Scholars' Lab
@scholarslab.bsky.social
UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more 💜🏳️🌈 People > projects. 📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
New post applies Kenny Werner's concept of Effortless Mastery to DH. Maps out a semester-long, daily practice with the very basics of terminal, Git, HTML, CSS. Intended to help students find inner confidence as they navigate difficulty, frustration, and GenAI. walshbr.com/blog/effortl...
Effortless Digital Humanities · Brandon Walsh
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Last #ByteSizedPedagogy of the summer is this Friday 8/7, but we're picking right back up for the fall semester in September! Sept through Dec, first Fridays at noon ET, all free and open to public. Sign up and bring a snack. Links and readings here - walshbr.com/byte-sized-p...
#ByteSizedPedagogy · Brandon Walsh
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Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 3d agoThis Friday 8/7, don't miss our last summer event: the online+free #ByteSizedPedagogy, on @seagillicuddy.bsky.social's "DH Ghost Towns: What Happens When Makers Abandon Their Creations?" (read in Debates in DH: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...)
This Friday 8/7, don't miss our last summer event: the online+free #ByteSizedPedagogy, on @seagillicuddy.bsky.social's "DH Ghost Towns: What Happens When Makers Abandon Their Creations?" (read in Debates in DH: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...)
#ByteSizedPedagogy - August 2026
It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! Join us the first week of each month (typically Wed or Fri) for a free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by the...
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Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 3d agoWe're booting up our fall public events schedule, & lots are already listed live! Free public workshops (eg text analysis for humanities+soc sci), speakers (including @patymurrieta.bsky.social), and makerspace events including repair cafés 🪡🧵 as part of the Library's year of "Away from Keyboard"🫸⌨️
We're booting up our fall public events schedule, & lots are already listed live! Free public workshops (eg text analysis for humanities+soc sci), speakers (including @patymurrieta.bsky.social), and makerspace events including repair cafés 🪡🧵 as part of the Library's year of "Away from Keyboard"🫸⌨️
Events
The Scholars’ Lab
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The @scholarslab.bsky.social summer student showing off her project! Seyla Fernandez is a rising sophomore at Brown interested in C20 labor history. She worked with us to match materials and methods to topic, making a wearable zine on the politics of C20 women's sewing labor. #DHMakes
This week, Wednesday! Open to all, virtual, free—come get some interesting ideas about teaching related to digital scholarship:
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · last mo.Next Wednesday, join us online for #ByteSizedPedagogy for a quick think-about-teaching snack w/@jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social's "(Hard and Soft) Skills to Pay the Bills: A Both/And Approach to Teaching DH to Undergrads" (dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...). Open to all! Sign up for zoom info:
And w/that handful of updates on what some of the Scholars' Lab staff's been up to, we're taking a summer break on posting these updates! We'll restart with fall term.
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
📷 Arin Bennett is working w/anthropology faculty to build a 360° tour of Egyptian street water sites. Making every chosen shot "matter" is a challenge: What story does it tell? How to get a full sense of the exhibit w/o clicking x100? To convey the sense of "being there" via limited media count? 🎓🦮
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
🏫 @walshbr.bsky.social has been working on cultivating a community of digital pedagogy learning in the Lab & abroad through the #ByteSizedPedagogy series (next is this Wed 7/1, free, online, open to all: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16778246) 🎓🦮
#ByteSizedPedagogy - July 2026
It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! Join us the first week of each month (typically Wed or Fri) for a free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by the...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
🗽Ammon Shepherd helped facilities management 3D print a bust generated from a flat photo image, for retiring colleagues 🎓🦮
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
📝 Ronda Grizzle has been thinking about writing for clarity across a wide university audience, as part of our work updating the DH Center pages on the Library's website. 🎓🐕
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
📚 Laura Miller has been reading Kate Crawford's "Atlas of AI: Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, & the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" & thinking about applications to our local & virtual working groups 🎓🦮
Atlas — Kate Crawford
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Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
#ByteSizedPedagogy is an informal zoom series where we take 30 minutes to have a snack and discuss a freely available digital pedagogy reading. Please join and share!
Brandon Walsh@walshbr.bsky.social · last mo.Perhaps of interest for #ACH2026: Next #ByteSizedPedagogy is July 1 at 9:00 PST/12:00 ET. We'll be discussing “(Hard and Soft) Skills to Pay the Bills: A Both/And Approach to Teaching DH to Undergraduates” by Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. Register here - cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16778246
Next Wednesday, join us online for #ByteSizedPedagogy for a quick think-about-teaching snack w/@jonathanfitzgerald.bsky.social's "(Hard and Soft) Skills to Pay the Bills: A Both/And Approach to Teaching DH to Undergrads" (dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/what-we...). Open to all! Sign up for zoom info:
#ByteSizedPedagogy - July 2026
It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! Join us the first week of each month (typically Wed or Fri) for a free and open-to-the-public zoom series organized by the...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
"A People's Guide to Teaching Tech" is a free, 61-page book/zine PDF by Diana Nucera you can get through Allied Media ⬇️ (The series also includes free booklets on AI, digital surveillance/privacy, & tech futures: store.alliedmedia.org/collections/...) +
Digital Download: A People's Guide to Teaching Tech
Every educational moment has the potential to drive transformation. At A People’s Guide To Tech, we view teaching technology as an opportunity to enhance our use and development of technology, grounde...
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✍️ @shane.logoff.website @winnieepm.bsky.social @jeremyboggs.net wrote & submitted an essay on their UVA digital archive work around the events @ UVA+Charlottesville August 11-12 2017, for a library & DH special journal issue on static sites. 🎓🦮
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
#2 is informal, friendly show+tell (no slides). Thanks to co-convenors @jajrk.bsky.social @sararribas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me! Don't forget we've also got a second #DHmakes event for all #ACH2026 attendees on Thursday during the Special Interest Groups slot (including sharing the mail art collab)
#ACH2026 attendees who do craft/art/making, we have 2 opportunities for you! 1: Share an image of something you've made (art/craft/maker), for a digitally stitched "picnic blanket" and/or 2: Sign up to briefly share 1 thing you're making/made (art/craft/maker) @ Wed #DHmakes Show+Tell session: +
#DHmakes Show-and-Tell Picnic Signup
This is only for registered ACH 2026 attendees. It's the Wednesday 6/24 "#DHmakes Show-and-Tell Picnic" session at 5:30pm-6:45pm ET // 4:30pm-5:45pm CDT //2:30pm-3:45pm PT (program here). You can do...
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Resource: Scholarly building: a zine: 'Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for 'non-artists''
a zine: 'Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for 'non-artists'' - Literature Geek
I just published an 8-page minizine: “Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’”.
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Here's my letterpress contribution to the #ACH2026 (digital humanities conference) #DHmakes mail art packet. See @sararribas.bsky.social's QT for a sneak peek at the riches (including a good cat). Transcription follows:
Sara Arribas Colmenar@sararribas.bsky.social · 2mo ago#DHMakes packaging moment for #ACH26 Thanks to everyone who contributed!
📚 Our @jeremyboggs.net is reading "No! The Art and Activism of Complaining" by @saranahmed.bsky.social (feministpress.org/products/978...) & thinking about what Bartleby the scrivener would do when faced with AI. 🎓🐕
Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 5mo agoWhat does Scholars' Lab staff's DH (digital humanities—creative & critical tech+culture!) work look like on a daily basis? ☕🪡📚💻🪩 We're restarting weekly-ish sharing, as part of our already-always-active blog+essay feed (ScholarsLab.org/blog) as well as a new tweet series here.
Research art practice 🏳️🌈, supported by our makerspace & its lasercutter!
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 2mo agoBriar Press (letterpress forum, w/so much shared knowledge incl "you can slice cabbage typehigh") did an Instagram post on my work fabricating movable type—#ICYMI I'm crafting it to queerly remix a midcentury type ad www.instagram.com/p/DZfeZqhnEL... +
Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:
Adam Crymble@adamcrymble.bsky.social · 2mo agoIf you missed the @ucldh.bsky.social Susan Hockey Lecture by @melissaterras.bsky.social this year, we've got a recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbtK...
Just over a week left to register for #ACH2026! Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity, with keynotes by Laura Gonzales and Maria José Afanador-Llach. Registration closes June 21: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Program: buff.ly/cs2h5pm
ACH 2026 – ACH Membership
ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both "emergence" and "emergency." This dual meaning…
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¡Queda una semana para inscribirse en #ACH2026! Acompáñenos virtualmente del 24 al 26 de junio para más de 70 presentaciones sobre humanidades digitales, transnacionalismo y solidaridad. Inscripción hasta el 21 de junio: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Programa: buff.ly/fYJEQvG
ACH 2026 – ACH Membership
ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both "emergence" and "emergency." This dual meaning…
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Nearing last call for #ACH2026 - still time to register for the conference proper and still spots in our pre-conference workshops June 22-23. More info after the jump!
ACH@ach.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust over a week left to register for #ACH2026! Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity, with keynotes by Laura Gonzales and Maria José Afanador-Llach. Registration closes June 21: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Program: buff.ly/cs2h5pm
Hey SoCal #DigitalHumanities peeps! The good folks at UCI's Digital Humanities Exchange are organizing an #ACH2026 regional hub focused on community-building + imagining potential future collabs. We're gathering Monday 6/29 F2F/zoom for a post-conference discussion✨ ach2026.ach.org/en/hubs/#hub...
Regional Hubs
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If you're looking for more digital humanities learning opportunities, there's still space in these low-cost, virtual, one-day options from @ach.bsky.social. (You *don't* need to attend the conference nor be a membership, to take one of these workshops!)
pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 3mo agoLooking for a low-cost, virtual #DigitalHumanities workshop? @ach.bsky.social's got ya covered. We're offering 3 wkshps ahead of #ACH2026: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn
📢 The DH2026 Main Conference Program is now available! 🔗 View the full program: dh2026.adho.org/program-agen... ADHO's annual conference, DH2026: Engagement, will take place 29-31 July 2026 as a hybrid conference from Daejeon, South Korea. 🔗Learn more: dh2026.adho.org @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
Mid-Atlantic DH folks, what are you doing June 24-26? We hope you'll join us at Penn for the free in-person @ach.bsky.social Regional Hub for #ACH2026, featuring watch parties, a Happy Hour, Lightning Talks, a #DHMakes space, a sticker exchange & more! RSVP at www.library.upenn.edu/events/ach-2....
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