Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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So grateful to have brilliant historian comrades and friends to think through these ideas w @ldicuirci.bsky.social & @andy-schocket.bsky.social as well as a-mazing colleagues @harvardlil.bsky.social
You were blonde woman, thick head of hair, maybe late 40s or early 50s at RDU TSA checkpoint this morning. Traveling with your parents. Handling the luggage, their spatial awareness & strangers’. Got them to the lounge.
Just want to say, I know an eldest/only daughter GOAT when I see one 🫡
For all my book nerd friends--also known as "all my friends"-- out there.
Come for this pitcher commemorating the first Federal Census and stay for my plea for rethinking data. Thanks to @jmheberling.bsky.social for the inspiration and to @kawulf.bsky.social for the encouragement.
As a government information librarian who archives a lot of federal web pages, I strongly recommend this approach. The Internet Archive and similar tools are great, but, as mentioned here, are imperfect tools and there is just too much uncertainty about continued access to federal resources.
Hey #DataRescuers! Join us this Labor Day weekend to #SaveOurSigns The deadline is near and we have some priority locations. You can also connect with DRP members in NYC!
Get out, spread the word, and help us #SaveOurSigns.
Calling all NYC #DataRescuers, we're going to be in your area! Help #SaveOurSigns finish strong with an in-person rescue event. Please register in advance.
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Title "Open French Law RAG" overlaid on llama dressed in a French lawyer robe in front of an abstract background.
What insights emerge when a librarian, a software engineer, and a legal scholar come together to experiment with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to explore over 800,000 French legal articles 🇫🇷?
Blog post: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01...
Case study: lil.law.harvard.edu/open-french-...
Say you can't sleep, baby, we know, that's that [threat to government data].
Fuel up on espresso (or your favorite caffeinated beverage of choice) and join the #DataRescueVolunteers
Bonafide @harvardlil.bsky.social and so very happy to be the Project Lead for Public Data
The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟
Gaskell rocks!
Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards.
Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities
If you are feeling discouraged, powerless, or terrified, it is so tempting to retreat into solitude, but you need to be in community right now. Come out tomorrow if you possibly can. handsoff2025.com
🚨At midnight DOGE terminated all #NEH grants via a letter that claims they “no longer effectuate the agency’s needs and priorities” & adds “the termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration.” Unreal & enraging. Flood the phones, join #HandsOff on Saturday
Thank you. 💜💜💜
A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.
2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
We had planned to make a post this morning celebrating 100+ bluesky followers for the #NEH union #AFGE 3403.
Instead, we are learning that a large number of our members were placed on Administrative Leave at almost midnight last night, cut off from our systems, and facing unknown days ahead.
Help Us Say Farewell to Newspaper Navigator! | The Signal blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/20...
@bcgl.bsky.social
Illustration to Villette--showing a young woman in 19th century dress, swept by the wind, in front of the double door of an imposing building; the words "Pensionnat de Demoiselles" carved above the doorway.
Just finished rereading Charlotte Brontë's Villette, & this time round, its ending strikes me as one of the most romantic ever, maybe b/c I inhabit an age of hiring freezes & academic precarity.
M. Paul loves Lucy Snowe, & to demonstrate it, he gives her a classroom in which to teach.
Swoon! #19thc
#OCCUPY IMLS! Starting Tomorrow!
955 L'Enfant Plaza North SW, Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20024-2135
Thrilled my book, Plastic Capitalism, was named a finalist for the Business History Conference's (@businesshistoryc.bsky.social) 2025 Hagley Prize and received an honourable mention for the 2025 Ralph Gomory Prize.
@yalebooks.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
A St Patrick’s Day Socialist Guide to Irish Film and TV jacobin.com/2025/03/st-patricks-day-... #socialism
Here’s an explainer re possible impacts to the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS). It “enumerates which programs are "shall" programs and duties, meaning that they are mandated by Congress, and which programs are "may" programs, meaning that they are discretionary for IMLS”
