🌲 International Research Associate @aila.social 📓 Associate editor @jcrt.org 🎓 Visiting Professor for Digital Humanities & Indigenous Studies 🍊 @syracuseu.bsky.social (PhD) alum 🕸️ www.adamdjbrett.com. #acrel --- provena18b3d views are my own
Meet me in NYC — the TIDEL Symposium, October 1
September 11–13, 2026: the Alfie Jacques Ambassador Award Dinner, the Restore Our Sacred Lake 5K, and the 11th Annual Haudenosaunee Wooden Stick Festival return to Onondaga Lake. Here's what to know.
The small deployment breakthrough that let me serve one complete Eleventy site at both aila.ngo and aila.ong without turning either domain into a redirect.
Why Zotero is the one tool every doctoral writer should adopt: free citation capture, automatic bibliographies, and no vendor lock-in for your research library.
How the kanban method turns a dissertation or journal article into small, visible units of work you can actually finish, one card and one column at a time.
A guided tour of free and low-cost apps for reference management, distraction-free writing, note-taking, and time management for doctoral and academic writers.
Free supports for academic writing: weekly writing communities, the Academic Phrasebank, citation alerts, and tools your university library already provides.
Critical theory is a method for asking how a technology is made, whose interests it serves, and whose labor it depends on. AI makes those questions a basic literacy for democratic life.
The series finale: how minimal computing and GO::DH turn digital preservation into a shared practice of plain text, static sites, and global collaboration.