Elizabeth Stregger
@estregger.bsky.social
Knitting, data, cats. Librarian in a small town in New Brunswick. (she/they)
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Just published! 🎉
A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson:
doi.org/10.46430/phe...
We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation.
Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.
A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson:
doi.org/10.46430/phe...
We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation.
Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.
From Sources to Data: Designing a Database for the Humanities and Social Sciences with nodegoat
This lesson teaches you how to use the nodegoat software to build a relational database for research in the humanities.
doi.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Just published! 🎉
A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson:
doi.org/10.46430/phe...
We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation.
Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.
A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson:
doi.org/10.46430/phe...
We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation.
Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.
Anyone have recommendations for ways to do card-sorting / collection structure activities digitally? We had sticky notes in person, and I need to follow up online.
MS Visio seemed like it should work, but it’s so irritating! The canvas keeps expanding and it’s responsive in all the wrong ways.
MS Visio seemed like it should work, but it’s so irritating! The canvas keeps expanding and it’s responsive in all the wrong ways.
February 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Anyone have recommendations for ways to do card-sorting / collection structure activities digitally? We had sticky notes in person, and I need to follow up online.
MS Visio seemed like it should work, but it’s so irritating! The canvas keeps expanding and it’s responsive in all the wrong ways.
MS Visio seemed like it should work, but it’s so irritating! The canvas keeps expanding and it’s responsive in all the wrong ways.
#ShowMeYourKnits theme this week is gray. My favourite grays are weird neutrals that I can wear around bright colours.
This gray yarn from @indigodragonfly.bsky.social has interesting blue and yellow undertones. It kept the knitting interesting!
This gray yarn from @indigodragonfly.bsky.social has interesting blue and yellow undertones. It kept the knitting interesting!
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits theme this week is gray. My favourite grays are weird neutrals that I can wear around bright colours.
This gray yarn from @indigodragonfly.bsky.social has interesting blue and yellow undertones. It kept the knitting interesting!
This gray yarn from @indigodragonfly.bsky.social has interesting blue and yellow undertones. It kept the knitting interesting!
#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this week is garter stitch.
@ambahobrien.bsky.social plays with garter stitch in unusual ways. This is her Astria shawl. My yarn is a dark and moody set of miniskeins by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
I just fixed a few snags in this shawl from all the wear it gets! 🧶
@ambahobrien.bsky.social plays with garter stitch in unusual ways. This is her Astria shawl. My yarn is a dark and moody set of miniskeins by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
I just fixed a few snags in this shawl from all the wear it gets! 🧶
January 30, 2026 at 6:37 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this week is garter stitch.
@ambahobrien.bsky.social plays with garter stitch in unusual ways. This is her Astria shawl. My yarn is a dark and moody set of miniskeins by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
I just fixed a few snags in this shawl from all the wear it gets! 🧶
@ambahobrien.bsky.social plays with garter stitch in unusual ways. This is her Astria shawl. My yarn is a dark and moody set of miniskeins by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
I just fixed a few snags in this shawl from all the wear it gets! 🧶
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I developed a new workshop, "Accessible Data for Everyone," for Love Data Week 2026. It's about making data accessible to people with disabilities.
Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574
Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574
Love Data Week: Accessible Data for Everyone
How do you format a dataset so it can be understood by a blind person, deaf person, or other disabled individual? This question is increasingly relevant given new requirements from...
libcal.caltech.edu
January 21, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I developed a new workshop, "Accessible Data for Everyone," for Love Data Week 2026. It's about making data accessible to people with disabilities.
Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574
Anyone is welcome to sign up. The class is on Feb 10 at 2pm PST online. Register here: libcal.caltech.edu/event/16205574
Perfect timing for an upcoming guest lecture on epistemic injustice (and algorithms and AI). This whole issue of Kula looks excellent: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...
Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!
Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!
January 20, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Perfect timing for an upcoming guest lecture on epistemic injustice (and algorithms and AI). This whole issue of Kula looks excellent: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...
Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!
Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!
#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this week is helping hands! Fingerless mittens are an essential piece my librarian gear.
This are my Deiknunai Mitts by @bristolivy.bsky.social in yarn by @indigodragonfly.bsky.social
I made them in 2021 and wear them so often. Do you have fave brioche mitts?
This are my Deiknunai Mitts by @bristolivy.bsky.social in yarn by @indigodragonfly.bsky.social
I made them in 2021 and wear them so often. Do you have fave brioche mitts?
January 20, 2026 at 4:04 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this week is helping hands! Fingerless mittens are an essential piece my librarian gear.
This are my Deiknunai Mitts by @bristolivy.bsky.social in yarn by @indigodragonfly.bsky.social
I made them in 2021 and wear them so often. Do you have fave brioche mitts?
This are my Deiknunai Mitts by @bristolivy.bsky.social in yarn by @indigodragonfly.bsky.social
I made them in 2021 and wear them so often. Do you have fave brioche mitts?
#ShowMeYourKnits theme of the week is Works in Progress. I sorted my projects a few weeks ago and found a nearly finished pair of fingerless mittens. Thanks, past-me, my hands are so cold and I need these for my office 🧶
Pattern: Peaks and Valleys Mitts by Destiny Itano of @seattleyarn.bsky.social
Pattern: Peaks and Valleys Mitts by Destiny Itano of @seattleyarn.bsky.social
January 13, 2026 at 3:48 AM
#ShowMeYourKnits theme of the week is Works in Progress. I sorted my projects a few weeks ago and found a nearly finished pair of fingerless mittens. Thanks, past-me, my hands are so cold and I need these for my office 🧶
Pattern: Peaks and Valleys Mitts by Destiny Itano of @seattleyarn.bsky.social
Pattern: Peaks and Valleys Mitts by Destiny Itano of @seattleyarn.bsky.social
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We're excited that The Carpentries Lab lesson "Introduction to Deep Learning" has been accepted to the Journal of Open Source Education! 🎉
The lesson is a practical intro to deep learning, intended for researchers who are familiar with (non-deep) machine learning: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21....
The lesson is a practical intro to deep learning, intended for researchers who are familiar with (non-deep) machine learning: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21....
Introduction to deep learning: Carpentries-style hands-on lesson material for introducing researchers to deep learning
van der Burg et al., (2026). Introduction to deep learning: Carpentries-style hands-on lesson material for introducing researchers to deep learning. Journal of Open Source Education, 9(95), 307, https...
jose.theoj.org
January 12, 2026 at 1:06 PM
We're excited that The Carpentries Lab lesson "Introduction to Deep Learning" has been accepted to the Journal of Open Source Education! 🎉
The lesson is a practical intro to deep learning, intended for researchers who are familiar with (non-deep) machine learning: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21....
The lesson is a practical intro to deep learning, intended for researchers who are familiar with (non-deep) machine learning: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21....
Immigrantly has a limited series called Borderly about the U.S.-Mexican border. The first episode was about the history of El Paso. As a Canadian, there’s so much I don’t know. No matter how much news I read or Bluesky I scroll. Gonna add Immigrantly to my regular listens: immigrantlypod.com
Cross-Cultural Conversations | Immigrant Stories | Immigrant Pod Stories | Immigrantlypod
Immigrantly is a one-of-a-kind startup reshaping the landscape of media consumption for first- and second-generation immigrants. With our unique approach to authentic audio and video storytelling, we ...
immigrantlypod.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 AM
Immigrantly has a limited series called Borderly about the U.S.-Mexican border. The first episode was about the history of El Paso. As a Canadian, there’s so much I don’t know. No matter how much news I read or Bluesky I scroll. Gonna add Immigrantly to my regular listens: immigrantlypod.com
#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this week is “firsts” so I went digging for a moment of happiness in my knitting photos. This is the first project I knit with Marit’s yarn! At the time, I knew her as jessiebean because that was her user name. 12 years later, she’s my wife! And dyeing yarn full time!
January 9, 2026 at 3:07 PM
#ShowMeYourKnits prompt this week is “firsts” so I went digging for a moment of happiness in my knitting photos. This is the first project I knit with Marit’s yarn! At the time, I knew her as jessiebean because that was her user name. 12 years later, she’s my wife! And dyeing yarn full time!
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Call for Proposals / Appel à propositions
Deadline: 15 January, 2026 / Date limite: 15 janvier 2026
EN: https://ow.ly/W5Bj50XKtgB
FR: https://ow.ly/QHoa50XKtgC
Deadline: 15 January, 2026 / Date limite: 15 janvier 2026
EN: https://ow.ly/W5Bj50XKtgB
FR: https://ow.ly/QHoa50XKtgC
December 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Call for Proposals / Appel à propositions
Deadline: 15 January, 2026 / Date limite: 15 janvier 2026
EN: https://ow.ly/W5Bj50XKtgB
FR: https://ow.ly/QHoa50XKtgC
Deadline: 15 January, 2026 / Date limite: 15 janvier 2026
EN: https://ow.ly/W5Bj50XKtgB
FR: https://ow.ly/QHoa50XKtgC
ACM! What are these publishers thinking? Abstracts go through peer review. The AI summary isn’t even approved by the author.
Why would they make a design decision hiding the author’s work behind AI?
Some of these publishers are losing trust as distributors of scholarly communication.
Why would they make a design decision hiding the author’s work behind AI?
Some of these publishers are losing trust as distributors of scholarly communication.
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
ACM! What are these publishers thinking? Abstracts go through peer review. The AI summary isn’t even approved by the author.
Why would they make a design decision hiding the author’s work behind AI?
Some of these publishers are losing trust as distributors of scholarly communication.
Why would they make a design decision hiding the author’s work behind AI?
Some of these publishers are losing trust as distributors of scholarly communication.
Interesting… That affiliation data could be rebuilt with ORCID if that data is still getting through to Crossref.
@aarontay.bsky.social wrote about the disappearance of Elsevier abstracts from OpenAlex earlier this year aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol...
@aarontay.bsky.social wrote about the disappearance of Elsevier abstracts from OpenAlex earlier this year aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol...
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Interesting… That affiliation data could be rebuilt with ORCID if that data is still getting through to Crossref.
@aarontay.bsky.social wrote about the disappearance of Elsevier abstracts from OpenAlex earlier this year aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol...
@aarontay.bsky.social wrote about the disappearance of Elsevier abstracts from OpenAlex earlier this year aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol...
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As 2025 wraps up, we invite you to take a moment and check out our top ten most popular datasets of the year!
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En cette fin d'année 2025, nous vous invitons à prendre un moment pour consulter nos dix jeux de données les plus populaires de l'année !
oculsp.ca/224pd
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En cette fin d'année 2025, nous vous invitons à prendre un moment pour consulter nos dix jeux de données les plus populaires de l'année !
oculsp.ca/224pd
December 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
As 2025 wraps up, we invite you to take a moment and check out our top ten most popular datasets of the year!
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En cette fin d'année 2025, nous vous invitons à prendre un moment pour consulter nos dix jeux de données les plus populaires de l'année !
oculsp.ca/224pd
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En cette fin d'année 2025, nous vous invitons à prendre un moment pour consulter nos dix jeux de données les plus populaires de l'année !
oculsp.ca/224pd
Scotch Cove, my first knitting pattern, was published in @knitty.com 🧶 this week!
Stripes, knit/purl texture, and a quiet gradient by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
knitty.com/ISSUEw25/PAT...
Stripes, knit/purl texture, and a quiet gradient by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
knitty.com/ISSUEw25/PAT...
December 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Scotch Cove, my first knitting pattern, was published in @knitty.com 🧶 this week!
Stripes, knit/purl texture, and a quiet gradient by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
knitty.com/ISSUEw25/PAT...
Stripes, knit/purl texture, and a quiet gradient by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social
knitty.com/ISSUEw25/PAT...
@fastenoffyal.bsky.social has officially begun! This team does lots of work to make their event accessible and inclusive. I feel like casting-on All The Things this year.
Time to learn a new thing: the crochet cast-on for a design by @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶
Time to learn a new thing: the crochet cast-on for a design by @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶
November 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@fastenoffyal.bsky.social has officially begun! This team does lots of work to make their event accessible and inclusive. I feel like casting-on All The Things this year.
Time to learn a new thing: the crochet cast-on for a design by @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶
Time to learn a new thing: the crochet cast-on for a design by @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶
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. @audreywatters.bsky.social on AI+grief: 'In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were forced to use a tech that severs us from creative expression, dignity, truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."'
AI Grief Observed
These remarks were delivered this evening at the Creatively Critical Tech Speaker Series at Illinois State University.
"There is no good way to say this."
These are the opening words of Yiyun Li’s l...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
. @audreywatters.bsky.social on AI+grief: 'In response to a radical outpouring of love, loss, life, grief—expressed together, embodied, on the streets—we were forced to use a tech that severs us from creative expression, dignity, truth. There is no choice, we're told. "Get over it." "Move on."'
Top of my Christmas list (for me and knitting friends)!
Check out Knotions Magazine's detailed (and very positive!) review of MATH FOR KNITTERS, by @kateatherley.bsky.social, in their STEM issue. They say that "nearly every knitter should have a copy of this book," and obviously we agree! knotions.com/kate-atherle...
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Top of my Christmas list (for me and knitting friends)!
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What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
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
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
Speaker (French): “…. besoin…”
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Speaker (French): “…. besoin…”
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
Teams Live Captions (English): “… buzzwank …”
I’m trying to get an official update on RDM policy implementation in Canada, not looking for more examples of bad AI. We need human translators.
Got the gist, appreciate the work from the speakers.
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✨📢 ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social + @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers.
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
✨📢 ENABLAR is a new initiative from @jisc.bsky.social + @proghist.bsky.social, bringing library and archive practitioners into dialogue with digital humanities researchers.
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
We’re gathering a cohort to join our online programme of webinars, workshops, and writing sprints.
tinyurl.com/enablar-blog
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📢Employment opportunity at PKP!
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director - Public Knowledge Project
The Public Knowledge Project, a Core Research Facility of SFU, invites applications for the position of Managing Director
pkp.sfu.ca
September 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
📢Employment opportunity at PKP!
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
PKP is hiring a Managing Director, who will be responsible for ensuring PKP’s long-term sustainability and continued global impact.
If you are interested, learn more at:
pkp.sfu.ca/2025/09/17/h...
Reposted by Elizabeth Stregger
ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R
In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals
sr.ithaka.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
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Anyone have examples of research-creation or practice-led research projects by librarians or as part of information science generally? These could be called other things, including arts-based research, artistic research, and even design inquiry.
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Anyone have examples of research-creation or practice-led research projects by librarians or as part of information science generally? These could be called other things, including arts-based research, artistic research, and even design inquiry.