hcommons.social/@adachika192...

The short can be viewed directly at the LoC website

www.loc.gov/item/2026125...

A Rare 1897 Film Discovered in an Old Trunk in Michigan Features the First On-Screen Appearance of a Robot Filmmaker Georges Méliès employed some of his signature special effects techniques to create comedy in "Gugusse and the Automaton"

This newly (re-)discovered 1897 Méliès film sits delightfully at the intersection of film history and the history of robots/automatons 🎥🤖

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart The family of Marie-Thérèse, from Brittany, fear for her health after she was cuffed and placed in a detention centre

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

What Orbán’s fall from power means for research around the world Hungary’s new leader has promised to restore the system of checks and balances — but researchers say that rebuilding science will take more than reversing Victor Orbán’s laws.

Orbán’s 16-year run of stripping university autonomy is over. Magyar’s win could unlock €6.3B in frozen EU research funds, but reversing laws is just the start. Rebuilding the lost social capital and international trust will likely take years of actual work.

Poster for an invited talk at the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative at Penn State: “HOW DID THEY DO IT? EXPLORING MULTILINGUAL METADATA AND THE LIMITS OF AI-AUGMENTED TRANSLATION IN DH” by Zoe LeBlanc taking place on April 22nd, 2026 at 12PM EDT. People can join on zoom. The poster is mainly blue, with highlights on yellow, and it has a picture of Zoe.

🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲

🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT

Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc

#DigitalHumanities

stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1164...

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

www.404media.co/google-micro...

Important issues. Link to original article: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

People standing in the shape of a heart with text Team UofG in the Gilbert Scott building courtyard.

We have a number of funded PhD opportunities available, including CoSS PhD Scholarships and funding with our global partners, The University of Sydney Business School and The University of the West Indies.

You can find all the opportunities below: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc...

👏Congratulations to USSP's Mark Stephens and colleagues on the launch of the UK Housing Review 2026, a long-standing collaboration between @cihhousing.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk. Explore and download the review 👉 www.ukhousingreview.org.uk/ukhr26/index...

I think what makes it very unfortunate is this:

LLM-AI is simultaneously:

1. Generating far more bugs and technical vulnerabilities due to rush to use them without thinking about long-term costs (not new problem but supercharged)

2. Immensely effective at *finding* bugs

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

'In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.'

'Once students got their offers, they were passed on to the visa team, and finally delivered to universities as a fully wrapped, fee-paying package.'

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines.

And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

Pencil drawings of mainly fossil marine reptile teeth.

#FossilFriday: Mary Anning's hand-drawn copy of a plate of ichthyosaur and other teeth copied from WD Conybeare's 1822 paper, Additional Notices on Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus. #MaryAnning

“AI doesn’t write good code” Skill issue, literally.

Claude is a language machine that outputs code as a byproduct, like we are. Just like us, it needs training and tools to teach it what good code looks like.

One-shot working code should be treated like a rough draft, and ruthlessly edited.

a page of a book with a rooster and a man on a swing ALT: a page of a book with a rooster and a man on a swing

Special Collections at the NLS and your manuscripts arrived. Happiness is .....

Voices of Dead Languages: Jan Bičovský on bringing ancient languages back to life Linguists at Charles University are reconstructing how ancient languages sounded. I discussed the Voices of Dead Languages project with one of its initiators Jan Bičovský.

Voices of Dead Languages: Jan Bičovský on bringing #ancient #languages back to life
english.radio.cz/voices-dead-...
#langsky

F-Droid says Google's Android developer verification plan is an 'existential' threat to alternative app stores F-Droid fights Google's Android developer verification plan that could kill alternative app stores used by millions. Here's what developers need to know.

thenewstack.io/f-droid-says...

'The surging number of redundancies in UK higher education could undermine entire research fields as networks of collaborators disappear, according to an academic whose project fell through when a colleague’s job at another institution was put at risk.' 1/2

Digital Collections Curator - ITHAKA ITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome barriers t...

Job opening here at ITHAKA's JSTOR: Digital Collections Curator, Reveal Digital, focusing on important cultural, social, and political histories, especially those that have been dispersed, under-described, or difficult to access at scale. Full job description: www.ithaka.org/job/46724530...

Just a reminder to Arts, Humanities & Social Science postdocs with 10 years of the PhD that membership in the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network is free and available across the UK. Independent researchers welcome; if employed at an, you do not need to be in a research position. 1/2

My first reaction to this story was "doesn't Grammarly have any lawyers?" and then I saw the statement from the CEO that the lawsuit is "without merit" (LOL) and realized that maybe their legal strategy is to ask an LLM to (badly) impersonate a real lawyer without that lawyer's consent.

"Oyster larvae are brainless and earless, but they are certainly not clueless."

Playing sea soundscapes can summon thousands of baby oysters, and help regrow oyster reefs Imagine you're in a food court and spoilt for choice. How will you choose where to eat? It might be the look of the food, the smell, or even the chatter of satisfied customers.

phys.org/news/2022-10...

Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.

Sad news, love Simmons immersive and present characters and a huge soft spot for The Terror.
Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77 - Ars Technica
arstechnica.com/culture/2026...

Colonial Legacies and Digital Heritage with Kate Simpson Whose heritage matters? What gets preserved, and why do we identify with certain items, places, or histories more than others? Listen to the first episode of the podcast Living Culture, Making Heritag...

Really enjoyed the first episode of new podcast 'Living Culture, Making Heritage.' It made me think about what open access really means (or doesn't mean!) in terms of information. Kudos to @kilmun.bsky.social @ecocritickate.bsky.social @scopeland.bsky.social www.diggitmagazine.com/colonial-leg...