Micah Bateman
@micahbateman.bsky.social
Asst Prof in LIS. DH, CHI, libraries/archives, digital heritage, poetry. Finishing Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. Opinions do not reflect employer. bit.ly/MicahBateman
The new Fantastic Four seems like it was invented in a lab for me but I couldn't get through it bc of below
I like this explanation for why I hate blockbuster movies now
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The new Fantastic Four seems like it was invented in a lab for me but I couldn't get through it bc of below
00s Millennial skinny-worshipping indie kid to elder Millennial bulking his way through a midlife/national crisis pipeline
November 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
00s Millennial skinny-worshipping indie kid to elder Millennial bulking his way through a midlife/national crisis pipeline
Recession indicator?
Emma was living off her body the way some folks were once said to live off the land, and there was little of her left... She would grow thin enough, she thought, to slip into a sentence of the poet's like a spring frock.
-William Gass, from "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's"
-William Gass, from "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's"
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Recession indicator?
Emma was living off her body the way some folks were once said to live off the land, and there was little of her left... She would grow thin enough, she thought, to slip into a sentence of the poet's like a spring frock.
-William Gass, from "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's"
-William Gass, from "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's"
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Emma was living off her body the way some folks were once said to live off the land, and there was little of her left... She would grow thin enough, she thought, to slip into a sentence of the poet's like a spring frock.
-William Gass, from "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's"
-William Gass, from "Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop's"
I like this explanation for why I hate blockbuster movies now
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I like this explanation for why I hate blockbuster movies now
Just me at every conference.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just me at every conference.
Reposted by Micah Bateman
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
You can check out the first official volume from the DH Tech Symposium, edited by Julia Damerow and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social.
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Edited by Julia Damerow and Rebecca Sutton Koeser
anthology.ach.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
Happening now!
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happening now!
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
Reposted by Micah Bateman
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
Reposted by Micah Bateman
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
Why college towns are great: This one just voted 84% to *increase* sales tax to support housing initiatives and infrastructure.
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Why college towns are great: This one just voted 84% to *increase* sales tax to support housing initiatives and infrastructure.
Every time a post of mine is saved, my immediate thought is that someone is shoring up documentation for a case against me.
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every time a post of mine is saved, my immediate thought is that someone is shoring up documentation for a case against me.
Today years old using GPT to produce Apps Scripts for Google Sheets and I am flying
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today years old using GPT to produce Apps Scripts for Google Sheets and I am flying
Join me and smarter people than me for a cool panel hosted by Luddy on *using Internet data for book history research*: 11aEST/10aCST next Monday, Nov. 3
ILS Panel on “New Book History Research with Internet Data”
This is a panel on “Book History with Internet Data”, with 8 panelists from different IMLS/iSchools, funded by SHARP.
events.iu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Join me and smarter people than me for a cool panel hosted by Luddy on *using Internet data for book history research*: 11aEST/10aCST next Monday, Nov. 3
I feel like AI is making 98% of its users more vapid and 2% of its users smarter, and because politics cannot tolerate any nuance, we "must not say so" of the latter group.
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I feel like AI is making 98% of its users more vapid and 2% of its users smarter, and because politics cannot tolerate any nuance, we "must not say so" of the latter group.
Happy no allergy meds season to all who (can) celebrate!
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy no allergy meds season to all who (can) celebrate!
FT lit journal managing editor and lecturer in English at UW-Whitewater
Managing Editor - COLS | Literature, Writing, and Film
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November 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
FT lit journal managing editor and lecturer in English at UW-Whitewater
Reposted by Micah Bateman
If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
Institute – Library Freedom Project
libraryfreedom.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
How can we get Baker & Taylor's distribution data quickly?
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
How can we get Baker & Taylor's distribution data quickly?
This is the snow day of the cloud era
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is the snow day of the cloud era
Reposted by Micah Bateman
Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social
RIP MTV. You were my only window into any counterculture at all growing up, even if you also fed me Kid Rock
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
RIP MTV. You were my only window into any counterculture at all growing up, even if you also fed me Kid Rock
Reposted by Micah Bateman
This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.
Reposted by Micah Bateman
This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.
seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.
www.publishersweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.