Pleased to chair the search committee for a Data Scientist to:
"help shape research agendas that apply data science and digital humanities to archival collections while centering community engagement, ethical stewardship, and the human stories embedded in the data." Please share!
▶️ bit.ly/cbdr-ds26
Hey! My piece "Being Open, Social, and Protective" is out in the Open Social Network Cookbook zine created by a wonderful cohort of community/tech from folks around the world. My recipe offers a 101 guide for curating healthy & happy social media accts. Check it out! www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/m...
Thx for revealing some of the behind the scenes intellectual work to keep digital scholarship healthy & happy. 🍎🩺💻
@cynthiaheider.com thank YOU and for jammin’ out 2️⃣ exhibits! 👏
Daily schedule: sites.google.com/psu.edu/ccpd... -- Thanks @pricelab.bsky.social for the space and to the scholars, librarians, & technologists who came before!
Class photo in front wall with slideshow projection
Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation
Class sitting at table during Show N Tell presentation with display of project documentation
DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration: An Experiment with the Colored Conventions Project
🙌🏽 🙌🏽 to #DreamLab2025 crew who jumped in the deep end w/ me to experiment crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to out-of-box WordPress template w/ care, curiosity & determination! Completed 6 exhibits in 9 hours (avg 11 pgs/hr) ➕documentation! 🎉
🔥NEWS🔥 #DigBlk is now swimming in the cross currents of humanities and new liberatory technologies, y’all!! Thank you, @profdancy.bsky.social, for joining the team at dig@digblk.bsky.social as our new co-director!
We’ve been planning this and waiting to announce for a minute! Excited to be officially joining the community as a co-director!
We are excited to share that Dr. Chris Dancy, Associate Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and African American Studies, is joining the #DigBlk leadership team as its new co-director!
digblk.psu.edu/2025/05/12/w...
Just 3️⃣ days left to apply for this ✨FREE✨ workshop @pricelab.bsky.social in Philly, May 20-23! We'll experiment w/ crowdsourcing the migration of @ccp-org.bsky.social exhibits to a new theme. With hands-on experience, we'll study, discuss, consider, strategize, & document.
📖🤔💻🔧✍🏽 ➡️ bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024
A graphic that says "We're hiring" and includes the Center for Black Digital Research website (digblk.psu.edu) and Bluesky handle (@digblk.bsky.social).
We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social!
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
Douglass Day: Annual Global Transcribe-a-thon 2025. Posters and postcards with head shots of figures from the Colored Conventions history movement.
🎉The Penn State Libraries team is ready to host events at 7 campus libraries on Feb. 14. This year, we made Valentine cards. Stop in to transcribe & send some love.👩🏽💻✍🏽💕
douglassday.org/penn-state/
Or learn how to join virtually at douglassday.org
@douglassday.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social
Just 2 months left to apply for this FREE workshop in Philly @pricelab.bsky.social, May 20-23!
Qs: How do we keep DH projects healthy? When is it time to transform or migrate or sunset? How to manage the process? What does it look like to center the humanity in digital work? bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024
If you're at #aha25, stop by! I'll be sharing about my research work of item-level cataloging 73 boxes of the Howard Zinn Papers housed at @tamimentlibrary.bsky.social (completed in October!), developing the Zinn digital collection, and next steps.
It'll be potentially unwieldy, possibly fun but certainly educational! Join in!
Qs: How do we keep DH projects healthy & updated, and when is it time to transform or migrate to a new theme/ template/system? What does that work actually entail? How might you project manage the process? What does it look like to center the humanity in digital work?
Info: bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024
Free workshop! Limited seats. Apply by March 16, 2025. DH Project Maintenance, Care, and Migration: An experiment with the Colored Conventions Project. Instructor: Lauren Cooper, DreamLab Workshop May 20-23, 2025. University of Pennsylvania. More info: https://bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024
NEW & FREE Workshop:
DH Project Maintenance, Care, & Migration:
An Experiment w/ the Colored Conventions Project
@ccp-org.bsky.social @pricelab.bsky.social
For DH practitioners of all varieties: scholars, technologists, librarians
INFO: bit.ly/dl-ccp-2024
APPLY BY 3/15: forms.gle/uhvk9eXTvvXi...
Fall trees with light and a dark background sky.
Sunlight breaking through the clouds in the desert.
Coastal ocean view of mountains across from the woods.
Double rainbow landing into desert and cacti landscape.
Kickin' it off on Bluesky with some of my favorite skies: