logging off before I say another unpopular but definitely correct opinion about higher ed at 8am.

I love the idea of a scholarly publications cap for hiring and tenure!!

"The Fellowships Open Book Program (RIP) was a low-cost, high-reward initiative that ensured that publicly-funded research in the humanities would remain accessible to a broad audience."

"As program staff with NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (RIP), I worked with a team supporting cutting-edge research and education at the intersection of the humanities and technology."

Keeping myself going by adding "(RIP)" every time I mention my former job.

like:

"As a founding member of NEH's Office of Data and Evaluation (RIP), I helped to establish relationships, funding streams, and research agendas that would make the case for the humanities as a public good."

Curious what other ACRL members' thoughts are about the f2f vs. virtual formats of the conference--are the virtual options sufficient, are you submitting a proposal, are you attending?

For people writing about digital media stuff, how are you spelling these words in your formal copy:

* E-book, ebook, eBook, or e-book?
* Ereader, ereader, eReader, or e-reader?

Chicago Style appears to prefer "E-book." But... a little dated?

MS Word prefers "eBook"

Which are you all using?

My only comfort right now is I literally already have a trip to the cannoli bakery on the calendar for this week

Don't we all deserve the occasional breakfast cannoli

Every word of this, perfection. And freakin funny.

So fun!!!!

But anyways I think the main reason we don't want to do this is because we like to suffer

acknowledgement of our shared structural conventions would also help us to conduct peer review more consistently and effectively *and* would help students become better researchers and writers more quickly.

This message brought to you by my friend, a sociologist, who told me he tried to share an outline with his humanities co-author and she said "we don't write like that." (we do).

Writing in the humanities wouldn't be so hard if we collectively acknowledged that there are structural conventions that can be used consistently across most journal articles.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Which university vendor registration process? I'm so glad you asked. All of them.

Questioning all of my career decisions in light of the university vendor registration process.

Amy working with fresh-shorn wool.

Have you ever wondered what it would look like if you followed your knitting craft all the way back and became a sheep farmer? On April 24 at 3:30 Eastern / 12:30 Pacific, @aearhart.bsky.social will tell us all about it. Sign up here for the Zoom link! #DHmakes forms.gle/MwUJbuXJPfeJ...

Do it! I'd love to hear how it went.

I believe it!!

Totally! One of the most surprising results for me was that students found it extremely stressful to have to talk to a real person, even via a chatbox. Their favorite thing about AI what that there was no one there watching or potentially judging them.

I think it worked really well! They understood the practical value of the assignment. And as a bonus, as the first assignment in the course, it actually helped them start doing research for future assignments.

They were tasked with imagining themselves in the role of the librarian, and considering how AI chatbots might change the research experience for their future patrons, and what the role of librarians will be in facilitating those changes.

This is already obsolete, but when I taught a DH course for MLIS students last summer, students did a small activity where they practiced reference interviews with each other, with the reference librarian at the university, and with an AI chatbot. They then compared results.

If you’re teaching DH right now, how are you thinking about your students’ relationship to generative AI? Are you ignoring it? Banning it? Discussing a policy with them first? Encouraging vibe coding?

Interested to see how educators across the continuum of opinions are managing it.

Breath in DH · Brandon Walsh Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library

Some thoughts on how we discuss DH professional development with students. Calls for us to move beyond narratives of skills acquisition and to re-center the lived experiences of those doing the teaching and learning.

walshbr.com/blog/breath-...

1.7: Leave Them Alone Helen Reddy sings three songs of socially isolated women

Here again with my monthly reminder that my friend Dusty's newsletter on "uncool music" is so much fun.

He writes about cheesy hits and the reasons we love them and I always learn so much.

uncoolmusic.substack.com/p/leave-them...

lmao

Forming Your Corpus You need 'stuff' to do DH

The #DataSittersClub Little TL;DR is back with the short (under 1,500 words! And believe me, it was a struggle to get there!), practical guide you or your colleagues need to get started with building a corpus to "do digital humanities" with, thanks to @readywriting.bsky.social.