Faculty: libraries and librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble, and it almost definitely is, write to your provost and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your work. Right now.

In other news I finally cut back a bunch of the vines that have been encroaching on my front porch. Which is why I'm showered and in clean pajamas at 7pm 🤣 They'll just come back, I know, and I've tried all the weed killers that are supposed to be less dangerous than glyphosate. 😤

Finally one of the kitties took an adorable picture 🤣🤣🤣 #Nekoatsume #Nekoatsume2

Neko Atsume 2 update. Finally got enough fish to expand my yard. And enough gold fish to purchase the instant camera. So far they're taking photos of the food bowl and the step into the garden.

Look, are we sure the Weird Hermit At The Far End Of The Garden career path is entirely defunct? Because I'd be so fabulous at that. I would have to have it written into my contact that I got to bathe every day, though. I'm not going to reek and itch all over for anybody's entertainment.

Suspect has been known to jump into the middle of others' conversations on BlueSky and write entire novels in skeet threads. Sorry, not sorry.

Delighted to start the Summer Faculty Research Fellowship at IIT Delhi with Prof Arjun Ghosh! Areas: #DigitalHumanities pedagogy, #DH in Indian lang (esp #himalayanhistories), DH in museums& archives. (Continuing a journey that began a decade ago with the Praxis fellowship @scholarslab.bsky.social!

The game of "Who's Got Rotting Grandpa's Phone Tonight?" is getting me down. He's so clearly just a drugged up, propped up, figurehead at this point. I'm not sure who is actually running the government, but it's not 47, and probably not anyone actually elected.

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

Join us for some end-of-semester meditative time led by Library staff from noon to 12:45 TODAY in the Fine Arts Library. Stay for 5 or 30 minutes, cookies & tea provided. No experience or background knowledge necessary! Register: https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16633422

Tech Bros are lyke "oh man do not go to college it ys too manye bookes - instead, just use generaciounal wealthe to create a startup that doth helpe companyes charge more for watir on hot dayes"

Fold down the upper right-hand corner of today so you can find it again later and remember. You can dog-ear your own Friday; it's not a library copy.

ICYMI—This Arab American Heritage Month, explore stories of identity, history, and hope. UVA librarians recommend 5 books by Arab American women writers—from speculative futures to family legends. https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/5-books-observe-arab-american-heritage-month #AAHM

Our brilliant Praxis Fellows presenting today about their year with us here @scholarslab.bsky.social.

Reminder to join us tomorrow for the final presentation by our Praxis fellows, where they'll talk about the work they undertook over the course of the year. A portfolio of many different kinds of activities. Zoom option available for those far away, lunch for those who are local.

🏫This spring our Will Rourk directed a team of students, Fluvanna County community, & architecture preservation professionals in completing the documentation necessary to nominate the ~1935 Evergreen African-American School as an official historic site with the Virginia Dept of Historic Resources🎓🦮+

@quinnanya.me I just finished a slow read of Sayers' _The Nine Tailors_, which features bell ringing. One of the book club members found this knitting pattern in a 1983 knitting resource, The Knitting Workshop, by Jacqueline Fee. It's a sweater knitted according to a set of bell ringing changes:

Join us this Mon 4/27 4:30-6 to explore in virtual reality student reconstructions of a Byzantine building excavated in the Athenian Agora, experiencing the building as it may have once been lived. We've got the VR headsets & sweet treats—come see what's possible w/VR, 3D viz, & digital archaeology!

And, join us the following week for our graduate DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg’s final presentation—actually an interactive workshop on speculative pedagogy, rather than a traditional presentation! Only on zoom, Wed May 6 @ 1pm. Please register: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16654008

Join us next week for our interdisciplinary grad DH Praxis Fellows’ final presentation! Both in-person (w/lunch) & on zoom options, Thurs 4/30 12:30pm. Please register: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16310900

Scholars' Lab's @winnieepm.bsky.social launched her professional website! & blogged about her choice to design+code it using a minimal computing approach including Eleventy & making the underlying code public on GitHub #mincomp:

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

All done except the tongue. It’s dumber than I couldn’t hoped and I love it. Next I’m free embroidering details and then turning it into a blanket.

Currently fighting the urge to crochet a blanket about my sleep patterns. I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER SIDE QUEST, BRAIN! I HAVE TOO MANY AS IT IS!

love & art, courage & connectioun & kyndenesse, & beautye & healinge & helpinge & joy & learninge -- and everythinge else kan go straighte to hell

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.

Bullet Journal found! I used a tote bag I don't usually use last Friday, and forgot to take it out. Huzzah! My brain is back! 😂

BuJo is not in any of the spaces I thought it might be at work, not on the lost and found cabinet.

Bullet journal is not at home. I guess I've laid it down somewhere in the office. I'll go on a treasure hunt tomorrow morning, and then check the lost and found box at the reference desk.

I have just confirmed that my bullet journal is nowhere to be found in my office, and it's not in my backpack. Precious is looooooost!* *probably on my desk at home, hopefully, maybe

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spent the last couple of hours creating an in depth timeline for the events in Dorothy Sayers _The Nine Tailors_ because I'm in a close reading book club and that's our text. Kept my mind occupied very nicely. Highly recommend.

Have emailed Rep, who is 100% maga, and Senators. I can't do much of anything else. (Grateful for those of you who can call. My anxiety won't let me right now.)This is on the Republicans. They must act. Impeachment of both 47 and the Sec of Defense is all that will stop this.

I'll just say that if you're hoping to work data from a site that the Lab maintains for a faculty member, being obnoxious to me in your email replies is not The Way, nor is telling me that you have money to assist with development. Behold, the field where I sew my fscks is COMPLETELY BARREN.

editing a podcast episode this afternoon, and I have two thoughts 1. I am utterly charmed by my coworkers and the way they talk about their work 😍 2. I say "yea," "yes," "oh yes," "oh nice," and "nice!" WAAAAY too much. 🤦

Along with a heart-healthy diet, 30 minutes of enemy smiting each day reduces your risk of stroke by 90%.

This book is oh so good! It's so good that I've never finished the last chapter so that the story won't be over, and yes, I know that's ridiculous, and yes, someday I will finish it. Leave me to my neurodivergent weirdness, please.

DH+critical making CFP on how: 'making=rooted in collaboration ethics+politics; maker-based pedagogies=>historical+theoretical reflection around bodies, lands, infrastructures; research via making looks in classroom/community/world; making discourse also=talking labor, power, colonial oppression' +

I, for one, am so happy to see A Young Person interested in taking up the trades. It's so needed in the world. Also, I'm pretty sure it'll be much harder for AI to replace the people who fix and build actual things.

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)

My head has been pounding all day, just a terrible near-migraine headache, but apparently the weather front just went over about 40 minutes ago, because my both ears popped and now my sinuses are emptying as fast as they can empty. um. oops. sorry. that's gross. But omg the relief! THE RELIEF!

Do I have godawful indigestion because I ate pizza yesterday, or do I have godawful indigestion because *gestures wildly at world*? Who can say Who can say

Increasingly convinced that if everyone just understood that LLMs are basically Magic 8 balls, a good chunk of our problems could be solved.

Many spring makerspace workshops now up on scholarslab.org/events! Join us for *free* workshops e.g. letterpress, laser, lightup, & yarn valentines 💌; beading; sewing; & friendly intros to our 3D printers, lasercutter, CNC milling, soldering. Open to public; registration req'd bc of space limits

On Thurs Jan 29, IATH is hosting an information session about the 2026 CFP for the DHC/IATH Resident Fellowship program, a 2-year Fellowship offered to a UVA faculty member using digital tools and methods for humanities projects. Learn more: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16242428

Happening tonight on Zoom at 4pm we'll chat about science fiction, Hawthorne, & Poe for the 2026 Reading Challenge! Register at: https://cal.lib.virginia.edu/calendar/events/ReadSciFi “Rappacinni’s Daughter” illustration: Valenti Angelo/Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales. Limited Editions Club, 1966

Sent messages to Kaine and Warner via their websites re: the situation in Minneapolis and with ICE in general. There must be no further funding, the billions allocated for expansion must be clawed back, and the agency must be abolished. No reform is possible, and never has been.