Paul Fyfe

Congrats Maria! Its awesome to see your book getting recognition. (And in the TLS!)

Congratulations Nathan! Looks fascinating.

Action without Hope A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.

So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Privacy is not about something to hide. And invasions of privacy are about power, not uncovering hidden things. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's a perfect fantasy of disintermediation and the hypergendering of the labor it cannot fully erase. In this talk, I will ...

There's no consensus. But I'd say think about why you're quantifying at all, what and how you want to query or analyze at the other end. And, if you have access, maybe consult with a data librarian for their expertise.

Donated. Contribute a little if you can.

A scene straight out of Calvin Kasulke's *Several People Are Typing* -- the best novel written on Slack

How Are Students Using AI? A W. W. Norton newsletter with Annette Vee, offering insights and ideas for building AI literacy.

"How Are Students Using AI?" @anetv.bsky.social bringing the data to the ongoing convo aiandhowweteach.substack.com/p/how-are-st...

Blind plot, dark channeled, sunk streams

At the moment my slide deck is half screenshots.

Supposed to give a pedagogy talk next week about AI and I might just scroll Bluesky with the audience

Hans: Research as a patriotic bargain - Public Ed Works By Peter Hans President, University of North Carolina System RALEIGH (May 1, 2025) – For more than 70 years, federal funding for university research has been a patriotic bargain and a core driver of n...

Great to see this op-ed by UNC System President Peter Hans on WHY the federal government funds research through competitive grants. #HigherEd

Victorian Studies: Who Cares? The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute

"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com

Oregon State U is accepting proposals, aimed at developing public-facing writing, for four public humanities fellowships on "Trust in the Age of Generative AI" (apply by 4/25) prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-209)

"Democracy demands wisdom & vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster & support a form of education, & access to the arts & the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds & wherever located masters of their technology & not its unthinking servants." www.neh.gov/about/histor...

The university and legislative liaisons are doing what they can. Our college may supplement a fraction of costs to keep a version of the project going. We still have to meet to figure it out.

Not sure it matters what the topic concerns anymore. It’s slash and burn. :( I’m sorry about yours.

Yep. Such a colossal waste.

Public Funding and the “Untamed Wilderness” of Victorian Studies – Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net An article from Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, on Érudit.

For instance, see Russ Wyland’s piece on how important the NEH and public funding were to establishing Victorian studies as a field www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

Feels awkward in the timeline, but I'll be talking about how scholarly fields depend on hidden infrastructures, uncelebrated knowledge workers, and government investments that, until like yesterday, have been so vital.

Well said. Feel gutted for all the talented folks who devoted their careers to this work. They built an infrastructure for the rest of us, and it's getting torched. I'm deeply sorry.

Grateful to Bluesky and these folks for rapidly sharing info. Our NEH AI center grant was affected, and Jason's bsky thread has now made it all the way to our dean, vice chancellor, and provost, now starting to fight back.

It’s not just the Ivies. They cancelled visas for two international students at NC State. No consult with the university, no explanation, no process. internationalservices.ncsu.edu/announcements/

Hey, congratulations Dr Damkjær! And skål!

Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

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Take action here: action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025?f...

#ncph #PublicHistory #PublicHistorians

Crawford & Jolers classic Anatomy of an AI System might be good. Its varied facets might capture different interests, too. (I’m still not over the patented Amazon worker cage.) anatomyof.ai

Kevin Howell Named NC State’s 15th Chancellor He succeeds Randy Woodson, who is retiring after 15 years of service.

Unexpected outcome and actually good news: NC State appoints its next chancellor news.ncsu.edu/2025/03/18/k... an alum of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences!

Both of these sites (recommended in a library workshop) allow you to search and sort by function, e.g. part to whole and many others datavizcatalogue.com/search.html and datavizproject.com

Its suggestions on how to improve my score were also shit. Aside from big picture objections, it’s just a bad product, not ready for market in any other guise than enterprise hype