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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 05/10/2026

Door 1, 2, or 3? 🚪✨ Explore a room of thousands of humans wrestling with whether there is an afterlife—and see how religion, culture, and aging changes where we stand in the room. pudding.cool/2026/10/life...

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 19h

Modern Monkey‘s Paw here are free tickets to a concert Oh, sick! and you get to go backstage and hang out with the artist Amazing! but it’s the same day you get your COVID and flu shots muahaha *sweaty, teeth chattering* Nooooooo

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 05/10/2026

My Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic is hiring a new teaching fellow! If you find joy in iPIP work; share our enthusiasm for collaborating; and demonstrate creativity through your work—maybe it could be you? Apply by the end of the month: apply.interfolio.com/194762 Share broadly!

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Advait @ COLM @advaitdeshmukh.com · 05/10/2026

Come find us at COLM tomorrow (Tuesday, Oct 6)! 📍 Imperial Ballroom, Poster #49 🕟 4:30 PM, Poster Session 2 Would love to chat about stories, LLMs, and what we can learn from how people actually use them!

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Note that long papers will be published as a separate proceedings volume in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities." This is a huge and welcome development! Honestly kind of a game-changer.

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 03/10/2026

Please spread the word far & wide: applications to the Litowitz MFA+MA are now open: it's a two-year fully-funded program (ie, you don't pay for it) w/ health benefits & a $47k/year stipend. I'm reading fiction applications. Deadline is 12/1/26 english.northwestern.edu/graduate/adm...

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THE LITOWITZ CREATIVE WRITING GRADUATE PROGRAM: Department of English - Northwestern University

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #DH2027 CfP is open! Join us in Galway, Ireland, 28 June–3 July 2027, for #DH2027, on the theme "Creativity". 📖 Call for Proposals: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ 📤 Submit via ConfTool starting Oct 7, 00:00 Irish time: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ Deadline: 20 November 2026, 23:59 AoE.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Quick update and karaoke PSA. Yes, Beyoncé's Love on Top is the perfect key change song, but it's also IMPOSSIBLE to sing. Do NOT attempt unless you have emergency services at the ready (aka talented friends who can rescue you, as mine did, thank heavens).

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hilarious, evergreen song about the illusion of purchasing a cheap flight—with a ~*key change*~!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Anyway, I've come to dread banned books week. Join @librariesftp.bsky.social on 10.8 so we can talk about BUILDING POWER through budget advocacy and participating in actual governance: www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-pe...

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For The People: Public Library Snapshots

Join FTP for a discussion about our collection of snapshots that gives an overview of different public library systems in the U.S.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's Oct 3. The midterms are a month away, but early voting has already begun in some states. Mail-in ballots will start circulating soon. Some of the usual suspects are already pushing the same "rigged election" rumors we've all heard before. This year, you can play along at home. bingo.cip.uw.edu

bingo.cip.uw.edu

"Rigged Election" Bingo

Spot the tropes before they spread. Recognize the common story elements behind election rumors — can you get BINGO?

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Best song with a key change? We're doing karaoke tonight, and the theme is KEY CHANGE, and I need to be prepared 😬

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty (flipped, detail), by Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, 1746, 📸 by @madelinepcarter.bsky.social

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University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu · 02/10/2026

MLIS alum Melody Sky Weaver ('10) has just begun her appointment as the new Washington State Librarian. "Everyone should be shouting from the rooftops about how incredible our Washington State Library is," she says. Read more about her path: ischool.uw.edu/news/2026/09...

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MLIS alum brings energy, passion to job of state librarian

Melody Sky Weaver recalled her reaction the first time someone told her she'd make a great librarian: "I'm not a quiet person. I am a really loud, extrover...

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I broke this story in 2011, about the first major publisher-imposed loan restrictions on ebooks (the only truly big story of my trade journalism career). It’s been 15 years, and the only major difference is that public library budgets are lower and what publishers charge libraries has gone up.

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HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

chubmarine cute so chubmarine yawning must be cute

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In this powerful piece on libraries, this comment stuck out. I went to ALA for the first time this year, and I was struck by the prominent presence of corporate vendors, many of which are sucking libraries dry… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Photo of librarian Crystal Gates with quote: I would increase access to electronic materials. Our budget can’t keep pace with demand. The book that I can personally get on Kindle or Audible for $3.99 costs my library $80 to $120, and then we have to return it in three years. I’m limited in the number of checkouts or the number of people. I don’t mind one-copy, one-user restrictions. But telling me I’m going to spend $80 on a book that my patrons no longer have access to in 12 months? It’s not getting damaged. It’s not getting wet. It’s not getting torn up.
Crystal Gates, North Little Rock, Ark.
North Little Rock Public Libraries

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The Seattle Public Library said its Books Unbanned cardholders come from all 50 states and several U.S. territories. The most sign-ups have come from Texas, California, and Florida, with Washington state ranking sixth.” komonews.com/news/local/s...

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Seattle library’s program challenging banned books tops 1 million teen e-book checkouts

With Banned Books Week 2026 (Oct. 4-10) approaching, The Seattle Public Library’s Books Unbanned program has passed a major milestone: more than 1 million e-boo

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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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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."

recruit.apo.ucla.edu

Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Playoff overtime—sports menaces everywhere rejoice!

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can make flipbook GIFs 🤩 Play with it here: hadro.github.io/flipbook/#m=...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026

This is delightful

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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onthedrift @onthedrift.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the uninitiated, this is a riff on the poem below — I'm DYING 😂

The Tiger
by Nael, age 6
From "They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket"

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They escaped their basket Yes YES The snails are out

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I visited this school as part of my reporting last year for a Businessweek story, which also revealed that Alpha is actually a subsidiary of the tech company Trilogy. Here's what I found.

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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if Abdul gets elected they’ll make a third season of Detroiters

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Omg Abdul El-Sayed used the "I Think You Should Leave" hot dog sketch in a political ad. It's perfect.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my book is out now 🫶 💗 $18 with coupon code E26CNTNT enjoy!!!??? :)

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let’s name the ship after something secure, something that will NEVER be in crisis from ANY angle: the American Constitution.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The American Constitution isn’t looking too hot, am I right

Boat that says American Constitution on the back and is starting to corrode with visible rust

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is cool. Here are some literary and WNBA convo neighborhoods on Bluesky—including "books with unlikable protagonists" (lol) and Nneka's final season (sob).

screenshot of Atlas map of Bluesky conversations, showing embedding space with dots representing conversations, and some clusters are labelled. Book Recommendations & Reads is in the center, with sub clusters reading "books with unlikable protagonists" and "Dune and Stephen King fandom" among others

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy WNBA playoffs!!! May they be as entertaining as the wnbaart Instagram account, perhaps the best off-court success story of the year. www.instagram.com/p/DdynmkggLBR/

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wrote some of these thoughts out (briefly) in this piece, describing how philosophy has been centered as pretty much the *only* humanities discipline at FAccT, our main conference on computing ethics. arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190

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Provocations from the Humanities for Generative AI Research

The effects of generative AI are experienced by a broad range of constituencies, but the disciplinary inputs to its development have been surprisingly narrow. Here we present a set of provocations fro...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · 25/09/2026

I made a small site you can reorder the list and save your own list/image: thisismattmiller.github.io/nyt-100-tv/

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My 100 Best TV Shows

Rearrange, swap and share your own version of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

reed.edu

Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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Jeff Lockhart @jwlockhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Preparing to motivate a student tomorrow: "This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill Fifteen percent concentrated power of will. Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain, and a hundred percent reason to remember the name"

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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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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's the end of an era. The Social Media Collective is shutting down. Thanks to everyone who was a part of this crazy endeavor, but especially @nancybaym.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, and @marylgray.bsky.social. I adore you all! socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...

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The Social Media Collective Comes to a Close

It is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi…

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 23/09/2026

Sad news that I had heard was coming: #MicrosoftResearch is basically being brought to heel by #Microsoft. #AI all the time, and no more independent social research...

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