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

Christina and Kathy end with hope that we'll all rebuild, and ask us what we're hopeful for. The big theme: solidarity with this community 🫶 #ACH2025

Great panel to kick off the day @ #ach2025 "When we are in a position to rebuild..." Celebrating the opportunities created through @neh-odh.bsky.social and @nehgov.bsky.social challenge grants to improve the lives of students across California. Such a loss to see funding cut.

This #ACH2025 morning (Pacific Time): "What the NEH ODH Has Inspired". @jimccasey1.bsky.social has already made me cry. @altnehgov.altgov.info was essential for me as a professional, for so many of us. My career, the friendships I hold so dear, my work -- I can never express enough gratitude.

The loss of funding is severe, but the loss of this wonderful #DigitalHumanities community is far worse. #DH is about people, and NEH ODH was a core piece of our people-based infrastructure for advancing our field and helping each of us grow #ACH2025

"I hate that this sounds like a eulogy." [email protected] on how NEH is "an agency that really believes in the promise of our field." And Sam wraps with a promise and a call to be sand in the gears of the anti-fascist machine. May we all be sand. #ACH2025

Fun fact (as the coffee kicks in this morning): before the pandemic, I had a wonderful conversation with @brettbobley.bsky.social about failure, and scholars' reticence to straight up that word. The NEH understood that good experimental work can fail. I so appreciated that honesty. #ACH2025

So much today on the importance of the human in the humanities. And a theme running through the entire conference: community -- both our local communities and our DH community. #ACH2025

@megsmith.bsky.social reminds us that infrastructure is a mutual obligation and a mutual aid #ACH2025

Grateful to be able to thank NEH-ODH staff in a public setting during #ACH2025 and recognize their immeasurable contributions to the DH field. I said in my talk that I hate how this feels like a eulogy, but I'm also glad we have the opportunity to share in a moment of community grief.

#ACH2025 #DHMakes DH Craftivism as Resistance Special session soon!

Powerful point at #ACH2025 that cutting NEH is just one more part of the complete erosion of a public good and institutions. And when we do this, the powerful and already rich and prestigious take full control and consolidate all the resources. And the broader public… and democracy loses.

Tagging for the #ACH2025 folks 💔

It was great to take part in #ACH2025 - probably the only DH conference with a dedicated 2D world and pixel avatars! I presented two papers broadly focused on community - one on academic connections on Mastodon, and the other on the newly published Foggia Occupator Dataset.

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Hey #ACH2025 -- I'm in room 'D' in the WorkAdventure poster session for the next hour or so. Come hang out if you want to chat about our @kavlifoundation.org funded project looking at Ethical Considerations Around Machine Learning-Engaged Online Participatory Research!

Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off? Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference! Testify to the impact! Share what you had started! Share what you hoped & dreamed! Open to all 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help us spread the word?