It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters

ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express

Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)

Why college towns are great: This one just voted 84% to *increase* sales tax to support housing initiatives and infrastructure.

Every time a post of mine is saved, my immediate thought is that someone is shoring up documentation for a case against me.

Today years old using GPT to produce Apps Scripts for Google Sheets and I am flying

Join me and smarter people than me for a cool panel hosted by Luddy on *using Internet data for book history research*: 11aEST/10aCST next Monday, Nov. 3

I feel like AI is making 98% of its users more vapid and 2% of its users smarter, and because politics cannot tolerate any nuance, we "must not say so" of the latter group.

Happy no allergy meds season to all who (can) celebrate!

FT lit journal managing editor and lecturer in English at UW-Whitewater

If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/

How can we get Baker & Taylor's distribution data quickly?

This is the snow day of the cloud era

Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social

RIP MTV. You were my only window into any counterculture at all growing up, even if you also fed me Kid Rock

This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.

This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.

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....

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 :)