South Korea bound to present “What the Archive Remembers: Geography, Race, and Language in Chronicling America” in July!!! #DH2026

Getting ready to teach The Scarlet Letter and this was such a good listen… I love a good Lit podcast. This was reminiscent of Big Moby Dick Energy, which is also so, so good. @jsmurison.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

It was such a pleasure to be a guest member of The Anxious Bench for the local Americana Happy Hour.

Just heard an @npr.org story about grade-inflation — the interviewee pointed out that students have transitioned from “scholars into customers,” and what a gut punch that was. I’ve always thought of the “University” as an almost magical sort of place… But hearing that was just demoralizing.

While #IndigenousPeoplesDay in the US honors native nations here, as someone of Chichimeca and Yucateca descent, I reflect in solidarity across the Americas—thinking about how Spanish vs. Anglo colonial legacies shape sovereignty and survival. Particularly how Latin American histories differ from US

I just rewatched “Jaws”—that is the most tonally uneven, and morally confused piece of cinema I can recall seeing… but I guess it’s considered a masterclass because its narrative structure is hyper-legible?

I’m obsessed with this game. Slightly diminish a band: Very Small Faces.

Slightly diminish a band: A Zeppelin, constructed out of the usual materials.

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

My prediction is that #theacolyte will have a spike in viewership in the wake of its cancellation… I want a second season.

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

#DH2025 poster session is bumpin’!

Off to #DH2025 and the 🚆 to the ✈️ is delayed. Not a strong start.

One immediate action item following our "Building BookLabs" symposium was to establish a mailing list where folks running/founding/dreaming up book labs & adjacent initiatives can share resources, opportunities, events, & other materials—if you’d like to be connected sign up at the link below!

Coming down from the symposium high and now feeling the post- #BuildingBookLabs25 depression. @ryancordell.org & @skeuomorphpress.org created something very special and I’m grateful to have been a part of it.

Kicking off #BuildingBookLabs25 with a selfie from the stage. You’re all here! We’re going to have so much fun!!!

Fucking right on 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Friday motivation--- I think about this post often when I'm tired or feel overwhelmed

Given the choice between the mythology of Christ’s resurrection, and a giant bunny that surreptitiously hides its unborn offspring for us to find and worship. I choose bunny—every. time… but really it’s just a nice Sunday with family. 🐰☕️🐣🥚🪺

Trump: *simply going to pause what I’m doing* Market: *greatest single day gains in history*

Course Title: “Info 201; Advanced Computer Programming in Python: Pseudo-code and prompt-theory in using ChatGPT to write your computer programs.” Is this where we’re headed, or already there even perhaps? 🤔

A central anxiety surrounding AI is that it will make us humans lazy. Meanwhile I’m over here writing python scripts with the help of ChatGPT, debugging it in a different window with DeepSeek, and searching anxiously through StackOverflow for all the answers…

Trying to manipulate half a million pages of OCR text from digitized newspapers—ChatGPT says it can help me do this for the one time low, low cost of $605,072.54 — this includes a discount for processing more than 1 million tokens using OpenAI’s api.