Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
@digitaldante.bsky.social
📚 🖥️ 💡 Claremont Colleges Library | semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum | Proud mother of 3 kind and amazing humans
Our Asian Library ordered a copy of this for the general collections. You can consult the #OA book at the link below!
The new addition to our Re-Editions series, TRADITIONAL CHINESE CHILDREN'S PRIMERS, is now here! The first-of-its-kind anthology in English covers Chinese children's texts from 2nd century BCE to the late 20th century. Start reading: buff.ly/tRF9G9q
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Our Asian Library ordered a copy of this for the general collections. You can consult the #OA book at the link below!
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Join us online on Thursday 13 Nov for the 5th CERL Provenance Seminar!
16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona)
16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library)
17:00 Discussion
Register via secretariat@cerl.org to receive link!
#bookhistory
16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona)
16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library)
17:00 Discussion
Register via secretariat@cerl.org to receive link!
#bookhistory
November 10, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Join us online on Thursday 13 Nov for the 5th CERL Provenance Seminar!
16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona)
16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library)
17:00 Discussion
Register via secretariat@cerl.org to receive link!
#bookhistory
16:00–16:30 Marina Ruiz Fargas & Laia Navarro de Llobet (Univ. of Barcelona)
16:30–17:00 Mira Krall (Austrian National Library)
17:00 Discussion
Register via secretariat@cerl.org to receive link!
#bookhistory
This is perhaps one of my favorite essays on AI and its impoverished assumption about what it means to be human. www.newyorker.com/humor/sketch...
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.
www.newyorker.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is perhaps one of my favorite essays on AI and its impoverished assumption about what it means to be human. www.newyorker.com/humor/sketch...
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
Martha Rich, a commercial and fine artist based in Philadelphia #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Martha Rich, a commercial and fine artist based in Philadelphia #WomensArt
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
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
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 AM
placesjournal.org/article/extr...
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
fantastic article by @shannonmattern.bsky.social part love letter to libraries and all they represent, and part dream of the future libraries are building.
the dignity of dependence? o tempora o mores!
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
the dignity of dependence? o tempora o mores!
no words.
Denver Post confirms what we’ve been hearing: nearly all federal HSI agents with expertise on cultural property crimes have been reassigned to immigration duties in recent months.
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
Major loss of law enforcement capabilities in the world’s largest art market.
www.denverpost.com/2025/11/06/u...
The U.S. was a leader in cultural heritage investigations. Now those agents are working immigration enforcement.
Homeland Security Investigations, the department’s investigative arm, once had as many as eight agents in its New York office investigating cultural property cases.
www.denverpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
no words.
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"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
"Did wommen ruine the worke place"?
are we great yet?
November 6, 2025 at 6:24 AM
are we great yet?
Typography for the win gdusa.com/mamdanis-cam...
Mamdani’s Campaign Branding Breaks The Mold • Graphic Design USA
With New York-specific colors, a hand-drawn wordmark, and concise slogans, controversial mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's branding broke the rule of political aesthetics.
gdusa.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Typography for the win gdusa.com/mamdanis-cam...
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...
Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
Myths about how the Black Death traveled quickly across Asia, ravaging Silk Route communities, date back to a single fourteenth-century source, experts have found.
phys.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread
Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...
Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...
Here’s something really frightening for Halloween 🎃 😱📚
October 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Here’s something really frightening for Halloween 🎃 😱📚
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To celebrate the publication of the 3rd already #BestSelling womensart book #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Sundays are all about women printmakers!
Sundays are all about women printmakers!
October 26, 2025 at 4:50 AM
To celebrate the publication of the 3rd already #BestSelling womensart book #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Sundays are all about women printmakers!
Sundays are all about women printmakers!
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
This is heartbreaking - and a grim harbinger for graduate education in the U.S. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is heartbreaking - and a grim harbinger for graduate education in the U.S. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
Author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to the deterioration of the internet web — and that it’s within our power to repair the damage.
The Internet Doesn’t Have to Suck
Author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to the deterioration of the internet web — and that it’s within our power to repair the damage.
nymag.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Author Cory Doctorow says specific policy choices led to the deterioration of the internet web — and that it’s within our power to repair the damage.
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH!
dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f...
Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY...
Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/
dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f...
Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY...
Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/
October 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Join me, Ray Siemens @gworthey.bsky.social for our #digitalhumanities leadership seminar @ 2026 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. For a/o curious about or already in leadership around & about #DH!
dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f...
Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY...
Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/
dhsi.org/2025/09/30/f...
Intro Video: youtu.be/2dFWoeRs_pY...
Scholarships: dhsi.org/scholarships/
When I presented recently on the manufacture of stereotyped plates, some of my audience had questions. This fantastic clip from OUP shows how the molds were made, the plates cast, and the prints produced (on what looks like an Adams powerpress!) 📚#bookhistory youtu.be/sW7wsXuw2cI?...
Oxford University Press and the Making of a Book
YouTube video by Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
When I presented recently on the manufacture of stereotyped plates, some of my audience had questions. This fantastic clip from OUP shows how the molds were made, the plates cast, and the prints produced (on what looks like an Adams powerpress!) 📚#bookhistory youtu.be/sW7wsXuw2cI?...
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
October 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
In Boston, every day is No Kings Day
Reposted by Carol Chiodo, Ph.D.
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October 16, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The 👏 power 👏 of 👏 primary 👏 source 👏 research 👏 in 👏 archives 👏 it's also known in some circles (though not all, alas) as intelligence.
There's some delightful metaphor to be found in the fact that the solution came from archival research rather than math, if only someone could decipher it.
A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-so...
October 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The 👏 power 👏 of 👏 primary 👏 source 👏 research 👏 in 👏 archives 👏 it's also known in some circles (though not all, alas) as intelligence.