Me to the Microsoft chat "agent" I connected to: hi, I need help fixing XYZ thing. "Agent": Worry not, for I stand steadfastly beside you, unyielding and determined, prepared to mend this fractured moment. Your load becomes mine, and together, we shall chart a course toward resolution. Riiiiiight.

New research article: 'The Monarchs’ Bills of Mortality: A Geographical Analysis of Death in Seventeenth-Century London', by @jmotis.bsky.social and Katherine Kania: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dr. Jessica Otis and Katherine Kania published "The Monarchs' Bills of Mortality," analyzing 17th-century London death records to reveal connections between epidemic outbreaks, socioeconomic trends, and environmental factors. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03058034.2025.2572138

ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

Each dinosaur comes with a control box and speaker www.nj.com/entertainmen...

It looks like Dinosaur Field Station of NJ is closing and selling their Dino sculptures

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Someone shared this with me and it pretty much made my day so I'm passing it on for everyone else's entertainment, too!

On Friday AM I'm chairing a panel where I originally planned to announce a new NEH grant program on sustainability. Even though I don't get to do that, I'm excited for a rich discussion w/ panelists incl @jmotis.bsky.social @kfen.bsky.social as we consider our work in the current landscape. #DH2025

If you're attending #DH2025 make sure to check out @jmotis.bsky.social's panel Revitalizing, Maintaining, & Sunsetting the Digital Humanities on Friday and @deepthimurali.bsky.social & @jasonheppler.org's session Participatory Platforms, Open Scholarship and Advanced OCR on Thursday.

Humanists are supposed to be good with words, but there aren’t words enough to describe all the things the amazing @brettbobley.bsky.social did for DH communities & ppl here in the US & around the world. I’ve reposted many of y’all’s #thanksBrett posts, but those really are the tip of the iceberg.

But what meant the most was when I was severely underemployed in 2009, @brettbobley.bsky.social took the time to talk with me about the process of applying to jobs at the NEH. We had never met apart from Twitter and he chatted on the phone. That meant so much to a broke PhD. #ThanksBrett

Cheers to a boss and friend I’ll appreciate forever. @brettbobley.bsky.social always took me seriously, let me run away with ideas that both succeeded and failed, and engaged the field with deep kindness. #ThanksBrett

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

#ThanksBrett for understanding that the humanities, done digitally, needed specific lines of federal R&D and capacity building $$ to innovate, creatively address field needs , build communities, and foster open source and open access work. (We still need it.) 1/

I'll end this with this meme I made of @brettbobley.bsky.social at the 2015 Crowd Consortium forum that IMLS funded. That event built off one of the many amazing groundbreaking NEH Start Up grants that we all can #thanksbrett for :)

#ThanksBrett for your central role in building up the most exciting and generous academic field of the last 25 years! The office of digital humanities was been a tremendously positive force. @brettbobley.bsky.social

The field of DH is indebted to @brettbobley.bsky.social‬, who has made an indelible impact on so many lives and careers, including mine. Brett founded and led the NEH Office of Digital Humanities with vision, insight, ambition, humor, and passion. And crocs. #ThanksBrett

Thanks @brettbobley.bsky.social! You and ODH provided the infrastructure for DH infrastructures, developed the instruments for instrumenting international collaborations, and envisioned the means for us to envision the future.Here's to your next chapter! I'll always value your last! #ThanksBrett

#DHmakes We're all going to work on crafting this in our own preferred medium for @brettbobley.bsky.social right? #ThanksBrett

As someone who has work for and with @brettbobley.bsky.social for almost 20 years, I know how hard he has worked to ensure that NEH could support the range of exciting work happening in the digital humanities. #ThanksBrett

#ThanksBrett for your generosity, adaptability, and focus on enabling scholarship including by shielding scholars from as much flak as you could.

I am one of so many people in digital humanities whose careers were shaped by @brettbobley.bsky.social. Brett was a model of the kind of worker I aimed to be during my time at NEH, and I was so lucky to work with him for so many years. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, generosity, and vision.

I had the incredible privilege to watch & learn from Brett Bobley’s (@brettbobley.bsky.social) thoughtful, collaborative, & patient approach to building capacity across NEH. Those essential attributes led to the creation of the Digital Humanities Initiative, then @neh-odh.bsky.social, + #ThanksBrett

*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.

My brain just broke. I was searching through a Slack channel for mentions of Coroner's warrants and Slack decided that when I searched for "coroner" I must obviously also want all mentions of "coronation"... #fuzzySearchFun

Team: Get infected with enthusiasm for Death by Numbers and 17th century London with @jmotis.bsky.social on the @oieahc.bsky.social's Digital Humanities Coffeehouse series: youtu.be/MmfJidjs370?...

In 2002, the #NEHfunded primary sources and teaching resources for world history chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistory... a site that's been revitalized as worldhistorycommons.org

In 2006, the #NEHfunded a website of primary sources for teaching about 1989 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe: 1989.rrchnm.org

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

In 2009, the #NEHfunded Data Mining with Criminal Intent, which data mined and visualized legal proceedings at the English Old Bailey: www.dhi.ac.uk/projects/cri...

In 2012, the #NEHfunded the development of a public history project in DC's National Mall: mallhistory.org

On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the #NEHfunded sustainability work for the September 11th Digital Archive: 911digitalarchive.org

I have the contract in hand so that makes it official... I have officially been awarded tenure at George Mason University! Expect more awesome history out of me, especially via @rrchnm.bsky.social, in the years and decades to come!

The AHA, along with the ACLS and the MLA, have filed a lawsuit to restore the programming and institutional integrity that have been stripped away from the NEH. Announcement and PDF of filing in district court are here: www.historians.org/news/america...

In 2018, the #NEHfunded World History Commons, an open educational resource for teaching world and global history worldhistorycommons.org

Many digital humanists today use Omeka, which was originally developed by RRCHNM and #NEHfunded several times since 2008 omeka.org

$200k from Mellon to each of the humanities councils that lost funding from NEH (which is mandated funding in the NEH legislation). It's one time and won't fill the budget hole, but v good to see.

The #NEHfunded a structured data transcription module for the Omeka S platform, for scholars working with quantitative data: datascribe.tech

From 2023-2026, #NEHfunded Mathematical Humanists, which was supposed to hold a series of 12 workshops to teach the mathematics behind common digital humanities techniques: mathhumanists.org

The #NEHfunded a scholarship program for 14 US digital humanists with financial need to attend the 2024 international DH conference held in DC: dh2024.adho.org

Over the years, @georgemasonu.bsky.social has won 157 National Endowment for the Humanities awards. Over half of these awards were awarded to the Department of History and Art History. During the next few weeks, we will be highlighting the excellent work the #NEHfunded.

Okay, so my awesome sister @sharonie621.bsky.social just showed me how to customize Google to search without AI. IT IS SO MUCH BETTER NOW. Maybe I'm the last person to do this. But just in case I'm not, it's easy to set up. I'll share the steps here. (1/8)

Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving. Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.

Want to see the scope of what the NEH grant terminations is? The ACH ( @ach.bsky.social ) has compiled a database: impact.ach.org

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “This frontal attack on the nation’s public culture is unpatriotic, anti-American, and unjustified.” 🗃️

Lots of people are hurting today, but I think it’s important to say that the closure of NEH and IMLS is an existential event for #DigitalHumanities #DH