Reading is so good. Don’t know why we don’t all do this more, joyfully.

We had an amazing discussion at our 1st #DigitalHumanities reading grp, talking about Ch 1 of @walshbr.bsky.social Embedded Pedagogies. We explored what it means to think about budgets as technology + ways of teaching about/thru our institutional structures. Thx @kyliesago.bsky.social for leading

Now finally out in print! The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality academic.oup.com/edited-volum... @lizamugge.bsky.social @gokceyurdakul.bsky.social Sarah Scuzzarello, Sirijit Sunanta

Hyperlink text should make sense when read out of context. Screen reader users can navigate from link to link, and can listen to links in a list. When navigating this way, only the link is read. So "click here" or "read more" won't make sense.

Can’t wait for our reading group to start!

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · last mo.

Because I hate reading e-books AND want to support the amazing @walshbr.bsky.social, I bought 2 physical copies of his book (one for me and one for my DH Initiative Co-Director, @kyliesago.bsky.social). Can’t wait to dig in!

If you're in San Diego, come hear about Inventing ELIZA on Oct. 8. I'll be there in person, and Team ELIZA virtually. Thanks, to Jessica Pressman for all the support!

SDSU is first stop on the virtual book tour!

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The press should send that packet to some of your biggest fans (like me) so we can promote you! I’ve been telling everyone about your book and our plans to read it in community and have you join us. I can’t wait!

You don't necessarily want to use the exact same alt text each time a specific image is used. Alt text must consider the context of the image and why it's being included on a site, post, article, etc. In other words, alt text depends on where you're including the image and why.

If you are looking for some late-summer reading, we’ve got just the thing… the latest special double issue of Dix-Neuf, which features articles around Baudelaire's "À une passante", edited by Masha Belenky, @cherylperfume.bsky.social, and @rmesch.bsky.social

The introduction to our special volume, To the Passersby, is open access. Plus some previews below 🧵 Enjoy! @uksdn.bsky.social

Introduction

Published in Dix-Neuf: Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (Vol. 30, No. 1-2, 2026)

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Microsoft Word inexplicably keeps unselecting “Include footnotes” in my document word count. So I keep having these sweet moments of elation that I’ve gotten a chapter under the word limit, only to realize I need to kill another 1000+ darlings.

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Fund the Humanities just because. Fund the Humanities for more vicarious intellectual intercourse on Main. Whichever.

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

But mostly, a journey that should take half an hour ends up taking 10 years. Traffic.

"Investment" models of reading are truly terrible. They are markers of our descent into an economic cynicism that knows the cost of everything but can measure value only in terms of a currency already known, and books reward us in ways we do not expect.

A glass bowl shattered in my hands while I was making dressing. After an hour picking glass shards out of my garbage disposal with salad tongs and chopsticks I feel pretty confident I could take all of y'all in Operation.

we should have all the other countries over for another sleepover next summer

My book highlights how stories construct whiteness even through its narrative suppression and erasure. If the alt text for my illustrations/figures discussed blackness instead of whiteness, for example, they would replicate the same move of invisibilizing whiteness that my book analyzes

Accessibility Awareness@a11yawareness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A common question about alt text is whether or not it's appropriate to mention attributes like race or skin tone. A common response is, "It depends." In this post, Tolu Adegbite explains how race can be relevant and important in providing context. medium.com/shopify-ux/t...

All our careful labor to make our courses and scholarship accessible, to advocate for accessibility with colleagues at our institutions and in our disciplines, is co-opted by privatized EdTech, with its ethics of capture and surveillance and which seek to make us disposable. It gnaws at me.

j. 👁️@quadrifrons.online · 4mo ago

Not to mention an accessibility crisis. Online teaching opens up so many possibilities for people; losing it means leaving disabled people in the dust again

I’m trimming something like 15-20% of my book manuscript and this is the vibe

Nimisha Barton@nimishabarton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just deleted three pages of text bc turns out they were irrelevant. I didn’t just kill my darlings. I slaughtered them.

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

Absolutely love this approach to digital projects -- robust, dynamic projects with fully functional static versions for sustainability and longetivity. Hybrid minimal computing for the win! 👏 #ACH2026

Jamie Folsom@jamiefolsom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Super excited to be presenting with @roopikarisam.bsky.social this morning at #ACH2026 on "Hybrid Minimal Computing"! Slides (for my part, the technical dimension) here: dh.tools/hybrid

One challenge* with "just incorporate AI into the pedagogy!" is that to do thaf well means a LOT of focus on the evaluation + creation levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, without the foundational skill-building in "recall" and "analysis." *Among the many other challenges.

The interesting question is not who uses Zotero or does not use Zotero. The interesting question is which academics enjoy working conditions that allow them to make scholarship central to their professional lives, and which academics have to do scholarship <in spite> of their working conditions.

Critical technology practice happens in the gap between "this tool works" and "when, where, how and for whom does this device work? Under what conditions does it fail, who pays the cost, and how do these failures get remediated?"

H-France Forum announces its latest issue (21:3) on Rudy Le Menthéour, La Manière trouble: essai sur Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Paris: Hermann, 2025. ISBN: 9791037038227, ed. by Hélène Bilis, Wellesley Coll. The forum begins w/reviews by: Christopher Kelly, Boston Coll. (h-france.net/h-france-for...)

Proposé par la FME en partenariat avec La Souvenance, le webinaire « Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, introduction au roman de Simone Schwarz-Bart » aura lieu le 10 juin 2026 à 16h00 auprès des enseignants de Lettres. 🔗 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Excited to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (which I am co-editing w/Scott Berthelette) Feel free to reach out via DM/email if you have any questions CFP here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...