Jennifer Saunders
@zhennasaisquoi.bsky.social
Not actually the Neolithic Xiaoheyan clay hedgehog, I just relate to their expression. Working somewhere at the intersection of DH, archives, material culture, mapping, and probably other things.
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ma’am please stop bothering that baked potato😭
September 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM
ma’am please stop bothering that baked potato😭
Hi folks! I’ve been charged with designing a panel at a non-academic conference (one discussant/moderator and three panelists). Anybody have a favorite recorded panel discussion to share? Are there alternatives to the “each person talks about their work and then they discuss” kind of structure?
July 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hi folks! I’ve been charged with designing a panel at a non-academic conference (one discussant/moderator and three panelists). Anybody have a favorite recorded panel discussion to share? Are there alternatives to the “each person talks about their work and then they discuss” kind of structure?
Ever read a piece of writing that makes you want to start writing again? Yeah, this one’s good.
"People fear a system crashing down because they don’t understand that it already happened and they’ve been living in wreckage sold to them as privilege. Or they understand just fine, and do not know what to do about it." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...
Heat Exhaustion
A spark of hope in a limbo that feels like hell.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Ever read a piece of writing that makes you want to start writing again? Yeah, this one’s good.
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this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.
A big point in my Founders in American memory class is that the visual culture of the 19th century whitewashed the era of the revolution out of recognition. I ask students if there were Black soldiers at Yorktown and if anything they describe back the Trumbull painting.
can’t overstate how shoddy the actual work is. “the framers didn’t think black people counted in the constitutional order” falls apart with a single question: “well what did they think about all the free blacks that most of them lived around, encountered, and even hired for work?”
June 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
this is such an important point. i do not think that the typical american understands that for most of their lives, someone like james madison or george washington or thomas jefferson was *surrounded* by black people.
Chronicling America has been an invaluable resource for me across multiple projects. Thank you for doing this work!!
I just finished drafting another post about my Chron Am backup project. It describes how I created some search functionality for my local version of Chronicling America.
Feel free to check it out here: matthewkollmer.com/building-sea...
Feel free to check it out here: matthewkollmer.com/building-sea...
June 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Chronicling America has been an invaluable resource for me across multiple projects. Thank you for doing this work!!
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Periodic PSA 🙃:
Reminder that whenever you "discover" something at the archives, it's been made available to you through the physical and intellectual labor of archivists.
Reminder that whenever you "discover" something at the archives, it's been made available to you through the physical and intellectual labor of archivists.
Time for another round of extreme cataloguing. This time it's Court of Wards pleadings. Horrible stuff. Well, no, the content is great, but it's horrible wrestling with it.
June 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Periodic PSA 🙃:
Reminder that whenever you "discover" something at the archives, it's been made available to you through the physical and intellectual labor of archivists.
Reminder that whenever you "discover" something at the archives, it's been made available to you through the physical and intellectual labor of archivists.
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Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/
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The National Park Service was told not to publicize its record-breaking visit data this year.
Why? Probably because the Trump administration is trying to gut it.
You can find this new context on our Responsible Datasets in Context site: www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/np-data/
Why? Probably because the Trump administration is trying to gut it.
You can find this new context on our Responsible Datasets in Context site: www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/np-data/
U.S. National Park Visit Data (1979-2024) – Responsible Datasets in Context
www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com
April 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The National Park Service was told not to publicize its record-breaking visit data this year.
Why? Probably because the Trump administration is trying to gut it.
You can find this new context on our Responsible Datasets in Context site: www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/np-data/
Why? Probably because the Trump administration is trying to gut it.
You can find this new context on our Responsible Datasets in Context site: www.responsible-datasets-in-context.com/posts/np-data/
Excited for this today!!
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Excited for this today!!
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@victorerikray.bsky.social I'm sure you've seen this meme. But it's the 4th anniversary, & sending it to you means that more people will see it. Which is a very good thing.
As a sociology professor, this hits hard. I still sometimes use it.
March 24, 2025 at 3:20 PM
@victorerikray.bsky.social I'm sure you've seen this meme. But it's the 4th anniversary, & sending it to you means that more people will see it. Which is a very good thing.
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Sometimes the objects that we study in the human past are beautiful to everyone. Often, scientists must work to help others become aware of the beauty that they hold. Seeing these things in new ways is central to the process of scientific discovery. #sciart
johnhawks.net/weblog/seein...
johnhawks.net/weblog/seein...
Seeing Neandertal teeth as art
The photography of Luka Mjeda brought a new way of looking at the teeth of the Krapina people.
johnhawks.net
February 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Sometimes the objects that we study in the human past are beautiful to everyone. Often, scientists must work to help others become aware of the beauty that they hold. Seeing these things in new ways is central to the process of scientific discovery. #sciart
johnhawks.net/weblog/seein...
johnhawks.net/weblog/seein...
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We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social!
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
February 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social!
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote!
Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds
We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?
On Valentine’s Day, I like to get pizza for dinner and watch some kind of science communication. I’m watching Cosmos on the DVDs I inherited from my grandfather, but did you know that Archive.org has the whole series online?? 🤯🤯
archive.org/details/Cosm...
archive.org/details/Cosm...
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (with Carl Sagan) : KCET : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Update 6/29/23: Ok, I am pretty sure all the episodes are now accounted for and labeled correctly.Astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark 13-part science series takes...
archive.org
February 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
On Valentine’s Day, I like to get pizza for dinner and watch some kind of science communication. I’m watching Cosmos on the DVDs I inherited from my grandfather, but did you know that Archive.org has the whole series online?? 🤯🤯
archive.org/details/Cosm...
archive.org/details/Cosm...
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Hey, kid! Wanna check out some data that was created, maintained, and made available for the benefit of and use by the public? First hit is free! (OK, fine, it's all free.)
The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later.
guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...
guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...
LibGuides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
A guide linking to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
guides.lib.virginia.edu
February 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hey, kid! Wanna check out some data that was created, maintained, and made available for the benefit of and use by the public? First hit is free! (OK, fine, it's all free.)
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Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
February 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl
Behold the winter weather sleep of the housebeasts. See how cozily they sleep, knowing nothing of spreadsheets, grants, or rent increases! What lives they live.
February 12, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Behold the winter weather sleep of the housebeasts. See how cozily they sleep, knowing nothing of spreadsheets, grants, or rent increases! What lives they live.
Reposting for my own quick reference … and that if anyone else who needs it!
Here are the deets for how to remove Copilot and switch your subscription from "Personal" (with AI) to "Classic" (without AI)
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffi...
Redirecting
answers.microsoft.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Reposting for my own quick reference … and that if anyone else who needs it!
Anyone know a good beginner’s guide to Wikipedia editing? Preferably a video, but I’m open-minded. A community member I work with through my dissertation has reached out for help, and I’m way less familiar with the process than I feel like I should be! 😅😅
January 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Anyone know a good beginner’s guide to Wikipedia editing? Preferably a video, but I’m open-minded. A community member I work with through my dissertation has reached out for help, and I’m way less familiar with the process than I feel like I should be! 😅😅
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#RVA For anyone who migrated here in protest of Meta, Twitter... and feel like you lost connections to keep up with local events and activism, rva.rip is a great resource.
rva.rip
rva.rip
January 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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A periodic reminder: if you are in America, you almost definitely live near a library. Libraries are some of the last third spaces left, and the employees genuinely want you to get the information you need, without selling you stuff. Help them however you can.
January 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A periodic reminder: if you are in America, you almost definitely live near a library. Libraries are some of the last third spaces left, and the employees genuinely want you to get the information you need, without selling you stuff. Help them however you can.
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Putting the finishing touches on my course site for "Data for the Rest of Us" - a skills-based, two-credit undergraduate course I'm teaching for the first time. More info in thread, but rough course website here - walshbr.com/data-for-the....
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Data literacy for the rest of us. A skills-based Catalyst course at UVA.
walshbr.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Putting the finishing touches on my course site for "Data for the Rest of Us" - a skills-based, two-credit undergraduate course I'm teaching for the first time. More info in thread, but rough course website here - walshbr.com/data-for-the....