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  Thanks to the #DH2026 organisers and local Hyrox-run group for the most organised DH fun run ever!

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  The poster session at #DH2026 was full of delicious snacks *and* hope for the future of digital humanities. Yay! A random selection of the last four poster photos I took

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  Are any vegetarians / vegans at #DH2026 who aren't going to the banquet interested in finding a properly veg*n-friendly dinner?

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  'What changed from the abstract, and why' is the most Digital Humanities slide ever. So many presentations sharing honestly what didn't work as expected or yield useful results. This one is by Jiwoo Choi (I think) https://dh-daejeon.vercel.app/abs/65?q=Newspaper (Here, 'bag of words'-style access to a text corpus was no good. Is it too snarky to ask, is it ever any help?) #DH2026 Edited to add light sarcasm and hashtag

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  One for archaeology folk from #DH2026 'a newly developed controlled vocabulary for human bones, tailored specifically for osteoarchaeological and bioanthropological contexts' integrated into https://thanados.net/ and https://openatlas.eu/

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  I'm posting my #DH2026 talk abstract here, as they can be slightly hard to find in the huge official book of abstracts: A never-ending story: supporting access to museum and library collections (in the UK) https://www.miaridge.com/dh20206-presentation-a-never-ending-story-supporting-access-to-museum-and-library-collections-in-the-uk/

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  It's a really hot day for all the furries at ComicCon. I admire their commitment to the bit but I also hope the internet doesn't need any emergency fixing today!

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  Audrey Tang @au on 'Software Freedom as Civic Care' and so much more - 'care ethics, democracy, local stewardship and self-governance' https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-civic-care/ (Edited to add username)

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  Incredible: https://bsky.app/profile/theladyred.bsky.social/post/3mmmitj3omc2u If you're looking for the original study: 'Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence', Cheng et. al., 2026 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352 ArXiv version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.13995 Thanks to the unpaywall plugin for the open access link https://unpaywall.org

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  In awe of @WScholger mobilising previous @adho conference organisers to help a previous reviewer get information she needed for officialdom. Thanks Walter! [Edit: you'd think I'd be able to get the @adho handle right! But no]

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  If you want a different option for exploring old @BL_DigiSchol@techhub.social blog posts I uploaded the archive as PDFs to NotebookLM a while ago (when testing RAG-style sites) https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/5456d4fa-20b8-4d00-bb23-8fda7124add3

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  Some quite personal news for long-time followers and personal connections - 9 years after my initial cancer diagnosis, and six years after treatment for a recurrence, the oncology team have officially discharged me. Which is kinda NHS-speak for: I'm in remission! Yay!!

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  I read: 'Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field? Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930' https://resobscura.substack.com/p/are-vintage-llms-the-start-of-a-new (Probably not, but it does remind me of work in Living with Machines about the wider impact of language about accidents in newspapers)

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  I love this, from @ryancordell : 'In their discussions of hacking, building, and making, we see that DH scholars do not generally seek to convey simple technological skills, but instead to cultivate technological imagination. Specific platforms, applications, and even coding languages come and go, but a technological imagination is able to abstract a problem—whether intellectual, professional, or personal—and formulate a plan for how a tool or suite of tools might help answer it'...

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  Looking for a unique job that needs imagination and technical expertise; linking the worlds of ancient manuscripts and algorithms, historical newspapers and large language models? Make a difference at one of the world's biggest libraries BL Labs Technical Lead, £51k, closes Dec 20 <- not Dec 22! https://www.vercida.com/uk/jobs/bl-labs-technical-lead-british-library-st-pancras More on this job, also Product Owner, Research Software Engineer and Test Engineer posts in the @BL_Dig...

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  Today I learned that Dee Dee Ramone was really into ABBA https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/ramones-debut-album-50-years-punk-hey-ho-lets-go/106585300

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  'I Was an Enthusiastic Early Adopter of AI Scribes. Here’s Why I Stopped' https://benngooch.substack.com/p/i-was-an-enthusiastic-early-adopter 'When an AI records everything rather than what we chose to record... The note stops being a reflection of clinical reasoning and becomes a verbatim archive. And as a PMC piece on note bloat explicitly warns, this risks obscuring the most medically important information under a volume of equally-weighted detail.'

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  A lovely post from Jeanette Croen, a PhD placement student, on her work at the British Library doing computational analysis on early printed book descriptions https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/computational-analysis-of-book-descriptions-a-placement-project

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  @jonty let's chat!

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  @clemens I've been using it on Firefox for ages, it's very satisfying!

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  Big news! I'm incredibly privileged to take on leadership of the Museum Data Service while continuing half-time in my role at the British Library. The MDS is already a success story, and I'm so excited about taking it further! https://artuk.org/discover/stories/museum-data-service-appoints-mia-ridge-as-head-of-service

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  There are some really good points in this: NHS patients should be able to write up their own medical records – Will Parman https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/nhs-patients-write-medical-records-healthcare-workers

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  For a site that's all about managing itineraries for trips, TripIt is incredibly awkward about place names. Not being able to find medium-sized locations is one thing, but rewriting trip headlines to a random place is another

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  'By looking at that graph, can you tell which year the library started to grow by around one hundred terabytes of data per year? With the expectation that billions of items would be findable and made available while operating under a complex set of legally-defined technical constraints entirely specific to this singular context? It was 2013. There in the middle of that downward curve. Today, the library manages petabytes of data and has the responsibility of providing nation-scale digi...

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  My slides on The Paradoxes of Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16149688 from our #DH2025 panel on Openness in GLAM: Analysing, Reflecting, and Discussing Global Case Studies Thanks again to all the speakers for your fantastic contributions! And to the audience for questions and 'truth bombs'... #OpenGLAM

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  Jisc report: 'Student perceptions of AI 2025' https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/student-perceptions-of-ai-2025 'A report on how students view artificial intelligence, how they are using it, and their concerns and hopes, based on conversations with students held between June 2024 and May 2025.'

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  Interesting conversation starter from @thisisaaronland on the SFO Museum blog: 'Shared cross-institutional vector embeddings – how we might get there' https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2026/04/06/shared-embeddings/ - is anyone up for kicking those tyres? #IIIF #AI4LAM #MuseTech

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  'Libraries are among the most powerful discovery engines available to an author. The person who borrows your book from the library is, far more often than not, a reader who would not have purchased it at all' https://starkreflections.substack.com/p/the-library-is-not-the-enemy-but Discover, borrow and read lots of library books! In many countries, the authors get lovely money for it.

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  Hi! If you're interested or work in #DigitalHumanities, here's a shortcut to enjoying mastodon. It's great once you're going but the first steps aren't that intuitive. There aren't algorithmic recommendations for posts or folks to follow, so here's a quick way to kickstart your network: 1) Sign up to https://hcommons.social/ (if you need a mastodon account) 2) Add some information and a pic to your profile 3) Select some or all of the D...

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  How should @uk_ie_dh be governed? Have your say, especially if you're in a cultural heritage institution or early career Survey: https://forms.office.com/e/aqeQhtP9Ni Background: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/2024/09/23/community-feedback-on-governance-working-group/ Join or follow: https://digitalhumanities-uk-ie.org/join/