Heather Froehlich

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supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander

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My coworkers at Constellate are conducting 45-min user interviews via Zoom to learn how you use computational techniques and data in your work. Open to all disciplines (humanities, social science, STEM, data science, etc.). Participants receive $40. Interested? Sign up: calendly.com/grace-cope/t...

How do you use data or text analysis? - Grace Copecalendly.com Thank you for signing up to participate in Constellate's user interviews! We are eager to learn how you use computational techniques and data in your work.Examples of projects and workflows we’re inte...

today and every day I think about how my job of supporting digital scholarship and digitally informed research - esp with an eye on text and data mining - was made possible by Aaron Swartz

RIP Aaron Swartz who as programmer helped develop the web feed format RSS; the technical architecture for Creative Commons; and the Markdown format. "When he tried to liberate data from an academic website, US authorities responded with $1m fine and 35 years in jail. Then he took his own life."

Aaron Swartz: hacker, genius… martyr?www.theguardian.com Aaron Swartz campaigned for a free and open internet. But after he fell foul of US authorities, he took his own life. His former girlfriend tells Elizabeth Day of her anger at his treatment

for Reasons I have had to look up vegan hot dogs recently and while I have a ton of respect for the vegans, vegetarians, and other dietary restriction folks in my life (I know it is not easy to be in the world !) I really hope these are less sad than they sound www.loveandlemons.com/vegan-hot-do...

Vegan Hot Dogs - Love and Lemonswww.loveandlemons.com These vegan hot dogs are perfect for summer grilling! Made from marinated grilled carrots, they're smoky, savory, and totally plant-based.

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Data & Society is hiring a rsch + ref librarian to help them "figure out better methods for making [their] rsch visible, discoverable, + durable" — and to create new methods of repository building to foreground the work of "lay experts, radical thinkers, community organizers, activist scholars"

Why You Should Apply to Be Our First Research and Reference Librariandatasociety.net

This was really fun and, hopefully, informative. Thank you to everyone who participated! Get the full resource here and share with your friends - www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bjcpr...

Join us on Wed, July 10 from 1-3pm for a workshop led by ACH member @heatherfro.bsky.social on navigating the academic job market. It will cover the hidden curriculum behind applying for academic jobs & what to know ahead of going on the market. Register here: members.ach.org/civicrm/even...

Navigating the Academic Job Market, featuring Heather Heather Froehlich – ACH Membershipmembers.ach.org

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This, from the vendor (database) perspective of working with academics, is very fascinating and very eye opening if you're not used to the conversation liaisonlife.wordpress.com/2024/07/09/d...

A deep dive into academic data licensing from a data provider’s perspective (guest post by Evan Barry)liaisonlife.wordpress.com Editor's note: In the long history of this blog, this is the first time I've posted a guest post from a vendor representative. Evan asked if a post about data licensing "from the other side of the tab...

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If you study TikTok, have a look at my newly updated Python package Pyktok--I just added a few features you might find useful github.com/dfreelon/pyk...

GitHub - dfreelon/pyktok: A simple module to collect video, text, and metadata from Tiktok.github.com A simple module to collect video, text, and metadata from Tiktok. - dfreelon/pyktok

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The error analysis sections is fascinating. WOULD BE CRAZY IF SAY A DH PERSON/ HUMANITIES PERSON GOT INVOLVED 😂

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 huggingface.co/papers/2404....

Paper page - Measuring Style Similarity in Diffusion Modelshuggingface.co Join the discussion on this paper page

This Wednesday, July 10, you are cordially invited to join me and @ach.bsky.social in a discussion that we probably could have called "What to expect if you're expecting to be on the academic job market". Here are some ground truths we will begin with. Register: members.ach.org/civicrm/even...

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A complex website with all the bells and whistles is a pony. And you have to keep feeding and cleaning up after it until it dies or you euthanize it.

@paigecmorgan.bsky.social related thought but not directly applicable to your thread: I have so many researchers who want a website and then balk completely at the thought of actually having to do the thing to make the website happen. No uncommon ofc but am reminded of the dislike of a reality ✅

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Our👑of Queries @sharonhoward.bsky.social has created a gallery for all the women in our database who have images on Wikimedia Commons (that we have identified so far) beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Project.... To get to the pictures, hit "Try It", & on the next page scroll down to hit "Play".

Project:SPARQL/examples - Beyond Notabilitybeyond-notability.wikibase.cloud

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hettinger drive-in theater, hettinger, north dakota, 1987

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A thing I wrote is now out in the world: doi.org/10.1093/jahi... It is a short review essay of how historians and archivists have been using the web since the '90s (US perspective), to collect personal histories & eye witness accounts following current events & reflecting on the past

“Share Your Story”: Legacies of Online Collectingdoi.org In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we as historians knew that we had witnessed a major set of events and that we would not be able to fully ass

2 yr Postdoc at the University of Arizona in support of a 9-institution Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support project. Keywords: community archives, pedagogy, project management, maps and sites arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Postdoctoral Research Associate Iarizona.csod.com Conduct research on the archival studies pedagogy in and with community archives; support PIs locally and the collective in framing what is being done...

There are a great many things to worry about in the US right now but this essay offers a solid lessons and warnings about things to come with a rightwing government, taken directly from the USification of UK higher ed www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

it's July and so now I can say this is NEXT WEEK! 1pm Eastern, 12 Central, 10am Pacific. I'll be leading a discussion on what to expect when you're expecting to go on the market -- with a big real chat about making choices for yourself. grateful the @ach.bsky.social is trusting me to lead this!

Navigating the Academic Job Market, featuring Heather Heather Froehlich – ACH Membershipmembers.ach.org

Everyone is going on about the 🇺🇸 election but as usual I have my eyes and ears on the much-more-immediately-upcoming 🇬🇧 election first newrepublic.com/article/1829...

The British Election Is the Reckoning Brexit Postponednewrepublic.com But what does it mean for Labour?

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If you care about the way AI is steamrolling environmental concerns you might be interested in this (free, online) conference happening in July—program just posted, and link to register: uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...

Rethinking the Inevitability of AIuva.theopenscholar.com

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Two years of work, nearly 1000 people, and 6394 emails later: Best Practices for Queer Metadata is live! zenodo.org/records/1258...

Best Practices for Queer Metadatazenodo.org This document is the result of two years of work by a group of nearly one hundred knowledge organisers, cataloguers, librarians, archivists, scholars, and information professionals with a concerted in...

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Wrote a new essay with @lav.io for eflux architecture. We consider carbon offsetting as a data driven scheme and trace a little of the history of market based approaches to environmental management. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Spatial Computing - Tega Brain et al. - All that is Air Melts into Airwww.e-flux.com The goal is fungibility—to assert equivalence between activities by people or environments so that emissions created over here can be traded and (theoretically) compensated for by actions removing or ...

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In our research, we also scraped the details of every carbon offset project from the major voluntary registry and put them in an archive at: offsetarchive.labr.io It also shows all the companies, orgs and individuals who have bought offset products on carbon registries.

offsetarchive.labr.io

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I worry sometimes that my criticism of the NYT is written off as disgruntled former employee whining. Please listen when us former employees say that with a legacy like this, the shit there runs deep.

This is beyond the normalization of publications like the Times at the time. But the Times specifically was wrong on Hitler, wrong on MLK Jr, wrong on Ida B Wells, wrong on the famine in ukraine, wrong on weapons of mass destruction. Being wrong somehow isn't disqualifying.

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We find that leading LLMs, especially GPT-4 and GPT-4o, can recognize both common and uncommon fixed poetic forms—like sonnets, sestinas, and pantoums—at surprisingly high accuracy levels. But they do much worse with unfixed forms, like aubades and odes.

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Poetry is weirdly prominent in LLM conversations. But what do models really "know" about poetry? We tested how well LLMs can recognize 20+ poetic forms in English & probed major pretraining datasets to see which poems might be memorized. New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18906

Thanks to the modern miracle of Google Scholar I learned an article I co-wrote with @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social & Christina Riehman-Murphy, in part re: teaching students about paleography, is cited in a US District Court LEGAL MOTION from 2023 (See footnote 5) scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_case...

United States v. Roberts, Dist. Court, D. Virgin Islands 2023 - Google Scholarscholar.google.co.uk

fun facts the three main things we learned about in Eastern MA school history class were, in order, - The American Revolution, esp the Battle of Lexington & Concord - The Great Molasses Flood - and, occasionally, if there was time, the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

How did no one tell me that Ayo Edebiri got emotional over the Great Molasses Flood?? (via GBH)

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The Libby app is amazing AND publishers and Overdrive (Libby's owner) are bleeding library budgets dry www.govtech.com/biz/data/beh...

appreciation post for the humble and hardworking app we all know and love: LIBBY. take a bow baby girl you deserve it

Behind E-Books, Libraries Find Restrictions and High Costswww.govtech.com One of the nation’s largest libraries has nearly doubled its collection spending in the last five years in an attempt to keep up with patrons’ digital demands. But the push has introduced new headache...

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:dons librarian hat: Digital preservation is more expensive than preserving paper; it takes more staff, active attention, and consistent computing resources. Libraries have discussed “digital dark age” since the 1990s. Corp archives often 1st to go b/c suits haven’t figured out how to profit.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

the Internet Broadway Database provides data and publishes charts and structured tables of weekly attendance and ticket revenue, additionally available for individual shows. The League itself also publishes show-level statistics. www.ibdb.com

IBDB.comwww.ibdb.com The official database for Broadway theatre information