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.

Here are my top 10 most unusual dog friends of all time!

@wickedjaws.bsky.social ! I missed your birthday yesterday! Happy Birthday! 💜🎉🥳🎂 Hope it was a good one 💜

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

We've made changes to hours based on incoming weather: Saturday Shannon & Brown: 9 am–6 pm Harrison/Small: noon-4 pm Clemons: 9 am–8 pm Sunday Clemons: Noon–10 pm. All other libraries closed Operations for Monday and beyond will be reassessed daily. Check library.virginia.edu & hours page.

New scam journal alert for #DigitalHumanities! Digital Humanities and Society Studies - not just predatory, but fully AI-generated with fake authors (or in at least one case, a recognizably stolen name). The publisher's been flagged before as being shady, but this journal is particularly egregious.

Teaching the first project management session for the Praxis Fellows this afternoon. As always, hoping I don't bore people, even though I'm usually surprised by how engaged everyone is when having these concepts explained.

Special thanks to @ziibiing.com, whose work putting together the Stand With Minnesota web site informed where I put my donations. www.standwithminnesota.com

Why are titles so difficult!? If you were making a podcast about the Scholars' Lab, what would you call it? Because everything I'm coming up with is boring! "Around the Lab"? "All About The Lab"? "Happening In The Lab"? See?! Boring! #crowdsourcingmyjob

This book is so good, and so very needed. I can't wait for others to get their hands on it. I'm so grateful I got to participate as a reviewer on some of these essays.

Did my civic duty at lunch today. Trying to find some hope to hang on to, and exercising my right to vote helped.

It's not too late to join us for an Open Access Week brown bag lunch at noon — short presentations followed by Q&A. Can't make it today? There's another one tomorrow... Follow the link for more including registration info! library.virginia.edu/news/2025/wh... #OA #OpenAccess #OpenAccessWeek

Painting my nails for this party later. How do I girly girl, again? Feeling hella weirdly intimidated, despite extensive prep and planning. Oh well. We go anyhow.

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

Still in love with your research and interested in exploring what else you can do with the results of that work? We've got a design jam for that, too, and I'm telling all about it in this blog post! At UVA? Interested in chatting with us about your ideas? Email us at [email protected]!

Our GIS Specialists collaborated on this investigation of Virginia's local news ecosystem with UVA’s Karsh Institute of Democracy & Virginia Humanities—full report coming soon: karshinstitute.virginia.edu/research/vir...

Hey #fungi peeps -- @mawdc.bsky.social has $ available for students who need research support in mycology. Priority given to projects relevant to mid-Atlantic US. Deadline Oct 31. Please spread the word!

UVA IHGC and Games Lab sponsored crossword puzzle construction workshop this morning with Dr. Anna Schectman was a blast. I'm ready to download software, cultivate a dictionary, and create themed puzzles for all my friends. #PlayingAtWork

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

As always, be careful what you say on the internet. We don’t need to go to the gulag today

The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope

Same. The last few weeks have felt like I'm being pulled under. Not even sure exactly why. Other than *hand motions*, I mean. May all of us find it easier very soon.

This is a remarkable document for a mainstream media outlet to publish. (gift link) wapo.st/3IRLZn6

I got you this. It's helped me today, and maybe it will help you, too. youtu.be/wEBlaMOmKV4?...

We only rate dogs. This is Samuel L. Jackson in a cute sweater and a bad mood. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10

This just in: sneezing when you've just yeeted your gallbladder 3 days previously is rather uncomfortable. Dear Allergies, Please calm your hypothetical tits. Jeebus god. Yrs in abdominal tenderness, Me

men are just so emotional. should they be allowed to run things?

Nothing quite as much fun as opening up a blog post draft you wrote a month ago and catching yourself wondering who wrote that dreck.

Set your will to live in a mixing bowl, loosely covered, overnight. It will double in size by morning.

@literaturegeek.bsky.social did a great job live posting about the Praxis fellows final presentation. This was a really special group, and they did fantastic work throughout the year cultivating a caring, thoughtful, intellectually rigorous community. We were lucky to learn from them.

Are we all quite sure the parasitic brain worm died and isn't, say, taking meetings and setting forth policy?

New post from machiavemmy.bsky.social, one of our fab Praxis Fellows this year. It's entitled "Our Journey to Praxathon," and the post describes what the students are working on as a part of our end-of-year hackathon-style sprint. scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/our-jou...

Hey DH community! I blogged a thing that you might find interesting? On design jams, and how we do them @scholarslab.bsky.social: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/design-... (No, I do not blog in a formal sort of voice. It's a conversation, not a lecture.)

For one week only, my new short story, "The Soul of America", is free to read on my patreon here: patreon.com/posts/123933.... A tale of hope midst the vast waves of despair engulfing us all, it follows a small rat on his way to America, who forges a new friendship in the dark hold of a steamship.

On April 5, we’re uniting to say Hands Off! Join me to fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. app.sosha.ai/s/DThsuz0d Hundreds and hundreds of protests all over the country. There's sure to be one where you live - check out the map!

Please spread the word! "U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk." jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy...

Happy St. Patrick's Day youtu.be/4XWP_CKnJIg?...

read.macmillan.com/fib/careless... "Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book" - CNBC Would be a shame if everyone promoted this book and bought it.

So if I were to write a series of blog posts about agile project management for academics, what topics would be most helpful?

Really hoping I get to work on a research sprint this summer! Hey! UVA humanities/social sciences faculty! Apply so you can work with us in the Lab!

This is Leo. And that’s a regular-sized tennis ball. He’d like to know when he’ll be big enough to catch it. 12/10 soon, buddy