some of my favorite former NEH employees have channeled their collective grant-making wisdom into an opportunity for funders. thrilled to see it! hire them. 💫

Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

I'm curious if early Americanists have watched the AI white nationalist propaganda rendition of Phillis Wheatley put out by the "Founders Museum," or is it simply a cursed digital object that we are all avoiding? youtu.be/te-A0hZ_BNI?...

Five months ago today, National Endowment for the Humanities staff arrived at work and discovered panicked emails & calls from grantees whose obligated funds were "cancelled" in the dead of night by #DOGE. Less than 24 hrs later, the majority of us were put on leave, and a week later, fired. #NEH.

As historians of technology are pointing out, this is how automation has worked out in the past, too. The solution is unionization/collective action. If people work together (if!), editing can become a very, very expensive service.

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.

My cynical prediction is that Philly 250th anniversary of 17** next year is going to be AI white supremacy founders parade, the M*ms for Lib**** event at the museum of the American Revolution was a little preview

I watched through all the White House's "Founders Museum" A.I.-animated paintings teaching U.S. Revolutionary history, installed in D.C in partnership right-wing YouTube content farm #PragerU. news.artnet.com/art-world/wh...

The Philly SEPTA cuts are dire. As someone who works at a university, I’m wondering if AAUP chapters & unions will need to organize rideshare carpools just so faculty & staff can get to work this fall (among other organizing ofc)

This is urgent, rent is due in a week. A Black trans academic has been put thru a cruel process for months now in response to her pro-Pal activity, and yesterday she was notified she will not receive pay for the next two months. She needs our support to cover her immediate needs of meds and housing.

My Intro to DH class this fall at Drexel is 🤓jam packed🤓 with class trips to archives. We will be doing more hands-on exercises with non-digital media, including an assignment where the students check out (from me) a discman or walkman, and explore the CD or tape collection at the Free Library

this website feels like a social media dead zone with lots of bots and seeing the same 3 posters over and over, it is like the ghost of academic twitter. I'm wondering if social media will be totally obliterated by AI in a few years, it already feels like an endless stream of bots talking to bots

helpful thread here of job resources

my fellow PA-ians, pleaaaase hit up your friends/fam/exes/whomever who live in areas where their senators especially need to be pressured about supporting SEPTA funding— that’s N East Philly, Bucks County, & Montgomery County 🚂 ⬇️

A friend is organizing this campaign for Sandra Delvalle’s legal fees, please consider donating and/or sharing - cases like these where women are brutally punished for defending themselves against their abusers are part of a larger system that criminalizes survivors of gendered violence

I like to repost this every couple of months as a reminder. Tressie is being proven more and more right with each passing day.

📣please donate and/or share this campaign to defend a criminalized survivor, Sandra Delvalle, a young Puerto Rican mother who was convicted of third-degree murder after fatally defending herself against her long-time abuser 📣 gogetfunding.com/legal-suppor...

Mine is “not only…but also” 🥴 among other gendered & defensive writing tics where I over-state my argument

18th c people!!!! Check out this TT job in the long 18th c in Bowdoin’s English department. We could be #C18 buddies!!!!!

🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥 "Through Mary’s Eyes: Enslavement, Marriage, and Black Women’s Subjectivity" by Alicia Prainito Please Share! www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/thr...

I was laid off from Northwestern University today, along with 200 other people. 📚 www.northwestern.edu/leadership-n...

ICYMI: The big news over the weekend is movement in a positive direction that will hopefully bring relief to our grantees, though unfortunately, National Endowment for the Humanities staff will not see any justice regarding our mass terminations from this ruling. #NEH

PA Senator McCormick (who is never in his Philly office) signed on to this; turns out all the screaming outside his office we did earlier this year worked! Thanks to AAUP and @higheredlabor.bsky.social

In the past I’ve had Intro to DH students write process blogs after in class activities & labs, now I’m considering asking them to write process journals by hand with “unhinged journal prompts” (as seen on TikTok)

Tonight is a good night to bring up––once again––how I attribute my scholarly methodologies, habits, and perspectives to the fact that 80% of my readings in undergrad were shitty photocopies of my profs' books.

The timing of this news & Drexel just announcing yesterday that we are switching to Canvas by 2027 🥴

Academics, if you need a reason, in these urgent times, reminder that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social has set up a tab where you can redirect membership fees and conference costs from AHA, MLA, AWP & PEN to the Sameer Project, run by Palestinians open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

I'm struggling with how much to change the assignments in my grad-level class to make them less LLMable. This thread is me thinking out loud, and I'd just love to hear perspectives from others in higher ed. Fundamentally: I care more about students doing things than I care about assessment. 🧵

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

In the next few months I get to have two gum grafting surgeries to fix gum recession that is related to the years I did not have dental insurance in graduate school. Just more evidence that Northeastern’s grad union (GENU-UAW) deserves a strong contract

The paperback ed. of hosts of the Death Panel podcast’s Beatrice Adler Bolton and Artie Vierkant’s Health Communism is now available for preorder thru our online bookstore. All proceeds to the Sameer Project’s medical campaign: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

Posting about famine is not the same as trying to stop it, alleviate it, interrupt it. Survival funds were survival funds 21 months ago. Spend a moment contemplating what they are now. Help six families eat. Anything less, forget. 560/1900 by Friday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Gonna have to drop everything to write about how the company running these Prompt Engineering Certificates (with laundered brand equity) was created by a Venture Capital firm. Not “funded” or “bankrolled.” The VCs imagined it, invented it, built it, then installed their hand-picked “founder.”

ICYMI: what digging around actual original sources and analysing is like: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession. Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

Huge congrats to the postdocs !! 🥳😎

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

Today is the LAST DAY to vote! Postdocs and Research Associates, make your way to Houston Hall today before 7pm to vote YES!

extremely helpful thread here:

Friends, please share! Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

I'm really asking everyone to please stop using Alligator Alcatraz. This is not a descriptor that makes sense. These are concentration camps.

If I was still a postdoc at Penn, I would absolutely be voting YES in the election next week. Solidarity to the current postdocs and research associates who are doing incredible work, despite an unusually intense anti-union campaign

I saw this last week and I felt extremely emotional. 10 years. That's how long this took and it should not have taken this long. www.nrdc.org/press-releas... - I thought also of all of the activists including Little Miss Flint who have CONTINUED to fight for all of these years.