HASTAC Commons

HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory or “Haystack”) is known as the world’s first and oldest academic social network. We encourage members to post blogs, leave comments, form groups, and invent new ways to collaborate. To join, please click here.

Welcome to HASTAC, one of the world’s first and oldest academic social networks, with over 18,000 members from 400+ affiliate organizations. HASTAC (pronounced like “haystack”) stands for the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory, an interdisciplinary network formed in 2002-03. HASTAC was an early participant in a National Science Foundation initiative to create “collaboratories,” online research clusters without walls, spanning multiple institutions and disciplines.

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Join Us in Welcoming the 2026-2027 HASTAC Scholars Cohort!

We are excited to welcome a new cohort of HASTAC Scholars. With 36 brilliant new members to enrich our current high-achieving group, we very much look forward to another productive semester of facilitating collaboration and professional development, including our new student-centered workshops, where we have the opportunity to share useful skills with each other.

Read along with us as we review the following books for our ongoing Collaborative Book Reviews: New Digital Worlds by Roopika Risam, The AI Con by Emilly Bender and Alex Hanna, and Intersectionality in Digital Humanities edited by Barbara Bordalejo and Roopika Risam.

We also encourage everyone to check out the latest HASTAC Scholar Spotlights!

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