Strong agree

More rules for thee, not for me

CFP: AI & the Study of Antiquity at Rutgers–New Brunswick next March. I'm an organizer together with Corey Brennan and Serena Connolly of the Rutgers SAS Classics dept. Send us your abstracts by Nov 21! More at dh.rutgers.edu/cfp-ai-and-a...

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

We're hosting a Black Bibliography Project @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social Edit-a-thon tomor (10/29) at Alexander Library 12-3pm @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social. Refreshments provided. Come learn about linked open data and Black print culture! libcal.rutgers.edu/event/15446627

We're excited to host a virtual workshop where graduate students can present work-in-progress that engages with data from the Post45 Data Collective in some way. Editors from the P45DC, Public Books, Post45, and the 19th Century DC will be there to offer feedback. Proposals are due December 1!

I just gave to Elijah's Promise in Central NJ. Do what you can to help folks out! elijahspromise.org

We're hiring for the Associate University Librarian of Rutgers–New Brunswick (my boss). I'm not on the search committee, but I can answer questions. www.imsearch.com/open-searche...

Nothing nicer than hearing from a former student worker that they got the job for which you served as a reference. Yay!

the people who are destroying all public goods and trying to kill you would like you to blame someone else, perhaps some Other whose immigration status you can deduce at a glance by putting on your racism glasses, who you can have sent to a concentration camp on the basis of your suspicion

Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Goodbye, Hulu. Thanks for making it easy for me to save money! #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC

This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

A dream of the fields study

The sheer pervasiveness of surveillance tech and chat bots led to participants in a Zotero workshop asking me today if it is reading what they write and if it will summarize articles for them. 😩

I’ve posted an update on Fobazi. Thank you all so much for all of the love and support! ❤️❤️❤️ -Elena Update here: gofund.me/506f89f9

I love this ❤️

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

I love how the audience is so big for a #DH2025 session about the semantic modeling of cultural heritage data! Here, Kim Minji presents their amazing work about preserving and visualizing music ephemera. happyhillll.github.io @kadhsocial.bsky.social

16 years ago, I found myself in the back garden of a couple I'd just met, as they showed me their pillow fighting arena. The lesson they taught me about games - especially competitive ones - has stayed with me ever since, but I forgot to mention it in interviews when asked if competition is bad. So:

Once, when I was on my way to German class at the Goethe-Institut at its old location in the 6th arr., I bumped into Catherine Deneuve in a trench coat. We looked at each other and, in that big city way, we just kept going in our respective directions.

A little light-hearted observation in an otherwise grim news day: even in 1873, NJ was a high tax state. Says William Still to his niece (who was selling his book on the Underground Railroad): "Your letter of yesterday’s date came to hand this morning together with my tax bill and also an order for

Call for papers is out for The Caribbean Digital XII. This year we're going to be hosted by the wonderful folks of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive at Northeastern University in Boston on December 4–5. Come share your work with our wonderful community of praxis. thecaribbeandigital.org/cfp/

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

I'm hearing the same sort of things from my perch, bless our hearts. I wrote this in part to show that maybe we don't have to shoot ourselves in the face?https://francescagiannetti.com/librarianship/using-dh-skills-to-do-collections-work/

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

Take my Creative Coding workshop!

if you're in the mood to read a strong affirmation about the worth of disabled lives in the face of a eugenicist administration.... so was i, so i wrote one: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I am excited to share my open access collaboration with @ekj.bsky.social, *Critical Making in the Age of AI*, available today from Amherst College Press. It includes theory and practice from our own pedagogy, as well as examples from our own amazing students: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... #dhmakes

Good on Omeka for writing this and spelling out what their constraints aren't, as an independent project not under the auspices of a university. Still mind-blowing that these are the things one needs to say right now.

A lot of wonderful colleagues' work here. Something of a gut punch.

Today is the Day! Every life-saving breakthrough in healthcare starts with research. No research, no cures. Say no to NIH funding cuts and join the fight at killthecuts.org #KillTheCuts

Congress has the power to restore funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Join me in calling your reps!

Hello @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social and area digital humanists! Don't miss the DH Showcase tomorrow (3/27) at 2pm. A great way to get up to speed on what the community is doing at the intersection of technology and the humanities. Online/in person reg : libcal.rutgers.edu/event/14053362

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today. www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

The IMLS is a kindred agency to NEH, and supports work across the humanities.

Also: this great inter-library loan (one of the world's treasures!) poster from my September visit to Macalester College

The third Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: Simposio LACDH will be in Puerto Rico this year. CFP open now! El tercer Simposio Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Humanidades Digitales: Simposio LACDH se realizará en Puerto Rico este año. guides.uflib.ufl.edu/lac-dh-sympo...

📣The CFP for #ACH2025, our virtual #DigitalHumanities conference, is now available! The conference will be held June 11-13. Proposals due March 23.

There’s a vote for the REI Board! If you’re an active member you can vote at vote.escvote.com/REI/ The board has union busted and endorsed Burgum for Dept of Interior. They are unfit for their roles and need to be voted out.

Join @ach.bsky.social TOMORROW for "Demystifying the Hidden Curriculum," a workshop & discussion led by Winnie E. Peréz Martinéz @wepm.bsky.social. 12-1pm EST, open to all—no need to be an ACH member. #gradschool #highered #digitalhumanities https://members.ach.org/civicrm/event/info/?id=30&reset=1

Silk embroidered fox created by Helen Richman, professional hand embroiderer, based in Somerset, UK #womensart

📣 Douglass Day Update! We've hit 686 pages with 476 in progress, even and more to review & cite! Although this is the end of our Douglass Day celebration, please keep the momentum going by transcribing at crowd.loc.gov. Every contribution helps to make history! #DouglassDay2025 #Youmakehistory

Nineteenth C Black Literature at Rutgers present for #DouglassDay. Bit of a server slow down at LOC, so we’re taking a cake break 😁

Check out our Data Rescue Overview LibGuide, compiling some of the amazing @datarescue2025.bsky.social work archiving and locating missing and at-risk government data: campusguides.lib.utah.edu/c.php?g=2463...

Hey #LoveData25 people in the Rutgers/NJ area and beyond. Check out our workshops and events, most of which are online: go.rutgers.edu/lovedata25 @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social

*For immediate release* Join the Library of Congress for a Douglass Day 2025 Transcribe-a-Thon and Other Black History Month Events Press release (Feb 4, 2025) newsroom.loc.gov/news/join-th...

For all y'all who are interested in doing computational text analysis at Rutgers and beyond, I'm teaching a workshop on finding and creating textual data next Thu @ 2pm #LoveData25 libcal.rutgers.edu/event/13823495