Jesse Draper
@jessedraperhnet.bsky.social
Freely accessible digital scholarship by and for scholars around the world. Leader | Educator | Ethics in AI
H-Net - Executive Director
DH@MSU - Core Faculty
LGBTQ+ Father and Ally
I stand with the oppressed worldwide
Chicago Cubs | Liverpool FC fan
H-Net - Executive Director
DH@MSU - Core Faculty
LGBTQ+ Father and Ally
I stand with the oppressed worldwide
Chicago Cubs | Liverpool FC fan
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Jesse Draper
@jessedraperhnet.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Challenging Times Call for Innovative Solutions
As hostility to our work pulls vital funding and threatens institutions, we must respond by finding new ways to collaborate free from government overreach. In that spirit, we are proud to announce, H-Net Spaces.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
As hostility to our work pulls vital funding and threatens institutions, we must respond by finding new ways to collaborate free from government overreach. In that spirit, we are proud to announce, H-Net Spaces.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Great presentation at USIH 2025 last week! Proud of our team of graduate and undergraduate students (London Hawes, Maxine Levanduski, Brandon Bell and Katherine Dyal) collaborating with @leadr.bsky.social to build the H-Net Spaces Radical Historians Newsletter digitization project (coming soon!)
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Great presentation at USIH 2025 last week! Proud of our team of graduate and undergraduate students (London Hawes, Maxine Levanduski, Brandon Bell and Katherine Dyal) collaborating with @leadr.bsky.social to build the H-Net Spaces Radical Historians Newsletter digitization project (coming soon!)
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In our quest to demystify scholarly publishing, #FeedingTheElephant invited @leekinginc.bsky.social to explain "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask." How does your book make it onto shelves and into readers' hands?
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask | H-Net
A guest post from
networks.h-net.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In our quest to demystify scholarly publishing, #FeedingTheElephant invited @leekinginc.bsky.social to explain "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Book Distribution, but Were Afraid to Ask." How does your book make it onto shelves and into readers' hands?
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
The academic job market is tough, and that offers incredible opportunity.
H-Net's widely diverse, international membership are highly trained critical thinkers with expertly honed writing, public speaking, and problem solving skills.
Access them directly at the H-Net Job Guide:
jobs.h-net.org
H-Net's widely diverse, international membership are highly trained critical thinkers with expertly honed writing, public speaking, and problem solving skills.
Access them directly at the H-Net Job Guide:
jobs.h-net.org
October 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The academic job market is tough, and that offers incredible opportunity.
H-Net's widely diverse, international membership are highly trained critical thinkers with expertly honed writing, public speaking, and problem solving skills.
Access them directly at the H-Net Job Guide:
jobs.h-net.org
H-Net's widely diverse, international membership are highly trained critical thinkers with expertly honed writing, public speaking, and problem solving skills.
Access them directly at the H-Net Job Guide:
jobs.h-net.org
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You might be aware of the threatened closure of Bucknell University Press, but did you know BUP trained countless interns? #FeedingTheElephant shares stories from former interns on how closing the press would negatively impact undergrad and grad students.
➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net
A post from Feeding the
networks.h-net.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
You might be aware of the threatened closure of Bucknell University Press, but did you know BUP trained countless interns? #FeedingTheElephant shares stories from former interns on how closing the press would negatively impact undergrad and grad students.
➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
➡️ networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Friends don't let friends use academia dot edu. kfitz.info/academia-not...
Academia, Not Edu
The long-running and erratically updated blog of Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
kfitz.info
September 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Friends don't let friends use academia dot edu. kfitz.info/academia-not...
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Have a southern Italian themed call for papers to share? Send it to us on H-Net to see it posted: networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
September 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Have a southern Italian themed call for papers to share? Send it to us on H-Net to see it posted: networks.h-net.org/h-sicily
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H-Net Journals is pleased to announce that its newest journal, Ecokritike, has a new issue available.
Check out the ToC and full issue: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...
Check out the ToC and full issue: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...
September 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
H-Net Journals is pleased to announce that its newest journal, Ecokritike, has a new issue available.
Check out the ToC and full issue: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...
Check out the ToC and full issue: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...
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This is a great opportunity! H-Net has collaborated to promote these fellowships for the past few years.
For those interested in digital scholarship we highly recommend checking it out.
For those interested in digital scholarship we highly recommend checking it out.
The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatorial expertise, and an emerging community of digital scholarship practitioners. www.loc.gov/programs/joh...
Kluge Fellowships in Digital Studies | Fellowships | Chairs & Fellowships | The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress | Programs | Library of Congress
About the Fellowship The Kluge Fellowship in Digital Studies provides an opportunity for scholars to utilize digital methods, the Library’s large and varied digital collections and resources, curatori...
www.loc.gov
September 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is a great opportunity! H-Net has collaborated to promote these fellowships for the past few years.
For those interested in digital scholarship we highly recommend checking it out.
For those interested in digital scholarship we highly recommend checking it out.
H-Net’s mission is the open dissemination of knowledge, so we are excited to announce the launch of
Ecokritike, an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism.
Ecokritike, an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism.
H-Net Journals is pleased to announce that its newest journal, Ecokritike, has a new issue available.
Check out the ToC and full issue: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...
Check out the ToC and full issue: journals.h-net.org/ecokritike/i...
September 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
H-Net’s mission is the open dissemination of knowledge, so we are excited to announce the launch of
Ecokritike, an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism.
Ecokritike, an international, open access, blind and double peer-review journal for academics and researchers who study the fields of Environmental Humanities, Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism.
I've been away on vacation with family so missed the opportunity to share the registration reminder...
BUT IF YOU ARE REGISTERED!!!
Check out the Strategies for Responsible AI in the Classroom roundtable I'm taking part in on Tuesday!
BUT IF YOU ARE REGISTERED!!!
Check out the Strategies for Responsible AI in the Classroom roundtable I'm taking part in on Tuesday!
August 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I've been away on vacation with family so missed the opportunity to share the registration reminder...
BUT IF YOU ARE REGISTERED!!!
Check out the Strategies for Responsible AI in the Classroom roundtable I'm taking part in on Tuesday!
BUT IF YOU ARE REGISTERED!!!
Check out the Strategies for Responsible AI in the Classroom roundtable I'm taking part in on Tuesday!
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The Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 definitely opened up a portal to a horrific timeline that can probably only be closed by the Cubs winning the World Series again.
What's your take on the moment we're living through in 50 words or less. [you able to quote post]
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 definitely opened up a portal to a horrific timeline that can probably only be closed by the Cubs winning the World Series again.
Join us for another fantastic virtual conference featuring really great panels from scholars focused on transformative work in the classroom.
Join us for our fourth annual remote teaching conference sponsored by H-Teach!
The deadline to register is 7 p.m. EDT August 17, 2025. Check out the link for more information.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#digitalhumanities #historyeducation #teaching #learning
The deadline to register is 7 p.m. EDT August 17, 2025. Check out the link for more information.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
#digitalhumanities #historyeducation #teaching #learning
July 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Join us for another fantastic virtual conference featuring really great panels from scholars focused on transformative work in the classroom.
In March, H-Net cosigned a joint statement by the AHA/OAH condemning recent efforts to censor historical content on federal government websites, at many public museums, and across a wide swath of government resources.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In March, H-Net cosigned a joint statement by the AHA/OAH condemning recent efforts to censor historical content on federal government websites, at many public museums, and across a wide swath of government resources.
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A New Job Guide Experience
Today we’re proud to roll out the all-new H-Net Job Guide!
We spent the last year working to integrate the Job Guide into the H-Net Commons platform with the following new features:
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#academicsky #jobs @h-net-humanities.bsky.social
Today we’re proud to roll out the all-new H-Net Job Guide!
We spent the last year working to integrate the Job Guide into the H-Net Commons platform with the following new features:
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#academicsky #jobs @h-net-humanities.bsky.social
July 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A New Job Guide Experience
Today we’re proud to roll out the all-new H-Net Job Guide!
We spent the last year working to integrate the Job Guide into the H-Net Commons platform with the following new features:
1/
#academicsky #jobs @h-net-humanities.bsky.social
Today we’re proud to roll out the all-new H-Net Job Guide!
We spent the last year working to integrate the Job Guide into the H-Net Commons platform with the following new features:
1/
#academicsky #jobs @h-net-humanities.bsky.social
We often miss the transformative power available in something as simple as "staying open."
I took this photo of Telescope Peak in California from the middle of Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It's a stunning photo that, if we look for it, communicates more than the overwhelming beauty of nature. 1/
I took this photo of Telescope Peak in California from the middle of Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It's a stunning photo that, if we look for it, communicates more than the overwhelming beauty of nature. 1/
June 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We often miss the transformative power available in something as simple as "staying open."
I took this photo of Telescope Peak in California from the middle of Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It's a stunning photo that, if we look for it, communicates more than the overwhelming beauty of nature. 1/
I took this photo of Telescope Peak in California from the middle of Badwater Basin in Death Valley. It's a stunning photo that, if we look for it, communicates more than the overwhelming beauty of nature. 1/
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This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.
As a Chicago-area native and a child of the 80s, this hits all the right notes.
June 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
As a Chicago-area native and a child of the 80s, this hits all the right notes.
God speed you beautiful people!
June 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
God speed you beautiful people!
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Our open-source Sourcery project is seeking current or recent humanities grad students or MLIS students based in NYC to serve as beta testers and community ambassadors. Compensation is $1,000 for ca. 40 hrs. of work from July 1-31. Apply by June 19!
sourcery-dev.web.app/ambassadors?...
sourcery-dev.web.app/ambassadors?...
Sourcery
sourcery-dev.web.app
June 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Our open-source Sourcery project is seeking current or recent humanities grad students or MLIS students based in NYC to serve as beta testers and community ambassadors. Compensation is $1,000 for ca. 40 hrs. of work from July 1-31. Apply by June 19!
sourcery-dev.web.app/ambassadors?...
sourcery-dev.web.app/ambassadors?...
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here's how i want government and taxes to work: collect money in an organized and equitable fashion and redistribute it to best maximize local and global impact of people who need it most and services that benefit everyone
June 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
here's how i want government and taxes to work: collect money in an organized and equitable fashion and redistribute it to best maximize local and global impact of people who need it most and services that benefit everyone
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🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
June 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
🚨PSA for anyone using GPT in human subjects research🚨
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
A judge has ruled that OpenAI must retain ChatGPT and API data indefinitely, with few exceptions.
This might have implications for your IRB compliance and the security of your participants' data. 1/
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Please share.
Saturday night, at 7, CNN will be doing a live broadcast of the Broadway play "Good Night, & Good Luck", starring George Clooney, about Edward R. Murrow.
Saturday night, at 7, CNN will be doing a live broadcast of the Broadway play "Good Night, & Good Luck", starring George Clooney, about Edward R. Murrow.
Since there seems to be some demand for this, I’m in!
I’m taking a break from writing Edward R. Murrow’s biography to live-post the CNN broadcast of George Clooney’s GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
Join me next Saturday, June 7, at 7pm ET, with the hashtag #GNGL 🗃️
I’m taking a break from writing Edward R. Murrow’s biography to live-post the CNN broadcast of George Clooney’s GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
Join me next Saturday, June 7, at 7pm ET, with the hashtag #GNGL 🗃️
June 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Please share.
Saturday night, at 7, CNN will be doing a live broadcast of the Broadway play "Good Night, & Good Luck", starring George Clooney, about Edward R. Murrow.
Saturday night, at 7, CNN will be doing a live broadcast of the Broadway play "Good Night, & Good Luck", starring George Clooney, about Edward R. Murrow.
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What if mad cow, but for the internet.
AI Models Show Signs of Falling Apart as They Ingest More AI-Generated Data
As CEOs trip over themselves to invest in AI, the models are falling apart at the seams and going mad from cannibalism.
futurism.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What if mad cow, but for the internet.
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"it's on them to show their work"
Yes. Stop just reprinting the data-less assertions of these guys!
Yes. Stop just reprinting the data-less assertions of these guys!
"Amodei is a salesman, and it’s in his interest to make his product appear inevitable and so powerful it’s scary" www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b... @amorrow.bsky.social
The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine | CNN Business
If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached...
www.cnn.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"it's on them to show their work"
Yes. Stop just reprinting the data-less assertions of these guys!
Yes. Stop just reprinting the data-less assertions of these guys!