Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social
Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
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Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
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Taking Action in Higher Ed
Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.
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I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.
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"MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities" www.macfound.org/press/press-...
MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities
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January 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
"MacArthur Awards $10 Million to Strengthen the Humanities" www.macfound.org/press/press-...
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no new pictures, where are you at mentally
January 17, 2026 at 4:14 PM
no new pictures, where are you at mentally
no new pictures, where are you at mentally
January 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
no new pictures, where are you at mentally
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Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
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How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
January 15, 2026 at 2:43 PM
How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
✨❤️☀️🌊🎨
Our incredible co-founder Martin Tsang has been partnering with the Pérez Art Museum in Miami to design and curate a scent for the exhibition, “Woody De Othello: coming forth by day.”
If you're in Miami makes sure to visit! Open now through June 28, 2026.
www.pamm.org/en/
If you're in Miami makes sure to visit! Open now through June 28, 2026.
www.pamm.org/en/
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
✨❤️☀️🌊🎨
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May I offer you a small painted chicken in these trying times
January 13, 2026 at 10:39 PM
May I offer you a small painted chicken in these trying times
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(solemnly) rest in piss bozo
January 13, 2026 at 3:41 PM
(solemnly) rest in piss bozo
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Delighted to share that my new article "Neither Cuñado nor Cuñadazgo: A Guaraní History of Spanish Colonisation" has just been published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research! 🎉
📄 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you don't have access to the journal, send me a MP.
📄 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you don't have access to the journal, send me a MP.
Neither Cuñado nor Cuñadazgo: A Guaraní History of Spanish Colonisation
This article examines the complex relationships between Spaniards and Guaraní peoples in the Río de la Plata province during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It challenges prevailing historio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Delighted to share that my new article "Neither Cuñado nor Cuñadazgo: A Guaraní History of Spanish Colonisation" has just been published in the Bulletin of Latin American Research! 🎉
📄 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you don't have access to the journal, send me a MP.
📄 Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
If you don't have access to the journal, send me a MP.
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Noodling letterpress printing some postcards+sending 1 (free) to anyone who wants ('til I run out). You think of some Q/project/goal; card has *very* minimal tarot-y art (a fancy letterform or word?) & the random card I send you points you to an interpretation in VFC's "Academic Tarot" guide (free)
January 13, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Noodling letterpress printing some postcards+sending 1 (free) to anyone who wants ('til I run out). You think of some Q/project/goal; card has *very* minimal tarot-y art (a fancy letterform or word?) & the random card I send you points you to an interpretation in VFC's "Academic Tarot" guide (free)
Updating my website and reposting this conversation I had with Dr. Brooke Mai in December about values-aligned careers and working in the humanities.
Everything about work is hard these days, but it was a pleasure to grapple with difficult questions with Brooke.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Everything about work is hard these days, but it was a pleasure to grapple with difficult questions with Brooke.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
January 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Updating my website and reposting this conversation I had with Dr. Brooke Mai in December about values-aligned careers and working in the humanities.
Everything about work is hard these days, but it was a pleasure to grapple with difficult questions with Brooke.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Everything about work is hard these days, but it was a pleasure to grapple with difficult questions with Brooke.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
2025 was a year like no other.
I'm so grateful to be part of the @sidracollaborative.bsky.social team.
I'm so grateful to be part of the @sidracollaborative.bsky.social team.
January 7, 2026 at 6:47 PM
2025 was a year like no other.
I'm so grateful to be part of the @sidracollaborative.bsky.social team.
I'm so grateful to be part of the @sidracollaborative.bsky.social team.
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Happy new year, all! Can anyone recommend good critical sources on redacted names/ blanks/ initialism in C18th lit? I'm looking for something about the various purposes of the practice, whether for real names or fictional, and my context is popular fiction in 1790s. TIA! #skystorians #c18th
January 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Happy new year, all! Can anyone recommend good critical sources on redacted names/ blanks/ initialism in C18th lit? I'm looking for something about the various purposes of the practice, whether for real names or fictional, and my context is popular fiction in 1790s. TIA! #skystorians #c18th
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Good morning! Wood type timeline breather. Part of #Penland's collection that has been used for decades, including by many artists I admire, becoming more beautiful from that use over time.
January 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Good morning! Wood type timeline breather. Part of #Penland's collection that has been used for decades, including by many artists I admire, becoming more beautiful from that use over time.
Y'all, this shouldn't even be a conversation. Never (ever!) publicly shame a grad student on social media! And especially not if you are faculty!!
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Y'all, this shouldn't even be a conversation. Never (ever!) publicly shame a grad student on social media! And especially not if you are faculty!!
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@proghist.bsky.social posted our annual call for lesson proposals! We're looking for translators of our Spanish and French. We also welcome proposals for original lessons on new topics not yet covered by our journal. Please reach out to me at [email protected] with any questions!
❔ Have you read and valued a Programming Historian lesson?
💡 Ever thought about writing one?
Share a method or tool that you know well, and help others to learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities
💡 Ever thought about writing one?
Share a method or tool that you know well, and help others to learn.
🔗 tinyurl.com/open-call-2025-blog
📩 Send us your proposal by 15 February 2026
#CallForPapers #DigitalHumanities
January 5, 2026 at 8:36 PM
@proghist.bsky.social posted our annual call for lesson proposals! We're looking for translators of our Spanish and French. We also welcome proposals for original lessons on new topics not yet covered by our journal. Please reach out to me at [email protected] with any questions!
Ten years ago today, I was working on a dissertation chapter about how we redefine what we think is "real" based on how different technologies copy and distort historical records.
You can read an article based on that work here (scroll down for an OA link):
halperta.com/scholarship/...
You can read an article based on that work here (scroll down for an OA link):
halperta.com/scholarship/...
December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ten years ago today, I was working on a dissertation chapter about how we redefine what we think is "real" based on how different technologies copy and distort historical records.
You can read an article based on that work here (scroll down for an OA link):
halperta.com/scholarship/...
You can read an article based on that work here (scroll down for an OA link):
halperta.com/scholarship/...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The two young people bagging my groceries yesterday asked me what I thought about AI.
"I hate it," one said, "but my professors force me to use it."
"In my public health class," the other reported, " all the assignments were AI-based."
She went on: "I didn't learn anything at all."
"I hate it," one said, "but my professors force me to use it."
"In my public health class," the other reported, " all the assignments were AI-based."
She went on: "I didn't learn anything at all."
December 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The two young people bagging my groceries yesterday asked me what I thought about AI.
"I hate it," one said, "but my professors force me to use it."
"In my public health class," the other reported, " all the assignments were AI-based."
She went on: "I didn't learn anything at all."
"I hate it," one said, "but my professors force me to use it."
"In my public health class," the other reported, " all the assignments were AI-based."
She went on: "I didn't learn anything at all."
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Started reading through The Campus Crisis Toolkit and even in the intro I love where it's going. This turn towards practical advice for people on the front lines of the university omnicrisis - specifically name checking staff and students too! - is a wonderful to see. Looking forward to teaching it!
Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the @sunypress.bsky.social website: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-.... Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗
The Campus Crisis Toolkit
sunypress.edu
December 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Started reading through The Campus Crisis Toolkit and even in the intro I love where it's going. This turn towards practical advice for people on the front lines of the university omnicrisis - specifically name checking staff and students too! - is a wonderful to see. Looking forward to teaching it!
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Adjuncting is so weird because departments recruit people with exceptional profiles and then don't pay well and then treat you really badly.
December 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Adjuncting is so weird because departments recruit people with exceptional profiles and then don't pay well and then treat you really badly.
Have I mentioned I work with the most amazing people 😍
Congrats to our amazing Sidra Collaborator co-founder Martin Tsang, who recently contributed to the catalog and audio tour for MoMA’s retrospective exhibition of the Cuban Chinese artist Wifredo Lam, “When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” open now through April 11, 2026.
If you're in NYC, check it out!
If you're in NYC, check it out!
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Have I mentioned I work with the most amazing people 😍
Ok look we know that meritocracy does not exist. Academic performance is primarily an indicator of wealth and security. Hiring committees use all kinds of problematic proxies for value.
STILL when you fail to succeed it hurts as if the meritocracy existed and you just weren't good enough.
STILL when you fail to succeed it hurts as if the meritocracy existed and you just weren't good enough.
December 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Ok look we know that meritocracy does not exist. Academic performance is primarily an indicator of wealth and security. Hiring committees use all kinds of problematic proxies for value.
STILL when you fail to succeed it hurts as if the meritocracy existed and you just weren't good enough.
STILL when you fail to succeed it hurts as if the meritocracy existed and you just weren't good enough.
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This has reminded me of an ugly time. I was in grad school at the U of Minnesota in 2008 when the financial crisis hit. Prior to that the norm in the dept I was in (history) had been that people could stay in grad school on assistantships until they finished the degree but the university introduced
December 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This has reminded me of an ugly time. I was in grad school at the U of Minnesota in 2008 when the financial crisis hit. Prior to that the norm in the dept I was in (history) had been that people could stay in grad school on assistantships until they finished the degree but the university introduced