Identifying how contemporary American English uses native (Germanic/Old English) vs borrowed (Latin/Greek) locative prefixes (like over- vs super-/hyper- ). Lots of concordance lines!

Another day, another version of our historical whale pal 🐳 who wants you to practice reasonable DH text analysis (per @heatherfro.bsky.social!)

American numbers do not feel much better but I know others are actually tracking this data. (we are entering the height of UKHE job search season)

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

"New sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused."

restrooms are in both directions. But good luck finding them.

those in the know are aware that this is the iSchool building, which provides great new definitions of "information literacy" for all of us

This has been A Week. please enjoy this snap from the most confusing building I have found on campus:

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

🐳🪩 there is now a holographic sticker version of our historical whale friend / @heatherfro.bsky.social digital humanities wisdom, w/a portion of proceeds going to cfsaz.org/alliancefund 🏳️‍🌈 (& restocked letterpress prints too; store.wolfproofpress.com)

yikes 😬

Do we get bets on which vendor it will be.

Nahua World A seminar exploring 700 years of the history and culture of Nahua people Indigenous to Mexico and Central America.

This graduate course guides students through curated readings that explore the history and culture of Nahua people (often erroneously dubbed the Aztecs) indigenous to Mexico and Central America: www.newberry.org/calendar/nah...

Congrats, Mia!

10/10 highly recommend taking time off

congrats Matt! Enjoy your break.

ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers.
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Hampshire College's closing is very sad of course but it is also highlighting all the cool, smart, interesting people who needed a Hampshire College to "get" them and set them up for success. It's been fascinating to see the through-line of who their students have turned out to be?

If you're interested in applying for an MSCA postdoc with us here at the Center for Digital Narrative, read this and submit a statement of interest before May 1st! We'll get back to you within a week or so after that :) www4.uib.no/en/research/...

2-yr Postdoc @ Indiana in the History of Black Writing Research Center to highlight Black archival collections across the country.

Deadline: May 15, 2026

“The internet known within China is a very different internet to the one known by the world at large. It is censored, regulated and structured quite differently. It is controlled and managed, rather than organic and sprawling.” [vale.rocks]

I thought 16 + 1 week exams was bad

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Today students designed their own, future version of our course, working in small groups to develop and propose future assignments and experiments related to our overarching topic: critical information/media/ai literacy. We talked through some of the ethical dilemmas with some of the proposals+

My undergrad linguistics prog. sent a newsletter to their alumni & asked if anyone would like to be on a contact list for students or if they'd like to talk about how they use still linguistics. It's turned into a cheerful thread of linguistics nerds saying how they still use linguistics training!

my approach is "probability" which is pretty close esp if you want to include algorithmic bias, but not sure that works in a library-instruction session as smoothly as in an AI Info session

I got called in to do the "AI Section" of a STEM instruction session w my colleague, whose takeaway was just, oh it's information literacy but with holograms on top

"keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it’s immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like “yeah so this is going to happen to the internet” and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don’t even get paid for it"

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet

link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

I’m so excited for this project to finally be in the hands of people! @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social has created some truly wonderful treats to help bring modern audiences a better sensory understanding of Shakespeare’s characters and their world! And there’s a range of skill levels too— 🧵

Sometimes I talk to researchers in other programs (i.e. not 'the humanities' broadly construed) and they are like. Yes. The thing I already know from 10-15 yrs ago is your choice? Perfect.