Blinked and the first #ByteSizedPedagogy is this Friday at noon ET. I’ll be reading “Born Pedagogical DH: Learning While Teaching” by Emily McGinn and Lauren Coats and hanging out for 30 minutes to discuss with whoever joins. Consider hanging out! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16778240

Scientists are asking if it might be unconscious

started reading Mónica Ojeda’s Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun (translated into English by Sarah Booker) and loving it so far

new LinkedIn profile pic

weird day in Teams messaging tbh

My tiny thread yesterday is now a whole op-ed! A quick read, connecting Pope Leo's apology for colonialism and slavery to his warnings about AI — it's all related. Working with editor @mpgphd.bsky.social was an absolutely pleasure!

Boston area pals who enjoy cake: Oakleaf made an amazing custom one for my wife’s birthday featuring our cranky longhaired son

behold the library of leng, a searchable archive of 175,000 articles and posts about Magic: the Gathering

Discussing a blank PDF: "Host2: It's not afraid to get specific, either. Especially when it mentions, and this one really got me, include at least one specific detail or quote that the listener will find memorable or surprising. Host1: No, that's a really interesting point."

very cool story

Commencement was fun. Congrats grads!

Excited to share my article, "Dismantling the Old Boys’ Club: Power Brokers, Precarity, and Ending Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in Public History Workplaces," in The Public Historian's special issue on Labor and Public History. nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Friends who teach in and around English / literary studies and digital humanities: I'm teaching a grad-level course in "Topics in Digital Studies" this summer and I am looking to check out some recent syllabi from peers at other schools. Please send my way if you have any! :)

If you're thinking about new classes to teach next year, @post45data.bsky.social is a great place to start, and a great classroom resource, for courses on... —SPECULATIVE FICTON —ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE —BESTSELLERS —THE HISTORY OF THE NEA ...and so much more! data.post45.org/our-data.html

THIS IS THE RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT

a little bit of cash and a lot of vocational awe will go a long way in higher ed unfortunately

did a Massachusetts resident with a fading Biden/Harris bumper sticker post this

Not work-related but better: I’ve been blogging/newslettering about non-work interests like collage, horror, comics, and wrestling! Check it out if you’d like / peer reviewers unwelcome. swimmingh-in-trash.ghost.io/trash-day-2-...

Opinion | I simply don’t buy the argument that teaching and learning centers are somehow black holes on campus, dragging hapless faculty to their doom. https://chroni.cl/4eB0D04

LMS discourse should probably center topics like “varied instructor digital literacies” and “labor implications” but that is just the opinion of one faculty support specialist (who does not love Canvas!) tbh

Teaching friends who use Canvas: your IT and CTL folks are likely reaching out with this info, but you can download Canvas student assignment submissions to your personal devices if you want to take that precaution: community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl...

Now that I've signed the contract, excited to share my first book "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" is forthcoming with @openbookpublish.bsky.social! Much more info about it on the publisher site here. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Is there guidance or movement on captions being added to @archive.org video content? Listening to some instructors who are concerned about making captions available due to investments in accessibility because they would still like to use some of the multimedia resources there in course contexts.

at some point the Gen Xers and millennials need to reckon with the reality that many of us are the ones spending way too much time on our phones

i have some of Tim’s zines and they are great. Also scooped up a new-to-me one on those funky Davis Square statues just now!

haven’t looked at the comments yet on this article but the Boston Globe reporter who wrote it is probably wishing they asked a colleague about the name on that jersey

congrats on the book @lbmcgrath.bsky.social! Harvard Book Store is serving them up!

nice morning commute read: this English translation of a Borges sonnet by Rhina P. Espaillat: newcriterion.com/article/thre...

Google maps protecting the identity of a cow

This week’s main story is about AI chatbots! Why they are overly flirtatious, often incorrect, and posing a genuine threat to the public. But the story is also about what John would ask AI Satan. In case you were worried we had overlooked that. We haven’t.

If you work at a college with a center for teaching and learning (CTL) or related office, you should know that the folks in those offices are absolutely furious about this argument in favor of putting us all "on the chopping block" and the caricature it crudely constructs of our work and expertise.

this is one of the more embarrassing op-eds that the Chronicle has published in recent memory: www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

remember when Oak got ejected from MSG? the story gets even wilder from there

lol

tried to get a copy of Maria Ndiaye’s The Witch (English translation) today and it was backordered at the three Boston indie bookstores I generally frequent. silver lining is it seems like more people than I expected still read book reviews!

we have finally entered “just put your phone down and close your laptop and go outside for a little bit” season here in New England

🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing @zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲 🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc #DigitalHumanities

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...

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.

It's wild that someone saying things like “Sixty percent of what people call gen ed is there on behalf of the faculty, not on behalf of the students” without any evidence or support is seen as someone worth listening to concerning substantial degree timeline change www.chronicle.com/article/fast...

At the bargaining table and in shared governance, faculty members must demand a meaningful role in decisions about the procurement and use of AI and other technology, @hellobrittparis.bsky.social and @rebeccareyn.bsky.social argue in a new #Academe article:

"Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn."

Does anyone have any recent writing from the perspectives of archives and preservation re: the emphasis on HTML over PDF common to Title II and accessibility convos? I guess I am trying to think about the other needs (expertise, labor, money) and archival implications of folks pivoting to HTML more.

finally had time to start the new Álvaro Enrigue (translated by Natasha Wimmer) tonight. loved You Dreamed of Empires and Sudden Death, loving this one so far too.

me in the teacher’s lounge in 2028

It's wild that Instructure is releasing these new AI integrations with SpeedGrader in mid-April, at a point where many spring courses are close to completion in U.S. semesters. Curious to see how many institutions actually turn them on for faculty usage: community.instructure.com/en/discussio...

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its articles for reference. This is what's happening online with the @archive.org www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

watching My Dinner With Andre as God intended it to be seen (accompanied by Burger King ads for Whoppers)

nothing better illustrates the desperate search for a media business model like a 50MB web page with a 90:10 ad-to-content ratio

celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day in traditional fashion (dinner at the Texas Roadhouse Willie Nelson booth)