Micah Bateman
@micahbateman.bsky.social
Asst Prof in LIS. DH, CHI, libraries/archives, digital heritage, poetry. Finishing Lyric Publics: The Uses of Poetry in American Social-Media Campaigns. Opinions do not reflect employer. bit.ly/MicahBateman
Just me at every conference.
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Just me at every conference.
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Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
You can check out the first official volume from the DH Tech Symposium, edited by Julia Damerow and @suttonkoeser.bsky.social.
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Edited by Julia Damerow and Rebecca Sutton Koeser
anthology.ach.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social
Happening now!
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happening now!
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
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ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
ummm it was actually Walt Whitman who first called a NYC ferry the friendship express
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Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Hi DH friends, join us on Nov 10, 10-11 am CT, for “New Book History Research with Internet Data”, a hybrid panel sponsored by SHAR, to explore challenges and opportunities of using Internet data and digital methods for book history research. More info in the poster attached and comments :)
Why college towns are great: This one just voted 84% to *increase* sales tax to support housing initiatives and infrastructure.
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Why college towns are great: This one just voted 84% to *increase* sales tax to support housing initiatives and infrastructure.
Every time a post of mine is saved, my immediate thought is that someone is shoring up documentation for a case against me.
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every time a post of mine is saved, my immediate thought is that someone is shoring up documentation for a case against me.
Today years old using GPT to produce Apps Scripts for Google Sheets and I am flying
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today years old using GPT to produce Apps Scripts for Google Sheets and I am flying
Join me and smarter people than me for a cool panel hosted by Luddy on *using Internet data for book history research*: 11aEST/10aCST next Monday, Nov. 3
ILS Panel on “New Book History Research with Internet Data”
This is a panel on “Book History with Internet Data”, with 8 panelists from different IMLS/iSchools, funded by SHARP.
events.iu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Join me and smarter people than me for a cool panel hosted by Luddy on *using Internet data for book history research*: 11aEST/10aCST next Monday, Nov. 3
I feel like AI is making 98% of its users more vapid and 2% of its users smarter, and because politics cannot tolerate any nuance, we "must not say so" of the latter group.
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I feel like AI is making 98% of its users more vapid and 2% of its users smarter, and because politics cannot tolerate any nuance, we "must not say so" of the latter group.
Happy no allergy meds season to all who (can) celebrate!
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Happy no allergy meds season to all who (can) celebrate!
FT lit journal managing editor and lecturer in English at UW-Whitewater
Managing Editor - COLS | Literature, Writing, and Film
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November 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
FT lit journal managing editor and lecturer in English at UW-Whitewater
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If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
Institute – Library Freedom Project
libraryfreedom.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're looking for a group of library workers who understand the power of labor organizing, social justice, & anti-racism, consider applying for the Library Freedom Institute. It's a 15-week program in privacy, intellectual freedom, & critical technology. libraryfreedom.org/institute/
How can we get Baker & Taylor's distribution data quickly?
October 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
How can we get Baker & Taylor's distribution data quickly?
This is the snow day of the cloud era
October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is the snow day of the cloud era
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Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Part of a student's response to today's session on Joe Brainard... @nysnetwork.bsky.social
RIP MTV. You were my only window into any counterculture at all growing up, even if you also fed me Kid Rock
October 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
RIP MTV. You were my only window into any counterculture at all growing up, even if you also fed me Kid Rock
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This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.
October 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is the second library director this year to win a settlement after being inappropriately fired over not banning books the board insisted be pulled.
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This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.
seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.
www.publishersweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This is a huge collapse in the book distribution business, especially following the closure of Small Press Distribution last year. Baker & Taylor--originally established in 1828--has been central to the library market for decades.
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My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....
August 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
My co-authors, Jana Diesner, @tedunderwood.me, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social, @gworthey.bsky.social and
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....
@profdownie.bsky.social, and I are excited to share our paper in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social "Who decides what is read on Goodreads?" on book review sponsorship, open access at doi.org/10.1177/2053....
New once-in-a-blue-moon poem out by yours truly. See if you can guess the very secret conceit!
Micah Bateman — Bennington Review
www.benningtonreview.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:27 PM
New once-in-a-blue-moon poem out by yours truly. See if you can guess the very secret conceit!
The degree to which the new gilded-age political satire -- Don't Look Up, Succession, and in this case, Mountainhead -- sounds indistinguishable from reality is asymptotically approaching the totality horizon.
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
August 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The degree to which the new gilded-age political satire -- Don't Look Up, Succession, and in this case, Mountainhead -- sounds indistinguishable from reality is asymptotically approaching the totality horizon.
Hard to explain knowledge domains and scope to people who are against knowledge.
Rather than defend faculty against the new law's intrusions on academic freedom, IU is telling faculty that they have to be ready to defend their own pedagogical choices. Including choices about what content to cover or not cover in class.
vpfaa.indiana.edu/doc/SEA-202-...
vpfaa.indiana.edu/doc/SEA-202-...
August 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Hard to explain knowledge domains and scope to people who are against knowledge.
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