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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 1d

Watching "Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution" on Independent Lens (on my local PBS station, of course). So hopeful and yet bittersweet, given where we are now. www.pbs.org/independentl...

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution - Independent Lens

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, traces Sharp’s path from rural Kentucky to Nobel Prize winner.

www.pbs.org

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 7d

Argh. That is all.

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Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social · 13d

For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss

longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

Uncanny Testimony - Longreads

As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.

longreads.com

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 11d

Appreciated this thoughtful piece from @bcgl.bsky.social. Eloquently puts into words some of concerns about a particular use of AI that I've been grappling with.

Longreads @longreads.com · 13d

“But what if, instead of resisting the deaths of the last survivors, we allow ourselves to accept their mortality?”

The grandson of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor grapples with the use of AI to reanimate the dead.

A new essay on @longreads.com, by @bcgl.bsky.social: longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...

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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 21d

Our aim at DHNow is to provide as global a view of the DH landscape as possible. In this spirit, we would love to have more feeds and sources from Asia and Oceania. Please submit any sources you rely on: digitalhumanitiesnow... "

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 27d

Often the ninth boarding group is just me, alone at the gate.

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Susan Brown @susanbrown.bsky.social · Sep 2

US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...

Research Chairs - All Disciplines

Award 261265-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPENS FEBRUARY 2025 Awards to be taken up in the 2026-2027...

www.fulbright.ca

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Aug 6

Some new awards for the NDNP were part of last Friday's announcement. "NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects" www.neh.gov/news/neh-ann...

NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · Aug 4

NEWS: The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to the Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Library of Congress Unveils Major Upgrades to Chronicling America Website

Library of Congress Unveils Major Upgrades to Chronicling America Website Enhanced Platform Improves Accessibility and Research Capabilities for Historic Newspapers The Library of Congress has...

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Aug 3

Miriam, why ruin a perfect Sunday?

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National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social · Aug 1

NEH Announces $34.79 Million in Grants for 97 Humanities Projects tinyurl.com/ympbr56k

NEH Announces $34.79 Million for 97 Humanities Projects

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social · Aug 1

Congratulations to the 2025 History Teachers of the Year! A teacher has been selected from every state and the US territories. One of them will become the 2025 National History Teacher of the Year!

See the list of winners here: www.gilderlehrman.org/history-teac...

#NHTOY #HTOY #NHTOY2025 #sschat

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jul 31

Love Dog Tag Bakery!

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jul 29

Amazingly wise hire!

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Stolen Relations @stolenrelations.bsky.social · Jul 28

(1/3) Stolen Relations is proud to be related with and connected to many other academic projects centering on experiences of Indigeneity and unfreedom. Under Related Websites and Projects on stolenrelations.org/related-webs..., a selection of these projects are linked.

stolenrelations.org

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jul 26

This story was sweet and I love that it acknowledges the importance of Columbus Metropolitan Library system. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

www.nytimes.com

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jul 18

I think that it depends on what is supposed to be covered in your negotiated rate agreement. If computer infrastructure is included under that agreement, you cannot also include it as a direct cost. Institutions would need to renegotiate the specific covered costs in the rate agreement.

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Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social · Jul 2

With @yh-huang.bsky.social, I'm excited to share our Digital Collections Explorer, an open-source, multimodal viewer for digital collections! Users can search with both natural language inputs and reverse image search.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00961
Public demo: digital-collections-explorer.com

Digital Collections Explorer: An Open-Source, Multimodal Viewer for Searching Digital Collections

We present Digital Collections Explorer, a web-based, open-source exploratory search platform that leverages CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) for enhanced visual discovery of digital col...

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Anna @annaneat.bsky.social · Jun 28

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

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Stolen Relations @stolenrelations.bsky.social · Jun 23

(1/3) Stolen Relations has been launched for a month! Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of partners and researchers, stolenrelations.org currently has records of upwards of 7,000 individuals and many pieces of art and storytelling that help to flesh out the stories of unfree Indigenous people.

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas

Stolen Relations seeks to recover stories of Indigenous slavery in the Americas. The website has a database as well as a map, timeline, interviews, and curricular materials.

stolenrelations.org

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jun 17

Woot!

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jun 16

Your tax dollars (and your parents' tax dollars) at work!

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jun 16

Here's an NEH award in 1985: apps.neh.gov/publicquery/...

NEH Award RT-20521-85, Duke University

Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri (DDBDP)

apps.neh.gov

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yes. Yes, we did.

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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · Jun 14

#ThanksBrett for the kind words. Yes, the ODH team did support important work by our grantees. But, alas, no #ThanksBrett re the Crocs.

Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · Jun 14

Goodness, I guess I should check BlueSky more often? 😂. Jen, it has been a joy working with you over these many years. We did some good stuff! Thanks for being the best colleague ever. Brett p.s. If you need advice on which Crocs to buy next, you know how to reach me.

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