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On Yom HaShaoh, I am reminded that the most common location of death of all the family members for which I know that answer is Auschwitz. And also that Never Again is a constant promise, not a memory.

Data Engineer #00246 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Data Engineer #00246 State Role Title: Information Tech Spec III Hiring Range: $100,000 - $125,000 Pay Band: 6 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: Library of Virginia Building Agency Web...

The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.

Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.

Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!

(Note: to apply, please use the link above rather than emailing resumes.)

My job is nether digital nor physical these days: it is almost entirely social or bureaucratic.

But my little act of resistance is I only take paper notebooks to meetings.

Better to lean further into it: I only read articles or books whose last numbered page is even.

I knew about the community but not the job board, so thank you! Form filled.

That's the photo that gets shared for all VA state jobs, for some reason.

It absolutely will, thank you.

Unfortunately, despite this excellent feedback, I can't change a gov job ad once it's out. If the search fails this will be helpful for the next posting. But I can also use this as we imagine how this role evolves, so I do genuinely appreciate it.

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Much obliged! I will take any help or advice offered.

It's a fair point. Ours is a small but effective team, and although this role has a new title it is one we have had filled successfully for many years. Like all of us, this person will be doing a bit of a lot of things, but thankfully they have a roadmap from the previous occupant.

Follow up:

This person will be in one of the teams that reports to me, and although I am not the hiring manager, I am happy to answer any questions.

Data Engineer #00246 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Data Engineer #00246 State Role Title: Information Tech Spec III Hiring Range: $100,000 - $125,000 Pay Band: 6 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: Library of Virginia Building Agency Web...

The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.

Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.

Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!

common misconception, it's the ink

picture of an old Palm Treo with a physical keyboard and a windows-ish GUI

See in 2005 I had a Palm Treo on which I loaded an offline static copy of all of wikipedia in order to solve this problem.

[I did not solve this problem.]

Surprisingly achievable challenge for the dedicated.

Jellyfish sleep a lot like us—and for the same reasons Study adds to evidence that sleep likely evolved among ancient animals as a means of repairing neurons

This is wild -- JELLYFISH sleep!

The reason is a good reminder why we all need consistent and restful sleep:

"sleep arose early in animal evolution to help the first neurons repair themselves"

www.science.org/content/arti...

this is cool as hell

Surprisingly achievable challenge for the dedicated.

Sailors timed how quickly knots slipped through their fingers on a rope tied to a log and jotted that speed into their "log book."

Soon people "logged" all sorts of important events into their little books.

Including early computer users, who would "log in" to their terminals to mark their use.

Sailors timed how quickly knots slipped through their fingers on a rope tied to a log and jotted that speed into their "log book."

Soon people "logged" all sorts of important events into their little books.

Including early computer users, who would "log in" to their terminals to mark their use.

"Office of Data and Evaluation" Jessica Unger, Lutie Rodrigues, Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Jacob Lusk, Ben Skinner, Sheila Brennan [photos for each]

I'll say this: every opportunity I get to remember how lucky I was to work with this just bonkers-phenomenal team is a good opportunity. Really just could not be prouder of the work we did together in such a short time.

April 10, 2025 To: WEINGART, SCOTT B From: Michael McDonald, Acting Chairman Subject: Specific Notice of Reduction in Force (RIF) This memorandum serves as official notification that your DIRECTOR position, in the Office of Data and Evaluation is being abolished. As a result, you will be separated from federal service. The RIF is necessary to comply with the Executive Order titled, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative” (February 11, 2025). The agency is forced to reduce the total number of positions in compliance with the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) Reduction in Force (RIF) regulations (5 CFR Part 351) and procedures. You will be released from your competitive level, and based on your retention standing, you do not have an assignment right to another position in the competitive area. Consequently, you will be separated from the Federal service

🫠 happy one year anniversary! 🫠

(if you remember me recently posting another anniversary, this is the second of three: the day we NEH staffers were put on admin leave, the day we were notified we were soon getting fired and couldn't return to work, and the day we actually got fired)

Jurassic park theme start playing in anyone else's head, or just me?

spiderman pointing at spiderman meme