Dianna Walla
@diannawalla.bsky.social
Research librarian & linguist, crafter and textile enthusiast. I post about multilingualism, digital humanities, & critical AI literacy. Always interested in amplifying marginalized voices. She/her. 📍Trondheim, Norway
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My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983) | University of Stavanger
Job title: PhD Fellowship in Museum Education (288983), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Sunday, January 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
My colleague Marie-Theres Fojuth has advertised a fully funded 3-year PhD Fellowship in Museum Education @unistavanger.bsky.social with the «Into the Fjords: Blue Museums as Arenas of Learning about Vulnerable Ecosystems (FJORDS)» project. Perfect for Scandinavian-speaking #envhum #envhist people!
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When I submitted a paper to AI & Society the email confirmation sent me to a website that told me my language quality score was only 3/10 but RUBRIQ could fix it. I study this stuff, so uploaded my paper to RUBRIQ, which proceeded to introduce scientific fabrication and change scientific terms.
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
When I submitted a paper to AI & Society the email confirmation sent me to a website that told me my language quality score was only 3/10 but RUBRIQ could fix it. I study this stuff, so uploaded my paper to RUBRIQ, which proceeded to introduce scientific fabrication and change scientific terms.
Because it's good to share the good stuff: last week I got to give a presentation to a group of Ph.D. students in linguistics about 'AI' in language research, and they were all extremely receptive to the idea of critical AI literacy. They'd all done an assignment where they summarized an article 1/3
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Because it's good to share the good stuff: last week I got to give a presentation to a group of Ph.D. students in linguistics about 'AI' in language research, and they were all extremely receptive to the idea of critical AI literacy. They'd all done an assignment where they summarized an article 1/3
Det var ikke lett å finne et sted å bo i Tromsø da vi flyttet dit for ti år siden, og på den tida var det veldig få enheter på Airbnb. Nå er det tusenvis, og regulering trenges, absolutt. Tromsøværinger må kunne bo i byen! Godt at saken løftes av NRK.
Korttidsutleie er i ferd med å komme ut av kontroll, mener «turistministeren»
NHO mener økt korttidsutleie via utleietjenester som Airbnb skyver vanlige folk ut av boligmarkedet. Det er i ferd med å komme ut av kontroll, mener næringsministeren.
www.nrk.no
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Det var ikke lett å finne et sted å bo i Tromsø da vi flyttet dit for ti år siden, og på den tida var det veldig få enheter på Airbnb. Nå er det tusenvis, og regulering trenges, absolutt. Tromsøværinger må kunne bo i byen! Godt at saken løftes av NRK.
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X-rays were discovered on this day November 8 in 1895, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, allowing us to see inside the human body.
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
X-rays were discovered on this day November 8 in 1895, by physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, allowing us to see inside the human body.
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
🧶 This free knitting pattern for X-Ray Mittens or Gloves designed by Marjukka Vuorisalo is on my fun handwear post
intheloopknitting.com/fun-mitten-a...
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📣 Registration OPEN for #FORCE2026 (3–5 Jun, Singapore). A conference on the future of research communication & open science.
Early-bird: by 28 Feb 2026.
Call for Proposal: Ends 9 Nov 2025. Authors get a special rate. Details & CFP force11.org/force2026/
#FORCE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication
Early-bird: by 28 Feb 2026.
Call for Proposal: Ends 9 Nov 2025. Authors get a special rate. Details & CFP force11.org/force2026/
#FORCE2026 #ScholarlyCommunication
November 8, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
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“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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Aftenposten trykket kronikken jeg skrev om dette: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Teknologien truer kunnskapssystemet vårt. Men den norske staten har slukt tekgigantenes PR rått.
Les kronikken.
www.aftenposten.no
November 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Aftenposten trykket kronikken jeg skrev om dette: www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
3yo asks me to build a beehive with magnet tiles.
Me: Well a man-made beehive tends to just look like a box.
3yo: I want a she-made beehive!
Me: Well a man-made beehive tends to just look like a box.
3yo: I want a she-made beehive!
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
3yo asks me to build a beehive with magnet tiles.
Me: Well a man-made beehive tends to just look like a box.
3yo: I want a she-made beehive!
Me: Well a man-made beehive tends to just look like a box.
3yo: I want a she-made beehive!
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Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
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🗣️📢 Call for short essays, poetry and short fiction: LOOMING ‘zine (issue 2, winter 2025).
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: looming.the.zine@proton.me
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: looming.the.zine@proton.me
Learned about the Library of Babel group via @olivia.science and her highlighted quote from @melaniedusseau.bsky.social from the essay "A Psalm for the Analog" - definitely worth reading the whole thing, and this table of contents is so solid.
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Zine is linked: www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
🗣️📢 Call for short essays, poetry and short fiction: LOOMING ‘zine (issue 2, winter 2025).
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: looming.the.zine@proton.me
Deadline: Dec 1
LOOMING is a technocritical zine celebrating the human and the analog in the face of Big Tech.
CC @kconrad.bsky.social
Submit to: looming.the.zine@proton.me
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Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
(Updated link: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...)
October 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
(Updated link: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...)
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My latest article, out now in Katina Magazine: 'How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing'
Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought...
Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought...
Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
October 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
My latest article, out now in Katina Magazine: 'How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing'
Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought...
Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Basically: what if the next big idea for open access came from @archiveofourown.org instead of Els*vi*r? 👀 There's a thought...
Read here → katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Ledig stilling som leksikograf ved UiB, med arbeidsoppgaver knyttet til de tre ordbøkene Norsk Ordbok, Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka. Søknadsfrist 18. november! www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...
Leksikograf (forskar) ved Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studium (289099) | Universitetet i Bergen
Stillingstittel: Leksikograf (forskar) ved Institutt for lingvistiske, litterære og estetiske studium (289099), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: tysdag 18. november 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Ledig stilling som leksikograf ved UiB, med arbeidsoppgaver knyttet til de tre ordbøkene Norsk Ordbok, Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka. Søknadsfrist 18. november! www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...
Four books to get to know me (nonfiction edition)
October 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Four books to get to know me (nonfiction edition)
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LOVED this text on how we understand AI:
"It’s hard to imagine LLMs becoming so widely used without the conversational metaphor, which is exceptionally elegant, efficient, and easy to understand. But the metaphor is responsible for a number of problems: practical, psychological, and philosophical."
"It’s hard to imagine LLMs becoming so widely used without the conversational metaphor, which is exceptionally elegant, efficient, and easy to understand. But the metaphor is responsible for a number of problems: practical, psychological, and philosophical."
how to speak to a computer
against chat interfaces ✦ a brief history of artificial intelligence ✦ and the (worthwhile) problem of other minds
www.personalcanon.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
LOVED this text on how we understand AI:
"It’s hard to imagine LLMs becoming so widely used without the conversational metaphor, which is exceptionally elegant, efficient, and easy to understand. But the metaphor is responsible for a number of problems: practical, psychological, and philosophical."
"It’s hard to imagine LLMs becoming so widely used without the conversational metaphor, which is exceptionally elegant, efficient, and easy to understand. But the metaphor is responsible for a number of problems: practical, psychological, and philosophical."
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NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket har en ledig fast stilling som overingeniør/avdelingsingeniør med oppgaver innen digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester! Søknadsfrist 17. november. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester (288968) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester (288968), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket har en ledig fast stilling som overingeniør/avdelingsingeniør med oppgaver innen digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester! Søknadsfrist 17. november. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket har en ledig fast stilling som overingeniør/avdelingsingeniør med oppgaver innen digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester! Søknadsfrist 17. november. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
Digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester (288968) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester (288968), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket har en ledig fast stilling som overingeniør/avdelingsingeniør med oppgaver innen digitalisering av samlinger og tjenester! Søknadsfrist 17. november. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...
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really excellent paper if you've been wondering wtf is going on with AI marketing these days
🤖 New Early View!
In “Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work”, Alfonso Del Percio examines technofuturist registers, showing how AI is made desirable & shapes social imaginations of the future, reconfiguring visions of labor, personhood, and modernity.
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/3Bmxbgv
In “Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work”, Alfonso Del Percio examines technofuturist registers, showing how AI is made desirable & shapes social imaginations of the future, reconfiguring visions of labor, personhood, and modernity.
🔗 Read here: buff.ly/3Bmxbgv
buff.ly
October 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
really excellent paper if you've been wondering wtf is going on with AI marketing these days
The American Studies Association of Norway is holding an online event this Friday (October 24) on 'Challenging Times for American Studies'. There'll be a talk from Curt Rice followed by a round-table discussion of the topic. More info here: asanor.org/events/onlin...
Online Event: Challenging Times for American Studies
Date: Friday, October 24, 2025Time: 13:00-15:00 CET Click here to join us on Zoom.com(or use password 907813) In advance of our biannual conference in Kristiansand, Norway (June 4-6, 2026…
asanor.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The American Studies Association of Norway is holding an online event this Friday (October 24) on 'Challenging Times for American Studies'. There'll be a talk from Curt Rice followed by a round-table discussion of the topic. More info here: asanor.org/events/onlin...
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In/around #London? 🗣💬
Come to a #Book Launch for: Teacher Agency in #Multilingual Pedagogies by Thomas Quehl (@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Wed 12 Nov 4-5:30pm)
@naldic.bsky.social's Christina Richardson & I will be discussants, with chair Vally Lytra
#edusky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Come to a #Book Launch for: Teacher Agency in #Multilingual Pedagogies by Thomas Quehl (@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Wed 12 Nov 4-5:30pm)
@naldic.bsky.social's Christina Richardson & I will be discussants, with chair Vally Lytra
#edusky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
October 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
In/around #London? 🗣💬
Come to a #Book Launch for: Teacher Agency in #Multilingual Pedagogies by Thomas Quehl (@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Wed 12 Nov 4-5:30pm)
@naldic.bsky.social's Christina Richardson & I will be discussants, with chair Vally Lytra
#edusky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
Come to a #Book Launch for: Teacher Agency in #Multilingual Pedagogies by Thomas Quehl (@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Wed 12 Nov 4-5:30pm)
@naldic.bsky.social's Christina Richardson & I will be discussants, with chair Vally Lytra
#edusky
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
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AWS being down is a great reminder that letting Amazon own half the internet is a really bad thing we've allowed to happen
October 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
AWS being down is a great reminder that letting Amazon own half the internet is a really bad thing we've allowed to happen