An embroidery with tea and coffee labeled in Chinese.
Last week's assignment was to create a data set from your life, but Celine Heck took it a step further and embroidered it too! This is her caffeinated beverage intake for the week. Chinese was easier than Latin for embroidering the labels, a #MultilingualDH win on top of it all! #DHmakes
What a magnificent day! I gave a lecture about SMU manuscripts, then Bonnie Wheeler took me & a few other colleagues to visit a private collection in Dallas where we saw literally MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of UNBELIEVABLY GORGEOUS manuscripts, then had a dinner party with Voynich cake! My heart is full!
When I start teaching Data Visualization with Textiles next week, I'll have parts of a handbook for doing this kind of craft to share. If you want to add data to your own weaving, knitting, crochet, etc or learn a craft to use with your data, you can sign up to join the virtual class here. #DHmakes
If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately*
Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code.
GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH
github.com/settings/cop...
how fun! Congratulations Scott! Look forward to reading and hearing more 🌻
+illustrate it+bookbind it, but Do Not try to sell that book have some decorum smh
I've started a "History of NLP" repo to store all of these resources. I don't have time to add everything yet, but I'll keep chipping away, and help is welcome.
github.com/maria-antoni...
Screenshot of a local in-development webpage with a beige background and brown text, titled "Big Type (Big!!)", under a menu showing "Catchword!", "Big Type", and "Mad Libs" options. There is a dashed-bordered large area that says "Drop words here to see what you can build from the BIG TYPE in your type collection", where the word "BIG TYPE" is repeated many times and messily overlapped, in rainbow colors. Below, a bordered area of "Your Big Sorts to pick from" holds photos of various large movable wood type letters, including: A, B, D, D, O, and more.
Screenshot of a local in-development webpage with a beige background and brown text, titled "Big Type (Big!!)", under a menu showing "Catchword!", "Big Type", and "Mad Libs" options. There is a dashed-bordered large area where the photo images of letters have been dropped to spell out "YAY", and a transcription of the photos ("YAY") is written below that box. Below that, a bordered area of "Your Big Sorts to pick from" holds photos of various large movable wood type letters, including: A, B, D, D, O, and more.
i swear i still do digital stuff (little projects w/data! coding! UX!) too (but it does tend to have a theme that is zine/print/read/bookadjacent 📚)
On the heels of the Ephemera Society of America conference, it’s ✨a new episode of Bite Sized Book History✨ all about ephemera! youtu.be/vHHTP36GUzc?...
Quinn Daedal also sounds like the name for an intrepid adventurer I adore it, congrats Quinn!
It’s been a really long time since I’ve lip synced a song while holding up tech ethics books, so let’s gooooooo! (Posting here mainly because this is the place where I can easily point folks to authors - in thread.)
Ooooh! Syllabus for Medieval Making, please!?
would love to hear more on this! So exciting!
I’m excited to be coordinating a new @ischoolui.bsky.social program
The Summer Intensive will offer 6 courses over 2 weeks in May & June this year—SI weeks will also include a range of academic, professional, & social events—we are hoping to cultivate real "summer camp for LIS nerds vibes"
"#DHMakes: Embodied Craft as Critical Engagement" #DH2026 miniconference accepted! (Annual international conf: '26=Daejeon, South Korea+virtual.) Thanks @jajrk.bsky.social & @quinnanya.me for leading submission & team drafting, + the full miniconf team (too capaciously large to fit in one tweet ⬇️) +
I'm lecturing about the "History of NLP" this week. What should I include? Any favorite anecdotes, images, people, methods? Slides, books, papers, or talks for inspiration or grounding?
I've been maintaining a small collection here: www.are.na/maria-antoni...
I'm creating a series of short form videos about how language models work technically. The goal is to be something in between "you know it's next token prediction" and "now you've taken a machine learning class." I'd love your thoughts so here are the first few! 🧵
www.youtube.com/shorts/VZB8X...
3rd time this mo? I've recommended @briancassidy.bsky.social's RBS class. Understand how we got the word out—especially ourselves, owning means of textual (re)production & communication; for BIPoC, queer, politically targeted folks needing platform or privacy. + smell dittoes & print w/jelly!!
This wonderful white paper is worth a read if you care about teaching writing and research in any discipline. Up with AI-free zones!
The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!
ahh this reminds me of the time my maker space colleague friends+my data science research assistant+I McGuyvered a cardboard PC box into shuttles for our portable rigid heddle loom 2 hrs before our South Asia Studies DH wrkshp to showcase histories of computation and materiality so more colours yay!
Volunteering with @ach.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social orgs is a way to pick up cross functional communication collaboration organizational administrative skills
forever barnacle-ing the @plach.bsky.social and @emgrumbach.bsky.social model of value driven kindness🙂↕️
We printed each #DigitalHumanities Center team member’s welcome sign on adhesive vinyl paper to create a wall mural to represent all of us. We’ll continue adding to this as new students join our team in the coming years #DHmakes
For our Search & Discovery class I'm 👀 for a pithy piece (article or podcast) that comprehensively + critically chronicles the decline of web search — SEO, link rot, AI summaries + ☠️ of click-through, AI slop, etc — but of course, thanks to search's brokenness, I can't find what I'm 👀 for! 😫
It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!
A black standing desk piled with my DHmakes sleep visualizations (embroidered Z spirals), a Jacquard loom punch card, a weaving sampler, lots of tarot cards, and a zine called “Play with your Data”
My experiments in joyful pedagogy resume today, my 1st day w a #DigitalHumanities class co-designed w an instructor & centered on learning thru experimentation, discovery, play and #DHtries. We’re gonna start the session w play+reflection & see where that leads. Hoping these will help set the tone
I'm thrilled to be co-chairing ACH2026 with @fronteriza956.bsky.social. The virtual conference's theme this year is Emergenci/a with a focus on transborder DH in the Americas. We've extended the deadline all the way to February 23rd, and we welcome proposals in English and Spanish!
Tomorrow I'm joining #MLA26. I wrote up what I'll share during virtual #s67 - "Writing in the Margins: The Freedom of Scholarly Work in Nondisciplinary Spaces."
Post is titled "Many Ways; Many Gifts." I talk about how my writing practice has changed as a new parent.
walshbr.com/blog/many-wa...
