The Tech Team at ACLU is hiring! We are looking for a Data Scientist with expertise in NLP and AI ethics to work on using language tech to support ACLU's mission. Come help us tackle questions about how AI systems can be carefully applied to support the public interest. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...
The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.
Illustration of a polar bear in an icy landscape above a webinar banner 'climate change education through cultural heritage. Join this webinar and help learners connect with climate issues.'
Are you an educator, GLAM professional or climate advocate interested in helping learners connect with climate issues?
Join our Education and Climate Action Communities for a webinar on using #CulturalHeritage as a resource for teaching about #ClimateChange!
🗓️ 8 April
📍 Online
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More than 87 public libraries and archives in Gaza have been partially or completely destroyed by Israel’s genocide.
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"People with windows don't get to speak for the university and should have their pride flags removed" = "the university's official position is contrary to the message conveyed by a pride flag"
FWIW, I posted my slides and text for this talk:
Next Wednesday 3/25 4pm in @scholarslab.bsky.social. Interdisciplinart faculty speakers from Drama, Medicine, Gender Studies, & Urbran+Environmental Planning/Architecture. Refreshments! Zines for research, public scholarship, teaching! And get guidance on making your own (first?) zine:
Upcoming talk by Kate Elswit @somethingmodern.bsky.social (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama):
“From Radical Accounting to Visceral Data Analysis” explores how dance + digital methods reshape data, embodiment & history
🗓 24 March, 4–6pm
📍 Strand Campus
🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...
My open-access article based on the DH2025 keynote is now out. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"
I wrote a new essay on Mississippi Delta culture in Ryan Coogler’s movie, SINNERS, published today in MS Now
Israeli attacks kill 13 in Gaza, including 2 children and a pregnant woman
Israeli attacks kill 13 in Gaza, including 2 children and a pregnant woman https://aje.news/fvuhv9
Same. I got my tissues out for this part.
It does.
They’re there!, but hidden behind a panel on the back stage wall. I caught a glimpse of them when they were switching from Conan to Zoe.
Love it :)
We are proud to offer four new MLS/MA degrees at the @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social School of Information Studies! Learn more about these opportunities to earn degrees in Art History, Urban Affairs, English, and Media Studies alongside your library degree.
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PEN America: “The detention of journalist Estefany Rodríguez by ICE is an alarming threat to press freedom that follows a well-worn path by this administration. Journalists must be able to report freely without fear that their work will expose them to government retaliation." pen.org/press-releas...
One of the Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, nearly hit an ancient archeological site www.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...
Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world
Remembering this line today: "The scandal is not one of ignorance but indifference... As long as enrollment numbers hold and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty are left to manage the educational carnage in their classrooms"
AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-...
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.
This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."
"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"
abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
Excited to be heading to Vienna at the end of the week to give a lecture on “Socially Responsible Digital Humanities during Precarious Times” as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. shorturl.at/Y5VRa
Public lands can be used to tell the U.S. full and true story. But, the TFG Is Intentionally Erasing the Black History Told by Public Lands and Waters www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
