My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

As Sean says, don't take career advice from Nepo Babies. I have a degree in Women's Studies & I can't tell you how many "basket weaving" jokes I heard as a student. It's not only a lazy dudebro quip à la Bootstrapping, it's also sexist as hell. Treating woman-coded artisans as useless is booooring.

🤖 We are excited to announce that our upcoming mini-conference on May 14th on "slop" and "nostalgia" will feature responses by Tess McNulty and Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social. Abstracts due March 1st. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/... 📀

Call for Proposals: What does an edited volume look like in a post-print world? What does an edited volume “get” you (in a professional sense)? Do we even still need edited volumes?

In today’s episode of CDN’s podcast Off Center, I interview Hazel Wilkinson on how 18th century literary slop relates to today’s AI slop. This printer’s ornament showing a monkey copying out a book was often printed in books you might call “slop”… podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/o...

“Experts have drawn similarities to the Big Tobacco trials that led to a 1998 settlement requiring cigarette companies to pay billions in health care costs and restrict marketing targeting minors.” www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

MAL founder & director @loriemerson.net talked to Fast Company about the lab - www.fastcompany.com/91483774/the...

“While the report doesn’t provide details on specific misconduct cases, it does outline a range of behaviour that led to discipline, including improper social media posts, sexual misconduct, abuse of authority and even Criminal Code offences” No surprises here. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

Teaching @jpseabright.bsky.social's _what are you afraid of? <The LaMDA Sonnets>_ pub by @querenciapress.bsky.social tomorrow in my English class, "Digital Lives"! Can't wait to see what they make of it, and the relationship between AI, humans, and poetry.

Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.

🎶 'Alas, what hast thou done? Thou art a pynke ponye girle Yn the daunse at the clubbe!' 'Nay, modir! Ich am but seekinge mirthe On the stage yn myne heeles It ys wher Ich belonge: Downe at the Pynke Ponye Clubbe! Ich shal keepe on daunsinge, Downe yn West Hollywoode' [LUTE SOLO] 🎶

🤖 "SLOP" and "NOSTALGIA" 📀 – DLC+ mini-conference: Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture. May 14th CFP out now. See link for details and submission. Deadline: Mar. 13th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! #nostalgia #slop #digitalhumanities #digitalculture

Check out the CFP for this pair of VIRTUAL mini-conferences on SLOP and NOSTALGIA, held by DLC+. I attended some of the previous mini-conference they put on it and it was great. Highly recommend. Keynote by the great Tess McNulty @dlcplus.org docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Living for the nostalgia slop! If you're doing interesting work on either 'nostalgia,' 'slop,' or both, check out this CFP 😀

A reminder that the submission deadline for the CSDH annual conference is in ONE WEEK! Learn more about our theme — Untranslatable — and submit at csdh-schn.ca/csdh-schn-co...

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.

We're pleased to announce CSDH/SCHN's annual conference from June 3 – 5 in Montréal. This year, we're exploring the theme of the “Untranslatable.” Submissions are now open at the links below. EN: csdh-schn.ca/csdh-schn-co... FR: csdh-schn.ca/csdh-schn-co... Hope to see you there!

I’m presenting as part of this first panel today at #MLA2026! Join us to chat about open source humanities

Rereading a favorite: "AO3 reminds us that platforms can be built by and for communities, without extractive profit models or exclusionary hierarchies. It shows what’s possible when infrastructure is treated as a public good, and when participation is scaffolded, not gated"

They say #MeToo went too far and yet, this shit is still the norm.

booke booke reade a booke then anothir booke aftir that anothir booke bookes are freakinge awesome

Today is Canada's National Day of Action & Remembrance on Violence against Women. It marks the day in 1989 when 14 women at Polytechnique in Montreal were murdered by an "incel" (Proving that shit has a new name but is an old problem.) There are vigils across the country today. Please attend one.

Tomorrow!

On Nov. 20, 2025, @dlcplus.org hosted our first mini-conference on current keywords in digital literary culture! It was so much fun organizing with @supercamilla.bsky.social! Here's my short write-up of the event. kieraobbard.ca/2025/11/25/f... #academicsky #keywords #digitalliteraryculture

90% of deep fake images online are non-consensual pornographic images of women and girls. And yet, these images are not yet illegal in Canada.

Taylor Swift as smut & podcasting :Putting the fun (back) in academia! Thank you @dlcplus.org @supercamilla.bsky.social & @kieraobbard.bsky.social 😻

In the first @dlcplus.org presentation, Gabriele de Seta discusses the developing lore of LLMs, glitch tokens like the SolidGoldMagikarp, and how lore keeps stories in circulation. #lore #llm #llmlore #digitalhumanities

We're all set up and ready for the @dlcplus.org mini-conference on lore and smut to begin!

This Thursday, organized by the wonderful @supercamilla.bsky.social & @kieraobbard.bsky.social 🤩

The first of the DLC+ mini-conference series is happening next week! Join us on Thursday Nov. 20th for 3 hours of smut, lore and all things digital culture! See the schedule and abstracts, and sign up to get the zoom link below #digitalculture #digitalhumanities dlcplus.org/current-keyw...

Join me on Nov. 24 to learn how to turn your research into action! In this hands-on workshop, participants will gain a foundational knowledge of policy processes, how academics can influence policy, and where to go in the Waterloo region to get started. Register: www.eventbrite.ca/e/translatin...

“Publish or perish,” the haunting academic refrain goes. But it can be difficult to keep track of everything in your academic publishing pipeline. Here's how I make use of Trello (and a great template) to stay on top of my deadlines for articles, chapters, and more! kieraobbard.ca/2025/10/22/h...

I'm pleased to share that my poetry film was 1st runner-up winner in the category of Poetry Films in North America at the CMCS Wall of Fame Film Festival!

The news is out and so is the Call for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection. Thanks to an army of translators it's available in a bunch of languages 🎉 Questions: contact @zachwhalen.bsky.social @videlais.bsky.social Dani Spinosa or me @ elcvol5 [at] gmail [dot] com Please share widely!

🪅 DLC+ mini-conference: Current Keywords on Digital Literary Culture. Nov 20th. Deadline EXTENDED: Oct 15th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! 🦭 We want all the smut and lore out there! #digitalhumanities #digitalculture

Need a little extra time preparing your submission for the @dlcplus.org #CFP on #smut and #lore? We've extended our deadline by a week! Submit by October 15th for our mini conference. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstracts for this #CFP on Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture are due October 8th! Can't wait to read your takes on 'smut' and 'lore'! #academicsky

Spent a good chunk of the early morning researching IKEA bed frames for my father that were bought in the late 90s so that we could get replacement parts. See what an English PhD can get you? #researchskills

After a week of (fun) disruption to my work schedule, I just submitted a (slightly overdue) peer review AND a book review I’d been working on since July! Feeling very productive for a Sunday, and following in the footsteps of @juliapoly.bsky.social in giving back to the academic community.

A lovely panel and conversation for the @stratfest.bsky.social Meighen Forum “In Pursuit of Bears” yesterday, featuring @martynobbard.bsky.social, Kel Pero, Jon Kretzu, and Graham Abbey.

being a “vibe coding cleanup specialist” is increasingly a real job www.404media.co/the-software...

🪅 DLC+ mini-conference: Current Keywords on Digital Literary Culture. Nov 20th. CFP out now. Se link for details and submission form. Deadline: Oct 8th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! 🦭 We want all the smut and lore out there! #digitalhumanities #digitalculture

New #CFP from @dlcplus.org - we're hosting a mini-conference on Keywords in Digital Literary Culture! We have two keywords for our first conf: smut and lore. Read the CFP and submit here: forms.gle/hXgbeJ1s5okD...

Next week, my father @martynobbard.bsky.social will be participating as a panelist in this @stratfest.bsky.social panel discussion on the infamous stage direction, “Exit, pursued by a bear”. www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/Play... #winterstale #shakespeare

"Facebook owner Meta has warned the (Irish) Government that it plans to complain to the Trump administration over a €200m European Commission fine for breaching digital market rules." #IntetnetRegulationToday m.independent.ie/irish-news/m...

My summer, in photos.

Meta’s AI chatbot policies amount to “technologically predatory companionship,” D&S researcher @livgar.bsky.social writes. As the company's leaked policy reveals, this is by design, and "puts profit margins over people’s safety, sanity, and self-determination." www.techpolicy.press/experts-reac...

Thrilled to share that I’ve started a #SSHRC Postdoc at the University of Waterloo with @laitze.bsky.social and @becomingbri.bsky.social! I’ll be researching the feminization and subsequent denigration of women’s writing and associated publishing technologies, from 19th cent poetesses to Instapoets

My tuxedo cat Floof over the past two years.