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.

Such good news!

One week ago I facilitated what will likely be my last ODH review panel, for a program that as of today no longer exists. I can't name these folks, but I can say thank you to them and to everyone who has reviewed for NEH. Let's hold tight to the expertise and community that drive our work.

Hearing reports that letters to NEH awardees haven’t been received. Note that these went out to institutional grants administrators and a huge number were caught in spam as the email address was…fishy. So if you’re at a college/university, check with sponsored programs.

A quick shout out to university sponsored programs staff: The administration’s cynical, capricious actions on federal grants have made their jobs practically impossible … and impossibly busy. Thanks for all you do to support our university communities and the academic endeavor.

PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.

I'm rooting for Margaret Cho on Celebrity Jeopardy. She rocks.

Second time today that I've had an opportunity to think about the National Geography Bee.

Job Posting: Data scientist to join a data analytics and insights team in the Smithsonian Office of Digital Transformation. Work on projects across the data domains, starting w/ workforce analytics & audience insights. Job closes @ 250 applicants (so apply NOW if interested) $101,401 - $131,820

Oh...*sigh* "Real Genius" is one of my favorite movies.

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

Remember, voting in the annual #DH Awards 2024 is only open until 2025-04-04. Anyone can vote! If you have not voted, then do vote! If you have voted, then do not vote again, but encourage others to vote for your favoured #DigitalHumanities resources. dhawards.org/dhawards2024...

Anglo Irish author Maria Edgeworth wrote children’s literature & several novels. With the help of an NEH grant, Wake Forest University collaborated with 3 other universities to digitally publish & archive unpublished letters and correspondence. ow.ly/G8o950Vm8ay #IrishAmericanHeritageMonth

This position is an opportunity to work with a great team.

Built in the 1420s, Ireland's Kilcolman Castle was refurbished by poet Edmund Spenser in the 1580s. An NEH grant-supported digital humanities project offers a VR model of the castle during Spenser’s time plus teaching modules with connections between the castle and his writings. ow.ly/xV3G50VielF

In the NEH-supported film "Obsessed with Light" filmmakers pull back the curtain on Loïe Fuller’s life and how she created an immersive and transformative experience from the ground up, paving the way for how artists design their productions today. ow.ly/OiwO50V8wGh #WomensHistoryMonth

For scholars working on BRAID-DOT applications, we've posted an update to the Grants.gov instructions for US applicants (www.neh.gov/initiatives/...). No fundamental changes, but we hope to make it clearer which section of your AHRC application should be uploaded to which part of Grants.gov!

This is goodness.

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs. I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share. I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project. www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

While watching "Pompeii's Secret Underworld" on PBS's NOVA, thrilled to see Rebecca Benefiel (Washington & Lee Univ) sharing her @nehgov.bsky.social -funded research on wall inscriptions and graffiti using digital methods. www.pbs.org/video/pompei...