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Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join me, @perrycollins.bsky.social , Ashley Sands, and Dennis Nangle for our ThriveLib talk on August 12th!

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 08/05/2026

A federal judge granted the motion for a summary judgment on all counts in favor of the AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social in our lawsuit to restore the NEH, ruling that the mass termination of grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect." 🗃️

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Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment of the Humanities Funding In Historic Case - AHA

Statements From American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association on the Ruling FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 7, 2026 - This afternoon US District J...

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Emotional faculty meeting, highlighting legislation that is likely to bring down our union. Because of @superhh.bsky.social and other colleagues, I had the parental leave I needed to spend hours in the NICU every day when my son was born. This supported his health and mine. @uffuf.bsky.social

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Glad to share that as of today, I'm officially the head of my department at UF Libraries: arcs.uflib.ufl.edu. I'm so fortunate to work with a brilliant team and to have support from my deans. You know you're in the right job when you're excited to add more meetings with colleagues to your calendar.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Lovely to hear @alondra.bsky.social give a shout out to the brilliant @jasonrhody.bsky.social for his leadership in promoting media literacy on Media Well and other platforms mediawell.ssrc.org/about/. #nisoplus cc @nisoinfo.bsky.social

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Join us for "Legal & Ethical Oral Histories" on Thurs, Feb. 12 11 - noon. Featuring Arnetta Giradeau, UNC Charlotte, & Christina Boyles, UI Bloomington, facilitated by @perrycollins.bsky.social, UF. Register dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/workshops/. Bring your questions!

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"Petitions to preserve the building and its murals are circulating. . . @livingnewdeal.bsky.social calls for the Cohen building—'a living testament to America’s shared values, social progress, and the power of public art to uplift us all'—to be preserved intact." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

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It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.

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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I don't have it in me to say much about today's NEH award announcement. Huge congrats to @anasalter.bsky.social and others doing great work in their fields. I'm anxious for former colleagues left to manage massive (up to $10mil), highly politicized awards that aim to wind the clock back decades.

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Sebastian Ahnert @sebastianahnert.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are invited for a full time post doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Honestly hard to watch NEH/NEA budgets pass without cuts while also still seeing many former colleagues struggle to find jobs months after so many of us were booted out. It takes people to build relationships with applicants and to allocate grants responsibly.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Wishing a happy holiday season to friends, colleagues, and any publishers who saved me time and energy this year by allowing authors to share zero embargo AAMs. You know who you are(n't). 🎁

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social & all the press directors & staff we worked with to support OA books & the work of presses. And of course, thanks to my incredible team at NEH who led these OA efforts, particularly @perrycollins.bsky.social, @halperta.bsky.social, & @bethanyfarrell.bsky.social.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org £33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences! plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...

plusportal.perrettlaver.com

Perrett Laver - Leading Global Executive Search Firm

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Interesting piece, but diamond OA is not "nascent" @science.org. This model has been developing for decades, across continents, as long as scholars could put text up online. Nonprofit pubs know what we're doing--we just need to stop redirecting $$ to corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...

science.org

After Coalition S disrupted scientific publishing, new plan retreats from strict requirements

The group’s latest strategy emphasizes consultation, lacks spending pledges

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Feeling like all my posts are the same these days. Undermining academic freedom and instructor safety--and just making everyone's life harder--under the guise of helping students is the opposite of what the affordability movement is all about. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Fla. Board Says Syllabi, Reading Lists Must Be Posted Publicly

Faculty at some Florida public universities argue the new policy is less about transparency for students and more about chilling academic freedom.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Thinking today about all the brilliant international colleagues I've had over the years, and how much they've taught me. Can't imagine a university that turns its back on global expertise.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Seeing increasing evidence of budget cuts and threats to academic freedom that are pushing administrators toward an even narrower vision of what "counts" toward scholarship. This is a moment when we most need to be imaginative and capacious, but we're swimming against the tide.

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Dylan Lewis @iamdylanlewis.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Paper engineering in pop-up books is always so fun— today’s treat is Star Trek: Giant in the Universe (1977)

Pop-up illustration of a space ship and a planet

Pop-up illustration of several characters

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

It’s almost #OAWeek, which means an extra busy calendar and a new addition to our OA critter sticker collection. Files CC0 for anyone who needs some extra joy drive.google.com/file/d/1WCg7... #DHmakes

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Feeling all of this too, now a few months into my job. Thanks to all who sent good wishes and welcomed me back. Odd to feel so grateful while also feeling so much lingering anger at the relative indifference of those actually leading the agency.

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

So bummed to learn my local library system is suspending ILL due to terminated IMLS funding. Always appreciate their help tracking down some great indie kids books for the 2yo last year. Scary and sad to think about this at scale, isolating so many libraries and patrons.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Happy birthday, @paulshortt.bsky.social! I know I married the right person because you find a dozen yogurts more romantic than a dozen roses. ❤️

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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 18/09/2025

Trying to keep my professional chill but I’m SO excited Carnegie Mellon is launching a cluster hire in computational humanities—MULTIPLE JOBS! 1. Asst Teaching Track Prof in Computational Humanities - apply.interfolio.com/173622 2. Asst Tenure Track Prof in CH - apply.interfolio.com/173626

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Getting back to needlepoint after a long break. These are adapted from #publicdomain illustrations in this series: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... #dhmakes

Two framed needlepoints featuring flowers. On the left is an unidentified purple flower with green leaves. On the right are bright pink hyacinths.

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John Borghi @johnborghi.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

A friendly reminder that the NIH Public Access Policy IS NOT “you must publish open access” but rather “you must ensure your copy of your paper is deposited into PubMed Central.” Yes, it is very confusing. Yes, you should be able to do that deposit yourself without paying anything to a journal.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Saw a performance of Puffs tonight and it was honestly such a boost to see stellar high school actors having a great time. Warms my copyright librarian heart to have this example of “transformative and transfigured” #fairuse in the world. As they reminded us, “She doesn’t get a farthing!” 🦡🦡🦡

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

There’s tons in this EO to scream at, from taking aim at past grantmaking to to “requir[ing] all discretionary grants to permit termination for convenience”😡 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/07/2025

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/histori...

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

TFW you reach for the last bit of breakfast tart you were saving, only to realize you ate it thirty minutes ago. 💔

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 21/07/2025

I’m delighted to announce the launch of KCWorks for Institutions! The Knowledge Commons team is ready to support institutions and organizations seeking a values-enacted, nonprofit, community-governed alternative to corporate hosted repository services. about.hcommons.org/2025/07/18/a...

about.hcommons.org

Announcing KCWorks for Institutions: a hosted repository that works for you – Knowledge Commons

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Such a wonderful group and wonderful discussion, with panelists in three different countries. Thanks to all who joined! #DH2025

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Love is approving your partner's two-step credential when their phone is at the other end of the house.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

On Friday AM I'm chairing a panel where I originally planned to announce a new NEH grant program on sustainability. Even though I don't get to do that, I'm excited for a rich discussion w/ panelists incl @jmotis.bsky.social @kfen.bsky.social as we consider our work in the current landscape. #DH2025

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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live! 🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026 🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community! #DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Such an incredible undertaking, and just one example of how much we'll lose as cultural and humanities funding is cut to the bone.

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Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I give a tiny amount to @proghist.bsky.social, and I also give to the Internet Archive and Wikipedia. I gave to the papyri.info endowment drive. @copticscript has a page now about donating copticscriptorium.org/donate

papyri.xn--infos-2v3b

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Question: Which initiatives and orgs do folks in DH/GLAM feel strongly enough about to give your own money? Would love to have a list of orgs that make individual giving easy, no matter what someone can contribute.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

👇Favorite example, when my toddler came home with an "incident report" reading "Friend stuck their finger in A's mouth and he bit it. Friends were separated." Maybe they will be best buds later, but I'm pretty sure friend is the wrong word here.

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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 24/06/2025

Huge news in AI copyright world. Still reading the opinion, but encouraged that Judge Alsup got it right on training. Act I Scene 1 in a long drama, but a promising start.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Back at @uflib.bsky.social as of today! It's both nice and weird to sit down, log on to an account I haven't touched in 18 months, turn off that pesky auto away, and just get started again.

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Cheers to a boss and friend I’ll appreciate forever. @brettbobley.bsky.social always took me seriously, let me run away with ideas that both succeeded and failed, and engaged the field with deep kindness. #ThanksBrett

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Perry Collins @perrycollins.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In between stints working at NEH, I got the chance to co-lead an institute on DH+Caribbean Studies. It led me to new friends, colleagues, and opportunities to learn from a truly community-driven field. nehcaribbean.domains.uflib.ufl.edu

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My career is deeply indebted to the @neh-odh.bsky.social . They supported the kind of interdisciplinary projects that colleagues weren’t ready to support or credit. They sent the message that technology and the humanities mattered. They pushed research to be more innovative. For pennies!

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Oh geez, difficult to lay out the loss of #neh $$ for our DH Center & that our work has been dismissed so resoundingly. Collab w/ Nick S., Christina M. & Shannon M on #DH @ SJSU demos how much we've done. We'll keep going Eternally & massively grateful #dh #digitalhumanities #ach @ach.bsky.social

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