FYIowans: the regents have charged the universities w/ investigations of fac & staff social-media comments following CK. The AAUP advice is wise, particularly to mark in your bios that opinions do not reflect your employer, which mostly clears you thru Iowa policy www.iowaregents.edu/plans-and-po...

Now I am looking for a way to batch-pull publication dates for 8K indie books whose other data and worldcat links I have. ??

I am once again asking

Graywolf is the A24 of literary presses. Change my mind

My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and @profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....

Life-ruining expectations I blame the advent of online learning management systems for: -grading major assignments in under a week -full course and syllabus available before classes start

New once-in-a-blue-moon poem out by yours truly. See if you can guess the very secret conceit!

The degree to which the new gilded-age political satire -- Don't Look Up, Succession, and in this case, Mountainhead -- sounds indistinguishable from reality is asymptotically approaching the totality horizon.

Hard to explain knowledge domains and scope to people who are against knowledge.

omg

My kids are starting two different schools. Each school uses 1,973 communication platforms. Each platform sends 791,237 notifications per day to my email.

Early Closure of House Leaves IMLS Future Hanging; What This Means & What You Can Do (7-29-2025) 📚 bookriot.com/imls-funding...

🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live! 🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026 🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community! #DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social

ah, now’s that sweet time of the summer when for the rest of the summer I lament having wasted the summer

My name is Bateman and I am finally watching American Psycho for the very first time

Now that research funding has been gutted, will T&P standards shift accordingly? Or nah

There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...

I just feel like after 32 years of thinking about how to fend off a velociraptor, I could do it

whoever taught my kids the copycat game come outside i just wanna talk

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug in the form of a twice-yearly subcutaneous injection has JUST been APPROVED by the FDA. Lenacapavir was 99.9% EFFECTIVE at PREVENTING HIV in clinical trials. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

This is a nice, simple lesson plan for helping first-year undergrads think about the effects of knowledge organization. I liked the linked video, too. projectcora.org/assignment/t...

Has anyone tried to compile an index of US-based community archives?

Have resorted to doing planks between emails to make them easier to tackle

I love how we had to rebrand normal human foods as “superfoods.” It’s the Clark Kent/Superman glasses gag of eating

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Universities benefit them.

the one about the rat (honest answer)

Ten writers, more than 5 books Poetry version Walt Whitman George Oppen AR Ammons John Ashbery James Tate Lucille Clifton CD Wright Jorie Graham Claudia Rankine Shane McCrae

When medicine goes postcritique 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

unfortunately for Pete we have not had a president under 6’ tall since Jimmy Carter

Seth on a Rupi Kaur poem in the below: "I will not burden this poem with much interpretation, except to say why it is bad. The idea that two people become one during sex is so old that it appears in the Gospel of Mark and so tired that it appears in a Spice Girls song."

Thrilled at the publication of our @uclpress.bsky.social book, co-edited with @lisejaillant.bsky.social, Stephen Downie, Paul Gooding, Claire Warwick, & Katie Aske, with contributions from many great colleagues, incl. @thomaspadilla.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @melissaterras.bsky.social +

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the #ACH2025 #DHandLibs SIG meeting. We had a wonderful conversation and welcomed our new co-chairs, @jbrodefrank.bsky.social and @micahbateman.bsky.social. Missed the session? Reach out to me or @claudiaeberger.bsky.social and we'll get you plugged in!

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

As a critic I am constantly struggling to imagine myself out of "We can't imagine ourselves out of neoliberalism"

On one hand the organizations stepping up in the age of govt defunding are necessary. On the other, we're manifesting the "thousand points of light" neoliberal ideology that private or semi-public orgs should displace the functions of the state. It's frustrating to always be playing their chess

Reader's Digest wanted to use AI digests at the top of digests

University accountant, or MFK Fisher?

What are the most tweeted (and most memed) lines of literature? Anna Preus and I take a shot at this question in a new book chapter, focusing on some T.S. Eliot lines. Sharing for the morning crowd :)

As a contrarian, it pains me to be of the Very Popular Opinion that Pet Sounds was a masterpiece. RIP to a master of the art

Expressive Networks: Poetry & Platform Cultures, ed. Matthew Kilbane, is out and open access! I write about how social movements like Occupy using estate like Twitter/X and Walt Whitman's verse betray the limitations of emergence and often default to what Raymond Williams calls "residual culture."

“You don’t need a book; you need a writing habit,” I keep telling myself. “But that can start tomorrow!” I keep telling myself.

The Data Services Continuing Professional Education program will remotely train a cohort of early to mid career librarians who want to offer data services at their library. (I'm not involved, just thought was cool.) Apps due June 27 for Sept-Dec training dscpe.github.io

we are living in classical times of the petty gods fighting and secondarily impacting all human life

Hi Bluesky! The Post45 Data Collective is officially here. We publish open datasets on literary prizes, fellowships, books in translation, feminist magazines, NYT bestsellers, and more. data.post45.org Follow us for updates—we’ve got a busy summer ahead!

Athens, GA: Digital Archivist, University of Georgia

There are righteous objections to technocracy. But I think what technocracy we had was way better than this

Much that is queer happens in bed. That’s why this Pride, I’ll be partnering with Bed. In that I’ll be working from bed

For the first time in my life, I fell for an online scam today, baited in the most targeted midwestern dad way possible (LL Bean sale)

very lucky these days to have been brought up in a non-grants-based paper discipline. In this essay, I will use no funds

Is there a free, widely used digital asset manager (Omeka eg) that has *not* been supported by NEH or IMLS?