I wrote up a quick set of teaching ideas in honor of this year's @dhawards.bsky.social. Here are a few different ways that I might use that site in the classroom with students to find new projects, think critically, and speculatively design their own awards.

walshbr.com/blog/teachin...

👁️ Our Arin Bennett has been working w/colleagues in the lab & Special Collections to put a scanned model of what UVA looked like in 1924 through the TwinMotion software toward immersive visualizations 🎓🦮

And three fab pre-conference workshops on pedagogy, digital preservation, and DH at teaching-focused institutions. Virtual sessions on June 22-23. Costs kept intentionally low to make them accessible as possible but still pay the instructors for their time.

ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

Thinking about relaunching #ByteSizedPedagogy now that I’m back. Originally paired zoom talks, but I am thinking about mixing it up and leaning more on monthly, 30-minute discussions of short digital pedagogy pieces. At a regular date and time for my sanity. Any interest?

Every time I’m in a campus AI working group mtg it affirms for me that what we’re doing in our #DigitalHumanities Center—focusing on human relationships + connections, building a caring community, joyfully feeding students’ imaginations thru exploration + play—is exactly what we need in this moment🪩

Join us in 2 weeks for our interdisciplinary grad Praxis Fellows’ final digital humanities presentation! In-person (w/lunch) or on zoom, Thurs 4/30 12:30pm. Please register:

Thanks @dhnow.bsky.social for signal boosting! Be sure to check out the post by @winnieepm.bsky.social with which this post is in dialogue. Winnie has lots of great thoughts here on what it means to learn, live, and find your way in DH.

scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/breadth...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) seeks a new Editor in Chief as well as an institutional host for @dhquarterly.bsky.social (DHQ). Initial expressions of interest are due by August 30th. See the CFP for more details: buff.ly/qpiypXq

And please do consider checking out @ach.bsky.social and registering for the conference if you’re new to the field. I find it to be a warm and committed group of collaborators that do fantastic work.

bsky.app/profile/ach....

ACH2026 Pre-Conference Virtual Workshop Expression of Interest Form In advance of the ACH 2026 virtual conference, we'll be piloting a pre-conference virtual workshop series offering low-cost opportunities for teaching and learning on digital humanities topics that ma...

and @mackymoo.bsky.social and Lisa Boutin-Vitela -
"Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Institution"

All virtual and taught in English. Much more information on the site. We're asking folks to fill out a pre-registration expression of interest by May 22 - bit.ly/ACH26-PCW

Three initial workshops. @danicasavonick.bsky.social and Chelcie Juliet Rowell - "DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative and Critical Assignment Design"

@akijas.bsky.social and Allison Fischbach - "Get Started Preserving your Web Content and Data"

So excited to work with @plach.bsky.social on a series of pre-conference workshops. The goal is to build out the kinds of teaching and learning we want to see at the core of @ach.bsky.social. A great set of opening offerings that I'm over the moon to see. More info -

ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.

💡📷 Our @shane.logoff.website has been experimenting w/3D printing lithophanes—translucent art that reveal detailed, high-contrast images when backlit—using new methods of layering translucent CMYK filament w/a multicolor printer to recreate color photos 🎓🦮

translating my skills into resumes and cover letters got me thinking about breadth and deph in DH, of how they need each other, and how they reflect our individual learning process. wrote a blog post about it. scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/breadth...

Re-upping this thread, which has gotten a fair amount of engagement. Lots of interesting responses, but I'm also especially interested in folks who are critical of AI, suspicious, trying to find a way to navigate and balance those feelings with institutional policies / student uses.

Specifically responds to a recent post by @winnieepm.bsky.social that discusses breadth vs depth in DH professional development. Check out Winnie's great post here. She pushes on the dichotomy in very helpful ways.
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/breadth...

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-...

At "Writing w/Editorial Support: Sentence-Level Style" 4/15: protected writing time, guided reflection, and/or live coaching @hgnroadshow.bsky.social (editor & UVA Writing+Rhetoric prof). Bring your writing at any stage (ideas, revisions) & genre (academic or not):

At Coffee+Code 4/15: comfy armchairs, fresh coffee, & Jessica Gómez sharing "Mapping Latiné Literature", a web app exploring multiple visual infrastructures (GIS to textual mapping!) to map quotes from Latiné literature that reference space+place, embedding location within a US Latiné experience:

Next week's free+public events: Coffee+Code w/Jessica Gómez on Mapping Latiné Literature; Writing w/Editorial Support w/@hgnroadshow.bsky.social; 4/17 📚Zines All Day! w/"how to make a zine" workshops at the start of every hour (10am-4:59pm); & makerspace workshops on desktop CNC milling, soldering +

In addition to our code being open on GitHub, we've also got a @proghist.bsky.social peer-reviewed lesson on using Jekyll+GH Pages for our collaborative DH research+active blog publishing site workflows:

Hurray! Thanks for the shoutout, and so glad this was useful!

(As part of trying to intentionally notice / share / appreciate good things,)

I'd like to point out how awesome it is that the @scholarslab.bsky.social folks put their website code up on GitHub.

Thanks to this openness, I now have suggested citations (whose generation understand) on my own site.

(This one was posted earlier, but I QT'd it the wrong place so adding it here where folks can find all our staff updates!)

📸 SLab's Drew MacQueen learned about processing+geotagging photos from collaborating w/a local artist+Library colleague to map & visualize photos of Virginia taken through the windows while riding trains throughout the state 🎓🦮

📚Our Laura Miller has been thinking about ways to use a new, anonymized library circulation dataset for a potential summer collaborative DH project, exploring how our local community reads 🎓🦮

On the Very Real Dangers of the Artificial Intelligence Hype Machine As long as there’s been research on AI, there’s been AI hype. In the most commonly told narrative about the research field’s development, mathematician John McCarthy and computer scientist Marvin M…

I definitely recommend buying the book (or checking it out from your local library!) but if you want a preview in the meantime you can read an excerpt here: lithub.com/on-the-very-...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The AI Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Prof. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna will discuss their new book, The AI Con.

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social
and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con.

Register here:

virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Revolutions and Reflections: A Conference for Editing and Recovery Practitioners From August 8–9, the Center for Digital Editing’s eLaboratories will host its first annual conference in Charlottesville, Virginia, under the theme “Revolutions and Reflections.” We invite editors, re...

We see UVA's Ctr for Digital Editing's CFP (due 5/10) for editing+recovery practitioners on e.g. power of editions, archives, research collections to construct/contest/reframe intellectual/political revolutions; amplify voices historically marginalized+silenced; invisible labor. Travel/hotel funded: