"Motherboard" in a circle in the middle and many words surrounding it like "Harlem" or "Big Apple".
Nicole Walker built an AI tool to help students realize the value of their voices in a composition course. Read "Vibe Coding My Way Out of a Teaching Problem" on this week’s Tagging the Tower blog post at
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Gemini created image with two people sitting opposite each other contemplating different things.
DF Eunah Cho reveals the risk of the capability illusion brought on by the rampant use of AI. Read " When AI Makes Us More Active, We Risk Being Less Wise" on this week's Tagging the Tower blog at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/04/10/w...
Image generated by using an AI system that reconstructs visuals from recorded brain activity. It was created as part of an experiment to explore how imagined mental images can be translated into visual outputs by machine learning models.
What questions do we need to ask to avoid techno-pessimism as we evolve with AI? DF Meha Gupta writes, "There is a question more important than ‘Does AI have consciousness?’” Read her theses on this week’s Tagging the Tower blog at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/27/t...
GC community, spend your day with us, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 24th! At 10am, join us for our Open Data Week event, "How Maps Speak: A Mapping Commons Hackathon". Then, at 12pm, join us for our workshop, "Introduction to Omeka". RSVP to both events at: gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/202...
GC community, our workshop, "LLM-Assisted Coding" will be tomorrow, March 19 at 12pm! Remember to RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/llm-as...
GC community, remember to sign up for tomorrow's workshop. Attend "Queer DH: Key Projects and Concepts" at 12pm. RSVP here gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/queer-...
Image of a human brain surrounded by books and charts and tablets.
DF Parisa Setayesh (@psetayesh.bsky.social) helps us discern whether the outputs we receive from using AI tools are "gold, fool’s gold, or just a rock." Read "AI Literacy for Research: Why Operational Fluency Is Not Enough" on Tagging the Tower at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/13/a...
GC community, see you today at noon "Making Beautiful Maps with QGIS and Tableau" at noon. RSVP here gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/making...
Scatter Plot Example made with Matplotlib.
DF Pranav Chinmay writes a guide to using Matplotlab for this week's Tagging the Tower blog post. Read "An Introduction to Matplotlib" at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/06/a...
GC community, join us today at 2pm at the Data Lab, an open, interdisciplinary space designed to help you think through challenges and triumphs of wrangling data from collection to cleaning to privacy to sharing. For more details and to register, go to gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/data-l...
GC Community, ready to stylize your spatial data? Attend our "Making Beautiful Maps with QGIS and Tableau" workshop on Monday, March 9th at 12pm. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/making...
GC Community, register for todays' workshop by 12pm to learn how to make "Slides with LaTex"! RSVP by gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/
Illustration of a surreal office scene with neon birds interacting with digital elements around three people near servers and file cabinets; one bird writes on a digital mesh, another carries a paper.
What does AI literacy look like in our education, policymaking, society, and futures? Ian G. Williams, LMSW @igraywill.bsky.social reflects on the term AI literacy and its impact and shares his "Thoughts on Situating AI Literacy" on Tagging the Tower at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/20/t...
GC community, register for tomorrow's workshop "Text Analysis for Right to Left Languages" and engage with tools for your multilingual DH scholarship. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/
GC community, register to attend tomorrow's workshop "AI Tools for Research: Understanding AI Systems in Research Contexts" to practice ethical and critical AI usage. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/list/
Not THIS diagram of interaction system and result.
Jonah Brucker-Cohen examines how A.I. shapes human behavior, memory, and artistic practice on this week's Tagging the Tower blog. Read "A.I. Meets Critical Media Art" at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/13/a...
GC community, GCDI workshops beging today! RSVP for "Basic Audio Editing with Audacity" now at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/basic-audio-editing-with-audacity-3/
Image of a building with a title of the website.
Websites and tenant rights? Read "Why Should You Make a Website For Your Tenants’ Association?" by Sam O'Hana on our Tagging the Tower blog here: gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/06/w...
Poster with a description of Basic Audio Editing with Audacity.
Spring '26 workshops begin Tuesday, Feb. 10, 26! Learn how to edit and clean audio files with Audacity! RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/basic-...
Zoomed in image of a snowflake
GC community, welcome to Spring '26. Please read this week's blog to learn about our spring workshops, grant opportunities, and how best to stay connected with us! Read our welcome blog on Tagging the Tower here: gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/02/w...
DF Pranav Chinmay wraps up the Fall '25 semester with a NetworkX tutorial. Read "Introduction to Python’s NetworkX" on Tagging the Tower at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/12/12/i...
Today is the day! Remember to submit your application for GCDRI '26 by midnight. Go to www.cuny.is/dri2026!
Winter break calls for fuzzy socks, hot chocolate, and finding your new favorite digital tool! DF Meha Gupta suggests several tools in "Digital Tools to Experiment with this Winter" on this week's Tagging the Tower blog at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/12/05/d...
Remember to RSVP for the GCDRI '26 virtual information session today at 4pm (during our weekly drop-in hour)! gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/
The GCDRI returns for its 10th year in January 2026! Attend the virtual information session during our drop-in hours tomorrow, Thursday, 12/4 at 4pm to learn about course offerings, chat with the instructors, and prepare to submit your application. RSVP at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/calendar/
Learn about an alternative and more secure public presence platform with DF Christopher Colon. Read "What about Public Presence?" in this week's Tagging the Tower blog post at gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2025/11/21/w...
The GC Digital Research Institute (GCDRI) returns for its 10th year in January 2026! Hosted by the GC Digital Fellows as part of GC Digital Initiatives, the DRI offers an immersive introduction to interdisciplinary research computing designed for beginning learners. Apply now at www.cuny.is/dri2026!
In the past weeks, DF Maggie Schreiner has been engaged with other DH scholars at the GC. Read about the events and projects in "Digital Humanities at the Lesbian Lives Conference" and "2025 CUNY DHI Lightning Talks In Review" at cuny.is/ttt!
See you digital GC community at noon for our "Working with Data in Python: Introduction to Pandas" workshop! RSVP at cuny.is/gcdiworkshops
CUNY DH Community deadline for the DHI Lightning Talks is tonight! Presenters and attendees, please register at cuny.is/cunydhi25