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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 8d

I made a lil game inspired by the Wordle universe. It's called Versedle (pronounced Verse-a-dle). You guess who wrote famous lines of literature.

As my parents can attest, it's hard! I made them an Easy Mode, but it's still kinda hard. Maybe you'll like it!

▶️ 📚: melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/

VERSEDLE

Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!

melaniewalsh.github.io

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9d

The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 12d

Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories."
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26

The Bibliographical Society of America

The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

bibsocamer.org

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

Manuscript Data Curation Fellow

University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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David Bamman @dbamman.bsky.social · 17d

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Assistant Professor - Information - School of Information

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 23d

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22d

“We will not allow authoritarians to dismantle higher education. We will not allow billionaires to profit while communities suffer. And we will not allow fear to silence students and workers who speak out.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#DefendHigherEd
#HigherEdBenefitsEveryone
@aft.org

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · 22d

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS!

1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622
2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 26d

TikTok is investing in a $10 billion data center in Brazil. Indigenous people who claim the land are suing, saying they were not consulted on the project
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-indigenous-group-sues-tiktok-data-center/

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 29d

Miguel Cabrera, posthumous portrait of Mexican nun and writer Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), c. 1750, oil on canvas (Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec, Mexico City)

A portrait of Sor Juana at a desk and surrounded by books, she wears a nun's habit, an escudo de monja (a painted medallion), and gazes out at the viewer

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Tanja Grubnic @tanjagrubnic.com · Sep 10

Excited to share this cfp for the first mini-conference of an ongoing series my colleagues and I are organizing titled Currently Keywords in Digital Literary Culture. This time, we're inviting papers on "smut" and "lore"! Deadline to apply Oct. 8th
forms.gle/Ccuaav7rGmMs...

CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Smut" and "Lore"

In 2025-2026, Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture will host two virtual mini-conferences consisting of four thematically-linked keywords actively shaping digital literary culture in the very ...

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · Sep 10

We’re being hit from every angle—enrollment pressures, budget pressures, course cap battles, acad freedom, attacks on unions. TT faculty are pitted against contingent faculty, who are pitted against staff. We are not each other’s enemy. We need to fight for each/all of us if we’re gonna survive.

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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · Sep 8

SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize

Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

www.newberry.org

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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

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Ryan Heuser @heuser.bsky.social · Sep 6

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

Now Hiring: Research Associate (Fixed Term) - CDH

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher in Digital Humanities. The post will run for three years from Spring 2026. The successful candidate will work with Profess...

www.cdh.cam.ac.uk

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · Sep 8

oh my god a year ago, almost to the day, I made a post about this and today, it's right in front of me at MOMA

A quilt made from the design of a Pentium chip, it's red and light blue and made of streaks of darker and lighter color

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've become obsessed with "Miss Julia Camp," a court reporter who became the first linotype operator. She typed so fast that Mergenthaler enlisted her to demo the machine. The problem: hired labor could never meet the standard she set. Ironically, Mergenthaler thought women incapable of typesetting.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Fall installments of "Vandal Live" taking shape.

Coming to your earbuds between October and January.

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Journal of Electronic Publishing @jepub.bsky.social · Sep 2

We at @jepub.bsky.social are excited to announce the publication of our new special issue on Publishing and Climate Justice, edited by Janneke Adema! journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/issue/38... [1/n]

The Journal of Electronic Publishing | Issue: Issue: 2(28) Publishing and Climate Justice (2025)

journals.publishing.umich.edu

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · Sep 2

One of the earliest faxed images, made by Shelford Bidwell ca 1890.

The image was scanned with light, line by line. A selenium photocell transmitted the light as electricity, burning marks onto chemically-treated paper; or the image blocked it (no mark). Et voilà, "distant electric vision."

Scanned print of image of horse on sensitised paper, c 1890, from Science Museum Group: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co532769/scanned-print-of-image-of-horse-on-sensitised-paper-c-1890

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lovely article from our publishers at @uolpress.bsky.social about bringing the Living With Machines book to life 'Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research'. It's been so great working with Emma and Jamie on this! Practiceshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.2025

Reimagining the Humanities Book: Bringing Living With Machines to Life Through Experimental Publishing Workflows and Open Research Practices

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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BotCarrión @botcarrion.bsky.social · Aug 29

In the new art, poetry is the true ground of communication taking place through words, which occurs in the time.

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · Aug 28

A dandy roll, used in the 19th-century to press wire-made watermarks -- like those found on handmade, laid papers -- into machine-made paper. Skeuomorphic technology?

a nineteenth-century dandy roll from the Science Museum of London

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dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social · Aug 28

Alright #DigitalHumanities, I'd love your recs! I'm assigning DH project reviews using the Reviews in DH model, which means I'd rather have things that haven't already been reviewed there. I've got a list but I know it's probably missing some bangers. What are your favorites?

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The Price Lab @pricelab.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Price Lab hosted a preceptorial, Design Thinking and Making with Digital Humanities, where new @upenn.edu students like Prisha Saraiya went from brainstorming to sketching to designing vectors to cutting vinyl to make temperature-reactive mugs! #DHMakes

First year student Prisha Saraiya with temperature-reactive mug

Conference table with supplies for workshop in design thinking such as colorful paper, markers, and blank mugs

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