What if AI wasn’t just a subject of critique—but a tool to think with?
Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities (ed. Hannes Bajohr) explores how machine learning can reshape humanistic concepts like meaning, language & aesthetics.
#AI #DigitalHumanities #ML #Humanities #openaccess ä
Open Humanities Press– Thinkin...
What if AI wasn’t just a subject of critique—but a tool to think with?
Thinking with AI: Machine Learning the Humanities (ed. Hannes Bajohr) explores how machine learning can reshape humanistic concepts like meaning, language & aesthetics.
#AI #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI #ML #Humanities #openaccess @hannesbajohr
https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/thinking-with-ai/
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Another new piece from me. It drives me up the wall that those seeking to tear down humanities programs use arguments that fundamentally contradict each other. I call BS, and argue that the inconsistency reveals a pervasive fear of critical thought and social change. In @insidehighered
1. Student 1 said how much she loved the #Poe stories we've read thus far this quarter ("Masque of the Red Death," "The Black Cat," "The Man of the Crowd").
2. Student 2 said he was excited to be writing an essay on how Poe's absurdism anticipated Camus' nihilism.
3. Student 3 wanted to hear more about why I thought transitions were so important to a successful argument.
#Academics across all disciplines, share your story about the impact of censorship on your work! The #DefendResearch team is collecting concise testimonials to include in a toolkit for contacting elected officials. #Humanities #SocialSciences #STEM https://www.defendresearch.org/testimonials
University of Texas at Austin: Benson Collection Acquires Archive of Andrés Caicedo. “The Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection is pleased to announce the acquisition of literary and family archives of Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo. This collection joins other important regional literary collections of writers such as César Vallejo, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Julio Cortázar, […]
At #ditrare we are investigating the effects of #digitalization and especially #AI on #research in the #sciences and #humanities. So, much much does AI really contribute to our understanding in science, today?
https://zenodo.org/records/15043829
@fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @KIT_Karlsruhe @ITAS_KIT @AnnaJacyszyn #AIethics #AIresearch @Feelix
Yesterday, our Experimental Publishing reading group took as one of its chosen texts Tara McPherson’s ‘Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication’, which appeared in the Journal of Electronic Publishing in 2010.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0013.208?view=text;rgn=main
It has lines such as: ‘While innovative publishing efforts have emerged from a variety of spaces … it is safe to say that change has not broadly swept through the humanities.’
And: ‘The impulse to conserve the status quo emerges largely from humanities scholars themselves. Faced with a variety of threats (both real and perceived) to the humanities, scholars tend to hold on to established modes of working.’
All raises the question, has much changed in the 15 years since these words were written? And if not, why not? Does anyone have any ideas?
#publishing
#oa
#radicalOA
#academicpublishing #experimentalpublishing #journals #humanities
I work for a humanities council, and DOGE has attacked our biggest funder, the NEH. Though this funding comes from Congress, DOGE has taken it over, and humanities councils nationwide, not to mention any org with a NEH grant, is suddenly in enormous danger. If you care about history, civic discussion, and the public humanities, please contact your Congress members. Here's more: https://www.statehumanities.org/action-alert-neh-targeted-by-doge/
#DOGE terminates grant for #Maine #FilmArchive in #Bucksport
April 14, 2025
BUCKSPORT, Maine (WABI) - "A Hancock County non-profit says the Trump Administration abruptly terminated a six-figure federal grant this month.
"Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport has been dedicated to preserving Maine history for four decades.
"Executive Director David Weiss says he received a letter from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, around 1:00 a.m. on April 2nd. That’s how they learned a $341,000 grant from the National Endowment for the #Humanities was canceled.
"The money was funding a project to catalog, digitize, and publish material NHF has collected from Maine television stations over the last 35 years. Weiss says they’re now looking at a $104,000 budget deficit and the paychecks of all seven archives staff members are taking a hit.
" 'The only good thing about it is that I don’t feel singled out, you know? I feel like this is just a broad thing that happened, and we got caught up in it. It’s not like they said, ‘You are bad.’ It’s just like, ‘Well, you’re all bad.’ So, safety in numbers, maybe that’s the best I can say,' Weiss said.
"While Weiss says an appeal wouldn’t do any good, there is the potential for them to be involved in a lawsuit to hopefully get some of the funding back.
"In the meantime, they’ve launched a #fundraising push to try to cover some of the losses. It’s raised $15,000 in just two days.
"If you’d like to contribute, visit oldfilm.org and click on 'GIVE.' "
The Academicus International Scientific Journal is a semi-annual, double-blind peer-reviewed #OpenAccess journal of the #SocialSciences and #Humanities in the fields of #Sociology, #Economy, #Politics, #Law, #Communication, and #Philosophy: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/24fe815e-f1bf-499e-a1dd-1f5669490173
"My positionality as a humanities educator has taught me that a humanities education can change lives. I know this, in part, because a humanities education has changed mine."
In Support of a Humanities Education
https://www.independent.com/2025/04/11/in-support-of-a-humanities-education/
If I can afford to share what minor research I have done in #ViolenceStudies and #theology openly, and I live paycheck to paycheck, than I know others can do it. And I was fortunately enough to have a good many brilliant professors. If only they shared what they understood openly, wow. What a difference that would make.
I do not think *individual #humanities work needs to stop with the removal of grants. Yes, clearly communities and community culture will be hurt. However, individuals can continue privately, to best of their ability, and budget, share openly in the spirit of #openAccess and the common good. We are called to be stewards of public knowledge, whether we get credit for it not. Now* more than ever.
Today's installment of romance horror is all about the undead avengers of the Mediterranean. Two gruesome stories about the revenge of the dishonored on their offenders, which perfectly illustrate the importance of horror literature in trauma work of a society. In the following two, we are speaking about the trauma brought on the two peoples of Italy and Spain, respectively, during the Napoleonic occupation.
Staff Cuts Begin at #NEH, Threatening #Humanities Programs Across U.S. (via @washingtonpost / MSN) https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/staff-cuts-begin-at-neh-threatening-humanities-programs-across-u-s/ar-AA1CHbTW
My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/04/trump-doge-neh-funding-grants-canceled-fellowships.html
