iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s been over a year since @halperta.bsky.social and our colleagues Lola and Martin have launched @sidracollaborative.bsky.social. 🎉

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How are we all feeling about burnout these days

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't really believe it's been a whole year

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What do you think "go all in" means? Here are some things on my mind: ✨ Tuition-free ✨ Education not entertainment ✨ Real vocational training ✨ Real liberal arts education ✨ Reinvestment in research ✨ Disinvestment from corporate pipelines

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Checked my medical bill for my most recent extremely necessary procedure and feeling very outraged and unsettled, send good energy my way please. (at least, I suppose, I have my health)

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because I hate reading e-books AND want to support the amazing @walshbr.bsky.social, I bought 2 physical copies of his book (one for me and one for my DH Initiative Co-Director, @kyliesago.bsky.social). Can’t wait to dig in!

Two copies of Brandon Walsh’s “Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change” sit on a wood surface

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Looks like gemini is back in my google docs, even though I turned it off like five times this year already.

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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay - googling shit is literally getting so useless right now. Bluesky pals, if you have good sources on the false promises of AI and how funding for these companies is basically all dream-based, please share them here?

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

reading this story and thinking about Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! which remains one of the best books I have read, full stop. Once the incident has occurred, she writes, there will be no satisfaction. No system implemented by the university exists to offer any.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026

great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A TECH BRO running through the street, holding a laptop over his head.
TECH BRO: GREAT NEWS! I THINK I WROTE THE COMPUTER PROGRAM THAT'S GOING TO KILL EVERYONE.

PANEL 2: MATTIE peers at the laptop, which just says KILL ALL HUMANS on it, with a blinking cursor. Another WOMAN runs away.
MATTIE: IT LOOKS LIKE YOU JUST TYPED A SENTENCE HERE ON THE LATPOP.
WOMAN: AHHH! DON'T LET IT NEAR THE NUKES!

PANEL 3: The TECH BRO shakes his head.
TECH BRO: NO. YOU CRETIN, YOU DON'T TRULY UNDERSTAND ITS CAPABILITIES.
TECH BRO: PLUS, IT'S SCRAPED FROM SOMEONE *ELSE* TYPING IT. IDIOT.

PANEL 4: A BUSINESSMAN hands the SCIENTIST a big bag of money. The space behind him is also filled with bags.
BUSINESSMAN: HERE IT IS! EVERY PIECE OF CURRENCY EVER MINTED INCLUDING COINS FROM THE ANCIENT WORLD
TECH BRO: THANK YOU.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m now reading @walshbr.bsky.social’s EMBEDDED PEDAGOGIES and will liveskeet the experience. Read with me books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.... I might be a slowpoke because work is a lot but I’m ready to be inspired.

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Part of my contribution to my department's first memo of the incoming academic year: Happy International Day of Sign Languages; Happy International Week of the Deaf! September 23 is the International Day of Sign Languages (IDSL). 1/x

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

There are few people who give me more hope for the future of education than @walshbr.bsky.social. Brandon's new book is sharp, generous, and helpful. If you are interested in teaching, higher education, or digital humanities, put this at the top of your reading list.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I like this headline because you could replace AI with a whole range of oppressive ideologies like racism or neoliberalism or environmental destruction and it would still be true :)

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This argument always makes me think about @tressiemcphd.bsky.social discussion in Lower Ed about how there was a time when companies were actually the customer (they paid tuition as part of their workforce investment).

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R. Mel @cadystat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Got laid off so wrote a book. I don’t know if it’s a good book, but I wrote it. Still unemployed so I guess I’ll write another. 🤷‍♀️

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The most fun part about developmental editing is I am just constantly meeting really smart people with great ideas and important stories to tell. ✨

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

My dissertation topic has been (obliquely) coming up a lot these days. Makes me wish I could let my 2015 self know that the rumors are true and highly specialized researched on niche academic subjects is in fact how we build the knowledge we need to understand the world we live in.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So I have been going through a semi-public review process for my current book manuscript and can I just say that the absolute thoughtfulness and generosity of everyone involved has been an incredible gift.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Bobby Cain, who led a group of 12 Black students in desegregating the high school in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956, has passed away at age 85. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

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Bobby Cain, Barrier Breaker in School Desegregation, Dies at 85

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"I've been thinking about this issue for a long time and would love to write a longform piece about it" ...me immediately before I compulsively write and post a vaguely coherent thread on social media

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

(whispers) the university, higher ed, and the humanities are not in crisis

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

oh no I think I finished the first draft of my book 😳

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Even if it were true that postdocs benefit from a bespoke mentor-mentee relationship, it wouldn't negate their rights to labor protections. But guess what! It's not. We wrote about this in the Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights (2019): halperta.com/white%20pape...

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Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights

Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Heather Froehlich, Amanda Henrichs, Jim McGrath, Kim Martin. “Postdoctoral Laborers Bill of Rights.” 2019.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Back in the data viz world after a hiatus. Are people still using tableau? Went to the website and it's forefronting agentic ai :(

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We have grants to give! If you want to work on humanities recruitment, retention, or career readiness, check this out: www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

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MLA Pathways Step Grants

Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Deadline extended. ACH seeks a new Editor in Chief and institutional host for Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ). Expressions of interest now due Jan 8, 2027. DHQ is diamond open access, free for readers and authors. Details and how to apply at: buff.ly/i1x9v5Y

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Call for proposals: DHQ institutional host and Editor in Chief

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Has anyone else noticed the rise in general conversation of people saying "there's a quote I like" with no attempt at attribution?

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

good morning to whoever created the angry former federal workers starter pack and added me to it lmao

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A few years ago I published a resource: "Taking Action in Higher Ed." It's about assessing risk when making decisions to stand up for students & communities. If you've used this resource, can I ask: is there an exercise or section that you found particularly useful? halperta.com/shalperta%20...

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Taking Action in Higher Ed

Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been reading so much amazing fiction lately I need an outlet.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

LIFE IS SO COOL I LOVE IT

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

sorry deleted that thread because I broke two of my cardinal rules of using social media (don't comment on trending topics & don't talk about politics unless they are directly related to my line of work.)

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Library friends: I'm planning a blog post about negotiating during a job offer. Will you share with me what you negotiated? Or what you wish you would've negotiated? I'd like to give people a sense of the range of things they can ask for. 📚

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One thing I have learned in 2026 is that there is little that gives me more joy than getting an advanced copy of a very brilliant person's forthcoming book 📚 makes me feel *smart* and *important* by association

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

does everyone get one million spam emails addressed to someone named Todd, or have uniquely been tagged as "Todd" in a database somewhere?

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abbefa.bsky.social @abbefa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Help. I don't like coffee as much as I used to.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is such a good project and one I've been hoping someone would do for years. Can't wait to read it.

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

My book is now available for preorder on Bloomsbury's website. If you are affiliated with a university that still believes in the humanities, please consider having your university library order a copy. www.bloomsbury.com/us/harriet-d...

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Harriet de Onís and the Translation of Latin American Literature

Uncovers the role of Harriet de Onís (1899-1969), Alfred A. Knopf's principal translator of Spanish and Portuguese literature into English, in ushering in the L…

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's true! Working with brilliant thinkers and writers like @electrostani.bsky.social is the best part of my job. ✨ If you're on sabbatical this fall, consider partnering with a developmental editor (like me :)). I'd love to talk with you about how I can help you move your project forward.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Woohoo! We have an advance book contract: "THE ARCHIVE WRITES BACK: Minoritized Literatures & the Digital Textual Paradigm" Happy to be working with series editor @roopikarisam.bsky.social and publishing in the same series w/ @aearhart.bsky.social @elikaortega.bsky.social @eve.gd & many others.

Text of the opening section of an advanced contract between Stanford University Press and Amardeep Singh for a book called "The Archive Writes Back..."

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