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literaturegeek.bsky.social
😍 I continue to update this Bluesky guide (quick+incredibly detailed versions!): tinyurl.com/DHBluesky Aimed especially at researchers, DH, GLAM, & critical tech folks:
November 17, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Added tag/sorting to my list of good starter packs (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) so you can sort to find what you like w/in my interests:
* critical/nonhype tech/data/code
* DH
* humanities
* GLAM (library/archive)
* academic/research/teach
* book history+arts/textual studies
* making/crafting
Screenshot of part of the list of suggested starter packs to follow from my tinyurl.com/DHBluesky resource, zoomed out to show many starter packs organized into a table with notes on what each contains, and a column for colored tag pills saying what topic a pack is about
November 11, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Designed covers for a paper minizine template, for an "Unsolicited Advice" series where I can just print a stack of templates & fill the pages in w/pen as I think of advice I want to share (things that worked for me, I'd recommend, etc.). Instead of being like these dudes:
Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of a suited man pointing as if scolding toward the back of a weary woman facing away from him, with a purple spiral coming out of his scolding finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background. Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper! Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of a suited man pointing as lecturing a surprised top-hatted passerby, with a purple spiral coming out of his scolding finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background. Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper! Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of a seated man in a toga declaiming to another man sitting dejected with his chin on his fist, with a purple spiral coming out of the declaiming man's gesturing finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background. Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper! Screenshot of the cover design for a minizine series, intended to be printed as a template then filled in with pen (both the volume number on the cover, and the interior pages of written content). It's titled "unsolicited advice" in gradient purple-pink, with an annoyed/weary emoji face and "Volume __" in a handwritten font. In the middle, a historical black and white sketch of Paul Revere riding through a city street and casting his hand in the air as if to proclaim a warning, with a purple spiral coming out of his gesturing finger, is overlaid on a purple-pink gradient background and the edited caption "Paul Revere spreading UNSOLICITED ADVICE". Subtitles say "IDK, practices, objects, ideas, etc. that worked for me??? / an occasional minizine series / (Advice no one asked for!... Except I guess *you* did [heart emoji] by reading this???)". For the discerning zinester eye—the dimensions match a page of a minizine printed on 11x17" paper!
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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marendeepwell.bsky.social
Analogue kind of day… painting the sea 🌊 thanks to a beautiful gift of paints & canvas from a dear friend
December 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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quinnanya.me
A fun #DHmakes type project at the intersection of text, textiles, fonts, and making!
Rhode Island School of Design on Instagram: "Second year graduate student in Graphic Design Deborah Khodanovich @dvoritdvorit shows us how gossip—its etymology, its practice throughout history, and it...
Deborah Khodanovich, a second-year Graphic Design student at RISD, delves into the world of gossip and its historical significance. She explains how she uses her MFA to bridge the gap between textiles...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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kcommons.bsky.social
The small but mighty team that runs Knowledge Commons needs your support this week of #GivingTuesday. Donate today: givingto.msu.edu/causes-to-su...
“Knowledge Commons provides an inclusive, welcoming space for scholars inside and outside the academy to engage in spirited, open intellectual discussion and dissemination of scholarship and research. So many contemporary digital spaces are depressingly enclosed by corporate interest. Knowledge Commons works differently. We are here to ensure that everybody can have their own space on the web to disseminate their work and to engage in vibrant debate with others. I work with a great team of people who keep the system running, build new features, and generally ensure that we can continue this enterprise. But we can't do this without ongoing funding. Your donation will help sustain and improve the Commons, ensuring that we continue to offer a radical, free, and open space for the dissemination and discussion of scholarship.” ~ Martin Paul Eve, Technical Lead
December 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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lseimpactblog.bsky.social
👀ICYMI: "The worry here, of course, is that open access gets the blame for allowing AI and scholars begin to yearn, once more, for paywalls"

#OpenAccess #ScholComm @eve.gd
Creative commons licenses and copyright may not stop academic work being used to train AI - Impact of Social Sciences
Considering the legal standing of creative commons licenses & copyright, Martin Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be forthcoming.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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zinelib.bsky.social
Support the Black Zine Fair and its participants gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...

Pro-tip: get your institution to co-sponsor. 📚📜
Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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robinjames.bsky.social
This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 8d
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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openaccesselder.bsky.social
Kudos to @profjhangiani.bsky.social, Clint Lalonde, Josie Gray, & folks across British Columbia who worked on this new report on institutions' capacity to support #OpenEducation. It is an excellent read & a great model for the rest of us!

PDF Link to report: bccampus.ca/wp-content/u...
bccampus.ca
December 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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quinnanya.me
A thread to read on a Friday, whether your art is writing or any other kind of creating. #DHmakes
delilahsdawson.bsky.social Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 20d
This is why you have to love the work. When publishing and fortune kick you in the face, the page will still be there for you. When all you get are nos, the story will be your yes. You can't count on sales or marketing money, but you can count on the feeling of flow, of creation, the joy of art.
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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hibbittsdesign.org
🚀 Docsify v5 is getting closer! The no-build docs generator is getting:

✅ Modernized codebase & UI
✅ Dark mode + better accessibility
✅ GitHub-style callouts
✅ Enhanced keyboard navigation
✅ Improved error handling

Try the RC at: preview.docsifyjs.org

#Docsify #OpenSource #Markdown
docsify
A magical documentation generator.
preview.docsifyjs.org
November 21, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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eve.gd
Our next @kcommons.bsky.social release: if you have uploaded academic material - or even just entered metadata - into our Works repository, you can now pull this material in to a WordPress site, in a variety of citation formats!

about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...
KCWorks on WP Plugin Launches on Knowledge Commons – About Knowledge Commons
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Free DHy zine alert! @capnpilot.bsky.social's
* "CTRL+S: Preserving Your Work for the Long Haul" (plan, preserve/archive resilient digital projects, so that when time to sunset them, is easy to preserve core attributes)
* "Web-Native Cryptids & Creatures: A Spotter’s Guide" (web safety+literacy)
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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kcommons.bsky.social
📣 EXCITEMENT ALERT 🎉 The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are creating a website on KC or a self-hosted WP installation.

🔗: about.hcommons.org/2025/11/17/k...
KCWorks on WP Plugin Launches on Knowledge Commons
The KCWorks on WP plugin is now available on Knowledge Commons! This block-based plugin makes it easy to embed citations from the KCWorks repository directly on your WordPress pages, whether you are using the KCSites platform or a self-hosted WordPress installation. KCWorks is an enterprise-grade repository for academic research, collaboration tools, and publishing support for scholars and institutions.
about.hcommons.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
capnpilot.bsky.social
#ReclaimOpen25 was a blast! Too many awesome sessions to count. I had a great time hosting a game of Brand Actualization, and I'm excited to share the zines I made in the leadup to the conference (one on archival, one on web cryptids) #DHMakes Check them out: pilotirwin.com/project-plan...
Making Zines for Reclaim Open 2025 – Ongoing Investigations
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November 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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A big thank you to everyone who took part in #ReclaimOpen25 last week! You can now catch up with all the session recordings and continue to share resources via the Discord chat www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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visualthinkery.bsky.social
Sense-making a Blog-a-thon...
(what do those words even mean?)

Well I try to explain here:

visualthinkery.com/project/blog...
Blog-a-thon Sensemaking - Visual Thinkery
visualthinkery.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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quinnanya.me
Keep making and sharing things. It matters. #DHmakes
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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eve.gd
Our repository developer, Ian, has been building our new stats dashboard for @kcommons.bsky.social. It's looking great! And should be upstreamed to InvenioRDM.
A set of graphs and stats, showing off the features of Knowledge Commons Works
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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www.reclaimhosting.com
Welcome to Day 1 of #ReclaimOpen25 🎉 Today is our Blog-A-Thon, starting at 9am EST and running for 12 (yes, you read that correctly) hours of non-stop blogging. Get ready to join in, read, comment and connect reclaimopen.com/blog-a-thon/
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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www.reclaimhosting.com
This is an online conference like no other... from the retro theme on the conference site, to RSS feeds and blog rolls, there is a lot to explore and experiment with #ReclaimOpen25. Help us rewild and reconnect on the open web over the next three days reclaimopen.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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kcommons.bsky.social
In case you missed it: last week’s open access discussions were packed with key insights!
- Knowledge belongs to the community
- Nonprofit infrastructure is key
- Collaboration drives the future
Big ideas, big takeaways, and plenty of inspiration for making knowledge open and accessible to everyone.
Promotional graphic titled 'Open Access Highlights' featuring four key points: community control over knowledge, nonprofit and sustainable infrastructure, expert insights on open access, and collaboration in knowledge sharing. Each point is paired with a relevant icon. The right side displays a colorful geometric pattern, and a small stylized 'K' logo appears at the bottom center.
November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Neat free webtool for solo RPGs+this post by @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy on playing solo & writing-intensive RPGs, & turning that into something he can teach his history+archaeology students with:
November 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM