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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director ✨💻📚🏳️‍🌈 (personal acct 🙃)
Just+joyful, critical+creative tech & culture

*DIY scholcom: letterpress+zine+blog+code
*Book-adjacent data+making
*Experimental/DH+library futures+community

3 !s in a hoodie
Dr! 🏳️‍⚧️ They/Them
AmandaVisconti.com
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Hi new folks! I post on: intersections of tech/culture/justice, making+craft (zines, weird resin, letterpress/book arts, color+light, retro tech), directing a digital humanities research center, transformative justice, bookadjacent code/data. General enthusiast; laugh inappropriately loudly at puns.
Trying to pick a press name, since I've had enough asks I'm setting up a little web store to let folks buy some of my prints. Enthusiast Press (for that three !!!s in a hoodie life), Proof Press (for the bread+printing puns) = already taken and/or too much search result interference.

Ideas?
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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What an honor to share my 1st #DHmakes project w @scholarslab.bsky.social! This is a career high for me. It’s been so enriching exploring the world of data physicalization + critical making. I’ve discovered a crafty side I didn’t know I had AND it’s been transforming how I teach #DigitalHumanities 😍
Thanks @plach.bsky.social! for letting @scholarslab.bsky.social display a poster of her 1st yearlong data physicalization: embroidery+beading representing her insomnia, wakefulness, sleep over the course of 2024 (check her #DHmakes posts for 2025's version, w/iterated method+data granularity)
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Thanks @plach.bsky.social! for letting @scholarslab.bsky.social display a poster of her 1st yearlong data physicalization: embroidery+beading representing her insomnia, wakefulness, sleep over the course of 2024 (check her #DHmakes posts for 2025's version, w/iterated method+data granularity)
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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THIS
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I would be more convinced by the argument "we won't allow agentic AI to have any real authority because we know we can't hold it accountable" if we were currently holding any of the powerful people/institutions with authority accountable
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Seth Rockman: 'Experiential research as a method for IDing questions you didn’t know to ask, rather than providing answers you wouldn’t have had...an experiential research method lets us envision more things we want to know about the past' (experiential=do something the way it was done in the past)
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Fundamentally they didn’t understand why this hands-on, historical technology was important in this moment—to be really honest, I think upper admin wished I’d stop dabbling with printing presses &c. & apply for more grants for my DH projects—my "real work"—they didn’t see how the 2 are linked+
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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One reason I left my previous job was that even as Huskiana grew & we had growing evidence of its impact among students & faculty, college leadership refused to put real resources behind it—they’d send tours through & write news stories—but when I asked for resources treated it like my silly hobby+
November 21, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I love this interview and the parallels between what he discovered as a historian making a thing and realizing all the little decisions a weaver makes in the process, and all the many things DH staff know about doing projects that just don't get written into the record of scholarship. #DHmakes
November 22, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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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
scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This is the incredibly disturbing letter the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce sent to UC Berkeley in September, in which the committee demands outrageous and detailed information about staff & students. A colleague obtained it via a Public Records Act request. pdfhost.io/v/4VaaH4PvJP...
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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This essay talks about a major turning point in my approach to digital humanities, which has directly shaped what I've been doing for the last 5 years. I can show it to you soon once we finish dealing with some UI issues and do a little bit more data cleaning. But really, it freed me.
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Very Extra broadsides are my favorite letterpress genre to make. You can tell this one isn't done yet from there still being significant white space. (Uses my recent acrylic PC & wood skeleton lasercut blocks, which both came out well, as well as my wood Luddite lasercut block) #DHmakes
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Neat two-tone cityscape prints made by a student in our makerspace, extruded from mapping data:
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Lasercut the Cooper Black Yarn font in the correct direction, 2 sizes @'s and #'s since none of those in our printshop, & glued everything up to very-near-typehigh. Going to test printing today. #DHmakes
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Today is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, keeping alive the memory of folks hate killed. @thetransfemininereview.com's guide to preserve our work+history has ways all can fight literal erasure (esp. this section on practical steps you can take, eg request yr library buy books by trans authors)
The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship
Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.
thetransfemininereview.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.

We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
November 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Personal goal of lasercutting increasingly large printers fists printing block, & increasing the count of the highest number of puns I've fit into a letterpress broadside
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Part of this=how Ammon, @lmmiller.bsky.social @shane.logoff.website @jeremyboggs.net + made our makerspace expansive—not stopping at just engineering-style making: textiles, costuming, cosplay, book+paper arts, retro tech, jewelry, ceramics+more, listening for more make/art/craft we can support
The @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace is such a lovely affirming, inspiring space to spend time. Proud of what leader Ammon achieved in our new space, its constant gentle friendly hum of people crafting+teaching each other. Seen multiple classes not just awake but excited at 8am(?!) to be using it
Makerspace
A welcoming space for creative crafting, tinkering, and experimentation with technologies like 3D printing, fabric arts, electronics, and physical computing. Open to everyone.
scholarslab.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Makerspace @scholarslab.bsky.social is free & open to all=you don't need any connection to UVA to use our makerspace & workshops. We enjoy consulting w/folks from our local community on their making projects or method-learning goals, & teaching workshops for local groups (including local students).
The @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace is such a lovely affirming, inspiring space to spend time. Proud of what leader Ammon achieved in our new space, its constant gentle friendly hum of people crafting+teaching each other. Seen multiple classes not just awake but excited at 8am(?!) to be using it
Makerspace
A welcoming space for creative crafting, tinkering, and experimentation with technologies like 3D printing, fabric arts, electronics, and physical computing. Open to everyone.
scholarslab.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
UVA teachers, we 💜 class makerspace visits & to design+teach workshops exploring what you're teaching, across all UVA schools (Ammon has graduate training in history & in education!). Especially noting our unusual expertise in humanities-supporting critical making. And that we're open to all & free✨
The @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace is such a lovely affirming, inspiring space to spend time. Proud of what leader Ammon achieved in our new space, its constant gentle friendly hum of people crafting+teaching each other. Seen multiple classes not just awake but excited at 8am(?!) to be using it
Makerspace
A welcoming space for creative crafting, tinkering, and experimentation with technologies like 3D printing, fabric arts, electronics, and physical computing. Open to everyone.
scholarslab.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The @scholarslab.bsky.social makerspace is such a lovely affirming, inspiring space to spend time. Proud of what leader Ammon achieved in our new space, its constant gentle friendly hum of people crafting+teaching each other. Seen multiple classes not just awake but excited at 8am(?!) to be using it
Makerspace
A welcoming space for creative crafting, tinkering, and experimentation with technologies like 3D printing, fabric arts, electronics, and physical computing. Open to everyone.
scholarslab.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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The Cavalier Daily, UVA's student newspaper, hasn't had a single FOIA request fulfilled since *July 1*. This is flatly illegal. Senator Deeds shared UVA's FOIA response with the newspaper, which allowed them to do this reporting.
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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My state senator, @creighdeeds.bsky.social, could not get answers from the University of Virginia (which he represents) about the ousting of President Jim Ryan, so he FOIAed them, for which they charged him $4,500 and took one month and four days to respond (five days are allowed by law).
State Sen. Creigh Deeds received his FOIA requests from U.Va. — here’s what we learned
After submitting a six-section Freedom of Information Act Request to the University Sept. 18, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, received 284 pages of records Oct. 29, pertaining to former Un...
www.cavalierdaily.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM