We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Open Research for the Humanities and Social Sciences, edited by Samuel Moore, Jenni Adams, and Miranda Barnes! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/45... [1/n]

How AI’s language barrier limits climate disaster responses AI tools can help communities respond to floods, heatwaves and other climate emergencies – but only once trained to interpret the nuance of everyday language.

"most #AI systems are taught on large western-centric text, mainly from North America & Europe"

Result?
💔 hidden #bias that favors western cultural values
💔 reflects societal inequalities
💔 underrepresented voices diminished/ignored

#langsky 🗣💬 @academic-chatter.bsky.social

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Still time to vote in #DH Awards 2025, the #DigitalHumanities Awards awareness event. Anyone can vote (once) up until 2026-04-17. Anyone? Yes, anyone. Your aunt can vote, your highschool friend can vote, anyone!

dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
(or secure form directly at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...)

Two of our brilliant contributors - @quinnanya.me and @arimare.bsky.social - have been nominated for this year's @dhawards.bsky.social! Please give them a vote!

@amsichani.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @stanfordulibraries.bsky.social

RESHAPED launches new ‘Responsible AI in Cultural Heritage’ course developed by BRAID Fellow Dr Anna-Maria Sichani The new course has been developed through an AHRC-funded BRAID Fellowship with SAS, and in partnership with The National Archives.

RESHAPED has launched a new course, Responsible AI in Cultural Heritage, developed by Dr @amsichani.bsky.social through an Arts and Humanities Research Council @ukri.org-funded @braiduk.bsky.social Fellowship in partnership with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy.

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Our online course on Born-Digital Research is nominated for the DH Awards: dhawards.org/dhawards2025.... You can access our course for free on RESHAPED: reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view.... @sas-news.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @beatricecannelli.bsky.social @caiomellodh.bsky.social

My Six Rules for Telling Global Majority Stories by Santanu Bhattacharya Indian novelist Santanu Bhattacharya is the Fiction judge for the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

Novelist Santanu Bhattacharya is the Fiction judge for the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. In this essay, he shares his guidance on staying true to the global majority story you want to tell, based off his own experiences and reflections as a published author.

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A purple banner to the left which reads 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages' with the MLO logo in white. This is next to artwork of a translucent glass dome with tiny people below stood observing the orb surrounded by a black spiky cage. The artwork is by Abel Tilahun titled “Chrome” (2019). This image is available via Creative Commons license, and was originally commissioned for the chapter: Zaugg, Isabelle (2019). “Imagining a Multilingual Cyberspace: How the Internet damaged linguistic diversity and what you can do to fix it,” in Finding CTRL: Visions for the future internet.

NEW | 'The Digital Lives of Greater South Languages'
Edited by @isabellezaugg-phd.bsky.social, this collection considers how digital tools shape and are shaped by Greater South language communities. @politonaiz.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/Digital-Lives-Blog

Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Saving Cultural Data in Times of Crisis

The third seminar in this year’s @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on ‘The Fragile Record’ is concerned with ‘Cultural heritage under attack: saving cultural data in times of crisis’, 31 March, 16.00-17.30 BST. Free to attend online, but you’ll need to register.

RESHAPED RESHAPED is our new online training platform providing free and accessible training resources designed to support the learning and development needs of humanities researchers.

Are you a researcher looking for best practice advice and practical tips for running engagement activities with the public? Our Public Engagement Hub on RESHAPED supports researchers in developing knowledge and skills in public engagement with humanities research.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4bu4zhx

New podcast episode + blog: we talk to RESHAPED about the skills humanities researchers need today cut across disciplines, career stages, and institutions and how RESHAPED is building the training to match.

blog.humanities.org.uk/reshapedbuildinginfrastr...

#MappingtheArtsandHumanities

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: $78,000 - $88,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virginia Agency Website: https://www.lva.virginia.gov Recruitment Type: General Public - G Job Duties The Library of Virginia seeks a Born-Digital Collections Coordinator to lead agency-wide planning and technical management of its born-digital government and manuscript records. As part of the Digital Initiatives & Web Services division, the ideal candidate will bring a collaborative and intellectually curious spirit to the development of the proper policies, procedures, technologies, and documentation that supports sustainability and public access to these...

Job Announcement: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator at the Library of Virginia

Articulating Our Vision and Claiming Our Place: Personal Reflections on Language, Linguistics, and the Academy Click on the article title to read more.

Secondly, check out our Book Symposium, where scholars across the field discuss recent publications on inclusive and decolonial perspectives in linguistics. It begins with Erica Britt's thoughtful reflection on inclusivity and positionality:
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Meditations — Esther King on Leo Boix's Southernmost: Sonnets Esther King finds kinship in Argentine British poet Leo Boix's Southernmost:

I wrote a piece for Wasafiri about living in multiple languages and finding home. With thanks to the thoughtful editors at @wasafirimag.bsky.social

www.wasafiri.org/content/medi...

We’re developing Mapping the Humanities and AI with the @dh-researchhub.bsky.social's @amsichani.bsky.social and Shani Evenstein Sigalov to visualise networks, gaps, and collaboration.

Learn more here: blog.humanities.org.uk/2026/02/25/i...

#MappingtheArtsandHumanities

Screenshot of slide presented by Emma Gallon on her reflections on developments in experimental publishing, particularly on publishers as collaborators

Excellent overview of some of our work in experimental publishing @uolpress.bsky.social by our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social at #copimconference

‘Publishers as collaborators’ and experimental publishing as part of positive research culture 👏

@oipassoc.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

Lecturer in Spanish | King's College London

Great new post to join a wonderful department: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/139585-...

Forging the Future of Sociolinguistics: The Expanding Pluriverse of Language and Social Justice Click on the article title to read more.

❓What can a social-justice oriented, pluriversal sociolinguistics look like? @yecidortega.bsky.social reflects on this question in his review essay of 3 brilliant new books on critical sociolinguistics, language & social justice. Early view version here! 👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices As Open Research gains traction across the research landscape, a new report challenges funders and institutions to expand their understanding of openness to better reflect arts, humanities and social science (AHSS) research.

New report urges broader definition of “open research" to include arts, humanities and social science practices www.lib.cam.ac.uk/stories/morphss-open-res...

The 1st book in an exciting brand new #OpenAccess series on #DigitalCulture, Exploring Digital Cultural Heritage by Eirini Goudarouli from @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, @amsichani.bsky.social and @jfwinters.bsky.social from @sas-news.bsky.social, May 2026:

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- Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity by @theapitman.bsky.social, Sandra De Berduccy & Andreas Rauh

- Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies by @nottinauta.bsky.social & @palaeofuturist.bsky.social

- Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law by @gwenseabourne.bsky.social & @jhmccunn.bsky.social

- Literature for Change by Charles Burdett, @drjoeford.bsky.social, Godela Weiss-Sussex & @naswells.bsky.social

Wasafiri is Seeking New Trustees Wasafiri, the UK’s leading magazine of international contemporary writing, is seeking new trustees to expand our board…

We're recruiting for new Wasafiri trustees with expertise in the following areas: Legal, Treasurer/Finance, Fundraising.

The deadline to apply has been extended to Sunday 1 March.
Please share in your networks!

Full details:

I’m running a survey to ask researchers what they want the UK Government Web Archive to offer in the future to enable wider use of the collection. If you’re a web archive user, or you would like to be, please take ten minutes to complete this survey: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/UKGWA-Rese...

🚨 * VACANCY! *
We're currently recruiting a new Production Manager to join our small, friendly team. More info below:
www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

⏰ Deadline: Sun 15th Feb

Please share with your networks!
#PublishingJobs #JobsInPublishing
@oipassoc.bsky.social @alpsp.bsky.social

REMINDER! Deadline for Call for Papers coming up on 30 Jan.

"Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices"

Still time to submit your proposal 👇

Today the @softwaresaved.bsky.social alongside our international partners launches the 2026 Research Software Engineering Survey. If you write code for academic research we want to hear from you - even if you have a different job title.

@society-rse.org @ukiedh.bsky.social @dariaheu.bsky.social

We spoke to our British Latinx issue guest editors – writer and lecturer Karina Lickorish Quinn and poet Leo Boix – about their journeys of editing this landmark issue.

They discuss what led them to creating this issue, the importance of foregrounding Indigenous languages, & more.

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University of Brighton, The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Exeter, King's College London, University of Leeds, School of Advanced Study University of London UK DARIAH DAY 2025 IMAGINING FUTURE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES blog.humanities.org.uk

Wonderful to look back on #UKDARIAHDay! 🔮

Colleagues from SAS, King's & Edinburgh reflect on the future of digital infrastructure.
Huge thanks to Lisa Otty & Edinburgh Futures Institute for leading such an inspiring event! ✨

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#DigitalHumanities