A friend is visiting me for the first time since I moved to SC. She said “I wasn’t sure if this was the right house, but then I saw the Read Banned Books flag and knew this must be the place.” Love that for me.

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

I wrote about learning R as a humanities student—how intimidating it felt at first, how I got past the fear, and what these tools can actually do for our work. hallieknipp.net/2025/05/06/c... #DigitalHumanities #GradSchool #RStats #HumanitiesCoding #AcademicLife #DigitalHistory #dh

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

The point of history is at the very least to remind us why we stopped doing dumb things in the past. Wellness camps are ineffective and inhumane. Just provide the actual support families need - ping @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

The birthday parade will cost an estimated $45 million. That's over one-fifth of the 2025 NEH budget, which covered >900 grants in all 50 states to support public libraries, local museums, community history projects, literacy initiatives, research grants & more. Until he rescinded the funds.

#DHmakes It's Monday.

Today in #AHAPerspectives, a few quick tips for historians getting started writing op-eds. 🗃️

Logged on to say something sardonic about France wanting the Statue of Liberty back, now it’s 7:45 and I’m yelling about bullshit elitist, fake feminism. I hadn’t even made it to the coffee pot yet.

Happy Women’s History Month, yall. Women’s history is American history because American history is women’s history.

I’d like to remind everyone, ad nauseam, that actual hillbillies were warning folks about this crank nine years ago—but the likes of Oprah, the NYT, Ron Howard, and even Olaf Scholz praised him for—get this—a book all about blaming poor people for their misfortunes.

New blog post "Weaponized Metascience," on Ted Cruz' list of "woke DEI" NSF grants, NIH indirect cost fuckery, and using the trappings of science to undermine science dhicks.github.io/posts/2025-0... #philsci #sts

There’s the idea that academic writing should be a bit emotionally detached etc etc and then there’s David Whisnant writing about outside exploitation of Appalachia with just absolute, unchecked disdain. I love it.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X. Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.

Abortion funds in the US will have a hard year ahead. Would you consider donating the cost of a NY Eve drink (or more, as fits your budget) to this ActBlue action that splits donations among 93 local abortion funds? secure.actblue.com/donate/suppo...

The city of New Orleans uses the Mississippi River as drinking water. Our current governor begged the state to remove funding from the city of New Orleans to fix the pumps and the decaying sewage and water system UNTIL the DA agrees to prosecute women for abortions. www.essence.com/news/louisia...

The campus fits are about to be so good.

Family members after asking about my dissertation:

The weekend after finals week, or, 48 hours of previously neglected household tasks and hobbies. (I have done so much laundry and am 90% finished with a crochet project.)

Autism niche interests and obsessions. A how to handle them 🛢 for parents, teachers, therapists, and educational consultants who advocate for these children. IG images from Nicole Casey | Gestalt Language & AAC SLP. #EduSky ##ActuallyAutistic /1

In longer form, @aktange.bsky.social on how reading Victorian novels will make you embrace vaccination: theconversation.com/infectious-d...

My grandfather’s story is one every anti-vaxxer should read. We are now so far removed from the time when kids died en masse, mostly dying at home with their families caring for them, that anti-vaxxers don’t fear the consequences of not vaccinating. Obviously my grandfather lived, but it was brutal.

You’re saying “however” like that’s not part of the appeal.

You couldn’t make a Wicked film ten years ago because ten years ago we didn’t openly speak about how much we love fan fiction.

Simply cannot wait to teach about tariffs that nearly tore the country apart and a presidential election that actually did tear the country apart and the all the political compromises that led to the deaths of ~700,000 Americans this week. 🫥

Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?

Storygraph is so much better! I’ve been using it for years. Also! Fun visualizations.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️ The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion. When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!

1) Nov 11 (a date set by my mom, who always put up the Christmas tree while she had a long weekend over Veteran’s Day) 2) The Grinch (2000) 3) chicken tortilla soup

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: - local pizza place - lifeguard - hostess - library staff - 1:1 person support - 1:1 person support but with kids - writing tutor - Composition instructor - archives staff - research assistant

Deciding to focus this dissertation on reproductive health and birth control was a really good idea and definitely not terrifying. (cw slightly graphic historical medical descriptions) (Brought to Bed: Judith Walzer Leavitt)

My South Carolina ballot made me sad with all the candidates running unopposed but we did the damn thing.

A little too on the nose

My partner teaches 6th grade world history, which in practical terms means that when Hollaback Girl come on earlier, he sang the ~plague remix~ he teaches his students. “Oooo, fleas on rats, fleas on rats…. This plague is bubonic! B U B O N I C”

Trying to connect with the youth but I teach early US History

A friend from high school’s kid celebrated his 8th birthday and based on the FB pictures, it was Trump-themed. Aside from my obvious feelings about Trump, I’m just astounded about how that happened. How does a politician become a birthday party theme for an 8 year old? “Make birthdays gr8 again”?!

Showed up to teach and learned that the classroom tech was down and campus IT was “on the way.” Didn’t know how long that would be and had to start class. On the spot lesson planning went fairly okay? Had them do a small group activity. New teacher win?

Partner: Are you watching Hamilton right now? I thought you were working. Me: Obviously I am lesson planning my lecture on the Constitutional Convention???

Post a scene from a film you’ve seen more than 10 times.

This story is...quite a journey

We need to be honest with people who want to get PhDs and not just about the job market lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...

the idea that racial biases somehow 'are creeping into' anything tech related ignores the entire history of racial biases built into just about anything tech related

Without downloading a new pic, where are you now mentally?