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

Thnx for sharing Was definitely the weirdest conference reviewing experience yet but guess that's our new reality 🫠. Curious if you've seen upticks yet with Reviews in DH? Feels like DH projects should be at least slightly more time consuming to game this way right 😩😅???

Very belated response but so lovely finally meeting you IRL and thanks for joining @vierth.bsky.social !! Also thanks for incredibly kind intro 🙏🏽🥹

Also would love to see this! It's so tricky to find the right balance with these tools moving so quickly but totally agree that foundations of infrastructure and computational thinking (aka interpretation) are key!! I feel like there's already a panel forming here lol. AHA 2027 or DH 2027 anyone 🤩?

This is absolutely how we should pitch coding agents to humanists.

Strictly speaking, what mattered about code was never arbitrary syntax, but clearly specifying data structures and processes. And coding agents still force/teach you to do that part. But … shhh! Let’s get ppl on board.

Totally!! I'll be curious to see how it changes DH coding practices which were mostly libraries for one like you said. Mostly it just is such a time saver. Ported my undergrad website from Jekyll to Quarto in like 20 minutes cultureasdata-uiuc.github.io/is310-spring... . Just absolutely bonkers!

I know @regan008.bsky.social is also teaching coding with chatbots and even uses Cursor which I haven't tried out yet. But highly recommend VS Code and Claude. It's truly bonkers though it did technically delete all my code this morning too so definitely use with caution/good version histories 😂😅

IS597_2026_Replication_Experiments/week3_code/replication_code at main · ZoeLeBlanc/IS597_2026_Replication_Experiments Repository for Culture At Scale Spring 2026 Replication Experiments - ZoeLeBlanc/IS597_2026_Replication_Experiments

Might be of interest but in my grad seminar I force the students to rerun existing code and Claude has essentially solved this issue. I was able to rerun @tedunderwood.com 's chapter 2 code for Distant Horizons without writing any code github.com/ZoeLeBlanc/I...

Aww thanks lady!! And ya I'm confronting all of this pretty every semester. Been teaching undergrads and grads with chatbots since 2022. Agree with @ryancordell.org that Claude is a game charger for my work but still waiting to see if agents helps me not have to deal with broken git histories lol

Is anyone else getting some very weird #DH2026 submissions to review? And by weird, I mean almost entirely seemingly AI-generated? Like with entire sections missing text and weird giant fonts and bizarre footnotes.

Curious how are other conferences handling this issue??

Thanks @tedunderwood.com! @christorical.bsky.social if you are available Jan 29 @4pm EST @jerielizabeth.bsky.social, @faisdaudau.bsky.social and I are doing a session on demystifying AI and ML for humanists with the @ncph.bsky.social. More info available here community.ncph.org/event/AIHuma...

Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why?

To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present).

Excited to share this new CHR paper & data!
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

#CHR2025

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#CFP: Our Center for Advances in Libraries, Museums, and Archives (CALMA) invites proposals for the inaugural Black Information Futures Symposium, February 21–23, 2026, in Seattle. Please save the date & reshare!

Submit a proposal by 12/10: #phdchat calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-news/call...

Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!

Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.

Those interested in a potential roundtable on "Historical Research and Artificial Intelligence: Critical Reflections on Method, Power, and Possibility in International History" that @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I are planning for @shafrhistorians.bsky.social 2026 - please send us your abstracts!

Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Hu, Y., Diesner, J., Underwood, T., LeBlanc, Z., Layne-Worthey, G., & Downie, J. S. (2025). Who decides what is read on Goodreads? Uncovering sponsorship and its implications for scholarly Research. Big Data & Society, 12(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251359229 (Original work published 2025)

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

#ThanksBrett for always looking forward. You saw a bright future for the humanities, as key interlocutors in the most pressing socio-technical discussions of our moment, and you created opportunities for those conversations to actually happen. We all owe @brettbobley.bsky.social enormous debts

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

Thanks for reposting this @literaturegeek.bsky.social ❤️!!

Oh wow this was so detailed!! Thank you so much!! Also totally think this final use case you outline makes a ton of sense for my needs, so think I'm gonna try it out and see how far I get.

Ohh that's helpful to know! Sveltekit has been on my would like to learn, but didn't realize it had been designed for newsroom dataviz, which is definitely a big part of this use case. Thanks so much for sharing!!

Been meaning to try sveltekit so this might the use case! Definitely would love for it to be fully static since I have enough headaches in my life currently but could try out Vercel too. Mostly thanks for this advice @bschmidt.bsky.social !! It definitely helps!!

thanks so much for this @jamiefolsom.bsky.social !! Will definitely check it out (docs look impressive already) and reach out if I have questions.

I'm not sure I fully trust these answers and this is important so please chime in! And yes, I realize stuff is nuts now but genuinely could use the help even if it's a thumbs up for Next.JS

Also is Next.JS really this good?? Sorta surprised it was suggested for both answers 👀

ChatGPT - Dream Tech Stack Proposal Shared via ChatGPT

as well as a fair amount of data (100k messages & a bunch of pdfs/images)Finally, need to keep it password protected for the moment, what's your dream tech stack? Asked ChatGPT, said Next.JS + Supabase. Then asked if I could go static and it said Next.JS + Netlify. chatgpt.com/share/67fef3...

Dumb Q but genuinely need help: say you have a few weeks (maybe only 2) to build a website what's your dream tech stack? Ideally deploy from GitHub though could white knuckle it through AWS, custom domain, & will have complex data viz (d3 & vega) and navigation;

New A.I. Project Explores Mysteries of Delacroix, Master of Romanticism (Gift Article) Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who may have contributed to his murals and paintings.

I missed this announcement back in March.

"For Schmidt Sciences, Digital Delacroix is the first of a projected 10 to 15 grant recipients that will receive a total of $10 million to apply A.I. to research in the humanities."

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/a...

Pre-announcing one of the first fork of Common Corpus: French ScienceCommons, the largest open corpus of French academic publication (about 30 billion words). New Pleias project unveiled on Wednesday at the French Académie des Sciences.

So strange, as the stress and worry about the world grows in this household, so to do the number of Japanese wood-block prints.

In order: Hiroshi Yoshida, Shiro Kasamatsu, and Hasui Kawase