sam blickhan

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She/her. Chicago. #DHmakes enthusiast. People, history, tech, museums, public participatory research. Zooniverse.org Director & DH lead.

Lapsed musicologist/medievalist. Fiber artist. Songwriter: https://umbrellabirds.bandcamp.com/

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OK Bluesky comrades, who can afford to donate at least $5 a month to @psabortionfund.bsky.social? They are an all-volunteer led abortion fund based in South Carolina. They do such good work. Will you join me as monthly subscribers? donorbox.org/support-the-... - they need a min of $10,000 a month.

Donate to Palmetto State Abortion Fund | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)donorbox.org Right now, abortion is only legal in South Carolina through 6 weeks of pregnancy, before most people even know they are pregnant.How Much Does an Abortion Cost?A medication abortion in South Carolina ...

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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

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Just saved a friend $500 by referring her to this program; please refer to it if you get prescribed Paxlovid and get quoted a crazy price! www.paxlovid.com/paxcess?cmp=...

PAXCESS™ | PAXLOVID™ (nirmatrelvir tablets; ritonavir tablets)www.paxlovid.com The PAXCESS™ Patient Support Program may help eligible patients lower the cost of PAXLOVID™ and access savings, with or without insurance. T&Cs apply.

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one element of Grants Pass is that it’s not just about whether you can enforce anti-camping laws against the homeless. it’s about whether you can enforce those laws **even when you haven’t provided adequate shelter beds**

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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🎉 Reminder! Applications for a travel bursary to the big Digital Humanities 2024 conference in Arlington, VA are due July 1. You don't have to be a member of @ach.bsky.social (but you can be!). A link with more info about the eligibility requirements & the app process are found in the post below.

Thanks to the NEH, ACH and RRCHNM are pleased to be able to offer (14) $2000 bursaries to support attendance of members and the US DH community at DH 2024. Applications are due July 1, 2024 and awardees will be notified by July 10. Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

DH 2024 Bursariesdocs.google.com Deadline for Applications: July 1, 2024 Notification by July 10, 2024 With the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and...

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Please read this story about the clinic where I spend my Saturday mornings defending and escorting. www.thecut.com/article/an-a...

78 Patients and 10 Hours at a Southern Abortion Clinicwww.thecut.com “There’s a zombie-apocalypse mind-set in this building: We are going to survive.”

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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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As someone who works in digital asset management and digital archives, I can say with authority that the reason geese are so mean is that they have to keep migrating every goddamn year

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A few days into writing a report on machine learning and cultural data for the Library of Congress, I came back with a question: "Can it be a comic?" Two years and many iterations later, here's "A Search for the Heart": libraryofcongress.github.io/a-search-for...

A Search for the Heart: Digital collections, machine learning and legacies of carelibraryofcongress.github.io Machine learning models are hungry for content from libraries and cultural insitutions. How can we imagine ways these technologies might help people and communities, while also being mindful of risks ...

Of interest to #dhmakes folks!

CRAFT GEEKS! ART NERDS! SEWING DORKS! 🧵 🎨 Important! Joann fabrics has gone bankrupt and stuff is on deep discount, use it or lose it. (You can check “ship to me” or etc on the side when you’re searching for specific things to only see options that get shipped to you. ) www.joann.com

Official JOANN™ Fabric and Craft Stores Onlinewww.joann.com Shop the JOANN fabric and craft store online to stock up for any project. Find fabric by the yard, sewing machines, Cricut machines, arts and crafts, yarn, home decor, and more!

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Thanks to support from the NEH, @ach.bsky.social & @rrchnm.bsky.social are giving out $2000 bursaries to support attendance at the DH 2024 conference (August 5-9 in Arlington, VA). Eligibility details in thread. Apply by July 1st! Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Check out this early summary of our metadata enrichment survey results! A partial preview for those attending #dh2024

With thanks to everyone who responded to our survey, or helped us prepare it - an early summary of our results 'Integrating enriched metadata into collections platforms' collectivewisdomproject.org.uk/integrating-... Lots more to come from @snblickhan.bsky.social, Meghan and me

Integrating enriched metadata into collections platforms - Collective Wisdomcollectivewisdomproject.org.uk What happens to data enriched by crowdsourcing, machine learning/AI, or a combination of methods? We ran a survey from March 20 to April 30 2024 to help find

Check out this early summary of our metadata enrichment survey results! A partial preview for those attending #dh2024

I had a lovely time Tuesday on WBEZ’s Reset, talking with Natalie Moore and Karen Weigert about all things Zooniverse! Listen at the link: www.wbez.org/reset-with-s...

Chicago to Mars: Zooniverse invites you to discover your inner scientistwww.wbez.org From identifying urban wildlife to monitoring the stars, the Zooniverse program at Adler Planetarium offers dozens of options.

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What do you do when your data has gaps & unknowns? In “Missing Data, Speculative Reading” @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and I delve into Shakespeare & Company datasets to estimate & speculatively fill in gaps. modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts... culturalanalytics.org/article/1169...

Missing Data, Speculative Reading | Modernism / Modernity Print+modernismmodernity.org Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Company, once a hub for the Lost Generation, has become iconic in popular culture.[1] The continued cultural prominence of the bookshop and lending library is no accident. Beach knew that publishing James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) would make Shakespeare and Company famous. Her memoir, published in 1959, is an exercise in name-dropping. She

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The only people who've ever held Trump meaningfully accountable over the last nine years have been ordinary Americans and they've spent that entire time being lectured to and berated by elites who've failed to do anything.

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More new work! "Data Feminism for AI," with @kanarinka.bsky.social, which reflects our current thinking about how and why data feminism remains deeply relevant for AI research: arxiv.org/abs/2405.01286

Data Feminism for AIarxiv.org This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining...

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I'm so excited to share a new publication I led with some of my fantastic colleagues from the Davy Notebooks Project. The benefits of ‘slow’ development: towards a best practice for sustainable technical infrastructure through the Davy Notebooks Project: doi.org/10.1098/rsnr... (Open Access)

The benefits of ‘slow’ development: towards a best practice for sustainable technical infrastructure through the Davy Notebooks Project | Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of...doi.org In this article we consider technical development and its role in digital humanities research efforts. We critique the concept that ‘novel’ development is crucial for innovation and tie this thinking ...

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🌟 CFP UPDATE! 🌟 Due to popular demand, we are extending the deadline for submitting abstracts to Cultures of Scale in the Debates in DH series. Abstracts are now due 🌟 May 31st! 🌟 Please help us share the word? dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/culture...

Cultures of Scale: Disciplines, Data, and Labor | Debates in the Digital Humanitiesdhdebates.gc.cuny.edu Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Good news! We’ve extended the deadline for ACH2024 to May 31! We welcome a broad range of topics and submission types, with a particular emphasis on social justice in multiple contexts. To see the full CFP: ach2024.ach.org

ACH2024 – November 6-8, 2024ach2024.ach.org

This article has been in the works for some time, and it articulates how, in the process of scaling the pilot project, we chose to reuse existing Zooniverse tools and infrastructure in creative ways, in service of sustainable development practices, rather than building something from scratch.

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Yeah I like Six Flags

I was lucky to get to work with Will on Scribes of the Cairo Geniza, and benefitted deeply from his vast knowledge and infectious enthusiasm for the work we were doing. This is a huge loss for the field. My thoughts are with his family and colleagues and the rest of our SotCG cohort.

The Founding Director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Dr Will Noel, passed away earlier this week. His vision for SIMS and his efforts to make our work possible can't be overstated. He will be dearly missed. whyy.org/articles/wil...

William Noel, medieval expert and librarian who championed digital data access, has diedwhyy.org The Philadelphia native was honored at the White House for his advocacy of unrestricted digital information access.

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Folks smarter than me will point you today to how to *listen* to Steve Albini's impact on the music Gen X grew up with. I want to encourage you to read him in his own words, with "The Problem with Music," a essay he wrote for The Baffler in 1993 warning rising bands about "music industry scum." RIP.

what the fuck pitchfork.com/news/steve-a...

Steve Albini, Storied Producer and Icon of the Rock Underground, Dies at 61pitchfork.com The Shellac and Big Black frontman, who recorded classic albums by Nirvana, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, has died of a heart attack

The Problem with Music | Steve Albinithebaffler.com Steve Albini’s iconic music industry takedown explains how record labels use A&R flaks and impenetrable contracts to screw artists while raking in millions

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We are THRILLED to announce the publication of our latest special issue ✨ Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities ✨ We'll be posting to links to each piece but check out our awesome table of contents: dhandlib.org/2024/04/29/m...

Making Research Tactile: Critical Making and Data Physicalization in Digital Humanities Special Issue ← dh+libdhandlib.org

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Yes, please realize that this IS policing in the U.S. This isn't "bad apples" or "a glitch." Cops ARE VIOLENCE WORKERS. This is what they are. If you're finally convinced, don't just passively allow 50 to 60% of your municipal budgets to be allocated yearly to violence workers.