If you live in California and you want to take advantage of the state-run portal that tells all registered data brokers to delete your data instead of having to send an individual request to every single one, here is what you need to know: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

New paper! "Recalibrating Artificial Intelligence for Social Biases: Four New Priorities for Datasets, Models, and Metrics" Coming out of learnings from Lucy Havens' PhD, we suggest alternative priorities for AI that could rebalance its handling of social biases: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Campus closures, mergers, and cuts: here's my latest survey from summer 2026. bryanalexander.org/horizon-scan...

Join our final pre-conference #RSVPDigiEv, “Migrations Through the Local Press” next Friday, 26 June with @drewhobbs.bsky.social, Lisa Peters, and Simon Young, who explore how local pride influenced coverage of migrations both literal and metaphorical across the #19thC press!

For those looking at their NEH grant reinstatement, highly recommend looking at the Award Reinstatement Instructions, which are much more specific about what is/isn't a change of scope, what budget changes need approval (nothing w/in 25% of total award), & what staffing needs approval.

Work with me! Late-breaking opening in the English Department at Davidson College. We're hiring a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor of post-1800 Brit Lit.

Really enjoyed that whole week with incredible participants and a rich conversation. ❤️ Every bit of it

We are super lucky this morning to host @kfitz.info in our #dh leadership #DigitalHumanities Summer Institute on the final day! We read her "Leadership" chp from *Leading Generously* on Day 1 My Q: how has leadership had to shift since 2024 when LG came out? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_2r...

Just over a week left to register for #ACH2026! Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity, with keynotes by Laura Gonzales and Maria José Afanador-Llach. Registration closes June 21: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Program: buff.ly/cs2h5pm

This Framework should particularly useful to folks who may be considering using AI in their research and scholarship, and for those who encounter it in their work. Tags: #DH #DHSI2026 #elit #english #angusge #literature #humanities #research #scholarship #peerreview #publishing #academia #MLA #AI

YAS!

… @katinalynn.bsky.social, forthcoming… punctumbooks.com/titles/unexp...

Who among us has recently published a book using mushrooms as a way to demonstrate community power? I know it's a #dh person! But, my memory is failing me on this one right now. Would love to share it w/ our DHSI DH Leadership group bc mushrooms came up yesterday as a framework for collaboration

Oh look what popped up in my social media memories! #digpd @ #dh summer institute from 2012! player.vimeo.com/video/436927...

Perfect! In time for our first discussion in #DH Leadership @ DHSI about the past, present & future of #digitalhumanities with Liz Losh as our first noontime speaker

Back teaching at DHSI after a 15 year hiatus! This time, #Digitalhumanities leadership co-teaching with @raysiemens.bsky.social @gworthey.bsky.social welcoming a diverse stellar group of participants this a.m. What do YOU think makes for effective leadership in #dh? dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f...

⏰️ If you haven't already, be sure to register for our upcoming #RSVPDigiEv on Friday, 12 Jun on "South Africa, 1904" with Dr. Gigi Tang, co-hosted with @navsa.bsky.social's Empire + Colonialism Caucus! Dr. Tang will walk us through the 1904 issue, which can be accessed on our site:

#periodical #history buffs, help me out here. I'm at the NYPL doing research on Ackermann, 19c print culture & literary annuals (final push!) & am stymied by the iconography in this volume title page for Microcosm of London (1808-1810). Can you name any of the animals, crests, buildings, vignettes?

Now everyone knows. Today's NYT article on the CSU-OpenAI & AI Everywhere, very specifically at SJSU + Cal State students are not happy about extending that contract The comments in this article excoriate (rightly so) the administration 🧐😵 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Announcing the release of the online, open-access edition of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ (in Debates in DH series): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/cri.... Editors: Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, James Smihties @jamessmithies.bsky.social). Print ed. appeared January 2026

Grateful for the opportunity to speak to @modernlanguage.bsky.social Friday morning plenary about #ai & humanities around leadership 🍵🫖 2nd photo lists 8 provocations from @laurenfklein.bsky.social et al Talk gleaned from a previous blog post triproftri.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/s...

Excited @modernlanguage.bsky.social brought ADE-ALD Summer Seminar to my home campus at SJSU! Right on cue, instead of persistent blue skies & 🔆, we get 2 days of unusual rain 🤔🤣 The program looks spectacular & can't wait to chat w/other panelists about #ai on Fri www.maps.mla.org/Seminars/ADE...

This month: -longtime mentor passes away ~6 yrs into retirement; she was having so much fun😥 -former student pivots career to MSW bc he wants to give back 🤩💙 -wonderful mentor retires; created an incredible RTP policy 🎉 -94yo neighbor falls down stairs & passes away rt in front of us; devasting😥

📣There's still time to sign up for a #ACH2026 low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities Workshop! 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

A month ago I promised to share the recording of my talk at Penn, "Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner." If you're feeling down, try the part around 14:30 where I talk about how fun it is to be a creature without a fixed essence who has to spend millennia discovering what they're capable of.

The entire Cal State system has been severed from Instructure completely as of 5/7. Chancellor's Office now dealing system wide. That's 500,000 students who were about to walk into finals week starting on Monday after mandates 2 yrs ago that every class is required to use Canvas 💁🏻

The "It cannot stand." conclusion to this 🔥 paragraph is bringing some serious Gandalf "You shall not pass!" vibes. #NEH

Within seconds, my dean emailed the ACLS announcement to me & others who have had grants axed. We also let our administrators know so they could witness what advocacy in action looks like in humanities. It's a long road ahead to get our $200k reinstated for the #dh center, but this gives us all hope

V. excited to share my piece published by @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social! Please read & share!

Watching @brettbobley.bsky.social talk at today via Zoom -- getting some insight into the collapse of ODH & NEH 😓 Discussing Where are we with federal funding for humanities now? Where are we with AI & Humanities? Schmidt proposals require a *real* humanities questions (ty!)🎉

Nearly forgot to share this pod episode on AI and the University, in which I reflect on questions of labor, neoliberalism, technofascism, academic freedom, shared governance, and resistance.

FTW @archive.org 🎉📣 Ackermann pub in Mexico *No Me Olvides* (1825) w/Jose Mora editing & ships to Am - uses same format as *Forget Me Not* 1825 & same engraving plates, including "Sacontala," a Hindu myth shifted to make femininity weak (not powerful as in original) (1/x) #periodicals @rs4vp.org

"With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, nuclear-armed superintelligence seeking to annihilate the human race—which will later be revealed to be Skynet itself."

THIS!! This is what we do in #dh on my campus! Incredible librarians leading the charge to work w/our Digital Scholarship Student Fellows -- they're doing some fundraising ATM, but take a look at the student's perspectives abt being a fellow give.sjsu.edu/schools/SanJ...

The results for #DH Awards 2025 are now live. Sorry if your favoured resource did not win in this openly nominated, openly voted #DigitalHumanities awareness activity. There's no real prize (winners may use the associated icon), other than everyone seeing the resources. dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

Interlibrary Loan just fessed up that they couldn't find copies of the new *Edinburgh History of the Transnational British Press in Non-Anglophone Countries, 1800-1914* and @michaelhancher.bsky.social *Macaulay and English in India* so I bought these $$ treasures! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

Round 2 of our new Microgrants program is now open! These seed grants of up to $300 USD support exploratory projects, archival travel, or digital tool subscriptions. The deadline for this round is May 15. More information and application info can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/micro...

Jim with the clutch answer!

Any clues? @melissaterras.bsky.social @aearhart.bsky.social @quinnanya.me

Does anyone remember the newspaper project that was publishing a dig version of a historical newspaper title each pub on same day? What project was that? Is it still functioning? help? #digitalhumanities #dh #periodicals @rs4vp.org @jimmussell.bsky.social @pritijoshi.bsky.social @ryancordell.org

The April 15 @calrbs.bsky.social application deadline looms... make sure to get yours in while scholarships are still available! I'll be teaching Pop Bibliography, the study of how old books are portrayed in pop culture and what it means for the field of book history www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

Anne McClintock's class (1996?), teaching straight from *Imperial Leather*, completely shaped a long-term trajectory in my career. I never knew that kind of research on material objects was possible. Then I switched to the Grad Center, CUNY & was granted the trust & freedom to chase these ideas!

Tuned into the Global DH Symposium today! Very grateful for the livestream available here: www.youtube.com/@GlobalDHSym... Thank you @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social !!! #msuglobaldh

Why am I like this? 35pp outline for a 7k article 😵😓🙄

A few wks ago @rs4vp.org hosted me for "Pick-a-Periodical" about a single #19c #periodical, Forget Me Not - incredibly grand fun discussing the colonialism in literary annual engravings www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fw... Thnx to Alison Chapman for the invite & Tarini Bhamburkar for moderating

For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵

I have 5 yrs of notes on this project about postcolonial literary production, book history, poetry, short stories, engravings, and more. I've half drafted 3-5 articles on the topic. I've forgotten more than I've read....I'm now somewhat frozen & overwhelmed. I have so many iterative Word docs 🙄😵😰😓

Plsd to attend Micki Kaufman's talk "Archives in the Algorithmic Anthropocene" @ DH Hub, U Ottawa speaker series hosted by Constance Crompton. So jazzed to hear another wonderful @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social doc cand/alum 🤩 dhsite.org/dh-toolbox-w... #dh #digitalhumanities

Everyone's learning AI. But who's teaching data prep, output validation, and sustainable infrastructure? Our DHSI course Week 2 June 15-19: "Processing Your XML/TEI" teaches you XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—skills to apply WITH AI tools on your terms. Future-proof your work. bit.ly/dhsi-xpath