Why yes, your friendly neighborhood digital humanities are writing a book on digital humanities. A happy way to start the day with @wernimont.bsky.social.

2026: having to write “It got DOGE-ed” in an explanation box on your annual review.

Every year when I go back through my calendar to make sure I didn’t miss anything for my annual review, I come across events that say things like “world domination,” “mind meld,” and “ill-gotten pizza.” It’s like a subconscious gift to future me.

Why must the forms for annual reports invariably use database architecture from 1992, making bean counting intellectual labor even more annoying than it needs to be?

The first two days of spring term have been COMICALLY chaotic. Nothing bad, just absolute chaos.

Don't miss the latest issue of #ReviewsInDH! @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are thrilled to bring you a slew of great projects drawn from our open submissions process. Enjoy! And submit your own work for review. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n2-3

I did not have Rick Steves posting in support of a millionaire's tax on my 2026 bingo card... or raising money for a cafe at a Palestinian university... or criticizing Christian Nationalism. What a world.

My brain has not yet caught up to the fact that I can speak English again. This was the first trip I conducted primarily in Spanish as I didn’t have my Spanish-speaking beloved with me. Never formally studied it but now have enough to not confuse people in Latin America by being a brown non-speaker.

Iorana and maururu, Rapa Nui 💕 Truly, the trip of a lifetime.

Rapa Nui, Day 4: On the ocean in a tiny watercraft, seeing more caves, frigates and the Motus, and getting tossed around by Pacific waves.

Childhood bestie: There was a lot of AI talk on the stargazing tour. Roopsi: Guess where there was zero AI talk? The horseback riding tour.

Rapa Nui, Day 3 PM: I cantered this gorgeous horse up to the peak of Mount Terevaka, the highest point on the island, at the urging of my guides, who were excited to have an equestrian along for the sunset ride and were determined that I live a little. It was the most beautiful feeling in the world.

Rapa Nui Day 3 AM: In which I spelunk and trek, and my guide was erroneously convinced that I have claustrophobia and kept telling me to breathe.

When the anthropologist convinces the postcolonialist they must go to the cultural ballet to support the arts, the postcolonialist will be pulled onstage to learn how to dance in the cultural ballet. Ask me how I know.

An incredible day in Rapa Nui National Park with my second oldest friend 🥰

Day 1 in Rapa Nui. Dream come true!

Next stop… 🗿🗿🗿

Let’s do grade inflation discourse! Learning, grading, and assessment are different! Enforced mediums are arbitrary & capricious! A paper is a way to assess paper writing, not learning, unless you actually taught writing (if you think it’s a proxy for learning, you probably didn’t teach writing)!

As I learned from the research for my recent book on early psychiatry, race, and Black religions, the mainstream medical journals were full of articles many would now want to dismiss as pseudoscience.

Project Hail Mary answered a profound question: how many times in one movie can I cry over a rock?

It is so wild to be in preparations for a trip where I won’t be able to just pull everything I need up on my phone and instead have to print everything out. It’s like traveling in 2006! Which was, gulp, 20 years ago. (Sorry, sorry.)

One thing I find truly mystifying about academia is how people you know will completely ghost you when you ask for help but people who you barely know will show great generosity.

Not just oil. (And a good looking, if dire, chart.)

This will be the lecture of my LIFE! Next Thursday at the Boston Athenaeum: COMMON SENSE at 250. Washington’s copy will be on display. It’s sold out (!!!) but will be posted online afterwards for everyone to see.

It is deeply funny to me what old friends remember about you. Case in point: a text from my childhood bestie asking if I have changed my position on eating cooked fish while she was making dinner reservations for Santiago.

At #ctdh listening to the incomparable @roopikarisam.bsky.social on “Knowledge at Scale: Data, Power and the Work of the Humanities”

Sitting in a great panel at Connecticut Digital Humanities, in which a speaker just said they're going to do the DIgital Studies Certificate at Salem State to add a new component to their project and it warmed my cold little heart because that's the program I started.

It's like every day a technocrat wakes up and says, "How can I make the world more like an episode of Black Mirror?" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

For the first time ever, I completely forgot that I co-wrote something and when asked for contributor info, I told the editor I’m not actually an author… only to be informed that yes, apparently I am.

I am ridiculously excited that US audiobook for DATA EMPIRE is going to be narrated by Soneela Nankani! Legit dream narrator.

Things you say when you have a horse that you never would have imagined you'd say before: "He's fine now. We did cleansing breaths."

Received a lovely blurb for DATA EMPIRE (the first and hopefully not the last) and may have nearly passed out from anxiety in the seconds it took for the email to open.

Rewarded myself for finishing my syllabi and Canvas sites and calendering today by booking accommodations for a second annual writing retreat with a friend and colleague right after the term end — something to look forward to during the pandemonium, in the Miltonian sense, that is spring term.

This is fascinating & depressing since I'd begun to explore legal professions because being a federal immigration court observer has been so moving to me & I've wanted to do more for people. What in the world is possible outside of law school, which may not be right for me? wapo.st/4cP2ZHM

My high school sends so many people to Georgetown that I (an English MA alum) just got invited to a reception specifically for alums of my high school who are also Georgetown alums. No doubt my sister (a Georgetown JD alum who also attended the same high school) got the invite too.

Ahhhh freaking out because our ginormous theatre was booked when I need it for three days in April for tech checks for senior films, and then realized the reason it was booked was because my incredible former technical director had already booked it for me before he left *last summer.* 🥹

oscar winners vibe coders 🤝 "and, of course, my agent"

Jessie Buckley spent a whole movie wailing in Hamnet. Renate Reinsve delivered an incredible, subtle performance in Sentimental Value. Just saying.

They really should have given Michael B. Jordan two Oscars for that role but YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. FINALLY.

Truly.

I am so happy for Sentimental Value because I loved it and its actors were all robbed. (Loved The Secret Agent too obvi but SV edged it out on the basis of endings.)

Beloved: How did you call F1 for sound? Roopsi: Vroom vroom. The Academy loves vroom vroom. Beloved: You are really committed to this chair of a film department bit.

Torn between F1 being a sign that that the expansion of Best Picture to 10 was unnecessary and there being no way Begonia, Sentimental Value, and The Secret Agent would have all been nominated otherwise.

I’m watching this on repeat. #OscarsonBlacksky

I realize I just watched The Secret Agent yesterday but I love Wagner Moura.

All the shade at the current administration, Will Arnett’s statement on AI, watching this incredible Sinners performance… This year’s Oscars are 🧑🏽‍🍳😘

Who is the emergency Early Modernist on call? I need to understand if Hamlet wearing jeans is historically accurate.

Desperately trying to finish one of my spring term syllabi while my beloved is napping so we can sneak in Hamnet before the Oscars tonight.

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Have consented to go to a Red Sox game with the promise of Hello Kitty throwing out the first pitch, a Hello Kitty in a Red Sox uniform plushie, and maybe a photo with Hello Kitty. Relationships are all about compromise.