Digital humanities grad students & faculty always want to offload the data cleaning drudgery on some undergrad research assistant, until they eventually come to realize that's the part of the process where the stack of qualitative assumptions comes from.

I need to check Bluesky more often -- I'm way late on sharing this! If you haven't heard the podcast episode I did with Maren, we had a wonderful time talking about how games can create a sense of ease in virtual events that helps people connect in a really unique way.

This is brilliant. I used to think of the dinosaur of disconnection as a bad thing, but anymore, it can feel like relief. A crochet version is pure joy. #DHmakes 🦖

NEW BLOG POST: What Documentation Is Really About: Showing Users You Care Through Design www.hibbittsdesign.org/What-Documen...

imo that @literaturegeek.bsky.social 's doggy has excellent taste 😆😍

There are many research hosting services out there. Lots of them want to host your work in order to mine it for profit. Knowledge Commons wants to build a coalition of researchers, teachers, students, and more, in order to resist the authoritarian effort to undermine public access to knowledge.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

This week I wrap up coaching for the year, and it's been inspiring and rewarding to work with individual and team clients in 2025! A big thank you to everyone for working with me, and sharing great conversations. Head to the blog for a little end of year coaching inspiration marendeepwell.com?p=5789

We have an early holiday treat for you! 😍 🎁 We're delighted to introduce brand new stats dashboards for EVERY collection in KCworks! Read more on our team blog, and stay tuned on social media all this week for more highlights! about.hcommons.org/2025/12/15/i...

Oh yeah! We have a really funky new stats page for KC Works, our open scholarship repository! about.hcommons.org/2025/12/15/i...

😍 I continue to update this Bluesky guide (quick+incredibly detailed versions!): tinyurl.com/DHBluesky Aimed especially at researchers, DH, GLAM, & critical tech folks:

Added tag/sorting to my list of good starter packs (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) so you can sort to find what you like w/in my interests: * critical/nonhype tech/data/code * DH * humanities * GLAM (library/archive) * academic/research/teach * book history+arts/textual studies * making/crafting

Designed covers for a paper minizine template, for an "Unsolicited Advice" series where I can just print a stack of templates & fill the pages in w/pen as I think of advice I want to share (things that worked for me, I'd recommend, etc.). Instead of being like these dudes:

Analogue kind of day… painting the sea 🌊 thanks to a beautiful gift of paints & canvas from a dear friend

A fun #DHmakes type project at the intersection of text, textiles, fonts, and making!

The small but mighty team that runs Knowledge Commons needs your support this week of #GivingTuesday. Donate today: givingto.msu.edu/causes-to-su...

👀ICYMI: "The worry here, of course, is that open access gets the blame for allowing AI and scholars begin to yearn, once more, for paywalls" #OpenAccess #ScholComm @eve.gd

Support the Black Zine Fair and its participants gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... Pro-tip: get your institution to co-sponsor. 📚📜

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

Kudos to @profjhangiani.bsky.social, Clint Lalonde, Josie Gray, & folks across British Columbia who worked on this new report on institutions' capacity to support #OpenEducation. It is an excellent read & a great model for the rest of us! PDF Link to report: bccampus.ca/wp-content/u...

A thread to read on a Friday, whether your art is writing or any other kind of creating. #DHmakes

🚀 Docsify v5 is getting closer! The no-build docs generator is getting: ✅ Modernized codebase & UI ✅ Dark mode + better accessibility ✅ GitHub-style callouts ✅ Enhanced keyboard navigation ✅ Improved error handling Try the RC at: preview.docsifyjs.org #Docsify #OpenSource #Markdown

Our next @kcommons.bsky.social release: if you have uploaded academic material - or even just entered metadata - into our Works repository, you can now pull this material in to a WordPress site, in a variety of citation formats! about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's * "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes) * "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)

📣 EXCITEMENT ALERT 🎉 The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are creating a website on KC or a self-hosted WP installation. 🔗: about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...

#ReclaimOpen25 was a blast! Too many awesome sessions to count. I had a great time hosting a game of Brand Actualization, and I'm excited to share the zines I made in the leadup to the conference (one on archival, one on web cryptids) #DHMakes Check them out: pilotirwin.com/project-plan...

A big thank you to everyone who took part in #ReclaimOpen25 last week! You can now catch up with all the session recordings and continue to share resources via the Discord chat www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Sense-making a Blog-a-thon... (what do those words even mean?) Well I try to explain here: visualthinkery.com/project/blog...

Keep making and sharing things. It matters. #DHmakes

Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.

Welcome to Day 1 of #ReclaimOpen25 🎉 Today is our Blog-A-Thon, starting at 9am EST and running for 12 (yes, you read that correctly) hours of non-stop blogging. Get ready to join in, read, comment and connect reclaimopen.com/blog-a-thon/

This is an online conference like no other... from the retro theme on the conference site, to RSS feeds and blog rolls, there is a lot to explore and experiment with #ReclaimOpen25. Help us rewild and reconnect on the open web over the next three days reclaimopen.com

In case you missed it: last week’s open access discussions were packed with key insights! - Knowledge belongs to the community - Nonprofit infrastructure is key - Collaboration drives the future Big ideas, big takeaways, and plenty of inspiration for making knowledge open and accessible to everyone.

Neat free webtool for solo RPGs+this post by @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy on playing solo & writing-intensive RPGs, & turning that into something he can teach his history+archaeology students with:

Sunday afternoon sneak peek at my #ReclaimOpen2025 Leap into Open Publishing with Docsify‑This interactive session guide, published with, what else but Docsify-This 👀 docsify-this.net?basePath=htt... Really looking forward to attending and presenting ⚡️ #Markdown #OER

Once you've gotten out of that site, I'd highly recommend checking out the open repository run by Knowledge Commons ( @kcommons.bsky.social )— a non-profit run by academics! about.hcommons.org

It's nearly time... Reclaim Open #ReclaimOPen25 starts tomorrow with a 12 hour blog-a-thon and today is our last day to register and join in the fun reclaimopen.com

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

ICYMI I shared a project scoping exercise that I ran with our Praxis students. Take a neutral topic, develop a project idea on it, and then push/pull that thing in all sorts of directions to see the different shapes that come out.

Looking forward to #ReclaimOpen25! In addition to a zine design project for the blogathon, I'm hosting the game Brand Actualization on the last day. We'll be selling the open web to eldritch gods, so anyone in attendance who's looking to blow off steam (or just curious), let me know!

when i first moved here i definitely partied too hard a couple of times and ended up in wolstiot. wolstiot is real

Y'know what's fun about working on Knowledge Commons? Seeing a deposit to KCWorks like this: "Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich." Definitely worth a read. works.hcommons.org/records/7sqf... #openaccessweek #openaccess

It's open access week! We, at @kcommons.bsky.social, are running a webinar later this week, showcasing what we do and what we have! Do please come join us... msu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #oaweek25 #oaweek2025 #openaccessweek

New blog post: This month marks the anniversary of my business, and there is much to celebrate, and to be grateful for! marendeepwell.com?p=5727

The run up to #ReclaimOpen25 is underway, and we will share what's in store in the coming days. Check out the full schedule for Reclaim Open, learn more about our keynote speakers, presenters and bloggers. reclaimopen.com/schedule/

Looking forward to #ReclaimOpen25! In addition to a zine design project for the blogathon, I'm hosting the game Brand Actualization on the last day. We'll be selling the open web to eldritch gods, so anyone in attendance who's looking to blow off steam (or just curious), let me know!

This was such an interesting project 😊

📝 Raspberry Pi 500+ jadin.me/raspberry-pi...