Looking forward to attending SAA in person since, I think, 2022, when it was in Boston? Great program this year: whova.com/embedded/eve...

What’s common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The vast majority of archival documents are neither digitized nor searchable online. 🗃️

FINALLY, the person—Mierle Laderman Ukeles—whose work has been instrumental to my (and others') thinking about maintenance in the context of infrastructure and technology is the subject of a new documentary! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/n...

A final shoutout to @wepm.bsky.social for making our #ACH2025 virtual world a space of community, solidarity, & play. The final dance party was EVERYTHING, especially after such a heavy day. Thanks @apjanco.bsky.social for being our fantastic DJ 👏. That's a wrap! @ach.bsky.social

*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.

To @brettbobley.bsky.social‬ - Massive thanks to you for everything you have done to foster an innovative, thoughtful, and vibrant DH community! NEH's ODH was where I cut my teeth as a peer reviewer for grant proposals & I'll ever be grateful for those experiences. #ThanksBrett

[email protected]‬ Massive thanks to you for everything you have done to foster an innovative, thoughtful, and vibrant DH community! NEH's ODH was where I cut my teeth as a peer reviewer for grant proposals & I'll ever be grateful for those experiences. #ThanksBrett

This week was bookended by deadlines - one for an essay draft due on Monday & the other for a keynote presentation today. Glad to be surrendering to the weekend!

ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.

Salem State's Center for Teaching Innovation (where I work!) is hiring an Assistant Director. $80-85K salary range, hybrid position. More info: salem-state-university.career-pages.com/jobs/assista...

Incredibly proud to be supporting this work! mauinow.com/2025/01/28/3...

On a day like today, a saving grace and comfort: a playlist I'd completely forgotten about is momentarily blunting the despair. Music IS joy.

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

One of the best things about it is the focus on spoken-word recordings, such as of poetry. Because we all need more poetry love. Always.

And of course, there is still time to apply for the 2025 cohort: borderlands.digitalscholarship.library.arizona.edu/faculty-fell...

Here's a fun little video of something I'm involved in around providing digital/data literacies to the US-Mexico borderlands (spot me in the background looking engaged a bunch!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3olJ...

@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...

“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”

Grateful for the work that Archiving the Black Web is doing!

Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

Warmest thanks to @roopikarisam.bsky.social, @jenguiliano.bsky.social, each of the reviewers, and (particularly) Stacy Reardon for all their work on this issue. Astrid and myself had very little heavy lifting to do; #ReviewsInDH is an incredibly well-oiled machine! 👏👏 #DigitalHumanities

. @jenguiliano.bsky.social & I are pleased to wrap up our FIFTH year publishing #ReviewsInDH with a special issue, “Games and DH,” edited by James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social and Astrid Ensslin. It’s a great look at intersections of DH and Game Studies! reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v5-n12

We’re hiring at the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab: 6 postdoc fellow positions for 2 yrs in tech & democracy, broadly understood. All disciplines welcome. We sponsor visas, offer research $ and benefits. Join info sessions. Come work with me, apply by Jan 15: jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

The Writing University (UIowa) is looking for a Literary and Creative Arts librarian. phxc3c.rfer.us/UIOWAsnMNfy

ICYMI: “A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing ‘harmful’ materials to minors.” apnews.com/article/arka...

“September 2024 will kick off the [Boston Public Library] Leventhal Ctr’s exhibition on the rise of digital mapping, Processing Place: How Computers + Cartographers Redrew our World” — co-curated by my ⭐️ former teaching / research assistant Emily Bowe! (likely of interest to you, @lifewinning.com!)

Is it just me, or is there really a bunch of movies that ARE NOT TO BE MISSED this season? Emilia Pérez, September 5, Brutalist, Nosferatu, Babygirl, Nickel Boys, Queer. (Have seen Gladiator II, Conclave, and The Return—each compelling in its own way.)

I thank Nikki Giovanni for teaching us so much, and tonight, for this poem, which is never not relevant.

Another of my students, a historical preservationist, has created a zine — and is proposing a zine series — to reinvigorate historical texts. First up: Booker T. Washington's 1915 "The Rural Negro School + its Relation to the Community," which frames the school as central to a whole social ecology ✨

Every state could do this.

58 Jazz Musicians Were Photographed for ‘Harlem 1958.' Only One Remains. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Librarians ... from five institutions conducted research and analysis of peer institutional metadata policies, vendor agreements, and U.S. law ... Based on our analysis, we assert that the vast majority of bibliographic metadata is simply not copyrightable." nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN...

Excited to see this news out - "Developing a public-interest training commons of books," www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/d...

The 2025 ARL President's Institute, to take place in Chicago, IL, is open for registration! The timely theme: “Ignite Collaboration: Thriving Multigenerational Libraries.” Register by January 10 - www.arl.org/news/registe... (Full disclosure: I sit on the task force—I hope to see you there!)

Materials of Solidarity: posters, flyers, zines, and pamphlets of the 🇵🇸 solidarity movement — curated by Nadine Fattaleh at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute. So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!

Any STS work on how the term "attention" is used in ML (esp transformers)?

8/ In "“Go to the Attics, the Closets, and the Basements”: Black Women’s Intergenerational Practices of Memory Keeping in Oxford, Ohio," Jazma Sutton examines Descendant Archival Practices and women's historical knowledge. www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/8/...

The Incas used stringy objects called 'khipus' to record data—we just got a step closer to understanding them phys.org/news/2024-11... #DigitizedData #OpenData

I know it's been several weeks since this exemption was renewed and expanded, but I am still chuffed: www.authorsalliance.org/2024/10/25/t...

Please share! Call for topic editors, POEM Is there a topic related to AI and algorithms; data and computation; or media and mis- and dis-information that you don't think is getting enough attention, or that you think is crucial for high schoolers and college students to learn about?

Sometimes you have something you have to finish writing and sometimes all you want is to be back in library school working on logic exercises and Python programming. For fun. (Very little of which I remember, except that it was fun, so a refresher would be in order—and also fun.)

The farther along you get in your academic career, the more you notice chains of broken citations: jr scholars attributing concepts to millennial scholars w/o acknwldgng their own constellation of references — or the elision of precursors / interlocutors exacerbated as H-indices reify recursively

I contributed a short piece about the cultural history of sandpaper to the "sand" issue of Material Intelligence! [the editors asked me to share these :)] www.materialintelligencemag.org

Do you play around with chatGPT and AI for fun? Or for work? Do you know the environmental burden you’re creating? Gift link to a Washington Post article on this so you will effing stop

Have started To the Lighthouse (finished the first chapter), and I cannot fathom what it must be like to juggle, as a writer, the innermost thoughts of so many characters during the course of a dinner. That they come alive that way, too! Brilliant & breathtaking.

The nerd in me loves that this resource is available online: www.psu.edu/news/academi...

Don’t know what I would do without colleagues who care to give me notes to be the very best that I can be. I’m indebted, grateful, and feel spoiled. I aspire to be the best possible colleague to others, too - in kind and beyond. It’s mission-aligned, IMO.

A Roman scroll that was buried in mud and ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 years ago was decoded by students using AI.