Today is National School Librarian Day. THANK YOU, school librarians & school library workers. We celebrate you. For so many library kids, the school library is the only place they have access to books. It is where they learn to believe that stories are for them. Thank you for your library joy 💛📚🥹🤟🏽

Looking for something lovely and calming to watch? I'm loving _The Creation Rose_ about the stained glass rose window in Washington DC's National Cathedral. Just beautiful. www.pbs.org/show/the-cre...

The @librarycongress.bsky.social Web Archiving Section is hosting a paid remote intern next Fall. See remote project 2 “On the Digital Campaign Trail: Archiving U.S. Election Websites” www.loc.gov/item/interns... and share with anyone interested who matches qualifications!

The J. Paul Getty Trust is looking for a new Director of the Getty Foundation. With a $28M budget, & exemplary programs, the Foundation strengthens the global arts ecosystem in museums, archives, and communities through strategic philanthropy. Salary: $525K-$550K. Los Angeles area residency req'd.

Rapacious. Atavistic. Obsequious. Students reading The Intuitionist discover Colson Whitehead’s formidable vocabulary. Listen now. -- shorturl.at/trgVN

Perhaps of interest?

Oh hooray!

Because last year was *waves hands arounds*, I have seen none of the #Oscars nominated films/performances. So I am rooting for the one that I know engaged humanities scholars as part of its preparation. So, let's go #Sinners!

Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.

Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries: The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence! Apply by 2pm ET April 10 newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Applications for Fellowships, Public Scholars, Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan, and Awards for Faculty at HBCUs are now open! Deadline to apply is April 22. Learn more at www.neh.gov/grants

K-12 teachers: don’t forget to register for our upcoming Teaching African American Studies Institute (TAASI) by March 30th! Please help us spread the word about this exciting professional development opportunity for educators! #humanities #professionaldevelopment #k12teachers #afamstudies

On Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 1PM eastern, we're hosting a second webinar for the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. Feel free to jump on if you'd like to learn more about the program. Register here: schmidtentities.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Kate Hudson?

Job posting: International Project Coordinator, Office of Global Affairs (OGA), Smithsonian. Closing date: 02/23/2026; Salary $57,736 to - $75,059/yr GS 07. Provides admini/programmatic support to OGA's portfolio of international projects & strategic initiatives.

mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.

Yeah!

Announcer: "This has not been the game they [the Patriots] have hoped for, but there is still time..." *Seattle defense rolls over the Patriots quarterback*

Cheese update: Lovely. Would recommend.

Dang.

Woot!

Well, now I'm sniffling at a commercial for mortgages.

Trying a new cheese this Super Bowl. Jasper Hill Farm Moses Sleeper. Seems to have a history connection. Will report back. www.jasperhillfarm.com/moses?srslti...

Okay, I don't think that (retired) athletes should be doing commercials for online betting. Just no.

Oh, Bon Jovi. Shame.

Let's go Seahawks and Green Day!

Gosh! Those US ice dancers are stunning. #WinterOlympics

That Olympic cauldron is lovely.

I expected Italy to have more colorful walk out uniforms.

Okay...what is this pep talk from Samuel L. Jackson?

Norway's sweaters are nice.

Don't forget to nominate any #DH resources for DH Awards 2025 so they get on the ballot! Deadline coming up soon! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... The current distribution of votes per category is a tad uneven and you can probably guess which categories are which!

Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books. Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...

Nota bene, teacher friends! 🗃️ 🍎

Attention all fans of The London Stage Database! 📣 Thanks to a new, internal grant, the LSDB is officially able to resume active development! Read our blog post about the news here: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/... #digitalhumanities #c18 #18thc #humanities #theaterhistory

An America "250th" collaboration betw the Smithsonian & the Library of Congress.. Revolution Crossroads is a partnership between the Smithsonian Institution & Library of Congress, using AI to surface untold stories, connect long-separated records, & bring new life to Revolutionary-era history.

Just attended a fantastic conversation on "Beyond the Headlines: AI and Historical Newspapers" hosted by @bpl.boston.gov / @bplmaps.bsky.social with Harvard's @mollyhardy.bsky.social and Greg Leppert. Recording is available at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZZa...

People of DC: This is a great, frequently updated, zoomable map of where the snow plows are, and how recently they've been on any given street. Based on our experience, it's accurate. We saw a truck, and then the map status of our street changed. Check it out citizeninsights.geotab.com#/dcsnowgov

Perhaps of interest to those in the District-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area? Their use of doughnuts as examples is genius.

Remember that #DH Awards 2025 nominations are open for another month. Nominate a #DigitalHumanities resource, tool, publication, dataset etc now! Nominating is the only way things get on the ballot. If your kind of DH isn't there, then why aren't you nominating it? dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

We need more talks like this!

Quick reminder: This Tuesday, the HAVI team @schmidtsciences.bsky.social will be doing a webinar about our current digital humanities/AI RFP. It is January 20, 2026, 1PM EST. Register here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

NEH awards $75.1 million in grants to 84 humanities projects, including research, education, and public programs on the U.S. 250th anniversary. tinyurl.com/3a37thbk

🚨 Announcement: Call for applications for Teaching Ancient in a Digital Age, an NEH funded institute for higher education faculty (May–October 2026; wp.wwu.edu/tada/) 🚨 Applications close March 6th, 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific Time: wp.wwu.edu/tada/applica...

The 2026 Librarians-in-Residence Program is welcoming applications through Feb 13, 2026 -open to students who earned or will complete their Master’s degree in library and information science from an ALA-accredited program between Dec 1, 2024 and Jun 13, 2026. Learn more: www.loc.gov/item/interns...

If you're among the dwindling demographic who get the print edition of the Washington Post, you may have seen one death notice in what's left of the Metro section that ran longer than usual. (I didn't, but my wife did.) It is some remarkable testimony about mental illness and well worth reading.

Reposting in the new year—applications now open!

The beta release of the Lexos text analysis library is now available at github.com/scottkleinma.... It reproduces and extends the Lexos web app as a Python library in a way that is approachable for students and Humanities researchers, and useful for developers producing their own apps.

My semi-annual request for nominations for the digital history reviews section of the Journal of American History. Self-nominations welcome. www.oah.org/publications...