Micah Bateman
@micahbateman.bsky.social
Asst Prof in LIS. Digital humanities, cultural heritage/analytics, libraries/archives, poetry, Whitman. Finishing Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. Opinions do not reflect employer. bit.ly/MicahBateman
I am once again asking.
Any frameworks out there for evaluating faculty allocation of effort on (refereed) data work?
Any frameworks out there for evaluating faculty allocation of effort on (refereed) data work?
Does anyone have departmental/collegiate verbiage on how to count (allocation of effort on) refereed datasets in tenure and promotion policy?
February 13, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I am once again asking.
Any frameworks out there for evaluating faculty allocation of effort on (refereed) data work?
Any frameworks out there for evaluating faculty allocation of effort on (refereed) data work?
Does anyone have departmental/collegiate verbiage on how to count (allocation of effort on) refereed datasets in tenure and promotion policy?
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Does anyone have departmental/collegiate verbiage on how to count (allocation of effort on) refereed datasets in tenure and promotion policy?
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Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
ACH 2026 CFP
Submit a proposal: ACH 2026 ConfTool
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February 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Two weeks left! The deadline for ACH 2026 proposals is February 23, 2025.
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
We welcome submissions on all topics related to digital humanities, computing, and the humanities. Short papers, long papers, posters, panels, and workshops all encouraged!
Submit here:
Out of my own curiosity about the rise of 'archival' poetics, I charted poetry titles from the lists that have 'archival' markers in the title/metadata, showing a dramatic rise and peak during the first DT admin.
February 8, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Out of my own curiosity about the rise of 'archival' poetics, I charted poetry titles from the lists that have 'archival' markers in the title/metadata, showing a dramatic rise and peak during the first DT admin.
My GA and I compiled all the Small Press Distribution (SPD) Bestseller lists from 2006-2023. Using number of mentions by press, I charted the 'top' five poetry presses of the time period, which reveals the rise and dominance of my grad school cohort Alan Felsenthal's The Song Cave.
February 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
My GA and I compiled all the Small Press Distribution (SPD) Bestseller lists from 2006-2023. Using number of mentions by press, I charted the 'top' five poetry presses of the time period, which reveals the rise and dominance of my grad school cohort Alan Felsenthal's The Song Cave.
oh Catherine O'Hara we love you get up
January 30, 2026 at 8:52 PM
oh Catherine O'Hara we love you get up
I am so close. To finishing. The thing.
January 30, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I am so close. To finishing. The thing.
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our Issue 0! CFP for Issue 1 coming soon
“The humanities are not peripheral to the tasks of librarianship, but, when approached with the right tools, very frequently touch upon the exposed nerve of what makes libraries tick today.”
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/hum...
“The humanities are not peripheral to the tasks of librarianship, but, when approached with the right tools, very frequently touch upon the exposed nerve of what makes libraries tick today.”
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/hum...
Humanities Methods in Librarianship, no. 0 | Humanities Methods in Librarianship | Manifold @CUNY
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January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
our Issue 0! CFP for Issue 1 coming soon
“The humanities are not peripheral to the tasks of librarianship, but, when approached with the right tools, very frequently touch upon the exposed nerve of what makes libraries tick today.”
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/hum...
“The humanities are not peripheral to the tasks of librarianship, but, when approached with the right tools, very frequently touch upon the exposed nerve of what makes libraries tick today.”
cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/hum...
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Northwestern University Libraries is helping their faculty understand the Anthropic copyright class action litigation. 📚 sites.northwestern.edu/northwestern...
University authors, don’t sleep on Anthropic AI settlement | LIBRARIES | Blog
By Liz Hamilton, Copyright Librarian If you are one of the many authors in the Northwestern community who has received an email titled “Court Notice:...
sites.northwestern.edu
January 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Northwestern University Libraries is helping their faculty understand the Anthropic copyright class action litigation. 📚 sites.northwestern.edu/northwestern...
RIP Whitman you would've loved all these Millennial men bulking their way through crises
January 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
RIP Whitman you would've loved all these Millennial men bulking their way through crises
So far I am two hours down *per day* in phone use
I didn't really make any resolutions this year but today I took the last social off my phone
January 11, 2026 at 6:38 PM
So far I am two hours down *per day* in phone use
Deadline tomorrow!
CFPs here, deadline soon: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
January 11, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Deadline tomorrow!
I've been experimenting with how much scholarship it can write. And it's the same. As long as I, a trained scholar, granularly prompt it at every turn, to the point of spending as much energy in prompting as I would in just drafting it myself, it's pretty good!
Can AI write great poetry? If a prompt engineer is also a poet, it can come mighty close. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/llm-poetry...
LLM poetry and the "greatness" question
Experiments by Gwern and Mercor
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I've been experimenting with how much scholarship it can write. And it's the same. As long as I, a trained scholar, granularly prompt it at every turn, to the point of spending as much energy in prompting as I would in just drafting it myself, it's pretty good!
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An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:57 PM
An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃
Augustan anti-dueling dramatist Richard Steele is rolling in his grave
my most conservative take is we should bring back dueling but only with bare hands or melee weapons bsky.app/profile/vitu...
Bring back dueling
January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Augustan anti-dueling dramatist Richard Steele is rolling in his grave
CFPs here, deadline soon: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
January 7, 2026 at 4:14 PM
CFPs here, deadline soon: americanliteratureassociation.org/wp-content/u...
Me earlier: Why tf is every writer in the NYT writing about Jan 6??
Me, hours later, having to check the date on something: Oh
Me, hours later, having to check the date on something: Oh
January 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Me earlier: Why tf is every writer in the NYT writing about Jan 6??
Me, hours later, having to check the date on something: Oh
Me, hours later, having to check the date on something: Oh
RIP MTV. You gave me the Real World and Beavis and Butthead and Daria and Celebrity Deathmatch and Mariah Carey videos and Election and Varsity Blues and Kurt Loder and the Jesse Camp saga. You introduced me to Nirvana and Radiohead and the Beastie Boys and Britney Spears. Pouring one out (a Dew)
January 3, 2026 at 1:42 AM
RIP MTV. You gave me the Real World and Beavis and Butthead and Daria and Celebrity Deathmatch and Mariah Carey videos and Election and Varsity Blues and Kurt Loder and the Jesse Camp saga. You introduced me to Nirvana and Radiohead and the Beastie Boys and Britney Spears. Pouring one out (a Dew)
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If you live in California, you can use the new DROP tool to request that more than 500 data brokers delete your data.
Opt-out tool will let Californians erase personal data held by brokers | StateScoop
The California Privacy Protection Agency announced a new digital tool that will allow residents to ask all registered data brokers to delete their information.
statescoop.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:12 PM
If you live in California, you can use the new DROP tool to request that more than 500 data brokers delete your data.
I didn't really make any resolutions this year but today I took the last social off my phone
January 2, 2026 at 3:41 PM
I didn't really make any resolutions this year but today I took the last social off my phone
Thinking about beginning a 24-year "phased retirement"
December 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Thinking about beginning a 24-year "phased retirement"
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I moved off Canvas this fall, and have set up spring using Box folders with some refinements from my students: organizing everything in weekly folders, & adding a shared calendar they can subscribe to in order to give them the deadline alerts they miss from Canvas.
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I moved off Canvas this fall, and have set up spring using Box folders with some refinements from my students: organizing everything in weekly folders, & adding a shared calendar they can subscribe to in order to give them the deadline alerts they miss from Canvas.
jealous
I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life
December 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
jealous
I'm a lit scholar. Studying poetry. Through digital methods. 🤔
I'm the head magic teacher at a British boarding school.
Emily Tesh, "The Incandescent"
Emily Tesh, "The Incandescent"
December 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I'm a lit scholar. Studying poetry. Through digital methods. 🤔