Scholars' Lab
@scholarslab.bsky.social
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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@scholarslab.bsky.social
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Events
The Scholars’ Lab
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event
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If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...
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In the @scholarslab.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social and I try to practice what we call "gossip for good," performative and outspoken gratitude and appreciation to people's faces and also behind their back. Hear someone praising the work of someone else? They should know about.
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In the @scholarslab.bsky.social, @literaturegeek.bsky.social and I try to practice what we call "gossip for good," performative and outspoken gratitude and appreciation to people's faces and also behind their back. Hear someone praising the work of someone else? They should know about.
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On the gifts we give to others, writing against despair, and gratitude for others - "The Gift We Give."
walshbr.com/blog/the-gif...
walshbr.com/blog/the-gif...
The Gift We Give · Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library
walshbr.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
On the gifts we give to others, writing against despair, and gratitude for others - "The Gift We Give."
walshbr.com/blog/the-gif...
walshbr.com/blog/the-gif...
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I just finished watching this. It’s really, really beautiful. There’s still a little bit of time to see it and you don’t need a reservation. Highly recommended.
Today & tomorrow anytime between 10-5, free & open to everyone! Drop by for a 20min Emmy-winning VR experience, if you're interested in Indigenous rights & how virtual reality can support how we share history. (You can also sign up for a specificviewing time slot here: calendly.com/kluge-ruhe/c...)
11/6+7 10-5, Emmy-winning VR exhibit "Collisions": w/Lynette Wallworth, Martu elder+artist Nyarri Nyarri Morgan shares re:witnessing British atomic testing at Australia’s Maralinga. On 2 VR headsets—walkin, or reserve a time (20min length; reserve via calendly.com/kluge-ruhe/c...) +
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I just finished watching this. It’s really, really beautiful. There’s still a little bit of time to see it and you don’t need a reservation. Highly recommended.
And looking past next week through term, we've got many more makerspace workshops, & 3 more big talks:
*11/18 "Can AI Read Biodiversity in Prose Fiction?"
*12/2 "Humanistic Annotation with Machine Learning"
*12/4 "Folkloric Futures: Designing a Digital Archive of Caribbean Speculative Storytelling"
*11/18 "Can AI Read Biodiversity in Prose Fiction?"
*12/2 "Humanistic Annotation with Machine Learning"
*12/4 "Folkloric Futures: Designing a Digital Archive of Caribbean Speculative Storytelling"
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
And looking past next week through term, we've got many more makerspace workshops, & 3 more big talks:
*11/18 "Can AI Read Biodiversity in Prose Fiction?"
*12/2 "Humanistic Annotation with Machine Learning"
*12/4 "Folkloric Futures: Designing a Digital Archive of Caribbean Speculative Storytelling"
*11/18 "Can AI Read Biodiversity in Prose Fiction?"
*12/2 "Humanistic Annotation with Machine Learning"
*12/4 "Folkloric Futures: Designing a Digital Archive of Caribbean Speculative Storytelling"
Next week's free+public events @ Scholars' Lab: workshops & speakers on making (sewing tote bags, using hand tools for carpentry/etc DIY, crochet), zinemaking for advocacy, minimal computing for professional portfolio websites, & understanding AI benchmarks (measures of what/how well a tool works) +
Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event
Events
The Scholars’ Lab
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Next week's free+public events @ Scholars' Lab: workshops & speakers on making (sewing tote bags, using hand tools for carpentry/etc DIY, crochet), zinemaking for advocacy, minimal computing for professional portfolio websites, & understanding AI benchmarks (measures of what/how well a tool works) +
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QT'd 🧵 on the value & urgency of slow tech, pre-digital tech, non-digital craft & making for a critical & ethical digital humanities:
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
QT'd 🧵 on the value & urgency of slow tech, pre-digital tech, non-digital craft & making for a critical & ethical digital humanities:
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Photos by @josefbeery.bsky.social w/some nice SLab things too: @claudiaeberger.bsky.social data quilt, James Ascher+Sarah Berkowitz manuscript lightbox, @elikaortega.bsky.social @ryancordell.org @quinnanya.me print, 2nd of 2 zine racks; students, community members, staff from across library printing
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Photos by @josefbeery.bsky.social w/some nice SLab things too: @claudiaeberger.bsky.social data quilt, James Ascher+Sarah Berkowitz manuscript lightbox, @elikaortega.bsky.social @ryancordell.org @quinnanya.me print, 2nd of 2 zine racks; students, community members, staff from across library printing
This zine is by our VR/AR/immersive specialist @arinbb.bsky.social, who collaborated w/an English prof this past year teaching students writing concepts by having them build a MUD (text-based game/interactive fiction where you describe spaces etc you see in writing). Link to download zine +
When I was at @scholarslab.bsky.social last week, I snagged a copy of this zine to give to my sister. We both played around on muxes and muds back in the day (aka the 90s).
Anyone remember MicroMuse?
(Also, I need to get a copy of the file so I can print this for some of my friends from those days)
Anyone remember MicroMuse?
(Also, I need to get a copy of the file so I can print this for some of my friends from those days)
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This zine is by our VR/AR/immersive specialist @arinbb.bsky.social, who collaborated w/an English prof this past year teaching students writing concepts by having them build a MUD (text-based game/interactive fiction where you describe spaces etc you see in writing). Link to download zine +
🎉 Head of Student Programs @walshbr.bsky.social's full book draft! Scroll down on scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/people/brandon-walsh to read some of his blog posts about writing this book & sharing early versions of its focus on the possibilities of embodied DH pedagogy & infra work for advocacy:
It’s a thing, y’all. Printed it out for my final proofing read front to back. Working title right now is “Embedded Pedagogies: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🎉 Head of Student Programs @walshbr.bsky.social's full book draft! Scroll down on scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/people/brandon-walsh to read some of his blog posts about writing this book & sharing early versions of its focus on the possibilities of embodied DH pedagogy & infra work for advocacy:
🧵from yesterday's Zines Now! event where @josefbeery.bsky.social taught us about connections between letterperss & zinemaking (democratization of info sharing!) and we made colorful zine covers using printing presses, wood type, craft foam, and inks:
This morning @josefbeery.bsky.social is teaching a free public workshop for @scholarslab.bsky.social—we've got space, if you're in town & want to stop in before 12:30! Learn hands-on colorful letterpress printing of zine covers. Connecting letterpress & zines, via democratization of sharing info 👍
At 11/5's free #Zines Now! series workshop, learn to print colorful hand-made covers for your zines or homemade books on the BookBeetle Press w/expert printmaker & SLab collaborator @josefbeery.bsky.social (info on letterpress w/BookBeetle www.bookbeetlepress.com; Josef's work www.josefbeery.com) +
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🧵from yesterday's Zines Now! event where @josefbeery.bsky.social taught us about connections between letterperss & zinemaking (democratization of info sharing!) and we made colorful zine covers using printing presses, wood type, craft foam, and inks:
This is in Scholars' Lab's VR Corner, in our public Common Room; we're on the 3rd floor of Shannon Library at UVA:
The "Collisions" VR exhibit in Scholars' Lab's VR space accompanies the symposium Nuclear Colonialism & the Art of Resistance (kluge-ruhe.org/events/sympo...) and Kluge-Ruhe exhibit "In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project" (kluge-ruhe.org/all-exhibiti...)
Symposium: Nuclear Colonialism and the Art of Resistance – Kluge-Ruhe
kluge-ruhe.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is in Scholars' Lab's VR Corner, in our public Common Room; we're on the 3rd floor of Shannon Library at UVA:
Today & tomorrow anytime between 10-5, free & open to everyone! Drop by for a 20min Emmy-winning VR experience, if you're interested in Indigenous rights & how virtual reality can support how we share history. (You can also sign up for a specificviewing time slot here: calendly.com/kluge-ruhe/c...)
11/6+7 10-5, Emmy-winning VR exhibit "Collisions": w/Lynette Wallworth, Martu elder+artist Nyarri Nyarri Morgan shares re:witnessing British atomic testing at Australia’s Maralinga. On 2 VR headsets—walkin, or reserve a time (20min length; reserve via calendly.com/kluge-ruhe/c...) +
VR Viewing : "Collisions"
Join us throughout the day on Thursday, November 6 and Friday, November 7 for a screening of the VR experience Collisions (2016) at UVA Library’s Scholars’ Lab. Martu elder and art...
cal.lib.virginia.edu
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Today & tomorrow anytime between 10-5, free & open to everyone! Drop by for a 20min Emmy-winning VR experience, if you're interested in Indigenous rights & how virtual reality can support how we share history. (You can also sign up for a specificviewing time slot here: calendly.com/kluge-ruhe/c...)
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Yesterday @rondagrizzle.bsky.social & I drafted a minizine on *why* to write collaborative project/working team charters 📚We're going to do a companion full-length zine on *how* to run/do the conversation & cowriting that produces the kinds of charters @scholarslab.bsky.social makes, eg:
Charter
The Scholars’ Lab
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
October 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Yesterday @rondagrizzle.bsky.social & I drafted a minizine on *why* to write collaborative project/working team charters 📚We're going to do a companion full-length zine on *how* to run/do the conversation & cowriting that produces the kinds of charters @scholarslab.bsky.social makes, eg:
Brandon's book on just & caring DH pedagogy is going to be amazing. You don't have to wait to get a glimpse: he's been blogging initial drafts on our blog (scroll down for list of just his posts: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/people/brand...) as well as his personal research blog (walshbr.com)
Finalized developmental editing on the book project today. Big milestone and the end feels like it’s in sight. 58,000 words at present.
Started working through some style guide stuff - different kind of labor but a welcome change.
Started working through some style guide stuff - different kind of labor but a welcome change.
October 31, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Brandon's book on just & caring DH pedagogy is going to be amazing. You don't have to wait to get a glimpse: he's been blogging initial drafts on our blog (scroll down for list of just his posts: scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/people/brand...) as well as his personal research blog (walshbr.com)
Next week's (all free+public!) SLab events:
*11/5 learn to letterpress zine covers w/ @josefbeery.bsky.social: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14968895
*VR history film screenings 11/6-11/7 cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15640268
*11/6 learn to sew pencil cases w/zipper cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15417317 +
*11/5 learn to letterpress zine covers w/ @josefbeery.bsky.social: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14968895
*VR history film screenings 11/6-11/7 cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15640268
*11/6 learn to sew pencil cases w/zipper cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15417317 +
Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event
Events
The Scholars’ Lab
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Next week's (all free+public!) SLab events:
*11/5 learn to letterpress zine covers w/ @josefbeery.bsky.social: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14968895
*VR history film screenings 11/6-11/7 cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15640268
*11/6 learn to sew pencil cases w/zipper cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15417317 +
*11/5 learn to letterpress zine covers w/ @josefbeery.bsky.social: cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/14968895
*VR history film screenings 11/6-11/7 cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15640268
*11/6 learn to sew pencil cases w/zipper cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15417317 +
Livetweet thread of @mebrett.bsky.social's Coffee+Code talk for us today, on using the free @tropy.bsky.social for organizing & working w/photos you take when visiting a research archive (tropy.org) for her dissertation:
Today's @scholarslab.bsky.social Coffee+Code is @mebrett.bsky.social, Manager for Collections, Processing, & Digital Initiatives at the Jefferson Library at Monticello. Worked on @tropy.bsky.social teaching workshops, & presenting today on using it on her dissertation. +
Our fall term events are, as always, free & open to the public! More events to come, including invited speakers; & our many coming makerspace workshops don't get announced right when term starts (to give students time to design them). Our upcoming events are always listed at scholarslab.org/event
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Livetweet thread of @mebrett.bsky.social's Coffee+Code talk for us today, on using the free @tropy.bsky.social for organizing & working w/photos you take when visiting a research archive (tropy.org) for her dissertation:
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Wrote this week about how I try to differentiate the different phases of the writing process and end each session with what I need for the next one. "Filling the Cup of Each Writing Phase" - walshbr.com/blog/filling...
Filling the Cup of Each Writing Phase · Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library
walshbr.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wrote this week about how I try to differentiate the different phases of the writing process and end each session with what I need for the next one. "Filling the Cup of Each Writing Phase" - walshbr.com/blog/filling...
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ICYMI I shared a project scoping exercise that I ran with our Praxis students. Take a neutral topic, develop a project idea on it, and then push/pull that thing in all sorts of directions to see the different shapes that come out.
I wrote up the exercise I ran with Praxis this week where students practice taking an idea and scoping it every which way to see all the different shapes that can emerge. "Up, Down, Lateral Project Scoping"
walshbr.com/blog/up-down...
walshbr.com/blog/up-down...
Up, Down, Lateral Project Scoping · Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library
walshbr.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
ICYMI I shared a project scoping exercise that I ran with our Praxis students. Take a neutral topic, develop a project idea on it, and then push/pull that thing in all sorts of directions to see the different shapes that come out.
Next week's free, public events:
*@mebrett.bsky.social on @tropy.bsky.social (free tool for managing research photos, eg that you take in an archive; cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15167717)
*Halloween crafts & costumes in our Makerspace all week!
*learn to make narrative, multimedia maps w/Story Maps:
*@mebrett.bsky.social on @tropy.bsky.social (free tool for managing research photos, eg that you take in an archive; cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15167717)
*Halloween crafts & costumes in our Makerspace all week!
*learn to make narrative, multimedia maps w/Story Maps:
October 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Next week's free, public events:
*@mebrett.bsky.social on @tropy.bsky.social (free tool for managing research photos, eg that you take in an archive; cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15167717)
*Halloween crafts & costumes in our Makerspace all week!
*learn to make narrative, multimedia maps w/Story Maps:
*@mebrett.bsky.social on @tropy.bsky.social (free tool for managing research photos, eg that you take in an archive; cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15167717)
*Halloween crafts & costumes in our Makerspace all week!
*learn to make narrative, multimedia maps w/Story Maps:
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Huge thanks to @walshbr.bsky.social + entire @scholarslab.bsky.social team for organizing this series. These sessions are such a breath of fresh air & so thought-provoking! Today we're hearing about ways to help students build data literacy about their own data + a Twine digital history assignment
Still time to join this hangout that starts in ~10 minutes to get a daily helping of digital pedagogy. Zoom registration link below.
Digital history folks, I'll be sharing an assignment that worked v well for my grad students to demonstrate the idea of historical contingency, introducing the narrative tool Twine, & exploring the affective power of pedagogical games. I hope you'll join us this afternoon if that sounds interesting!
October 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Huge thanks to @walshbr.bsky.social + entire @scholarslab.bsky.social team for organizing this series. These sessions are such a breath of fresh air & so thought-provoking! Today we're hearing about ways to help students build data literacy about their own data + a Twine digital history assignment
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If you need hope about academia/knowledge work, @scholarslab.bsky.social grad Praxis Fellows' collaborative charters always help me—seeing the values & planned *practices* they design together, when given space to imagine+plan. Here's this year's charter (I'm helping them zineify it tomorrow!):
2025-2026 Praxis Program Charter - The Praxis Program
praxis.scholarslab.org
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
If you need hope about academia/knowledge work, @scholarslab.bsky.social grad Praxis Fellows' collaborative charters always help me—seeing the values & planned *practices* they design together, when given space to imagine+plan. Here's this year's charter (I'm helping them zineify it tomorrow!):
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One last reminder of the #ByteSizedPedagogy event this week with @kairosdoug.bsky.social and @cynthiaheider.com. They'll be talking about surveillance, privacy, contingency and gaming. Join us this Thursday at 1PM ET online for some free conversations about teaching and learning.
ICYMI we will be hosting @kairosdoug.bsky.social and @cynthiaheider.com at the next #ByteSizedPedagogy session on October 23, 2025 at 1PM ET. Free, open to the public, virtual. Come for your regular dose of fascinating work in digital pedagogy in a discussion-based and informal setting.
Save the date for the next #ByteSizedPedagogy on Thursday October 23, 2025 from 1:00PM to 2:00PM ET. Will be featuring @kairosdoug.bsky.social and @cynthiaheider.com.
cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15495666
cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15495666
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One last reminder of the #ByteSizedPedagogy event this week with @kairosdoug.bsky.social and @cynthiaheider.com. They'll be talking about surveillance, privacy, contingency and gaming. Join us this Thursday at 1PM ET online for some free conversations about teaching and learning.
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I am teaching my first graduate course in the Department of English at the University of Virginia in the spring! Here is the description. It’s called Reading AI.
October 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I am teaching my first graduate course in the Department of English at the University of Virginia in the spring! Here is the description. It’s called Reading AI.