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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 33m

dying to know what book it is 👀

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pleased to report

In the background, mist rises over a field just starting to recover from a controlled burn, with tree covered hills barely visible in the distance. In the foreground, a purple dotted with rainwater blooms from a curling vine. The flower looks like it is from the moon but it is actually a passion flower. I do not know enough flower anatomy to describe it but it is alien and purple with fine maroon stripes and a green stamen.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s hard to believe they are real!

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh wow now I want to listen to that album, it's so good.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't even be mad these are all bangers

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

College radio is playing oldies tonight (music from my adolescence)

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

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Sunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is totally speculative but I think there is a feeling that if an outside consultant is using AI, they’re doing work that could be done by anyone. whereas when existing staff use AI, they’re expanding what they are able to do.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For corporations this is work that used to be done in house by employees, but is now being outsourced. For small orgs, I think this might be an attempt to expand services without expanding or asking more of staff.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a feeling that a new consulting role is opening up: boutique consultant who doesn’t use AI, to be contracted by AI-dependent organizations to provide specialized (human) services

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Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

DH friends. Anyone have ideas for publication venues for outcomes of smaller bits of exploratory work? We have some fun outcomes but probably don’t want to spend time working them into something big; but feel they are interesting to the community. I know I’m forgetting something obvious!

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

(this is really just about the opening paragraphs to this book review, which is very thoughtful overall, and definitely not an apology for coercive production work under dismal and demeaning conditions)

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

too many typos and regrettable posts this morning :(

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meanwhile I listened to the entire lord of the rings trilogy on CD and was part of the process of building medical equipment that is probably now inside someone body! Helping them walk!

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Menial labor is crushes the artistic spirit" - a Raytheon middle manager, probably.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sorry to have a take no one asked for this morning, but while the "physical and psychic toil" of the chinese production line is undoubtedly real, factory jobs can be good, fulfilling work. The most soul killing work I've done was in the knowledge economy, not a factory.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

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Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Put chatgpt and gemini in a room together and ask them what it would take to save higher education

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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

Here are some things I fear: 🙅 Multiplication of credentials that go nowhere 🙅 Ongoing or escalating student debt 🙅 Total focus on wealth generation 🙅 Total disinvestment from research that does not serve corporate or private philanthropic interests

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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

Also if you yourself write things, of course.

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

not to state the obvious but if you teach aspiring writers, like as a history or literature prof, it’s worth knowing the state of the industry. It’s also worth knowing what labor organizing looks like in this field.

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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

Thank you for sharing this journey with us!

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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

Empire of AI is very long but very good for this!

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

The editors call this a morbid pattern and they are right. Not just the acts of violence but the university infrastructure designed to protect the perpetrators. Not just Cornell but everywhere.

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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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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Her full name is in fact Toasted Marshmallow

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Timeline was very very bad so this is my offering

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