Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, sound studies, text analysis. Editorial board @JITpedagogy. More info at walshbr.com
- Big last day of school before summer vibes at work for me yesterday, except in this case summer is diving into life taking care of a newborn again. Excited to move out of the "hurry up and wait" phase into the full on chaos.
- Final baby prep going well. Will definitely know what this reminder means later.
- @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social obsessed with the title of your course here!
- DREAM LAB 2026 - May 26-29 at @upenn.edu Dream Lab is a kind of Digital Humanities Summer Camp designed with grad students and early career humanities professionals in mind. In summer 2026, we are excited to offer six classes. Learn more & register now (at early bird pricing!):
- Unused b plot from 12 Monkeys
- look at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...
- This post from @ryancordell.org got me curious to try out Claude Code, so I am trying it out now. Using it to try to recreate the Virginia Woolf project from my dissertation project. Will share notes and thoughts here as I go.
- The project is documented on my blog here - walshbr.com/tag/woolf/. My dissertation was on sound recordings in modern and contemporary literature. We know Virginia Woolf was a typesetter and printer. Her use of quotation marks became highly irregular at one point in her career. I wanted to know why.
- So I worked with @erochest.bsky.social in the @scholarslab.bsky.social to put together an ML pipeline that trained on her prior uses of quotation marks, stripped them out, then used the model to guess where they should be in the first place. We then applied that model to known and unknown texts.
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View full threadFor this keeping track at home, I got this little project about 90% through before getting rate limited for about 15 minutes. Mostly has involved asking a lot of questions along the way, which probably made me hit it sooner. Working on the pro tier.
- Current @scholarslab.bsky.social DH fellow Seanna Viechweg on her work this year with us: "Building Folkloric Futures: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Designing a Speculative Digital Archive of Caribbean Storytelling" scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/buildin...
- You know Death Howl has the juice because I keep playing until my steam deck runs out of it.
- Two little ones have a play date
- A pair of deer has been circling the house and he’s been following them from window to window.
- Burn down a forest and pollute a river to recreate a post-it note
