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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d

We're settling in for @aelang.bsky.social's @scholarslab.bsky.social talk connecting literary studies w/explorations in 3D making to visualize, explore, inspire new approaches to interpreting & appreciating poetry. Lovely to see colleagues from the west coast & UK time zones! Livetweeting 🧵: +

aelang @aelang.bsky.social · 2d

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

a clear resin cube with text on one face and a curved design extending from another face in front of a window

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 1d

Join us on Zoom today for a free public talk: @aelang.bsky.social on using makerspace approaches to visualize & inspire thinking about poems. Register for link: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

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aelang @aelang.bsky.social · 2d

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 2d

Posted another bit of the book. This time talking about how cultures of intellectualism deny the ways in which academic labor affects the teaching body.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI I posted a historical view of the Praxis Program's funding structure that was described elsewhere as "extremely wonky but in a very good way."

Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 9d

Posted to the blog some institutional memory about the changes that have been made to the Praxis Fellowship's funding structure over the years as it was experienced by students. walshbr.com/blog/histori...

Historical Look at Praxis Funding Structures · walshbr.com

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 5d

Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace

Please join us for the next in our digital humanities series, the Tuesday Forums, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab, of the Library's DH Center. These presentations invite...

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 5d

Next week's public, free events:
* GIS workshops: edit/fix existing mappy data
* Makerspace workshops: basic sewing (zippered pencil case) & tshirt alteration (bring the clothing you want to alter)
* Anouk Lang on 3D printing+metal milling to visualize+interpret poetry
Info: scholarslab.org/events

Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 6d

Happening now! Livetweet thread for published parts of the talk (apologies to folks not in-person for missing cool works-in-progress parts & hot ☕): bsky.app/profile/lite...

Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 7d

tomorrow at @scholarslab.bsky.social we will be talking about setting reasonable expectations for teaching people to read (not write) code - a meta discussion for my in-person workshop here on reading python for beginners next week

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 8d

If you're interested in machine learning, language models, & similar for research applications: a 3rd event in this lunchtime series is on 11/14 (cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242373) as well as more, spring term; & 12/2 Tom Williams teaches a workshop on humanistic annotation w/machine learning:

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 9d

Posted to the blog some institutional memory about the changes that have been made to the Praxis Fellowship's funding structure over the years as it was experienced by students. walshbr.com/blog/histori...

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to a @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Culture, Engagement, & Community grant, I'm able to expand the "Zine Bakery @ Scholars' Lab" public zine distro's capacity (aka my tired zine-assembling hands), so our public racks of free zines should stay fuller + w/a wider rotation of zines 📚✨

Graphic showing a tall wire grid rack full of colorful zines attached with clothespins, then the same rack again with different zines and sometimes depleted as folks take zines before the rack is refilled. A wire bookshelf holding more zines is also pictured, next to the caption "(Added a second zine rack Spring 2025 to help keep them from emptying as fast)"

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 10d

Looking to the following week, 10/7 we've a public, virtual talk by Anouk Lang combining literary study & critical making: "plotspaces", 3D-fabricated sculptural objects representing the spatial+scalar shifts in a poem. Open to all (register for zoom info):

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 10d

+ Scholars' Lab cosponsors a showcase of short talks by humanities researchers on their AI research applications (building on this summer's initial event; organized by UVA Religious Studies). Our latest events (& registration etc. info!) are always at scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/events/

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 10d

This week's public events:
* workshops on GIS (get spatial data—addresses, zips—as points on a map) & making (lasercutter pencil engraving; keychain basic leathercrafting);
* @heatherfro.bsky.social (virtually) shares re:teaching rhetoricians how to read Python at (an in-person!) Coffee+Code; +

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

Always on the lookout for future #ByteSizedPedagogy contributions! If you have an idea, syllabus, lesson, theory, fail, etc etc you’d like to share with a supportive group fill out the form below. I always find the sessions very enriching.

Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

if you enjoyed these posts and have something you might want to share at a future session please do reach out by filling out the form here - forms.gle/uh66msjsaKqu... . We are almost through the initial group of folks who signed up, so it’s a good time to register interest!

#ByteSizedPedagogy

It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series on digital pedagogy features paired lightning talks introducing teaching topics, interesting approache...

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 12d

"Z is for Zines" exhibit I curated w/ @rareuva.bsky.social help. As a librarian, zines=I can amplify more authors/experiences/topics our community cares about+needs than via just books; especially work where racism, transphobia+more violence+systematic harm=barriers to author, publish, widely share+

Photo of a museum exhibit glass case on wooden legs, displaying 5 zines with written information about each, under a colorful large sign that explains the miniexhibit about zines: "People often picture zines similar to their 20th-century origins as free collaged and xeroxed paper booklets about subcultures, including punk music and the Riot grrrl movement; fandoms, including for mid-century sci fi; social justice and marginalized experiences; or their earliest precursors, especially the Harlem Renaissance's little magazines." Today, creators make "zines" that vary widely in how they look and what they contain—but most zines stay true to the form's original vision: radically low-barrier authoring, publication, dissemination, and reading.
This exhibit showcases a slice of that variety: zines are less about the visible object and more about a DIY (do-it-yourself) ethos of no-gatekeeping making and sharing art, information, and knowledge. The examples in this case are just a few of the many ways zines can look. Despite their differences, what similarities do you notice?
My favorite thing about zines and why I think they are important, especially in this moment-is how accessible they can be. Anyone with access to paper and a pen can make a zine and circulate it without dealing with a publisher's gatekeeping. Zines don't need to look good to be effective-there are great zines that are just scrawly penned thoughts on white paper! So many zines are free, in a world where most things (including knowledge!) cost money.
As part of the UVA Library's mission to make information accessible to all, zines provide a low- or no-cost way to author and spread knowledge and creativity, which is why we host a public zine distro, plan zine-making workshops and events, and archive campus zines..."

Photo of a museum exhibit sign that explains the miniexhibit about zines:l. Sign text continued from previous image alt text: "As a librarian, free zines mean I can display authors and topics from our public space amplifying more authors, more experiences, and more topics our community cares about or needs to know than we can with just books- especially where racism, transphobia, and other violence and systematic disenfranchisement make it hard for people to author, publish, and widely share in book form."

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

Moreover, I had the opportunity to remember that more than ever academia needs community and I made at the @scholarslab.bsky.social Without the support of the #DhMakes community, all the encouragement here, I couldn’t make it until the end of the piece

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

You can’t imagine how happy I was today when I first saw my data art piece on a wall. I’m tremendously grateful to @scholarslab.bsky.social for all the work and support on this. Without them, this wouldn’t be possible! #DhMakes

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Sara Arribas Colmenar @sararribas.bsky.social · 13d

#DhMakes at the @scholarslab.bsky.social Academia without community is elitism!

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

Discussing her use of materiality and why the analog format is important to her, @sararribas.bsky.social notes how she was a "bad" student - for her, the approach is a way to honor the differences in how she learns. Resonates so much with me and how I think about teaching.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

This isn't a pedagogical talk, but I'm struck by how much @sararribas.bsky.social's work on analog approaches to data resonates with minimalist approaches to DH teaching. Working carefully by hand forces you to rethink a lot of your assumptions of your digital methods.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

@sararribas.bsky.social in action! Impressively presenting without slides!

Sara Arribas Colmenar presenting on her work in the Scholars’ Lab.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

It’s a gorgeous piece that you can find hanging in the DH Center!

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 13d

Settling in for data art prize winner @sararribas.bsky.social in the @scholarslab.bsky.social to talk about "String Data Art: the Social Network Analysis of Concurso de Cante Jondo (1922) project" #DHMakes

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 13d

Livetweet thread from @sararribas.bsky.social excellent talk on how digital research methods & physical critical making can strengthen scholarship when iterating between both modes. (HT @shane.logoff.website for photos!)

Photo of Dr. Sara Arribas Colmenar presenting on her critical making data art project, which uses colorful string, nails, paint, and photographs to analyze historical social relationships around a major Flamenco event in early 29th-century Spain. Two audience members look on in interest.

Photo of Dr. Sara Arribas Colmenar taking audience questions about her critical making data art project, which uses colorful string, nails, paint, and photographs to analyze historical social relationships around a major Flamenco event in early 29th-century Spain. Two audience members look on in interest.

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