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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just published! New co-authored article in the edited collection Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief. Its title: "The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives." Editors: @kpalex91.bsky.social & @librarianchef.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/libraries-ar...

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It’s almost here! 📚 Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief comes out Sep. 8 (UK) and Oct. 6 (US). 🥂 Join us Oct. 19th for a virtual book launch featuring the authors and editors. 🎟️ Register: tinyurl.com/libraries-gr... 📖 Plus, save 50% with code CNF26 through Dec. 31!

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Thank you to #LTIBlog for the thoughtful questions and for giving me the chance to share more about my work! I really enjoyed reflecting on what I do, the path that led me to research data librarianship, and how my humanities background continues to shape the way I approach this work.

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

There’s still time to submit your chapter proposals!

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This is a companion essay to our forthcoming article “The Past(s) We Access Online: Ethical Challenges of Digital Archives” in Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief, edited by @librarianchef.bsky.social l and @kpalex91.bsky.social bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/libraries-ar...

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Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief

Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief; This collection explores grief and memorialization through librarianship. International contributors highlight how information professionals contribute to dea...

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Proof that putting a bunch of enthusiastic thanatologists in a WhatsApp group is dangerous: @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have teamed up with Justina Sumilova to organize “Death and the Chatbot: The Thanatology of Artificial Intelligence.” 📚🤖💀 Check out the full CFP: kayleealexander.com/cfp/

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

AI and art? We’ve been here before. 📸 In a new article for #DAHJ, Emily Lawhead and I put #GenAI in dialogue with #photography. Looking at their converging histories of hype, controversy, and adoption, we argue that AI is even changing how we think about photography. 📖 doi.org/10.11588/dah...

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Data and Discontent | International Journal for Digital Art History

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

And… sent! ✅ Just shy of 2 years since @librarianchef.bsky.social first reached out about a potential collab, the final typescript for Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief is officially off to Bristol UP. Immense gratitude to all our contributors—stay tuned for updates! 📚🪦

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Rspinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Coming out Monday, December 1st! @kpalex91.bsky.social

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Rspinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Libraries, Archives and Collective Grief (2026) will be released with Bristol University Press. This volume explores the ways in which grief permeates collections, objects and stories within library settings. @kpalex91.bsky.social

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social and I have been working on since like 2022, 'Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present', is being published on Dec 1st, 2025! Just in time for Christmas! Thank you to all the wonderful authors!! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Spinel...

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Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

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Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities

Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh

1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A.
2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.
3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore
4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France
5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland
6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A.
7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A.
8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A.

Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG

Published: 25 September 2025

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Great gathering this morning for an in-depth look at how we in #Utah do Open Access research and publishing! #oaweek #openaccess

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

📣 The RDAP Summit call for proposals is now open! This year’s theme is “Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World.” Summit Dates: Apr. 13-16 Proposal Deadline: Nov. 14 Submit a Proposal: forms.gle/AiSWSTxVcyFA... More Info: rdapassociation.org/summit

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RDAP 2026 Summit Proposal Submission Form

Thank you for your interest in the Research Data, Access, and Preservation (RDAP) Association’s 2026 Summit. This year’s theme is Practical, Personalized, Impactful: Research Data in the Real World, a...

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Check out this new article—"The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections"—that Dorothy Terry, Jasmine S. Kirby, @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, and @annaneat.bsky.social just published in ITAL! ital.corejournals.org/index.php/it...

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The Invisible Default: Examining Representation in Digital Collections | Information Technology and Libraries

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Tune in to #NISOPlus25 on September 16 at 3pm ET to hear more about what the MaRMAT team has been up to! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social @annaneat.bsky.social

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It's finally happening!! The edited volume that @librarianchef.bsky.social & I have been working on with so many amazing researchers is finally available for Preorder with @berghahnbooks.bsky.social! I'm so proud!! #amwriting #archaeology #deathstudies www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinel...

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Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

It’s been awesome to work with @graveyardarch.bsky.social and @librarianchef.bsky.social to get a sneak peak at some new work included in their collection! Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning: Past and Present is now available for preorder! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/spinellideath

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🎙️Plan for a coffin train I mention on @deathstudiespod.bsky.social! This would have transported corpses ~30 km from Paris to Méry-sur-Oise, where Haussmann planned to build a 5k-acre Necropolis (that’s roughly 45x the size of Père-Lachaise!) to accommodate Paris’s dead for the next 600 years 🚂⚰️

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Always a pleasure to nerd out over cemeteries and data!

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

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Anna @annaneat.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

We're presenting in just a few minutes as part of the Metadata Interest Group program on Assessing Metadata for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Cultural Heritage Institutions cdmcd.co/LE4qmd #ALAAC25 @kpalex91.bsky.social @racheljwittmann.bsky.social

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ALA 2025 Annual Conference

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Anna @annaneat.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Stopped in my tracks by this sign pointing out the IMLS absence from #ALAAC25

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Radical History Review @radhistreview.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

New issue published! **Memory over Forgetting: Monuments, Memorials, and Intangible Heritage** - www.radicalhistoryreview.org/memory-over-...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Being a historian doesn’t give me the mantle of authority to say definitively what’s happening here or how anyone should respond, but I feel qualified to say this: If you were writing an account of how the United States devolved into violence and fragmentation, all this would be chapter 1 or 2.

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

🪦 Thrilled to share that my chapter, “Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery,” has been published in a new volume for Brill’s Intersections series, Funerary Inscriptions in Early Modern Europe: Shaping Identities to Remember. 🔗 doi.org/10.1163/9789...

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Chapter 17 Le Champ du repos: A Tidy Approach to Early Epitaphs in Père-Lachaise Cemetery

Abstract Contrary to pre-Modern burial practices, Napoleonic-era burial reforms promised separate graves for all and permanent burial for those who could afford it, thereby establishing a pseudo-democ...

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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · 07/05/2025

We celebrate 10 years of International Journal for Digital Art History (DAHJ)—connecting global voices & reshaping art history through digital methods, collaboration & critical debate. #DigitalArtHistory #DigitalHumanities #ArtHistory

A graphic featuring the text "DAHJ" intertwined with geometric shapes and lines, accompanied by the numbers "00" and "10" in a modern font. The color scheme includes shades of blue and black.

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I ran grant programs at @nehgov.bsky.social for over a decade. With colleagues, oversaw review of thousands of grant applications. Witnessed care & thoughtfulness of hundreds of reviewers. This statement is insulting to all of them. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed. www.neh.gov/news/update-...

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An Update on NEH Funding Priorities and the Agency’s Recent Implementation of Trump Administration Executive Orders

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 24/04/2025

They’re taking *our* investment—the money that we spent months writing grants for, the hours and hours we all spent reviewing each others’ work, the money that was supposed to go to libraries and community groups—and blowing it on this nonsense.

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Looking forward to my first #ALAAnnual Conference this June! @racheljwittmann.bsky.social, @annaneat.bsky.social, and I will be sharing the new and improved MaRMAT, our open-source software for assessing collections metadata. Until then, check out MaRMAT (Beta) on GitHub: github.com/marriott-lib...!

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Heading off to New Orleans tomorrow for the @pcaaca.bsky.social conference! If you’re going, make sure you catch me and @librarianchef.bsky.social on Friday evening as we share a sneak peek into our forthcoming volume, “Libraries, Archives, and Collective Grief” 📚💀 #pcaaca25

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The Collective for Radical Death Studies @raddeathstudies.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What can one coroner’s report tell us about gender, silence, and the historical framing of suicide? Dr. @sarahlirley.bsky.social dives deep into a 19th-century inquest that left more questions than answers. Read the full post here: radicaldeathstudies.squarespace.com/blog/suicide...

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dr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I'm still formulating my thoughts about the devastating impact of NEH ODH's closure on the entire digital humanities ecosystem. In the meantime, I threw together a couple bar charts to visualize the number of programs and the total funding at stake in the NEH cuts. #DigitalHumanities #NEH

A bar chart showing total funding impacts by office in the NEH cuts, as of 4/10/2025. The chart is broken down by office in the NEH, including Challenge Programs, Data and Evaluation, Digital Humanities, Education Programs, Federal/State Partnerships, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and Research Programs.

The Federal/State Partnership column is blue (indicating active programs) with $50 million in funding. The Data and Evaluation column is tiny, under $1 million in annual funding, and is orange for cancelled. The digital humanities column, which comes in around $6 million, is about half orange (cancelled) and half red (discontinued).The majority of the remaining grants are turquoise (not yet accepting applications).

A bar chart showing program status by office in the NEH cuts, as of 4/10/2025. The chart is broken down by office in the NEH, including Challenge Programs, Data and Evaluation, Digital Humanities, Education Programs, Federal/State Partnerships, Preservation and Access, Public Programs, and Research Programs.

The Federal/State Partnership column is blue (indicating active programs) with just one program. The Data and Evaluation and the Challenge Programs columns are also tiny, just one program each, and are orange for cancelled. The digital humanities column, with four programs, is half orange (cancelled) and half red (discontinued).The majority of the remaining grants are turquoise (not yet accepting applications).

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“As the saying goes, our researchers and scientists stand on the shoulders of the giants who came before them. Libraries enable us to build on these previous foundations and see further into what’s possible.” www.deseret.com/opinion/2025...

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Opinion: Public libraries are at risk of federal funding cuts. This should alarm all of us

If we let our libraries go, we won’t just lose places to study and explore; we stand to hobble innovation and research.

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Kaylee Alexander, PhD @kpalex91.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So excited to have had the chance to include some of my new work in the volume. Can’t wait to see it in print!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21/02/2025

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

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