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.

As well as UVA Data Analytics Center's Bruce Rushing. In addition to Ghaly & Williams' work with Library+UVA DAC colalborators, Rushing can speak to resources for UVA humanities & arts folks curious about campus resources for high-performance computing open to our kinds of cultural work.

The 11/18 "Can AI Read Biodiversity in Prose Fiction?" shares in-progress work by our DH Center & UVA Data Analytics Center collaborative fellows (English faculty Adrienne Ghaly & PhD student Tom Williams) using tech to explore how historical fiction tracks climate change & biodiversity +

Our makerspace workshops: Mon 11/10 friendly intro to using common hand tools cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15360808, Tues 11/11 intro to sew your own tote bag cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15378538, Sat 11/15 beginner crochet—pumpkin+leaf coasters, free! Make as many as you want for gifts, bring friends:

Next Fri 11/14=3rd Humanities AI Research Showcase, organized by Religious Studies. Our @shane.logoff.website shares how to understand AI benchmarks—measures of what a tool can do & how well, including in comparison w/similar tools, that can help us make ethical arguments & informed research choices

Thurs 11/13, join us in The Comfy Armchairs for chill learning how a colleague uses tech toward a goal— @winnieepm.bsky.social on Eleventy to create her personal portfolio site (of special interest to folks who dig #mincomp for ethical, learning, design, etc reasons). + the usual Special Coffee!

"Can expressing and exchanging our experiences through zines provoke changes in perception, convention, or policy?" Tuesday 11/11 Jess Walters helps us explore—and then learn to make!—zines as tools for advocacy. (You may remember their past excellent SLab event on zines for disability justice!)

Arin Bennett's "Let's made a MUD! Exploring text-based multiplayer worlds with GoMUD Engine" can be read/printed from drive.google.com/file/d/1rek7...

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...)

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...) +

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) +