Take a listen to @hrambsy.bsky.social’s interview about the Black Lit Network on @stlpublicradio.bsky.social! From the barbershop to the classroom, it’s a project deeply rooted in a genuinely public humanities. When you’re done, visit www.blacklitnetwork.org and try it out! #DigitalHumanities

Check out these ideas for critical approaches to AI in humanities classrooms! #DigitalHumanities

Just a day in the life of a digital humanities center #DigitalHumanities #DHBreaks

You know what regalia needs? Pockets. IRIS can help, and in return, you can help IRIS! Learn to add them yourself or have us do it for you for a suggested donation of $25. Sign up at iris.siue.edu/pockets. Space is limited! #DHMakes

Congratulations to @hrambsy.bsky.social and his collaborators on the award of a new grant to support the Black Lit Network! The Black Lit Network uses data viz and digital storytelling to provide new entry points into the study of African American literature. bit.ly/bln-mellon #DigitalHumanities

Ope, it’s syllabus season. Join us for an in-person workshop on how to incorporate meaningful digital assignments and activities into your course, in ways that both enhance students’ engagement with the course content and encourage them to think critically about technology. #DigitalHumanities

I’m super excited for this one! It combines some of my favorite things: minimal computing, critical data studies, spatial justice, and free and approachable DH pedagogy. If you can’t make this one, keep an eye out for future events! #DigitalHumanities

This Wednesday, join us at the Wedge in Alton to chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Free and no experience needed! July 16, 3:00-4:30 #DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast

Today's AI Fictions Reading Group discussed @mdoriarussell.bsky.social's The Sparrow. It might seem like an unusual choice since AI quickly recedes to the background, but its extractive, venture capitalist vision of AI ca 2019 is an apt indictment of our present moment. #DigitalHumanities

A summer day in IRIS looks like... 💻web development 💡 teaching consultations 🧮building tools for assessment 🗺️map-making ☀️surviving the St. Louis heat (barely) #DigitalHumanities

I made a map for tracking how much of the city I've visited by various modes. I'll keep adding datasets over time, but for now it contains city parks and bus routes. If you also like to track things, feel free to fork and reuse! msmith0913.github.io/stl-sandbox/ #stl #StLouis #DigitalHumanities

Even if we were to achieve the pipe dream of universal digitization, you cannot account for archival silences without building human relationships grounded in mutual trust, care, and a commitment to repair.

I finally read that awful NYT AI history piece, and I will add one note to The Discourse. As many have noted, LLMs are limited to what’s been digitized, a tiny fraction of what’s in the archives. But especially egregious: the book being written in that piece is an indigenous history.

Hey Metro East! Come chat about data representation, learn some spreadsheet and mapping technologies, and share your experiences of the Metro East as a cultural center. Join us at the Wedge in Alton on July 16. Free and no experience needed! #DigitalHumanities #STL #StLouis #MetroEast

From @megsmith.bsky.social #ach2025: “Infrastructure is something we owe to one another”. On NEH ODH's support for researching, amplifying norm+good of DH failure. Post-NEH ODH 💔: can infrastructure for DH be mutual aid? What might it look like fully untethered from federal funding? +

@megsmith.bsky.social reminds us that infrastructure is a mutual obligation and a mutual aid #ACH2025

Love love love a good failure talk, props to @megsmith.bsky.social for going there. #ACH2025

What a great first meeting! Our conversations about Mrs. Davis took us from the Duolingo owl (and its heavy-handed manipulation tactics) to pedagogies of process, with lots of stops in between. Thanks to everyone who shared their expertise, experiences, and reactions to the show! #DigitalHumanities

Hey #DigitalHumanities and #AmLit folks! @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social is offering free summer workshops to support DH projects that center the work of (global) American (trans-/queer-inclusive) women writers. If that sounds like you, register here! recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s...

Next week is the first meeting of our AI Fictions Reading Group! We’re kicking things off not with a book but with a show: Mrs. Davis. If you’d like to join us, please sign up at the link below. #DigitalHumanities #TechEthics

I’m laid up sick instead of helping with tornado clean-up, so here’s my small contribution: Monday’s storms dumped a ton of rain on already damaged houses, and one of the casualties will be family photos and documents. If you’ve got damaged (modern!) photos, here are a few immediate triage steps.

Check out this post from Dr. Meg Smith about how traditional media and digital storytelling can combine to advocate for better public transit! #DigitalHumanities isn’t just for the classroom — it’s for being active and engaged members of our communities.

If you’ve been working on medieval Irish #DigitalHumanities in the last year, we’d like your updates! We’re assembling the Year in DH for the upcoming issue of Eolas. Please share your pubs, projects, grants and other DH news! #MedievalIreland #IrishHistory #IrishStudies @vickymcalister.bsky.social

New course alert! This fall we’re offering the brand new HUM430: Digital Storytelling and Curation! It’s linked with ENG482: Technology and Literature, and we’ll engage with both science fiction and history of tech as we learn a variety of tools for digital storytelling. #DigitalHumanities

Summer feels both around the corner and eons away, but we're already planning. Check out our new AI Fictions Reading Group! We'll use AI fiction -- tv, novels, short stories -- as a tool for exploring and developing AI ethics. More details: iris.siue.edu/ai-fictions/ #DigitalHumanities #CriticalAI

Today! Join us this morning in the IRIS Center for a presentation from @mark3000.bsky.social on a mid-century radio show and how it connects to its rural southern Illinois context. #DigitalHumanities

This is one of my favorite events every year. I learned so much from these students, and I look forward to seeing what they do next! #DigitalHumanities

Thanks and congrats to our students who presented at the STL #DigitalHumanities Showcase! From legacies of redlining in Rockford, to analysis of Kendrick’s fusion of East and West Coast rap, to PSAs about data privacy and accessibility, they produced thoughtful and creative engagements with tech.

Hey #SIUE / IRIS folks! If you'll be on campus, join us in the IRIS Center to take part together. This is a great opportunity to explore avenues for advocacy and organizing at the local as well as the national levels. #DigitalHumanities

If you’re feeling anxious and restless, check out these two free, public events hosted by ACH this week. On Wednesday, advocate for the NEH and IMLS to your elected officials. On Friday, learn to reach broad audiences through op-eds.

#transpoBINGO, meet #DHMakes! It’s Bring Your Sewing Machine to Work Day in @siueiris.bsky.social, in preparation for a couple of material data viz events after spring break. #transpoBINGOstl #stl

Digital storytelling is a powerful way to make your experiences on transit visible and tangible for others, especially for decision-makers! And there are lots of good, free, easy to use tools - try a timeline or a storymap to start! timeline.knightlab.com storymap.knightlab.com #DigitalHumanities

The barrier I referred to still exists, but I’m happy to say that they’ve at least updated their language to say that on the website. Baby steps! This week, I’m making a tutorial for a new storytelling tool, and obvs my example is on transit and spatial justice. irissiue.github.io/scrollytelli...

I haven’t had much luck getting transit systems to respond to email, so during last year’s #WeekWithoutDriving, I turned to digital storytelling. One of my favorite sections included some proposals to improve connectivity and equity. iris.siue.edu/weekwithoutd... #transpoBINGO #transpoBINGOstl

Love to see student journalists taking an interest in university archives and special collections! www.alestlelive.com/lifestyles/a...

It is early computing history day in Intro to #DigitalHumanities, and I finally got to use this beauty! It was a great tactile learning tool as we talked about adding machines, Lovelace and Babbage, and how technology shapes our relationship to labor, content, and each other.

With government information and data sets apparently vanishing, there’s lots of renewed attention on digitization. The stakes are high — here are a few pieces I find helpful for grasping some of the consequences of digitization and our increasingly digital info landscape. #DigitalHumanities

Hey #DigitalHumanities folks, I'd love your help! I'm putting together a list of sample projects for the history senior capstone. I'm looking for projects that are: - solo-authored - by a student - sustained engagements with a research q (akin to a 15-20 pg paper) - shared with student's permission

Yes, I got my syllabus, Blackboard shell, and course website done before class. Yes, as soon as I had them in front of my students, I discovered errors in all three. So here’s take two: the new and improved, revised, and corrected Introduction to #DigitalHumanities! iris.siue.edu/hum230sp25/

✔️ Grant app is IN! ✔️ Approximately 58 tabs are CLOSED! ⬜ Intro to DH class website is...still in progress. Guess I'll open some of those tabs back up.

There's more snow coming, but we are ready to be out of the house and back on campus! ✔️ Office hours updated ✔️ Project check-in meetings scheduled ✔️ Intro to DH syllabus revised ✔️ Grant application ready to submit ✔️ Fresh coffee purchased Come find us next week! #DigitalHumanities

Applications are due January 15!

This is the final week to apply for these positions in our CODES program! While the positions are housed in English, History, and Anthropology, the teaching is beautifully interdisciplinary and incorporates small research teams, community engagement, and digital humanities.

And I wrote a thing (after I read some things)! Thanks to @martinbihl.bsky.social at @theagencyreview.bsky.social for inviting me to reflect a little on my 2024 reading and what’s to come in 2025. Featuring Georgian fiction, urban ecology (h/t @christopherbrown.bsky.social), and #StLouis transit.

How it started, how it’s going, #DigitalHumanities style

This Giving Tuesday, CODE Scholars kick off 3 days of presentations. From climate justice to histories of enslavement, these scholars have explored wicked problems alongside their community partners. If you’d like to support CODES, you can give at connect.siue.edu/g/donate. Search for fund 4251!

It is Day of Digital Humanities! Day of DH is an international celebration, when digital humanists around the world share what they do and what it means to them. Here are some contributions from a few of our very own SIUE digital humanists! #DayOfDH2024

If you're in the St. Louis region and want to learn about early modern Irish legal history, catch me tomorrow at SIUE's Lifelong Learning Speaker Series. We'll have family feuds, we'll have settler-colonialism, we'll have databases! www.enrole.com/siue/jsp/ses...

Sharing again for the Monday morning crowd! See this thread for three TT positions in English, History, and Anthro. All are part of a cluster hire to support the CODES program and Black studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

We’re hiring three TT faculty to teach in our CODES program! CODES is a gen ed pathway focused on community­-engaged digital humanities methods designed for students who are Pell-eligible, among the first in their families to attend college, or historically underrepresented in their majors.