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Report: The Journal of Asian Studies and AI
It is difficult to exaggerate the impact of AI on academia in general and on scholarly publishing in particular. Tools such as ChatGPT and Claude have made it possible for anyone to turn free-floating information into what looks like knowledge using a combination of real and artificial intelligence. There are many open questions and knotty…
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Editors’ Choice: No More Tools
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author shows how the rise of AI has made the critical thinking component of using code in DH even more essential. He details his initial explorations using Claude Code to build DH web apps for use in the classroom. This post argues that the old tools of Digital Humanities…
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Editors’ Choice: Do all politicians sound the same? Comparing model explanations to human responses
Editor’s Summary: This article considers the bold claim that politicians from different parties really “all sound the same”. It trains an AI model on 20+ years of Finnish parliamentary speeches and compares its guesses about affiliation with that of 438 human readers. It turns out that the system is ‘better’ at telling parties apart. Humans…
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Editors’ Choice: More Strategies for Avoiding AI
Editors’ Summary: This post shares some practical ways college instructors can design courses so students are not completely dependent on AI. It highlights grading systems that reward process over product, moving from writing to problem solving to finally reaching a solution. It empowers the students into realising the value of thinking for themselves instead of…
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Resource: An Ottoman Turkish document viewer built with Claude Cowork
I’m sharing the product of five hours of work with Claude Cowork spread over a day. I have been using Cowork now for ten days and this is my biggest project to date. I’m an historian, not a coder. Cowork has been a revelation. The product is a static five annotation layer IIIF viewer for…
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Report: Ways of working with the Wayback Machine
How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do they use? What other kinds of tools might support critical and creative repurposing of archived web materials? As web archives have come to play an increasingly important role in understanding, reporting…
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CFP: Feral Intelligence (FI): New Queer Approaches to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is not neutral; neither is it generative, nor intelligent. It is a colonial technology of extraction and replication, built on stolen data, racialized labor, and computational enclosures of language and image. It materializes what Ruha Benjamin (2019) calls “the New Jim Code” and what Safiya Noble (2018) has shown as the…
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CFP: Digital Humanities Congress 2026
The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce that its two-day conference will be held in Sheffield on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd September 2026. This will be a physical conference only. Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts, heritage and humanities research as both…
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Job Announcement: Assistant Professor (AI Humanities) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Faculty of Arts is in the process of establishing an MA Programme in AI Humanities, with two emphases or streams: AI and Creative Expression, AI and Language Innovation. “AI and Creative Expression” focuses on the intersection of AI and art tech, cultural production, and creative expression, enabling graduates to expand their engagement with AI…
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DHNow Newsletter, February 25, 2026
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager and Zhihui Zou, DHNow Guest Editor. Our first Editors’ Choice argues that generative AI has fundamentally shifted which disciplines are considered most valuable. The second selection considers the importance of making informed decisions when creating data visualizations. Our third selection features an oral history…
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Report: Hundzula NLP and Linguistics Retreat 2026
The 5th Hundzula NLP and Linguistics Retreat took place from 3–7 February 2026 at North-West University’s Mahikeng Campus, South Africa. The retreat aims to establish a networking and collaboration platform for both humanities and computer science researchers and enthusiasts through learning, teaching and supporting each other. Computer scientists and linguists from various higher education institutions…
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Job Announcement: Data Visualization Librarian at University of Texas at Arlington
The Data Visualization Librarian serves as an expert consultant and partner to UTA students, faculty, and staff regarding data analysis and visualization. This librarian will be responsible for providing public-facing services focused on data visualization via the Libraries DataCAVE, course-integrated instruction, workshops, and consultations. The Data Visualization Librarian must demonstrate a commitment to justice, equity,…
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Editors’ Choice: Stories from Black Physicists in Our Collections
Editor’s Summary: Modern sciences in the United States has been a predominately white-dominated workplace. This project at the American Institute of Physics collects oral history interviews from Black and African American physicists. This project addresses the lack of narratives in the history of science, especially physics, from minority communities. The need to record the perspectives…
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Editors’ Choice: The Back of the Painting: On Structure, Integrity, and Data Visualisation
Editors’ Summary: In this post, the author argues that integrity in design is the most important aspect of data visualization. She uses the San Domenico Altarpiece as a metaphor for data visualization by calling attention to all the information that can be found by seeing the back of the painting. In the case of the…
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Conference Announcement: ADT 2026 – 9th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory
The 9th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2026) will be held at University Paris Dauphine-PSL on November 16-18, 2026 Established in 2009, the ADT conferences usually take place every two years with the aim of gathering researchers interested in the algorithmic aspects of decision theory. ADT seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners…
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Editors’ Choice: AI Inverts the Disciplinary Hierarchy
Editors’ Summary: This post questions the perceived hierarchy of disciplines in the university, and argues that the rise of generative AI challenges this hierarchy. He points to how computer science was considered the most lucrative major in the twenty-first century until the automation of coding made possible by AI. He uses the case study of…