My entire academic career in a skeet

There's still time to apply for one of several full-time positions in computational humanities at Carnegie Mellon University * Assistant Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanitiesapply.interfolio.com/173622 * Assistant Tenure Track Prof in Computational Humanities apply.interfolio.com/173626

Did you know that the JCB has committed to digitizing all of its collections? See the progress we've made so far at americana.jcblibrary.org! Details: Branch of a blackwood or Jamaican walnut with oblong fruit being eaten by a land crab. americana.jcblibrary.org/search/objec...

Since we all have Macs at work, I'm trying to find another solution that doesn't involve shelling out money for $$ enterprise subscriptions. So I'm back to contemplating Excel, but I really want to be able to apply multiple labels to entries...

I’ve been thinking — what if ending the draft in 1973 is a hidden cause of rising US college tuition? Cheap college once allowed young men to avoid war. When the draft ended, so did the political incentive to keep higher ed affordable.

Many thanks to @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social for this fantastic piece on our new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies

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Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

Carnegie Mellon English proudly supports Ed Simon's launch of the Pittsburgh Review of Books. I like to say that @cmuenglish.bsky.social is where readers find refuge and leaders find language. It's tremendous to see Ed and ProB offering that same spirit to our city and to our world. pghrev.com

Did you miss our summer talks or wish you could share them with someone else? You’re in luck! Recordings of our 2025 Summer Lecture Series are now online! Video recordings are under the “Summer Lectures” playlist at youtube.com/rarebookschool Listen to the audio at soundcloud.com/rarebookschool

After nearly two years running our homespun ESTC 📚📜, we’ll soon retire it at the request of the ESTC. Proud to have been part of the @print-and-prob.bsky.social team 💪, led by Nikolai Vogler, that helped our scholarly community in a time of need 💜

My recent lecture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social can now be found on their YouTube channel youtu.be/ElvNacFyoWQ.

My recent lecture for @rarebookschool.bsky.social can now be found on their YouTube channel youtu.be/ElvNacFyoWQ.

As a book history/digital humanities scholar, I immensely enjoyed this @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk on Warren's term, computational bibliography, as a set of tools to connect the study of artifact (microscopic/Hinman) to ideology (systemic/Darnton). (1/7)

Here's another fun announcement. You can now access the first three episodes of Third Person Limited, a podcast on books and culture that I have been working on with my friend, Mason. thirdpersonlimited.com

Here's a nice announcement. I just turned in the final draft for my first academic book, 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds: Finding Descartes on the Early Modern Stage' to be published with Edinburgh University Press next year.

it's proofs day 😍 Introducing Catherine Sanger. This is another woman publisher that I found after an editor assumed traces of her labor in the English Short Title Catalogue were a typo. A [sic] was put next to her initial, and I spent weeks combing through Ancestry to figure out who she is.

oh hey this looks cool ;)

the rpince of denmark nods in agreement

I'm so excited for the Pittsburgh Review of Books!

🚨 Discourse alert!!! What should you teach engineers who have never read a critique of modernity before? 😰😳 I’d be tempted to throw them right in the deep end with Benjamin’s Theses on the Philosophy of History

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026. www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

Now emancipated from its paywall. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

some personal news www.cmu.edu/dietrich/new...

As the debate continues about the value of humanities, arts and social sciences degrees, we have published a new toolkit that captures the vital contributions of SHAPE graduates to society, culture and the economy. It's covered here on WonkHE: buff.ly/pB45bCX Dive in here: buff.ly/WU6xBzT

““Nobody could imagine a few years ago that one of the great democracies of the world would eliminate research programs on the pretext that the word ‘diversity’ appeared in its program,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Monday.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

For anyone in and around Oxford today, you can find me speaking about @print-and-prob.bsky.social at this Digital Humanities showcase at Jesus College at 5pm www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/digital-hub-...

Keep your brain busy over the summer with this lecture series, available in-person or over Zoom! Professor @chrisvvarren.bsky.social speaks on July 30.

Rare Book School is thrilled to announce this summer’s lecture series at the University of Virginia. All talks are free and open to the public. For the first time, RBS also will offer an option to attend virtually via Zoom livestream. Details at rarebookschool.org/lectures.

🔥 🔥 "The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph." 🔥 🔥

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

I see folks saying NEH ODH is “dissolved” but I don’t think the screenshot circulating exactly warrants that inference. It may be cold comfort, but it seems to me there’s still daylight between grants being cancelled and the full scale “dissolution” of the office?

what an absolute disgrace

If anyone wants a horrible python program that will write integers in cuneiform sexegesimal (base sixty) using unicode so you can paste it all over the place in emails, documents and text messages I have just the thing. Use with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimpton_322 For maximum amusement. […]

Heartbreaking to see this. Programs like DH Advancement Grants, Dangers & Opportunities, and Institutes (IATDH) have been essential for expanding computational knowledge to humanities fields & enriching computational fields with humanities knowledge.

Chris’s story is the story of the many ways in which the NEH supported students, teachers, scholars across the country. How incredibly valuable it was, in spite of the always way too limited amount of funding available. Closing it is a clear case of vandalism.

Thanks. Many people don't understand the incredible limitations constraining federal employees. They often can't advocate for themselves or their agencies, either due to Hatch Act concerns, fear of reprisal, &/or a strong sense of professionalism. Hope I'm able to help as best I can.

What a powerful testimony of how small investments from NEH lead to transformative outcomes. Read Chris’s entire thread (I appreciated the shout-out to NEH’s K12 teaching resource, Edsitement, which is where I first started working at NEH).

What does the National Endowment of Humanities mean to an individual scholar? Read Chris Warren's story of the multiple ways it has shaped him, from when he was a high school teacher through to his current ground-breaking work using computational tools to identify early modern printers.

I love the work Chris does and hadn’t thought of how much of it is possible only because of the @nehgov.bsky.social ‘s support. It is so sad to see the NEH hacked to bits by a chainsaw in the chaos that has been unleashed. Call your representatives and ask them to save the NEH (and the NIH, NSF, SSA

1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵

words can't express my sadness and anger at the dismantling of the NEH. from the many friends who've worked there to the absolutely life-giving resources they've supported and sustained, it's so hard today to feel anything other than a profound assault on almost everything I hold dear

Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals. Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

Spread the word: if your NEH grant has been canceled (or you know someone who this applies to), please fill out or pass along this form from ACH.

sketches toward a group chat by Athanasius Kircher 1/

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

Among these is one working with me -- if you have a background in literary/cultural theory and are interested in the ways in which computational methods, including LLMs, are able to provide support for empirical sensemaking about literature, media and culture, please get in touch!

#RenSA25 #Shax2025 has been fantastic so far but I would say the most surprising thing was sharing an elevator with NBA hall-of-famer Gary Payton