Join us for a series of workshops on teaching and researching with digital tools! The IRIS Center Morning Bytes series offers hands-on tutorials, activities and lesson plans, and spotlights on ongoing digital humanities projects. #DigitalHumanities

🤩 Thanks again to @literaturegeek.bsky.social for immortalizing this line from the NEH wake session at ACH. If I have a scholarly motto, this is it — infrastructure is mutual obligation and mutual benefit. #DigitalHumanities #DHMakes

Congratulations to Prof. Maurina Aranda on receiving the Paul Simon Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award! Maurina is an integral member of the CODES team and developed the Community-Engaged Science course. We’re grateful for her creative pedagogy, wide knowledge, and thoughtful collaboration!

ICYMI: Check out this @jitp.bsky.social article for assignments and activities that use small data sets to engage students with critical data literacies and place-based research. These are quick bloom-and-fade activities that are easy to build into a syllabus! #DigitalHumanities

Already watched Knives Out and jonesing for more murder, hellfire and brimstone, and possible revenants? Well! 125 years ago today, William Le Queux published "The Mystery of Montmartre" in @stltoday.com. I threw together a little edition for the Christmas ghost story crowd. #DigitalHumanities

It’s publication day! Check out this new piece from @megsmith.bsky.social and Laura Milsk Fowler on #DigitalHumanities pedagogy. Meg and Laura offer bite-sized but powerful classroom activities that teach humanistic approaches to data and build tech skills and confidence to tackle larger projects.

🎉🎉 Huge congrats to IRIS co-founder Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt on being named Distinguished Research Professor of English! The award recognizes her significant achievements in the field of linguistics & her many contritions to research, mentorship, and DH infrastructure at SIUE and beyond.

What is #DigitalHumanities? A little bit of this, a little bit of that

It has been an incredible whirlwind of a semester! Over the last four months: ✏️ We conducted over 50 class visits to teach digital humanities skills. (More than a whole course's worth of classroom time!) 📒 And oh yeah, we also ran a new course this semester on digital curation and storytelling! 1/

CFP alert! If you're working on digitization, replicas and reproductions, living history practices, or other forms of surrogate sources, we'd love to see a proposal for organized sessions at the 2026 Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. #DigitalHumanities #LivingHistory #CFP #MedievalSky

It's #GivingTuesday! Every dollar that comes into IRIS goes back out into community-engaged research, digital pedagogy, and #DigitalHumanities infrastructure. Throughout the day, we'll share some of the ways that your giving helps us support our communities. You can give to IRIS through fund 4332.

This Friday! Join us for our next Morning Bytes, where Dr. Jill Anderson (English) will present on her work producing a biographical chronology for the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters project. #DigitalHumanities @mhs1791.bsky.social

This Wednesday! @hrambsy.bsky.social will share his work on the Black Lit Network, a #DigitalHumanities project that brings scholarship on African American literary studies to public audiences and provides innovative discovery tools that link people to books based on their interests.

We’ll happily take donations from non-SIUE folks too, and although I can’t promise a university pennant, I do have some snazzy stickers I’d be happy to mail!

📣Calling all SIUE faculty and staff📣 Join the SIUE Faculty and Staff Fundraising Campaign and make a direct impact on the programs and projects that inspire you most. If that inspiration includes digital humanities, experiential learning, and community-engaged pedagogy, keep reading!

What’s medieval armor doing in a #DigitalHumanities class? Opening up questions about the role of surrogate sources! We often talk about the affordances of digital surrogates: gains like access and linked data, as well as limits like the inability to convey material, multisensory knowledge.

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

@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