Such an inspiring @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social #dh2025 closing keynote by @roopikarisam.bsky.social about care and repair!

Whew…that’s a hard travel sell. Lovely places but aside from Ireland, this is rough from this zip code while kids are home. Sigh

Thank you, @roopikarisam.bsky.social, for your closing words for #DH2025: 'the future of DH requires access grounded in accountability; repair sustained by care; scholarship driven by solidarity' And also, 'hope and strategy are very important things to hold onto right now'

RR: Repair must be our ethic, care our method. #dh2025.

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According to a local reporter we have had 11 straight Saturdays of rain and I think it’s showing in all of us

UPCOMING🩸The High Stakes of Menstrual Tracking Join us at the launch of our report on femtech and improving access to menstrual knowledge and care. Hear from self-tracking and reproductive justice experts @flsbrgr.bsky.social, @wernimont.bsky.social, & Andrea Ford. ➡️ www.mctd.ac.uk/events/repor...

Professor @wernimont.bsky.social‬ reflects on the overreliance of data from wearable technology, via the @nytimes.com‬. “They’re like, ‘The device said …’ or ‘The monitor said …,’ and I’m like, ‘But what did your body say?’”

Thinking about wearables in the NYT - don’t be part of the worried well! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/s...

A delight to have Macro/Micro here in the FMS gallery - we’re thinking about structures and vision at atomic and planetary scales

“Automation bias” is when people believe the output of a machine is accurate simply because it’s a machine. What is the term for when people “believe” the output of a gen ai image despite knowing it to be computer generated? www.404media.co/i-loved-that...

I definitely don’t want to spend any part of my one precious life double checking the work of an efficiency tool that screws up 1/3 of the time

"We are in the midst of a political coup that, if successful, would forever change the nature of US government. It is not taking place in the streets. There is no martial law. It is taking place cubicle by cubicle in federal agencies and in the mundane automation of bureaucracy." @eryk.bsky.social

Delighted to be here at Brown and getting a sneak peak of The Stolen Relations project, which engages w the history of enslaved Indigenous people in the US indigenousslavery.org

Buuuut we did it!!!

Today I coached two 7th grade basketball games and then cheered for two more. Tomorrow I’ll do it all again and then drive three hours home. Parenthood is no joke

It was a delight to spend part of last night hearing @roopikarisam.bsky.social talk as part of our Digital Humanities Work talk for the Leslie Center’s celebration series. Despite being in kind of mind bending pain, I was very happy and inspired!

The perpetual lineup.

I just opened registration for two summer cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials. These bi-weekly cohorts run from May to July and are paced for that slower summer vibe. Morning cohorts meet Thursdays at 9am, evening cohorts on Wednesdays at 7pm. www.jerthorp.me/learning 🪶📊

I missed out on doing a thing I really wanted to do tonight w other bird+data+textile ppl today bc of a coaching conflict and I’m sad now @jerthorp.bsky.social (also sore from chasing teenagers on a basketball court)

I remember a California researcher asked for public records re energy for data centers but got back almost completely redacted- I can’t find who that was. Anyone here happen to know?

Making public bird data art for bird data class with your work bestie @wernimont.bsky.social

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk/DOGE from accessing Americans' personal data at the Social Security Administration, a win for labor groups sounding alarms over the legality of DOGE's actions. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Please join ACH on 4/25 at 12pm for a prof dev panel on Publishing in Digital Humanities. We take a capacious approach to “publishing” in the digital humanities to consider the many ways that DH scholars publish work for a public audience. Register and read more about this panel at: buff.ly/BNpjgqk

I’m honestly surprised human blockades haven’t started yet

SCOOP: Dozens of immigrants falsely labeled dead by the Trump administration have showed up to Social Security offices to prove they are alive, forcing the agency to reverse the declaration. Those reinstated as alive include an asylum seeker and a minor. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Asheesh Kapur Siddique, about his recent book, The Archive of Empire: Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World (@yalepress.bsky.social).

In this Teen Vogue Take, news & politics editor @leximcmenamin.com analyzes the April 17 Florida State University shooting and the politics of the alleged gunman. Read more here ⤵️

Virtual and live “Dark Fibers, Missing Datasets, and the Politics of Occult Information,” would love to see friends there

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” -Ellie Wiesel, 2009 National Humanities Medalist Good night, humanities friends. Tomorrow, there’ll be more of us.

Such a mutual feeling @roopikarisam.bsky.social - also we got to argue over whether or not “media” is singular or plural (I lost)

Oops, here's the link to the full UMass resolution! It also includes supporting documents and FAQs that could be helpful to other people planning such efforts. Please share widely! drive.google.com/file/d/1TNDl...

It turns out that I can still be surprised

AAC&U expresses strong support for the mission of @nehgov.bsky.social and for the fifty-six state and jurisdictional humanities councils that play such an important role in advancing that mission. Read the full statement: www.aacu.org/newsroom/sta... #NEHgov

Or give me a call - the paper and digital work of being dead is my research area!

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

“Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” This doesn’t sound like “radical transparency” to me. Check out my latest secrecy newsletter to see which FOIA offices have closed so far, and which might be next.

Thank you @princetonupress.bsky.social for putting the forthcoming 25th anniversary edition of Cold War Civil Rights in the @oah.org banner!

@mattdelmont.bsky.social’s excellent Half American is on the list of 381 books removed from the Naval Academy library www.publishersweekly.com/9781984880390

381 books that naval academy personnel can no longer access at their library www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

I have multiple friends who have gotten Covid recently- stay careful and test to protect others. You can buy Covid (and flu) home tests online if they’re not in your stores

Well, we don't think we're going to get that town hall we were hoping for. Around 11:30pm last night, DOGE sent out another round of emails. A good majority (no exact number yet) of NEH staff have now been placed on admin leave for an undetermined amount of time.

Maybe we all just spend our days protesting…I don’t see the point in carrying on as normal

MORE: Libraries in several states have received letters which claim to cancel federal IMLS grants. Congress MUST act to restore this funding. Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/04... Use your voice - call Congress to protect & restore library funding: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries

Need a project tonight and tomorrow? Check out the instructions here and consider adopting a site at risk.

If someone lost a grant, here's advice for how to appeal that decision. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/five... From @thetransmitter.bsky.social <6/n>