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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: 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…
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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: 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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Opportunity: Boost your coding skills at the Research Software Summer School 2026
Are you a humanities or social sciences researcher who has started coding, but feels ready to move beyond Jupyter Notebooks? The Research Software Summer School: Going Beyond Notebooks (29 June-3 July, Utrecht) offers you the chance to take your programming to the next level and integrate software into your own research. Registration is open now!…
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Resource: MultiClinAI: Multilingual Clinical Entity Annotation Projection and Extraction
The MultiClinAI Track is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis group and promoted by European projects such as DataTools4Heart and AI4HF. MultiClinAI is a shared task focused on the creation of comparable multilingual corpora via annotation projection, as well as the multilingual extraction of clinical concepts. See full post.
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Report: Journal of Cultural Analytics Enters New Chapter with CDH, Joins Open Journals Collective
In January 2026, Princeton University’s Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) began serving as publisher of the Journal of Cultural Analytics (JCA), a leading open-access publication in computational approaches to culture. Today, CDH announces JCA’s vision for expanding cultural analytics scholarship amid rapid technological change and the launch of a new website, supported by Schmidt Sciences’…
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Job Announcement: Open Science/STEM Librarian at University of Maryland
The Open Science/STEM Librarian reports to the Head of the STEM Library and is a valued member of the STEM Library and Research and Academic Services Division. The Open Science/STEM librarian manages a combination of duties and expectations, with responsibilities in: Collections and Content, Reference and Research Consulting, Teaching, Learning and Literacies, Outreach and Engagement,…
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Report: Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It’s All Falling Apart
This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering the last few weeks. The talk wasn’t recorded, and since I wrote this up later, it’s less off-the-cuff and probably a bit better than the original. As we confront this moment of great institutional and societal…
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Opportunity: Nominations Open for 2026 ELO Awards!
The Electronic Literature Organization has opened its nomination form for the 2026 ELO Awards, with a nomination deadline of March 9, 2026, at midnight CET (Central European Time). The winners of the ELO 2026 awards will be announced at the 2026 ELO (Un)Supervised Conference, hosted virtually by the University of Central Florida in July. See…
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Editors’ Choice: The Price of Scale: AI, Ethics, and the Limits of the Humanities
Editor’s Summary: The question of scale is something that has been troubling many humanities disciplines even before the popularization of computational technologies. In the field of DH, we often perceive that there is an additional layer of abstraction between the researcher and subject because of the digital “screen” and scale of analysis that our technological…
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Editors’ Choice: Three Months of DuckDuckGo: Reflections after Partially “De-Googling”
Editors’ Summary: This series of articles comparing the user experience in DuckDuckGo and Google goes beyond a purely UX analysis. Seeing how these two search engines play in an academic or teacher’s work, we get to see how certain search engines, like Google, are more than just “search engines.” As mentioned, Google also controls our…
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Resource: quick LLM sandboxing
I want to share an interesting pattern – get claude code on the web (or any other autonomous agent + sandbox) to do R&D on a coding question. Based on these blog posts – https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic-monty/ and https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/async-code-research/. I wanted to learn about WASM and Pyodide as I don’t know much about these technologies. I asked…