Happy rec letter season! The meritocracy is a luxury belief. Every student is the best student you’ve ever had. Anything less is a disservice.

Today @natmcgartland.bsky.social, PhD candidate in English at the University of Maryland, spoke to us about data representation through textiles. From Jacquard loom punch cards to crochet patterns to paper weaving, Nat showed us that weaving & textile work has always been a form of data practice 🧶📊

TLDR this book slaps

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#DHmakes hot topic wrist warmers on a visit to @scholarslab.bsky.social Modelled by @walshbr.bsky.social ✨

hi friends. please check out my new article with @chronicle.com about how the academy hates pregnant people (& what we can do about it): www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Thank you Rebecca Foote, @walshbr.bsky.social, @natmcgartland.bsky.social, @katinalynn.bsky.social & @ach.bsky.social for the chance to chat about DH publishing! #jojodoodles #dhmakes

please know if you wrong me I will discuss it in a national newspaper. out next week with the Chronicle: a piece on the “problem” of pregnancy in the academy:

Please join ACH on 4/25 at 12pm for a prof dev panel on Publishing in Digital Humanities. We take a capacious approach to “publishing” in the digital humanities to consider the many ways that DH scholars publish work for a public audience. Register and read more about this panel at: buff.ly/BNpjgqk

Looking forward to joining @natmcgartland.bsky.social @jojokarlin.bsky.social and Britt Amell to talk about DH publishing on 4/25. Please share with students and early-career folks who might be interested.

If you missed the ACH roundtable at #MLA25 on "Book History and Digital Humanities" The blog post about the session now has slides/talks/info @ryancordell.org @natmcgartland.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @elikaortega.bsky.social @bibliowingate.bsky.social ach.org/news/2024/12...

Hi bsky, I’m back!!! MLA reminded me that all my beautiful DH/BH friends are over here (and I’m back from mat leave ready to continue shitposting) Please suggest cat accounts.

I mostly use bsky to repost BookLab content but I also recently made this

Check out Nat McGartland and other fab folks in this gathering of emerging letterpress artists and activists: partnersinprint.org/event/print-...

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Join us next week for a nature print pop-up! Tuesday and Wednesday 12-2pm

Happy Type High Day! We love this poster from our friends at Davidson College Letterpress Lab. September 18 is like pi day for printers: the date corresponds to 0.918 inches, or the standardized height of a piece of type!

(Do other makerspaces also get constant requests to entertain children?)

UMD faculty: please sign the letter of support for the newly formed GRADUATE LABOR UNION! Pls. SHARE. Letter of support here linked below. Info about GLU: umdgradworkers.org #gradworkers #labor

Comes visit us this semester!