If it were 2007, I would be so cool right now.

One thing that I love about the comp lit department that I’m .25 FTE in is how enthusiastic my colleagues there have been about my promotion to full. It’s just so incredibly sweet. I may be 25% comp lit but feel 500% loved. 🥰

Not on my chair bingo card: the Hanover police wanting to know if we have any prop money because someone used a prop $100 bill at Dominos. It gives drone-gate a run for its money on weird things I have had to deal with this year.

Meet Cappy, the plushie based on an animated character from a student’s honors thesis film, made by her mom. My MA students have adopted him as their emotional support mushroom and were passing him around during our thesis class.

We had our showcase tonight, featuring films and a screenplay by our seniors. This was my first time teaching senior seminar, where they create their projects, and it is truly one of the best classes. I may not be a filmmaker or screenwriter but I can help get people support and get things done. +

🤯 I didn't even know one of my editors had sent the book to Jaron Lanier and I may have almost passed out.

If you think your Bluesky notifications channel is too quiet, I recommend posting something fairly neutral about AI. You will soon have a diverse set of voices in your channel, cleanly divided into absolute haters and enthusiastic supporters. 😂

As a person with PCOS, can confirm. And the only reason I was diagnosed at 13 was because my mom’s an OBGYN and had so many patients with infertility who were being diagnosed in the early ‘90s. Starting treatment then spared me a lot of problems!

Had a great influx of advanced praise for DATA EMPIRE today! Love this one.

Perfect Sunday. 🐴❤️

Tried watching Trust Me: False Prophet and am distinctly uncomfortable with the rationale for using AI to replace the faces of minor victims, which is to preserve the raw emotion that a blur would hide. Perhaps audiences *should not* get to see that?

The data cartels.

My barn family brings so many unexpected wonderful things to my life and today it was seeing how my barn owner handled a difficult situation, demonstraring a level of grace I can only aspire to in my own professional life. 🐴❤️

While looking for something in my personal email, I found a paper I wrote during my MA program and while I can’t say it’s *great,* it’s not as terrible as I was expecting.

Night one of using Freedom to lock myself out of my inbox, and I’m so untroubled by the nonsense that’s been going on in there this week that I managed to write out some concrete thoughts for my next trade book proposal.

*whispers* He is real

Truly a joy of 2026 is all the Mandalorian and Grogu press in which Grogu does press and everyone else acts like he is real. youtu.be/muprIKJqO2A?...

Because I have a friend who currently gets a yes to anything I can say yes to because she’s having a hard time, I went to see Devil Wears Prada 2, which was, shockingly, incredibly delightful.

Your friendly neighborhood CTO here reminding you that universities(, etc.) are such easy targets because we all use the same major systems. Hackers just need one good exploit to screw everyone at once. We got ourselves into this mess by letting monopolistic private platforms sit between everyone.

Have installed an app to keep me from reading work email at night and on the weekend for the sake of my wellbeing at the insistence of my former tech director, who’s also the person who made me go to the ER when I fell into wet concrete and was walking around with a broken foot claiming I was fine.

Payday lost a major grant worth 1/3 of our budget as a result of Trump's cut to non-profits. Can u donate today to keep Payday alive after 10 years & 1,500 articles published? paydayreport.com/payday-to-lo...

I had so much FUN talking with literary agents @erikhane.bsky.social and @lzats.bsky.social of the @printrunpodcast.bsky.social! It was a delight to hear from agents about the book- what I got right, what I got wrong, and the work still TK.

The way some professors treat other people, without consequences, is something I will never be able to understand.

Now would be a great time to buy my co-edited book on MELANIA. No, not that Melania! Her sainted namesakes, who were no angels but at least tried to give away a lot of their money to charity & threw their weight around to influence society www.ucpress.edu/books/melani...

DATA EMPIRE is Publishers Weekly’s Review of the Day! 🤓

When you get back to work after a week away and you are greeted with promotion flowers and holographic pony stickers.

My fantasy is that someone buys the Hampshire land and buildings and turns it into a kind of 'institute for advanced study' for humanities research & public education

Aziz Ansari as Kash Patel is perfect: “I’m a trailblazer. I’m the first Indian person to suck at their job.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/a...

Cool!

My sister has completely ruined my life by pointing out that Miss Ellie is 54, her age, in the first season of Dallas. I could have sworn she was 70 easy.

A STARRED review for DATA EMPIRE from Publishers Weekly! ⭐️ “Brilliant history” & “Elegantly weaving scholarly research with trenchant political analysis, this is a must-read for those seeking to understand the deep history of the Al boom.” ⭐️ Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

There are no bigger Kevin Hart fans on the planet than my parents. This never ceases to amuse me.

Apparently the key to not having to consult your beloved on planning a trip is to go to the place he has suggested for years because he's just so happy that he doesn't actually care where we stay or what we do.

In a loving parent quibble about how I was the most expensive child, I may have offered, “But I didn’t have a wedding…. or two.” And I didn’t even get a dirty look for unmarried cohabitation! 🤭

Check out the April 2026 issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities, brought to you by Jennifer Guiliano & me! This month is an open submissions issue and we have an array (har har) of projects: Software! A database! Digital archives! Hope you enjoy. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n4 #ReviewsInDH

It’s a banner year for the Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster at the Green Place! The Distinguished Jacque Wernimont brought me here, and we got to share the exquisite pain and joy of a promotion year together. 💚💚💚

Y'all, I now have a letter saying the CAP voted to promote me to full professor! Being committed to doing the work I believe needs to be done meant following unexpected paths without knowing if they would be valued or recognized. It's incredibly meaningful to know that the answer was yes. 🌈🔆💚

The internet used to be good (morally)

“I caught you reading while you were supposed to be sleeping.” -My mother in 1986, my mother in 2026.

I’m reading Lena Dunham’s FAMESICK because I will read pretty much any celeb memoir regardless of whether I’m interested in their work or not, and wow, it is harrowing.

If I had known I would have to provide pronunciations for so many of the words in DATA EMPIRE for my narrator, I would have written a Eurocentric book.

Listened to a wonderful talk by @durba.bsky.social about her new book! Now even more excited to read it 🤩 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Y'all, my parents have renounced One America News (for people who think Fox News is too far left) and watch CNN.

Have found my motto.

Am in charge of post-op vitals. I have digital and manual thermometers, a pulse oximeter, and manual and digital sphygmomanometers. My mom says this is exactly like watching me play with my Fisher-Price Doctor Kit, only this time she doesn’t have any hope for my future. 🩺⚕️💊💉

Have acquired Dallas, seasons 1 & 2 for parent convalescence. Everyone is PSYCHED.

I am truly confused when people say they use LLMs to brainstorming ideas. Seriously, I have so many more than I could pursue in this lifetime. Please take some, save the planet.

Whatever you do, do not stare into the frosted white orb. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Everyone is doing just fine… Nurse: Dr. Risam? Me, Dad, Mom: Yes? Mom: She definitely doesn’t mean you, Roopsi

Post-op parent was directing their own medical care last night apparently. Once a Dr. Risam, always a Dr. Risam. 😂