Anna Kijas
@akijas.bsky.social
Music librarian, historian, digital humanist. SUCHO co-founder. First-gen Polish-American immigrant. Pronouns: she series
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Anna Kijas
@akijas.bsky.social
· Oct 3
Call for Proposals - DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 - Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies | Anna E. Kijas
A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
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CfP for #DLFteach toolkit vol. 5 is now live! This volume will focus on digital pedagogy in music & sound studies. Deadline is December 5, 2025. Read at bit.ly/dlfteach5. Reach out to me or Jess Grimmer with questions.
Today is the exhibit opening for “Children draw war, not flowers” at Tisch Library - a collection of drawings by displaced Ukrainian children during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Join us at 4 pm! Details at tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3591 #ukraine #SUCHO
November 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today is the exhibit opening for “Children draw war, not flowers” at Tisch Library - a collection of drawings by displaced Ukrainian children during the Russo-Ukrainian war. Join us at 4 pm! Details at tischlibrary.tufts.edu/node/3591 #ukraine #SUCHO
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Unsurprising: Using longer words makes female authors more “literary”
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Unsurprising: Using longer words makes female authors more “literary”
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
Surprising: The opposite is true for male authors
For more cool plots + findings, take a look at my #CHR2025 paper exploring the role of form vs gender in the classification of genre & literary fiction
doi.org/10.63744/Ztw...
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CFP: DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 – Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/cfp-dlfteach...
dhandlib.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
CFP: DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 – Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies ← dh+lib dhandlib.org/cfp-dlfteach...
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It's not too late to volunteer as an editor-at-large for the dh+lib Review! Read more at: dhandlib.org/eal-instruct...
Editor-at-Large Instructions ← dh+lib
dhandlib.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It's not too late to volunteer as an editor-at-large for the dh+lib Review! Read more at: dhandlib.org/eal-instruct...
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And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!
#TCDXII
Our twelfth conference dedicated to Caribbean digital studies. Jamaica, 2025.
thecaribbeandigital.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
And we're back! Join us December 4–5, 2025 at Northeastern University in Boston for our 12th annual The Caribbean Digital Conference. Our schedule is packed with wonders and amazing colleagues. Check it out! As always, attendance is free, whether zoom or live. Hope to see you there!
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using shared resources, colleagues and I got together to put together zine and whistle kits. the letterpress studio 3d printed us the whistles.
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
using shared resources, colleagues and I got together to put together zine and whistle kits. the letterpress studio 3d printed us the whistles.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric
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I could not be more excited that the brilliant @plach.bsky.social is visiting Arizona and @asulincolncenter.bsky.social this week to talk about the stories we need, the voices we need, the histories we need in these (urgent) times.
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
Join us tomorrow and Thursday for an exciting event series with @plach.bsky.social !
Tomorrow -- The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times asuevents.asu.edu/event/storie...
Thursday -- Humanities Podcasting 101 asuevents.asu.edu/event/humani...
Tomorrow -- The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times asuevents.asu.edu/event/storie...
Thursday -- Humanities Podcasting 101 asuevents.asu.edu/event/humani...
The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times | ASU Events
How do we tell stories in times of crisis? And how do we tell those stories in conversation with our communities, in ways that are sustaining and generative? In this talk, Lach proposes a methodology ...
asuevents.asu.edu
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I could not be more excited that the brilliant @plach.bsky.social is visiting Arizona and @asulincolncenter.bsky.social this week to talk about the stories we need, the voices we need, the histories we need in these (urgent) times.
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
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Our spring iteration of the Cross-Reference Coalition will focus on 🔎SEARCH + DISCOVERY💡 We'll work tgthr to design a scavenger hunt, map, or field guide that encourages defiantly-anti-AI exploration of NYC's knwldg resources + cultural heritage.
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Our spring iteration of the Cross-Reference Coalition will focus on 🔎SEARCH + DISCOVERY💡 We'll work tgthr to design a scavenger hunt, map, or field guide that encourages defiantly-anti-AI exploration of NYC's knwldg resources + cultural heritage.
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
We'll distribute our call for apps early next week!
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We are so proud of this work. Not only is it the first effort to publish & analyze **open-access data** derived from the entire text contents of digitized @britishlibrary.bsky.social newspapers, it presents a metadata-driven approach to understanding bias in big historical data. #dh #skystorians
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
We are so proud of this work. Not only is it the first effort to publish & analyze **open-access data** derived from the entire text contents of digitized @britishlibrary.bsky.social newspapers, it presents a metadata-driven approach to understanding bias in big historical data. #dh #skystorians
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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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If you missed yesterday's wonderful Deswarte Prize seminar - ' (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI' - it is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar youtube channel youtu.be/iwT7PRy-eQs?...
Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils: (Fe)male Voices on Stage
YouTube video by IHR Digital History Seminar
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If you missed yesterday's wonderful Deswarte Prize seminar - ' (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhymes of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries with and without AI' - it is now on the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History Seminar youtube channel youtu.be/iwT7PRy-eQs?...
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“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says
MUNICH (Reuters) -OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by reproducing lyrics from songs by best-selling musician Herbert Groenemeyer and others, a court ruled on Tuesday, in a clos...
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
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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
Boosting again! Please submit your proposals for the #DLFteach toolkit on digital pedagogy in music & sound studies by Dec. 5, 2025!
CfP for #DLFteach toolkit vol. 5 is now live! This volume will focus on digital pedagogy in music & sound studies. Deadline is December 5, 2025. Read at bit.ly/dlfteach5. Reach out to me or Jess Grimmer with questions.
Call for Proposals - DLFteach Toolkit, Volume 5 - Digital Pedagogy in Music & Sound Studies | Anna E. Kijas
A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Boosting again! Please submit your proposals for the #DLFteach toolkit on digital pedagogy in music & sound studies by Dec. 5, 2025!
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🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception.
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI
Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🗣️ Featuring talks by @haimson.bsky.social and @naz-andalibi.bsky.social, plus a panel discussion and networking reception.
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
Co-organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab and @aies-edinburgh.bsky.social, supported by @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...
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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.
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“I love that #Dartmouth is the kind of place where big ideas and muddy paths go hand in hand.” Professor @roopikarisam.bsky.social, chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies, speaks with Shondaland ahead of hosting Shonda Rhimes ’91 for a students-only book talk on "Year of Yes."
The Yes Questionnaire: Roopika Risam
Ahead of the Dartmouth stop on Shonda Rhimes’ book tour, the chair of the college’s film and media studies department speaks to the underrated power of an unambitious, nonstrategic Yes.
www.shondaland.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“I love that #Dartmouth is the kind of place where big ideas and muddy paths go hand in hand.” Professor @roopikarisam.bsky.social, chair of the Department of Film and Media Studies, speaks with Shondaland ahead of hosting Shonda Rhimes ’91 for a students-only book talk on "Year of Yes."
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RECOMMENDED: The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object ← dh+lib
dhandlib.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
RECOMMENDED: The Digital Opaque: Refusing Biomedical Object ← dh+lib
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Thanks as always to our fantastic editors-at-large for this cycle: Abbie Norris-Davidson, Amy Gay, Claire Burns, and Anna Kijas!
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Thanks as always to our fantastic editors-at-large for this cycle: Abbie Norris-Davidson, Amy Gay, Claire Burns, and Anna Kijas!
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OUT NOW ❤️🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
OUT NOW ❤️🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
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The way I clicked BUY faster than the speed of light! Congrats @dorothyjberry.bsky.social on this being out in the world! 📜 📚
OUT NOW ❤️🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
October 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The way I clicked BUY faster than the speed of light! Congrats @dorothyjberry.bsky.social on this being out in the world! 📜 📚
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the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech.
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
hyperallergic.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the US govt has mounted a repeal of the right to culture. There is simply no other way to understand dismantling Dept of Ed, PBS, NPR, NEH, NEA + IMLS, defunding universities, censorship of artists, attack on equal access to institutions,+ erosion of free speech.
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...
hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...