Brett Bobley

📣 Tenure-track DH position at Chapel Hill with a home in English/Comp Lit

And those $1.50 hot dogs?

Who are the 29% of holdouts?

Maybe get ORCIDs for those kids?

I was recently commiserating with my 22 year-old son about this. He was frustrated by the fact that the walls of his apartment are...weird? I told him how in my 1936 house I had to cut a huge hole in the wall because no stud finder in the universe could accurately tell me what the hell was in there.

Congrats to the latest cohort of AI2050 fellows!

This ⬇️

It feels really good to finally see some good political news after a really difficult 2025. Congrats to Zohran Mamdani. And thanks to all the people, especially all the young people, for turning out to vote.

That was very, very close.

Giant ghost in my front yard for Halloween.

The giant ghost is ready for trick or treating.

Congrats to Doug Armato on his retirement. He was a real leader in open access publishing. Back when I worked at NEH, I was proud to be able to award him and his press numerous awards for OA scholarship: apps.neh.gov/PublicQuery/...

University of Minnesota Press Director Retires Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…

Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.

Sunset with glowing clouds over the ocean.

Sunset picture here in Honolulu. (Can confirm: it is very pretty in Hawaii.)

If you are here at the #ICCV2025 conference and want to talk about funding for a Humanities/CV project, please stop by room 302a between 11am and 3pm on Thursday. The team from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social is here to answer your funding questions.

spam musabi with egg, avocado, and eel.

That was delicious. 🙏 I got the spam musabi with egg, avocado, and eel.

Oh, I'm on it, Jen.

I have arrived in the homeland of @jenserventi.bsky.social

Today I'm heading to the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision in Honolulu. The @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI team will be there to talk about our funding opportunities for Humanities/CV research. #ICCV2025

Wall to wall people here in downtown DC at No King's.

It seemed to make sense, at first, that in the world of Scooby Doo, dogs could speak, but were barely intelligible, with that weird doggy accent. But when Scrappy Doo appeared, speaking English like he was a BBC announcer, it made you realize that something was horribly wrong with Scooby.

LOL.

Hi Steve!! I look forward to reading this!!

Yes. +1000

So glad to see my friend Steve here. A good follow and a better fellow.

Ten different philanthropies are teaming up on this new funding program. I'm keen to see where it goes.

Hi John. Congrats on this new initiative. Looks very promising. (FYI, I'm no longer at NEH. I'm now helping Schmidt Sciences on their humanities/AI program.)

Interview with Hima Lakkaraju on her work studying AI trustworthiness. Lakkaraju is a 2023 @schmidtsciences.bsky.social AI2050 Early Career Fellow and Assistant Professor at Harvard University.

A headshot of Hannah, a thin white person with short chaotic gray hair and blue glasses, smiling in front of a tree.

Introducing Sidra Co-Founder Hannah Alpert-Abrams! Hannah has over 15 years of experience in arts, culture, and the humanities as a practitioner and funder. Hannah can help establish new grant programs, manage funding processes, and understand the impact of your work.

sidracollaborative.com/team/

Schmidt Sciences awards $45M to narrow carbon cycle knowledge gap - Schmidt Sciences Globe-spanning interdisciplinary teams will dramatically improve climate modeling to drive better energy, environmental, economic decision making Contact: Carlie Wiener, cwiener@schmidtsciences.org…

We're investing $45M over 5 years to launch the Virtual Institute for the Carbon Cycle (VICC).

Four global teams will combine AI, advanced observations & modeling to close major carbon cycle gaps, strengthening climate projections worldwide.

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