one more vote for strange women lying in ponds distributing swords

Tip on reviewing ARR papers in 2026: - Check the references FIRST. I wasted 40 minutes reviewing a paper before realizing the references were LLM-generated.

What should I make sure to do in the Turin region?

If you liked Ed Yong's 'An Immense World', you will enjoy @moultano.bsky.social's article about how to go outside and see colors you've definitely never seen on a screen and may never have even noticed before (or at least not in the last several decades).

If you help me reach 4k followers I promise I will log out of bluesky for a full week. Seriously. At 5k followers, it will be two weeks. And so on. If this proves successful, at 10k followers I may muster up the courage to cancel my account entirely!

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

What should I make sure to do in the Turin region?

So glad to hear that #NEH awards canceled last year will be reinstated soon! For those of you dealing with this, I'm sure the process requires new forms, work plans, or budgets, which can be frustrating. Pls remember that your NEH colleagues are overworked and overwhelmed, too.

A few folks recently returned, but the agency is still a fraction of what is was last year before the RIF. They are working as hard as they can. And, it's so hard for them -- they will never say word publicly--with a smaller cohort of colleagues.

There are of course *bad* digital humanities scholars (like there are bad chemists and historians), but by and large the best argument against the shallower 2010-2015 digital humanities critics is the fact that some of the most careful, knowledgeable, and critical voices on AI are DH people.

If you had an NEH Grant terminated, see the newly posted "Restarting Your Project: Planning Tips and Best Practices" and check for messages from eGMS. www.neh.gov/grants/manag...

There's more info here! Pass it along: www.neh.gov/information-...

Interesting new note from NEH: “Your terminated NEH award is eligible for reinstatement pursuant to the rulings issued on May 7, 2026, in the consolidated cases ACLS, et al.” I look forward to digging into the attached strings, but congrats to the ACLS, AHA, and MLA for getting us this far.

Yo if you're not following this mega thread of Scott's work, you should be. So much fun/good/thought provoking stuff here.

On this day in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in the U.S. on a boat, in pieces. The Library’s Historic American Engineering Record collection has some amazing photos of Lady Liberty from odd angles, taken in 1984 and 1985 during a major restoration project ahead of her centennial celebration.

Why knowing who studies social science and humanities matters blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Hugely excited at the latest dashboard we’ve developed to let you have a systemwide view of student number trends in SHAPE (social science, humanities and arts subjects) across UK higher education. Also you can see characteristics & mobility. Have a play! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

#27: Computational analysis of the body in European fairy tales. By studying how fairy tale bodies get described, @foxyfolklorist.bsky.social & I found support for the feminist theory that the male perspective is often treated as universal. As "default" as male is, we found youth to be even more so.

INCREDIBLE whalefall news: a five-million old necropolis of whale skeletons has been found -- five active ecosystems and almost 500 fossil cetaceans (incl extinct species!), in the Diamantina Zone, 1200 km long and >5km deep in the Indian Ocean. [open access paper] nature.com/articles/s41...

The US Administration may have just ended public-use microdata, a central pillar of research that estimates the true effects of social policy and keeps the government accountable. Thread—>

Innovative performer, dancer, and prop manipulator Nik Robson-King has passed away. He was a dear friend—always generous and kind. Watch his absolute control over his body and its relationship to both time and to the viewer. It's impossible to describe, just watch. The video is not in slow motion.

...is it finally time to start my organization offering walking tours of the old web, with a different docent guiding you through every few years from 1991 through 2011? I feel like @elan.place has probably already done this, or someone in @shannonmattern.bsky.social's circle...

...is it finally time to start my organization offering walking tours of the old web, with a different docent guiding you through every few years from 1991 through 2011? I feel like @elan.place has probably already done this, or someone in @shannonmattern.bsky.social's circle...

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

I forgive you for cross posting, and that forgiveness is legally binding and perpetual. You no longer need to apologize. You are free.

(Proudly over 99.7% human.)

Keep 'em coming, fellow nerds.

Every Thursday after circus practice I go to one of those speakeasy bars that requires a rotating password to get in. The guy who takes the password asks me for interesting facts instead, because he knows I have them, but I'm running out! Tell me (brief) interesting facts I can share with him.

Every Thursday after circus practice I go to one of those speakeasy bars that requires a rotating password to get in. The guy who takes the password asks me for interesting facts instead, because he knows I have them, but I'm running out! Tell me (brief) interesting facts I can share with him.

After 17 (!!) years I'll finally finish my doctorate as a "PhD by Prior Publications." I must assess my 151 articles, books, websites, and software packages for their contributions to and impacts on my field. As one way to make this manageable, I'll share one thing from the dossier every few days.

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