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Recalling a recent conversation wherein the prospect of tenure no longer existing in red states was called alarmism

Enormous loss for librarianship. Fobazi’s impact on the profession is indescribable. Peace to her friends and family. How honored we all were to know work and call her a colleague.

There's still time to nominate yourself/someone else for a leadership role in the Assoc for Computers & the Humanities, the US #DigitalHumanities society. Consider joining our team of caring folks working to make things a little better. Nominations close Fri 2/13 at 5pm PT. DM w Qs @ach.bsky.social

Ooh a SoCal hub would be fantastic! I haven’t heard of anything but Irvine would be a great location. I can check with some nearby CSU folks

Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...

Sign and share this call on CSU to cancel its multimillion dollar OpenAI contract. CSU is in a budget crisis, OpenAI wants to reduce us all into tools of AI, and our public money should be invested in humans!

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Thanks to everyone who submitted a proposal during our January open submission window. We look forward to reviewing all the proposals!

For our next open submission window: we will decide that based how many proposals we accept from this round. Based on previous years it is likely to be August 2026.

Yes please!!

There are far too many horrors in sleep and in waking life 😭

Yeah, I definitely think it would add a little something to do that. I really need to take an embroidery class one of these days

Perhaps it’s a sign of the times that I woke up in the early morning from a nightmare, only to fall asleep and have a second, even scarier, nightmare.

I guess it makes sense that as universities transformed into real estate & hedge fund profiles controlled by a growing class of asset managers w/ no meaningful academic expertise, the preferred outputs wd come to resemble airport leadership books & bullshit Ted talks— but man, what are we doing here

Embroidered Zs in various shades of blue and teal stitched in a spiral pattern on black fabric. The fabric is patterned with gold stars and dots circled by gold swirls in various sizes. A mix of orange, pink, copper, and mauve beads are stitched into many of the Zs

Here’s the first month of my 2026 sleep/insomnia visualization. This year’s data model is more granular than past ones resulting in more variation of thread colors. I had to scrap 1 color that turned out to be too dark against the fabric & dropped 1 bead color to accommodate a new approach. #DHmakes

LITERALLY spent the last 2 days hearing about the need to prioritize ROI at Your Local Community College, alas

Last semester, I had the pleasure of partnering with a graduate class using critical race counterstory methodology to create a podcast about the history of higher education. Check out this video about their experiences. Link to the show below👇

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

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NGL, my tantrums were a thing of beauty. No one raged quite like me 🤣

Meme of a little girl with short hair wearing a floral halter top and matching shorts, sitting on her knees on her bed throwing a major tantrum. The meme reads: “#%@! This Day” in white font

Seems like as good a day as any to bust out this meme, featuring me throwing a temper tantrum as a child

Texas A&M Ends Women's Studies and Overhauls Classes Over Race and Gender New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules *could* hurt A&M's reputation.

Oh I think we're beyond "could"

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Catherine O’Hara was an absolute treasure and I loved all her roles

Resisting Erasure | Podcast on RSS.com Resisting Erasure: Critical Race Counterstories of Higher Education bring us stories that expose, analyze, and challenge majoritarian stories rooted in whiteness, racial myths, and power. Each episode...

Listen to Resisting Erasure: Critical Race Counterstories of Higher Education

Last semester, I had the pleasure of partnering with a graduate class using critical race counterstory methodology to create a podcast about the history of higher education. Check out this video about their experiences. Link to the show below👇

Masking in public is a great way to prevent the spread of illnesses and resist the surveillance state

My proudest moment from today's class: Rather than start with an intro to #DigitalHumanities, I threw students into a tool (DocuViz) and asked them to play. After a few minutes of exploration, I flashed this meme (that I spent way too long creating) as we reflected on what we learned by playing

I so wish I could be there!

A black standing desk piled with my DHmakes sleep visualizations (embroidered Z spirals), a Jacquard loom punch card, a weaving sampler, lots of tarot cards, and a zine called “Play with your Data”

My experiments in joyful pedagogy resume today, my 1st day w a #DigitalHumanities class co-designed w an instructor & centered on learning thru experimentation, discovery, play and #DHtries. We’re gonna start the session w play+reflection & see where that leads. Hoping these will help set the tone

Wish I could make it! Can’t wait to hear more about it 😍

Craftivism in a Crisis: Making the Humanities Matter When It's All Falling Apart | Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis The longstanding rhetoric of the "crisis of the humanities" has been largely drowned out by an omnicrisis equally affecting the sciences, the stability of the university, and society as a whole. What ...

It's last-minute, but I'm giving a talk today about #DHmakes and craft and what the humanities can do in a crisis from 12:15-1:15 Pacific (3:15-4:15 Eastern). All are welcome, Zoom registration link below!

A black dog with a brown beard and frosty eyebrows lays on a blue couch, tucked under a blue blanket he’s been carrying around all morning. You can see a hint of the grey turtleneck sweater he’s wearing

If only I could hide under the covers all day like this little guy

Beloved fellow academics, please don't fall for the Let's All Worship Overwork signals that have been going around for the last couple of weeks

"But tech bros do it! Haruki Murakami does it!"

1) let's ask how---ie, who's making dinner? hmmmm

and

2) the ideas don't get better when you overwork