I don't think you saw the news I just broke. This is the big court case that's been going on for the last year. The same one that made those two DOGE boys famous. You might want to, uh, share this around.

Me every time the NEH official account makes a post these days

First past at mapping the MODS for a photograph (search.lib.virginia.edu/sources/imag...) into #LinkedArt via XSLT: gist.github.com/ewg118/9d20e.... It doesn't include links to IIIF images or manifests, which are not in the MODS

Grateful to reporter Matt Hartman for telling this story about changes in leadership at NEH. The firing of 22 out of 26 board members, including all members appointed by past presidents, is nothing short of a coup at an agency where the board reviews and votes on every single grant application.

Quite surprised to learn that students do actually take showers on the first floor of the UVA Library. Is it on a list of things to do before you graduate?

Tetradrachm https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.978

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

EDSITEment - a project National Endowment for the Humanities with 30 years of development and over 1,000 lesson plans and resources for K-16 students that attracted 2.5 million visitors per year - appears to have been archived and is no longer accessible. This is what the #NEH has become.

Did you know if you put enough LOD concept URIs into MODS, it can come out as relatively decent #LinkedArt JSON-LD?

More PALP development. Images now have a dedicated display. Try palp.art/browse/#luna... . Current functionality: Move center "handle" to expand image. Click "Adjust" for filters. #IIIF Zoom/pan with mouse(pad). There's more info and links to display. Other improvements to come. But a start...

In re: the Louise Lucas Affair They're continuing to build the case for us, concerning the necessity of going sicko mode when the shoe is finally back on the other foot Every single elected Democrat and public intellectual counseling moderation in the face of this needs to be shouted down

RIP Ted Turner. Captain Planet kind of sucked as a cartoon, but we still remember it today. It's an amazing legacy.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

BREAKING NEWS: Iranian media reports that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is saying safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be ensured.

Classical hot take: stop comparing garum to ketchup and instead compare to worcestershire sauce...

Update: semantic search is now live across all of CourtListener, not just the API 🚀 You can search case law in natural language directly on CourtListener! free.law/2026/05/04/s...

This is why colleges should NOT be leaning into AI. You don't need college to do an AI-centered job. They should be leaning into that which makes them DIFFERENT from tech companies: the humanities, social sciences, theoretical math, etc. That is their value proposition in an AI-centered economy.

Anyone looking for a digital archaeologist or digital ethicist - I’m looking for contract work. Hit me up. Paid work only, please. My dogs don’t get fed on exposure or cool networking opportunities.

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

www.getty.edu/publications... Did you know...The Getty Museum has a Virtual LIbrary with over 300 books and publications available FREE for reading and downloading (as pdf, epub)? Here is one of the latest on ancient glass published in 2025 1/2

I’ve been doing this for a few years, but have to step down for medical reasons. Feel free to ask me questions!

“Billionaires are funding a communist resurgence in America” can only be said by someone with severe lead poisoning or head injury

>Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson were all on Russian payroll >Orban loses in Hungary >Rod Dreher immediately leaves Budapest >The Daily Wire fires half their staff was all the right-wing conspiracy posting about USAID just massive fucking projection?

This week on the #PeoplingBlog Lissa Crofton-Sleigh and Em Dang showcase their work on Lingua Vitae, a Latin language supplementary learning program encased within an historically authentic, ancient environment in virtual reality (VR): peoplingthepast.com/2026/05/01/b...

Publishing a backlog of digitized ETDs, and it's amazing you could get a PhD in chemistry from UVA in 1927 with a 34 page dissertation with no bibliography or citations.

Morning Bluesky.

The Open Library of Humanities Open Access Award 2026. Applications for OLH funding of up to £500 are welcomed from individuals or organisations and may be used to help fund events, projects or activities on OA or with an open access component. Deadline 30/06:

It’s Bike Month!! Check out bikecville.com to learn about a whole bunch of events happening in May in our area to support biking. And let’s work to make it so that every month is bike month in the Charlottesville area!

Job Alert: Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Highlands & Islands, Orkney. WOW! myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

Astros more like Asstros

Astros CF drops a grand slam ball by Rutschman over the wall lmao

Any subject librarians interested in peer reviewed humanities books which are also #OpenAccess? We just sent this email out to you and thought we'd share it here too! It also contains info about @oipassoc.bsky.social and @openbookcollective.bsky.social 🙏 email.eurolibraries.com/q/1muJHqMvM0...

Research associate position at the University of Oxford: Women in Syriac Christianity, 1500-1800 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

A long-sealed box. A rare spell written backwards. In 2017, staff at the Getty Villa carefully unpacked storage boxes holding Egyptian Book of the Dead manuscripts. The papyrus scrolls & strips of linen mummy wrappings had not been seen in nearly 30 years—and hadn't been read in thousands.

There is no word on if this is due to a royal visit, but Buckingham Palace did say earlier this month that King Charles III would be visiting a national park in Virginia during his visit to this country.

anyone wants to come here to charlottesville to repeat this theory to our faces is welcome to try leaving with all their teeth

he thinks he owns the country and rules us as king

lmao

The Open Research team at Cambridge is looking for an Open Access Service Manager. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRI653/o...

The Orbeon Forms 2025.1.1 maintenance release is now available. It includes over 100 fixes and new feature including new IBAN and timestamp form controls. Check the full release notes for details. doc.orbeon.com/release-note...

Open GLAM hivemind: Does DPLA still harvest cultural heritage data? The staff page doesn't list any technical staff.

🚨MUSEUM JOB KLAXON🚨 We're now recruiting for a new **Collections Assistant** to help us with an exciting project to relocate an important part of our collection within @zoologymuseum.bsky.social. IS IT YOU? www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/museum-... #MuseumJob #MuseumJobs

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

Funny how the clouds are exactly the same

Join us this Mon 4/27 4:30-6 to explore in virtual reality student reconstructions of a Byzantine building excavated in the Athenian Agora, experiencing the building as it may have once been lived. We've got the VR headsets & sweet treats—come see what's possible w/VR, 3D viz, & digital archaeology!

LLMs may unlock large parts of cultural heritage that remain inaccessible. Not just pattern recognition anymore, but working with language, ambiguity, and context. The shift is real. But judgment and meaning still require humans. #AI #DigitalHumanities

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back

1/3 New recommendation: S. Gampe, K. Tolle, C. von Nicolai, M. Möller (2026). Supporting a Celtic coin die study with image matching and hierarchical clustering for creating a social networks analysis. v3 reviewed & recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

"Virginia’s exercise in counter-gerrymandering was a contribution to making the liberties of America safer against the gates of a Trumpist Republican party. The Founders, including Elbridge Thomas Gerry, would be pleased and proud." lnk.thebulwark.com/4eDbB4V