People’s activist series session 6-7:30pm on Thursday, 4/23 at the Jefferson School African American heritage center in Charlottesville. “Strike safe: tactical decisions under pressure”

Thursday, 6-7:30pm: come together @jsaahccville.bsky.social for a session by @indivisiblecville.bsky.social & @cvilledsa.bsky.social We’ll run some simulations about how to respond, in the moment, to unsafe situations. It’s good to have tactics ready for when problems pop up at protests.

Grateful to @plach.bsky.social & @walshbr.bsky.social for organizing these new DH learning options, esp as they're virtual (as many folks can't travel rn); & to teachers @mackymoo.bsky.social @akijas.bsky.social @danicasavonick.bsky.social Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Lisa Boutin-Vitela, Allison Fischbach

an excuse to #ICYMI @halperta.bsky.social's amazing, deep, free zines on both finding purpose around & taking risks for social justice as academics: halperta.com/shalperta%20... & halperta.com/shalperta%20...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org

I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.

blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

(Also, stealth #DHmakes! bc the photo is from my showing Hannah our community printshop & her typesetting a ridiculously good Audre Lorde letterpress piece as her first thing ever. 💜 the amount of overlap between DH for public good + art/craft/making)

Brilliant opportunity—@halperta.bsky.social's vision + work have inspired & shaped so much good DH + knowledge work:

The Vandy!! (sorry to Vandy B, the second press that is harder to crank & gifts surprise past ink colors from its bowels)

what a terrific choice to start folks' intensive DH learning–they're lucky to have you. (also omg they used the photo of you printing on the vandy!!)

it does give me a lot of happiness! thank you

Check out @winnieepm.bsky.social's new site & learn about her work: "My craft is asking difficult questions. I believe community-making & kinship drive the world for the better." A DHer focused on design+infrastructure studies, completing a cultural studies PhD in Spanish while working at SLab:

Scholars' Lab's @winnieepm.bsky.social launched her professional website! & blogged about her choice to design+code it using a minimal computing approach including Eleventy & making the underlying code public on GitHub #mincomp:

the neon labels are removable, as the paper & prints contained are going to change over time. hoping to shift the wood type (🔵 stickers) to better containers when i can to made more space, too

also why I'm selling a bunch of my good 🎨 prints for $5 this week—series w/only a couple left in their print runs, to make room for more printing (store.wolfproofpress.com/product/prin...)

stuff narrow enough to fit on a bookshelf has already pushed my books out of the way. i print too often?? (no)

Photo of a gray metal flat file, a large set of drawers that are wide, deep, and importantly shallow (about 1.25" high); they are labeled with pink and yellow neon removable stickers listing sizes of paper and titles of finished letterpress prints, as well as white labels that say "paper" and blue circle dots indicating wood type

for folks who appreciate 👀 organization, my too-full print storage: old flat file i cleaned up, as I mostly use printing paper not narrow enough for my bookshelves & shallow drawers bc can't stack too many prints (even interleaved) w/o risking ink offset, paper sticking to ink on multi-ink-layer art

Photo from news article about John Conway's palliative care printing trolley, showing the blonde-wood drying rack extended from the cart to hang multiple neon lime green prints

Photo from news article about John Conway's palliative care printing trolley, showing the blonde-wood drawers for printing words, one open to show what looks like rubber? words with some inked in light blue

Not letterpress—a woodzilla-style lino press w/~200 shallow-height words

John Conway designs mobile printing press to record people's feelings at the end of their lives As part of a residency focused on palliative care, Irish artist John Conway has developed a mobile printing press that can be wheeled to a patient's bedside to produce prints capturing their thoughts ...

For folks who also dig mobile printing press setups: pink midcentury trolley w/integrated type* drawers & foldout drying rack, designed by John Conway to let folks in palliative care record feelings at the ends of their lives +

Amazing!

I can never resist: a little preview of the new lab we’re building @skeuomorphpress.org with @drtlwagner.bsky.social

The “Undead Media Lab” has a pretty catchy ring to it

Thank you!

two rectangular risograph printed posters, one with a yellow background and dark red text that reads AI aint it, do it yourself and a another with a white background and an illustration of a baby duck drinking water with the text Ducks Don't Fuck with AI, Neither Should You

confidential to @literaturegeek.bsky.social <3 but also I guess lemme know if you want one.

Photo of an inked print of a 9" wide absolute unit of a sheep, on a orange to red cyberwave sunset background inked on light red chipboard

I just got to test print this week my experiment with lasercutting a halftone printing block (good for replicating photos), which happened to be of a sheep—& it worked!—so #DHsheep may make an appearance in the upcoming ACH conference mailed-art packets too, if I have time to lasercut it by then

Just QT'd this with the Scholars' Lab's DH dissertation completion fellow's upcoming public 5/6 online event—Seanna Viechweg's work combines critical+ethical web design, speculative pedagogy, and Caribbean folklore+futures:

Seanna builds on her past Digital Speculative Pedagogy series & the experimental scholarly design work of building her Omeka digital archive of Caribbean folkloric figures. Her research focuses on African-American+Caribbean writers: Black speculative fiction, neo-slave narratives, & Environmental+DH

5/6, join online+free @scholarslab.bsky.social event by our DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg for a very good example of DH dissertation work right now: interactive digital pedagogy exploring how we can practice speculative reinterpretation as a way of asking "what if?" when archives fall short +

#ICYMI this Friday, 3:30pm ET, free zoom by @aearhart.bsky.social on "Shepherding as Making: Bootstrapping as a model for digital humanities & the fiber arts" 🐑🧶💻 Register for zoom link: amandavisconti.github.io/DHMakesMetho... #DHmakes

Oh my gosh yes, perfect (now I wonder if we have a fencing team here we could get to use the motion pucks?)

If you’re thinking “mine won’t be good enough” good news: imperfect, messy, experimental is welcome. We fully embrace #Dhtries glitches, failures, first attempts, "whelp, I learned something!". Celebrate these critical parts of learning with community members who get it

ACH2026 #DHmakes Regional Hub This form is part of the #DHmakes Mail Art Collaboration for ACH 2026, a community-driven project that invites participants to create, share, and exchange small crafted or artistic works through the m...

Join the #DHmakes Mail Art Collaboration for the #ACH2026 @ach.bsky.social 📬✨ Create a small handmade piece, receive a shared packet back before the conference. Zines, prints, postcards, experiments welcome. No perfection needed #Dhtries Sign up here by April 27 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#DHmakes folks, get some joy in the mail! Make a small craft or art in multiples, send them in, get a packet back w/one thing from each participant. Thanks @sararribas.bsky.social for leading & @ach.bsky.social for sponsoring! (I will definitely be contributing letterpress prints)

Signal boosting this because I do think the Next-Gen Dissertations site remains a useful project. The evaluation section in particular may be useful to programs looking to expand their own diss guidelines. Also contains project examples, a resource compendium, & more. nextgendiss.hcommons.org