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.

Between the Canvas outage and the court win in the NEH grant case, it really feels like a day for @literaturegeek.bsky.social print of @megsmith.bsky.social quote. #DHmakes

WOOO happy launch day @nictringali.bsky.social !!! Everyone go check this game out, it looks INCREDIBLE and I know how hard Nic and co. have been working on this. 🎉

While we welcome the pause from the Supreme Court, access to Mifepristone is still under attack. You can still access it through telehealth in Illinois right now. Your reproductive freedom will never be restricted here, so long as we keep fighting for it.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

The deadline to apply for these posts is extended to May 10. They're all a great way to learn from and with the international digital humanities community, and each post has a year with full support to learn the ropes

A May Day trip to the Fiber + Fabric Craft Festival seems like the perfect occasion for my @wolfproofpress.com shirt. S/o to @literaturegeek.bsky.social and #dhmakes

Looking for a low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities workshop? @ach.bsky.social's got ya covered. We're offering 3 wkshps ahead of #ACH2026: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn

I wrote about Infinite Jest’s wild 30-year journey online—from feminist YouTube stunts to sexist 4chan posts to Luigi Mangione’s Goodreads. How far down the rabbit hole do DFW bros go? What do the memes reveal about our relationship to literature & the internet? lareviewofbooks.org/article/infi...

Huge news for Zooniverse -- 3 million registered volunteers! Next milestone for 2026: 1 BILLION classifications... coming soon!

3 million volunteers! Congratulations, Zooniverse! Today we have reached an extraordinary milestone: 3 million volunteers contributing to people-powered research around the world. From classifying galaxies and discovering exoplanets to tracking wildlife, transcribing historical records, and…

trying to post through it rn

Big news! I'm incredibly privileged to take on leadership of the Museum Data Service while continuing half-time in my role at the British Library. The MDS is already a success story, and I'm so excited about taking it further! artuk.org/discover/sto...

Reminder to share with your friends who love a Weird City, and to the rest of your friends who just don't know it yet

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for @dhquarterly.bsky.social (DHQ). Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30th. See the CFP for more details: buff.ly/qpiypXq

Ok crafty friends of #DHmakes, whether or not you have anything to do with digital humanities, kindly take a moment and fill out this form to vote for #DHmakes in the annual DH Awards! Please and thank you! 🧶 🧵

#DHmakes Find your next craft!

I’ve posted the text of my talk from today’s DH Day at Purdue: “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism” is part of a longer piece I’m working on that tries to theorize the current “Material Turn in Digital Humanities”—essentially: why are so many DH folks printing & making & crafting? #dhmakes

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Good news for anyone working on their proposals for the next Fantastic Futures conference - the deadline is extended to April 16! ai4lam.org/submission-i... #FF2026 is in the US, but will be very hybrid so you don't need to travel there to present or attend many sessions #AI4LAM #MuseTech

✨Happy April Fools from Zooniverse! www.youtube.com/shorts/tIEIZ...

To my surprise I got invited to be on a panel here called "The Problem of AI" and took the opportunity to try to shift the discussion from boosterism & normalization, however "thoughtful and deliberative," & toward the political economy of higher education nathankhensley.net/uncategorize...

why ai when you could be eating meatballs???

@nathalieisonline.bsky.social sent me this today and it has brought me endless delight. Clown event still possible.

Really interesting piece about chatbot culture as an indicator of shifts also happening IRL! Julie's writing on friendship is really excellent.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Election Day is tomorrow! Use our Cook County judicial election guide before you head to the polls. Don’t forget: You can bring your printed selections — or your phone — with you when you vote.

This is what's killing me about all the furor about AI and the NEH. Yes, it's galling, but seems it didn't shape what happened in the end. People are more upset about how they did the middle step than the fact they destroyed projects, scholarship, and tools & any recovery is too little too late.

As someone who watched the careful stewardship of grants over many years, the lack of care and the dismissal of the hard work of scholars and NEH program staff described here is devastating and shameful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Probably not a good sign that it's only week 1 of March and I'm already over-relying on the 'snooze' function in my email inbox in my attempts to keep things from dropping off my radar.

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6! Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future. PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6! s.team/a/3350750

"The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it." 💀 #DHMakes

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A friend just shared this with me, and I'm SO excited to read it. Had to jump on here and share with my #DHmakes folks (ahem ahem @quinnanya.me @literaturegeek.bsky.social 👀) resistance.unstable.design

Looks like the original has been swept away by the sands of time.

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

Proposals for ACH 2026 (June 24-26) are due in just under a week on February 23rd! Read cfp and submit at: buff.ly/kFUXOgB

Saturday #weaving update! Making progress on my first rug. Finally getting the hang of shaft-switching, starting on a checkerboard section. #DHmakes

Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Douglass Day 2026 continues We are only 73% complete! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

A @zooniverse.bsky.social recap video from Douglass Day 2026, featuring footage from the in-person event at the University of Michigan library! Produced by our fantastic Adler Planetarium Manager of Creative Content, Meredith Stepien www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2U5... @douglassday.bsky.social

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

It seems to me that defining DH as purely quantitative methods is a neat way of shaving off all the hard-fought interventions made by people who were interested in making the field reflect the diversity and complexity of the actual world.

if you live in Chicago and you haven't been outside today this is an ORDER go out into the sunlight RIGHT NOW

We are SO grateful for the work of @sifill.bsky.social. Thank you for joining #DouglassDay this year! The 14th amendment is the heart of our democracy and we must defend it--and defend and define its history collectively. profiles.howard.edu/sherrilyn-if...

The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

NORTHEAST and PENNSYLVANIA transcriptions are complete!!! #DouglassDay

first subject set complete! #DouglassDay