Liz Grumbach

Thank you to the amazing #ACH2025 Conference Team: @alexwermercolan.bsky.social @leoba.bsky.social @jajrk.bsky.social @wepm.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @regan008.bsky.social @sferna.bsky.social, Andy Janco, Rebecca Foote, Kathy Torabi, and all ACH Exec and volunteers for making this event happen.

Thank you, @ach.bsky.social #ACH2025 team & to everyone that participated in sessions this week to come together in a time where we need community more than, perhaps, ever! And thank you @audinyann.bsky.social for capturing the pure joy of the Work Adventure dance party! #ACH2025

I’m realizing just this very moment that I met you the very same year I met Brett, and that makes 2012(ish) all the more a perfect year in my memory.

A childlike drawing of a T-Rex saying "I like grants!! (Grr!)" in a blue circle. Text below the image reads "Office of Digital Humanities 2021".

Never forget one of Brett's most visionary contributions #ThanksBrett

Screenshot of the ACH2025 WorkAdventure virtual world - a pink room with purple rooms. Lots of 2D avatars are gathered in rooms chatting with each other

So excited to see our #ACH2025 Care Fair going so well. What an honor to help create a space to bring people together to build community and explore new avenues for our advocacy @ach.bsky.social

The field of Digital Humanities has changed lives, transformed people and communities, and supported so much change, good change, in both the world and our profession. The efforts of ODH, under your direction, has shifted us all towards brighter, more equitable, futures. #ThanksBrett

At my first DH conference (2012?), I met @brettbobley.bsky.social in passing. From that quick, likely minute-long convo, I saw a generosity and a kindness that I've carried forward into my DH and personal life. Without the ODH, my world would be smaller and less brilliant. #ThanksBrett

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@performant.bsky.social is committed to supporting our friends in the Digital Humanities. If you’ve had a grant cancelled, we want to help if we can. Get in touch for a free consultation. #dh #ach2025 www.performantsoftware.com/pages/free-c...

Oof, didn't tag the amazing @snblickhan.bsky.social correctly here. Sam, thank you for your work, your words, for being such a dear and inspiring colleague.

"I hate that this sounds like a eulogy." -@snblickhan.bsky.social on how NEH is "an agency that really believes in the promise of our field."

And Sam wraps with a promise and a call to be sand in the gears of the anti-fascist machine. May we all be sand. #ACH2025

This #ACH2025 morning (Pacific Time): "What the NEH ODH Has Inspired".

@jimccasey1.bsky.social has already made me cry. @altnehgov.altgov.info was essential for me as a professional, for so many of us. My career, the friendships I hold so dear, my work -- I can never express enough gratitude.

good morning #ach2025! I'm looking forward to moderating a conversation about federal funding for digital humanities with amazing former NEH colleagues. ❤️✨ We'll we talk about more than fifty years of funding for digital humanities projects, and where we go from here.

This is fascism—there are no checks & balances if legislators are arrested for questioning a member of the executive branch.

I struggle to understand how to best operate in this reality. I'm making incredible progress in my state, but uprooting this kind of evil feels beyond the scope of my office.

Mic drop moment in the "Twelve is the New Geriatric" #ACH2025 panel from Mia Wells, who presented on futurebuilding, long-term planning, and stakeholder engagement: "Sustainability is *all* of our responsibility."

On the "three mantras of Long DH" (Futurebuilding DH) from Johannes Burgers:
1) "go slow and build things",
2) "teamwork makes the dreamwork, but nagging helps" (people-first proj management),
3) "love your data like you love yourself" (tech changes, data doesn't; set your data free!). #ACH2025

Screenshot of the virtual world built in WorkAdventure. Two side-by-side 2d rooms with many avatars attending the panels can be seen. In the far upper left corner is a blue phonebooth that references Doctor Who.

The #ACH2025 WorkAdventure panels = visible traces of community. I love "seeing" folks attending the panels -- thank you @wepm.bsky.social for this joyful gathering space! 10B session on "geriatric" DH is an exploration of access, cybersecurity, sustainability of older DH projects! @ach.bsky.social

so honored to collaborate with the wonderful ACH team to make the conference! loved learning to use WorkAdventure to help facilitate so many necessary conversations.

it truly makes my heart sing seeing everyone mingling virtually.

i'm now open to commissions for custom pixelated spaces. jk xD

It is RIF separation day at NEH. More than 100 of us lose our jobs today. Our hearts are heavy and broken. None of this had to happen.

Fellow NEHers, we cross this threshold together. One we hoped would never appear.

We will continue to stand as tall as we can. 🤍

#NEH #Resist

Screenshot of Zoom gallery featuring 9 smiling faces

The #ACH2025 team is hard at work putting the finishing touches on our virtual conference. See y'all at 10am ET for 3 days of care+community! @leoba.bsky.social @wepm.bsky.social @emgrumbach.bsky.social @alexwermercolan.bsky.social @apjanco.bsky.social @jajrk.bsky.social Kathy Torabi, Rebecca Foote

Really honored to be part of this event coming up in just a few weeks. Thanks to everyone involved in organizing this conference and to the ACH leadership team for everything you do to support the humanities.

I have so much respect for how @ach.bsky.social approaches its annual conference. Virtual can be tough, but travel right now is tougher. The last day includes a "Care Fair" w/ guided sessions to support wellbeing—whether through rest, companionship, or political action. A good place to gather 💫

ACH 2025 – ACH Membership The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2025, a virtual conference, from June 11-13, 2025.

Registration for ACH 2025 on June 11-13 is now live: buff.ly/hbBT1E5. Featured Keynote speakers include @rahulbot.bsky.social on Community Data, ‪@lyndamk.bsky.social‬ on the Data Rescue Project, & @halperta.bsky.social leading Special Sessions w/the NEH‬! Stay tuned for the full program next week!

Receipts: impact.ach.org

You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh

Support the NEH: Virtual Direct Action Hour Support the NEH: Virtual Direct Action Hour Zoom Link: https://asu.zoom.us/j/84358841172?pwd=bxor46pu3qY4vq7bBFmbzUAJYAarpb.1 Wednesday, 8am Pacific / 11am Eastern Join us to message and call your e...

@ach.bsky.social put together a doc you can use if you want to take direct action to support the NEH and IMLS!

Includes links to resources like their canceled grants database and tips for how to use that info when you contact your reps: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @pelosi.house.gov What are California Senators and Representatives doing to save NEH funding and staff?

Responding here as one of the organizers: it would be incredibly helpful to have an individual and accurate headcount, but only as/if people have the capacity to register. We look forward to seeing you there and in community.

Support the NEH: Virtual Direct Action Hour – ACH Membership Help spread the word

Join us this Wed, April 9th at 8am PT / 11am ET to contact your elected officials to advocate for the NEH and IMLS. We will provide links, talking points, messages, and scripts, including resources from colleagues such as the @humanitiesall.bsky.social. Register now:

Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils Jump to Your State: Alabama | Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas On Monday, March 31, the Federation … Read more

Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

Thinking of all the moments where your support, where NEH-ODH support, meant the world to me (to so many of us), and how you always made the work feel seen. Will be thinking of you and everyone as I call, write, email, plan.

ACH Op-Ed Workshop – ACH Membership Help spread the word

Higher education in the U.S. is facing some of the sharpest attacks in its history. Join us on Friday, 4/11 at 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET for this rapid-response workshop, designed to give you the tools you need to write and pitch an op-ed. All are welcome. Register now: