the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏 @ccp-org.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @jimccasey1.bsky.social

Oof, I hadn't heard this until now. What a loss.

No one expects the Ottersicion...

After not one but two shelter-in-place events this week (which came after a shooting at an area grocery store), I am now thinking about what sort of food & comfort items to stock in our offices. We have few windows and are behind a locked door, so it is a good place for students &c. in a crisis.

Join us for our upcoming virtual #workshop, "Book, Number, Graph: Getting Started with Text Analysis" with Brandon Walsh, PhD (University of Virginia Library) on March 31, from 10:00am-11:30am CT. Spaces limited, RSVP at: bit.ly/booknumbergr... #usLdh #digitalhumanities #archives #textanalysis

This is what social media was made for.

Meanwhile, in Charlottesville... remember the fuss over those big statue things?

Hey, kid! Wanna check out some data that was created, maintained, and made available for the benefit of and use by the public? First hit is free! (OK, fine, it's all free.)

We created this in the early days of Bsky (last week). If you know an org missing, let us know as there have been many new accounts lately. Let's all raise a cup to the Bsky admins. go.bsky.app/6a2mbNf

Welcome to Bluesky, #UVA Library!

#Local CFP: we seek pairs of UVA faculty & UVA grad students for funded fellowships on your experimental humanities research that requires high-performance computing resources. Sponsored by SLab & IATH (under the DH Center umbrella partnering our forces!) + UVA's Data Analytics Center +

Entropy levels seem rather high today. (Or do I mean low? Never sure.)

Holy guacamole! I had no idea school bands were allowed to vibe like this. That red-shirted flute is absolutely rocking out, and even the clarinets are looking kinda cool-adjacent. (Yeah, I messed around with clarinets as a kid. Yeah, they can sound cool, but you WILL look awkward.)

Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.

Hello Bluesky! We're kicking off the DH at Tufts Bluesky account by sharing a few things happening with digital scholarship at Tufts Libraries this spring. Full events list: tinyurl.com/tischds-25

Useful thread, noting that (as usual) this is neither a "the little guy out-thought the big guys, yipee" narrative nor a true open-source offering.

Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

New #DH position at the University of Virginia! Come work with us! #academicsky #dhsky #digitalhumanities #envhum

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This explains a lot about Cage's movie career.

New #DH position at the University of Virginia! Come work with us! #academicsky #dhsky #digitalhumanities #envhum

For those who missed the press around the William Blake discoveries (mentioned in our previous post), catch up here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/media/...

Query: Anyone know where I can find additional information on photographer Freda Leinwand (1932-2012)? I am asking on behalf of one of my students who wants to write on her for a thesis. We know about materials at Harvard. We wondered if there were additional books or theses written on her.

I also find great comfort in watching highly skilled performances of incompetence and self-deluding panicky determination. Plenty of pity and fear, and every now and again a glimpse of catharsis.

Okay holy shit I love all of Weyodi's poems, but this one in particular is an Experience, and it is extraordinary. Scroll up from this ⬇️ post for the whole thread

Looking for a good apple-cranberry quickbread recipe. Any good pointers? Nuts are fine.

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd

I made a starter pack for art historians, art critics, other people who write about art, and a few friendly historians of other things that include visual culture. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/AcqTDgg

When you have conducted an extensive review of the existing criticism

A Starter Pack for History/IR folks - just to make this space more useful more quickly. It’s super improvised & I’m sure I forgot to include many, so please lmk! 👇 go.bsky.app/CUyrrn3

I have created a pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! If there is anyone I should add or you would like to be added do let me know - apologies for all I missed, hard to keep up these days. Do consider sharing to help enable scholars reconnect & rebuild network(s)! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

I don't believe there's been one of these yet. Let me know who I'm missing/would like to be added! #medieval #earlymodern 🗃️ go.bsky.app/J7oLA9C

Oh man, I just saw that Sandra Gilbert (_Madwoman in the Attic_, w/Susan Gubar) died. Oof. :( www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

Is it just me or does the NY Times Style section have an unhealthy fascination with watches?

There are now FIVE economic-history-related starter packs, listed in order of their emergence...: EH1 @benmschneider.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... EH2 @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack... Historical Political Economy @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social bsky.app/starter-pack...

Found a happy place in the ven diagram of watching Mission Impossible while knitting. I foresee a future of foiling petty crime while sipping tea.

I have no idea if I did this correctly but I looked for a Starter Pack for South Asian writers and didn't find one - so I made one. Please share and feel free to let me know if you want to be added 🤎 #southasian #scriptsky #writersky #authorsky go.bsky.app/TTefBKP

I did a starter pack! It's philosophy people I know from the other place. I may have forgotten some of you, please don't take it personally. If we were mutuals at the other place and I left you out let me know! go.bsky.app/8Qvnsgb

Today, I give myself credit for showing up. Yup.

I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in COUNTERCULTURE & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS OF THE 1960s & 1970s literature // history // politics Please share, suggest to friends, & reply to be added! go.bsky.app/TfR9zUX

and now there is this! go.bsky.app/4fvc2XS

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.

I'm starting a starter pack here for maritime historians 😊 go.bsky.app/EcGGYJw

I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592

'Modern British History' - new starter pack of historians, archive & museum accounts, and other Blueskyers who research, write about or regularly post on aspects of British history from 1900 onwards. Let us know if we've missed you out (or if you'd like to be removed)... bsky.app/starter-pack...

Just followed a ton of academics (via some fab new starter packs), coz scholars are kewl.