🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aft.org

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

TikTok is investing in a $10 billion data center in Brazil. Indigenous people who claim the land are suing, saying they were not consulted on the project https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-indigenous-group-sues-tiktok-data-center/

Miguel Cabrera, posthumous portrait of Mexican nun and writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), c. 1750, oil on canvas (Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec, Mexico City)

Excited to share this cfp for the first mini-conference of an ongoing series my colleagues and I are organizing titled Currently Keywords in Digital Literary Culture. This time, we're inviting papers on "smut" and "lore"! Deadline to apply Oct. 8th forms.gle/Ccuaav7rGmMs...

We’re being hit from every angle—enrollment pressures, budget pressures, course cap battles, acad freedom, attacks on unions. TT faculty are pitted against contingent faculty, who are pitted against staff. We are not each other’s enemy. We need to fight for each/all of us if we’re gonna survive.

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here: www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

oh my god a year ago, almost to the day, I made a post about this and today, it's right in front of me at MOMA

I've become obsessed with "Miss Julia Camp," a court reporter who became the first linotype operator. She typed so fast that Mergenthaler enlisted her to demo the machine. The problem: hired labor could never meet the standard she set. Ironically, Mergenthaler thought women incapable of typesetting.

The Fall installments of "Vandal Live" taking shape. Coming to your earbuds between October and January.

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38... [1/n]

One of the earliest faxed images, made by Shelford Bidwell ca 1890. The image was scanned with light, line by line. A selenium photocell transmitted the light as electricity, burning marks onto chemically-treated paper; or the image blocked it (no mark). Et voilà, "distant electric vision."

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

In the new art, poetry is the true ground of communication taking place through words, which occurs in the time.

A dandy roll, used in the 19th-century to press wire-made watermarks -- like those found on handmade, laid papers -- into machine-made paper. Skeuomorphic technology?

Alright #DigitalHumanities, I'd love your recs! I'm assigning DH project reviews using the Reviews in DH model, which means I'd rather have things that haven't already been reviewed there. I've got a list but I know it's probably missing some bangers. What are your favorites?

The Price Lab hosted a preceptorial, Design Thinking and Making with Digital Humanities, where new @upenn.edu students like Prisha Saraiya went from brainstorming to sketching to designing vectors to cutting vinyl to make temperature-reactive mugs! #DHMakes

Received the print copy of my book (out next week!). Obligatory shot with @theul.bsky.social in the background.

Question for my rare book librarian friends: do libraries insure against user destruction? E.g. someone, say, coming in with a pen and scribbling all over an expensive book, or cutting a page out with scissors? Or would a policy only cover natural disaster (fire, flood) and other accidents?

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Distracting myself by looking up all my favorite vintage computers appearing in all the worst movies, in ways both sensible and weird: starringthecomputer.com

Behind the scenes at Penn: Gov. Josh Shapiro inserted himself into the university’s leadership crisis, steering responses to antisemitism, student protests, and even the president and board chair's resignations.

A fierce defense of the player piano, against the "anti-piano-player puritans of music," circa 1910s. "The anti-piano-player pianist is, in fact, a million removes from mere nature; he would be helpless without the huge box of mechanical tricks in front of him"!

As a community involved in online publishing, we at @copim.bsky.social are concerned about the barriers that the Online Safety Act throws up for availability of open access books. Kevin and I wrote this to articulate our concerns for OA publishers, library workers, and digital content providers.

I'm always looking for new videos to introduce digital humanities at the beginning of the semester. Most are usually too specialist or lecture-y. But this video essay by @tesstess.bsky.social, "Digital Humanities, or: The Broken Record of Everything," nails it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3Nn...

Not “limit.” Eliminate. And needlessly cower with embarrassing “apology” letters to graduated athletes. This headline is misleading, and the action is beyond embarrassing. Utterly shameless. And contra the research the institution materially supports.

One of our Associate Digital Editors Dr. Kris May has won the David Greetham Prize (alongside former @tamu.bsky.social professors Heidi Craig and @lauraestill.bsky.social) for an article about trans-inclusive bibliography. Congratulations! newvariorumshakespeare.org/news/

STS 2025 has been delightful! Today’s glimmers: 1) people interacting with my show-and-tell & 2) visiting the Common Press to use the 1899 Washington Hoe Cast Iron Handpress and the Vandercook to print these conference souvenirs! #WickedTextual #STS2025 #DHMakes

🙌🏽 🙌🏽 to #DreamLab2025 crew who jumped in the deep end w/ me to experiment crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to out-of-box WordPress template w/ care, curiosity & determination! Completed 6 exhibits in 9 hours (avg 11 pgs/hr) ➕documentation! 🎉

Congratulations to our Andrew W. Mellon Summer Fellows! This summer, these students will receive support to pursue research in the digital humanities. Check back in the fall to hear about what they have accomplished 😎

Digital Book History & Renaissance Studies Now (3 paper sessions) www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... Book history and the digital humanities have been engaged in a productive dialogue for over a decade. Send proposals for papers grounded in detailed, material case-studies.

We did our best to fix tic tac toe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks to Profs John Sharp & @colleenmacklin.bsky.social for illustrating the value of failure & iteration in game design and beyond

#DreamLab2025 Day 1 is under way!

It’s springtime in New York and the new BOOK HISTORY is out! Featuring contributions by @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @juandmurillos.bsky.social @borna-i.bsky.social and others, this issue of @sharpweb.org ‘s official scholarly journal is 🔥📚! Link in the comments

INSCRIPTION 5 launch! If AT LEAST 2 of the following apply to you, do drop by. (a) you like odd, experimental books (b) you are enthusiastic about the concept of containers (c) you like articles on material texts with holes in (d) you are around London on May 14 May (e) you fancy a glass of wine.

I see that the National Humanities Center is hiring a Scholarly Programs Research Manager: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/careers/

In production and ready very soon: Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? A new booklet I wrote at the instigation of @prisonculture.bsky.social.

We're excited to introduce our new online ‘guide of guides’ #CopimCompass 🧭 This comprehensive toolkit will support #publishers & #libraries with the latest resources and best practices for publishing #OAbooks 🛠️ Learn more & get started today! 🚀 🔗 buff.ly/evuQYdn #OA #Monographs #LaunchDay

7 days left to register for #DreamLab2025 at early bird rates. Save money, learn DH, feel amazing 😎 web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/

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

In celebration of our 100th, we have compiled a video with 🥰⚡🌟🥳 submissions from our community, incl. @thesiouxchef.bsky.social @whitneytrettien.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social @mw-m.bsky.social @amyklobuchar.com @sarahlwasserman.bsky.social @emmamolls.bsky.social ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_NG...