But what meant the most was when I was severely underemployed in 2009, @brettbobley.bsky.social took the time to talk with me about the process of applying to jobs at the NEH. We had never met apart from Twitter and he chatted on the phone. That meant so much to a broke PhD. #ThanksBrett

A huge thanks to @brettbobley.bsky.social who is retiring from NEH ODH. A consummate public servant who is always a joy to see arriving at DH events in his chopper. I owe you a Diet Coke every day from here on out. #ThanksBrett

I consider this one of the most important donations I can make. To be clear, the Paving the Way fund supports the legal expenses.

I donated to the Paving the Way initiative to help with this critical lawsuit on behalf of the NEH. Think about joining me?

If your grant was terminated & you are an MLA member (or in a related discipline), please fill out our My NEH Grant Story form. Your story can help inform the actions we are taking to protect the NEH. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is why I became a lifetime @modernlanguage.bsky.social member last year.

Maybe small orgs and large orgs could work together rather than taking aim at one another. The impulse to compete always undermines solidarity. Reach out rather than tearing down.

If you don't know what your org is doing right now to fight for you, maybe ask them rather than assuming they're not doing anything. Mine has been actively meeting with folks on the Hill and strategizing with other orgs and institutions about paths forward, even as they're facing funding cuts.

Y'all. I get that a small scholarly org can be nimble and take on a lot of quick, grassroots work. It's super important and exciting. But that should not encourage you to insult the hardworking professionals who are keeping large scholarly orgs moving in astonishingly difficult circumstances.

Inspired by the work of Kevin L Ferguson (www.gc.cuny.edu/people/kevin...), I've summed all currently available MCU films. I've only seen one of these.

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Wanting to start a new project on the concept of happy endings in novels. If you've ever read anything on the topic, please send me references!

I feel seen. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/m...

This semester, my colleague and I started a weekly video game play/lecture series. University comms has decided to notice: news.byu.edu/intellect/th....

I worked on the Beckett Letters project for three years in grad school. When I came across this one, I saved it because it’s so perfect.

Why did the shoe enthusiast feel no excitement for the upcoming season? He had a case of the Blahniks. #thesearethejokes

Tonight my wife and I realized that the reason I’m skeptical about musicals is the same as why she’s incensed by Seinfeld.

Zotero 7 just dropped. I've been using the beta for several months and it's absolutely fantastic. And it restores an early feature of Zotero that went missing over a decade ago: the ability to annotate snapshots of web pages and add those annotations to your notes.

Absolutely thrilled that Diane Jakacki and my edited volume, *What We Teach When We Teach DH*, has just launched in its open-access version on the Debates on DH website. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/wha...

Thrilled the panel Diane Jakacki & I organized for #mla25 is accepted. Ever wish you hadn't missed the 2011 MLA DH panel? Come and see @kfitz1.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @triproftri.bsky.social as well as Kenton Rambsy and Steve Ramsay dish about DH textbooks.

Remember blogs? Diane and I just wrote up a short history of What We Teach When We Teach DH. Stop by if you want a glance at the table of contents and a synopsis of every chapter.

Act now! Don't delay! #dhdebates

In August 2017, I asked Diane Jakacki if she would like to work with me on a proposal for the #dhdebates series. 6 years and 4 months later, it turns out it was a hell of a good idea.

Folks! ISO two new colleagues to join our Digital Learning team in the Library at Davidson College: DH Librarian and a Media Creation and Curation Librarian. More here employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/49... and employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/49... Happy to talk about either or both!

So, I reworked my blogging assignment to "Blogging with AI" this time around. See what you think: briancroxall.net/f23dh/assign....

If anyone wants to see chapters from "The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities", edited by James O'Sullivan there's a zotero library providing open access chapters here: www.zotero.org/groups/48889...

I've decided to have my class this semester all play one game together in addition to writing papers on a game of their choosing. Am contemplating using Florence (annapurnainteractive.com/en/games/flo...), but am both up and down about whether it is "a game" and whether that matters.

And then I discovered evidence of Tristero in my parents’ old Playmobil.

Looking for smart takes on LLMs to include on my Intro to DH syllabus for the coming semester. The recent piece by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.bsky.social is one example. Anyone have something I could pair with it?

Is there anything better than figuring out the problem that has been sidetracking your project, even if it is just turning a count of 10 to -1 in a buried setting? Yes: doing so while listening to STRFKR.

Reposting for the evening crowd....Do you want to be included in an expansive, inclusive Digital Humanities Bluesky feed? Add your username here: forms.gle/EKTCqMBp31eaoFdd6

I don't know Where I'm going It's insane in here, it's lunacy out there And everything you just said Was better left unsaid

I'm clearly avoiding work at the moment. Tell me which of these two pairs of custom Vans I should buy.

But while I have your attention (I do, right?), let me mention that Diane Jakacki and my edited collection is coming soon from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Get it at all the finer establishments in the near future.

Well, here we go again...