Trump's "peace" plan is continued denigration and humiliation of the Palestinian people. No one should accept this horrific proposal from American fascists and Israeli war criminals.

Political violence is awful. Charlie Kirk was a grifting scumbag. Remember his "amazing patriot" comments? These fascists don't care about freedom of speech -- they care about silencing people, quashing dissent and destroying democracy.

Six murdered Israelis was the headline on The Guardian today. Six Palestinians were murdered, without comment, in the time it took you to read this. Humanism.

Is "This is not normal" American for "Fuck fascism!" Such muted and measured response from Americans to their new king. When will they actually, you know... do something to stand up for their republic!?!?

US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...

"If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer, written just before he was murdered by Israel along with his brother, nephew, sister, and three children: inthesetimes.com/article/refa...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!

Call for Papers – Suburb Nation Deadline: August 15, 2025 csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

We're hiring a Rare Book Librarian! Maybe it's you? careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

CFP: Suburb Nation. Canadian Literature. Submissions due August 15! canlit.ca/call-for-pap...

Urge the Canadian government to stand up for Palestine and be counted among those nations that challenge Israel's criminal war. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For the @puddingviz.bsky.social, I explored which animals we gender, and why. Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug. Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

We wrote a book! Sarah Roger and I! It comes out today! CanLit and DH! 🎉🎉🎉

Exactly correct from The Guardian's Owen Jones: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One way to celebrate Canada is to cancel your accounts with US companies that pay no taxes here. Amazon, Uber, if you're a dinosaur still on FB, ...

Chasing the Sun Katharine Burns 2024 #NovaScotia

Gabor Mate for the Star: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

newly posted: Kate Siklosi : it hatches... / @invisibooks.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/06/kate...

It is outrageous that Canada has not suspended our free trade agreement with Israel in response to the ongoing war crimes committed against the Palestinian population. Canada should not have free trade agreements with nations committing genocide.

The Israeli military said suspects had deviated "from the designated access routes" outside an aid center in Gaza so they had to open fire into a crowd of civilians and kill Palestinians for the third day in a row www.bbc.com/news/article...

My new article is up, online at DHQ! "Unjust Readings: Against the New New Criticism." Rolls off the tongue! www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/19/1...

This is going to be fun. Come one, come all. Even the mutterers. Especially the mutterers.

CSDH is a few days away! We are currently looking for volunteer evaluators for the Ian Lancashire Student Promise Award. Evaluators will volunteer for a talk, listen to the graduate student work, and submit their grades. Please sign up below: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I've written up an overview of our DH@Guelph Summer Workshop last week, Making: A Feminist Praxis. Check it out and let me know your thoughts! 👇 @antimony27.bsky.social #DHMakes #DHatGuelph kieraobbard.ca/2025/05/21/m...

Children are being starved to death in Gaza. The Labour government said nothing until the IDF shot at UK diplomats. And yet the Brits target an Irish group for "terrorism" for speaking up. i may have some issues with Kneecap's actions but I will defend Irish artists over spineless British leaders.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Israel is committing mass crimes against humanity aided and abetted by the refusal of the west to say anything. Our refusal to call out the actions of a war crimes state makes this our genocide. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Proofs!

Images of John Norton's newly discovered 'first' journal (of his travels to England). Pity the poor transcribers...

That’s right we’re hiring two (2) learning & curriculum support librarians. It could be you!

Exciting news! I’m giving my first international keynote & workshop at DH@Guelph 2025! 🎤 Keynote: May 12, 5:15 PM – Free & open to all! ✨ Workshop: Digital Misogynoir & Harm Reduction Tactics I can’t wait to share my work in Canada! #DHatGuelph #DigitalResistance #Blackademics

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What does DH look like today? What a question, where to even begin! But Kelly Baker Josephs and I want you to help us find out. We are co-editing the next general volume in the Debates in Digital Humanities series from @uminnpress.bsky.social! Cfp below. Abstracts are due May 25.

Jagmeet Singh is one of the most disappointing NDP leaders I've ever seen. Some style, zero substance as he drives the party into complete irrelevance. Charlie Angus would've been a far better leader.

Israel is a criminal terror state. They steal land, execute innocent people, and commit war crimes. To not speak out against these atrocities is to be complicit in genocide against the Palestinian people. 🇵🇸 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The long crisis in the humanities is now converging with much larger structural crises -- to put it mildly -- in US higher ed. Announcing this cfp the day after the NEH has been effectively shut down is painful. We are determined to showcase what you all are doing anyway to move the field forward.

‘Brand’s poems written in Toronto catalogue a procession of police brutality and racist murder as well as the legacy of Canada’s own genocidal histories.’ Andrea Brady on the prose and poetry of Dionne Brand: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is a great opportunity to work in a dynamic digital humanities research environment! Come and join us in Guelph!

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

I truly cannot overstate just how brilliant the Cindy Lee record is. Buy it on vinyl, buy it on Bandcamp. It is absolutely amazing: cindylee.bandcamp.com/album/diamon...

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Has the @modernlanguage.bsky.social said anything about the threats to academic freedom to Columbia and other institutions coming from the morons in the white house?

Reminder to apply for this opportunity for a creative writer to work at The University of Guelph. Join us!

The conservative attack on freedom of thought and speech, in the form of restricting funding to universities, is a new form of McCarthyism. For all their complaint of cancel culture, it turns out conservatives are quick to cancel dissenting views whenever they can.

I taught in an engineering education program for years where ideas of history, power, and agency were ignored in favour of a technocratic education of making / breaking / profiting. You see the effects of this paucity of education playing out among the technocrats who want to be kings.