If you loved Cultural Heritage Wastelands, you'll also love this article from 2023 that imagined a future before ESRI StoryMaps experienced an update www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Managing Scholarly Outputs in a Proprietary Platform: Exploring the Implications of Esri Story Maps for Spatial Digital Humanities Preservation

Spatial digital humanities projects often struggle with sustainability and preservation. Interactive, engaging websites require consistent maintenance to function well. As a result, projects rise a...

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I had a dream about the Cloudflare verify you are a human box last night everything is going great!

Tragic to think how few whales will have had the opportunity to read Moby Dick due to basic accessibility issues. 1) English-to-whale translation not yet that advanced; 2) flipper-to-page ratio; 3) omg, that book is getting soggy.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of the most fascinating facts about the ocean, is that there are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written. Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old. Original post

Has anyone written about the implications for the history of sexuality of our increasingly forced use of AI as a research tool? Historians of sexuality can't really access a lot of AI tools because of content prohibitions. What does that mean for the field, if anything?

Next week I am doing my AI workshop, What is AI and Why Is It Happening To Me? for colleagues again, before I start opening it up to campus in the autumn Feel free to borrow/adopt; CC-BY hfroehli.ch/2026/03/24/w...

What is AI and why is it happening to me? a training

I continue to watch the rise of artificial intelligence in every corner of our lives with great interest … and realized very quickly that for lots of people, “AI” is one big scary…

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Since I hear it is almost time to start thinking about the fall semester (I know! whisper it!) I wrote you an article to help you think about what you are actually hoping to do with your in-class digital assignments and what their futures will be www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Against cultural heritage wastelands

The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...

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More of this internet, please

Mark "Napoleon" Milley@newstraveler.bsky.social · 4d ago

They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

I am seeing it tomorrow but I spent so many years in the Shakespeare Trenches hearing about every production ever that I don’t think the classics rage-a-thon is that interesting? maybe I will be wrong? My main thought is call me when Anne Carson gets involved

One of my (many) collaborators has a new book out - Jacqueline does such cool, important, community-driven work and I am thrilled to see it in monographic form uipress.uiowa.edu/books/dear-c...

Dear Charles Dickens, Love, South LA

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I want to shout out the talented Auburn students who have worked with me on projects connected to @dropout.tv @dimension20.dropout.tv for the last several years. I have learned so much from their work. (Thread of their projects)

a psa that these make wonderful phone wallpapers

Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷@book-historia.bsky.social · 6d ago

Are you familiar with the University of Washington special collections Decorative and Decorated Papers digital collection? If not, you SHOULD be... what a cool resource! digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/coll...

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 7d ago

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

I am unbelievably touched that @dropout.tv titled my @dimension20.dropout.tv Adventuring Academy episode “A Duty of Care”

I’m overwhelmed today, but I want to circle back in a while to share the links to everyone & everything I cited. More soon.

A Duty of Care (with Dr. Emily Friedman) - Season 7 - Dropout

Dr. Emily Friedman joins Brennan to discuss the history of actual play and the best gaming system. Content Warning: Misophonia (Crunching) - [throughout 54:37-1:01:03]

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Job: Postdoc in quantitative and computational methods to model digital socio-technical systems. You will contribute to our broader research programs with the Quello Center: careers.msu.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Scholar-Fixed Term - East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Position Summary The postdoctoral scholar will contribute to projects analyzing and modeling digital socio-technical systems. Our work examines factors that shape the development of digital infrastruc...

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Job: We are hiring an Associate Director of our Health Science library at the University of Arizona Libraries arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Semantics, lexicography, and TESOL in action! Which words in English are most important for L2 learners to know, 1953 vs 2023 pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...

How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed

Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023

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If you get there quickly, you can get a free PDF of this new book, on an important subject: Berens, Kathi Inman, and Rachel Noorda, How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books, Elements in Publishing and Book Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2026), doi.org/10.1017/9781...

How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - How Gen Z Discover and Consume Books

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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Last day to send me your book history proposals for RSA 2027 in Philly!

Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm excited to circulate this CFP as the Discipline Representative for book history for the Renaissance Society of America! I'm putting together multiple guaranteed sessions for the annual meeting in Philadelphia in 2027. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Hello. I have questions. Firstly, we all love XML, right? How do you manage the piles of XML we create? A lot of what I've seen seems to be a bit Write Once Read Never. Are there examples of actively managing collections of XML?

I'm not sure if this refresh will take getting used to or is a downgrade. BNA was always easy to navigate, that was a plus. But its OCRs were really poor, which made it difficult to discover something unless you had a very good idea of what you were looking for and when it happened.

British Library@britishlibrary.bsky.social · last wk.

Exciting news - the British Newspaper Archive's new platform is here Explore millions of digitised pages of newspapers and other publications from our British and Irish collections, dating as far back as the 1700s We can't wait to get exploring 🗞 link.bl.uk/7ci

Since I hear it is almost time to start thinking about the fall semester (I know! whisper it!) I wrote you an article to help you think about what you are actually hoping to do with your in-class digital assignments and what their futures will be www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Against cultural heritage wastelands

The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...

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Rhetoric and composition studies are going through it: a weird choice by NCTE, a predictable fallout; watching & listening for what else tips over

Megan McIntyre@rcmeg.bsky.social · 2w ago

The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."

This but also I know people who can’t figure out 2-factor authentication, so I am not exactly holding my breath here

weeder@weeder.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nobody ever explained to me what a passkey is or how they work. Websites just started asking me for passkeys like it's something we talked about.

She gave a talk at my prev school and some yahoo asked how a woman can translate Epic Male Poetry & her response was glass-cut perfect: men don’t own poetry This translation is a banger and I am hyped for her next book discussing her process. Emily Wilson hive rise up

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

i will never forget being in Dallas with my parents (from Nova Scotia + Brooklyn, who lived in Denton for a few years) as a kid and listening to them suddenly use their Texas Voice for the first time

Kat Tenbarge@kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

UC Berkeley Libraries has produced some great new Principles and Priorities docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UC Berkeley Library AI Principles and Priorities

UC Berkeley Library AI Principles and Priorities Purpose and Context of This Guide Introduction Our Vision Library AI Principles Near-Term Priorities Living Guide Appendix A: Use Cases Appendix B: Str...

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Great news, academics! To cut down on the number of not-quite-right or not-quite-complete pitches we need to wade through, @thisguysucked.com now has a pitch form that contains all of the information we require from guests! Head to the link below to check it out. www.thisguysucked.com/pitch-us

RIT libraries is hiring a digital scholarship and data librarian: rit.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...