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Michael Donnay
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Community Manager @softwaresaved.bsky.social‬
MSc Digital Humanities ‘22 @ucldh.bsky.social
Recovering stage & production manager
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Thanks for your excellent contribution!
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What better way to celebrate the holiday season than reading about failure? Co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social, this collection is both about failure but also a set of radical calls to imagine a better future for research? read.uolpress.co.uk/projects/ref...
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship | University of London Press
*Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship* tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the digital humanities community. Through a series of reflections on fa...
read.uolpress.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Thank you for contributing! 😀
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
As an avid 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly' reader in my childhood, it might possibly be my favorite operating metaphor for a chapter.

Thanks again for contributing!!
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So glad we could include your essay! 🎊
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@amsichani.bsky.social and I couldn’t have done it w/out the stellar team @uolpress.bsky.social including @emmagallon.bsky.social, @paulakennedy.bsky.social, @jrbowman.bsky.social and Kat Nelson, all of our excellent (open) peer reviewers and everyone @dh-researchhub.bsky.social who supported us
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The team also includes @balloonleap.bsky.social @naswells.bsky.social @rivaquiroga.bsky.social @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social, Frances Corry, Arianna Ciula, Jennifer Stertzer, Jentery Sayers, Lauren Tuckley, Elena Spadini, Janneke Adema & Anisa Hawes
November 20, 2025 at 9:28 AM
It includes 20 reflections from people working across a range of institutions, career stages and national contexts. It’s an invitation to pull #failure back from the periphery and it offers a snapshot at how we understand failure in research today & the role it could play in the future.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 AM
A colleague and I are about to publish an edited collection about failure. Lots of references to Halberstam, but lots of other things as well.
October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
@ilcs.bsky.social maybe something for 1000 Words for Belonging?
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM