David Ryan Bishop (he/him/they/them)

South Korea bound to present “What the Archive Remembers: Geography, Race, and Language in Chronicling America” in July!!! #DH2026

The Perfect Time to Read The Scarlet Letter (The Scarlet Letter, Part 1) Podcast Episode · The Norton Library Podcast · 02/09/2026 · 33m

Getting ready to teach The Scarlet Letter and this was such a good listen… I love a good Lit podcast. This was reminiscent of Big Moby Dick Energy, which is also so, so good. @jsmurison.bsky.social
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It was such a pleasure to be a guest member of The Anxious Bench for the local Americana Happy Hour.

Just heard an @npr.org story about grade-inflation — the interviewee pointed out that students have transitioned from “scholars into customers,” and what a gut punch that was. I’ve always thought of the “University” as an almost magical sort of place… But hearing that was just demoralizing.

While #IndigenousPeoplesDay in the US honors native nations here, as someone of Chichimeca and Yucateca descent, I reflect in solidarity across the Americas—thinking about how Spanish vs. Anglo colonial legacies shape sovereignty and survival. Particularly how Latin American histories differ from US

I just rewatched “Jaws”—that is the most tonally uneven, and morally confused piece of cinema I can recall seeing… but I guess it’s considered a masterclass because its narrative structure is hyper-legible?

I’m obsessed with this game.
Slightly diminish a band: Very Small Faces.

Slightly diminish a band: A Zeppelin, constructed out of the usual materials.

Slide with title Digital Humanities for a World Unmade, blue background with stylized images of a Dutch windmill, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Hagia Sofia, Big Ben, and the Singaporean lion.

Here's a write-up of my keynote from #DH2025, since academic publishing is slow and this was written for right now. roopikarisam.com/talks-cat/dh...

My prediction is that #theacolyte will have a spike in viewership in the wake of its cancellation… I want a second season.

Such an inspiring @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social #dh2025 closing keynote by @roopikarisam.bsky.social about care and repair!

#DH2025 poster session is bumpin’!

Off to #DH2025 and the 🚆 to the ✈️ is delayed. Not a strong start.

I used to work at a secondhand book store and when books came through that had mold or were in a state of total decay we would rip the cover off and throw them in a dedicated dumpster—the rage and indignation it stirred in onlookers was always a little amusing.

One immediate action item following our "Building BookLabs" symposium was to establish a mailing list where folks running/founding/dreaming up book labs & adjacent initiatives can share resources, opportunities, events, & other materials—if you’d like to be connected sign up at the link below!

“🎼All in all, it’s just another… boba in the tea🎶” just doesn’t have the same ring to it… 😒

What is going on at the press now?!?!

Coming down from the symposium high and now feeling the post- #BuildingBookLabs25 depression. @ryancordell.org & @skeuomorphpress.org created something very special and I’m grateful to have been a part of it.

Kicking off #BuildingBookLabs25 with a selfie from the stage.

You’re all here! We’re going to have so much fun!!!

Fucking right on 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Infuriating. 😞

Friday motivation--- I think about this post often when I'm tired or feel overwhelmed

Given the choice between the mythology of Christ’s resurrection, and a giant bunny that surreptitiously hides its unborn offspring for us to find and worship. I choose bunny—every. time… but really it’s just a nice Sunday with family. 🐰☕️🐣🥚🪺

Always felt “AI” was a misnomer, especially if we’re drawing from sci-fi driven concepts and applying to #ChatGPT / #DeepSeek … if basic prerequisite is a trajectory toward sentience/domination of the human-race, aren’t large language models just computer programs—until they’re not?

Trump: *simply going to pause what I’m doing*

Market: *greatest single day gains in history*

Course Title: “Info 201; Advanced Computer Programming in Python: Pseudo-code and prompt-theory in using ChatGPT to write your computer programs.” Is this where we’re headed, or already there even perhaps? 🤔

A central anxiety surrounding AI is that it will make us humans lazy. Meanwhile I’m over here writing python scripts with the help of ChatGPT, debugging it in a different window with DeepSeek, and searching anxiously through StackOverflow for all the answers…

Trying to manipulate half a million pages of OCR text from digitized newspapers—ChatGPT says it can help me do this for the one time low, low cost of $605,072.54 — this includes a discount for processing more than 1 million tokens using OpenAI’s api.

I got the exact same. 2 nice ones, and one kinda mean one… lol