this is next week!! you can register now~

As part of the 75th Anniversary of Gregory H. Swanson's successful case to desegregate the University of Virginia, I created a Storymap. We wanted to share a bit more of the context of Swanson's actions in Charlottesville, and the far reaching ripple that's with us still today. arcg.is/1T8aC85

¡Buenas días de #Medellín y #SOTMLatAm #SotMLatam2025! ¡Agradecemos a encontrar todos los mapeadores aquí! @rub21.bsky.social y Minh Nguyễn van a presentar sobre la tema de #OpenHistoricalMap el sábado.

wrote a blog post to what being an a PhD+ Scholars' Lab intern this semester means for me, riffing off @walshbr.bsky.social initial post about it. ✨ honestly, i don't know where i'd be without the Lab <3 scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/carving...

grateful for the internship opportunity & professional shelter in these turbulent times 🌈. this is a great post about being a mindful supervisor and some punctual steps to take in that direction ⚡️

In case you missed it, this workbook is a guide to thinking through when and how to take risks as a higher ed worker. It aims to help us differentiate between danger and discomfort, while also offering some practical information about how to protect yourself while taking meaningful action.

We bought a scanner to go through/digitize old family slides during a long-overdue visit back East. My sister and I opened up boxes that we haven’t looked at in decades—slides and photos of our dad’s time stationed in a mobile radio unit (?) in Sendai, Japan (1955-56) + early family trips

Medievalist digital humanities + gorgeous critical craftwork/book arts by @leoba.bsky.social: how Books of Hours were created as fanfic-style "transformative works": "where people respond emotionally+creatively to something they love". Loved getting a peek at this at #ACH2025's #DHmakes session!

NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

the patience 🔥👑

For the #DH2025 crowd - if you have views on #opensource research software, you might consider sharing your ideas, experiences, hopes w/@arielleb.bsky.social in a survey she is running as part of her @softwaresaved.bsky.social Fellowship this year: southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The HathiTrust Research Center is pleased to announce a new release of our open-access Extracted Features dataset, a statistical snapshot of: 18,725,868 volumes 6,867,699,164 pages 3,255,304,293,468 tokens 450+ languages go.illinois.edu/EF25 for details & download cc:@hathitrust.bsky.social #DH2025

A fascinating read on the history of purple dye! #DHmakes 💜

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

A final shoutout to @wepm.bsky.social for making our #ACH2025 virtual world a space of community, solidarity, & play. The final dance party was EVERYTHING, especially after such a heavy day. Thanks @apjanco.bsky.social for being our fantastic DJ 👏. That's a wrap! @ach.bsky.social

For the #DHMakes folks not at #ACH2025 -- here are some recent #weaving update photos. This is a twill complication I'm working on using 8/2 Tencel. Will eventually become a garment, sort of a boxy top? Will see. First time using a boat shuttle, too! It took some time to get used to, esp. left hand.

just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.

Really quick show off for the #DHMakes session

"I hate that this sounds like a eulogy." [email protected] on how NEH is "an agency that really believes in the promise of our field." And Sam wraps with a promise and a call to be sand in the gears of the anti-fascist machine. May we all be sand. #ACH2025

Excited to attempt to fill the big shoes left by @plach.bsky.social and Claudia Berger as co-chair of the DH in Libraries SIG for @ach.bsky.social alongside Jessica Brode Frank. You do not have to be an ACH member to participate in the group; communications signup is here

I'll be hanging out in WorkAdventure at #ACH2025 for an Experimental DH creative works session kicking off in a few minutes. We'll be playing around with AI Admin 2.0: DH Edition, a generated, playable commentary on the challenges of mixing #DHMakes with GenAI: anastasiasalter.net/ACH_AI_Admin/

Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off? Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference! Testify to the impact! Share what you had started! Share what you hoped & dreamed! Open to all 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help us spread the word?

Graduation #DHmakes for the moment 💙

We've still got space on the lineup if anyone at #ACH2025 wants to share your stories/ideas

Pssst! Just in time for @readywriting.bsky.social zine-making session on Friday at #ACH2025, we'll have a new #DataSittersClub for you all... including an interview with @b0rk.jvns.ca & @omarieclaire.bsky.social of Wizard Zines! 😍

design-assisted by @jajrk.bsky.social who knew we needed a sewing machine ✨

so honored to collaborate with the wonderful ACH team to make the conference! loved learning to use WorkAdventure to help facilitate so many necessary conversations. it truly makes my heart sing seeing everyone mingling virtually. i'm now open to commissions for custom pixelated spaces. jk xD

📣Tune in to the “Digital Blackness” panel at #ACH2025 today (06/11) at 7p ET!📣 Panel will feature presentations from #DigBlk’s @dejaworkman.bsky.social, @weygudey.bsky.social‬, & @dburgher.bsky.social, and chaired by @jimccasey1.bsky.social‬. Register at ach2025.ach.org/en/

Oooh this #ACH2025 opening keynote by @rahulbot.bsky.social is 🔥. His key framing principles are so critical in this current moment

The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other. Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss.

The ACH 2025 conference (June 11–13) is around the corner! Don’t miss our keynote lineup: Rahul Bhargava on community data, Lynda Kellam on the Data Rescue Project, and Hannah Alpert-Abrams w/ guests on NEH + DH futures. Register now: buff.ly/D8LRJ8I Details: buff.ly/RO9Moem

🚨🚨 We're cooking a special session at the @ach.bsky.social conference on "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired." Modeled on the format of the NEH/ODH directors' meetings, we'll be featuring lightning talks from those impacted by the closure. Submit by form by Monday, June 9th - forms.gle/9A8WvfNvEVcK...

A 2024 journal article by @quinnanya.me @claudiaeberger.bsky.social & me traces the origins of the #DHmakes hashtag+community (& fits a 🍞 pun into the title!): accesson.kr/kjdh/v.1/1/7...

New-to-me: #Zine Idea Generator web tool by the Zine Crisis Mutual Assistance Group: zcmag.xyz/zine-idea-ge... if you want to try making your 1st, or nth zine and not overthink on what. #DHmakes

CFP: Data Art! ✨Through 5/16, we're accepting proposals for creative work telling evocative, artistic, thought-provoking stories w/data for display in our community space. Craft, making, art, media & more methods are all options (hey, #DHmakes!). Funded; open to all (don't need to be at UVA; 18+) +

delighted, proud, and honored to have worked in the making of this issue. it was an incredibly meaningful learning experience, and the result is a beautiful gesture of archipelagic communion. enjoy!

As promised, we had our DHMakes session today and created something small but fun: jenniferisasi.github.io/blog/2025/DH...

Please join ACH on 4/25 at 12pm for a prof dev panel on Publishing in Digital Humanities. We take a capacious approach to “publishing” in the digital humanities to consider the many ways that DH scholars publish work for a public audience. Register and read more about this panel at: buff.ly/BNpjgqk

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

Bueno familia, after two years in the works, Duke University Press' Editorial Board has approved an edited volume I am co-editing with @santiaaurora.bsky.social, tentatively titled "Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies." The book should be out in Spring 2026.

New free #zine by @claudiaeberger.bsky.social: "Footpath for the People?", a companion to reading their new data quilt—history of for which "public", whose land re:the Appalachian Trail + gender, race, & Indigenous land rights; & what data physicalization/viz via fabric arts makes possible:

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

I can’t underscore how much @jimccasey1.bsky.social and our team and I feel this.

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

. @claudiaeberger.bsky.social's new data quilt on Appalachian Trail use history & justice looks amazing! We'll be adding a stack of their zines for understanding the data quilt & an exhibit label soon. Zoom event next week!

Both @claudiaeberger.bsky.social's Tuesday data quilt event, & Wednesday @epikt.bsky.social & @ceyingst.bsky.social #bytesizepedagogy have #DHmakes components—and are also free, friendly virtual events open to anyone (no affiliation needed). Join us! scholarslab.org/events

Join us this Wed, April 9th at 8am PT / 11am ET to contact your elected officials to advocate for the NEH and IMLS. We will provide links, talking points, messages, and scripts, including resources from colleagues such as the @humanitiesall.bsky.social. Register now:

Learn How to Build a Digital Edition In our new video, Nick walks you through the process of creating a functioning digital edition. Solutions–DIY DH projects you can bring to life using Performant's open-source tools. #digitalhumanities www.performantsoftware.com/solutions/ed...