A eulogy for the mass market paperback, "one of the most brilliant technologies in the history of the world."

Just published! 🎉 A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson: doi.org/10.46430/phe... We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation. Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.

We have a great pair of events this week! --- Events requiring registration: Intro to Web Scraping: Automating Data Extraction Without Coding charlesstudy.temple.edu/event/16105964

Temple's LCDSS invites applications for the 2026-2027 Graduate Extern Program! Externs receive a stipend, fees, benefits, and one tuition credit per semester, as well as an expense allowance of $500!

✨⏱️ Final Call for Proposals Our English edition’s call for proposals is open until 15 February 2026. Searching for an opportunity to hone your technical writing skills? 📩 You have 2 weeks left to send us your proposal. Learn more: tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog

The Spring 2026 catalog from @fordhampress.bsky.social just dropped! #Audiofuturism issuu.com/fordhamup/do...

ACH looks to once again support smaller, more localized events related to the larger conference but centered in specific regions, whether geographical, national, or theoretical. If you are interested, please see our full call for interest and apply by March 1, 2026. buff.ly/eGwMCjs

This conference means so much to me. In 2019, @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I collaborated to put on the 1st ACH conference since the 1990s. I ran it for the next few years and now the labor has been taken on by other wonderful people. #ReviewsInDH, among other projects, would not exist if not for it.

I'm thrilled to be co-chairing ACH2026 with @fronteriza956.bsky.social. The virtual conference's theme this year is Emergenci/a with a focus on transborder DH in the Americas. We've extended the deadline all the way to February 23rd, and we welcome proposals in English and Spanish!

Philadelphia sues over "arbitrary and capricious" removal of displays about slavery" at Independence National Historical Park, with one official saying "History cannot be erased simply because it is uncomfortable." Good. Hope we see lots more lawsuits like this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

✨📢 Convocatoria abierta Buscamos propuestas para nuevas lecciones o traducciones: 🔹 Empodera a los lectores a adquirir conocimientos prácticos 🔹 Desarrolla tus habilidades de redacción técnica 🔹 Transforma tu práctica de investigación en enseñanza 🗓️ 15/03 o 17/04 🔗 tinyurl.com/propuestas-2026-info

Serving @ach.bsky.social has been one of the most generative & rewarding professional experiences I’ve ever had. What a caring + inspiring group! Consider nominating yourself/others to help us keep doing the good + important work of advocating for each other/the #DigitalHumanities. DM/email me w Qs

And btw, the CFP for English-language @proghist.bsky.social is now open! 🌍 Want to translate and/or localize this or another lesson? 📩 You can send your proposal by 15 February 2026 #CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities Learn more: tinyurl.com/open-call-20...

A successful Saturday install session with our volunteers and staff this past weekend, as we completed some outdoor Wi-Fi installation work at our new install site, First Stop Recovery, then celebrated a successful year of sessions in the neighborhood. Hope to see you all in 2026! 🛜

ACH 2026 is virtual, bilingual & open to all! Explore transnationalism & solidarity in the Americas with our DH community. No travel required—join us from anywhere June 24-26. Submit by Feb 2! buff.ly/O7y3KaD

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

ICE is responsible for the *only* shooting and homicide in Minneapolis so far in 2026.

Start 2026 off right by coming out to our Meshtastic 101 event this Saturday, January 10! A member of @phillymesh.net is hosting a workshop at our HQ, located at Norris Square Neighborhood Project in Norris Square. Lunch included, bring a friend! ✅ RSVP via DM.

If you or your students are new to DH, ACH has earned its reputation as a friendly, welcoming space. They also put a lot of thought into online activities beyond Zoom to get some of that "hallway conversation" effect, and it's extremely affordable especially for students. Please propose something!

ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2 🔗 buff.ly/O7y3KaD

@proghist.bsky.social posted our annual call for lesson proposals! We're looking for translators of our Spanish and French. We also welcome proposals for original lessons on new topics not yet covered by our journal. Please reach out to me at [email protected] with any questions!

Join us tomorrow at 2pm for Benton Institute’s webinar on Community Broadband Networks as Sites for Learning! Our Executive Director @alexwermercolan.bsky.social will share how PCW makes it possible for community members to contribute to their local digital infrastructure. tinyurl.com/m3bcmxnw

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

As costs rise, free internet via Philly Community Wireless can save households $180-1,000/year. A $100 device brings PCW Wi‑Fi to hundreds as resident-hosted routers expand the network block by block! Every dollar funds equipment and staff involvement in our organization. Donate via our Linktree! 🎁🤝

We've opened our annual call for English lessons @proghist.bsky.social! Please consider submitting lessons on digital methods for research and teaching by February 15th. We're also looking for translators of our journal's Spanish, French, and Portuguese lessons to make them available in English

Our latest book - "Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians," edited by Whitney Kramer, Iliana Burgos, and Evan Muzzall - demonstrates how academic libraries are supporting TDM literacy through services, workflows, and professional development. https://bit.ly/428QlNC

LCDSS’s Alex Wermer-Colan and Texas A&M University’s Sarah Potvin’s "Legal and Ethical Considerations for Curating Copyrighted Literary Collections as Data" will appear in the IMLS’s forthcoming Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians! Learn more about their work at dataspeculations.org

We've opened our annual call for English lessons @proghist.bsky.social! Please consider submitting lessons on digital methods for research and teaching by February 15th. We're also looking for translators of our journal's Spanish, French, and Portuguese lessons to make them available in English

ICYMI for Banned Books week SaraGrace Stefan and I shared @us.theconversation.com our analysis of cover images for every book banned in public schools and libraries in the 2021-2022 school year. Thanks to @mellon.org for their support, and to co-PI @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, and all our student workers

CORRECTION: the proper link here is theconversation.com/many-book-ba...

ICYMI for Banned Books week SaraGrace Stefan and I shared @us.theconversation.com our analysis of cover images for every book banned in public schools and libraries in the 2021-2022 school year. Thanks to @mellon.org for their support, and to co-PI @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, and all our student workers

Book banners really are judging books by their covers 📚 More than 80% of banned titles show people on the cover — and most of those feature women or people of color. Research by @alexwermercolan.bsky.social: buff.ly/rHm0sFG... #bannedbooks #polisky #books

Book banners really are judging books by their covers 📚 More than 80% of banned titles show people on the cover — and most of those feature women or people of color. Research by @alexwermercolan.bsky.social: theconversation.com/many-book-ba... #bannedbooks #polisky #books

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/... Library director fired over LGBTQ+ books gets $700,000 from county

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

I’d like to amplify others’ pleas to *please* acknowledge and build upon the work of librarians and other organizers — @heykellyjensen.bsky.social, @tasslyn.bsky.social, @everylibrary.bsky.social, et al — who’ve been tracking *all of this* and developing expertise for YEARS.

Many book bans could be judging titles mainly by their covers @us.theconversation.com @alexwermercolan.bsky.social SaraGrace Stefan theconversation.com/many-book-ba...

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

It is really demoralizing to try to operate normally in higher ed right now - even without the national context, the local context of do more with less is exhausting and upsetting.

Recent install in Kensington with volunteers and staff, expanding PCW’s network on the east side of Kensington Ave! Check out our live map at map.phillycommunitywireless.org to see where we’re currently located.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

I’m so glad to see this Edward Yang series at Film at Lincoln Center. I’ve never regarded myself as a cinephile, but I somehow happened upon a bunch of Yang screenings while I was in grad school. Yi Yi, especially — which I think I saw at Quad, alone — shaped my interest in urban studies.

It's the half anniversary of the publication of Binding Media and it is still half off (only $37.50!!) until Sept 8 during the end-of-summer sale at @stanfordpress.bsky.social

"Because [High Plains Public Radio] covers such a wide area, its engineering costs are high: excluding labor, engineering = ~46% of the budget, inldg 🔌 the nwtrk of 18 transmitters, insurance, + maintenance... The contributors ntwrk... will consist of a mix of part-time + volunteer positions"

Help us expand internet access in Norris Square, Fairhill, and Kensington 💜🛜 No experience needed! Come join our team of everyday folks building community internet. Sign-up to volunteer with PCW through our “Volunteer Sign-up Form” in our linktree, and invite a friend!

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

oh shit, a state prosecutor may actually do the thing

This is why public transit across Pennsylvania will start collapsing tomorrow. Unclear what can be done—Dems already passed bills with all of GOP's demands—other than for Dems to retaliate against rural funding and services until the GOP stops attacking urban areas. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...