Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Texas Regional Hub of #ACH2026 at @artepublico.bsky.social and #USLDH! We watched the keynote, toured our archives and DH projects and discussed US Latina/o/x cultural preservation.

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

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¡El programa de #ACH2026 ya está listo! ach2026.ach.org/en/schedule/ Acompáñenos virtualmente del 24 al 26 de junio en más de 70 presentaciones sobre humanidades digitales, transnacionalismo y solidaridad en las Américas. Inscripción abierta hasta el 17 de junio.

Workshop registration runs through June 17. Tomorrow is our soft deadline for expressions of interest to guarantee a seat (since each workshop has an enrollment cap)

Registration closes tomorrow!! This is going to be a blast.

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What a program! 🤩 And there's still time to sign up for a low-cost, virtual, pre-conference #ACH2026 workshop: 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative & Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Inst ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

The quantity and variety of projects in this list demonstrate a rich field of dignified labor with practical consequences. AI resistance work could make smaller, efficient, far less predatory and destructive AI. Vive la resistance!

Richard A Carter@richardacarter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The AI Resist List", by Karen Hao, Better Images of AI, Distributed AI Research Institute, and others, collects the works of those developing radical alternatives to current "Big Tech" AI paradigms: centring community, human agency, local contexts, and Earthly flourishing. airesistlist.org

Maybe what I love most about YarnLab just being an open space is it feels like a living ecosystem. Every time I come by things have changed, there's new creations and remnants on the tables, and there's a different configuration of lively disarray. #DHmakes

What if a project doesn't have TEI, but only plain text? This was the case for the Lu Xun Corpus, with Chinese literature. For that, we created a basic TEI version with metadata and published it in the repository. Lading-page of the project: textgridrep.org/project/TGPR...

Join us next week for our graduate DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg’s final presentation—actually an interactive workshop on speculative pedagogy, rather than a traditional presentation! Only on zoom, Wed May 6 @ 1pm; free & open to all. Please register: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/16654008

Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our spring events series is up! New events being added all the time (especially makerspace workshops), so check scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/events for the latest. All events are free & open to the public (no UVA affilitation needed); some workshops have signup caps due to equipment limits.

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

Next Sat 5/2 is Print Day! tinyurl.com/dhprints if you want to participate in a theme for your printing that day. If you do (OR if you share some *nonprint* method of nondigital art/craft/making work to #DHmakes that day 💜) I might mail folks a sticker, postcard, or... letterpress'd bandana?

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For May 2nd's #DHprints inspo option for International Print Day (image made as Muppet intended 🧐 w/human software use not genAI): printdayinmay.com/virtual-smor...

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

(Also, stealth #DHmakes! bc the photo is from my showing Hannah our community printshop & her typesetting a ridiculously good Audre Lorde letterpress piece as her first thing ever. 💜 the amount of overlap between DH for public good + art/craft/making)

The Price Lab@pricelab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are thrilled to announce that Dream Lab 2026 will kick off with a workshop led by @halperta.bsky.social, a writer, scholar, labor advocate, and founding member of the Sidra Collaborative consultancy. Hannah will speak about DH with Purpose, igniting our imaginations for a week of DH⚡️

#DHmakes folks, get some joy in the mail! Make a small craft or art in multiples, send them in, get a packet back w/one thing from each participant. Thanks @sararribas.bsky.social for leading & @ach.bsky.social for sponsoring! (I will definitely be contributing letterpress prints)

Sara Arribas Colmenar@sararribas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join the #DHmakes Mail Art Collaboration for the #ACH2026 @ach.bsky.social 📬✨ Create a small handmade piece, receive a shared packet back before the conference. Zines, prints, postcards, experiments welcome. No perfection needed #Dhtries Sign up here by April 27 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check out @winnieepm.bsky.social's new site & learn about her work: "My craft is asking difficult questions. I believe community-making & kinship drive the world for the better." A DHer focused on design+infrastructure studies, completing a cultural studies PhD in Spanish while working at SLab:

Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Scholars' Lab's @winnieepm.bsky.social launched her professional website! & blogged about her choice to design+code it using a minimal computing approach including Eleventy & making the underlying code public on GitHub #mincomp:

Ok crafty friends of #DHmakes, whether or not you have anything to do with digital humanities, kindly take a moment and fill out this form to vote for #DHmakes in the annual DH Awards! Please and thank you! 🧶 🧵

DH Awards@dhawards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Still time to vote in #DH Awards 2025, the #DigitalHumanities Awards awareness event. Anyone can vote (once) up until 2026-04-17. Anyone? Yes, anyone. Your aunt can vote, your highschool friend can vote, anyone! dhawards.org/dhawards2025... (or secure form directly at forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...)

translating my skills into resumes and cover letters got me thinking about breadth and deph in DH, of how they need each other, and how they reflect our individual learning process. wrote a blog post about it. scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/breadth...

“By using GenAI: I accept the models were trained on stolen data. I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. I accept …”

ddɐ˙ʎʞsʞɔɐlq˙uǝʌs@@sven.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

(h/t @kwazekwaze.bsky.social)

Next week's a unique quiet one before the feast of last-month-of-term events kicks off: join us Wed 4/1 for delicious Lab-made coffee & our @shane.logoff.website sharing his research into OCR benchmarking: comparing how well various models turn photos/scans of text into transcriptions of text:

Scholars' Lab@scholarslab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our spring events series is up! New events being added all the time (especially makerspace workshops), so check scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/events for the latest. All events are free & open to the public (no UVA affilitation needed); some workshops have signup caps due to equipment limits.

1st print using an actual cabbage. Next one will use all the antifascist veggie puns, arranged around the cabbage print like layers of leaves (puns are inherently antifascist) #DHmakes

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The cabbage prints are very cool but am holding photos as motivation to finish getting my print store online 🤞🥬🎨 Meanwhile here is traditional letterpress blocking... for typehigh red cabbage #DHmakes

Common Threads Press call for nonfic writing+art on craft+disability: "often romanticised as therapeutic, relaxing, universal, but whose hands, bodies, rhythms are centered? Disability offers radical reimaginings of craft..." (pays you $200) www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/pages/submis... #DHmakes

I wrote up the talk I gave at CESTA a couple weeks ago, on how we're overdue on changing the narrative about what digital humanities prepares students for. It's not fallback jobs in tech, it's getting involved in your community in moments of crisis. And craft helps build those skills. #DHmakes

Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It’s All ...

[/assets/images/header_craftivism.jpg] https://www.quinndombrowski.com/blog/2026/02/10/craftivism-crisis/ This is a write-up of a talk I gave at CESTA on January 29, 2026, with an epilogue covering...

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Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

If there are scholarly ethics concerns with asking an LLM to write a journal article, those same concerns should apply to asking an LLM to write the code that the article is about.

My #DHmakes sleep viz is framed/ready for action, thx to my partner’s woodworking skills! I’m using this in a #DigitalHumanities class where students will create a personalized dataset to play w in a range of tools. They’ll encounter friction/“failure” trying to get their data to work in some tools.

pam lach@plach.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes

Sent the book manuscript off to the publisher for consideration. Working title is "Embedded Pedagogies: DH Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change." 59,612 piping hot thoughts on DH pedagogy. Phew - glad to have gotten this out before the baby comes. Table of contents and title page attached!

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The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 7mo ago

I appreciate that the book reviews for THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME are all like “Chanda is a strange fuckin nerd but actually it’s very entertaining, buy the book” 😹 Accurate accurate

i want to drink a shot every time someone at an academic/alt-ac career panel says the fellowship that started their career was terminated last year. maybe that way i'll finally have a good take away from the current job market 🥴