Springtime England allergies are hitting me hard today. It is significantly less fun to work in archives when you are struggling to breathe. 🤧

The Museum of Craft and Design had its opening gala for a new incredibly cool Video Craft exhibit that involves a lot of weaving! It was a balm for the soul. Thanks for the invite, @triproftri.bsky.social! #DHmakes sfmcd.org/exhibitions/...

Extremely honoured to be taking over from the excellent @djakacki.bsky.social as Chair of @teiconsortium.bsky.social. We're currently running a survey on activities and membership rates of the consortium. If you've ever used the #TEI (member or not), please answer: forms.gle/USoesRx9SztU...

It was my last day in Brighton today. I absolutely love it here and wish I could stay longer. The Brighton & Hove Museum and The Keep were both wonderful archives to study in. I look forward to my next visit. But this weekend it's off to London for the final week of this research trip.

Call for applications! We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL! £5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff! blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

NNELS thanks @joellightbound.bsky.social, members of the Standing Committee on Finance, and members of the House of Commons and the Senate for supporting our efforts to protect free postage for the blind under the Canada Post Corporation Act. Read more here: nnels.ca/news/bill-c-15 #cdnPoli

Deadline extended for submissions to TEI2026 (Vancouver) this year tei2026.tei-c.org

Shout out to the Brighton & Hove Museum for being incredibly kind, accommodating, and excited about the work I'm doing. Their collection of materials re: William Moon is really cool and I'm so grateful I got to spend time with it this week. Lots of cool tactile DH stuff coming up!

It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.

I really enjoyed my time at Musée Louis Braille and the UNESCO archives while in France, but wow France is incredibly hostile for people with mobility disabilities. I took the train into England today and the difference in accessibility is huge. England has always been easy for me to navigate.

I just got my annual Public Lending Right cheque for Because Internet from the Canada Council for the Arts, so permit me a thread about what the public lending right is and why you should request books you love from public libraries!

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

For the US #DigitalHumanities crowd: how does one go about looking for DH/DH-adjacent jobs? I live and work in Germany and know all the job boards and mailing lists to subscribe to here. But what about for the US scene? Specifically the Pacific North-West? Appreciate whatever help you can offer. 🙏

I spent the afternoon today in the Musée Louis Braille in Coupvray. It was incredible. If you're visiting Paris, it's well worth the trip out to Coupvray to visit. Highly recommend. And I'm really excited about some of the rare books the guide showed me.

Common Threads Press call for nonfic writing+art on craft+disability: "often romanticised as therapeutic, relaxing, universal, but whose hands, bodies, rhythms are centered? Disability offers radical reimaginings of craft..." (pays you $200) www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/pages/submis... #DHmakes

I'd love to read some sort of (pop) linguistics / language study of what the competitors actually speak to each other at the Olympics, and the degree to which that tends to be different in the Winter vs Summer games. What international English(es) / Spanish(es) / French(es) / etc. might they use?

I’m plotting and planning a presentation for Arts and Humanities PhD students for an EDI conference. I’m speaking on disability. I would love to show what good and great things departments or unis are doing for disabled PhD students. Can you share anything with me? #highereducation #PhDchat

No one expects "enjoy solving math problems" to be the primary objective of a college math class, but a lot of folks seem to think the point of English classes is to love the act of reading. If you want to read a book for pleasure, read! If you want to be taught a skillset, take a class.

Faculty: Help us build a wish list for accommodation requests! We invite instructors to share perceptions of disability support services for students in #HigherEd. Take a short survey (IRB approved) here: uofmississippi.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Questions? Get in touch! #Accessibility

Any good writing out there about video game-to-film adaptations? Not just reviews of good/bad ones, but discussion of adaptation strategies, formal affordances, narrative differences, fan discourse around adaptations, etc.

Jet lag is wild. I didn't sleep for over 24 hours to make it through my flight to Paris. I waited until a somewhat reasonable time in the Paris evening to go to sleep. But now my body is in emergency mode and thinks that three hours was enough sleep. 😴

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

Visual art media can be made accessible and tactile. The link here describes a photography exhibit that was made for folks with visual impairments, including tactile versions of the photographs with braille descriptions. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

We are looking for an Archive Consultant to support its landmark heritage project, ‘Cripping Culture: a Journey into Disability Arts Heritage’. Closing - 02 Mar Location - Remote ££ - £5.4K Fee disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...

Has anyone studied how researchers and academics use library catalogues? I'm struggling to find any literature on researcher (not student) information needs and information seeking behavior. Any leads? My focus is rare books/archives/special collections, but I'm looking broadly right now.

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on The Future of Diamond Open Access: Possibilities, Perils, and Pathways. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/239/ Abstracts due March 23rd 2026. #DiamondOA

I'm so ingrained in #DHMakes that when I saw a museum had a catalogue listing for "the patchwork quilt embossed in moon type" I thought it was a quilt with tactile moon characters added to it. But no, it's a book in moon type. Which makes more sense, but I'm a little disappointed it isn't a quilt!

From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical). This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!

Friends with a new, renewed, or amplified interest in the Spanish language and Latin America, consider checking out the work your colleagues/neighbors in departments of Spanish/Romance Languages/Modern Languages/etc--they're likely in the corner of an old campus building 1/

From rare book (physical) to 3D scan (digital) to cleaned-up 3D model (digital) to 3D printed object (physical). This was a really fun process to think through texture and materiality of a tactile book object. This was a test, and I learned a lot from the process. More to come later this year!

People get prickly about these requests bc they see them as individual critiques but they're really efforts to set norms and build culture around sharing information, which feels very meaningful and worthwhile to me in this moment.

I don't know who needs to hear this (me), but a reminder: save your work as you go, because software can crash at any time. 🙃

Some blind and low vision fans will get to use haptic tablets at Super Bowl 60. It allows them to feel the ball as it moves around the field. n.pr/49Z7YDT

We are so pleased to announce the recipients of our 2026 Awards! Many thanks to the jurors, our Awards team, and the SHARP members whose membership fees support this work. (If you'd like to support these awards in the future, consider joining us! sharpweb.org/membership/) (1/5)

I'm looking for funding suggestions (non-academic grants, companies willing to make donations, etc.) to fill a budget shortfall for a research project about game industry incubators, accelerators, and mentorship programs. I know the game sector is on fire now, but any suggestions are appreciated!🔥💰

Want to know more about accessible reading? Join NNELS, CELA and BANQ for the Accessible Reading Symposium on March 11 and 12, 2026. This free two-day virtual event brings together stakeholders across the Canadian accessible reading landscape. Learn more here: celalibrary.ca/accessible-r...

Some people think being Deaf is a weakness, that learning Sign Language & becoming part of Deaf culture is somehow a surrender. It’s not. It’s a revelation, a declaration of freedom. My Deaf community is a wondrous galaxy that gives me strength & love & imagination, & I’m grateful to be part of it.🤟🏼

You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...

If you're disabled (broadly defined) and BIPOC or QTBIPOC and have a book coming out in the next year, please drop the link in the comments.

The @sharpweb.org email just went out, so I can post about it now! SHARP awarded me the very generous 25th-Anniversary Fellowship to support research travel for my project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading." I'm so grateful to SHARP, the awards committee, and the book history community.

The @sharpweb.org email just went out, so I can post about it now! SHARP awarded me the very generous 25th-Anniversary Fellowship to support research travel for my project "A History of Tactile Writing and Reading." I'm so grateful to SHARP, the awards committee, and the book history community.

Do better, Edmonton. This is ridiculous. I know we live in a snowy area but leaving sidewalks inaccessible like this is awful. I was already having a bad pain day and I had a suitcase with me. I couldn't even walk around it in the street without serious backtracking.

Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)? (would love to see portfolios)

Me on LLMs, Grok especially, as epistemic weapons:

I think Laura Porterwood-Stacer's Book Proposal Book offers some great advice on when and how to negotiate the contract that applies to this — it's definitely easier for later-career folks with more security, but she outlines questions you can and should ask + press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

I wrote a whole long thread on this, but the details are unimportant. The important thing is that some disabilities are invisible, and you never know what someone is going through or dealing with just by looking at them. Be kind.

Do I have any #DH #DigitalHumanities friends on here who do network visualization (Apr. 6) or digital exhibits/repositories (Apr. 13) who'd be willing to Zoom in for a guest lecture for my Intro to DH class?

Friends and colleagues in London, I will be visiting soon as part of a research trip. If you're in London and want to meet while I'm there in the first week of March, let me know!

Have your say! 📢 Disabled young people aged 11 – 25 deserve to be heard. Share your experiences in the @DCPcampaign Young People Survey and help make change happen. Survey 👉 bit.ly/YPSurvey26 Easy Read version here👉 bit.ly/YPSurvey26ER

#DH #BookHistory Postdoc: printprobability.org