Chatting with @winnieepm.bsky.social about teaching, learning, and the university we want to see today at 1PM ET as part of the Embedded Pedagogies launch event. Virtual and open!

University of Virginia Library@uvalibrary.bsky.social · 21h ago

ICYMI—Mon, Oct. 5 virtual book launch for "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change" by Brandon Walsh of @scholarslab.bsky.social Details: https://bit.ly/47uXauZ @openbookpublish.bsky.social @walshbr.bsky.social #DH #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

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Bleak. I think higher ed folks don’t always pay enough attention to what’s happening in k-12 so I appreciate Matt’s analysis that spans both. Alpha may be small in numbers but the rhetoric echoes so much of what I hear (and what folks are fighting against) in many nyc school districts.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 7d ago

“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”

Opinion-havers! Historicists! Nerd friends! Leftists! All/none of the above! Submit a proposal to GENERATIVE DIGITAL HUMANITIES, a new volume on AI and DH to be edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org and me! Deadline 11/1. Please share!

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 5d ago

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

Technically, the New Dealers gave it to the Greatest Generation and to the Boomers, but yes, absolutely

More Perfect University@mpuniversity.bsky.social · last wk.

@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

Good editors & a good journal. (JEP is where I wrote the article of mine I like best, largely bc special editor @katinalynn.bsky.social's inspiring CFP, & her+journal team, supported me experimenting w/article format+voice in ways that felt true+urgent to me.)

Journal of Electronic Publishing@jepub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New Call for Papers alert! Consider submitting to our forthcoming special issue on "Accessibility in Digital Publishing" edited by Ellen Forget @ellenforget.bsky.social and John W Maxwell. CfP available here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/253/ Abstracts due October 1 2026.

Looking ahead to Monday 10/5, join us online 1-2pm ET for a virtual book launch of our Head of Student Programs Dr. @walshbr.bsky.social's new book "Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching & the Infrastructure of Change". Walsh will discuss the book w/SLab alum @winnieepm.bsky.social +

Embedded Pedagogies Virtual Book Launch with Brandon Walsh

Join us to celebrate the launch of Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change, an open-access book authored by the Scholars' Lab's Brandon...

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Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · last mo.

Term's begun & so have our fall public events! See our schedule at scholarslab.org/events; we continue to add free public workshops, talks, & more on an ongoing basis too (especially additional makerspace workshops)

The folks who fund the school. The folks who make policies about how teachers and services are allocated. Overall—the article could have benefited from more analysis of the power structures NYC public schools and behind Jones’s family’s decision.

Also this

Ahhhhh that Nikole Hannah-Jones piece 😬😳 Pretty disconcerting to me too that the majority of the nyt comments focus on what a “brave” or “powerful” piece it is, and not at all on how her daughter might feel about this profile, or the one from 10yrs ago? When she would have been 6yo? Ahhhh

White people don’t need anymore help in justifying disinvestment in public infrastructure

Thank goodness. But also woof what a low bar.

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 3w ago

Students can’t browse YouTube on school-issued devices, though teachers can still share videos for lessons through Google Classroom. (via @chalkbeat.org)

Best text 😍😭

There are few people who give me more hope for the future of education than @walshbr.bsky.social. Brandon's new book is sharp, generous, and helpful. If you are interested in teaching, higher education, or digital humanities, put this at the top of your reading list.

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

@walshbr.bsky.social dangit I'm going to be en route to the airport during your launch but I'll listen in if I can!!

On Monday, October 5th from 1-2 ET @winnieepm.bsky.social will join me for a broad discussion of the work teaching can do in the world as part of a virtual book launch. Register below to join! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296

yesssss read this book!!! 🥳

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

Omg I love this! It's maybe the closest thing I've seen to the kind of 'mycelial university' approach I advocate for — one that creates the conditions for thriving 😍

Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 3w ago

This is the first time a CFP has made me smile in a long time. Funding for "funding to support Pockets of Joy (PoJs)—micro-communities created by students, for students, and for no other purpose than to be together and find joy in the process of collaborative, creative inquiry." #DHmakes

What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

What an *amazing coincidence* that the moves to undermine public higher education by shifting its costs from the government to students and families begins in earnest in the 1970s.

Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 3w ago

2. Any discussion about higher ed that misses that women and people of color were largely excluded until the *1970s* misses the fulcrum of these debates. 6/

I had the pleasure of working with Brandon on some early-stage work for this book and it is FANTASTIC. Can’t wait to read the final version in print!

Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · 3w ago

Out from @openbookpublish.bsky.social this week! Stay tuned for more info. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

It's been 25 years and I realized I had some reflections I wanted to share about my experience of 9/11 as a college kid in France, and how it shaped my political understanding. buttondown.com/inkcap/archi...

On 9/11 and awakenings

Dear friends, I can see the 9/11 memorial lights from my apartment. The city has been my home for 17 years, which feels like a long time, but I'm still a...

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Happy first day of school FINALLY to all those nyc parents who celebrate

Omg, northern lights from the plane!!!!

Sorry to everyone I was supposed to email but the color of that water wiped every to-do from my brain

One last paddle on Lake Eklutna before we had home from AK

@wolfproofpress.com possibly up your alley?

Leslie Root@lesja.bsky.social · 4w ago

Do I know anyone who would donate art or crafts to our fundraiser for stopping Colorado's anti-trans ballot measures

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