Job posting: Assoc Dir for Interpretation, Learning & Public Programs @ Smithsonian Nat'l Museum of Asian Art. Closes 03/16; Salary: $143,913-$158,306. Onsite, Washington, DC.
Library of Congress Innovator in Residence graphic
Calling all technologists, artists and other creative visionaries:
The Library of Congress has opened the call for the next Innovator in Residence!
Apply by 2pm ET April 10
newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
Deadline for four NEH grant applications set on top of a collage of books and a photo of a sunset in Japan.
Applications for Fellowships, Public Scholars, Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan, and Awards for Faculty at HBCUs are now open!
Deadline to apply is April 22. Learn more at www.neh.gov/grants
K-12 teachers: don’t forget to register for our upcoming Teaching African American Studies Institute (TAASI) by March 30th!
Please help us spread the word about this exciting professional development opportunity for educators!
#humanities #professionaldevelopment #k12teachers #afamstudies
On Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 1PM eastern, we're hosting a second webinar for the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. Feel free to jump on if you'd like to learn more about the program. Register here: schmidtentities.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Kate Hudson?
Job posting: International Project Coordinator, Office of Global Affairs (OGA), Smithsonian. Closing date: 02/23/2026; Salary
$57,736 to - $75,059/yr GS 07. Provides admini/programmatic support to OGA's portfolio of international projects & strategic initiatives.
mRNA vaccines are the biggest breakthrough in disease prevention and treatment in decades. We're curing *cancer* with mRNA vaccines. To eliminate research in this field, at this moment, is fall-of-the-empire-grade stuff.
Yeah!
Announcer: "This has not been the game they [the Patriots] have hoped for, but there is still time..." *Seattle defense rolls over the Patriots quarterback*
Cheese update: Lovely. Would recommend.
Dang.
Woot!
Well, now I'm sniffling at a commercial for mortgages.
Trying a new cheese this Super Bowl.
Jasper Hill Farm Moses Sleeper. Seems to have a history connection. Will report back. www.jasperhillfarm.com/moses?srslti...
Okay, I don't think that (retired) athletes should be doing commercials for online betting. Just no.
Oh, Bon Jovi. Shame.
Let's go Seahawks and Green Day!
Gosh! Those US ice dancers are stunning. #WinterOlympics
It's the Winter Olympics, after all. When the summer games are in LA, then it's chips and guac. Theme snacking.
Ice cream, but same.
That Olympic cauldron is lovely.
I expected Italy to have more colorful walk out uniforms.
Okay...what is this pep talk from Samuel L. Jackson?
Norway's sweaters are nice.
Pie chart showing percentages of current nominations to DHAwards
The categories for the open DH Awards 2025 are: BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN (e.g. something that uses DH for purposes of enjoyment) BEST DH DATA VISUALIZATION (e.g. a visualization of DH data) BEST EXPLORATION OF DH FAILURE/LIMITATIONS (e.g. a report on why a project failed, or problems with DH) BEST DH SHORT PUBLICATION (e.g. blog, article, video, on DH) BEST DH TOOL OR SUITE OF TOOLS (e.g. something used to build a DH resource) BEST DH DATASET OR MODEL (e.g. a corpus of texts, table of data, model, or similar used for DH research) BEST DH TRAINING MATERIALS (e.g. talks, slides, exercises, videos or how-to guides in any form) BEST DH RESOURCE (e.g. digital scholarly edition, archive, or repository for DH)
Don't forget to nominate any #DH resources for DH Awards 2025 so they get on the ballot!
Deadline coming up soon!
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
The current distribution of votes per category is a tad uneven and you can probably guess which categories are which!
Gallery of dust jacket art for the first four Nancy Drew Mystery Stories books, published in 1930.
Volunteer #librarians from around the world joined forces to build the Nancy Drew collection on Open Library—volunteering their time to organize series, verify editions, untangle authorship, and clean up metadata so anyone can discover these books.
Learn more ➡️ blog.openlibrary.org/2026/01/30/a...
Nota bene, teacher friends! 🗃️ 🍎
Attention all fans of The London Stage Database! 📣
Thanks to a new, internal grant, the LSDB is officially able to resume active development! Read our blog post about the news here:
blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/...
#digitalhumanities #c18 #18thc #humanities #theaterhistory
