Look, if "Help! I've Been Cursed With a Bubble Butt" doesn't draw you in, we don't know what will. itch.io/b/3666/towns...

L - The piece I filed R - The pitch I emailed

Used my classic teaching example for web presences earlier asking people to search "Brandon Walsh" and see how long it took to see a result related to me.

Just used my reading knowledge of French from my PhD to help a student using Safari in French to access her developer tools. Honestly a high point for my week.

I tried, really I did, to settle down harmoniously with a mastodon as soon as Musk bought Twitter, but it was a lonely, depressed year until I showed up here and @walshbr.bsky.social & I started the DH invite code pool. I do not miss those days, and this one-page RPG made me chuckle.

I need someone to come shake me any time I commit to teaching / running two radically different sessions in the same day.

Each DDH volume is an innovation, and this one is no exception. In CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE STUDIES, @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and @jamessmithies.bsky.social present the "manifest," a documenting of the infrastructure used to research and produce each chapter. Dig in here!

Oh no. Heartbreaking news -- his work has been so important to many, including me.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Seems great for #DHmakes folks!

Tfw you don’t have your own event on your calendar. 👀👀 Am excited to relaunch this series this summer. Come join me for a lil summer reading group to beat the heat.

This looks awesome! A data viz course from the authors of Data Feminism, @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social. So excited to teach with these materials! openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...

Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026

Had a magical time teaching "Critical Making: Enchanted Things" for Dream Lab 2026 ✨ I wanted to share some of the enchanted things we created throughout the week Lenticular bookmark merch- logo designed by Kayleigh Ng #DreamLab #DHMakes

While you're at it, check out the awesome program for #ACH2026. Our annual conference is fully virtual, very affordable, and highly engaging. It's a wonderful space of care + community ach2026.ach.org/en/program/

Looking for a low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities learning opp? There's still space in our #ACH2026 pre-conference workshops: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative & Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution

My book has a cover! I told the press I had a thing for the design of computer books from the 1970s and I was so excited they took that seriously. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Blinked and the first #ByteSizedPedagogy is this Friday at noon ET. I’ll be reading “Born Pedagogical DH: Learning While Teaching” by Emily McGinn and Lauren Coats and hanging out for 30 minutes to discuss with whoever joins. Consider hanging out! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16778240

Back at the loom, weaving @dancohen.org 2009 @neh-odh.bsky.social grant for using @zotero.org and TAPoR on the Old Bailey proceedings. Really would like to finish this first weaving in time for the Textile Dataviz Showcase on Friday. #DHmakes

I see some people in this thread asking "what can I do that won't get me fired" so now might be a great time to revisit "Taking Action in Higher Ed" halperta.com/shalperta%20...

The answer is that many of us are, in fact, capable of taking the hit for all of us in the name of what we believe to be right, even if it will change the course of our lives. But most of us don't start there. We start small. We build courage, we build relationships, we build resistance.

Making some fire roasted tomato and artichoke sauce w/ tortellinis for dinner. #DHCooks

Oh boy Subnautica 2 is out in early access

Trying to describe your D&D campaign to someone who doesn’t play.

(ACH conf = our DH scholarly org's digital humanities conference; SIG = Special Interest Group, an academic term for themed working groups)

If you're @ June's virtual ACH conference+curious re: #DHmakes (methods for analyzing data, communicating research, refusing+speaking on bad tech! supportive community, joy, +creativity in yr life) there's 2 open options on different days: SIG meeting, show+tell of the 20-artist DH mail art packet

"No AI" fast becoming the "pesticides and additives-free" of our digital universe.

So, so true: “Google Scholar has never been enough.” Personally, I’d say the same about a lot of commercial library discovery engines, which often cannot tell the difference between a book and a review of a book. Human curation, not for profit, supporting the scholarly societies that support you.

Toddler gets a 10/10 for enthusiasm and a 4/10 for precision.

Take a break and slide into the weekend with the May issue of #ReviewsInDH, brought to you by @jenguiliano.bsky.social & yours truly. Tibetan historical figures! The history of sex work! Black student protests in higher ed! We have it all. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n5

In the old Scholars' Lab my belt exploded off my body while walking.

Get thee behind me, image resolutions.

An Embedded Pedagogies update as I go through and sort out images and rights releases now. Sounds like a rough estimate will have the book in the world sometime in Fall 2026. 🎉🎉

And we're just a little over two weeks out from #ACH2026! Check out information about the full program at the link below in Spanish or English. Still plenty of time to register for the conference, become a member, or join one of the pre-conference workshops.

Last ICYMI for the week - I shared the materials for an upcoming workshop I'm running in collaboration with phdplus.virginia.edu on developing sustainable and enriching writing practices this summer.

If she tries to frame denying collective bargaining as part of affordability—which she might, who knows?—she's going to face well-placed ridicule (esp. from unions) that paying people less is not the path to advancing household prosperity

I would just like to point out the contrast between this approach to governing and @abigailspanberger.com's. I'm sure that behind the scenes, Mamdani is ruling out certain initiatives. But he's publicly saying, "We can do a lot, and we're going to do as much as we can." A politics of "yes."

Every word. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...

Love to post writing that had been giving trouble right before bed.

#DHPedagogy people: are you working with Donald A. Schön's (1983) The Reflective Practitioner as a key text in the way that you approach curricula/course/assignment development?

Cooking up a fun project with @katinalynn.bsky.social 👀👀 Equal parts shared excitement and a feedback loop of saying “are you sure you want to do this?? You can walk away!!”

I’m mulling over, as I often do when bracing to go into Specialist Nerd Spaces, the difference between the Person of Vast Experience who is then jaded/cynical/snobbish, vs one with the same experience who can remain enthusiastic, recall the beginner’s heart & curiosity, & truly welcome the newbie.

Library work is deeply relational. Our work is collab + people centered. The library is the ❤️ of the uni. Lib folx are the ❤️ of the uni. The relationships we nurture span the disciplines + bridge research & teaching. Libraries have never been needed more. Library folx have never been needed more

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic Caterpie

Editors’ Choice: Automated deploy with build-ghpages

Got a behind the scenes tour of Temple University’s BookBot and I loved it

Are you ready to go on a journey? @mayorhere.bsky.social's review of Replaced gets to the heart of what it looks like for a game to ask genuine questions about posthumanism now, in spite of Big Tech's attempts to make us embrace a much paltrier vision of AI. www.gamerswithglasses.com/reviews/repl...

A good excuse for me to continue reposting on the event itself. Pre-conference workshops June 22-23: ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/ Keynotes and sessions June 24-26: ach2026.ach.org/en/ Still time to register for any and all.

If you'll be attending #ACH2026 please consider volunteering to help keep things running smoothly! Looking for help moderating, overseeing technical issues in sessions, and with work adventure. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

CFP - Artificial Intelligence and Digital Humanities Pedagogy. DHQ invites 500-word abstracts for a special issue on AI in relation to digital humanities pedagogy. Deadline: Aug 1, 2026. More details: dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/...