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!

I cannot wait to read and now also display this brilliant and beautiful book!

Bomb dropped. @sebgiessmann.bsky.social Georges Baehler organized the graphic works for this album. :)

This is amazing and cuts across so many things close to my nerdy / quanty / vizzy heart!

This is a very helpful resource from the former EiC of Science: a template for commenting on the proposed changes to OMB regulations that threaten the continued existence of US Science.

"Replica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz marks the first survey of acclaimed Navajo/Diné weaver + math educator Marilou Schultz... The exhibition positions Schultz as an innovator whose work... has influenced the practices of art, Navajo weaving, + computer architecture..."

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

We're one month out until our virtual conference, #ACH2026 taking place June 22-26! We're hosting 2 days of pre-conference workshops, and 3 days of conference sessions, with two amazing keynotes and over 70 papers. You can check out our program and register on our website: ach2026.ach.org/en/

oh!! so cool to see this published. thank you for featuring our work @attilabatorfy.bsky.social !

Students were always my imagined readers when I was writing DATA FEMINISM. Every time I asked myself, "How do I explain this clearly?" or "Why should people care?" I was thinking of them. So getting to build a course around those questions felt like coming back to my (Google Docs) home

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

An amazing set of examples here!

At this point I think Clara Mattei’s ESCAPE FROM CAPITALISM to explain how we got here, @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social‘s EMERGENT STRATEGY to figure out what to do next, and @karenhao.bsky.social’s EMPIRE OF AI if you need fuel for the fire

My city

The first phase of digitizing my collection has come to an end. I am very grateful to my students, they did a wonderful job! The result: three massive Hungarian statistical atlases that are unavailable anywhere else, and dozens of data graphics that have never been digitized before. To be continued!

It's not often that a book can convey so much knowledge and joy at the same time, but THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME pulls it off. So glad to see this well-deserved recognition (and my colleague @tayari.bsky.social's KIN in the book stack)!

A reminder that two-thirds of National Endowment for the Humanities staff were laid off last year from their *career* positions, and most divisions and programs were eliminated. None of which had to happen except by the inconceivable choices of a few in control. #NEH

In which I channel my inner Hayden White, out myself as an early @feltron.bsky.social fan, and provide actual photographic evidence that my living room is very occasionally actually clean

Honored to be interviewed by @attilabatorfy.bsky.social and WHEE!!! First interview about the book!!!

Happy Mother’s Day / Down with the Patriarchy by my daughter, age 8

New interview is coming on Monday with the fantastic @laurenfklein.bsky.social

I knew I wasn’t just hallucinating it: Jim Groom talking about “edupunk” from 2012 (!) sites.udel.edu/openteaching...

Atlanta-based job seekers! My department, Data & Decision Sciences, is hiring an undergrad program coordinator. This would be a great job for someone who wants to work directly with students and is interested in data science pedagogy. LMK if you plan to apply! staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/165242/...

NYT story 🎁 Proud & grateful for @historians.org and the collective. @acls1919.bsky.social's Joy Connolly: "Today’s decision is a step toward honoring the will of Congress and our mission as a nation—to... know ourselves and build a better future on that knowledge.." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Many of us have agued against the corporate LMS for decades (e.g. "Against Learning Management Systems" [2009] blog.mkgold.net/2009/03/30/a... ) And we've built alternatives, such as the CUNY Academic Commons (commons.gc.cuny.edu) and Commons In A Box (commonsinabox.org). Check them out!

Please enjoy this supercut I made of a DOGE bro saying "I don't know." Because there's a shit ton he didn't know. Like, for example, the Constitution.

Subscribing asap!!!

Lots to appreciate about this piece. Among them, a careful answer to the question of what in God’s name university administrators are thinking in the headlong, apparently suicidal rush to embrace AI. +

A month ago, the DxD project team converged in Atlanta (or more accurately, my living room) to begin the process of laying out the book. And today, page proofs have arrived. October once seemed far away but now it feels soon! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

Thrilled for @ololadefaniyi.bsky.social and her Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, and honored to support this amazing work!

how it started how it is going

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Mackenzie’s post is about teaching DH to undergrads at a SLAC but I think it capture what it feels to teach anything anywhere right now.

Oh look, it's "The Last Supper" as ASCII art. (MS Typ 1334 at Houghton Library)

How this becomes that

I'll be at #ICML2026 on July 10-11 in Seoul to speak at the Workshop on Culture x AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology. The workshop is currently accepting submissions, with humanities, ML, HCI, and social/cognitive sciences all welcome. Submit papers by May 1! Join us in Seoul! 🇰🇷

Call for Papers for CBI's MOSAICS Symposium: cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-pap... Thrilled to announce this & to work with Sareeta Amrute, @babintsevak.bsky.social, @anitachan.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz!! MOSAICS Symposium: October 15-16, 2026 Proposal Deadline: May 29, 2026 #AIstudies #histtech

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

In 2002, at the age of 91 years, artist Louise Bourgeois created 'Ode a L'Oubli' (Ode to Forgetting),  a book of 35 fabric pages made from her own cloth saved from different eras of her life #Womensart

I have been waiting for an essay like this for *years*! Thank you, @tarakiyee.bsky.social !

Copyedits for DATA BY DESIGN! Twelve years of this project and the actual end is in actual sight of my actual eyes!!!

Pretty excited for HOW TO SURVIVE THE TEXTPOCALYPSE, the seminar I'm teaching at @emorycollege.bsky.social next fall with @shsalter.bsky.social (and with a nod to @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social for title inspo)

This is SO COOL — a lost Méliès film from 1895 in which a person plays a briefly out of control robot. How timely. So glad some of my tax dollars are still going to stuff like this

This resonates sooooo much.

A very necessary response, but most enamored by fact that the president of a major university can name actual specific research projects undertaken by his faculty

The US isn't the exception; it's the outlier

Why oh why is it an essential part of my writing process to spend at least 24 hours per chapter in a state of complete and utter conviction that everything is a mess, that I have no good ideas, and that I never will

The most helpful men in the world still do less unpaid labour than the vast majority of women. Yeesh. Lots of fascinating data and charts in this one! www.not-ship.com/hey-guys-you...

Why are the Luddites the current emblem of tech resistance? I think it's that the Luddites safely constrain the problem space--and also, maybe inadvertently, the scope of possible solutions. Glad to be able to write some of this down in the February AIAI newsletter. mailchi.mp/707b81b70010...

reposting as this will be such a valuable book for PhD students, postdocs, and really anyone who wonders how to combine humanities & technology in the workplace - abstracts due March 15! Edited by an amazing team - @kallewesterling.bsky.social @lisaironcutter.bsky.social & Jeanelle Horcasitas