Heather Froehlich
@heatherfro.bsky.social
supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
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#CfP: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History. Saint Louis University, 8-10 June 2026
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
November 11, 2025 at 7:04 AM
#CfP: Material and Digital Surrogates in the Practice of History. Saint Louis University, 8-10 June 2026
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
Abstracts due 15 December 2025
#EarlyModern #skystorians #DigitalHistory
Moby Dick is about whales & boats (only one of the two pictured below)
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Moby Dick is about whales & boats (only one of the two pictured below)
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'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
'It's a lost map!'
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
'Where did you find it?'
'In the Map Drawer, in the Map Room of the Map Library'.
OH is seriously thinking about doing a talk on data and discovery entitled 'why we keep biscuits in the biscuit tin'. Seems appropriate.
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Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker
Old, New, Precarious Data
Old, New, Precarious Data is the first event of the 2025-2026 DHRH flagship seminar series on incompleteness and loss in digital cultural heritage collections.
www.sas.ac.uk
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Join us online on 2 Dec for ‘Old, New, Precarious Data’, the 1st event of the 2025-6 @dh-researchhub.bsky.social seminar series on incompleteness & loss in digital cultural heritage collections. Speakers include @beatricecannelli.bsky.social, @heatherfro.bsky.social, Leontien Talboom & Amelia Acker
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Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
This is a great essay and going to be a HUGE big deal game changer for the early modernists interested in genre, form, etc.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is a great essay and going to be a HUGE big deal game changer for the early modernists interested in genre, form, etc.
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📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
October 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd...
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome
pls share with your networks
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Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...
Velde Visiting Scholar Program – Rare Book and Manuscript Library – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 3, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Interested in coming to Champaign-Urbana and using the collections at @illinoisrbml.bsky.social ? We have a $3k visiting scholar program for that! Applications accepted beginning Nov 17. www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/research...
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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!
Good morning Australia! On Thurs Nov 6 I will be talking about my topics: digital collections, EEBO, ECCO, and my current project, Digital Borderlands In the Classroom. We are live @ Australian National Uni & I believe there will be a zoom link events.humanitix.com/collections-...
Collections as Data for Humanists
Heather Froehlich will discuss some of the affordances of working with digital cultural heritage objects on various platforms.
events.humanitix.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Good morning Australia! On Thurs Nov 6 I will be talking about my topics: digital collections, EEBO, ECCO, and my current project, Digital Borderlands In the Classroom. We are live @ Australian National Uni & I believe there will be a zoom link events.humanitix.com/collections-...
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
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🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to)
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
www.youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
🎧 lo-fi microfiche digitization (to study/relax/preserve gov docs to)
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...
Back online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxUj...
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Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org
UNESCO launches the World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural
Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital
www.unesco.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org
Fascinating. According to state schools superintendence Tom Horne (also on the AZ board of regents), the University of Arizona *didn't* reject Trump's compact but rather are negotiating to implement it: www.azed.gov/communicatio...
Horne: Federal university compact in line with merit-based philosophy
PHOENIX - State schools chief Tom Horne, who is also a member of the Arizona Board of Regents, says the Trump administration’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education is aligned with his p...
www.azed.gov
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Fascinating. According to state schools superintendence Tom Horne (also on the AZ board of regents), the University of Arizona *didn't* reject Trump's compact but rather are negotiating to implement it: www.azed.gov/communicatio...
Australians! 2 weeks from now, find out why I'm excited about this giant phone book from 1910 for the Melbourne region, held at the State Library of Victoria, at ANU's CEMS talk on 6 Nov
cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...
cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Australians! 2 weeks from now, find out why I'm excited about this giant phone book from 1910 for the Melbourne region, held at the State Library of Victoria, at ANU's CEMS talk on 6 Nov
cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...
cems.anu.edu.au/2025/09/coll...
may the odds be ever in your favour
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
may the odds be ever in your favour
i spent all this time writing this article (under review) and he just tweets it out
from 2020-2022, I put about a dozen open source projects on the web and every year since, I suffer for it with my time/money/energy
long-term maintenance on this kind of thing is just impossible when it's not a full time job
long-term maintenance on this kind of thing is just impossible when it's not a full time job
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
i spent all this time writing this article (under review) and he just tweets it out
very interesting paper here on assessing linguistic annotation for evaluative applications of the verb 'consider' using LLMs arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12306
arxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
very interesting paper here on assessing linguistic annotation for evaluative applications of the verb 'consider' using LLMs arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12306
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I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words)
snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...
snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...
The curious, contentious history of pumpkin spice lattes
Starbucks didn’t invent them. But it’s possible that Tori Amos or a Midwest grandma did.
snackstack.net
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am here to reveal the truth about pumpkin spice lattes, by way of *deep* archival research (and 3,600 words)
snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...
snackstack.net/2025/10/21/t...
Call for Papers: Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (virtual conference) www.jwai.org/events/resea...
Research in the Age of AI Conference — jwAi
A virtual conference examining AI and research thoughtfully, dynamically, and compellingly from the humanities classroom and the work outside it.
www.jwai.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Call for Papers: Research in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (virtual conference) www.jwai.org/events/resea...
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For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what?
@hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...
@hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...
The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.
www.niemanlab.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what?
@hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...
@hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...
in a week I am giving a talk about future of the GLAM sector from a US perspective in Australia and the sheer amount of stuff that has come out in the past week or so of just *writing this paper* is mind boggling
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
in a week I am giving a talk about future of the GLAM sector from a US perspective in Australia and the sheer amount of stuff that has come out in the past week or so of just *writing this paper* is mind boggling
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It looks like there's a major outage in AWS US east-1 region (North Virginia). This means large portions of the internet are not going to be functioning. We're so reliant on Amazon's infrastructure for everything now.
October 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It looks like there's a major outage in AWS US east-1 region (North Virginia). This means large portions of the internet are not going to be functioning. We're so reliant on Amazon's infrastructure for everything now.
Job: Data Instruction and Outreach Librarian aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05126
Data Instruction and Outreach Librarian - Library
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
October 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Job: Data Instruction and Outreach Librarian aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05126