Brett Bobley
@brettbobley.bsky.social
Working as an advisor to Schmidt Sciences for their HAVI DH program (AI + Humanities/cultural heritage). Former CIO for the NEH & founder of the Office of Digital Humanities.
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Come work with me at the Library of Virginia in Richmond!
We're an awesome state library/archive with 100m+ items going back 400+ years.
Grant writer / donor comms ($50k-$55k): lvafoundation.org/grants-and-e...
Director of org excellence & assessment ($90k+): www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/directo...
We're an awesome state library/archive with 100m+ items going back 400+ years.
Grant writer / donor comms ($50k-$55k): lvafoundation.org/grants-and-e...
Director of org excellence & assessment ($90k+): www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/directo...
February 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Come work with me at the Library of Virginia in Richmond!
We're an awesome state library/archive with 100m+ items going back 400+ years.
Grant writer / donor comms ($50k-$55k): lvafoundation.org/grants-and-e...
Director of org excellence & assessment ($90k+): www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/directo...
We're an awesome state library/archive with 100m+ items going back 400+ years.
Grant writer / donor comms ($50k-$55k): lvafoundation.org/grants-and-e...
Director of org excellence & assessment ($90k+): www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/directo...
Great piece by Ian Bogost about liberal arts colleges (gift link down thread).
I spent several weeks this fall visiting elite liberal arts colleges, on the theory that these small, wealthy schools—with a singular focus on undergraduate education and almost no federal research money to threaten—are best poised to weather the crisis in higher education. Here's what I learned:
The Accidental Winners of the War on Higher Ed
Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Great piece by Ian Bogost about liberal arts colleges (gift link down thread).
Quick reminder: This Tuesday, the HAVI team @schmidtsciences.bsky.social will be doing a webinar about our current digital humanities/AI RFP. It is January 20, 2026, 1PM EST. Register here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences
Overview [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...
www.schmidtsciences.org
January 19, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Quick reminder: This Tuesday, the HAVI team @schmidtsciences.bsky.social will be doing a webinar about our current digital humanities/AI RFP. It is January 20, 2026, 1PM EST. Register here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
Very thoughtful piece from @alondra.bsky.social about US AI policy and why "deregulatory" is a misleading description of its aims.
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 17, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Very thoughtful piece from @alondra.bsky.social about US AI policy and why "deregulatory" is a misleading description of its aims.
This looks like a really interesting CFP!
How does DH travel outside the academy? What impact and what careers do DH skills enable? CFP for our next excellent (and necessary) book in the DDH series, edited by Jeanelle Horcasitas, @lisaironcutter.bsky.social, and @kallewesterling.bsky.social
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-dh-...
CFP: Navigating Digital Humanities Careers Beyond the Ivory Tower | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu
January 15, 2026 at 7:02 PM
This looks like a really interesting CFP!
Congrats to Ramón Saldívar, who just won a lifetime scholarly achievement award here at #MLA2026. Also thanks for his many years of service on the NEH National Council.
January 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Congrats to Ramón Saldívar, who just won a lifetime scholarly achievement award here at #MLA2026. Also thanks for his many years of service on the NEH National Council.
I'm at the #MLA2026 awards ceremony. Congrats to @elotroalex.bsky.social for his Lois Roth award for translation!
January 10, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I'm at the #MLA2026 awards ceremony. Congrats to @elotroalex.bsky.social for his Lois Roth award for translation!
Great piece in the NYT about this exciting new announcement from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social to build new space observatories. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/s...
Google’s Former C.E.O. Wants to Build a Cosmic Search Engine
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Great piece in the NYT about this exciting new announcement from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social to build new space observatories. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/s...
Hi folks. I'll be speaking at #MLA2026! It is session 438, The Humanities Funding Landscape, Saturday at 10:15AM in MTCC - 606. Come learn about our humanities programs @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. I'll also be talking a bit about my last (sad) days at the NEH. Grab me if you wanna chat!
January 6, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Hi folks. I'll be speaking at #MLA2026! It is session 438, The Humanities Funding Landscape, Saturday at 10:15AM in MTCC - 606. Come learn about our humanities programs @schmidtsciences.bsky.social. I'll also be talking a bit about my last (sad) days at the NEH. Grab me if you wanna chat!
NB: Stranger Things is finally over.
January 1, 2026 at 4:56 AM
NB: Stranger Things is finally over.
Brand new Christmas music from Goldfish Funeral (Jack Bobley): Rudolph Piss / Florence and the Machine. Enjoy! album.link/s/72HHawA6t5...
Rudolph Piss by Goldfish Funeral
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
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December 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Brand new Christmas music from Goldfish Funeral (Jack Bobley): Rudolph Piss / Florence and the Machine. Enjoy! album.link/s/72HHawA6t5...
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The plenary videos from the CNI meeting are now available:
🤝Shaping CNI’s Future Together
📚A Landscape of AI in Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social
🏆AUPresses Stand UP Award
@brettbobley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
💰The State of Funding for US Higher Ed, Science, and Technology in a Time of Change
🤝Shaping CNI’s Future Together
📚A Landscape of AI in Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social
🏆AUPresses Stand UP Award
@brettbobley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
💰The State of Funding for US Higher Ed, Science, and Technology in a Time of Change
CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting - YouTube
CNI Fall 2025 Membership Meeting videos at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill Washington, DC. Learn more at: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2025
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December 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The plenary videos from the CNI meeting are now available:
🤝Shaping CNI’s Future Together
📚A Landscape of AI in Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social
🏆AUPresses Stand UP Award
@brettbobley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
💰The State of Funding for US Higher Ed, Science, and Technology in a Time of Change
🤝Shaping CNI’s Future Together
📚A Landscape of AI in Libraries @bcgl.bsky.social
🏆AUPresses Stand UP Award
@brettbobley.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social
💰The State of Funding for US Higher Ed, Science, and Technology in a Time of Change
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AUPresses hosted a ceremony for its annual Stand UP Award. This year, the prize was awarded to Brett Bobley (l.), the founding director of the Office of Digital Humanities within the National Endowment for the Humanities. Presenting the award was AUPresses executive director Peter Berkery (r.).
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
AUPresses hosted a ceremony for its annual Stand UP Award. This year, the prize was awarded to Brett Bobley (l.), the founding director of the Office of Digital Humanities within the National Endowment for the Humanities. Presenting the award was AUPresses executive director Peter Berkery (r.).
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Amazing news! I'm completely thrilled that our Envisioning Print project has been selected for a 2025 @schmidtsciences HAVI award, + honoured to be part of this cohort of humanities teams advancing AI-driven approaches to understanding human histories and cultures.
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Amazing news! I'm completely thrilled that our Envisioning Print project has been selected for a 2025 @schmidtsciences HAVI award, + honoured to be part of this cohort of humanities teams advancing AI-driven approaches to understanding human histories and cultures.
Awesome new humanities project, funded by the HAVI program @schmidtsciences.bsky.social.
Learn more about our award and tremendous team here: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/r... @manchester.ac.uk
Researchers from the University of Manchester in partnership with the University of Oxford have been awarded funding from Schmidt Sciences for their project Envisioning Print with AI Computer Vision.
The Envisioning Print project brings together an expert team of textual scholars, book historians, computer scientists, library data experts, and research software engineers from the University of Man...
www.manchester.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Awesome new humanities project, funded by the HAVI program @schmidtsciences.bsky.social.
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SUCHO has received the 2025 Karl Preusker medal from Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID)! The jury selected us as an example of “courage, solidarity, professional excellence, and the central role of libraries, archives, and digital infrastructures in the resilience of democratic societies.”
Auszeichnungen
Der Dachverband Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID) e. V. hat die Karl-Preusker-Medaille 2025 dem Ukrainischen Bibliotheksverband verliehen. „Ausgezeichnet wird damit der außergewöhnliche Einsa...
www.bsb-muenchen.de
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
SUCHO has received the 2025 Karl Preusker medal from Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID)! The jury selected us as an example of “courage, solidarity, professional excellence, and the central role of libraries, archives, and digital infrastructures in the resilience of democratic societies.”
Thanks for the photo, Martin! And thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social for the award! I am honored. And lastly thanks to @cni-org.bsky.social for hosting the ceremony.
@brettbobley.bsky.social named "2025 AUPresses Stand UP Award" Winner at at @cni-org.bsky.social #CNIfall25 bit.ly/3Mysh1O
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Thanks for the photo, Martin! And thanks to @aupresses.bsky.social for the award! I am honored. And lastly thanks to @cni-org.bsky.social for hosting the ceremony.
Deborah Altenburg of APLU just gave us a very thorough (but sobering) overview of the current federal grant funding situation for higher ed. #CNIf25
December 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Deborah Altenburg of APLU just gave us a very thorough (but sobering) overview of the current federal grant funding situation for higher ed. #CNIf25
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December 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).
This is so cool. With the help if an early NEH ODH grant, Dave and his colleagues have built planetariums!
Yes, your grant helped launch it all. Built a 30ft diameter planetarium in our Lower East Side Girls Club, played Carl Sagan for 10 years. Retired, then got recruited to build a new planetarium in a Boys&Girls Club in Queens, NYC. Mamdani and AOC territory! Opening 2028? Your work reverberates...
December 11, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is so cool. With the help if an early NEH ODH grant, Dave and his colleagues have built planetariums!
Wow, Dave. This is going back a while!
Reviving a 2010 project to build a mini-dome for planetarium production and preview. With help from an NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant (thanks @brettbobley.bsky.social !)
we started work toward a real planetarium, built in 2013.
From the Wayback Machine:
web.archive.org/web/20180611...
we started work toward a real planetarium, built in 2013.
From the Wayback Machine:
web.archive.org/web/20180611...
Domebase
web.archive.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Wow, Dave. This is going back a while!
Another awesome project, "Print & Probability: Using AI to Identify Printers of Clandestine Letterpress Books." Congrats to chrisvvarren.bsky.social & Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick!
December 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Another awesome project, "Print & Probability: Using AI to Identify Printers of Clandestine Letterpress Books." Congrats to chrisvvarren.bsky.social & Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick!
Let me emphasize an important point: the HAVI program is open to researchers around the world. Feel free to apply from any nation or partner with folks abroad.
New grant program announcement: You've heard me talk this morning about those 23 new DH awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program? Well, we just announced our new RFP for 2026! Teams can be global too! Please consider applying. RFP here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...
2026 Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute (HAVI) RFP - Schmidt Sciences
Overview [Read the full RFP] Schmidt Sciences is requesting proposals to the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), aimed at fostering research in the digital humanities with a particular focus ...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Let me emphasize an important point: the HAVI program is open to researchers around the world. Feel free to apply from any nation or partner with folks abroad.