Looking up resume templates and yikes it's bad out there

wow I guess I can see why I didn't get an interview for that position

on the other hand, what if I just never finish writing this manuscript

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

so stoked to be listening to and celebrating @walshbr.bsky.social and his new book Embedded Pedagogies today. This book is so smart and incisive and compassionate and free online! It has critique and practical tools! Everyone should read it! www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

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 · 2w 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

It’s that time — meet the winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize! themillions.com/2026/09/meet...

Meet the Winners of the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize - The Millions

In 2017, Honey & Wax Booksellers established an annual prize for American women book collectors, aged 30 years and younger. Our goal, at the time, was to expand the popular perception of who book coll...

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Pleased to report

Pleased to report

College radio is playing oldies tonight (music from my adolescence)

Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

I have a feeling that a new consulting role is opening up: boutique consultant who doesn’t use AI, to be contracted by AI-dependent organizations to provide specialized (human) services

DH friends. Anyone have ideas for publication venues for outcomes of smaller bits of exploratory work? We have some fun outcomes but probably don’t want to spend time working them into something big; but feel they are interesting to the community. I know I’m forgetting something obvious!

too many typos and regrettable posts this morning :(

Sorry to have a take no one asked for this morning, but while the "physical and psychic toil" of the chinese production line is undoubtedly real, factory jobs can be good, fulfilling work. The most soul killing work I've done was in the knowledge economy, not a factory.

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 2w ago

What does factory life do to the creative mind? Michelle Chan Schmidt explores this question in a review of Xiao Hai’s Adrift in the South. www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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...

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

mellon.org

It’s been over a year since @halperta.bsky.social and our colleagues Lola and Martin have launched @sidracollaborative.bsky.social. 🎉

Sidra Collaborative@sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's hard to believe, but it's been a year since we founded Sidra Collaborative, our post-NEH consultancy for philanthropic and cultural orgs. (A short thread) sidracollaborative.com

How are we all feeling about burnout these days

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

Johanna Winant@johannawinant.bsky.social · 3w ago

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

Can't really believe it's been a whole year

Sidra Collaborative@sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's hard to believe, but it's been a year since we founded Sidra Collaborative, our post-NEH consultancy for philanthropic and cultural orgs. (A short thread) sidracollaborative.com

What do you think "go all in" means? Here are some things on my mind: ✨ Tuition-free ✨ Education not entertainment ✨ Real vocational training ✨ Real liberal arts education ✨ Reinvestment in research ✨ Disinvestment from corporate pipelines

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

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.

Read this article about wage stagnation and freelance journalism (it’s bad out there): objectivejournalism.org/2026/09/free...

Freelance journalism rates have barely changed since 2000

New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance journalism.

objectivejournalism.org

Read this article about wage stagnation and freelance journalism (it’s bad out there): objectivejournalism.org/2026/09/free...

Freelance journalism rates have barely changed since 2000

New data from the National Writers Union offers a glimpse into a bleak picture of decades-long wage stagnation in freelance journalism.

objectivejournalism.org

Checked my medical bill for my most recent extremely necessary procedure and feeling very outraged and unsettled, send good energy my way please. (at least, I suppose, I have my health)

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!