When I start teaching Data Visualization with Textiles next week, I'll have parts of a handbook for doing this kind of craft to share. If you want to add data to your own weaving, knitting, crochet, etc or learn a craft to use with your data, you can sign up to join the virtual class here. #DHmakes

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

I've started a "History of NLP" repo to store all of these resources. I don't have time to add everything yet, but I'll keep chipping away, and help is welcome. github.com/maria-antoni...

i swear i still do digital stuff (little projects w/data! coding! UX!) too (but it does tend to have a theme that is zine/print/read/bookadjacent 📚)

On the heels of the Ephemera Society of America conference, it’s ✨a new episode of Bite Sized Book History✨ all about ephemera! youtu.be/vHHTP36GUzc?...

It’s been a really long time since I’ve lip synced a song while holding up tech ethics books, so let’s gooooooo! (Posting here mainly because this is the place where I can easily point folks to authors - in thread.)

I’m excited to be coordinating a new @ischoolui.bsky.social program The Summer Intensive will offer 6 courses over 2 weeks in May & June this year—SI weeks will also include a range of academic, professional, & social events—we are hoping to cultivate real "summer camp for LIS nerds vibes"

I thought of you when I saw this CFP. link.springer.com/journal/4368...

"#DHMakes: Embodied Craft as Critical Engagement" #DH2026 miniconference accepted! (Annual international conf: '26=Daejeon, South Korea+virtual.) Thanks @jajrk.bsky.social & @quinnanya.me for leading submission & team drafting, + the full miniconf team (too capaciously large to fit in one tweet ⬇️) +

I'm lecturing about the "History of NLP" this week. What should I include? Any favorite anecdotes, images, people, methods? Slides, books, papers, or talks for inspiration or grounding? I've been maintaining a small collection here: www.are.na/maria-antoni...

I'm creating a series of short form videos about how language models work technically. The goal is to be something in between "you know it's next token prediction" and "now you've taken a machine learning class." I'd love your thoughts so here are the first few! 🧵 www.youtube.com/shorts/VZB8X...

3rd time this mo? I've recommended @briancassidy.bsky.social's RBS class. Understand how we got the word out—especially ourselves, owning means of textual (re)production & communication; for BIPoC, queer, politically targeted folks needing platform or privacy. + smell dittoes & print w/jelly!!

This wonderful white paper is worth a read if you care about teaching writing and research in any discipline. Up with AI-free zones!

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

Volunteering with @ach.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social orgs is a way to pick up cross functional communication collaboration organizational administrative skills forever barnacle-ing the @plach.bsky.social and @emgrumbach.bsky.social model of value driven kindness🙂‍↕️

We printed each #DigitalHumanities Center team member’s welcome sign on adhesive vinyl paper to create a wall mural to represent all of us. We’ll continue adding to this as new students join our team in the coming years #DHmakes

For our Search & Discovery class I'm 👀 for a pithy piece (article or podcast) that comprehensively + critically chronicles the decline of web search — SEO, link rot, AI summaries + ☠️ of click-through, AI slop, etc — but of course, thanks to search's brokenness, I can't find what I'm 👀 for! 😫

It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!

My experiments in joyful pedagogy resume today, my 1st day w a #DigitalHumanities class co-designed w an instructor & centered on learning thru experimentation, discovery, play and #DHtries. We’re gonna start the session w play+reflection & see where that leads. Hoping these will help set the tone

I'm thrilled to be co-chairing ACH2026 with @fronteriza956.bsky.social. The virtual conference's theme this year is Emergenci/a with a focus on transborder DH in the Americas. We've extended the deadline all the way to February 23rd, and we welcome proposals in English and Spanish!

Tomorrow I'm joining #MLA26. I wrote up what I'll share during virtual #s67 - "Writing in the Margins: The Freedom of Scholarly Work in Nondisciplinary Spaces." Post is titled "Many Ways; Many Gifts." I talk about how my writing practice has changed as a new parent. walshbr.com/blog/many-wa...

We're thrilled to welcome @jajrk.bsky.social and @emmcg.bsky.social as co-Deputy Secretaries to the ACH Officers team. Looking forward to their leadership and contributions to our community!

Check out "Vernacular computing as encoded aesthetics for decolonial code intervention" by Koundinya Dhulipalla in AI & Society which is becoming a strong site for #critcode link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Students may end up being the only real bulwark against what is happening. But, I know that not all students have the same power — the same exit threat. Student resistance will fall along institutional lines of privilege. Could hasten the marketization of non-elite schools. The elites win.

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I took this!

Will be sharing work including @leoba.bsky.social's digital manuscript work+book arts making as transformative work www.dotporterdigital.org/a-franken-bo..., Avery Blankenship's forensic chemistry w/cookbook stains recreating moments in unrecorded women's lives read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...

ZM participating in a NYC data physicalization mapping on Brooklyn Summer Street #DHMakes www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BHq7hR/

Ever-wise Clay Shirkyon educational adaptations to AI. His critical point: Education's present methods are not from forever. We can adapt. I also wish for more positive pedagogical discussion about how to exploit AI in learning. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Check out our zine initiative! Thanks @cynthiaheider.com and @jajrk.bsky.social for such amazing work & our undergraduate student Vicky for her words. We are also integrating these with ScholarlyCommons! repository.upenn.edu/exhibits/org... www.library.upenn.edu/rdds/work/ha...

We were able to get an exception to hire our AI/ML Developer position! We are looking for someone with coding ability, interest in working w/ our community & team, & commitment to open & ethical principles. You can read about us: www.library.upenn.edu/rdds wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Thank you to @apjanco.bsky.social for taking on the hat of #DHPublisher!!!

I’m proud to share the #DH2024 conference proceedings. This year we’ve chosen to celebrate the poster as a key part of the DH conference. zenodo.org/records/1592... #DH2025 @adho-org.bsky.social

Hello there, little orange plant! You're a $34k grant from NEH-ODH to @nowviskie.bsky.social for Neatline: Facilitating Geospatial and Temporal Interpretation or Archival Collections in 2009. 🧡 #DHmakes #ACH2025

And to everyone who presented - thank you for continuing to do this work so well. #ACH2025

So extremely grateful for the entire @ach.bsky.social community. It’s so powerful spending time caring for each other, building solidarity, and desperately holding on to hope and joy. #ACH2025

Friday's #ACH2025 #DHmakes session sharing: @leoba.bsky.social Franken-Book of Hours (binding, remix, gold!); @readywriting.bsky.social's new 4 zines/5 days; @anindita.org's tiny embroideries; @jajrk.bsky.social's feast of a zine (w/spice as sculpture, gastropoetics+cooking, fabric dyeing...); +

A final shoutout to @wepm.bsky.social for making our #ACH2025 virtual world a space of community, solidarity, & play. The final dance party was EVERYTHING, especially after such a heavy day. Thanks @apjanco.bsky.social for being our fantastic DJ 👏. That's a wrap! @ach.bsky.social

Thank you, @ach.bsky.social #ACH2025 team & to everyone that participated in sessions this week to come together in a time where we need community more than, perhaps, ever! And thank you @audinyann.bsky.social for capturing the pure joy of the Work Adventure dance party! #ACH2025

Thank you to the amazing #ACH2025 Conference Team: @alexwermercolan.bsky.social @leoba.bsky.social @jajrk.bsky.social @wepm.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @regan008.bsky.social @sferna.bsky.social, Andy Janco, Rebecca Foote, Kathy Torabi, and all ACH Exec and volunteers for making this event happen.

Really quick show off for the #DHMakes session

Me: Thursday night, gotta sit down to publish the next #DataSittersClub for #ACH2025. Oldest kid: OK so can you make me a lich shirt for the last day of D&D camp? I have plans... Bonus kid, sleeping over: Space Phoenix, maybe? Me: 🤨 Yeah fine I can't say no to this. #DHmakes

... The Complete Guide to Lock Picking, the magic of taking one's students to special collections, delightful zines to help you with programming wizardzines.com/zines/bite-s..., the little-known B-side hit single from Frozen AND a mise en abîme cover #DHMakes #ACH2025

Can confirm @anasalter.bsky.social's game is hilarious ("Decolonize the mainframe"). Plus the retro styling of the graphics is *chef's kiss*. We were treated to a demo of distant coding too in which, in about 3 and a half minutes, they built the basics of an escape room text adventure game #ACH2025

Starting the final day of #ACH2025 listening to @triproftri.bsky.social and Christina Mune reflect on the importance and possibilities for funding #DigitalHumanities in our current climate: “When we are in the position to rebuild…” (Session 15A)

I'm really enjoying this virtual conference platform for #ACH2025.

Props to Christina Mune for talking about the awful feeling of getting an NEH grant termination, and hearing that the project you've been working on for years has to go in order to safeguard the federal government and this is an urgent priority. #ACH2025