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Boorandoom Wailsh
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Head of Student Programs, @scholarslab. DH, pedagogy, sound studies, text analysis. Editorial board @JITpedagogy. More info at walshbr.com
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Boorandoom Wailsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Sep 25
Always on the lookout for future #ByteSizedPedagogy contributions! If you have an idea, syllabus, lesson, theory, fail, etc etc you’d like to share with a supportive group fill out the form below. I always find the sessions very enriching.
walshbr.bsky.social Boorandoom Wailsh @walshbr.bsky.social · Sep 25
if you enjoyed these posts and have something you might want to share at a future session please do reach out by filling out the form here - forms.gle/uh66msjsaKqu... . We are almost through the initial group of folks who signed up, so it’s a good time to register interest!
#ByteSizedPedagogy
It’s important to maintain a balanced teaching diet! This free and open-to-the-public zoom series on digital pedagogy features paired lightning talks introducing teaching topics, interesting approache...
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Not too far off-base.
kiaspeaks.us kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 11h
My favorite piece of content today.
actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
"hand-crafted adversarial poetry" is a concept I will think about for a long time.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
It's application season for our fellowships, so here's a quick post about the questions committees ask themselves when reading applicant materials.

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Committee Questions · Brandon Walsh
Head of Student Programs at the Scholars' Lab in the UVA Library
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November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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halperta.bsky.social
Since the decimation of the federal workforce last spring, an incredibly generous group of colleagues have been offering free career advising for former feds.

I just had a session this week and I can't recommend it highly enough.

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Career Support Request
Use this form to request career support for people impacted by U.S. federal firings, funding cuts, and/or hiring freezes. Support is coordinated by Derek Attig and provided by professionals in the G...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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quinnanya.me
Happy publication day to possibly my favorite book chapter I've ever written, "Stop Lying to Yourself: Collective Delusion and Digital Humanities Grant Funding"!

Ever notice how once you get one grant, you end up looking for another & do things you never actually wanted? Yeah. It's about that. 🪰🕷️🐴
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
A new post by Praxis Fellow Ganiyu Jimoh on mediation and memory and African art. scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/blog/digital...
Digital Artefacts Series: Concept & Format
From Shrine to Screen: Reimagining Ìbejì Through Analog and Digital Lenses
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November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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quinnanya.me
If you're in Chicago tomorrow, go check out "321 Plays for Trans Futures". There'll be a video recording at some point, too!
321 Plays for Trans Futures | Notion
You can read the Script Lead note here:
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November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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quinnanya.me
Tomorrow is "321 Plays for Trans Futures" in Chicago, so here's my contribution, part of the evening "Futures" segment. They're words I had to write before I could have a prayer of focusing on syllabus prep, on March 28, 2024. It's about the first time all the discourse of bodies made sense to me.
Six Minutes - Quinn Dombrowski
[/assets/images/header_swimsuit.jpg] https://www.quinndombrowski.com/blog/2025/11/19/six-minutes/ (Tomorrow is 321 Plays for Trans Futures [https://morrism.notion.site/321-Plays-for-Trans-Futures-2...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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roopikarisam.bsky.social
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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elotroalex.bsky.social
Yesss! The Keywords for Black Louisiana just won the Digital Project Award at the ASA. Proud to have contributed to this amazing team. Some of the best DH students I've trained up in there. Congrats too for @mellymeldubs.bsky.social & @miriamposner.com. Read all about it in the poster. 🥳🥳🥳
Poster announcement for the Digital Humanities Caucus digital award. The top part has a picture of the team for K4BL. The bottom part has a picture of Melanie Walsh, winner of Digital Project Award (Newcomer) category. Honorable mention to Miriam Posner and team for "Keeping Watch."
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
This fellowship grew from @walshbr.bsky.social running a pilot of a teaching exercise in his book on speculative budgeting w/staff+students; he & @spw4s.bsky.social built on student suggestions for funding faculty+PhD student teams, & UVA Data Analytics Ctr's interest in outreach to UVA humanists
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
So many people at this in @scholarslab.bsky.social that I'm sitting on the ground 😂 Work-in-progress event for new joint IATH+SLab/DH Center+DAC fellowship, which supports faculty+grad student team working w/us+Data Analytics Ctr. Meant to show humanities research uses for high-performance computing
twilliams81.bsky.social Tom @twilliams81.bsky.social · 4d
UVA people, please join us tomorrow at 11am in The Scholar’s Lab where I’ll be talking with Professor Adrienne Ghaly about our use of LLM’s to look for biodiversity in nineteenth century prose fiction. There’s lunch and we’re looking for feedback on our work.
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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manshel.bsky.social
Lots of fun presenting with @lbmcgrath.bsky.social and @jdporter.bsky.social at this week’s fabulous conference on the world of audiobooks! Thanks to @corinnanorue.bsky.social and @millicentweber.bsky.social for organizing. And watch this space for more on “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook”!
Title slide for “Echoing: A Theory of the Audiobook” by Alexander Manshel, Laura McGrath, and J.D. Porter A presentation slide featuring an array of different audiobook covers, in various different fictional and nonfictional genres, all narrated by the same audiobook narrator
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
Suddenly just realized I defending my dissertation a decade ago come this holiday season. Wild how time has flown. The thing is available openly on UVA's digital repository if you want to check it out.

libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/...
Libra ETD
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November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
I've pitched D&D characters that are more realistic.
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4d
“Baby, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s not a worm.”

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I did not like to think about it just as later I would not like to think about the worm in his brain that other people found so funny. I loved his brain. I hated the idea of an intruder therein. Others thought he was a madman; he was not quite mad the way they thought, but I loved the private ways that he was mad. I loved that he was insatiable in all ways, as if he would swallow up the whole world just to know it better if he could. He made me laugh, but I winced when he joked about the worm. "Baby, don't worry," he said. "It's not a worm. ." A doctor he trusted had reviewed the scans of his brain obtained by The New York Times, he said, and concluded that the shadowy figure was likely not a parasite at all. He sighed. It was too late to interfere with what had already vaulted from the sphere of meme to the sphere of screwy legend, but at least I did not have to worry about the worm that was not a worm in his brain.
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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epikt.bsky.social
this is *precisely* the energy our vichy admin has brought to every statement, every meeting, every question they even deign to consider: they view us as children who need to shut up already & let the grownups deal with the big scary world by abjectly surrendering to it
miriamposner.com Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 7d
From the beginning, we told UC administrators we needed to fight. They treated us like children, too starry-eyed and naive to grasp the reality of our new regime.
(.0. 1 20) The UC has already begun withdrawing support for "risky" speech as a direct result of the Task Force Policy. In the wake of Defendants opening civil rights investigations into the UC, the UC Irvine administration instructed a faculty member not to teach a course on campus politics because "it was risky and would make UCI a target." (Dkt. No. 29-29 1 54.) In another example, UCLA professor and UCLA-FA member Graemen Blair explains that he is part of a team that submitted a proposal in 2024 for a project concerning academic freedom in the context of pro-Palestinian speech. (Dkt. No. 29-4 11 1, 5, 41.) UCLA committed $140,000 in matching funds to the project, with the rest to be covered by a private funder. (Id.) However, after receiving the August 8 Offer, UCLA informed Blair's team on August 20, 2025, that they could no longer endorse the project. (Id. 1141-43.) Without university funding, the project has been scrapped. (Id.) Similarly, UCLA undergraduate associations have submitted an amicus curiae brief describing how UCLA administration has recently required changes to words used in the naming, outreach, and advertisement for the Latinx and Philipinx Graduation events, which have run at UCLA for decades. (Dkt. No. 65-1 at 18.)
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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aristofontes.bsky.social
Resolution calling for resignations of Rector & Vice Rector passes, 41 – 17 – 2.
November 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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bakerdphd.bsky.social
"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account.

'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said."

Welp

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
Ryan and Sheridan provide full accounts of Ryan’s resignation. They differ significantly
“I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,” former Board Rector Robert Hardie said.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
@quinnanya.me is such a treasure of a friend. Can't thank them enough for the time and energy they gave to something I shared so sheepishly. And live slacking with them during their long commute was such a pleasure.
quinnanya.me Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 7d
Wrote a few words about virtually hanging out with @walshbr.bsky.social this week, by means of reading his book draft and sending him my reactions as I was reading. It really was one of the best parts of this week and you should try it with a friend.

(Also, his book is ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥!!)
Hanging Out with a Friend and their Manuscript
https://www.quinndombrowski.com/blog/2025/11/14/hanging-out-friend-manuscript/ A funny thing about academic life, and perhaps digital humanities in particular, is that you end up building solid frien...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
Late 30’s is thinking you are having a heart attack but you really just stood up too quickly after cleaning out the dryer vent.
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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emgrumbach.bsky.social
I could not be more excited that the brilliant @plach.bsky.social is visiting Arizona and @asulincolncenter.bsky.social this week to talk about the stories we need, the voices we need, the histories we need in these (urgent) times.

The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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plach.bsky.social
How do we tell stories in times of crisis? Join me at 2pm MST today, in person at ASU or on Zoom, to consider "The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times"

asuevents.asu.edu/event/storie...
Screenshot of my title slide, reading "The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times" at the top and my info at the bottom. The middle of the slide features a collage of podcast cover art and a Blue Yeti USB mic
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
Find yourself friends like @quinnanya.me who will devour half of your book manuscript on the commute to work and live slack you their thoughts. ✨❤️✨
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
walshbr.bsky.social
Started playing The Alters, a game that asks what would happen if you found yourself in a room with a whole bunch of your clones and they all found each other mildly abrasive.
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM