iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 5h

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 19h

My wife’s grandmother, a navy vet and very spicy lady, has taken to calling all the conservative bigots in her elderly living community “pissants,” and I can’t get it out of my head. They’re all pissants now.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 23h

When the midterms approach and my "plz god let good things happen" anxiety kicks in, I try to channel that energy by writing postcards to swing states, texting/calling old friends abt life and politics, and studying the candidates on my ballot.

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Sophie Greenwood @sjgreenwood.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're searching for PhD opportunities, check out this feed I created using @graze.social! ➡️ bsky.app/profile/sjgr...

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 28/09/2026

Solo Faces. By James Salter. First Edition, First Printing. Little, Brown. New York, 1979. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a large black and white mountain face with the top reaching the very top of the jacket. The title text is a terra cotta color at the bottom.

The copyright page showing the first edition statement.

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Got a student applying for M.A. or Ph.D. programs in English? After years of working with students aspiring to graduate study, this summer I posted a tip sheet that might be helpful. www.electrostani.com/2026/07/stat...

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Statement of Purpose Tips (English Graduate programs -- M.A. and Ph.D. applications)

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 25/09/2026

Digging through old files and I found these. They're from a decade ago, from a trip down the Mississippi River. I was a little baby deckhand, thinking I'd maybe work toward a pilot's license. But then I got a chance to go to grad school. My how time flies, how life changes!

A photo of a wide floodplain on the Mississippi River with colorful fall bluffs and meandering river channel. A small navigation beacon that looks like a miniature lighthouse is off center on a pile of rocks in the water.

A photo from behind the wheel in the wheelhouse. The dashboard with navigation equipment and thrusters sits behind it. Out the window, the two banks of the river look wooded. One has a small marina full of boats, too.

The bow of the Avalon, the massive three-story riverboat, lifted out of the water in a dry dock. It is white with some edges painted red. It has two loading ramps lifted up and balconies behind them. The dry dock is massive, the size of a wide open football field.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 25/09/2026

Bluesky has got to be the quietest social network I've ever used. I don't get much engagement here, but I always find something interesting, often intellectually engaging, and occasionally something soulful. Unlearning my social media expectations might be the whole ball game.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 25/09/2026

This may be my new fave in shop—a designation that changes daily, but this one may hold my heart for a good lil while

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.

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Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026

Here's a listing of all the right-wing humanities academic jobs that have been advertised so far this 2026-2027 hiring season. Suffice to say, conservative investment in the university humanities is not being matched by the peer-reviewed humanities community: asheeshksi.substack.com/p/tracking-c...

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Tracking Civic Thought Hiring in the 2026-2027 Academic Job Cycle

I wanted to put together a post that tracks how right-wing civic thought programs have rapidly been taking over the academic hiring space in the humanities, especially in fields like history (mostly A...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214

This is a screenshot of the UVA School of Data Science website portraying the school building in the background against a blue sky and trees. The texts reads: Jobs at the School of Data Science. Join Our Team.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 18/09/2026

Pale Blue Dot. By Carl Sagan. First Edition, First Printing. Random House. New York, 1994. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a large red planet over a rocky horizon and the blackness of space in the background.

The copyright page showing the first edition statement and full number line.

The back panel of the dust jacket showing Carl Sagan in a leather bomber jacket.

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 17/09/2026

The Underground Railroad. Signed by Colson Whitehead. First Edition, First Printing. Doubleday. New York, 2016. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a railroad winding around the title and author text. The background is a orangish red.

The title page showing Whitehead's signature.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I forgot that I made a starter pack with computational literary studies people — maybe it’s time for an update. Ping me if you’re not there! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

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Maria Leonor Pacheco @mlpacheco.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Come join us in Boulder! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Tenure-Track Faculty in Artificial Intelligence

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 14/09/2026

A Storm of Swords. Inscribed by George R.R. Martin. First Edition, First Printing. Bantam. New York, 2000. Find it here: eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a framed painting of a group of medieval people on a dock in front of a sailboat. Around the frame is the title and author text over a glossy blue.

The half-title page showing Martin's inscription.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 13/09/2026

I went out in nature for the first time in months, kayaking down the Salt Fork. It was perfect, serene. But now I have poison ivy rash. Life is full of mysteries.

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Work with me! The English Department at Davidson College is hiring a tenure line in Creative Nonfiction. The department is a thriving faculty and student community of critics and writers and weirdos like me.

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Assistant Professor of English

The Department of English at Davidson College invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Creative Nonfiction and the Literature of the Sciences at the Assistant Professor level, beg...

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Daniel van Strien @danielvanstrien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Need a historical illustration? Search 1.49 million images from British Library books and Britannica (1500s–1920s). Find similar images, download full-resolution images or transparent PNG cutouts, and explore the sources. huggingface.co/spaces/davan...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2026

Heads-up everyone in digital humanities and/or cultural AI: this is a hugely valuable resource. It does the systematic cleaning and segmentation — of a million books — that we have always wanted to have, for computational research, and have never quite produced in a way that stuck.

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 10/09/2026

A Moveable Feast. By Ernest Hemingway. First Edition, First Printing. Scribner’s. New York, 1964. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a watercolor painting of a river and bridge in Paris.

The copyright page showing the correct printing code.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 08/09/2026

New Ocarina remake has me thinking maybe I just quit everything and play any and every Zelda game I can get my hands on until I run out of money www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swig...

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The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Triforce Medley (The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct)

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 08/09/2026

I used to work as a riverboat deckhand. Once a year, a local radio station would host what they called the Booty Cruise—a women-only event featuring male dancers and a radio call-in psychic who did in-person readings. It was my job to run food, steer, do security, serve drinks. Very odd experience.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 07/09/2026

Oh great, a new verification layer. Let me just two-step verify my API key encoded in a riddle involving the identification of traffic lights and the choosing of the correct Holy Grail. Then I’ll just type out what street I grew up on, and Viola! I have 82 unread emails.

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 07/09/2026

Talking God. Inscribed by Tony Hillerman. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Harper & Row. New York, 1989. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a diamond-shaped panel full American architectural landmarks painted in a Southwest style. Above it is the title and author text.

The half-title page showing Hillerman's signature.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 05/09/2026

The raygun doc on Netflix is worth a watch. Seen from the lived experience, the whole scenario transcends meme and becomes equal parts travesty, nightmare fuel, and deeply hilarious. It’s a real life postmodern absurdity, I can’t believe that happened to her.

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/09/2026

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 04/09/2026

There is someone, under employ at the federal government, whose job is to vibe-code shitty racist arcade games

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 04/09/2026

The New England Tragedies. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. First Edition, First Printing. Ticknor & Fields. Boston, 1868. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original cloth with fading to the spine and gilt stamping to front board. Behind it stands the custom box with maroon leather spine over red cloth.

The copyright page showing the correct publisher information

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 03/09/2026

Flying Saucers in the Bible. By Virginia F. Brasington. Illustrations by Gene Duplantier. First Edition, First Printing. Saucerian Books. Clarksburg, 1963. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original orange wrappers with an illustration of the three wise men spotting a flying saucer in the sky.

The title page and the frontispiece portrait of author Virginia F. Brasington.

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Center for Digital Narrative @cdn-bergen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#PhD fellowship at the Center for Digital Narrative in Bergen: three years studying how players and player communities turn games into stories. 🎮 Starts February 2027, deadline 15 October. Bring a project proposal! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD Research Fellowship in Games and Interactive Digital Narratives, Center for Digital Narrative (307441) | University of Bergen

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Games and Interactive Digital Narratives, Center for Digital Narrative (307441), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Thursday, October 15, 2026

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 31/08/2026

I am not for 90 degree days in September. I am against that. Hard pass, do not approve.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

With our August issue of #ReviewsInDH, we celebrate more than 1 MILLION page views. We're so grateful to everyone who has helped us reach this milestone. And don't miss an Asian and Asian Diaspora topic issue, "Resisting Cultural Erasure," edited by Doa Sarmad Khan. reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v7-n8

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Vol. 7, No. 8: Aug. 2026 - Resisting Erasure · Reviews in Digital Humanities

Vol. 7, No. 8 of Reviews in Digital Humanities, a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, edited by Jennifer Guiliano (Indiana Universit...

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 31/08/2026

I’m reading the Peregrine by JA Baker and it occurs to me that we should all pick an animal to obsess over, and then write a little book about it. This should be a rite of passage, a requirement before age 25.

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 29/08/2026

Listening to Ennio morricone during leg day squats is for some reason exactly correct

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 28/08/2026

Love. Signed by Toni Morrison. First Edition, First Printing. Knopf. New York, 2003. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket, a dark red with just the title and author text in serif fonts.

The title page showing Morrison's signature.

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 27/08/2026

No Country for Old Men. By Cormac McCarthy. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Knopf. New York, 2005. SOLD

The front cover of the first trade edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring a bright red background and a silhouette of a person running with a setting sun at their feet.

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Cara Marta Messina @caramartamessina.com · 25/08/2026

Marist is hiring an Assistant Prof of English, Technical and Professional Writing. I'm chairing the committee, so please feel free to reach out with any questions! Submit by Oct 31 for highest consideration (deadline not on ad). careers.marist.edu/en-us/job/49...

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Careers at Marist - Marist University

Thank you for your interest in a career with Marist University!

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ertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 24/08/2026

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. First Editions, First Printings. Two Volumes. Green Cloth Variant. Charles L. Webster. New York, 1885-86. SOLD

The front cover of the two volumes of the first edition. They're in the green cloth binding variant with the gilt medallion on the front board and the shoulder strap stars to the spines.

The frontispiece portrait of a young U.S. Grant in uniform from volume 1.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s telling that a eugenics loving racist gets a petition with hundreds of important academics that sign on and our faculty member fired for teaching queer lit is ignored. This is not about academic freedom….

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Matthew Kollmer @matthewkollmer.com · 21/08/2026

It's a little late, but I just posted a blog recounting my teaching gig over the summer and how I thought through LLM policy for an intro to Python for DH class: matthewkollmer.com/thinking-thr... The blog also links to a ton of Berkeley DH teaching materials which, I must say, are top-notch!

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Thinking Through LLM Policy in Python for DH – Matthew Johannes Kollmer

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 21/08/2026

The Joy Luck Club. By Amy Tan. First Edition, First Printing. Putnam. New York, 1989. SOLD

The front cover of the first edition. It's in the original dust jacket featuring an image of Chinese iconography––dragons, clouds, flowers, etc.

The copyright page showing the full number line.

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Evening Land Books @eveninglandbooks.com · 20/08/2026

The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. By W.Y. Evans-Wentz. Commentary by Carl Jung. First Edition, First Printing. Oxford University Press. London, 1954. SOLD

The front cover in the original brown dust jacket with Tibetan Buddhist iconography and the title text.

The title page and the frontispiece––a Buddhist painting of the Great Guru Padma Sambhava.

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