I’m bad at BlueSky, but I’m good at #mla26, so please come to these two fabulous panels tomorrow!

I'm attending #MLA26 virtually this year, so I won't be able to attend this panel tomorrow, but I hope people attending in person will consider attending 233 - Collections as AI Data? mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee... It's sponsored by my forum Libraries and Research.

'Despite persistent myths, employment rates for humanities graduates are comparable to those of STEM graduates, as Humanities Indicators data shows. Early earnings differ but the salary gap narrows significantly mid-career, particularly for graduates who pursue further study'. 1/2

If you’d like to help me pay for my prescriptions while I’m furloughed, consider buying some of my books directly from me! DM for details 🏴‍☠️📚🖤

Ok, I know I've been a bit absent on socials, but allow me to reemerge to beg you to circulate this excellent job on a wonderful team. Please apply! careers.swarthmore.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

One of the highlights of my summer is teaching in the @humanitiestexas.bsky.social institute. The middle and high school teachers in this program are fiercely dedicated and the Humanities Texas staff are 💯. Learn more www.humanitiestexas.org/education/te...

Just arrived in Austin to lead a workshop for Humanities Texas and this hotel is 💯

Teaching “DH in the Classroom” at DREAM Lab @pricelab.bsky.social was a rewarding experience. Fantastics students, the best collaborator @betovargas.github.io, and friends old and new. We covered a huge range of topics, but here’s a peek at the game we made in the #DHMakes unit.

Last week we celebrated @cathyndavidson.bsky.social, a mentor whose support and advocacy is unparalleled. The joke was that she must have clones, because she offers such personal, genuine attention to every request that it seems impossible (especially if you 👀 at her pubs). Thank you Cathy ❤️👏

Thank you to @apprecovery.bsky.social especially @gbaezaventura.bsky.social, Dr. Lorena Gauthereau, Dr. Linda García Merchant, & Youngjun Kim for hosting me and to @betovargas.github.io for helping me prepare. It was a pleasure to speak to this curious and thoughtful group.

As the article says, Carla Hayden is an American hero. apnews.com/article/dona...

Important announcement: Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium is accepting applications for Teaching Fellowships for Summer 2025. Due May 31. It is truly a mutually beneficial experience with a well-organized and brilliant team. Apply here: tinyurl.com/DEFConTF2025 (cc @roopikarisam.bsky.social)

Please boost! The NOEL PRIZE, in memory of the great and good and much-missed Will Noel. Celebrate your (or any) open access library project. No project too small, or too big. Full details here, deadline 8/1, extremely low-effort Google Form: pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...

A fantastic shout out to Responsible Datasets in Context (www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com) at DSRI today github.com/tri-cods/pyt...

Back in Feb, @ryancordell.org shared this incredible woodcut from @skeuomorphpress.org collection. He shared the original illustrator file for all! I was so inspired by this woodcut, I wanted to clean it up and redistribute it to the public 🧵 1/2 #printsky #academicsky #typophile

New-old protest art just dropped! Amazing detailing of a classic woodcut—send to your favorite printer!

New CFP from JITP on Minimalist Digital Pedagogy. Due June 15th. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

Confirming that this is delicious (made even more delightful by eating outside on a 78 degree day) cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021...

I love this

Tomorrow is the biggest VR event we’ve ever done! My team made a custom canopy tour of Scott Arboretum and will be assessing learning engagement with the Kid Lab at Swarthmore. Super excited and very nervous 🤞

Can we talk about how this little measuring tape from @rarebookschool.bsky.social is the most handy tool in my desk drawer? 📚

Be my colleague? We're hiring in Indigenous Interdisciplinary Studies, a tenure-track position focused on cultural expression. Scholars/creators of media and literature may find this particularly important. Deadline: 25 May, 2025. laurentian.ca/careers/facu...

TODAY at 4:30 -- a strategy session for MLA members to help respond to challenges facing our students, programs, and institutions under current conditions. Will *not* be recorded (for perhaps obvious reasons). Please join us and please share with your colleagues.

Loved being a part of this well-named, well-organized series @scholarslab.bsky.social with @walshbr.bsky.social and @jajrk.bsky.social #DHMakes

ICYMI - the last #ByteSizedPedagogy session was "On Making." @jajrk.bsky.social and @amandalicastro.bsky.social uploaded their short write-ups to @kcommons.bsky.social. You can find citations for their work and the other folks featured in the series here - walshbr.com/byte-sized-p...

Thanks to #ByteSizedPedagogy and @walshbr.bsky.social I had a great excuse to support @kcommons.bsky.social by uploading my presentation and teaching materials. Check it out and consider submitting your work as well. (CC @kfitz.info) works.hcommons.org/records/65jf...

My testimonial to the NEH in @sarahebond.bsky.social 's latest issue of Pasts Imperfect (pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-impe...) If it were still 2015, I think this might be a shocking concession to DH skeptics who questioned the field's organic character. Alas, it's not 2015.

I met with the superintendent of our school district about this on Friday. Most of the parents in our Title 1 district do not have the time or resources to advocate, but I do, so I will. You can too. Talk to administrators and offer support. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/b...

This day was so hard in so many ways, and I’m feeling so disheartened by all of it. Thank you all for the work, seen and unseen, despite it all.

Advance praise from @amandalicastro.bsky.social: “Re/Marks on Power explores unexpected and understudied examples of #annotation across cultures, historical periods, and mediums. Kalir’s compelling research is essential for those intrigued by the power and complexity of multimodal composition.”

A warning to all AI researchers: "The data analytic tools now being used to scour [students'] social media were enhanced during the Biden administration...But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended."

#ICYMI folks w/deep experience re:crisis web archiving (@sucho-org.bsky.social)+building tools for it (@webrecorder.net) made a free zine teaching how anyone can archive the things you love on the web before they go away: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... & why you shouldn't expect others will do so

When your VR workshop for a 116 person archeology class goes exceedingly well, you get a treat #DH

As someone who supports the critical and ethical integration of VR across the curriculum, it is exciting to see this report our of @insidehighered.com today www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

She may look angelic, but this devil scratched me across my nose on a week when I have four in-person presentations to give and two classes to teach 😇😈

Starting in 30 minutes if you want to join! #ByteSizedPedagogy

This is for @swilua.bsky.social. And me. I didn’t know I needed it, but I did. Thank you @meaghanbrown.bsky.social.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that there would be no #DH as we know it without NEH and IMLS

My child attends a Title 1 school, and they use funding to support food pantries, clothing closets, free reading materials, and educational co-curricular activities for everyone. It is an incredible community that does not deserve to have their funding rescinded. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

I'm adding two articles I wrote back in 2016 and 2017, during a different round of threats to NEH and other valuable cultural agencies. The first is "How to Fight for Federal Support of Cultural Research and Why It Matters," which offers some specific advocacy tips medium.com/@jasonrhody/...

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

The final project in my English course is for students to draft an @neh-odh.bsky.social grant. Today, I had to explain that the NEH was under fire, and in fact might not exist by the time the course ends. I shared this with my students and urge you to share it as well nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

FYI, I collected links to what the IMLS funds in most of each of the US states and they're in here so you can know on a state and sometimes even local level what is going to be severely impacted very very soon.

Update on the situation at IMLS -> “Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave”

When the k-12 schedule doesn’t align with the college schedule, work from home looks like…

The Metro NY Library Council invites member organizations* to apply for its digitization grants — deadline: May 16 * Members: Brooklyn, NY + Queens public libraries; most college + university libraries; many museums + other cultural institutions; lots of municipal depts; etc (metro.org/members)

This is unbelievably good news!

This is really delicious and super easy. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025...

"When most Americans think about our great universities, they probably don’t think about the origins of lasers, FM radio or bar codes..." 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...