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Scholars' Lab
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UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
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walshbr.bsky.social
Lots of great stuff in here. If you’ve ever tried to figure out how to make it work with limited resources, asked yourself about the pedagogical cost of scaling up, or reached for scissors and glue to teach something technical then there is something here for you.
December 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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walshbr.bsky.social
Very excited to share this! The new special issue of @jitp.bsky.social is on Minimalist DH Pedagogy. Co-edited by @danicasavonick.bsky.social @palermog.bsky.social @veritas44.bsky.social Patricia Belen and me. LOTS of great stuff in here.

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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, no. 27 | Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy | Manifold @CUNY
<h3>Edited by Patricia Belen, Stefano Morello, Gregory J. Palermo, Danica Savonick, and Brandon Walsh</h3> <p>“More students in a single classroom; fewer instructors to engage them. Extravagant AI co...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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walshbr.bsky.social
Featuring an all-star lineup! @mellymeldubs.bsky.social @lbmcgrath.bsky.social @carmenthong.bsky.social Angelina Eimannsberger and Jacinta R. Saffold.
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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walshbr.bsky.social
If you'll be at #MLA26, please join us for virtual roundtable #s486 - "Digital Humanities and Contemporary Book Studies." Saturday, 10 January 1:45 PM-3:00 PM (EST). Very excited for this session. More details after the jump.

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December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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sararribas.bsky.social
Today I realized I could reuse the panels from my last piece for the legend (this panels were donated by the amazing @scholarslab.bsky.social) but this time, using two panels per perfomance instead of one general for everhting. #DhMakes
December 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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sararribas.bsky.social
This social network analysis maps the evolution of the zarzuela Las Golondrinas by María Lejárraga. I thought it would be beautiful to include photos and names of the artists involved. #DhMakes
December 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Finished 2nd gallery wall in @scholarslab.bsky.social's Text Aisle w/art by @kennedyprints.bsky.social ("Architecture is shelter for the soul / Proceed and be bold! Sambo Mockbee"), @skeuomorphpress.org, @b0rk.jvns.ca @omarieclaire.bsky.social @innerloop-press.bsky.social, VA bookarts students, me +
Photo of a wall in the Scholars' Lab's "Text Aisle" (public space between our makerspace and Common Room) with a picture rail displaying 9 letterpress and riso prints and posters, and a gallery info label, next to a large wooden floor loom and a spatial terrain mapping sandbox. Photo of a letterpress print by Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. on chipboard paper with an apple green ink background and opaque black ink text. The photo is of a similar print to ours that I found online, as taking a photo of ours produced glare given it has already been framed; our actual print lacks this one's artist signature. The print says "* Architecture is about shelter for the soul. * PROCEED AND BE BOLD! * Sambo Mockbee *" Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with a dark slate blue ink, by Skeuomorph Press. It says "Information for the people!" around a square, detailed image of a retro computer in front of a packed bookshelf. Photo of a letterpress print by Skeuomorph Press on black paper with silver ink, framed in a hot pink frame. It says "skeuomorph, n. An ornament or ornamental design on an artefact resulting from the nature of the material used or the method of working it 2. An object or feature copying the design of a similar artefact in another material OED". The Skeuomorph Press diskette logo follows, and a large artistic image of a kind of machine involving large media tape reels being used by a seated user illustrates the print.
December 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
scholarslab.bsky.social
Will remind yall post-winter break ❄️ but local folks wanting to look forward to some art+community in the new year: sign up to join us 1/31 for @josefbeery.bsky.social teaching a free letterpress typesetting+printing workshop, using text from Thomas Paine's pivotal 1776 pamphlet Common Sense (❌👑🫖📰!)
Workshop: Broadside Letterpress Printing
COMMON SENSE BROADSIDE WORKSHOP Participants will print a paragraph from the introduction to Thomas Paine’s important booklet, Common Sense. We will use hand set metal type...
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December 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
If you work somewhere w/a free public space+printer for work purposes, you can make a mini zine distro! Even just 5 zine titles you periodically replenish stacks of. Search "zine"+topic, or Zine Bakery's catalog has this large subset of free zines: airtable.com/appY7WyBFjSz...
literaturegeek.bsky.social Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 17d
Free zines for the people! Set up a small minizine-making space as I can't refill our 2 zine racks for a while. @jkmakes.bsky.social's "Good things people are doing right now", Jess Walters' "Exchanging Perspectives" disability justice prompts, Ammon Shepherd's "How to make a zine in 6 easy steps"
Photo of a table holding three stacks of not-yet-folded minizines, a "free zines for the people!" graphic made using the Mamdani logo generator, an instruction sheet on how to cut and fold minizines, and scissors on a long piece of yarn Photo of a table holding three stacks of not-yet-folded minizines, a "free zines for the people!" graphic made using the Mamdani logo generator, an instruction sheet on how to cut and fold minizines, and scissors on a long piece of yarn. It's next to a rack of colorful zines on a pink gradient circle rug; table is over a white black checkerboard mat, under a slides monitor displaying info about the Scholars' Lab Photo of a sign on lime and orange papers that says "Zine rack looking empty?° Our zine librarian may be on vacation. In the meantime, visit ZineBakery.com/subsets/all-free or scan the QR code below to browse our catalog of zines free to read online and/or to print." Under a large QR code is an arrow pointing left and the text "Or learn to fold a minizine with the zine sheets on the table to the left!"
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Scholars' Cab(inet of study snacks)
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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brettbobley.bsky.social
Throughout the day, I'm going to attempt to tag some of the PI's who just won HAVI awards from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social! "Bridging Large-Scale Computational Analysis and the Close Viewing of Film and Television" @dbamman.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social Taylor Arnold, Allison Cooper.
schmidtsciences.bsky.social Schmidt Sciences @schmidtsciences.bsky.social · 23d
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
December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
scholarslab.bsky.social
Machines in the lab. Retro arcade videogames, a typewriter that types you prompts to type back memories & prints the outcome as a zine; a even wooden generative poetry machine (last 2=by Critical Makerspace Fellows Holly Zhou, Alexa Luborsky; both w/Ammon Shepherd) +
Photo of a wood-boothed videogame arcade booth with red and blue buttons and joysticks; the monitor shows a videogame credits list Photo of an interactive typewriter art electronics and collective memory mapping exhibit, with an electric typewriter and printer in a red snd blsck marble painted booth with an iridescent acrylic surround Closeup photo of a wood poetry generator machine, a massive wood barrel made of staves laserburned with short phrases; 3D printed red chains allow three sections of the cylinder to turn at different rates when the crank is cranked, aligning the phrases into new combinations of poetry lines Photo of a wood poetry generator machine, a massive wood barrel made of staves laserburned with short phrases; 3D printed red chains allow three sections of the cylinder to turn at different rates when the crank is cranked, aligning the phrases into new combinations of poetry lines
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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rondagrizzle.bsky.social
Why are titles so difficult!?

If you were making a podcast about the Scholars' Lab, what would you call it? Because everything I'm coming up with is boring!

"Around the Lab"? "All About The Lab"? "Happening In The Lab"?

See?! Boring!

#crowdsourcingmyjob
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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profclaire.bsky.social
In Charlottesville for a friend’s retirement party. In the meantime dropped in on @scholarslab.bsky.social at UVA. What an amazing and welcoming place of making and creativity. @stradadoes.bsky.social still hoping! Thanks, Ammon Shepherd and the welcoming student at the entrance. A few zines
A few zines picked up from the Scholars Lab on taking action in higher education (trillium on white cover), speedweve for mending a methodz zine with speedweve on cover with green and yellow thread, and zine librarians code of ethics zine with black and white cat on cover.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Love how Seanna's built into her project so many good approaches as foundational: collaboration over extraction; slowing down to work ethically; building w/ not for; non-neutrality; learning in public; accessibility & #mincomp; experimentation, creativity, the personal as intellectual knowledges
December 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Seanna: "I've always said being in the Scholars' Lab, being in Praxis [SLab's grad collaborative fellowship cohort] was such a refuge". (This makes me very happy to hear, & very proud to work w/our whole team+community who makes SLab feel this way.)
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Seanna: "The archive isn't just a representational space, it's a relational one". Cites experience creating a collab charter as @scholarslab.bsky.social Praxis Fellow; authored an ethics charter for her "Folkloric Futures" site eg how she respects current community contributions, resists extraction
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
scholarslab.bsky.social
Seen around Scholars' Lab, late Fall 2025:
* Cosplay Costuming & Crafts Club; gown, equipment-tutorial zines in our makerspace
* student event adapting toys for accessibility
* free photobooth (prints booth-style multiphoto strips) built by staff+students
* advocacy zines workshop w/ASL Interpreter
Photo from the Scholars' Lab Makerspace of a long coral-colored gown on a dress form mannequin, in front of a display of zines teaching how to use various makerspace equipment and boxes of various sewing and making supplies Photo from the Scholars' Lab Text Aisle of an arrow-shaped whiteboard sign noting Common Room table reservation tubes for a student-run "Toy Adaptation for Accessibility event"; in the background are visible a large wooden floor weaving loom, and various , student DH research, and DH book cover posters on the walls Photo from outside the Scholars' Lab Makerspace doors of our Photobooth installation, a rolling thin tall column that has a monitor screen saying "press the button to take pictures!" next to an illustration of a pile of fanned out photobooth style photo strips; a small embedded printer that prints the photo strips onto a ledge; a large blue button to press; a camera eye in a bright orange 3D printed frame; a holder for example photobooth photo strips; and decorations of various 3D printed and lasercut bats and octopus mascot. The column is painted to look like the deep sea, with a friendly octopus in a UVA Cavalier hat holding a camera. Photo of Jess Walters teaching an audience how to made zines for advocacy purposes, while an ASL Interpreter interprets
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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walshbr.bsky.social
Got an email from a Praxis alum from seven years ago saying that her time with us is still paying dividends. Wakes you up better than coffee.
December 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
A (laser)burning need to further queer historical letterpress (photo #1 is digitally flipped for readability). Cutting large Bernhard movable type to reprint a queerly modified historical ATF type ad #DHmakes
Photo (digitally horizontally reflected for readability) of a lasercutter bed showing a 12"x 18" sheet of possibly birch wood that's been lasercut to cut out the shapes of two sizes of Bernhard Medium type. Some pieces of the lasercut letters sit next to the sheet. The larger letters can be read to say "Queer type is the product of queer craftspeople who take great pride in doing their work WELL!!" Closeup of a lasercutter laser cutting out horizontally reflected letter shapes from lightcolored wood. The place the laser is touching the wood is glowing white.
December 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
scholarslab.bsky.social
Our spring term events will be posted in the next couple weeks, but we've already got one posted: "Zines All Day" in April! Drop in any time 10am-5pm for a full day of back-to-back public zinemaking tutorials restarting at the top of every hour. Part of @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Zines Now! series +
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
scholarslab.bsky.social
Final public events of fall term=next week! Free makerspace workshops making leather cuffs, polished-looking posters; work on your writing (from idea gen through editing) w/support from UVA Writing & Rhetoric Prof @hgnroadshow.bsky.social; or learn about our (deadline soon!) graduate DH Fellowships:
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Livetweets of our DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg's amazing work on Caribbean folklore, speculative worldmaking, archival storytelling, pedagogy, #mincomp, ethical community collaboration, & more:
literaturegeek.bsky.social Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · Dec 4
Scholars' Lab DH Fellow Seanna Viechweg is presenting now on "Folkloric Futures: Designing a Digital Archive of Carribean Speculative Storytelling"! (cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15359711) Seanna is a former @scholarslab.bsky.social Praxis Fellow & co-runs the #ByteSized Pedagogy series as well:
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
"'Not having to ask': critical humanities making, zines, & analog tech for multilingual DH” => my talk on learning to make non-English letterpress movable type toward (an endless) goal of "everyone visiting our lab can print their name" was accepted to the spring @globaldhsymposium.bsky.social +
Multilingual digital book arts (& an example accepted conference proposal!)
I’ve a talk accepted to the 2026 Global DH conference, and share that proposal here both for its content and as another example of what a conference abstract can look like. I’ve added comments (in ‘'’...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM