Ok. I wrote about the Afroman trial, including this incredible image of him being sworn in on the witness stand.

!!! this is an incredibly insightful comparison that is sparking a lot of thoughts in me. I want to read this paper!

Me: Ughhh, fine, GIF of Snoop Dogg dancing it is. Americans get more cultured NOW!!!

a close up of a man 's face looking at a woman . Alt: Jim from the The Office pursing his lips

Me using the Phone a Friend feature while writing my #EIC2026 lightning talk: hey if I put a GIF of that one 🎵it's the time to DISCO💃 scene from Kal Ho Naa Ho do you think people will pick up what I'm putting down?
Her:

(Once upon my perfectionism had me like thank GOD I'm not faculty, imagine having to ride the anxiety torment nexus of regular writing but the beauty of age and reading many terminally okay papers now has me like nvm, give me a sabbatical and watch me flex, if the bar is chatGPT I can SOAR over it)

Many such options! 🤔 We will pin this dream for later exploration.

Actually back to ETDs, in the beautiful future where I have less on my plate, maybe I could swing funding from our undergrad research center to hire an RA to help gather that data? Develop a list of sample institutions, check if they post ETDs and since when, run citation analysis on that subset...

Incidentally I'm kind of astonished at having to submit slides for a conference that's a month away but like. I respect the intent of the deadline! That IS a good way to guard against tech hiccups in advance! But also ughhhh, cannae believe I have to WRITE this weekend instead of just baking pie.

We're chatting this off the cuff on bsky because once upon a time I started actually looking at this as a real research project and then. Work exploded. The to do list got huge. Tweeting is serving as a great procrastination tool from the presentation I need to write this weekend.

Like I THINK it's grown because repositories continue to be the wave and theses are the obvious and easiest place to start re: university produced intellectual content that is uncomplicated to share but I'd love to know if anyone's actually studied this and their methods.

Bringing this back to say I still want to know if the rise of university libraries publishing open ETDs have impacted this trend. Is anyone tracking that btw? Are there good numbers available on how many institutions make a point of posting their ETDs to their repositories?

I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs.

I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.

@devononabike.bsky.social This is extremely interesting and potentially an illustrative example to include in your schol comm workshops re: the constructed nature of scholarly authority and prestige!

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

anyways do you think Susan Walsh uses OpenRefine? I feel like she uses OpenRefine. Like I get why this book talks about data cleaning with Excel because it's a more widespread program but I parasocially believe she's knows it's the data cleaning GOAT

Text overlaying a series of three images of Gimli and Legolas from Lord of the Rings. Gimli: Never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a procurement specialist. Legolas: How about with a fellow clean data afficianado? Gimli: Aye, I could do that.

a man in a hospital bed with the words will you come to my cottage this summer on the bottom Alt: a man in a hospital bed with the words will you come to my cottage this summer on the bottom

we'll have so much funnnn, we'll share so many data cleanup tips...we can nerd out about taxonomies...together~

Me @ Susan Walsh, author of Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data (2nd edition): omg hiiiii susan. if you read this i am free to hang out thursday night, please hit me up if you wanna hang thursday night when i am free

feeling that my current book thoughts are too full of valuable literary analysis to be confined solely to whatsapp messages with the bestie. messages loading, stay tuned #pieReads26

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Peter Coviello with another dynamite piece.

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Congrats to the fine folks at the Data Rescue Project on this well-deserved award--and huge thanks to their 900 volunteers who saved over 2500 datasets from over 90 government agencies in 2025.

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as a lover of tangents this would also be where i warn against the false promises of llms claiming they can clean your data...he is a fae creature and thou must guard thy tongue against treachery...only the experienced eye can see where monsieur chatty has NOT fixed truncated titles as claimed...

cue the story of the winter of my discontent (intensively cleaning up our digitized theses metadata and deduping records) to bring about the summer of our beautiful digitization project tracker dashboard

(58% of MPOW's historical theses collection is digitized baby!)

get em with the snazzy graphs and then be like SURPRISE! you gotta clean the data first to process it and it helps a lot if you've set up good data management practices first!

so anyways I think if I were -lupe fiasco voice- daydreaming~ about building out a suite of data services I'd probably go hard on data visualization first because it seems like the most recognizable carrot of the bunch

This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

What is the POINT of this? Literally what value do you get of an AI response to a research question? Are we really at the point where survey tools just sell the ability to commit scientific fraud?

monsieur clifton put my top 5 strengths as ideation, strategic, responsibility, analytical, and arranger bee tee dubs. was mildly curious about the top 34 report but apparently that's even MORE money and like. it's not THAT fun a personality quiz lol

also w00t positivity but they should include more on potential pitfalls because i wasn't rly buying in until i read my analytical description about being perceived as unnecessarily critical and i was like okay, actually i do recognize that, i'm constantly caveating my questions to manage discomfort