On a 🚂 back from #DH2024. It was nice being able to attend DH again in person again! I enjoyed getting to hear about great work, have wonderful conversations, and hang out with friends old and new. A big thanks to everyone who helped make this event happen!

David Mimno opens by making the point wrt AI that we originally under-anticipated what is possible, whereas people currently over-anticipate what is possible — challenge is finding that center, what is *actually* possible #dh2024

Washington state is covered with these super-thorny, extremely invasive blackberry vines introduced in 1894 by a eugenicist who thought he was doing the world a favor every summer everybody wages a delicious but extremely painful war of attrition in their backyards because of this guy

The Strange, Twisted Story Behind Seattle's Blackberries

Those tangled brambles are everywhere in the city, the legacy of an eccentric named Luther Burbank whose breeding experiments with crops can still be found on many American dinner plates.

You think this data fell out of a coconut tree? Introducing "Responsible Datasets in Context," a repository of datasets paired with data essays and teaching resources that go long on context: responsible-datasets-in-context.com We're in development and open to community feedback!

We made a dataset! This spring, supported by a grant focused on "Responsible Datasets in Context," I worked with a grad RA to collect African American Periodical poetry. About 1000 poems! You can download it & read the Data Essay here: www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com#DH#DH2024

Come work at Nomic! I'm hiring a front end/Web engineer to build the next generation of data interfaces for curating, exploring, and model-building from text and image data. Apply here or pass it on: jobs.ashbyhq.com/nomic.ai/42e...

On my way to #DH2024! 🚆 Looking forward to seeing many of you in DC!

Reading a new paper and people are still using Empath. I really do not recommend Empath as a tool for measuring lexical categories and biases: aclanthology.org/2021.acl-lon...

Bad Seeds: Evaluating Lexical Methods for Bias Measurement

Maria Antoniak, David Mimno. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume ...

Updates on our Digital Humanities Advancement Grant program… new Notice of Funding Opportunity will be out this fall! www.neh.gov/blog/updates...

Updates about ODH’s Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

We look forward to posting an updated Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the DHAG program this fall. In the meantime, we are sharing some quick updates here so that you can start planning your a...

JOB: Princeton University Library is hiring a Digital Scholarship Specialist. This has been a great position that I’ve been in the past year (and will continue to be) and you can join me in a great collaborative environment. Happy to answer questions. main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19512/d...