Wrote a whole essay about the 250th but basically all I need you to know is that it's also my birthday and here are some ways to celebrate: Donate to the One Five Grocery: battlefieldfarm.org/one-five/ Donate to the Knoxville Bail Fund: givebutter.com/knoxville-ba...

Back on my bullsh

Faculty, student, higher ed staff friends: Does your dept have a doctoral student handbook that you feel good about? I'd love to see it

Say it like it is: current conditions of un- and under-employment are specifically hitting the managerial middle class, and especially those of us who work for the public good.

just another morning lost to turning off surprise genAI features in google that are "on" by default.

Ideas for my printing on these vintage telegrams? (Words of hope? Bad puns? I could see customizing these a bit per person as an option, which would take longer but be fun.)

today is happening just once and it is READY FOR YOU with mystery and adventure and glittering love hidden around every corner. it will be here and gone before you know. TIME TO TROT OUT THERE AND MEET IT

I'm in the "CV" breakout room at #ACH26 right now and honestly the name doesn't do it justice, everyone should be here this is such a good crew.

Joining the Association for Computers in the Humanities general meeting on the first day of @ach.bsky.social conference today, and I’m just so impressed by all the great work being done by this volunteer-run scholarly society.

#ACH2026 attendees who do craft/art/making, we have 2 opportunities for you! 1: Share an image of something you've made (art/craft/maker), for a digitally stitched "picnic blanket" and/or 2: Sign up to briefly share 1 thing you're making/made (art/craft/maker) @ Wed #DHmakes Show+Tell session: +

If your vocational/work/academic/career path has been knocked sideways @sarahquinn.bsky.social are co-facilitating a by-donation workshop to breathe, collect ourselves, reconsider, and find peer support:

How many deep breaths do we think this moment requires

DH pals: I've got a faculty member that is looking for a tool that helps them organize and search a ton of individual documents they've been collecting from various archives. This tool would more help them create intellectual organization on concepts (we've got file organizing sorted, pun intended)

saw the clickbait headline "most academic research should stop" from the chron in my inbox and my first thought was "um, it already has????"

Shout out to the professor who told me in 2004 that if I wanted to study literature because I wanted to read all the books it was a fool's journey and I should walk away now. (You were right, DH, and I should have listened.)

Hey #DigitalHumanities peeps. This is the last week to sign up for an #ACH2026 pre-conf virtual workshop! 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

There are so many career paths after a PhD program in comparative literature but one I didn’t imagine until this very afternoon was the one where you end up trapped in a vampire fan fic.

Random higher ed question: why do so many universities use 12.5% (of a faculty member’s salary) for a course release? Does anyone know where that # comes from?

Would you all mind just .... not writing anything for about a year so I could try to catch up, please.

Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I worked on this along with many other folks, and I hope the AI skeptical and curious alike will give it a read. It includes questions to ask yourself as you think about AI's role in your research process, ranging from accidental use to open engagement. We also have scenarios to work through.

"Society has a profound need for humanistic knowledge. But there is no political movement in support of the academic humanities in public education on the political Left." asheeshksi.substack.com/publish/post...

added an AI disclaimer to my personal website because that seems like a thing to do now? halperta.com/about/

"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be." - @erinbartram.bsky.social

"Hope is a thing with wings" is a letterpress print of my own writing & drawing (origami cranes in marker that I then lasercut into printing blocks). What if we have enough for all What if things were a bit easier? If we dream of what could be, & rise to find the recipe in our hands?

Please join us in Chicago to celebrate Fobazi's life and legacy. RSVP at tinyurl.com/celebratefob...

If you're looking for more digital humanities learning opportunities, there's still space in these low-cost, virtual, one-day options from @ach.bsky.social. (You *don't* need to attend the conference nor be a membership, to take one of these workshops!)

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I really want to weigh in on the raw milk conversation but instead I'm just going to say that the @maintenancephase.bsky.social episode is great and very clarifying.

Reminding myself for no reason that I do this work because I believe in it. Yes, I believe people benefit from and deserve access to education after high school. And yes, I believe in teaching and researching arts, culture, and the humanities.

and hoping one day to see the inside of the Century of Progress homes www.southshorecva.com/things-to-do...

proud completer of the Three Dune Challenge www.indianadunes.com/explore-the-...

One thing about me is if you live in a coastal blue state and you talk shit about a conservative state elsewhere in the US, I will get very mad.

NEW from the Humanities Indicators: Using their mission statements and how they define the humanities as models, I explore how the 56 state and jurisdictional humanities councils take the lead in doing meaningful public humanities work bit.ly/4fSZ3Hl

Ok y’all, tell me what book you’d be reading if you didn’t have to go to work instead

I see some people in this thread asking "what can I do that won't get me fired" so now might be a great time to revisit "Taking Action in Higher Ed" halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Watched a video of staff scraping Gloria anzaldua's name and the rest of the Mexican American and Latino Studies logo off the office door at UT

As of this morning, @thenewschool.bsky.social is de facto replacing its History department with a “Center for the American Experience,” which is funded by private and undisclosed donors. The New School has been New Colleged, and there’s no GOP to blame here. Our anti-fascist identity is over.

No bots but BookBots! 📕🦾

Got a behind the scenes tour of Temple University’s BookBot and I loved it

Thanks to everyone at @pricelab.bsky.social for joining me for a zine making workshop on finding your DH purpose, and especially everyone who identified concrete actions they want to take this week to make their profession stronger!

This is a facilitated peer support space where people whose work & career trajectories have been derailed by current political and economic realities with @sarahquinn.bsky.social By donation - and subsidized seats available! 5 Monday afternoons - June 29th

#DreamLab2026 is officially under way!

Blogged my Print Futures talk at literaturegeek.com/print-futures, plus video will be up in a few weeks too:

Woke up to write a long and passionate thread as if it were Twitter circa 2018 😬

If you are feeling devastated about the AHA jobs report and what it means for your career or the future of your profession, I want to offer some encouragement. The report is about history but I’m going to speak more broadly about the humanities.

The annual Academic Jobs Report by the AHA is here. For me, the two big takeaways are (i) a roughly 15% drop in the total number of History faculty since 2010, and (ii) a 20% drop from the previous year in tenure/tenure-track job ads in last year's hiring cycle. Not irreversible, but pretty grim.

Wow I love a city with trains

Let’s go 🎉

Live-tweeted my reading of the Pope’s AI letter. Very mostly I found myself applauding and adding this to the syllabus. But principal divergences include: —His misrecognition and rejection of posthumanism (which I’m told is doctrinal) —Using “slavery” as a metaphor —Moralism vs my consequentialism