Grateful to be able to thank NEH-ODH staff in a public setting during #ACH2025 and recognize their immeasurable contributions to the DH field. I said in my talk that I hate how this feels like a eulogy, but I'm also glad we have the opportunity to share in a moment of community grief.

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If you receive a termination notice, see Section 13B of NEH's T&C. A grantee can request NEH review of the termination action; the grant admin must submit the request through eGMS reach no later than 30 calendar days after the date of termination. Read more here: www.neh.gov/general-term...

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad. Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: [email protected]. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

The DH in Libraries SIG is hosting an interest meeting for library students to learn more about how ACH can support them and for us to hear from them about what they need. Please share, especially if you know some library students interested in DH! sdsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Don't sleep on this first snack-sized digital pedagogy session! Next Friday Feb 21st from 1:00-2:00 with @mebrett.bsky.social and @emmcg.bsky.social on teaching and humanities data. More information and zoom registration below.

#ICYMI as it becomes more urgent: free zine tutorial on DIY Web Archiving by @quinnanya.me @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net & me: how everyone can back up copies of stuff they care about on the web: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

Alert - motion to eliminate funding for the NEH. US folks please contact your rep right away this will be voted tonight. 😳⬇️🗃️

The CFP for DH 2024 is live! We're really excited to welcome you to Washington D.C. or to see you online. Please share widely! dh2024.adho.org/cfp/

Interdisciplinary Data Science search at Princeton open again: as usual feel free to reach out with questions. Humanists & Social Scientists, NLP researchers ENCOURAGED to apply (and re-appy). puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

My department at the Univ. of Arkansas is hiring an Assistant Professor in African American History. Please help us spread the word. uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/...

At the risk of continuing to feel like an auctioneer - We're at 327 after signing up something like 80 people yesterday. Wondering if we can get to 400 today 👀 Share with staff, colleagues, students, etc! The most delightful clerical work. bit.ly/dh-bluesky

The cover of Thursday's The Daily Tar Heel, a striking response by the student-run paper to an on-campus lockdown and killing. (more twitter.com/caitlyn_yaed...)

Hi Bluesky, another exciting t-t opening here: pls help us publicize before the 11/1 deadline. As @saulnoamz.bsky.social has mentioned, Comp Lit is looking for a scholar of media history/theory/archaeology who works on non-anglophone cultural traditions: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12720

Really appreciate this discussion by Lucy Pei and Roderick Crooks, in the most recent issue of JCMS, on the "deep, studied, careful ambivalence" that community organizers have with respect to data. doi.org/10.1353/cj.2...

Historians please help us spread the word: Colgate History is hiring an Assistant Professor in History of Health, Medicine, & the Body. We will consider applicants whose research is focused on Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, or South America. Full ad here, due 10/2! https://apply.interfolio.com/130212

Can anyone provide some good sources on Milei in Argentina? What is the context that has given a Bolsonaro endorsed candidate such support?

I don't think this has made it here yet, so here it goes: CfP Special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing on Multilingual Publishing & Scholarship (eds. Alyssa Arbuckle, Janneke Adema, and myself). Proposals due Sept 15. https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/71/ Please share!

https://history.princeton.edu/news-events/news/apply-now-davis-center-fellowship-truth-and-information applications invited from historians of information technology & media please share & apply!