Check out the summer professional development opportunities funded by the NEH's Institutes and Landmarks of American History programs for K-12 and higher education audiences. Please share w/ those who might be interested. www.neh.gov/divisions/ed... *Yes, I know that it's been a strange year.

Another opportunity for serenity, via my local @pbs.org station. The Christmas Festival Concert from St. Olaf College. www.pbs.org/show/the-st-...

How many commercials can Peyton Manning be in? Does the limit exist?

Our subscriber numbers have grown consistently since our relaunch, and we are excited to continue to grow the DHNow community! Dive into the details in our annual report. digitalhumanitiesnow...

If you need 90 minutes of beauty, the English National Ballet's Nutcracker is now available via PBS's Great Performance. The staging is just lovely. www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Job posting: Training Manager in the Smithsonian's Office of Digital and Innovation. Deadline: 12/23 OR after first 100 applications, whichever comes first (so apply NOW if interested) 2-yr term position onsite, Washington, DC; $101,401-$131,826/yr

Applications are now open for “Law and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for the Humanities Scholar,” a two week NEH summer seminar taking place at Emory next July. Check it out! lawandreligionsummerinstitute2026.ecdsomeka.org/home

Now free to read at this new link! www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Yes, I know that it's a re-broadcast, but the documentary "Mister Rogers: It's You I Like" is on my local PBS station and now I'm verklempt. Such an important show for my family when I was younger. www.pbs.org/show/mister-...

The Smithsonian's Claudine K. Brown Internships in Education. For those interested in the field of education & museum leadership.Dates: 6/1/ - 7/24/2026; 40hrs/wk; Stipend: $650/week+$3,200 towards housing costs. Open to undergraduate U.S. citizens/permanent residents. Applications due 2/15/26.

This opportunity looks amazing.

"There’s a reason we see so many librarians and archivists on the show. I think we all just have a love of knowledge and learning..." Jeopardy! super champion Adriana Harmeyer shares her experience on the show with @amlibraries.bsky.social #IGM25 https://bit.ly/480UGUY 📸: Disney/Christopher Willard

Nominations are being accepted for the CUR Arts & Humanities Faculty Mentor Award, which recognizes exemplary faculty mentors of undergraduate researchers. Apply by January 16.  https://www.cur.org/membership-community/honors-awards/arts-and-humanities-faculty-mentor-award/

Science Illustration internships (2) at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. $700/week, relocation funds for travel to and from SERC; and onsite dormitory housing available. Anticipated start date 02/26 but can vary; duration is 11 weeks. Location Edgewater, MD.

This looks delicious, but my favorite part of the recipe is about the crust: "you can even use chocolate Teddy Grahams"!

Hmmm, the Wikipedia entry on the National Endowment for the Humanities could use some updating. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

Gordon Wood *drink*

Just sharing for information. Glad to see that fundraising plan for post production. planeandpilotmag.com/oscar-nomina...

Please post your Northern Lights pictures! One night, I hope to see them in person, but tonight is not that night.

Why yes, I _am_ watching a documentary on my local PBS station about pigeons. With a name like The Pigeon Hustle, how could I not? www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/...

A thoughtful piece from Koven Smith about what funders need to keep in mind when invoking innovation. I particularly appreciated his discussion of technical debt. kovenjsmith.com/post/2025-10...

Wow! Time to call in Maigret! #PBSMasterpiece

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

Watching "Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution" on Independent Lens (on my local PBS station, of course). So hopeful and yet bittersweet, given where we are now. www.pbs.org/independentl...

Argh. That is all.

For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

Appreciated this thoughtful piece from @bcgl.bsky.social. Eloquently puts into words some of concerns about a particular use of AI that I've been grappling with.

Our aim at DHNow is to provide as global a view of the DH landscape as possible. In this spirit, we would love to have more feeds and sources from Asia and Oceania. Please submit any sources you rely on: digitalhumanitiesnow... "

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...

NEWS: The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to the Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

NEH Announces $34.79 Million in Grants for 97 Humanities Projects tinyurl.com/ympbr56k

Congratulations to the 2025 History Teachers of the Year! A teacher has been selected from every state and the US territories. One of them will become the 2025 National History Teacher of the Year! See the list of winners here: www.gilderlehrman.org/history-teac... #NHTOY #HTOY #NHTOY2025 #sschat

(1/3) Stolen Relations is proud to be related with and connected to many other academic projects centering on experiences of Indigeneity and unfreedom. Under Related Websites and Projects on stolenrelations.org/related-webs..., a selection of these projects are linked.

This story was sweet and I love that it acknowledges the importance of Columbus Metropolitan Library system. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961 Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

(1/3) Stolen Relations has been launched for a month! Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of partners and researchers, stolenrelations.org currently has records of upwards of 7,000 individuals and many pieces of art and storytelling that help to flesh out the stories of unfree Indigenous people.

#ThanksBrett for the kind words. Yes, the ODH team did support important work by our grantees. But, alas, no #ThanksBrett re the Crocs.

Wonderful piece by Jennifer Schuessler. "At National History Day, Students Get Competitive About the Past" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/a...

*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.

New NEH-supported tutorial on running LLMs locally with ollama! Your laptop is more powerful than you think. Save money, privacy, and energy. aiforhumanists.com/tutorials/

Watching a re-broadcast on my local public television station of one of my favorite episodes ever of #AmericanMastersPBS on artist, illustrator, designer Tyrus Wong. It's a wonderful documentary. Highly recommend it. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Happy to live in a neighborhood where these signs pop up every once in a while.

Ah...one of the contestants on Jeopardy! Masters brought his high school librarian as his special guest. *sniffle* "Let's give it up for librarians!" - @kenjennings.bsky.social

Looking forward to watching the livestream today for the public launch of the very important "Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement" in the Americas project at Brown University. @stolenrelations.bsky.social events.brown.edu/history/even...

Please boost! The NOEL PRIZE, in memory of the great and good and much-missed Will Noel. Celebrate your (or any) open access library project. No project too small, or too big. Full details here, deadline 8/1, extremely low-effort Google Form: pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...

This sounds way more fun than Model UN, to be honest. ‘The Only Person in the World Claiming to Be the Pope Right Now’ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Are you a digital humanities scholar looking to sharpen your digital project-building skills, receive funding, and create an open access project on a supported platform? Apply now! Applications are open, and will close on July 1st at 11:59 p.m. U.S. EST. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Settling in to watch the NEH-funded documentary, Free for All: The Public Library, premiering on Independent Lens on my public television station. www.pbs.org/independentl...

What a wonderful list of recipients! Such good news. And struck by the number of Fellows who received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier in their careers.