Amardeep Singh

Sober and necessary analysis of a completely unnecessary, unfolding catastrophe.

I’m starting to get a little concerned that he is thinking of nuking Tehran since his war isn’t working out the way he wanted.

I hope I am wrong.

I love that the two authors are both of South Asian descent! Cheers.

(We do not have the equivalent of the British neighborhood pub in the U.S. sadly.)

Yes. I think I might need this.

Home Responsible Datasets in Context

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Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.

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Replace “storytelling” with “influencer content-creating”

African American Poetry: Edward Silvera (1906-1937): Author Page Author Page and Bio for Edward Silvera, also known as Edward S. Silvera

4. Improved author pages for Harlem Renaissance poets Edward Silvera and Lewis Alexander. I tracked down the only publicly available photo of Edward Silvera from a Lincoln University yearbook. (I've asked the Lincoln U. library for a higher-res version...)

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African American Poetry: Azalia E. Martin (Author Page) Author page for Azalia E. Martin (1878-1972)

3. A stub author page for poet Azalia E. Martin (active 1900-1910). Sadly, I couldn't find much biographical info. for her.

However, see her powerful 1906 poem "A Protest":

"Ye who would stop the progress of a race,
Give ear; that race would question thee."

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African American Poetry: Waring Cuney (1906-1976): Author Page Author page for poet William Waring Cuney, with links to poems

2. An author page for Harlem Renaissance author Waring Cuney.

His best known poem is the free verse "No Images"; it was widely anthologized:

"She does not know
Her beauty
She thinks her brown body
Has no glory"

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African American Poetry: "Four Lincoln University Poets" (Anthology, 1930) Anthology published at Lincoln University, featuring Langston Hughes, Edward Silvera, Waring Cuney, and William Allyn Hill

1. A simple digital edition of the volume "Four Lincoln University Poets" (1930). Including Langston Hughes, Edward Silvera, and Waring Cuney. All three influential Harlem Renaissance poets were undergrads at Lincoln at the same time!

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Chart showing usage statistics for African American Poetry a Digital Anthology. Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke's The New Negro, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay.

As Black History Month winds down, seeing a new high in monthly traffic for the digital collection I edit on Af-Am Poetry: 37,000 users in February.

Writings by Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay are the most in demand.

Some new additions to the site this month:

Langhorne??? Oh dear.

(I live close to Skippack, so a little less here I gather. But I have not actually been outside yet this morning...)

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

This is a pretty fierce piece of writing: observing the strange overbuilding & underfunding, bandwagon-hopping, donation-seeking, corporate remaking of elite universities.

The case study here is Hopkins, but almost the same could be written about some others.

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Woohoo! I am happy to be in this, with a short essay on “Banning Toni Morrison.”

(This book perplexes fascists.)

Chart from Google Analytics showing user data for Singh's Scalar project. 28,000 users in U.S., 12,000 users in China, 955 users in UK, 816 in Singapore, etc.

Curious -- do you have data on where the scrapers are based?

I have been puzzling over analytics for one of my Scalar projects (African American Poetry: A Digital Anthology). Traffic overall is up, but esp. from China -- puzzling. Wondering if some (most?) of those 12,000 users might be scrapers?

Seeing a lot of great responses to your thread here -- but wanted to ask about "the brief period in which you could get a job..."

Curious -- why do we think the period where DH could be a topline job description was so brief? Pandemic job market crash or something more specific to the field?

A long way to Lehigh: How Zakery Muñoz found his way back to the classroom - The Brown and White Zakery Muñoz is a Lehigh English professor who found his way into the classroom despite a nontraditional academic path.

My new colleague overcame a lot to make it to academia. Also, he is doing cool stuff in the classroom.

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Hello non-fiction writers of the internet!

If you or someone you know is feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or could use an outside reader, I still have some availability this spring for writing coaching and editing. ✨

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lol, hadn’t heard about this!

I saw this earlier this morning and was like

1) this is awesome, and

2) wait, is that really a Shakespeare play? --> (Goes down rabbit hole)--> Most of the text is by others, but handwriting and a few stylistic tells suggest these lines are *likely* Shakespeare (though there are also doubters).

Nice! Thank you.

"I imagine an enormous machine
An engine of brass, steel, & steam
and the gears click & spin
Through their calculations
Precise & pristine"

Wow! Had no idea you were in a band. Listening now — really enjoying it.

Read this excellent @uwnews.uw.edu story about research by @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, @neel2112.bsky.social, and students using @spl.org data - and check out this fun interactive website where you can explore the data! melaniewalsh.github.io/whats-seattl...

Comically bad take from Harari.

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

Thank you! I have only used Gemini with Python in Colab — not as proficient in R. But I will poke around and explore this along the lines you describe!

Could you say a little more about the prompts you used & the process? Also, what does the output look like? I have a similar task in mind but for poetry…

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

Here's a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...