iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

If you work at Cal State + are an AI refuser/angry re the renewal of the OpenAI contract, take the CSU AI Survey! I suspect last yr's data skewed towards enthusiasts/early adopters (certainly on my campus). It's important that the data reflect the full range of attitudes aisurvey.sdsu.edu/live/

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CSU AI Survey Response Rates

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 23h

Apropos of nothing, I suddenly recall the time I was the only woman in a colonial US history grad seminar. The convo veered to the “acceptable number of rapes” in a particular war. The stodgy male prof let it continue until I, the lone female, stood up and threatened to leave unless he stopped it

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Keegan Osinski @keeganosinski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is what happens when you offload your collection development to the vendors to put together “packages” of whatever content THEY want to sell you

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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who will organize an "another university is possible" conference with me?

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Last day off of work before I return to campus. Spending it reading for pleasure (for the first time in more than a month) and eating leftover birthday cake

A large, decadent piece of chocolate cake with layers of white frosting decorated with white and red rose petals. The cake sits in a pool of swirled dark and white chocolate sauces. Blurred in the background is a small white box with a sticker from Extraordinary Desserts in San Diego

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Using the excuse of number of majors to cut disciplines and departments weakens every major at a college as surely as the environmental damage of removing a keystone species from a habitat.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The passing weather system (a remnant of the most recent hurricane?) produced a lovely pink sky along side a double rainbow for tonight’s dog walk

The western sky glowing bright orange-pink a few moments after sunset. The tops of trees are partially visible in silhouette

The eastern sky featuring one end of one of tonight’s rainbows. Eastern mountains are partially visible in the background between the trees lining either side of the street we were walking down

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We should let people dream of something besides labor

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.com

EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

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Event:WikiProject Organized Labour Month Online Campaign - Meta-Wiki

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Because I hate reading e-books AND want to support the amazing @walshbr.bsky.social, I bought 2 physical copies of his book (one for me and one for my DH Initiative Co-Director, @kyliesago.bsky.social). Can’t wait to dig in!

Two copies of Brandon Walsh’s “Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change” sit on a wood surface

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A magical autumn sunset 😍

The western sky after sunset. The sky is full of puffy clouds glowing bright red over the tree line

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Celebrated the start of my 50s — what I’m calling my goddess era — the best way I know how. With beaches and wine

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Spending the last day of my 40s driving up the California coast and picnicking on the beach

Pacific Ocean lapping the rocky shore of Malibu on a clear autumn day

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ACH is thrilled to announce our newest officers and executive council members! Joining our team of officers are Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Mary Borgo Ton, and Winnie E. Pérez Martínez. Our new executive council members are Jing Han and Hilary Havens. buff.ly/P5O2rWJ

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Welcoming Our Newest Officers

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you, like me, love soothing, low-stakes television, then I see your Great British Bake Off and raise you this show where historians work to build a castle using only 13th century methods.

SECRETS OF THE CASTLE with Ruth, Peter, and Tom, showing the three hosts in period dress standing in front of a partially constructed castle.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For ~20 yrs I thought of my dissertation as a one-off, esp when I moved from history to libraries & digital humanities. But I just realized how connected it all is. Back then, I wrote about the spaces musical films opened up for imagining different possibilities. And I’m still writing about that now

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Julie Setele @juliesetele.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Analog collage! Made from old Martha Stewart magazines, plus a lil Vogue. The original text asked whether your thyroid is making you depressed, but I look around right now and don’t see a lot that makes me NOT feel depressed, so I wanted to play on that.

A light brown horse with dark brown spots is collaged atop a bed of red flowers in the shape of human lips and white flowers in the background, with the text “could your goose bumps be making you depressed?”

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Because I’m arguing for a joyful approach to refusing the AI-powered university, my calendar is now instructing me to engage in joy 🪩

Screenshot of my Google calendar. Saturday and Sunday are blocked off in bright yellow from 10am-6pm for JOY

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dedicating this weekend to ruthlessly cutting precious word babies to get down to the word limit. Consoling myself by saving each and every one of them elsewhere for future rants against the AI-powered university

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh my lord do not and I mean do not ever post photos of mushrooms and crowdsource whether they’re edible, and NEVER use AI to make that determination. My mom is a botanist who did multiple units in mycology and SHE has moments where she’s not sure. When in doubt, do not eat unknown mushrooms.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is my new campaign: Humanize the Homework! Did you know? A human wrote that! Human work deserves human work in turn.

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Ben Cotton (he/him) @funnelfiasco.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If management tells you not to bring a union rep, bring two.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Class went better than I hoped! Started w students writing responses to the Q: What does "the digital" mean to you? After sharing, we did a digital experiences walk (like a privilege walk) in response to prompts re how we navigate digital devices/spaces. Then we talked about data+surveillance ...

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m throwing out my prep for my intro to DH session for the 1st yr class in a few hours. The session fell flat in the honors section. Instead of playing w a viz tool + sharing a bunch of other tools, I’m gonna try an exercise to get students thinking about their relationships to digital platforms…

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thinking a lot today about how we internalize the harm inflicted on us by our neoliberal universities, and how easy it is to inflict that harm on each other and ourselves. Choosing not to harm is an intentional act of love and solidarity, even and especially within these cruel structures.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On Monday, October 5th from 1-2 ET @winnieepm.bsky.social will join me for a broad discussion of the work teaching can do in the world as part of a virtual book launch. Register below to join! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/17640296

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Congratulations to my dear friend @walshbr.bsky.social on the release of this much-needed book 🥳. Our #DigitalHumanities community can’t wait to read it together and talk to you later this semester

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Y’all, my darling nibbling, currently in her first semester of college, sent me an op-ed she wrote about oppressive beauty standards. I suggested she might want to take a gender studies class and she said that sounds cool. I’m getting an A+ in aunting 🤩

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm working on a 3,000 word essay about refusing the AI-powered university (scheduled to come out next April). The complete first draft came in at a whopping ~9000 words. It seems I have a lot to say 😅

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Bonus sparkly AI-fighting “kapow” sticker cut from an unused piece of the original Luddite sticker #DHmakes

Peacock blue Hydro Flask water bottle covered in stickers. A sparkly sticker in the shape of a cartoon “kapow” has been placed next to the sparkly Luddite sticker that reads: Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods since 1811

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"logics of control and punishment runs deep in our profession. This looks like overt policing by installing metal detectors, hiring uniformed security guards, ... library fines; code of conduct policies that explicitly target houseless community members [and ID policies that exclude] immigrants"

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No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries – In the Library with the Lead Pipe

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one day, this administration will be effectively over. and we’ll probably do some collective pondering on what’s next. colleges could seize that opportunity to reassert the value of college as a public good as opposed to career prep. i think the ones that do will be the future of HE.

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reading @walshbr.bsky.social's draft gave me such energy+hope, & heard same from other early readers. If you work around higher ed (teach, staff, library, infra), he sees the many ways we teach (not just classrooms) & how that can be action toward solidarity+justice in our non-neutral institutions.

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Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨ @wolfproofpress.com · 12/09/2026

Sparkly Luddites en masse for Diego State digital humanities 💪✨ coordinate well w/their actual digital humanities center disco ball 🪩💜 (Ty @plach.bsky.social!)

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The policy changes "included eliminating all references to tenure in school policy, changes to the academic calendar, reducing access to specialized classes and transferring authority over curriculum from faculty experts to administrators." www.kosu.org/usao-regents...

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Regents at Oklahoma liberal arts college approve major policy changes, despite protest

The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Board of Regents made major policy and structural changes on Thursday. Hundreds of people watched, urging them to reconsider.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

September is the new April. This month is kicking my butt 🥴

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Huzzah! My Luddite stickers arrived. Can’t wait to distribute these on campus next week! Thanks @wolfproofpress.com and @literaturegeek.bsky.social

25 glittery Luddite stickers fanned out on a wooden table. The sticker features the iconic Luddite image and reads: Breaking machines that enshittify livelihoods since 1811

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Emily Guerrero @gossippractice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thrilled to have this article out in the world with @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social , a journal I’ve read closely for over a decade. It’s a career highlight to be published in it.

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In the Library with the Lead Pipe @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No Soft Cops, No Saviours: Abolitionist Notes Against Social Work in Libraries by @gossippractice.bsky.social

In this article, I look at the idea of hiring social workers into public libraries through the lens of abolitionist librarianship. Often presented as an obvious answer to make libraries more inclusive, there is little evidence within the published literature that this model is more effective than others. I argue that rather than expanding care and support for patrons, this model replicates dynamics of soft carcerality and saviourism within our organizations. Using principles of police abolition as my theoretical grounding, I offer alternative models and fields that we can instead draw on as we work toward more inclusive and liberatory public libraries.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In which I learned, at today's meeting of the @ach.bsky.social Executive Council, that #DigitalHumanities folks seem to universally love this song 🤩

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Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by TechnotronicVEVO

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This week (Sat) marks my 10 year anniversary working as a #DigitalHumanities Librarian here. I was hired to create/lead our DH Center, which turns 10 next year. What started as an idea among a few people has blossomed into a thriving space of curiosity, experimentation, play, and dance parties! 🪩🕺🥳

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's that time of the year when I have to remind teaching faculty to be respectful of librarian colleagues. The latest: a prof wants a tool wkshp *outside* of his scheduled class time (would likely require many mtgs). He can't be bothered to hold time for me but expects me to drop everything for him

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Nodding Dan Levy

Alt: Dan Levy as David Rose in Schitt's Creek, nodding and saying mmhmmmm

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This week we are going to arbitration over whether grads who've received an honorary fellowship that's just a CV line & no money & who still work as TAs/RAs are "workers" or not, bc 1 dean doesn't want them to be eligible for union protections. Most of union work is this: dealing w/ petty bosses.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Our basil won’t quit! We just harvested 3 large colanders of the stuff, and there’s still a ton left

Two colanders overflowing with freshly picked basil sit on a granite countertop (i dumped the 3rd colander of basil right into the sink)

A big bunch of freshly cut basil piled in a steel sink

Our basil plant after removal of a ton of leaves. It’s in a raised bed made of bricks, surrounded by a mulch path. The edge of an orange hibiscus bush is visible in the left background

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

After several experiments, I figured out—and documented—the tweaks needed to replicate this magical batch of cookies 😋

Closeup of thick golden chocolate chip cookies lined up on a black wire cooling rack on a granite countertop

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