iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please spread the word to graduate students about this professional development workshop on Friday. We (the program organizers for this past year's RSVP conference) will share advice on "How to Conference Effectively." rs4vp.org/how-to-confe...

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How to Conference Effectively – RSVP

Get ready for the 2027 conference season by learning tips and tricks from the pros! Our 2026 conference committee are ready to share their expertise.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Public comment period is open for the disastrous proposed changes to OMB rules on federal grants — essentially allowing political scrutiny, review, cancellation of funded academic research. The feds must reply to every substantial comment. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

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Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Matthew Chambers @matthewchambers.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I'm excited to say it's up and official! Please write if you have any questions or interest in writing a short monograph for the "Periodicals and Print Matter" strand of the Cambridge Elements Publishing and Book Culture series. I'd love to hear from you! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Please encourage any early career & NTT scholars doing fantastic work on Victorian poetries to submit to @victorianpoetry.bsky.social ‘s 2026 Early Career Prize — more info in the thread (have not had enough coffee, text of the call is embedded in a reply to the post linked below)!

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A well-meaning person recently asked me “Do you think AI will take your job?” An answer came this morning in an email from someone I taught 15 years ago.

Obviously, my own life has taken a bit
of a turn from the humanities, but I did want to express that your teaching was absolutely fundamental to me—from Victorian British Lit to the really important things like the respect, creativity, and, honestly, the amount of fun and being oneself that can be achieved within the classroom and academia writ large.

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Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Love this video featuring @themorbidzoo.bsky.social that @ncstate.bsky.social created. Mariana graduated with an MA in English with a film studies concentration and she's been rocking her #YouTube #videoessay channel ever since it started as her thesis project! ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA15...

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Turning Horror Film Analysis Into Popular Youtube Channel

YouTube video by NC State CHASS

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Want to go back entirely to print for fall Brit lit class. But anthologies have gotten so expensive since the last time I required one. Anyone else dealing with this?

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Our AI & Society group is hosting a symposium on "Ethics and Agentic AI" at NC State Univ on May 26, keynoted by David Danks of UVa. Please share and consider submitting: sites.google.com/view/ai-soci...

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Centering AI in Society and Ethics Initiative - News and Events

Upcoming Events:

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Occasionally a bsky thread flares in splendor through the dark like the first firework you ever saw

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Centering AI in Society and Ethics Initiative - News and Events

Upcoming Events:

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"Reading Digital Victorians is fun" -- favorite feedback ever. Thanks @helenagoodwyn.bsky.social for the thoughtful review doi.org/10.1353/vpr....

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Diana Bellonby @dbellonby.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

It's officially OUT! Please ask your library to order #VictorianGaslighting. In honor of Women's History Month, you can purchase the hardcover at a 30% discount using the code SWHM26. Happy (belated) Book Birthday, @noragilbert.bsky.social and @tara-macdonald.bsky.social! @sunypress.bsky.social

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Victorian Gaslighting

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You can’t spell imposter without “poster”

Academic presenting a poster from a laptop with absolutely no one coming by

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Sign the petition to have Jae Edwards reinstated! actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17/02/2026

Shame on NC State for firing an employee who, under the slimiest and most cowardly of circumstances, was filmed expressing commitment to students’ well-being.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Hello thought police. Logically they should also deploy surveillance on all student-submitted work to prevent any unsanctioned learning.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

"Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list" -- worth your time, from Adam Smyth, who lists all the stuff he dropped or which didn't work adamsmyth.substack.com/p/abandoned-...

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Abandoned and failed projects, ca. 1998-2025: an incomplete, chronological list

[This is an updated version of the original from 2021.]

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I did a talk on just how deep the overlaps are between Frankenstein and AI last year! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF1...

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Artificial Intelligence Gothic with Dr Tobias Wilson-Bates

YouTube video by Gothica UoB

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Gave students an assignment to rewrite a snippet of Hard Times as, instead, a "condition of America" novel circa 2025. The winner: a scene from a school board meeting in "Woketown."

media.tenor.com

an older woman with blue hair and red glasses says absolutely perfect

Alt: Me appreciatively grading a student's essay

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

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Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Privacy is not about something to hide. And invasions of privacy are about power, not uncovering hidden things. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Donated. Contribute a little if you can.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A scene straight out of Calvin Kasulke's *Several People Are Typing* -- the best novel written on Slack

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Supposed to give a pedagogy talk next week about AI and I might just scroll Bluesky with the audience

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com

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Victorian Studies: Who Cares?

The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Oregon State U is accepting proposals, aimed at developing public-facing writing, for four public humanities fellowships on "Trust in the Age of Generative AI" (apply by 4/25) prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...

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Public Humanities Fellowship | PRAx

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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

"Democracy demands wisdom & vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster & support a form of education, & access to the arts & the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds & wherever located masters of their technology & not its unthinking servants." www.neh.gov/about/histor...

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National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-209)

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Feels awkward in the timeline, but I'll be talking about how scholarly fields depend on hidden infrastructures, uncelebrated knowledge workers, and government investments that, until like yesterday, have been so vital.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Grateful to Bluesky and these folks for rapidly sharing info. Our NEH AI center grant was affected, and Jason's bsky thread has now made it all the way to our dean, vice chancellor, and provost, now starting to fight back.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It’s not just the Ivies. They cancelled visas for two international students at NC State. No consult with the university, no explanation, no process. internationalservices.ncsu.edu/announcements/

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Announcements

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/03/2025

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

rs4vp.org

Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP

Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!

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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

(4/4)... Support the ALA's campaign to save the IMLS: www.ala.org/advocacy/sho... Support to AAM's campaign to save the IMLS: www.aam-us.org/2025/03/17/u... Take action here: action.everylibrary.org/eoimls2025?f... #ncph #PublicHistory #PublicHistorians

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Show Up for Our Libraries

Join us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Unexpected outcome and actually good news: NC State appoints its next chancellor news.ncsu.edu/2025/03/18/k... an alum of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences!

news.ncsu.edu

Kevin Howell Named NC State’s 15th Chancellor

He succeeds Randy Woodson, who is retiring after 15 years of service.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Super pissed that Word's new "Editor" feature gave my draft a B+. Emailing Microsoft to ask if they can bump it up to a 90.

Screen shot of Microsoft Word's new "Editor" sidebar with a score of 88% based on who the hell knows what

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Binding Media is out! In this book, @elikaortega.bsky.social proposes the notion of "binding media" — a practice where authors & publishers "fasten together" a codex and electronic or digital media to create literary works in the form of hybrid print-digital objects www.sup.org/books/bindin...

Book cover of Binding Media: Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas by Élika Ortega

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

The National Humanities Center - not yet on bksy - just opened an online store for merch. This is the first item for sale. 💪💪 energy like: Get a fellowship and find out.

Ripped dude in a National Humanities Center branded tank top

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Eomer: You have no authority here! Your orders mean nothing! Wormtongue: Oh, but this order does not come from me. It comes from the King. He signed it this morning.

Grima Wormtongue and Theoden, King of Rohan, from Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Crucial read about the growth of big tech in defense contracting, the "efficiency" and errors of AI target identification, and the "sovereign cloud"

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

OH following FL in opening higher ed to political surveillance and distributed online harassment. Disgusting. Feel awful for colleagues who’ve worked so hard against this. Worse for those affected.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Re: NIH: the UNC System Office was so eager to comply with EO on DEI, noting in its memo that the work of “doctors, scientists, professors, and researchers … in the fields of science, chemistry, research, and medicine …will continue unabated in an emerging regulatory landscape.” Welp. Your move.

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

What's wrong with this picture? The first search result for "Frankenstein" is a 1922 copy scanned from Princeton library, to which Google Books/Play has helpfully added this cover image: books.google.com/books/about/...

Rankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 04/02/2025

👋Hello Bluesky! We are now officially "live" and will regularly post announcements, tidbits, and other exciting news that will interest our members and friends across the sky! Follow us, tag us, invite your friends to join us and we will endeavor to do the same!

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I hope that Thomas's work helps underscore the distinction between humanities' targeted uses of machine learning and the discourse about generative AI

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We lost my dear aunt Ulla yesterday. I need you to know she was a complete badass en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulla_Ha...

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Ulla Hansen - Wikipedia

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Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I was sad to have missed Elizabeth McHenry's lectures at the British Library last month so I was delighted to see that they were on YouTube. Well worth watching for anyone in print culture studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL-C...

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Panizzi Lectures 2024: In Search of Black Readers

YouTube video by British Library

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Working on crafty digital / digital crafty things? Christina Corfield & I are co-editing a special issue of Feminist Media Histories (@femmediahist.bsky.social) on "Craftwork within the Digital." 500-word proposal due Feb 15. #DHmakes online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...

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