"Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list" -- worth your time, from Adam Smyth, who lists all the stuff he dropped or which didn't work adamsmyth.substack.com/p/abandoned-...

I did a talk on just how deep the overlaps are between Frankenstein and AI last year! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF1...

Gave students an assignment to rewrite a snippet of Hard Times as, instead, a "condition of America" novel circa 2025. The winner: a scene from a school board meeting in "Woketown."

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Privacy is not about something to hide. And invasions of privacy are about power, not uncovering hidden things. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Donated. Contribute a little if you can.

A scene straight out of Calvin Kasulke's *Several People Are Typing* -- the best novel written on Slack

"How Are Students Using AI?" @anetv.bsky.social bringing the data to the ongoing convo aiandhowweteach.substack.com/p/how-are-st...

Supposed to give a pedagogy talk next week about AI and I might just scroll Bluesky with the audience

Great to see this op-ed by UNC System President Peter Hans on WHY the federal government funds research through competitive grants. #HigherEd

"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com

Oregon State U is accepting proposals, aimed at developing public-facing writing, for four public humanities fellowships on "Trust in the Age of Generative AI" (apply by 4/25) prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...

"Democracy demands wisdom & vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster & support a form of education, & access to the arts & the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds & wherever located masters of their technology & not its unthinking servants." www.neh.gov/about/histor...

Feels awkward in the timeline, but I'll be talking about how scholarly fields depend on hidden infrastructures, uncelebrated knowledge workers, and government investments that, until like yesterday, have been so vital.

Grateful to Bluesky and these folks for rapidly sharing info. Our NEH AI center grant was affected, and Jason's bsky thread has now made it all the way to our dean, vice chancellor, and provost, now starting to fight back.

It’s not just the Ivies. They cancelled visas for two international students at NC State. No consult with the university, no explanation, no process. internationalservices.ncsu.edu/announcements/

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

(4/4)... Support the ALA's campaign to save the IMLS: www.ala.org/advocacy/sho... Support to AAM's campaign to save the IMLS: www.aam-us.org/2025/03/17/u... Take action here: action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025?f... #ncph #PublicHistory #PublicHistorians

Unexpected outcome and actually good news: NC State appoints its next chancellor news.ncsu.edu/2025/03/18/k... an alum of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences!

Super pissed that Word's new "Editor" feature gave my draft a B+. Emailing Microsoft to ask if they can bump it up to a 90.

Binding Media is out! In this book, @elikaortega.bsky.social proposes the notion of "binding media" — a practice where authors & publishers "fasten together" a codex and electronic or digital media to create literary works in the form of hybrid print-digital objects www.sup.org/books/bindin...

The National Humanities Center - not yet on bksy - just opened an online store for merch. This is the first item for sale. 💪💪 energy like: Get a fellowship and find out.

Eomer: You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing! Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.

Crucial read about the growth of big tech in defense contracting, the "efficiency" and errors of AI target identification, and the "sovereign cloud"

OH following FL in opening higher ed to political surveillance and distributed online harassment. Disgusting. Feel awful for colleagues who’ve worked so hard against this. Worse for those affected.

Re: NIH: the UNC System Office was so eager to comply with EO on DEI, noting in its memo that the work of “doctors, scientists, professors, and researchers … in the fields of science, chemistry, research, and medicine …will continue unabated in an emerging regulatory landscape.” Welp. Your move.

What's wrong with this picture? The first search result for "Frankenstein" is a 1922 copy scanned from Princeton library, to which Google Books/Play has helpfully added this cover image: books.google.com/books/about/...

👋Hello Bluesky! We are now officially "live" and will regularly post announcements, tidbits, and other exciting news that will interest our members and friends across the sky! Follow us, tag us, invite your friends to join us and we will endeavor to do the same!

I hope that Thomas's work helps underscore the distinction between humanities' targeted uses of machine learning and the discourse about generative AI

We lost my dear aunt Ulla yesterday. I need you to know she was a complete badass en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulla_Ha...

I was sad to have missed Elizabeth McHenry's lectures at the British Library last month so I was delighted to see that they were on YouTube. Well worth watching for anyone in print culture studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-C...

Working on crafty digital / digital crafty things? Christina Corfield & I are co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories (@femmediahist.bsky.social) on "Craftwork within the Digital." 500-word proposal due Feb 15. #DHmakes online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

My forthcoming book, Digital Literary Redlining, has a cover and a catalogue page! I'm so honored to be in this series with so many other dhers that I respect. www.sup.org/books/digita...

I’ve been nervous at podiums before. Yet never to the degree of serving as official pronouncer at an elementary school spelling bee.

Excited to share my article “Revision and the Politics of Truth-Telling in the Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano, which was published in Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social!! Give it a read to think with me on truth, translation, and slave narrative muse-jhu-edu/pub/3/articl...

Some people love college sports, some love other aspects of a university. Happy holidays from NC State’s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences! #gopack #howlingcow #interdisciplinarity

it's the most wonderful time of the year

Dickens’ shorter public performance version is great for reading aloud to others (80-90 minutes). Story time is magical.

My end-of-year Best Of list includes just one item: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS. Easily--because so unexpectedly--joined the best things I saw this year. www.hundredsofbeavers.com

More on Victorians and clutter: LitHub ran an excerpt when my book came out. lithub.com/do-we-have-v...

Got to see my colleague Meg Day’s video installation of deaf poets in the Guggenheim this weekend. Really amazing.

To those outside of the Netherlands: Yesterday and today, Dutch Christian religious parties sold their souls to the right-wing government in exchange for a few dimes and now support radical and destructive cuts to the Dutch educational system. This makes this, sadly and terribly, a done deal. 1/

"I would recommend this class to anyone who hates reading." Not a comment I expected to cherish, but then: "Because I hated reading but I now find myself buying a new book every two weeks." 😊 Bless their hearts.

Google quietly updated their ngrams viewer again this year. The books used appear to be extremely different yet again--the rate of the words "she said" are about 60% what they were in the 20th century compared to the 2019 release, and just 20% compared to 2009. But there's a catch:

Hey folks I’m currently pouring through @pfyfe.bsky.social's excellent book *yet again* preparing for our chat on Thursday—if you're interested in DH, Victorian studies, nineteenth-century media, periodicals, distant reading, AI, or anything in between you should join us!

This is a good thread. Worry we lose an important place at the institutional table and opportunities to help students with an “anti AI” stance, even if our teaching and critical engagements with AI are mostly critical

Wanna come to my party? Having a convo with @ryancordell.bsky.social about *Digital Victorians* in a series about new books in critical bibliography. Thurs 12/12 12:00p EST. Details and register here: rarebookschool.org/all-programs...

Talk all you want about Muppet adaptations, but one of my students is planning to recreate Cranford on Nextdoor and I am here for it

Victorian beige flag

Seems #dayofdh2024 is a good time to hang this awesome @skeuomorph.bsky.social print