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YES. Thank you, thank you. Yes, that's totally it. My new uni doesn't have a copy of this yet, and mine must have gotten lost in a cross-country move. So, ordering a new one, and will put the word in for our library, too.

Glad to be in good (monstrous) company with y'all, here. Thanks!

Hey, thanks for checkin'. Think we talked about it back on Twitter, before that went south. Thought I had it bookmarked, but, like, why'd I have done the smart thing there.

I'll keep looking, too. Was thinking about comic werewolves, remember liking that rendition of Mongrels a whole bunch.

@sgj.bsky.social Heya -- Longshot, but a few years back, I found a comic from MONGRELS, the classroom scene? Thought it was in Beth LaPensée's A HOWL anthology. But, it's not there (you've got a diff. rad werewolf comic in that one). Any idea if it's still online, or where it got published? Thanks!

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

That John Darnielle kid, he's going places. 🧵

🎨 The Conundrum Press MiniComic Bursary for Black and Indigenous Creators is now open for submissions!

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Kolchak is indeed delightful! Funny enough, I have to watch Kojak yet.

Peacock has Kolchak, Columbo (free on Tubi), and Murder, She Wrote (also on Tubi).

Text reading "Ask a Librarian" with colorful overlapping circles in the background.

It's time for personalized reading recommendations! In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, let's dive into Indigenous books and stories this week. #AskALibrarian

Martial law. <Shakes head>

The English language trade dress cover for Junji Ito’s Frankenstein.

Junji Ito’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s #Frankenstein was published in English in 2018 and won an Eisner Award for “Best Adaptation from Another Medium.” It’s both a faithful & idiosyncratic adaptation, showcasing Ito's mastery of horror storytelling within the comics medium.1/8 #Frankenstein

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
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Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

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"You can only critically assess the output of an AI chatbot if you have the skills to do so, and you don’t develop these skills by using AI. Before you can be critical of an AI summary, you have to learn to understand a text without having it summarized by an AI tool."

Delighted to have this piece with THE @nolauren.bsky.social out in the world!

Many thanks to the editorial team and our peer reviewer for helping bring the best out in this piece, and double thanks to Lauren for being such a great coauthor.

Great running into you!

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Fwiw, I've also been grappling with and thinking through that problem of scale in comic strips for a bit now.

Related to trying to teach the comic, I figured I'd share this article I wrote where we used DH methods to read study all of Peanuts all at once (link below), if it's of interest.

CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

Yeah, this is a major bummer. We've been working on building some GM programming here at UND, with hopes to apply for this in the future. Fingers crossed it will eventually come back in full force.

Ayyy, congrats, Alina! Great to see and learn from. Also, check the full post below on ways to help support:

Congratulations to the Sequential Scholars team! Wonderful news indeed.

Photo of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

Photo of the table of contents of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The table covers 32 pages and says: • Credits & how to cite this zine. • Introduction Resources: • Intro to general book history • Intro to QUEER book history! • Teaching queer history toward • A model teaching approach • Black, Indigenous, POC + Queer • Broader BIPOC book history • Zines, community periodicals, DIY queer publishing history • Libraries, archives, museums • Archives & catalogues • Design & art. • Close readings • Ethics & justice re:gender & sexuality • Feminist 2SLGBTQIA+ • Community & conferences • Queer book history isn't past • Current book arts practitioners relevant to queer book history • Want more queer book history? • Back cover & reuse/ remix info

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

Ayyyy, check out INKS, the now EISNER-NOMINATED comics studies journal! In celebration, they've made issue 8.3 available, which includes some incredible work, including me interviewing the incomparable @alinapete.bsky.social ! Check it out!

Ooo. Golden Son was a blast. I've been enjoying that whole series.

(Also, that AI snake oil book looks great)

Do yourself a favor:

Watch the trailer.
Watch it *again*.

Then, share it, widely as you can. I think Zack and his collaborators have put together something really special here.

My cohort of faculty friends are getting together tomorrow to celebrate making it through our first year as TT faculty, and I'm baking some spinach, artichoke, and gruyere stromboli to share. I'm very excited about both activities, tbh.

Yeah, I absolutely hear you. I also think Osman is onto something special, so I've been taking those books slow (also between my own usual fare).

Same, and I got one too!