Abolish ICE doesn't sound too radical now does it?

By slashing teams that gather critical data, the Trump administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades: propub.li/3RZzqHP 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

Starting to get a handle on why Musk and the Broligarchs set out to demolish the United States government.

Mellon to help offset the funding cuts to the NEH for state humanities councils: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/a...

Today we filed our appeal to the NEH for wrongful grant termination. They gave us a month to get everything together—how long for the decision, do you think? Big hat tip 🎩 to my colleagues at UVA!

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees. I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Not all heroes wear capes.

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

Two dictators in the Oval Office.

Update: I've heard that approximately 135 of the ~185 NEH employees have been placed on administrative leave. (but awaiting more information). Even though we've seen this playbook enacted many times over the past few weeks, it's still shocking.

Sooo, our NEH-ODH grant was canceled… from a non-official email address. We are appealing (don’t make it easy!) and my colleagues at UVA are fighting for the project thru institutional channels. But I’ll be talking about our work at the #DHSI25 mini-colloquium in May!

Read this article yesterday, felt physically ill www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

There’s a person in #costco singing a cry to hawk these yummy nut packets—she has a lovely voice, and I can hear it in a few places throughout the store. 🎵 “8.99 a pack!” 🎶

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

A design made for www.instagram.com/support_fede...

If only there had been some sign of what sort of guy Trump is:

I’m taking a glaze chem class! It’s kicking my ass. Here’s my second quadraxial—hopefully a nice semi-matte glaze, dark, with some speckles. Probably not the most interesting colorants, but I’m being positive. :)

New sticker! Check it out on Instagram: www.instagram.com/stickit2em.e... 💪

New side project! @stickit2em.everywhere (on Instagram for now) posting sticker and protest sign designs. Here’s a sampling! www.instagram.com/stickit2em.e...

Still seeing lots and lots of folks posting things like “don’t they know how devastating this will be!” YES. THEY KNOW. It’s the WHOLE POINT.

Go down to 1300 Pennsylvania Ave and support #USAID workers as they empty their desks. Today til 7 and tomorrow (2/28), all day.

We live in a pretty 💩 💩 💩 world @cignahealthcare.bsky.social #cigna

Some DC theater company (…) needs to do MACBETH with the weird sisters as finance bros or maga nuts: “cruel are the times when we are traitors / And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumor / From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, / But float upon a wild and violent sea” 4.2.21-24)

Newest adventures in throwing consistently-sized bowls… and a big ole bowl, because I love ‘em! #ceramics #pottery

Fresh hell of the day! www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... #FHotD

Every morning after I wake , I open my news app and wonder “what sweet hell today?”

Just one week left to enter The Pudding Cup, where we crown our favorite data visual passion projects of 2024. Get your submissions in by Nov. 30! pudding.cool/pudding-cup/

Still processing this news. The very first work of lit crit I ever purchased was Madwoman. I was 19 & inspired by a course on feminist lit studies. I was not an English major. I did not know what a PhD was. That book was part of a swerve I was making—tho I didn’t know it yet. It was an invitation.

Any #highered #dataviz folks out there? What are you working on?

As I've seen some of the newer folks wonder how Bluesky is going to handle verification, let me drop this here: How to use your domain as your Bluesky handle. As you can see, I have done it, and no one else here has access to my domain, so you can tell it's really me. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Wowed by the giant growth of my tiny network here! For new friends, I do #DH and -adjacent stuff, #OER, ethical #edtech, #pottery, and #cats. Did I mention #cats? Former prof of 18th century lit, current instructional designer & technologist. Trying to make two ends meet.

The Theories and Methodologies cluster on #criticalAI co-edited for PMLA by @ritaraley.bsky.social and myself is now online, open access. it consists of eight interventions by leading voices, as well as our framing essay “AI and the University as a Service.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you are at the final day of the Open Education Conference, please reply to this post or make your own post tagged #OpenEd24 and--at some point today-- ask someone if they're interested in joining BlueSky. Let's bring our people into a space where we can talk *after* the conference, too!

Whew! That was tougher, technologically speaking, than it should have been! 🤣 Here are the materials from our #OpenEd24 presentation: linktr.ee/LiC.anthology

I’m nervous for our #OpenEd24 presentation! Maybe excited? Hungry? Anyways, hope folks can make it! We’ll be talking about a new platform approach to OER, and raising some questions about how print ghosts many literature OERs in some ways that may need to be rethought. 10am! sched.co/1gu81

Sooo happy that @actualham.bsky.social posted all their goodies here for #opened24: robinderosa.net/higher-ed/ag...

I *want* to go to the #OpenEd24 social at the arcade, but it’s now 7 and I’m…tired? Why is old?💀

OER Research Database with qualitative coding of the contents from our AAC&U peeps—https://www.aacu.org/oer-research-database #OpenEd24

Geared up for the noon panel on the landscape of scholarship! #OpenEd24

Fate? I met three people from #OpenEd24 on my ghost walk—we know how to have a good time!

After the #OpenEd24 reception, gonna go on a Providence ghost walk! 💀👻🪦

Getting candy overload (yum!) with @www.reclaimhosting.com at #OpenEd24

Really excited for this Reclaim Hosting session—someone in the chat pointed out that Reclaim started out as “Hippy Hosting” in beta! This makes me very happy. #OpenEd24

An important site of resistance is your rank and tenure committee—volunteer, and raise your voice! #OpenEd24

Here’s the site Silver Moon was talking about! #OpenEd24 native-land.ca

For #dh and #opened type folks, we finally have a video overview of Literature in Context: An Open Anthology of Literature in English, 1400-1925 — #OER for all! youtu.be/DPIpxWvWsS0 @johnobrien.bsky.social #opened24

I am listening to Megan O’Keefe’s DEVOURED WORLDS series. So good! So. Good. Any other SF I should be reading? I like compelling world building and character development, plus a rockin’ plot.

Absolutely. Commercial publishers hawking “inclusive access” aka automated billing and are just preying on students and fattening themselves on a denuded public sphere. There are better ways.

🙏 to have been invited to share the #DH2024 closing keynote Friday (tmrw!) at 5pm: "Socio-Technical Assemblages for Tumultuous Times" will be live-streamed here, in case you want to think with us abt how we can teach technology so it serves our principles + politics: www.youtube.com/channel/UCm2...

I really think that #DH infrastructure can both draw on the strengths of #OER infrastructure and improve aspects of the Open Education discourse—especially around reputation and adoption. #DH2024