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gabi
@gabi3.bsky.social
graduate student in English and digital humanities at Stanford University

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The #BuildingBookLabs25 symposium @skeuomorphpress.org went by too fast. Thanks to everyone I met this week for your kind advice and encouragement.
May 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I owe much of my career so far to NEH grants. For me, it was the ladder up to my first job out of college, and then into grad school. I would not be in academia, more particularly DH, if assistantships on grants hadn't paid better than my fast food job at the time.
April 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I missed out on Cake Picnic tickets (as did a lot of folks) but we cake picnic'd at home just fine. #DHbakes www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
March 30, 2025 at 4:33 AM
I am afraid this spells the beginning of economic devastation for Pittsburgh. UPMC, very much part of U of Pitt, is the backbone of the research and tech renaissance, the largest employer in the area, a $2.5b (tax-exempt) land owner, and a major health insurer.
February 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Should I take this season's crop pestilence (found grain weevils while trying to make rice tonight) as a sign of judgement or is god telling me it's okay to spend $100 at the container store?
February 4, 2025 at 3:46 AM
I once met an OpenAI employee who agreed with me that expert annotations are worth more than they offer. His solution: OpenAI should offer equity in exchange for your intellectual property. He looked genuinely aghast when I suggested OpenAI was wildly overvalued.
January 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Had a dream in which I received handwritten feedback from a colleague but in a very helpful git-like diff view...but all the comments were about how I should replace the words I was using with the word "tomorrowify"
January 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Mutual aid is not just a disaster response, it’s a way of caring for one another, building stronger communities, and preparing for whatever life may throw at us next. It’s a labor of love—and a way of life.

I put together a reading list (and words of advice) for LitHub: lithub.com/we-only-have...
We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid
For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities…
lithub.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Attending my first MLA this week. Also my first trip to NOLA. If you have tips, recs, or cautionary tales I'd love to hear them!
January 9, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Family holiday bonding for yinzers: watch a movie filmed in Pittsburgh, point at every landmark and name it. Especially good if there are car chases which splice together anachronistic locations. Tonight it's Jack Reacher, but Striking Distance is my fav.
December 26, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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I made a starter pack for grad students in DH, to build visibility for a rising group of scholars.

If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment!

go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY
November 30, 2024 at 12:23 AM
I love when research takes me to someone's Web 1.0 site: still fully functional, every publication in PDF form, no broken links. Browser prevents you from using the search feature (the browser is a coward).
November 26, 2024 at 8:17 PM
No idea if I was added to a new starter pack or if yinz are from #DHmakes territory but glad to meet you!

I'm a second year PhD student in English and a member of @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social. I'm dipping my toes in print practice this fall, here's a risograph print WIP:
November 10, 2024 at 6:44 PM
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ELECTION DAY STRIKE: We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of @nytimes.com management.

#SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Election2024
November 5, 2024 at 12:23 PM
mom can you come pick me up? I'm at the intersection of art and technology (at the internet archive)
November 4, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Stanford proposes 2-3% raises for grad workers.

They raised rent by 4.5% this year. Over 70% of us live on campus, on their untaxed land (part of their $36+ billion endowment).

stanforddaily.com/2024/10/31/s...
Graduate workers union launches strike authorization ballot
The union will begin a strike on Nov. 12 if the strike authorization vote passes and the University does not "adequately improve their offer," according to a SGWU press release. The ballot will be ope...
stanforddaily.com
November 1, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Stanford proposes 2-3% raises for grad workers.

They raised rent by 4.5% this year. Over 70% of us live on campus, on their untaxed land (part of their $36+ billion endowment).

stanforddaily.com/2024/10/31/s...
Graduate workers union launches strike authorization ballot
The union will begin a strike on Nov. 12 if the strike authorization vote passes and the University does not "adequately improve their offer," according to a SGWU press release. The ballot will be ope...
stanforddaily.com
November 1, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Just got an email from a professor, not with the syllabus or first-day requirements, but with recommendations for fun day trips nearby.

It was delightful and welcoming (and I'm not even new here) and I'm filing it away as a way to bring hospitality into my teaching practice.
September 9, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens
August 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
My first ADHO presentation got a bit of a gasp when I mentioned we'd sawed some book spines in the name of corpus construction! #DH2024
@gabi3.bsky.social: Approaches to getting books scanned. Nichole Nomura used a band saw as part of destructive scanning; it's more effective than scissors. The LitLab team ultimately worked with a vendor to do this scanning. #DH2024
August 8, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Quals reading discoveries:
- Drama has been undersold, imo
- Turtle meat CAN kill you
- Raymond Carver audiobooks at 1.5x speed sound just like I Think You Should Leave sketches
July 25, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Last week, I sewed and glued my way through the SF Center for the Book's core bookbinding intensive. A good break from reading books, right? #DHmakes
July 3, 2024 at 2:30 AM