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The number of vicious insults and outright lies in this “statement” is mind-boggling. www.neh.gov/news/update-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So insulting to the diligent employees, reviewers, & applicants. That second paragraph alone suggests prior awards weren’t merit-based & erodes any confidence I might have that future awards will be merit-based. Phrases like “extreme ideologies based upon race or gender” are racist & misogynistic.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I ran grant programs at @nehgov.bsky.social for over a decade. With colleagues, oversaw review of thousands of grant applications. Witnessed care & thoughtfulness of hundreds of reviewers. This statement is insulting to all of them. Whoever wrote it should be ashamed. www.neh.gov/news/update-...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Trying to document harms of NEH grant cancellations for MLA members. Get in touch with your story. [email protected]

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

New post from kfitz.info: "Gitea" https://kfitz.info/gitea/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Our new project will be using Knowledge Commons for its outputs and web presence. Sorry to hear they've been under attack but all the more reason to support community-led infrastructures.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The demise of the NEH—a thing I am so furious about I can’t even really feel it yet—continues to reverberate. It’s even more important that we support efforts like Knowledge Commons in the aftermath.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

We’ve seen colleagues of ours across the country posting about the direct impacts they’re experiencing of the current attacks on the National Endowment for the Humanities. We hurt for everyone, not least because we’re in the same space with you. Read more: about.hcommons.org/2025/04/17/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

New post from kfitz.info: "On the NEH and Our Path Forward" https://kfitz.info/neh-path-forward/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Ian Scott shares about the challenges of multilingual development in KC Works, a @kcommons.bsky.social global repository. #MSUGlobalDH

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Fight for the NEH like you would for NIH and NSF. The attack on one is an attack on all. Solidarity is required and needs to include K-12 educators and staff. The Trump administration is waging war against learning on multiple fronts.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

What a powerful testimony of how small investments from NEH lead to transformative outcomes. Read Chris’s entire thread (I appreciated the shout-out to NEH’s K12 teaching resource, Edsitement, which is where I first started working at NEH).

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

There's a lot happening these days, so if you missed the @modernlanguage.bsky.social webinar on Legislative Encroachment on Higher Ed, you can watch the recording here to better understand how to respond to attacks on DEI, higher education, & academic freedom. webinars.mla.org/webinar/legi...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

In recent months, artists and humanists around the world stood up for sciences. Will scientists stand up for the humanities? #neh www.npr.org/2025/04/03/n...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Re-upping this. I’m serious: I will personally invest in someone willing and able to take such a project on. Website or infographic that tells the story of where all that “innovation” originates.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

What @nehgov.bsky.social or #IMLS project is important to you and your community? Share and tag them! @nehgov.bsky.social funding allowed us to support humanities programs in "Reimagining Humanities Coursework for Career Readiness"--linking essential skills learned in the classroom w/ career goals!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to have a nice website detailing the extent to which all the technology that has been appropriated by the billionaire techbros supporting the dismantling of federal funding for research universities has its roots in research done at universities & made possible through federal funding.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

I am enormously excited about the potential of the Open Journals Collective, and very much looking forward to seeing how it develops!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Bluesky! 👋 We're going to be hanging out here a lot more from now on. 🥰 Get ready for highlights from our open access repository, tips and tricks for using our platforms, and of course, MEMEs! Want to learn more about us? Start here: about.hcommons.org

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Watching with interest. US-based #KnowledgeCommons plans to co-locate in Europe and South Africa in order to preserve academic research beyond the control of the US govt. Good luck, @kfitz.info. about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/d... #Preservation

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Digital Preservation in a Time of Disorder by @kfitz.info and @eve.gd about.hcommons.org/2025/03/19/d...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

We're super excited about the proposal we're discussing here!

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

New post from kfitz.info: "Writing Again" https://kfitz.info/writing-again/ (NB: Replies to this post may appear as comments on kfitz.info.)

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely superb and important piece by Professors @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and @ryanenos.bsky.social The only way to fight authoritarianism is to fight together. Strongest institutions in the front. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 41 days ago • 37 comments

This is breathtaking. The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra performing the Ode to Joy — translated into Ukrainian. The opening cry of “Freude!” (Joy!) becomes “Slava!” (Glory!). #slavaukraini www.stage-plus.com/video/vod_co...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.

submitted 41 days ago • 16 comments

Shameful. Segregationist, misogynistic, and racist.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Do NOT fuck with my library

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

@omeka.org’s first grant came from IMLS.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 41 days ago • 101 comments

Y'all. I get that a small scholarly org can be nimble and take on a lot of quick, grassroots work. It's super important and exciting. But that should not encourage you to insult the hardworking professionals who are keeping large scholarly orgs moving in astonishingly difficult circumstances.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments