolenrelations.bsky.social
(1/8) Welcome to the official Bluesky account for Stolen Relations (indigenousslavery.org)! We are a digital humanities project housed at Brown University that centers on and works collaboratively with tribal communities in our local region.
Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas
A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.
indigenousslavery.org
January 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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lauraestill.bsky.social
Looking forward to co-teaching "Digital Pedagogy and the Book: Tools, Methods, and Projects" with Andie Silva at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI), which will take place in Montreal this year!

Our workshop is Week 2 (2-6 June 2025)

Details and registration: dhsi.org/course-offer...
Course Offerings
DHSI 2025 26-30 May (Week 1) | 2-6 June (Week 2) *********** Anticipated offerings for DHSI 2025 are listed below. Use the drop down toggles to see more information for each course. For information ab...
dhsi.org
January 31, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'As the rise of digital humanities has increased the amount of information available exponentially, collaboration...has become ever more important. This trend underlines the vital role the arts and humanities will play in addressing major global challenges'. 1/2
January 31, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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profjohndrury.bsky.social
The effect and mechanism of mutual aid on the subjective well-being of participants in the COVID-19 pandemic

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The effect and mechanism of mutual aid on the subjective well-being of participants under the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Psychology
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to the emergence of various forms of mutual aid. While prior research has demonstrated that mutual aid can contribute to participants’ subjective well-being, the majority ...
link.springer.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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scottsantens.com
Minneapolis Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot

Location: Minneapolis, MN
Participants: 200
Amount: $500/mo
Duration: 2 yrs
Design: RCT

EMPLOYMENT DID NOT DECEASE

Food and housing security, financial security and psychological wellness all significantly improved.

www.minneapolisfed.org/research/ins...
Our findings show that cash assistance stabilizes households’ economic lives (food security, financial security, and housing stability) and improves direct reports of well-being (subjective or psychological) with no evidence of a reduction in labor supply. This pattern of findings matches several other randomized GBI evaluations. Comparing across these studies suggests that the benefits of basic income in terms of stability and well-being are slightly larger for populations with lower baseline income and worse outcomes, and that these groups also tend to have null or slightly positive (but not statistically significant) labor supply effects. Our population is on the more disadvantaged end of this spectrum. Table 4 presents results for three measures of economic security: food security (panel A), housing stability (panel B), and financial security (panel C). We find immediate, large, and robust positive effects of basic income payments on food security. At baseline only about one-third of respondents in both groups are recorded as food secure, but after 6 months of GBI payments and in every wave thereafter, about half of the treatment group reports being food secure. The estimated average treatment effect parameter is between 15 and 20 percentage points across all specifications in all periods, and every estimate except one is statistically significantly different from zero after adjusting for multiple hypothesis testing. One clear behavioral prediction from economic models is that an increase in unearned income should reduce labor supply. This is a direct consequence of valuing leisure time. Static and dynamic models differ on the magnitude of their prediction for short-run labor supply behavior but not in their sign. We do not find evidence that GBI payments caused recipients to reduce their labor supply. In fact, panel D of Figure 3 and Table 5 show that our labor supply index—which combines extensive and intensive margin measures—is higher among treated respondents than control respondents. These results are not generally distinguishable from zero and our specifications that use baseline employment information (models 2 and 3) find smaller results than unadjusted comparisons or ones adjusted only for demographic information.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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annieleymarie.bsky.social
Great to see new reports/studies flagging cobenefits of nature restoration such as peace (below) & "a sense of identity or well-being + spiritual experiences" phys.org/news/2025-01..., but these are still very anthropocentric. It needs doing also for the sake of our wider kin, the more-than-humans!
January 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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nobody1300.bsky.social
With any luck, the AI will realize it is the problem and delete itself
Headline from an official Google blog: How we're using AI to help cities tackle extreme heat Headline from a Nature article: Generative AI's environmental costs are soaring—and mostly secret
September 13, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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bleudeciel.bsky.social
Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”
December 24, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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leni.bsky.social
In case you havenʼt seen it yet, this website is such a great resource for all of us researchers and teachers working on and discussing technology and society:

Calculating Empires – A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
calculatingempires.net
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.
calculatingempires.net
November 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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matthewkollmer.com
Can't help but worry about graduating with a PhD within the next four years, only to be faced with an academic job market that has been gutted and starved like never before...
January 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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conservbytes.bsky.social
We call on universities and other higher education institutions in Australia to shut down their accounts on 'X' (formerly, 'Twitter') as soon as possible

Sign petition here: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

#eXit #auspol #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky 🧪🌏 #ECRchat
Truly social media at Australian universities - Online petition
We call on universities and other higher education institutions in Australia to shut down their accounts on 'X' (formerly, 'Twitter') as soon as possible. Their presence on X/Twitter is incompatible w...
www.openpetition.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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philipcball.bsky.social
Given that these men really do have the potential to destroy society, democracy and the world, some might find it rather glib to complain about their cringiness. But I'm with Shaw: it seems unjust that it should also be so deeply embarrassing to watch this happen.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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erinanderssen.bsky.social
I write about happiness for #globeandmail so I might have to pitch a trip to Copenhagen, a city so confident that newcomers will happily stay forever that they can get "quality of life insurance" to cover a free trip outta there. www.thelocal.de/20241028/why...
Why is the Greater Copenhagen Region offering new arrivals ‘life quality insurance’?
Those arriving in the Greater Copenhagen Region can't stop talking about their move - and the region is so sure you'll love living and working there, that they're making a very special offer.
www.thelocal.de
November 15, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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buxton9.bsky.social
DH community:

The 2025 DHI will be held virtually on April 4-5,2025. The then is Digital Humanities as a Tool for Resiliency: Analyzing and Addressing Crises through Innovative Digital Practices. Please find the complete Call for Papers here: lnkd.in/exrKVJZp

#digitalhumanities #DHI2025
December 17, 2024 at 3:55 PM
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gizem-karaali.bsky.social
The call for applications for the 2025 workshops seeking participants interested in developing a conceptual foundation for understanding the assumptions made in common #digitalhumanities #DH methods, such as statistics, network analysis, and text mining and analysis is here!
mathhumanists.org/cfp/
Call for Participants: Mathematical Humanists Workshops
Project website for the Mathematical Humanists.
mathhumanists.org
December 18, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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triproftri.bsky.social
Right on time, the @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social conference program is out with so many incredible talks! Virtual registration is free: msuglobaldh.org/schedule/

#dh
#digitalhumanities
#globaldh
Schedule – Global Digital Humanities Symposium 2025
msuglobaldh.org
December 19, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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joeymccollum.bsky.social
On that note, there's just one more piece of news that I'm thrilled to share with you: a paper offering more technical details on Bayesian textual criticism, which I've authored with Rob Turnbull, has just been accepted for publication by Digital Scholarship in the Humanities!
"Dear Mr. McCollum: It is a pleasure to accept your manuscript entitled 'Using Bayesian Phylogenetics to Infer Manuscript Transmission History' in its current form for publication in DSH: Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Thank you for your contribution. On behalf of the Editors of DSH, we look forward to your continued contributions to the Journal."
November 29, 2023 at 4:53 AM