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#1) All parts of @adjb’s six-part series introducing the digital humanities are now up on his blog: https://www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/ I’m impressed by the quality and usefulness of this series, particularly by … (go to #2 in thread)
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Here are visualizations of multi-agent work from transcript of one job that involved research publishers’ and journal’s AI-use policies for authoers: https://alanyliu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/diagram_claude_session_structure_collecting_publishers_AI_policies.pdf
📊 Post engagement
Recent posts · likes + reposts
Jul 16latest
2
Avg engagement / post
1–5
Typical post (engagement)
0.2%
Engagement vs followers
63/100
Consistent reach
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
Half of recent posts land between 1 and 5 likes + reposts (median 1) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: The changes in the latest update to Zotero (Zotero 10) are reall · 6 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.1 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
7×
Follows 131 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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For those of us running Claude Code, Cowork, Chat from Claude Desktop, this page by an AI security company is extremely helpful about differences in regard to: where each runs code, access to tools, data retention, use for AI training, and…
Just to add that keeping an AI-session transcript to facilitate understanding, reproducing, and communicating the structural architecture, steps, and logs of a job (especially multi-agent jobs) is not the same as keeping an audit trail. >
P.S. Here is my prompt for creating an AI session transcript. Improvements welcome. https://alanyliu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/prompt_for_session_transcript.docx
The main limitation of trying to keep AI session transcripts is that, as the AIs themselves warn (at least in my experiments so far), they do not try to give a transcript of—or inferences about—their actual internal reasoning processes. Pa…
It seems like there should be a standard prompt a user can add to each job to make an AI-session transcript. My prompt (I iterated several times after asking Claude to critique it) creates records at the low-megabyte scale (~25 Mb), but do…
Here are visualizations of multi-agent work from transcript of one job that involved research publishers’ and journal’s AI-use policies for authoers: https://alanyliu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/diagram_claude_session_structure_collecti…
I’m experimenting with creating trancripts of AI research jobs (documentation, diagrams, session/step logs, human- vs. machine-time, token usage) for transparency & reproducibility
#4) The last two posts in @adjb’s series focus on preserving DH projects, e.g., through “minimal computing.” They especially resonate with me at the sunset of my career as I struggle not to let projects go gentle into that good night.
#3) —e.g., guide to DH for dissertations & explanation of the importance of DH for the humanities at large today. In regard to the latter, part 4 of the series on “Why We Need the Digital Humanities” is really excellent. … (go to #4 in thr…
#2) @adjb’s ability to balance between high-level what’s-and-why’s and detailed recommendations and examples. The series also balances between academic & public perspectives … (go to #3 in thread)
#1) All parts of @adjb’s six-part series introducing the digital humanities are now up on his blog: https://www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/ I’m impressed by the quality and usefulness of this series, particularly by … (go to #2 in thread)
Here are visualizations of multi-agent work from transcript of one job that involved research publishers’ and journal’s AI-use policies for authoers: https://alanyliu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/diagram_claude_session_structure_collecti…
I’m experimenting with creating trancripts of AI research jobs (documentation, diagrams, session/step logs, human- vs. machine-time, token usage) for transparency & reproducibility
#4) The last two posts in @adjb’s series focus on preserving DH projects, e.g., through “minimal computing.” They especially resonate with me at the sunset of my career as I struggle not to let projects go gentle into that good night.
#3) —e.g., guide to DH for dissertations & explanation of the importance of DH for the humanities at large today. In regard to the latter, part 4 of the series on “Why We Need the Digital Humanities” is really excellent. … (go to #4 in thr…
#2) @adjb’s ability to balance between high-level what’s-and-why’s and detailed recommendations and examples. The series also balances between academic & public perspectives … (go to #3 in thread)
#1) All parts of @adjb’s six-part series introducing the digital humanities are now up on his blog: https://www.adamdjbrett.com/blog/ I’m impressed by the quality and usefulness of this series, particularly by … (go to #2 in thread)
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.1× per week.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated52/100
Fair
Credibility score
76%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.2% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I'm a professor (UC Santa Barbara) in digital humanities & English. For the public humanities, I founded http://4Humanities.org & http://WE1S.ucsb.edu; and co-founded the Center for Humanities Communication. My Bluesky handle: @alanyliu.bsky.social.
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