I'm so pleased my team at UMKC Library can help during this transition. We're happy to have y'all in the Studio.

As KCUR leaves its building, longtime staffers reminisce about their decades at 4825 Troost KCUR was told that it must vacate its longtime home in Kansas City by the end of January. Without a permanent space set up yet, Up To Date will produce new shows from UMKC's Digital Collaboration Studio starting next week. During our last episode at 4825 Troost Ave, KCUR staffers discuss their memories from the building.

Without a permanent space set up yet, Up To Date will produce new shows from UMKC's Digital Collaboration Studio starting next week. During our last episode at 4825 Troost Ave, KCUR staffers discuss their memories from the building.

Hey look, a book! Much appreciation to @hauntologist.bsky.social for pulling this thing over the finish line!!!!!!!! @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social and I have a manifesto on DH projects we are proud of!

DH+BH book cover.

I'm so pleased to share that the book I co-edited with @caitcoker.bsky.social is now published! DH+BH is an open access collection of 8 essays exploring the intersections between digital humanities and history of the book.
iopn.library.illinois.edu/books/pww/ca...

Last Call! Submissions for #Academizines special issue close 9/15! journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

Metastatic Masculinity: Penetrating the Male Body in Crimes of the Future. Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis, Univeristy of Missouri - Kansas City

Excited to return to #FestivalOfMonsters at @ucscmonsters.bsky.social in October with @samlangsdale.bsky.social and @passableghost.bsky.social. Our panel, Monstrous Transformations: Bodies, Gender, and the Disruption of the Social Self, is all about body horror, ecological collapse, and St. Vincent.

A simple black and white zine from a folded piece of paper, with the title "Why GenAI SUCKS AND YOU SHOULD NOT USE IT" dated June 2025, version 1.1, author Lauren Woolsey. The zine is sitting on a green and gold cloth with a sun motif.

My first ever completed Zine idea! "Why GenAI Sucks and You Should Not Use It" with 20 sources cited on the inside page. Thanks to all the researchers and journalists for the hard work I built from!

The scanned zine to print your own and all the references can be found at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship

CFP: Academizines! This special issue invites contributors from across the disciplines to share their research and creative scholarship in zine form. journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

Receipts: impact.ach.org

You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh

ACH 2025 CFP Submit a proposal: ACH 2025 Conftool

Considering recent news about the NEH and IMLS, we are extending the deadline to submit proposals for ACH 2025 to April 14th. Read more at:

Support the NEH: Virtual Direct Action Hour – ACH Membership Help spread the word

Join us Wed, April 9th at 8am PT / 11am ET to contact your elected officials to advocate for the NEH and IMLS. We will provide links, talking points, messages, and scripts, including resources from colleagues such as the @humanitiesall.bsky.social. Register now:

Hands Off! Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. They're taking everything they can get their hands on and daring the world to stop them. On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the stre...

If you are feeling discouraged, powerless, or terrified, it is so tempting to retreat into solitude, but you need to be in community right now. Come out tomorrow if you possibly can. handsoff2025.com

Historians Defend the National Endowment for the Humanities and American Public Culture - AHA The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The AHA has released a statement condemning the evisceration of the National Endowment for the Humanities. “This frontal attack on the nation’s public culture is unpatriotic, anti-American, and unjustified.” 🗃️

ACH Op-Ed Workshop – ACH Membership Help spread the word

Higher education in the U.S. is facing some of the sharpest attacks in its history. Join us on Friday, 4/11 at 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET for this rapid-response workshop, designed to give you the tools you need to write and pitch an op-ed. All are welcome. Register now:

If your NEH grant has been terminated, tell the NHA through their form here 👇

Selfie of the author holding a physical copy of the book The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities.

I love contributor copy day! Happy to be included in this hefty collection! My work with @spotvin.bsky.social and @emgrumbach.bsky.social has been such a wonderful journey!

Into the Archieverse, May 10-11, 2024 from the Digital Cultural Studies Cooperative.

I'm excited to share some new work at this event. dcsco-op.org/into-the-arc... Registration is open. Please join us and share widely!

A screenshot of a Google Document with the title of the article being "The Cruel Optimism of Infrastructure; a Call to Mend." The listed authors in order are Sarah Potvin, Spencer D. C. Keralis, and Elizabeth Grumbach.

It feels very joyful to have my first post here be about how @spotvin.bsky.social @hauntologist.bsky.social and I are closing our trilogy of articles (ten years in active collab!) with a call to mend, to re-center and recognize the human in our dh infrastructures. I <3 my brilliant friends.

Academic Citations Evolve to Include Indigenous Oral Teachings - Eos A librarian has developed citation templates for oral teachings shared by members of Indigenous communities.

Eos have also published a piece on how to cite indigenous oral knowledge, an important read 🧪⚒️ eos.org/articles/academic-citati...

CFP: The Journal of Somaesthetics special issue Queering the Soma. Article Deadline: January 21, 2024. journals.aau.dk/index.php/JOS/announceme...

Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away | Book Launch Join us for a book talk with Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, editors of the collection Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away.

Join us September 9 for a book talk with Emily Strand and Amy H. Sturgis, editors of the Vernon Press collection Star Wars: Essays Exploring a Galaxy Far, Far Away.
www.eventbrite.com/e/star-wars-essays-explo...

I think we should shift the discourse away from co-authorship and toward posse cuts.

Who Comes First: Moving Past Passionate Exploitation Join us for a chat with Dr. Joshua Jackson (University of Derby) about his book Overcoming The Exploitation of Passion in Videogame Labor.

Friends! Joshua Jackson and Justin Wigard are discussing Dr. Jackson's excellent new book on exploitation in #videogame #labor tomorrow! Join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/who-comes-first-moving...